Sister Paige Hardy

  Do you think they have places to call in the airport? With the quarentine we can't go into stores and I am leaving my phone here with  sister  Noble. Maybe I can use a payphone? (followed by a thorough handwashing) Yeah! It has been a long day of just sitting around. It feels weird to not have anywhere to go or to do.... I went for a brief walk with another  sister  and we had to stay far away from other people and it was so hard to not talk to them! There are four other  sisters  here who haven't finished their missions yet, but are being sent home for health. I feel so sad for them! They got a call yesterday and were told they were going home. No warning at all!

  Well. We have arrived. Houston, prepare for landing. The last week. I probs won't write next week, so this is the last email. I don't have much to say. We worked hard this week. We had to stay inside a little to take care of   Sister   Noble, she is feeling a lot better though which is awesome! So we didn't have a lot of time, but we managed to teach 10 less actives!! And we found a super solid new person to teach! His name is André and he was taught in the past, but he didn't want to be baptised. But he is super open to hear and talking to him it seemed he just hadn't understood the invitation to be baptised. He wants to come to church next week and we will meet with him tonight to see if he read the book of Mormon! We did get some sad news though yesterday. When we fly over to the continente for me to go home,  sister  Noble will stay on the continente as well. There is a  sister  who is going home earlier than expected, and she will be taking her ...

So I started writing a different group email, but I had only gotten to Wednesday and it was already about the length of Alma, so I decided to start over and do a more abbreviated version. We had an eventful week! We started the week off strong spending 15+ hours in the hallway of a Portuguese hospital. Sister Noble had been having intense abdominal pain for over a week (she only told me on Sunday though) so finally we convinced her to go the hospital. They poked and prodded her, ignored us for a few hours and filled her with drugs, they even did an x ray (I was doing a lot of the talking because she was in too much pain to try and understand medical terms in Portuguese, and it took me a minute to find out what they were saying. X-ray in Portuguese is pronounced "hi-o sheeze") but they couldn't find anything so they found a bed for her and we spent the night. She slept for about 3 hours and I paced our hallway and slept for maybe 30 minutes in one of the little w...