Nov. 10

November 10, 2013

Things slowed down this week, thankfully.  Steady busy, not crazy busy!!

Thursday at work, Peter Ly called (1st counselor in the branch presidency) and left a message for Gary, that they wanted him to speak this Sunday on tithing.  Gary was out of the office.  Peter Ly called back later in the afternoon to see about it again, I answered this time, and told him that Elder Yearsley wasn’t back yet, but I was sure he could do it.

Sat., we got up and started cleaning and laundry.  I baked bread.  The stake had a session at the temple, and we met at the Yerba Buena bldg. at 1:15.  There was a chapel mtg first before the session.  The Stake Pres. talked and also the Temple Pres.  This was our first time for an endowment session here.  The endowment rooms are HUGE!  We have been told they seat 200.  After the session, there was refreshments after in the bldg next to the temple, the multi-stake bldg.  We got home after 7 pm.  So the day was done, and we never even got our shopping done!  We will have to get groceries Monday evening.

While sitting in the chapel at the temple, Sister Lan leaned over the seat, and said, you are teaching the lesson tomorrow, right?  Well, I wasn’t scheduled till the 17^th.  But, it turned out that the lady who was to teach today, Sister Janette, had to be out of town and was to call and change lessons, but didn’t , so I did a last minute prep last night and this morning.  It went okay.  I also have been asked at the last min. to lead the music in sacrament meeting and Relief Society.  Ah, the life in a branch!!  That’s why we are here to help them.

Thankfully, the office work is easier now for me.  This past week, though, I did the mail merge for the first time to send letters to the apartment managers and apartment inspectors.  It took me a bit of time to figure it out, but finally got it done.

I learned today that the Lorenzo Snow lessons aren’t available in Vietnamese online.  Sister Lan and Sister Kim translate every one of those lessons for the branch!  Talk about dedicated people!  I don’t dare complain about being busy when compared to them.  And they are such humble people.  We really enjoy being a part of their branch!