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The kissing disease? 29 Nov 2008
"How in the world did you get mono on your mission?" I can't tell you how many people have said that to me, now. So, the closest I can tell, I got the virus when I was contacting on a train, and the person I was talking to sprayed when they talked and it landed on my cheek. (I promise I was not kissing anyone on my mission!) But it didn't show up right away. Before I started showing symptoms, I had a few more surprises... In August 2007, at the end of a transfer when we knew that my companion was being transferred out of Versailles, we got a call from President Pond telling my companion that she was getting transferred to Paris. When he talked to me to tell me who was coming my way, I was in for a surprise. He said, "You know that we're short a sister this transfer. Well... we don't have a companion for you." So, off I headed, with my companion to Paris, to wait for my first mini missionary. I spent two weeks in Paris in a trio with the Paris sisters. Then, I had one mini missionary from Nogent for two weeks. Then, back to Paris. After four more days in Paris, I called the Salinas family in Versailles and asked if Sophie could be my companion until the end of the transfer. Fortunately, she was available, and I finally headed back to my own area. At the end of the transfer, I got another call from President Pond telling me that my new companion would be a senior sister from Provo who was 60. Now, don't get me wrong. I don't mind responsibility, but I was really solely in charge of all the work in Versailles while I was with my mini missionaries, and again with my senior sister companion since the language was still a barrier there. After two weeks with my senior sister companion, I began to get sick. We all thought it was just the flu. And I thought so too, although I found it strange how dizzy I became. For a few days, I struggled to keep going. Then, it became evident that I wasn't getting better. I had a lingering cough from a cold that I had had the month previous, so the mission doctor (located in Madrid), thought it might be pneumonia. He prescribed me an antibiotic, and I started taking it about a week after I started feeling sick. When we realized that that didn't help at all, my mission president's wife told me to go to the hospital. At the hospital, they discovered that I had mononeucleosis. Doctor's orders were to go home, go to bed, and get better. The next day, after talking to President Pond again, he told me he was sending me two more companions. There was at the time, one threesome among the sisters, so he was sending me one of them (my previous companion, as a matter of fact), and elsewhere one of the sisters had just gone home for medical reasons. So, I got her companion as well. We were the Versailles foursome for two and a half weeks while I recovered from mono. Two of the sisters would go out and work, and one would stay in the apartment with me, who was so sick I could barely walk across the apartment. Fortunately, I was blessed with health because I recovered after only about four weeks total. By three and a half, I was going out to one appointment a day. I'm not trying to depress anyone or make them think that will happen to them. To be honest to this day I remain the only person I know who got mono on their mission. And the only outside the bureau foursome that I've ever heard of. Every mission has a story like this, though. Something that was hard to do, but that you're made able to do by the blessing of your calling and the help of your companions. May your mission be less eventful than mine!
Michelle Salvicchi Send Email
 

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