Sarah's August 10th Email

Dear Family,

BABY SARAH!!!!! HOLY COW!!!! She is so beautiful! ( with a name like Sarah, how could she not be?) that is the best birthday present! What a doll!

Thank you all for your birthday wishes and gifts! I am spoiled rotten! My companion enjoys it too, brownies, mustaches, and all. I had an excellent birthday, there is a sweet couple in the ward, the Harris's who took us out to eat and we celebrated their anniversary and my birthday which happened to fall on the same day. they were married 8-8-80 so 8's all around! (For all who are wondering, I am actually turning 23, but thank you for thinking me younger than I actually am:)

This has been a good week, we have had some investigators progressing really well, and we are excited for the next transfer (both Sister Allen and I are staying). there is a couple we are teaching who have set a baptismal date, so we are super excited for them.

So this is funny...we have fleas. I only say this is funny, because it might be funny to you. I hope someone is getting enjoyment out of this. They have been jumping around our apartment fro about three days now (found them on my birthday, great gift!). We know where we got them, and we are going to try to get rid of them, but until then, I have a dozen little flea bites all over me.

Why me?

First spiders,
then bed bugs,
now fleas?

Although yesterday a member took us on a picnic and in the middle of a story she was telling us, I felt this pain shoot through my finger. When I looked at it there was nothing there, but my finger was red and swelling up. I didn't want to seem like a pansy, so I didn't tell my comp about it until it had swelled up to the size of a salami. My whole hand was red! When I showed her, she laughed and asked what I wanted her to do about it.

Punk.

Eventually the swelling went down and my finger stopped hurting, and it was probly nothing, but you know my imagination. the rest of the day I kept imagining this infection spreading up my arm and attacking my nervous system and all these horrible deaths.

Anyway, that's all the exciting news in CT! Hope everything is better there, and if my hand hasn't fallen off by Monday, I'll write again!

Love you all!
Sister Dixon