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White Month (week 66)

Aloha Family and Friends,
Dad's email about being sick must have been inspired as I was sick as a dog this last week with explosive diarrhea! I don't know why but I can't mange to not get sick some how over Tsgaan Sar. Such is life I imagine.

I spent all of Monday at a members house making buuz (meat dumplings). Tuesday I taught our district meeting and then spent the rest of the day chopping wood at a members house before going to another members house for bituun (Tsagaan Sar eve), of course they prepared a ton of food, and of course I got sick.

Wednesday was the first day of Tsagaan Sar, and despite the need to use run to the bathroom every 15 minutes I let myself be drag from house to house all day. I imagine I should probably explain a little of what Tsagaan Sar is for this to be understandable. Tsagaan sar translates into white month or white moon, and is the celebration of the lunar new year. Mongolian celebrate the holiday by dressing up in traditional clothing and going from house to house greeting relatives with a traditional greeting (do you have rest, are you renewing, is you calf becoming muscled.... not a good translation, nor is it complete, but that's about the gist of it). Apart from that every house is prepared to feed all that enter with a ton of buuz, and other appetizers. If you don't eat it's rude, and people prod you to eat until all the food is gone. Needless to say having a sick stomach is either a good thing or a bad thing depending on how you look at it.

After being dragged around all Wednesday I was a little more than reluctant to go out again to say the least. However my companion gave me the biggest sad puppy look ever when i suggested that we just stay home that I agreed to give it a try, and try I did. I think that 5 trips to the out house the first hour along with my stomach backing up my unpleasant disposition with it's own vocal protest was enough to convince my companion that going home was for the better. So the rest of Thursday was spent sleeping and sitting on the toilet at home.
By Friday my stomach was fine and I was out and about again but I still refused to eat.

Needless to say at one point or another just about everyone of the missionaries in my district was sick, lots of fun!
unfortunately people still hadn't finished celebrating Saturday and Sunday, so they were same as the previous days, except this time missionaries couldn't play dress up.
Anyways that's last week in a nut shell.

Enough said,
Elder Pitt

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My name is Cameron Pitt and from Sept. 5, 2007 until Sept. 5, 2009 I'll be serving as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. This site will chronicle my experiences while serving in the Ulaanbaatar Mongolia Mission.The stories posted on this site will be transcribed from letters sent to my family, by my mother.

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