Murdock Land

Dear Sister Kennedy,

How's your new companion?  Are things going well for you out there?

We had Stake Conference today (Don't ask me why.  We already had one in April and it's definitely not October yet.) and the speakers were really good.  We had a bit of a change-up in the stake presidency, so they had the new guy and his wife speak as well as the guy who was leaving and his wife (I think they're moving).  They all spoke on really awesome topics and delivered them really well.  Then the stake president called a few people up to bear their testimonies, and two of them were a senior couple leaving for a mission tomorrow.  They're going to the new Central Eurasia mission, and I think they're going to be the mission presidents, but I'm not sure.  Either way, they're trying to learn Turkish because they'll be in Istanbul, Turkey (that's where the mission headquarters is, which is part of the reason I think they'll be the presidents).  The sister told us something that I thought was really cool.  Apparently, the word for "lion" in Turkish is "aslan".  Narnia nerdy moment!  

Bryan and Dani had another family dinner tonight.  This one was really small, though, only Bryan, the kids, Kristen, Dani's aunt, two of her sisters, and one brother-in-law.  Dani wasn't even there because she wasn't feeling well.  Bryan made Chinese food and we had lemon poppyseed cake for dessert.  When Justin opened the bottle of sriracha sauce, it spit all over me.  It got on my shirt, my pants, my face...I still have orange marks on me from it.  Yay.  At least we got to hang out with cousins.

Work has been fun.  Dealing with more crazy people and their medical records.  Mr. Sutterfield asked me to do a speed-write of this one guy's demand because Mr. Sutterfield and his wife are leaving for their mission this week and he wants to get as much done beforehand as he can.  This poor client and his wife got a raw deal.  They had both just retired and were taking an RV trip to celebrate.  They were up here from Florida, visiting the wife's brother, and he took them four-wheeling.  They were on their way down the (dirt) trail when some idiot in a truck comes zooming around this blind corner, fishtails, and hits their four-wheeler.  The couple goes flying, and the man gets assorted bumps and bruises and a nasty cut on his upper lip.  The woman breaks her left femur in three places, gets a nasty cut on her eyelid, TONS of bruising, etc.  She has to be life-flighted out, has surgery to repair her femur (steel rods, screws, etc.) and it takes 60 staples to close the incisions.  She's still in treatment, needless to say.  Poor lady.

Yesterday, one of Justin's buddies and his wife came down to visit and hang out.  We went to the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving point and then we went to the aquarium.  Much fun was had by all (especially by little boys who never grew out of their obsession with dinosaurs).  We also went to Cabella's and wandered around for a while.  Justin and I got in some target practice at the shooting gallery, too.

Ballet was really good this week.  It was a really small class this time, only three people.  Though one person did come late because she had hurt her back and couldn't really dance with us, so she just did gentle stuff and stretched.  The teacher worked the rest of us pretty hard, though.  I actually had sweat marks on my leotard by the time class was over.  

After ballet, Justin and I went over to Josh and Raven's house to hang out and celebrate Josh's birthday.  Raven made a really good lasagna and we had homemade carrot cake for dessert.  Yum!

Well, the laundry just finished, so I'm going to go switch it over.  Hugs and lots of love!

Symone