Sorensen was serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Statesboro, Ga. for six months before the injury. It all started with a painful bite he found on his leg, which he showed to his ward mission leader, Steve Miller.

“He showed us the bite in church,” Miller said. “We showed it to a doctor in our ward who said it looks like a spider bite. We thought it may have been a brown recluse.”

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