It’s hard to know even where to start. I didn’t realize it’s been since August since I posted anything. I have been keeping in contact with my family, so they haven’t been completely left out of the loop. For a while my eyes were so sensitive to the glare of the computer screen and the office lights that it was all I could do to just get the work for my missionary calling done. Fortunately, that seems to be getting better, but some days it’s still a problem. I’m learning to pace myself a little better and rest when I need to.

I bought some cool anti-migraine glasses from Zenni to wear when I work at the computer, and they’ve really helped a lot to help decrease the weird twitchy- wavy-floater sensation that gets worse when I stare at screens too long. The lenses are pink. I like to joke that now I always see the world through rose-colored glasses. I do hope that someday the visual disturbances I have will go away, but the ophthalmologist here says that things are functioning as expected. I do look forward to seeing an eye doctor in the U.S. who might be more clarifying as far as what’s going on. I trust this eye doctor’s judgement, but I’m not sure I really communicate with him very well, and I would like to hear someone else’s thoughts. At any rate, all my follow-up eye appointments have shown good healing so far.

We’ve been some fun places with the other senior missionary couples serving in the Area office and the East Mission. From the photos it’s going to look like all we do as missionaries is tourist around the island, but the reality is, nobody wants to see pictures of the inside of our office where we work day-in and day-out. Once a month or so, we try to have an excursion of some sort with the other couples, and we’ve been able to better understand this remarkable island we are living on as a result. Our amazing excursion-planner and his wife recently returned home, so I’m not sure yet who will step in to fill that role. They will have big shoes to fill, that’s certain.

I think the best way forward now is for me to share photos and just caption them or write about them as the thoughts arise.

I need to get some sleep, so I’ll try to post more photos tomorrow. Buenas noches!