hello my lovely family!
we're doing well, we actually just got back from a doctor's appointment and they said that my stub is healing pretty well :) my doctor is dr. tasneem and she's super cool. we're basically bffs now because she has me coming in twice a week to look at my hand just to make sure that everything is healing ok, which so far it is! the burn is technically called a partial thickness burn, because they dont refer to them as 2nd or 3rd degree burns anymore, but it basically means that i had blisters for a few days and then they drained and i'll just get some rad scars :) it will probably be a month until i don't have to wear gauze on it out in public. i've been telling people lately that i got into a fight with a mob of pirates and they chopped off my hand in the struggle. for whatever reason, nobody believes me... :)
thanks for the emails! i'll send my full update in the mail soon enough!
much love,
hermana blood
But wait--there's more! This from her handwritten, received by snail-mail letter. She responded to mom's questions re: her burn,then more info about her week:
Well, I already told y'all that my burn is a "partial-thickness burn" which is inbetween 2nd and 3rd degrees, so not too bad. The treatment involved taking antibiotics and applying silve sulfidine (?something like that?) every morning and wrapping it with gauze and an ace bandage to protect it. The bandages weigh like a billion pounds so I also get this dope sling. I look pretty cool, I gotta say. ;) The healing process should be done in about a month-ish, so not too long.
It sounds like the inter-faith choir was super fun! I wish I could have seen the church--I bet it was absolutely beautiful! Bummer that Aragon lost to Half Moon Bay, but I'm sure they'll have a rockin' game this week! We also loved Daylight Savings time ending--we got an extra hour of sleep! Heavenly. :)
Thanks to Sister Hardy for following up on that Spanish expression!
This week was REALLY good. One of our investigators, RG, is getting baptized on Saturday!!! She's basically a member already because she's been coming to church since January and in June she called up the sister missionaries saying, "So, I guess I need to be taught by the missionaries before I get baptized. When can you come over?" The only thing stopping her from getting baptized right away was she wanted to wait for her previously less active husband to get his priesthood back. It's been a process, but she's finally getting baptized! She's super cool and we're really excited.
Aaaand we set a baptismal date with ByA! We go over there for dinner and a lesson once or twice a week now and this lasat time made us "mole" which is super delish and super Mexican. We're hoping they'll get baptized together the first weekend in December.
Fun fact: I had pozole for the first time on Sunday! That's a Mexican soup and the 2nd counselor in the bishopric and his wife made it for all the missionaries. It was pretty dang delish.
We had transfers on Wednesdy and we got 4 new missionaries in our ward/district! A new Zone Leader to replace the one that just went home, and 3 Elders in the Southside of our district. Of those three, one is Elder Gutierrez back! Then we have our new District Leader Elder cook and they're training a newbie, Elder Christiansen. Our district is now really young and no one has been out for more than 13 months.
Another fun fact: I've discovered that I love $5 sweats at Walmart. Also: I can open up a water bottle (a plastic one that's never been opened before) one-handed. I dare y'all to try and do that. It takes some practice AND I can put in my contacts one-handed! I am evolving into a one-handed mummy, day by day! ;)
Wellp, I think that's all the news I have. It's getting a bit colder now over here, a wet cold so it's nice and nippy! Who'd-a-thunk that Texas gets cold-ish? Anyways, we've got lots of work to do this week and we're excited. This will be an awesome transfer wtih Sister Gomez in the Hurst South Zone!
Thanks for your love and prayers! I love you all so much!
Hermana Sangre :)
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