Email from Mom: January 9, 2022

From: Mom
To: Kaitlyn.garcia@missionary.org
Date: Sunday, January 9, 2022
Subject: That didn't last long...

Happy happy Sunday how are you? How was your past week? Any news on friends joining you at church this week? Anything fun and/or exciting take place this last week? Did you end up being able to take to Brynlee at all last Monday? What did Brittan have to say about this news?

Our week here started out just fine. Ending?? We will get to that. Tyler spent over 3 hours in the dental chair for what should have been maybe an hour. Needless to say he sure didn’t enjoy the rest of his day. I had a laser hair removal appointment and when I got there was told they had a new laser that should take care of hair removal in like 4 or 5 sessions. I am 7 in but this was #1 with a new laser. Well, holy cow. The laser was intense and I just kept holding my breath and clenching fingers to get through it all. Remember I have pretty much everything being treated so…wowza. I came home and my legs had red spots all over them and getting in a shower the next day, no thanks. It felt like a sunburn and the water hurt terribly. But..off I went to get my lips done the next day. As I walked in my laser girl Anne asked how I was feeling. I told her how bad things were and she just stood there and finally said she was sorry. After my appointment the laser maintenance guy came and the settings she used for me the day before were 2 too high!!’ It’s Sunday and I still have been makes and what I am concerned will be scars. I will be super frustrated if so and I am afraid Tyler will want to look legally at some responsibility. (He is right but I sure don’t want to go there you know?)

Tyler stayed at the cabin while the new carpet was installed. It isn’t the color we thought it would be but it sure looks nice and makes the difference to have nice soft comfy pad under your toes and I love that it all matches! We headed up on Friday to get what we could put back together and to paint the room upstairs that B stays in since that is where stuff for shuffled to for carpet to go in. Tyler went up first since he was stopping at RC Willey to pick up a new bed for our room up there and to try and get the back bedroom set up for B to sleep in. B and I headed up after she got out of school.

Before she got out of school though we were put under a new 30 day mask mandate for Salt Lake County. The corona has a new strand called omicron (much milder than the delta) that is causing numbers here to climb into new cases daily in the high high thousands. But they don’t tell you what string you have if you test positive so blah blah blah. Anyways…needless to say I was super angry and still am but we will see how it all plays out. We attended church without a mask and I believe Brooklyn will take one to school tomorrow but has no plans to wear it. I am tired of playing games. We masked, we stayed home, we home schooled, graduated online, got vaccinated and now boostered as well and yet here we are 2 full calendar years in and back to masks that clearly didn’t work the first time or we wouldn’t be dealing with any of this. So frustrating.

Ahhhh good times. Be so grateful to be a missionary and not in the mess here at home! I sure love you and hope you have had a great Sunday.

Love you to the moon and back
Mom

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