This is a barrel cactus...
This is Elder Whitlock after a run-in with a barrel cactus.
Remember those long, 3-inch curved spines? Well, they are like steel, and they inbed themselves in your arms like steel, only more painful.
Elder Whitlock just had to leave the mission in style...yes, the Saturday before his Tuesday departure, he fell off a trail and into a barrel cactus and rocks, which required surgical removal of spines and 7 stitches.
A graphic photo, but one that almost all missionaries relish seeing, so sorry parents! The returned missionaries love to check out what is going on in the APM too!
We miss you, Elder Whitlock! One of our first missionaries we met after arriving in Phoenix, and one we will always remember! May you heal well and not have too many scars to remind you of good times in the great APM!
1 comment:
those cactus wounds are horrible!
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