Dear Family,
don't be alarmed....but this email will be on the shorter side.
this past week was a great one because..........i got to visit the ER for the first time! yay! :) we had a very small grease fire in our kitchen saturday morning (i'm alive, our apartment is fine, it sounds worse than it was, i promise!) and the only casualty was my left hand. i just got burned pretty shallow on my thumb and first two fingers, but the ER gave me some cream to put on it, bandages and gauze. really i'm just getting an early start on my mummy costume for halloween :) i'll be following up with a normal doctor tomorrow and they'll be able to give me some more information. it doesn't even hurt, but the ER gave me some light pain meds as a precautionary type thing, but i didn't even cry or pass out, so that should tell you how it's not even a big deal. (i'm just letting you know cuz i had to use our insurance card there, but i'll be sending all the paperwork to sister ames and she said missionary medical should be taking care of it.) overall, i'm doing fine and my hand should heal pretty good!
if you have any questions, sister Ames says feel free to call her;
unfortunately, i have only one hand to type with, and that takes like a gazillion years so for the next couple weeks i'm gonna need to stick with hand-written responses to your emails. we'll still be coming to the library every week, but it would be easier if you had a few q's i could answer briefly via email and then i'll do the majority of the update via snailmail. i still havent gotten an email from emma watkins, but i'll get working on an email to send her in the next little while, it will take some time with one hand out of commission... :)
pic 1--see, i'm just fine!!
pic 2--i found a street with a super cool name... :)
i love being a missionary! i love you so much! i'll send you a letter shortly!
[Ed note: But wait--there's more! From Kate's handwritten letter received on 10/31...]
Well, This week was a pretty exciting one! On Monday we got to talk to B & A after a little while and they'e still doing aweome. B will probably be getting baptized within the next few weeks.
On Wed. we decided to try and save miles in our car by biking to and from district meeting, and on the way back...we both got flat tires! Haha. It was a nice walk and thankfully we didn't have any appointments for a little while that we had to miss. AND i FINALLY got a good tan! Someone else even told that I looked tan, that proves that it's true! ;) Thankfully we were pretty close to our apartment when it happened so we didn't have too far to walk. The Bike Elders in our District will be helping us out with the tire repairs in the next little bit.
Then on Saturday morning we were on an exchange, so Sister Gomez was out in Arlington while our Sister Training Leader was here in Hurst with me. She wanted to heat up some oil for frying potatoes, but I noticed it was a little too hot, so right as I went to move the pot, the oil caught fire and I was a little too close. We got to the ER and they said I'd be fine, really it's not too bad. At least now I get a cool story and a super dope bandage!
Thankfully, I can still eat most Mexican food with one hand. I can actually do most things with one hand! Sister Gomez and I keep a running list. I can:
wash my hair
shake hands! That's a must! ;)
Text our investigators
Draw stick figures (hand drawn artwork included in letter...sorry blog readers)
Eat yogurt
Eat beans and rice
Extend the baptismal invitation
Read Preach My Gospel.
That's basically all I need anyways, right?
Things I CAN do one-handed:
Sister Gomez and I will be staying together in Hurst for at least one more transfer so we're super excited! We're losing 3 missionaries from our ward who have finished their missions and are headed home. Our ward will miss them tons! But Sister Gomez and I are really excited about spending Thanksgiving (Dia de Accion de Gracias) here! :)
Love you lots!!! :)
Hermana Sangre
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