Tuesday, September 10, 2013:
Morning came too early.
We decided to keep getting up at 6:15.
Then we don’t feel so rushed as we get ready for work.
I didn’t feel very well today, probably because of being so
tired. But, work went well. Oh, I forgot to mention, the Cattron’s had
told us last night that they had checked out AT&T for internet to get set
up for them, and were not impressed, so we told them that that settled it for
us then, and told what we had found out about Comcast. So we are both going with Comcast. Today at work, I decided to call the Post
Office number that the manager of the apartments told me to call to get the
mail box set up for us, to get the key.
She had said it could take several days.
I forgot yesterday. So, I called
the 800 number and was on hold at least a half hour……I ended up missing the
devotional because of being on hold.
When I finally got someone, they said I needed to call the local Post
Office, and they gave me the number. I
called them, and was told the manager was wrong, they can’t do it over the
phone, I have to come in and bring my contract.
So I got the paper, took it to the Post Office, and got signed up. They
will call me in 3 to 5 business days, then I am to come into the Post Office
again to pick up the keys to our box at the apartment complex. We still didn’t get the internet started…..maybe
tomorrow we will go after work to Walmart again and do it. We found out when we got home that the
Cattron’s went to Walmart and got signed up today!
Oh, I forgot to mention, yesterday, we got a letter at the
mission office from Missy….she sent us a Chick fil A gift card! How nice of her! Now to find where it is located!
Wednesday, Sept. 11
Last week sometime, I think it might have been Friday, was a
Zone meeting for the Zone we are in…the San Jose zone. Today was a District meeting for the San Jose
1st district. Zone leaders
are Elder Hammond and Elder Atkinson.
District leader is Elder Hullinger.
Both of these meetings are held at the Yerba Buena building, which is
where the mission office is. I have been
to both meetings, though in the future, we mostly will be too busy to attend,
since the office staff is on a different time table than everyone else, working
9 to 5. But, since there are still 2
couples doing the positions, as the Crawfords don’t finish their mission till
Oct. 9th, I attended today. Gary was too busy, though he did attend
the zone meeting last week. At least we
attended the opening part of the meeting last week.
I slept very well last night, and woke up more
refreshed. Gary said I snored bad last
night, but my head is extra stuffed up with this cold. I must not have looked so good or sounded so
good today, because Sister Crawford told us to go home early so I could get
some rest and get over this cold. I told
her that being stuffed up in the head is much better for me than in the chest,
so I was grateful for that. However,
since it was slow today……VERY slow all afternoon….we left an hour early. We stopped by Walmart, signed up for Comcast
at the table set up there, and got some more cough drops and Nyquil. I am hoping it will knock me out good tonight
so I can again have a good nights sleep and maybe get well faster. Next week is supposed to be hectic with the
transfers and all that it entails in the office for us. The next 2 weekends are busy too, so no time
to rest.
Talked to Missy last night, and they are coming to San
Francisco for Tim’s medical conference next month around General Conference
weekend. He will fly in to San Francisco
the Wed. before conference, and she will fly into San Jose Friday
afternoon. We will pick her up, and she
can come see our office and what we do, and where we live. She said that they reserved a room for us in
San Francisco near them, and we can decide in the next few days if we want to
stay up there Friday and Saturday night or just Sat. night. We will hang out with them on Sat., and Sunday, then they will fly back to Dallas Sunday
afternoon. It will be fun seeing them
again! I hope I am totally over this
cold by then. We plan on site-seeing in
San Francisco together, which is good.
They can figure out where to go…..Tim did a good job for them when they
went to NYC and saw things on their own.
Only 2 more nights till we finally can unpack and feel
settled!! We look forward to it!
Thurs., Sept. 12th was our last night in the
Woodmoor house, so we spent the evening packing up. All clothes packed, except what we are
wearing in the morning.
Friday, Sept. 13th…….moving day!!!!! We finished packing up…..bathroom and the
food from the kitchen that we had bought.
Went in to work at the first, and when Gary got there, he immediately
left to go and load up the furniture to move into our place. They got the elders to help…..Elder Hullinger
and Elder Bruggeman. At lunch time, I
went over, eating as I drove and while I unloaded the car. First to go in was the fridge items. I got the back seat unloaded next, and was
going to go back to work, when Gary arrived with the elders and with Elder
Crawford with more furniture. They
wanted me to stay, and the elders could help unload the trunk. So, we FINALLY got the car unloaded!!! We had kept everything in the trunk since we first packed up in Arimo. I went back to work after that. At 5 pm, we went to our new home!!! We spent until about 12:30 (middle of the
night), hanging up clothes, putting some things away, shopping and getting some
groceries and household items.
Saturday, Sept. 14th—We still woke up early….7
a.m……even after getting to bed so late.
We had been planning on going to the temple with the Vietnamese from our
branch, but decided after the late night and what we still had to do, that we
needed to stay home and get the house in order.
We worked on the house all day, never even stopping for a nap like I had
hoped. We made several shopping trips for items we kept discovering we needed.
Wed., we had ordered Comcast, and had told them they didn’t need to
overnight it as we wouldn’t even get into the apt. till Friday, but we still
don’t have it! Don’t know what the delay
is. We hope that we will get it by
Monday, and hopefully we can figure how to get it hooked up so we can get going
on it. It is for TV and internet. We finally stopped working when it was time
to eat something and get dressed for the adult session of Stake Conference at 7
p.m. Our San Felipe building is the
stake house. It was a wonderful meeting,
on missionary work. The Stake has been
working along with the mission on their 21 plan……the plan to get 21 baptisms in
the 6 week transfer period…..and they actually got 22 in the zone, which is the
stake.
We have 11 stakes in the mission, and 12 zones. The zones are the stakes, except one stake is
divided into 2 zones……San Jose and San Jose Evergreen I think are the way it
goes. The zones are:
Fremont, Los Altos, Menlo Park, Monterey, Morgan Hill, San
Jose, San Jose Evergreen, San Jose South, Pleasanton, Livermore, Santa Cruz, Saratoga
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