The foot........

Dear Family,

When Sister Bahr called me with the insurance information, I figured that that would be one of the fist questions in the email, So here is the story of what happened to my foot.

We were coming out of an appointment, and the lady had given us her keys so we could lock the deadbolt behind us, afterwards we were to toss the keys up onto her balcony, but she is really old, and had recently had surgery on her foot, so I was trying to hand the keys to her. I climbed up on top of the iron fence to hand her the keys, and when I handed them to her the pointy part of the fence punctured my shoe and into my foot. There was a man who lived next door who took us to the hospital, and they checked it out for me, and then gave me some Medication and sent me on my way.

I've attached a couple of pictures, they are of my shoe and my sock I took these pictures when I went to the hospital on Tuesday. I've been doing alright, it looks like it's mostly healed. And I thought I would make it through unscathed.

Other than that I've been doing well. On Thursday I spoke with president Bahr. It was actually kind of funny, he started off asking me how my foot was doing, then after a few minutes he said "Well, that's not why I'm calling". What he really wanted to ask me was about my departure date. He had heard about the confusion about which date it was and he wanted to set with me the date for sure. It was a hard decision, but I decided to come home one week earlier for a couple of reasons, 1) I have been feeling a little nervous about only having 1 week to prepare for school and stuff, so the extra time to adjust will be nice. 2) I would be the only one flying home on the 23rd, but there are 3 other missionaries flying home on the 16th. I had been thinking about it for a while, so when president Bahr called me he said that there had been an error in the office and my date was moved to the 16th, but he said if I wanted I could keep it there or move it to the 23rd. We talked about it for a while and I decided to keep it on the 16th. It's crazy to think that I'm going home in 7 weeks.

Elder Larsen and I are doing well. My accident this week slowed us down a little bit, but we still had a good week. We've been working a lot with the recent converts, we have quite a few in our area. We still have baptismal dates with Joseph and Samuel, but we need to work with them and make sure they go through.

I'm glad everything is going well. I know Em's probably disappointed but excited that she gets to keep Peanut. I hope that Nick gets his mission call this week. I know that wherever he goes, it is where the Lord needs him. For the record, I was a little disappointed myself when I read I was going to New Jersey, but I have loved it so much!!! The mission is a wonderful thing!!!!

I love you all and miss you so much. Thank you for the help you have given me as I have been out here. I hope you all have a good week.

Love

Elder Isaac Ellsworth