Grimm, Emma

Hello all my beautiful friends and family!!      I just want to start off by saying thank you to everyone who reached out after last week's email about my knee!! Thank you for your encouragement and prayers!! Y'all are awesome!! I guess while I'm on this subject I'll give you a little update on my knee. I went to the doctor on Wednesday, and he told me that I strained my meniscus. He gave me a set of physical therapy exercises to do for the next 5 weeks, and if my knee is still in pain after that, I'm probably going to have to get an MRI so we can figure out what the real problem is. So it's a little relief, but I'm not totally out of the woods yet. My knee hasn't been in as much pain as before, but it still has its ups and downs. Hopefully it'll be all good in 5 weeks!!      This week felt like the longest week ever. Seriously it lasted like 5 years. But that's okay! Even though this week was a little more difficult, the Lord still put a lot of ...

Hola mis amigos!! Les extraño muchísimo!      Okay okay, so I'm going to keep it super real in this email today. Normally I give you guys the highlights, but today I'm going to talk about the parts of missionary life that missionaries don't talk about. So buckle down.      I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY WITH MY WHOLE HEART!! But some days are tougher than others. This past week for me physically and emotionally was super difficult. For those of you who may not know, I struggled a lot with various knee issues in high school, and had them under control in college and before my mission. But a few weeks ago after I played soccer with my district, my knee began to be in a lot of pain. I thought my old injury was just flaring up and I started doing physical therapy exercises I knew to help strengthen the muscles in my knee. But the workouts have not been helping and have only made the pain worse... and in an entirely new spot in my knee. It's been painful to walk and ...

YOU GUYS!!! EXCITING NEWS!!! MY FRIEND MARIO IS ON DATE TO BE BAPTIZED!!!     This week we celebrated not one, but TWO birthdays! It was Elder Alonso's birthday last Tuesday, and last Wednesday was Hermana Worthington's birthday!! We played hard and worked even harder!! (Just because it's your birthday doesn't mean missionary work stops haha). But it was super fun!!      Okay, let me tell you a few stories since I haven't really been good about those lately. This last Thursday we went to go see our friend José. Now José is a real interestin feller and he is just always outside of his house. I'm convinced of it. Right there in his front yard. But he also has a TON of dogs, I'm pretty sure most of them are strays. But there's one dog that is always in his front yard with him. Anyway, we went to visit José, and we go at the same time every week because José doesn't have a phone, so we have no way to contact him other than going to his house.... and he...

Hola a todos!!!      Cómo están?? How has life been?      This week was great!! We had a lot of fantastic lessons! We had a fantastic lesson on the Restoration with our friend Randal! If you want to know more details of that one, let me know and I'll email more about it next week. (Sorry I don't have that much time this week LOL).      But I'll tell you about a kinda embarrassing moment I had during a lesson this week. I accidentally almost told someone during a lesson this week that Joseph Smith was the greatest Prophet of all time instead of Jesus Christ. My Spanish brain just kinda took over and the wrong name came out. But I corrected it super quick, so it was all good, he didn't even notice.      I've been on a big letter writing kick lately, so if you want a letter from me, just send me your address, and I'll send you one.      I love you all!! Thank you for your continued support and encouragement!  ...