By way of background, I received a call from Pres. Hansen on Saturday saying that he had just talked to Cory about his on-going foot problems. Cory's bunion continues to cause him pain and all treatment by the doctor has not offered long-term relief. Therefore surgery is being recommended which would require him to come home for the procedure. Pres. Hansen asked that I call Cory at the end of his proselyting day so we could get his perspective. Cory's feeling is that rather than have this hold him back the rest of mission, he would rather come home for surgery and then get back out there as soon as possible. We are trying to coordinate the logistics so that his time home is minimized and hopefully post op follow-ups can be handled by the doctor that has been treating him in the mission field.
Here is his letter this week:
Awesome to hear what the family is up to! I wish I could be there with y'all to enjoy all this fun but I can wait....I guess :p Well as y'all already know, I have been talking with President Hansen about my foot problem and he said I will find out later today what all will go down and I am sure he will inform you what will happen.
Well I don't really know what to tell y'all this week. Elder Martin, my new companion, is from California. We are also living with the AP's so it's been way fun. Oh the AP's and us have been getting up at 5 a.m. to hit the gym so we can get shredded. Man am I sore but I enjoy it because no one is in the gym that early so they can't see the weak fat kid workout :)
Oh on Tuesday the "dieing" missionaries that were going home always sleep at the AP's apartments aka my apartment and boy was it trunky in our apartment. I really missed home but hey can't blame them for being excited to go home. On Wednesday the new set of missionaries came in and we took one Elder (Elder Beeman) out greenie tracting and boy did that bring memories back. I mean 4 months ago that was me and I was with Elder Martin too! But the greenies stayed the night at the AP's apartments and it was really cool to have them there. I mean you could see their faces in shock and fearful but I bet that's how I looked my first night. I tried to make these elders feel as welcomed as possible. It turns out that one of the Elders (Elder Tobchan I think that's how you spell it) is a foreign missionary and he actually stayed a few weeks in Mapleton before he went to the MTC so that was really neat-o.
Well that's all I have for now.
