Too Excited For Words

I am so thrilled. I went to see the best ever orthopaedic surgeon in the world yesterday for a follow-up appt and I asked him if I could go skiing. HE SAID YES, HE DIDN'T SEE WHY NOT! I will have to take it easy but I can go SKIING! I also asked him why it still hurts, and guess what?
He doesn't have an answer for me. He also wrote me a RX for more physical therapy because I would like to get the muscles around my knee stronger. If any of you bloggers out there know any good exercises that I could do pass them along. Also, my goal of making the grandkiddos blankets for their birthdays will continue on as I go and purchase material for the next one. Saren turns 8 on February 7th so Porter's here I come. I asked one of the nurses I work with about binding a quilt with bias binding and she gave me some pointers. We will see how this next one goes. Sorry Kaden for getting the test blanket. I love you anyway!

Another thing I would like to blog about is my quest for health. I have lost 3 pounds and am more committed to an exercise plan. I need to get 2 more exercise days in this week so I hope my schedule will cooperate.

Those of you who want to know how Kory is doing on his mission well here you will find the 4-1-1. As of now, he is on an island called Kosrae (it is pronounced like coasrye). It is one of the islands of the Federated States of Micronesia. It is called the "sleeping lady". He has been there since the first week in November and has had to learn the language of the island, Kosraean (coasryan). He says it is coming along. A couple of weeks ago his backpack was stolen out of their car. He was pretty discouraged with losing his camera and pictures, scriptures and its highlights, the church DVD player and other things. Well, the next week they got a tip on where it might be. They followed the tip and was able to retrieve all but the memory card from his camera. They still keep after the people who took the camera to hopefully get the memory cards back. He has had some success with about 4 baptisms already. The last couple of people even asked him to do the baptizing for them. He has had some awesome experiences in just a few short months. He has even had to dig his first grave and bury his first person. He says the food is "interesting" and has learned to tolerate hair in his food, bugs crawling on his plate and even ONIONS! It is such a blessing to have a missionary in the mission field. We continue to be proud of his work, example and committment. Well how is that for using my blog to keep people posted. It is actually quite fun. I may have to post pictures of my work because that is what my life is about (it seems that way).