While I am home...

Hello All. While I am home I will be updating my other blog "Life's An Adventure".

Thank you for all your support!!
Love you
Mikayla

To the Doctor again!

Well the surgery went well. I am still in pain from it, but I hear that is to be expected. All I know about what I am doing with my life is that Heavenly Father is in control. I know that He guides my life when I put my faith in his hands. I know that He has a very specific plan for me and the things I need to do at this point in my life. I know that He loves me and knows how to fix what is wrong with me.

Tomorrow we see the doctor.
I don't know if we will be able to tell anything so soon, but we await the news and I will keep you updated.

I love you all and thank you so much for the prayers and thoughts that come from you all!!
Con Amor,
Hermana Skouson

From the doctors

Well, as most of you know, I am home for some time. I am having medical problems and am trying to work this all out.

Update: Saw a surgeon today. He is gonna cut me open. (only an exploratory surgery, but it sounds cooler the other way.) Hopefully Friday.

Will keep you posted!

Love you
Mana Skouson

Hermana Skouson coming home.

(From the Spain Barcelona Mission Blog)Hermana Skouson was experiencing some medical issues and returned home this morning to try and resolve them. It was a sad parting - she has been with us only about 4 months, but is a wonderful missionary and we have grown to love her! We feel confident that all will work out for her, and our hope is that she is back with us soon!

Hermana Church bids farewell to her companion, Hermana Skouson, at the Barcelona airport.

(She should be home sometime tonight, if the lightening and thunder stop in Atlanta.  We are anxious to see what is causing all her pain.  Please pray for Mikayla that she will be able to return to serve the Lord on a mission.  We will try to update.  Thanks for your prayers!  )

Well, here I am again

Okay,

Really sorry for the scare, but I thought you guys would want to know rather than be left in the dark on this one. I am actually still in pretty heavy pain. I have about one good day and then one bad day. It has been getting worse and I have stayed in quite a lot this week. The appointment is actually tomorrow the 25th.(With the specialist).       I am excited to go and see what this is. Hermana Hinckley is going to come with us. She is so sweet!! When I went to the hospital the Doctor gave me some neoprofen (600mg) and a stomach coater omenproz or something like that. I had some serious pain on Tuesday and ended up staying in the whole day. LAME. and I took those two medicines and they aggravated the problem. Some of the guesses that they have here are a hernia in my intestines or something like that. Also, a floppy bowel. EMBARRASSING. okay not really, but yeah. So, I have been taking it easy. REALLY FRUSTRATING. But lemme tell you. Heavenly Father is really in control on this one. On Tuesday, I went into my bedroom to study even though this is not what I am supposed to do, but I was really in pain and sometimes it helps to lie down. So I went in there and started my studies, with a prayer of course about what to do with this pain. About 2 mins later, Hermana Church comes into the room with the phone telling me that Hermana Hinckley is on the phone wanting to know how I am doing. Mind you, She is in a Zone Conference and is worried about a whole bunch of other stuff. I told her honestly that I wasn´t feeling too great and she said to take the medication and stay in. So I did. But the miracle gets even better. So we started to cancel the appointments that we had set for that day. And miraculously, every single one of them was unable to do it anyway. Some of them even called and cancelled on us. This has happened throughout the week. As the pain gets worse, and as I rely on the Lord to know whether to stay in or go out, he really puts the clear answers in our path. We have been having kind of down weeks, only teaching 12 lessons for the past two weeks, but we have been trying. When we are out, we are out with full gusto. Please don´t worry. Just so you know, if I need surgery, I will be coming home for a while. This is what I have decided. It is not fair to a companion to stay in all day with me. Mom, you know what this is like. Basically like suicide. I am too crazy to handle in a house all day. But I will be coming back. Hopefully tomorrow all things will be cleared up. I hope!!!!

Anyways. We teach an English class on Saturdays and there is one guy that is interested in the church and also in Hermana Church. This is a slight problem because the other day he called and confessed his love to her. Telling her that he can´t eat, sleep or do anything else except think about her. He kept saying, This is my life, this is my life. What am I supposed to do. Her response was, you are not in love with me. This is your heart telling you that you want to know more about the gospel. You need to stop calling me. We will give the Elders in your area your number and they will continue teaching you.

So when these things happen you are supposed to let the people above you know. Especially for sisters. So she called our District Leader and told him, and it when up the line, Zone Leaders, Ayudantes, and President. We haven´t heard yet, but there is a possibility that an emergency transfer could happen and also, it is almost for sure that she is being shipped out at transfer time. Where, we don´t know. We just hope it is not south. She wants to open an area, Andorra or Albacete. Who knows. I will keep you up to date.

We are working with Jessica who is set to be baptized this weekend. She is the one who has two kids and is leaving her ¨husband¨. They are not really married so that makes things slightly easier. She has her interview on Wednesday and she will be baptized on Saturday. She is SOLID!! She was another one who was asking us when she could be baptized. Will send picts.

That is great about the package. THANK YOU SO MUCH! YOU GUYS ARE SUPER GREAT!!!

Quinn: Just finished a letter for you.

Millie: Working on one for you.

Riss: you should get one soon

Cam: Working on the Spanish!!

dad and mom: LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!!

Thank you to everyone who writes. Even just little emails. Yes they are allowed. We are not really allowed to send back to you on email, but we can write letters

Hey,

Question, can I get shaylas letters?

