OOPS!

Well,  what can I say!  This is an example of what NOT to do on your mission:

 Broken ankle . . . broken wrist!  Ugh!

All we were doing was walking down the sidewalk to the office - right here - 

something we do several times every day. 

But this time I fell for some unknown reason and I heard them both snap.  Now we have a new mission rule that we want each couple to walk together arm in arm whenever possible!

The break in the ankle is right in place and did not require surgery, 

but the wrist did, and now I have another plate and 6 new screws

to add to my body metal collection. 

 

Everyone has been SO nice to us - sending wonderful meals, delicious bread 

and other goodies like this . . .

 . . . plus many, many sweet thoughts and cards.

My biggest regret is that I will no longer be able to trek, which is especially disappointing because our very own Salt Lake Valley View Stake is coming in a week and we had planned to trek with them.  But life goes on, and there is still lots of work to be done, even if you're in a cast.

I even discovered that I could still do a little project with a cast on if I 
put my "boot-leg" up on a chair and painted very slowly and carefully.

Last week was definitely the busiest of the season so far 

with thousands of trekkers all here together.

  It takes a mighty big support group to feed hundreds of hungry trekkers . . .

  . . . especially after a long hot day of trekking . . .

. . . and trekking!

Because one really large trek group was not able to trek over Rocky Ridge they reenacted those stories so all the youth could learn about that experience.

They portrayed Jens and Elsie Nielsen, Bodil Mortensen, 
James Kirkwood, and others. 

Last Sunday the Fabulous Pay Sisters - JoAnn Baird and Doreen Lloyd, sisters of President Hinckley's wife Marjorie - came to entertain us and share the amazing story of coming across the wooden grave marker from the little sister of their grandmother.  

Little Edith Goble died and was buried along the trail in Wyoming in 1856.

Through an amazing series of little miracles, the wooden grave marker 
that her father had sadly carved those many years ago 
was somehow preserved and found its way back to their family.

Even though our days are filled with trekkers and visitors
we still have a little down time now and then.

We always enjoy Sister Judd's amazing homemade donuts . . .

 . . . and we never miss a chance to look out our windows each morning 

and see the beauties right in front of us:  

the huge, full moon getting ready to set behind Ft. Seminoe 

and misty fog along the Sweetwater River.

Check out this fabulous sunset after a cloudburst!

 Just so you know, being a missionary is THE BEST - even in a cast!  

(Which I hope is coming off soon!)