Hi family,
Happy
Thanksgiving. Isn't it cool that I get to talk to my family on Thanksgiving in
the mission?
Leg update: So
my ankle and leg are doing much better. Monday afternoon I started taking the
powerful antibiotics. Tuesday morning we had a multi-zone conference and I
showed Hna Klein my leg. She thought that I also needed to give it a rest so
that it could heal. Hence I spent all of zone conference with my leg up on a
chair or bench. She also wanted me to stay in the house for a couple of
days. The sister training leaders had come to our area for divisions, so I
stayed with one of them in the house Tuesday afternoon while the other STL (Hna
Nunez, my first companion) went out to teach our investigators with Hna
Trujillo. Tuesday I was house bound again, but we spent part of the day in a
member's home just to break things up, once again, all day with my foot
elevated. Not the most interesting thing I have ever done. Thursday morning I
went back to the doctor. He was very pleased with my progress and said we
weren't going to need to cut anything open! After visiting the doctor, I got
permission to leave my house but with instructions to take it easy on walking.
So we worked a half day on Thursday and most of the day on Friday. Friday
afternoon, we went over to the apartment of the other four sisters in the zone.
This past weekend was elections here in Honduras. With elections there is
always some possibility that things will get a little exciting. Even though
everything in our area stayed calm, I'm glad that our leaders were looking out
for us. We stayed in the sisters' house through Tuesday morning when we got
permission to leave our houses and start working again. All told, between my
leg and the elections our lessons last week took a real hit. But I am grateful
to be back in my area, working as normal.
While we spent
the weekend with the six of us sisters in one house, I got to catch up with one
of my really good MTC friends, Hna Harrison. Her comp was my comp's MTC
companion, so they also got to spend time catching up. I am also really
grateful that the apartment we were in had an enclosed backyard that couldn't be
seen from the street so that we could actually go outside some. If we would
have stayed in our house, we couldn't have left at all! During our three days
in the house, we were allowed to watch one Disney movie per day. But guess
what? We were so tired that most of us, including me, slept through the one we
''watched'' Saturday. Sunday we didn't watch one, and Monday we only made it
half-way through before everyone was falling asleep, so we just turned it off.
Just so you know, you are always tired as a missionary, but it's only in the
mornings, and when you stop to catch your breath that you realize just how
tired you are!
My short
Thanksgiving list....
- I am grateful for my family.
- I am grateful for my missionary friends and many of the members here who are my family away from home.
- I am thankful for the scriptures and for the time I have right now to study them daily.
- I am thankful that I get to write you and hear from you every week, even if the schedule gets moved around.
- I am thankful for prayer...that I can pray anytime I need to, and to know that I can pray for my family and that you are praying for me.
I love you all!
Happy Thanksgiving! Sing some Christmas songs in Spanish :) I'll be singing
them all day long before too long!
Hna Davis
I forgot to
tell you...yesterday it got cool enough that I finally used my sweater for the
first time ever. Yes! And last night it was chilly enough that I didn't use my
fan and by morning I was using my fleece jacket in addition to my sheet. I
might need to invest in a light blanket. Who would have thought!
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