Sometimes our missionaries listen to us and sometimes they don't. We tell all of our missionaries to break in their new shoes before they arrive in the field. The first foto shows an unhappy result. We have seen a lot of feet similar to this on the new missionaries. Actually, this is a veteran American missionary who bought some cool new Mexican dress shoes (cheap, too!) and couldn't wait to wear them a lot. He lived to tell about it, but it was close.


We also caution our missionaries not to play too hard on preparation day. Some do and some don't. It is not worth having to go home for surgery. But, we understand. Boys will be boys. However, knees are also knees. This excellent missionary fell and wrenched his knee pretty hard. The picture was a couple of days later, knee still ballooned. He lived to tell about it.