Podiatrist on P-day, MP Spending Day With a Missionary

We always look forward to p-day. It means we venture outside our neighborhood to do our morning exercise. I enjoyed the day we took a walk down the main streets in Carlsbad.

The evergreen trees here are different than any we have seen.

We trespassed on the campus of the Army and Navy Academy military boarding school for boys. A security guy came over to talk to us. I thought he was going to get mad at us, but we were really friendly with him and asked him a lot of questions about the academy and in the end it netted us a picture near the tree with the gigantic trunk that was the reason we were trespassing in the first place.

Imagine our delight when we found a Kangen water dispenser right in Carlsbad.

We aren't the only ones who tout alkaline water as being healthier for the body. Captain John A. Frazier discovered the famous Carlsbad Mineral Water.

There is an organic juicery food place that has a green outdoor space around it for people to sit and enjoy their organic food. You can pull up a cushion and sit at a table and enjoy the painting and planter boxes mounted on the side of a building.

 We found the place where we are going to live after our mission.

I made a third visit to Dr. Dustin, the mission foot doctor. He is such a nice man who treats all the missionaries for free--including me. He said my left foot is doing better and didn't give me injections in that foot. He was not too happy about the right foot still bothering me so much. He shot it up in two places and said he hopes it heals as much in the next three weeks as the left foot did in the last three weeks.

At least this time he wasn't talking about another surgery...in my left foot. Let's hope next time he's not talking another surgery in the right foot either.

Look at MP working so hard on trying to answer all the missionaries' letters to the president. Just a mere 161 of them each week.

Elder Richards felt like MP does not know what it's really like being out working in the field every day, so MP spent a full day with this missionary--beginning at his apartment at 8 a.m. to do an hour of personal study followed by an hour of companionship study.

This photo was taken with them working at MiraCosta College in Oceanside.

Sister Jones and Sister Miraglia were also working on the campus. Glen said he really learned a lot from these wonderful missionaries about contacting and being bold. Elder Richards told Glen he loves him and told him it was his best day on the mission.

This is what time Glen got home and he had a very sunburned head to prove he had been out all day.

Glen and I enjoyed seeing this note the next day that had been stuck on the MP's desk at the mission office.

One day we went to the San Diego Mission office and met with the Just Serve representative for a while. Then we went to lunch with the Schmitts, the MP and MPW of the San Diego Mission. She is an ER doctor, so she is wonderfully qualified to deal with all their mentally and physically ailing missionaries.

Makes me very thankful we have some wonderful doctors and nurses in our mission so I don't have to carry the responsibility of making medical decisions for the missionaries.

These sweet sisters were decorating up Elder Ruhl's desk at the mission office. Sister Parris, standing on the chair, was also having a birthday the same day.

Hermana Adams was one of the missionaries who kept us awake late into the night recently. She was riding on a scooter (the kind you push with your foot) and ran into the curb and fell. As the day wore on, she was in more and more pain and then went to the emergency room after bedtime. What she thought were two jammed fingers turned out to be two broken fingers at the base of her hand.

This is the splint the hospital put on her. She was then referred to a specialist who put a cast on her hand.

These fine missionaries were at the mission office when we arrived early one morning. They were ready to have the meeting for new leaders an hour before Mission Leadership Council. Such dedicated and willing missionaries. 

These are the future leaders of the Church. And they will be fabulous because they already are fabulous!