Thank you for the birthday wishes! I look forward to opening my presents tomorrow! It sounds like you are all doing really good and things are going well. Exciting stuff is happening at home. No, I do not have a British accent. The American accent is too strong. However, I am saying British words. There are words here that mean different things than at home or they call things by different names. I'm glad that everyone is doing so good at home! It's so scary that I only have one year left! :( I absolutely love my mission and I can see why they call it the best two years (or 18 months)! Anyway, so an update on everything here.
My finger is okay. What I didn't get to tell you last week was that I ended up having surgery on my finger last Monday afternoon. I didn't know until I got to the hospital for another appointment that I would need surgery. We had to go to Windsor to the Princess Margaret Hospital there (very posh!), and the doctor looked at it, made another appointment for me later that afternoon to see the plastic surgeon. So, I saw the plastic surgeon that afternoon who looked at it and said that he wanted to do surgery. So, then and there he did the surgery. He had to stitch up the ligament underneath my nail because there was a tear in it. So he stitched that up (after numbing my finger of course, but I was awake and got to watch a little bit of it), and then he stitched my nail back onto my finger, and burned a hole through my nail to let the blood continue to escape. So, I have another appointment with him this Thursday to see how it is doing. It was pretty interesting. So, that's the news on the finger.
The other news is that I moved areas. I am now serving in Purley. It is a nice place here, and I have a great companion. Her name is Sister Oriaku, and she is from Nigeria. She has been on her mission for 3 months now. I really miss Bracknell, but apparently I am needed here now. So, a lot happened just after I emailed you last Monday. We also got a call from President Millar that day to confirm that I was moving. He also asked me to be a Sister Trainer Leader. That is a sister who gets to travel around the specific zone assigned, and go on exchanges with all the Sisters and help them out. How cool is that?! It was really cool at first, until that afternoon when I called President just after I had surgery. He called on Wednesday after I had been transferred and was in my new area and he told me that he wants to wait to make me the Sister Trainer Leader until my finger is better. :( Sad day. But hopefully that will happen next transfer. At least I will get to know my new area before I start other duties. Other than that, not much else has been going on, which I am grateful for because the last three weeks since I broke my finger have been absolutely crazy!!! But, it all happens for a reason.
Yes I did get to watch three out of four sessions of conference and it was great! I loved it so much! I really enjoyed all of the talks and I can't wait to get the ensign and read and study the words from the prophets, seers, and revelators. I agree with President Monson when he said that it has been one of the most inspiring conferences because it really has! I am glad you guys got to see it too because it was wonderful! I hope you guys have a great week, and thank you once again for everything! I love you all, and pray for you always!
Love,
Sister Connery
Sister Connery and Sister Oriaku
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