Enough Already...You Win

The pictures came today.
This is Elder Hadley's stitches from his run-in with the farm jack on the 30th of January.
As his mother, I can't say enough how grateful I am it didn't hit him directly in the eye.

Four days later with the stitches removed.
Elder Hadley's comments about the stitches...
"I hope you like the pictures. The guy didn't do a great stitch job. I took them out myself because I didn't like the service there and didn't want to pay another $10 for a couple of cuts."

The following two pictures are from his "AXE-ident" on the 2nd of November last year.
(I forgot to ever post them)
Hmmm. Let's see. The beginning of November until the end of January. I count just under 3 months. This needs to stop, wouldn't you say?




It's unanimous Elder Hadley. No more.
We all want you home in one piece.

On a brighter note, he just passed his halfway mark on January 7th.
He has prepared his shirt for the traditional
"Hump Day Burn".

Just to give you an idea what this typically looks like, here are a couple of Elders from the Snowflake area burning their shirts.
A little rubbing alcohol and a match- nothing too much.

Now we see Elder Hadley burning his.

All I can say is, it's a good thing you want to be a firefighter.
Someday you'll be able to come to your OWN rescue...
in the mean time,
YOU WIN!!!

To my "Honey"....

You make my heart happy.

Thank you for

the most beautiful red roses I've ever seen

and for being my eternal sweetheart.


I am the LUCKIEST girl in the world!!!!!!!!

I LOVE YOU,
Joanne

ANOTHER trip to Urgent Care?!?!!!

We received our weekly e-mail from Elder Hadley today.
Read for yourself (an excerpt)...

Things are going great.
Guess what came early this year??? Yep, a trip to the urgent care for some stitches. :)
I told you at least once a year. I guess I should tell you the story. We were going to an appointment when we saw this drug deal going on and we decided we should break it up, so we confronted them about it. The bigger guy punched me in the eye and cut it (hence the stitches), so my companion and I proceeded to beat them up until they couldn't do anything and then we called the cops.







Okay, just kidding...that wasn't the real story, but it sounds cool right? I was doing service and was using a farm jack for the first time and was lowering a trailer and it popped out of my hand and hit me just to the side of my right eye. It only needed two stitches because it was so close to my eye. I should get the stitches out this Friday. I will send you a picture of it next week. So I guess this is my 4th year in a row to do something like this...one more year and it'll be my 5th year anniversary...who wants to celebrate? :)
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Just the kind of note every parent wants to get from their missionary. I about fell apart when I first started reading it, so by the time I got to the end I was practically relieved.
So the way I figure it, he should be good now until he comes home next January, right?

I will post a picture of his most recent "wound" next week.




It is comforting to know that Heavenly Father is aware of and watching over his missionaries.
Garth feels like Jason may have MULTIPLE guardian angels assigned to him.
Probably true.