Hermana Jessica Peterson's Mission Adventure: Don't worry mom it wasn't me!

So, we took a nice leisurely tour around the urgent care and er's of Odessa and Midland last Monday! So on Friday we were exercising in the courtyard at our apartments and Sister Walker was doing some exercises on a bench and she fell and smacked her shin on the bench. It was bleeding pretty good but we got it all cleaned up and bandaged. Fast forward to Monday and the pain was pretty bad and it had green puss coming out. She then proceeded to tell me that her foot was numb. Upon further inspection her leg was very swollen and red. We called sister Heap and she decided we should go to urgent care before they closed for the night. We headed home to get insurance info and then to urgent care where we were told it would be at least an hour wait. We had some other complications and ended up not being able to be seen there because of insurance issues. Several calls later the STL's directed us to what they thought was an urgent care in Midland (it was actually an ER) so they then directed us to an urgent care where they had the same problems as they did in Odessa. By this time it has been about 4 hours and her leg from her knee down is numb. The mission doctor told us not to worry and to just come back in the morning when they could resolve the insurance issues. In the mean time the STL's had found a doctor in one of the other Midland wards who told us to come over to his house. We figured since we were already in Midland it wouldn't hurt to have him look at it. He fed us dinner at 9:00 at night and then told us that she has a staph infection and some nerve damage. Both doctors told us it is extremely painful and her leg may be numb for awhile! He gave her instructions on how to take care of it and an antibiotic and today it finally seems to start to be getting better! After she got a priesthood blessing earlier in the week she started to get feeling back in her leg too! Of course that made it hurt worse but we are so glad she is doing well now! Anyways, that probably isn't interesting to any of you but that was the excitement of the week here in good old Odessa!

General conference was great!!! I hope y'all got a chance to watch it and feel of the great spirit! My favorite quote was "You can come as you are just don't plan on staying that way". Jesus Christ died for us and because of that we can be changed through Him! It is such a blessing!

To answer everyones curiosity, unfortunately Jessie will not be being baptized this weekend either. Satan knows how to get to us! He does not want us to succeed! We got to watch conference with her this weekend at a members house and it was her birthday so we made her a cake! She really enjoyed it!

Yesterday was Sister Overson's birthday so we had cake and breakfast together this morning and had our apartment all decorated when she came over!

Have a great week y'all!

And you better have done your homework from last week and watched the Prince of peace video!

Hermana Peterson

This week's hail storm. We were in the car on a phone appointment and it was so loud we had to hang up and reschedule.