This is how happy we ALL were today because look what we found at Dulles International Airport!!!! Ta-da, it's Sister Davis (at least until she is released tomorrow morning.)
She travelled across a blur of two days, three continents and 9 time zones to get to home -- only to find her suitcase was lost. To top things off she has come down with a case of ATBF (African Tick Bite Fever) and has to move into a half packed-up house with screaming small children. Man, we are glad she's home. At first I was a little worried my little ones wouldn't recognize her after being separated for more most of their short lives, but they knew exactly which one was Katie.
We were all just a little excited to see her. She was in African information download mode and it felt just like the olden days as we tried to keep up with her energy and wit. Among just a few of her favorite topics today were:
1. How the Book of Mormon can be used as a psychological guide to positive self-help.
2. How to spell the sound a kiss makes in several African languages.
3. Her 7 new favorite South African musicians.
4. Which missionaries were "power" in the mission field.
5. How we were going to crash the car because we were driving home on the wrong side of the road.
6. How Harry Potter is good (so far) but not nearly as cool as her new enlightened understanding of the Book of Abraham.
7. How she turned off the in-flight movie when she didn't feel the Spirit.
8. What a Muslim meat processing plant smell like on a warm day in Durban.
9. What the symptoms of African Tick Bite Fever are and how to treat them. (For a minute we considered a trip tonight to GW Hospital to talk to an infectious disease specialist but learned this was the same bacteria as Rocky Mountain Fever and is easily treat with antibiotics which we can pick up tomorrow.)
10. What the contents of her lost suitcase look like.
And that is just what she covered on the car ride home. Of course she also read a children's book to the kids using no less than SIX different African accents. That's right folks, Katie is back and the party is just getting started!
POWER!
10 comments:
She looks beautiful. What a great feeling to be a missionary. I love women RMs, there's a connection there you don't get with other women. Welcome home Katie!!! I'll see you in a month!
She really does look fab. And she had that great "first-day home" new car feeling. Of course when you first come home you worry that your "missionary-ness" is wearing off too fast. Oh, no -- where's my TAG?!
How very exciting. Katie looks beautiful and full of the spirit. Too bad she has to go back to the the old grind stone of school and dirty apartments in Logan. Wouldn't it just be better to be translated while being dog-piled at the airport?
Welcome home Katie!! I'm so excited to see all of in a few short weeks.
yipeee....home at last! We will see you next week! You have fought a good fight...
You look gorgeous by the way.
I just had a flashback of when I came home from a mission and tried on all my old clothes and danced in my room and took a nap and how that was one of the best days in world.
(Katie here). I think I look jetlagged. I definitely feel jetlagged. And I'm still looking forward to trying on my old pre-mission clothes, they're all still in utah. I'm still even looking forward to trying on any of my clothes as most of them are still in my suitcase lost somewhere in the world. Any prayers to conjur up my suitcase would really be appreciated, thanks. Anyway, Andi took me to H&M today and I got some sweet stuff. But, ja. It's nice to be home.
Katie, you're so lucky you get to go to an H&M straight home from your mission. I hope you find your suitcase soon!
that was the best greeting i've ever seen in an airport. she must be loved.
i feel like your blog inspires superlatives.
cindy - the suitcase is still gone. Heavenly Father must have known this would happen and made sure she came home to DC and not Utah so she could be close to H&M.
Brooklyn - I guess superlatives are better than explatives!
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