A new week.....and we just never know what to expect! Rodney, our next door neighbor, has become very comfortable in coming over to visit with us! He is a nice guy. Notice the GECKO on the window screen behind him!! Got to love our geckos!!
When I had a minute this week early on, I was able to catch up on a few things here at the PTC apartment. Feels so good to be on top of things.
And getting a fresh loaf of homemade banana-nut/chocolate chip/pecan bread was a bonus! Yes, got to have butter with it. One loaf for us, one loaf for the missionaries who live upstairs from us.
I was able to get a doily made for my good friend, Minna, in Finland. It is on the way to her.
And I got a sweet note from Toni after she received the afghan I made for her. So glad she likes it!!
We got a phone call late on Thursday night. An elder in the N.C. Charlotte Mission got spooked by a wasp while standing on the front porch of an investigator's home. He is really terrified of wasps and decided to jump off the porch rather than getting stung!!! Not a real good choice I don't think. He ended up with a badly broken leg (broke in 2 places) and was taken to the E.R. in Rock Hill, S.C. When the brand new Mission President's wife called us to talk to Elder/Dr. Allgaier about it, it was decided to move him from the community hospital in S.C. to a larger hospital in the Charlotte, N.C. area to be closer to the mission home. That decision was made about midnight. It was obvious to both Wayne and I that we felt we needed to head to Charlotte on Friday morning and be there for this emergency surgery. President and Sister Alexander were most grateful for that decision. As we were driving through South Carolina, we always LOVE seeing 'our peach'! It has recently been renovated and looks GREAT!!
We made a quick 'refreshing' stop at the N.C. state line.
We would spend the next 36 hours in Charlotte helping with the situation. We feel it was well worth our time to be there. Elder/Dr. Allgaier and Sister Alexander were able to get some 'training' done while we waited for 'things' to happen. Elder Leach, with the broken leg, was a real trooper. Elder Blanco, his companion, was a trooper as well. He took great care of his companion.
The Carolinas Medical Hospital is a very nice facility. If one has to be in a hospital, this was not a bad one to be in. Probably better that he was here rather than a little community hospital in Rock Hill, S.C.
We have come to LOVE the Charlotte skyline! Just soooooo pretty!
And as we arrived home about 9:15 p.m on Saturday, we were greeted by a beautiful sunset. Welcoming us back to PTC!
Much to our pleasant surprise, we had a box waiting for us!!! David and Chelsea sent us some Maui Chips from their visit to Maui this past week!!! We LOVE these chips and have not had them since we were in Maui a gazillion years ago!!! Thank you David and Chelsea!!
This coming week is looking to be quite busy again.....we will be headed back to N.C. to the Raleigh Mission. Stay tuned.....we will see where else we may end up!!! :-) We LOVE our mission!
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