What a week at the Temple with the Youth of the Stake

It was a wonderful week that I had at the Temple with the Youth. Work must have set a new record - 5 and 1/2 hours before they called me with a problem!!! Any way the youth had a great time. They had a session at the Temple every day to do baptism. They all had a good and uplifting time. They even got to go to Alton Towers (a theme park in the north of England) and while they were doing that I got to be set apart as a Veil Worker. The Stake had the Youth in their own rooms and the leaders in theirs. I was sharing with Daniel, David Richardson (Livingston Ward), and Richard Moon and James Lyddall (both of Edinburgh Ward). Richard was on crutches as he had damaged his Achilles Tendon about 6 weeks prior to this. Every thing was going well, over 1000 baptisms by my calculations. On Friday afternoon, a BBQ with some wide games. Again all was well untill I decided to join the some of youth in playing touch rugby! I slipped and my ankle bent in a dirrection that the Lord hadn't designed! It was painful. The Temple security people found their first aider and he said that I needed to get it check out at the hospital, so off I went. Once there and following an xray, they decided that it was only tissue damage. So I was sent on my way, hubbling along - step, ouch, step, ouch, when the nurse came chasing after me saying she had spoken to a collegue and desided there was something else. She showed me the xray and point to what they felt was a hair line fracture, so the put my leg in plaster and gave me a set of crutches!! I'm not sure what Shirley thought - Daniel sent her a text to let her know what had happened and she sent one back saying "Ok, What have you done now?!" So I got to join Richard with my own set of crutches!

When I finally got home, I managed to go into work for an hour or so on Monday to fix what needed fixing and I then got an appointment with the local fracture clinic where they put a walking cast on or what ever thy call it. I managed to over do it on Wednesday (having let the plaster set) as I was doing a lot of walking around the house with out any crutches! Too much too soon. At least now that I have a walking cast on I can manage the stairs now with out having to go and down on my backside! These are pictures of my new cast and shoe! I have to wear the shoe when ever I go walking, even aroound the house.

If you don't mind the close ups, you can see the bruises!

What colours!