And any others cool info you want to send.

I am so sorry. Don´t be worried about me. Hermana and President Hinckley are always checking up on me. Things are good. I got a blessing. I am doing well. This is just the way life is. And that is okay. I am not dead yet, but the time will soon come. (82 years from now) Yes I plan on living to 104. Gotta beat GR.

Quinn, congrats on your VB GO SHADOW!!! Wish I coulda seen it.

Send pictures.
Everyone.
And you have stretchy pants.
RISSA. Tell me about your cruise!

Love you

Hermana Skouson

To the Hospital???

Well,

Herllo mi familia.

Went to the hospital this week.

Doesn't that sound dramatic?

It is. Basically, I woke up in pain and tried to wait it out, but didn't work.

Called DR. Dye and asked him what to do. He had me lie down and push on myself because he can only talk on the phone with us. Anyways. He said this pain could be two rare diseases or something unrelated completely. They two diseases are one where you bowels fold over on each other and the folding is what is causing the pain, or it could be the appendage that is attached to the appendix, it could be filling and exposing the vains to the front of my stomach, therefore, causing pain.
Anyways, he said that if the pain didnt subside, I should go to the hospital to get it checked out. And Hermana Hinckley called and said that she would prefer that I got to the hospital if the pain doesn't subside. And it didn't. So... My companion and I went to the office and waited for a while to have the Lunds come back from an apartment inspection. So, Long story short, they didn't make it back in time and we had to go without them. Elder Atkin, Secretary to the president, has a credit card that we needed to use to pay for the bill. Anyways, went to the hospital, and when I was called back to go back to the back room, all four of us got up and the nurse said that only one of them could come with me. Elder Atkin suggested that he go, we don't think he really knew what was going to happen. I asked that Hermana Church could go with me. My companion, first off, translater, second. Because yes, this was all in spanish. So ended up being that Hermana Church came with me. Thank Heavens. HA AH HA HA A. Anyways. They did the basic ER procedures of taking my blood and doing a ultrasound. And I found out that I am not pregnant!!! I was soooo worried about this one. But the test were unconclusive and they suggested that I go to a specialist. I have an appointment for next monday. Sooo we will see. They gave me some medicin that I think is equivalent to morphine. So I am not taking that. But yeah. I wasn't going to tell you. Please don't worry about me.

I think I got better treatment here in Spain with my mission family that I did when I was at home with y'all. Everybody is so good here and they are so loving.

The working is going. We are having progress with the wife of Juan. Silvia is her name. She told us the otherday that as soon as her and Juan get married, they will be baptised. This was on Saturday and she came to church for the first time on Sunday!!! YEah, we are seeing success. We have a baptism scheduled for the 29th of this month. Pray for her. Her name is Jessica and she is leaving her "husband" that she is not married to, to be baptised. I'm sure I have said this before, but I am always amazed at what people will do to become members of this true gospel.

I love working with people and watch the atonement work in their lives the same way that it has worked in mine. What a blessing! I have the BEST JOB in the WORLD! I can't tell you how much I love this work.

Side note: When I was trying to get my pain sorted, I thought about how much I wanted to go home. And then I realized, that I really would rather be nowhere else. It is hard, because sometimes, I am in big pain. But, I know that my heavenly father loves me just as much as he loves my investigators and he is showing that to me. I know that things will be alright and I know that it is important for me to see this specialist because they might be able to help me.

I love you all,

I am fine

I have a great mission, mission president, and mission president's wife!!

and Missionaries, and Dad, they All want to be here. I keep thinking about how crazy that is. They all want to preach the gospel and share what heavenly father desires for others.

I love this

Hermana Skouson

HELLO FAMILIA!!

Wow,

I had such a good time talking with yáll (thats for you Ris. I know you miss that) Therefore :) I have had a really good time here and we surely partyed it up today. We went shopping. Went to the Body Shop to get things to make my skin glow (and not a dark red) and other goodnesses. I also broke down and bought a straigthener today. Finally one that fits the plugs here in Spain. The problem was that the power converter fried my straightner and it would sort of work, but this one was a decent price and it fits the pluggs- PERFECTO!

Then we went grocery shopping. Last week was a big week in terms of groceries, so this week we just went to a fruiteria and a panaderia and condis (a german? grocery store) where I bought milk. GOOD TIMES AND GOOD PRICES!

I am so glad to hear that you all are going to St. George. Just soak up the sun there for me. HE HE HE! Actually, I think that I might be getting a tan. Yes you heard right. A TAN!!! I no longer glow a brilliant white. I am a brilliant off white. It really just looks like I actually get sun everynow and again!

I am sending a package of notes home. Soon i hope. Some can be hand delievered. Others are for you. And I included some pictures!!!

Kaity!!! That is so great! I am so excited for her. She will be the best missionary ever!

Well,

that is basically my life. in a bucket. by the side of the road. spinning in circles. because of the semi. who ran into the bucket. yea.

yea yea. that is what i said. this really could be a song. a song by the concords. lets be more correct here. flight of the concords. but yea. yea yea. sometimes i make up songs to my companion. yea. yea yea.

okay. im gonna go. cause lets be honest. this is really pathetic. yea. yea yea.

well, talk with you in a week with more success stories and the ability to thing. im gonna go eat pizza. yea. yea yea.

love you lots.

Hermana skouson