Codeigniter sending blank emails when more then one email is sent in a single request

So, I changed my code for the send_email() method to this:

PHP Code:

public function send_email($email,$to,$data=array()) {

        $func = '_email_'.$email;

        if( method_exists($this,$func) ) {
            
            $email = $this->$func($data);

            if( $email ) {

                    $this->email->to($to); 

                    $this->email->from($this->config->item('app_email_from'), $this->config->item('app_email_from_name'));
                    
                    $this->email->subject($email['subject']);

                    $message = $this->load->view('emails/_wrapper',array('body'=>$email['body']),true);

                    var_dump($message);

                    echo '<hr>';
                    
                    $this->email->message( $message );
                    
                    $result = $this->email->send();

            }

        }

    } 


and it turns out $message is loaded properly the first time, but on subsequent attempts to set the value of $message I just get an empty string? So for whatever reason CI isn't loading the _wrapper view properly after the first time.