Week from down under

Dear Family,

This week was a crazy one so please buckle up and keep all arms and legs inside the ride at all times as we go through this...

Monday after writing, Elder Smith and I went Thrift Shopping so that was freaking sweet and we found things that I found really cool, we found two pictures and two glasses that we just had to buy so you will see those in the pictures. 

Later that night I started to feel even worse though and it was bad by the time I went to bed the same kinds of symptoms that I had when I was in the MTC. So I was thinking oh freak not again...I gave it while to make sure though and it got bad I wasn't eating cause I wasn`t hnugry but I was drinking so don`t freak I know what I am doing. I finally called the enfermeda and she sent me to get tested and I ended up just having an intestine infection so nothing too bad and this same week for a long time now I had problems with one of my toes. I have had an ingrown toenail and I thought it would just go away or I could rub it out and what not but that didn`t work for anything!! So last week it rained so hard that I walked in a river basically again and then we sat in the same wet clothes for a long time and I was sick at this time & my toe and whole foot started to hurt way bad when walking home then when I took off the shoe it was pretty fat and red and pussy and what not so I called the enfermeda and she had me send her pictures and she then sent them to a doctor. I then had to go into San Salvador, the capital from Usulutan, which is like three hours or more bus ride.  Once we found the doctor  he went a head and did a little surgery thing and cut the toenail out ~ I will be attaching photos so please if you have a weak stomach don`t look. 

With all this going on we also had interviews to know our new Presidente! What a great first inpression that was...he is probably thinking what a lazy or baby missionary and I felt super bad about all this is what I call horrible timing! ...I will not lie I kind of was murmuring and saying why me? or why now? For real???? I was so frustrated and angry and so the work was rough between all this I was then reading in Mosiah 14 (please do read only 12 verses) and it talks about the Atonement and verse 7 stood out to me more than anything and it really quickly put me in my place! ¨He was oppressed, and he was afflicted yet he opened not his mouth, he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb so he opened not his mouth¨ You talk about what an example our Savior was he did not say one word even all he went through and I was going through things so small right now in comparision to his afflictions and I was complaining ~ wow!!! I was sure to ask for forgiveness and I can now say that I know if we bear our afflictions and burdens without complaining look at them as a blessing that they to will go away faster and the Lord will truly help us through them! I say that in the name of Jesus Christ amen. 

After the toe surgery though right next to the Doctors was TGI Fridays  and we hadn`t ate all day so we kind of treated ourselves good I mean it has been a year since I ate something like that! So enjoy the pictures! 

Thanks for all your love and support! I hope you all have a great week and thank the Lord for the trials and the things that you learn from them instead of complaining over them like I first did! 

I love you mom to the moon and back and then some! 

I love you all have a great week!!! 

con mucho amor

Elder Leatherow

WARNING TOE PICTURES:

 Pre-Surgery

Thirft Store Finds:

 ET phone home!

the two photos: The Man Cave and 9-11

and the meal that tasted so sweet

Chatted with Wes a bit and he asked me to unlock his facebook so that his friends in El Salvador could find him, friend request him and he could stay in touch with them after he returns home.  He also was curious if the states did the same procedure on ingrown toenails and I assured him they did so he was in good hands.  As the for the stomach issues that as him momma scares me to death but I hope and pray that he knows NOT to let it go for weeks.  Prays for fast heeling and a healthy missionary are appreciated.  Loving and missing my boy.  Shar