Week 47

Hello family and friends,

I have to preface Sister Little's email....

she injured her ankle way back in September while she was out running one morning. Just thought it was a sprain but has taken a long time to heal. She went to see a Ukrainian doctor in October to have it checked out and they told her that she needs to "go home" and have surgery. Well, as far as Kylie was concerned, that was not going to happen. So the mission sent her x-rays to the German Dr.s and they said that she was fine and did not need surgery.

As a missionary, she has not been off of her feet to rest her ankle and has kept it wrapped for several months now, still has pain and is swollen on one side. The Mission President's wife, Sister Klebingat, and Kylie went back to the Dr. again they x-rayed her ankle again and she has a bone fragment floating around but all of her bones look fine and the Dr.s told Kylie she has "wide set ankles"....What ever that means...and that she just needs to be off of her ankle for a few days...hence, her email this week....

We continue to pray for her ankle to have a full recovery.

Yes! i know that elder! i just found out last week he's serving in Gilbert, so i told grandma to keep an eye out for him. elder yarmak or irmak...i don't know how its spelled in English. yep i met him when i was serving with sister zenger...yeah. we're good friends. to make a long story short which i'll tell you the whole of it later...he was a dj at a wedding reception we were at and found the music for 'cotton eye Joe' so we could dance it for everyone...HUGE HIT everyone was blown away and loved it. Don't worry, president knows. so ya. i know him. awesome kid. i knew he was serving in the Tempe mission, but sounds like he's right there in our Gilbert.

ankle

ha. im writing right now from a senior couples apartment.... we went last wed to see a diff doctor. got another X-ray. i still have a bone fragment just floating around and its still swollen. but the bones are where they are supposed to be-so no need for surgery. the doctor said that i just have wide set ankles. i guess it comes with having wide set hips. but my ankle is still swollen on one side and painful on the other, so she prescribed me ten days of of physical therapy, ten days of these crazy gels and ointments i have to put on my ankle throughout the day, and ten days of rest. ha! we were there with sister klebingat and we all just laughed when we heard that one. but she was serious, said the reason it hasn't healed is because i haven't given it time to. fair enough. we seriously walk miles a day here in center. so fair enough. luckily sister klebingat was there to hear it first hand and tell president what was going on...because i can guarantee you if it had just been me calling him to tell him what's up, he'd just say, okay work 8 and a half hours a day instead of 9. but no. So initially i was going to spend these days at the Klebingats. scary idea at first. but then i realized it could be a real party. sister klebingat even said i could teach her how to dance (it was funny because i had just told the doctor that i need my ankle to heal so i can dance the rest of my life).

but....president klebingat found out its against the rules to have missionaries stay at the mission home, so i got booted over to the senior couples. So my new companion is sister humphries. Love her!! today i spent the day in the mission office helping out, and I'll be helping out the humphries with their business this week. so i'd like to think im an 'office sister' this week while i give my ankle time to heal. the physical therapy is more like light and magnetic therapy, but hopefully it will work. its fun talking with the nurses each day-im getting to peak into the medical life here and the life of the mission office doings, so its kinda fun. my companion has a mini missionary to work our area, so the work is still going there. Yeah, all my doctors appts and meeting start in Ukrainian but when they realize i respond in Russian, they switch over to Russian for me. not bad.

hm. so what else to say....just hanging out with the humphries. learning a whole lot about senior couples and all the different missions they can serve and all the business they deal with. i'll have my last physical therapy treatment will be next Monday, then my companion leaves for home on Tuesday i think, then next week i'll get a new companion.

the snow has finally come to stay. it looks like Utah when i went into the mtc a year ago. i guess i should be grateful, it could have come two months ago.

well, i love you all! extract what you will from this email to pass on to whoever....

kylie