Elder Owen

Hi everyone, hope you are all doing well. We are so excited for Angie & Ryan's wedding this next week. We think it will be a wonderful day. We wish you all could be here with us, and know you all would if you could.

I wanted to send you some information about Scott...

Just to make our lives interesting and a little less boring, we got a call from Scott's mission president...he has a tumor/lump? (not quite sure exactly) in his right arm, and has been in a lot of pain. We basically thought it was nothing and sent him a bottle of Ibuprofen a few weeks ago. An MRI was done last week and apparantly the growth is wrapped around a nerve and causing numbness, and a lot of pain. This has been going on for a while, several months. I thought maybe they would just give him a cortisone injection and he would be on his way... we were wrong and he is being sent home on Tues. to have the surgery done here. We talked with Scott, and he tells us the lump is now visable on his right forearm. The tumor has grown over the last couple of months, so they will biopsy it to see if it's malignant or not. We will plan on arranging Dr. appts. ASAP here in Dallas.

That's about all we know for now, mission medical will call me on Monday morning, and we will find out his flight info and more information on his arm.

The tumor has grown over the last couple of months, so they will biopsy it to see if it's malignant or not.
Hopefully, it will just be outpatient surgery with no other problems, and Scott will head back up to SLC to finish his mission.

He has asked to just take "medical leave", but the mission president is strongly suggesting he be released from the mission for the time it takes to get this taken care of, we don't know what the decision will be as of right now. We will keep you posted as we learn more, and would appreciate you keeping him in your prayers.

Love, Steve & Leslie