Wild Ride

 Hello everyone,

     Life has its ups and downs and we just went through a couple of them. During our time in American Fork, Roger experienced some sharp abdominal pain so we went to the ER and learned he had a blood clot in his kidney.  Luckily no surgery but it took a few days on pain meds and blood thinner to get rid of that.

     After our wonderful week welcoming Amy home, we flew back to finish the last 6 weeks of our mission. What!?!  

      We served at the Employment Center to help several new people that came in,  then put in several more hours to call and update all 148 job seekers.  Whew!

     Thursday we went out for our favorite activity to ride E bikes on the trails around here.  We got separated and I finally headed home since I didn't have a phone with me.  When I called him, I learned he had crashed coming down a steep hill on a curve.  He said he zigged when he should have zagged.  He could tell when he stood up that there were some broken bones. The paramedics brought him to the ER where he was told he broke his clavicle and 5 ribs.  Luckily we were able to come home that night.  We swung by the crash site to get the bike off the bike rack where the paramedic locked it up to and it had been stolen.  Argggh!  Too bad.  Salt in the wound.

     Luckily he has been able to sleep and take it easy the last few days.  It doesn't hurt to just sit, only if he is up moving around too much.  The Elders came by to give him a blessing and our family has been praying for him.  He is healing and doing fine, and is anxious to continue serving the best he can to the end of our mission.   We have so much to do!  Up, up and away! 

Love, Elder and Sister Jerman