BIG SURGERY DAY!

hey family!

well IM ALIVEEEEE!!!

I gues I should just get to the point or the foot for that matter....I went to the Doctor last thursday and he did in fact tell me that I had 2 bone spurs on my toe...fun huh? WELL to get rid of them they cut open your toe and shave/file off the bone. fun right? Meh. Seriously I have had more needles and blood drawn since ive put in my mission papers than I have like my whole life. Seriously thats been the worst part. SO thursday I had to go to the hospital and they did all this pretesting on me, you know teaching me how to use crutches, taking samples of my urine, signing my life away in consent forms and oh ya DRAWING MY BLOOD. Its supposed to stay inside the body. not in little tubes taken out by pointy death objects that suck it out. Oh ya so I also had to get xrays done on my toe and oh boy was that interesting! how many doctors does it take to xray one little foot? well when theyre young guys apparently all that they have working that day...3. did I mention that Im still in proselyting clothes? AKA a skirt.

Then Friday=BIG SURGERY DAY! I will admit I  was pretty nervous. The last time I went in for surgery was for my nariz...and you know what I hate? the smell. but it was all good. Surprisingly all my doctors and nurses where of the male gender and i had to give everyone of them the low down on how old I was, when my birthday is, whats my name and when my last menstral cycle was. Anyways long story short they stuck me with another needle for the iv, drugged me up, cut me open and sent me home. Hermana Hoer Im sure has a different story of how I was when I got out of surgery. Apparently there was no filter. I was talking about the doctors, the chicken juice they gave me to eat and the pain killers...not to mention that I had a song in my head the whole time.... I wonder what was goin on the surgical room.  So everything went well, Im wearing a very fashionable boot on my left foot that everyone is gonna catch on to. just you watch. its just like the flowers in the hair....except now boots on the feet. And I have doctors instructions to stay off my foot for a week.

That may not seem like that long. but I cannot believe how hard it is. Its like every missionary at some point in their mission kind of wishes for a couple days where they can just stay inside and chillax for a bit. But let me tell ya....I just wanna get out there and work man. Im really missing the bike and hate sitting on my butt. but Ive gotten to do some really good studying and had some very funny moments with my companion...hahahaha we laugh so much. weve even resorted to writing dear john letters and weve got a pretty hilarious one that im sure chris would love :)

This morning for instance we decided to make german puff pancakes. well they were in the oven we both were sitting down writing letters. all of the sudden it starts smelling funny but ladeedada still writing letters and then hermana Hoer looks up and says..."uh....the smoke alarm is probly gonna go off." I look up and everything is like foggy...GAHHHHH smoky kitchen. man we were laughing so hard. plus we found out that our smoke alarm doesnt work. :) German Pankcakes were yummmy. not too crispy.

On a spiritual note--As for studies Ive been really trying to finish the Bom in spanish and its interesting how much more attention it takes--well not interesting. factual. so anyways it takes more focus to read and with that more focus there is more attention placed on the words and the word order/ sentance structure and spanish is a beautiful language and they just dont waste time. its blunt and forward. and right now im reading in 3 nephi the first couple chapters and its all about the signs of christ birth and death and it really hit me that how only 9 years after they saw the sign of christs birth the people went wicked again and hardend their hearts. and you know im really trying to apply the scriptures to me and to my investigators and its really interesting how these same things happen in our life. we may not see crazy signs but we recieve answers and little miracles that show us that God is there and that we are loved greatly by our heavenly father and yet how long is it before we forget and move on with life and feel like were alone in whatever were going through? sometimes shorter than 9 years. more like 9 minutes or hours. and because of this weakness we have along with others-many many for me-we all fall short of the glory of god. and for this we all need repentance. and the only way that we can return to live with god is because of the sacrifice that christ made for us. what a wonderful and awe-some gift he gave us. the gift to repent and try to continually be better and better each day. Sitting on the couch for this week has made me realize somethings that have been signs of Gods love for me and I have looked over them or quickly forgotten them...I am eagerly looking forward to being able to walk and ride and work again with my whole heart mind might and strength. This gospel never ceases to amaze me, how everything just fits and makes sense and how when we live the principles of the gospel we truley are blessed.

Thats the update for this week. we have a car for now so instead of biking adventures, there are adventures of parallel parking and even finding parking spots in the city :) and hobblin me just fancy bootin it along. :) I love you all so much! thanks for all the love and support!

hope all is well! since i cant walk on my foot why not go eat some more chicken feet right?! no thanks! :)

Love you!

paz y amor,

Hermana Maughan