It has been nice here the last few days. We have heard from the locals that it isn’t
usually this warm or this dry for winter.
I know they need/want rain, but it has been enjoyable for us. Yesterday, we did some shopping for
the week, and while we were out, we stopped at President Shelton’s house (our
Branch President from the Bayshore Branch).
It was kind of funny, because I had my capris and sandals on, Gary and I
both in short sleeved shirts, and he had on a flannel shirt! So, for the locals it feels cold I guess. We
are just enjoying the warmth, especially when we read how cold it is back home,
and in other parts of the country.
We visited the flea market yesterday that is just down the
road from our apartment. It is busy
every day of the week, so I wanted to walk around and check it out. I guess if you love flea markets, you would
love it, but I doubt we will go back.
Looked like a big yard sale to me, and nothing that appealed to either
of us. Of course, we don’t have room for
much in our apartment anyway. So, that
is one thing checked off our list…..checking out the local flea market.
Friday at the office was the Zone Leader and Sister Training
Leader meeting that is held I think every 4 weeks. Well, the Clayton’s were leaving Friday
morning for Idaho for the baptism of 3 of their grandchildren. The one turned 8 a couple of months ago I
think they said, and the other 2 just turned 8, so the families had decided to
do a combo baptism and have their parents make 1 trip back. It was in Boise, so they didn’t have too far
to fly. Anyway, Sister Clayton got
Sister Withers to replace her for the day.
Sister Withers used to work in the office, and she had trained Sister
Clayton for the mission secretary position.
I was glad to have her, because when missionaries are in the office, it
is hard for me if I am alone to answer the phones and also do my financial
job. Well, the day turned out crazy, so
for sure it was good she was there!
First off, when the mail came (it was a substitute mail man as our usual
one, Cesar, was off for the Christmas holiday to be with his kids who were off
from school), there was a card that Sister Withers noticed in the mail bundle
that was a signature card for a package being delivered. The package wasn’t there. She caught the mailman and asked about it,
and he said he wouldn’t be able to get back to the office to get it till next
week, so Sister Withers said she better go and get it, since someone obviously
paid for faster delivery. And, with the
missionaries in the office, it meant it could be delivered to whoever it was
for (and it turned out that the person it was for was there that day at the
meeting). Then, just before lunch time,
Sister Withers learned that the person who was over the luncheon had overslept
and forgotten about doing the luncheon, so we had lots of hungry missionaries
and no food! So, it was decided that I
should call Costco to order pizzas as she and Gary headed out to pick them up. Lunch turned out to be just a little later
than it should have. And, the last weird
thing of the day……a mother of one of our sister missionaries called because she
had found out that there was some fraud being done on her daughters account. She had called the FBI, and was told to
cancel her daughters personal debit card that she had with her out here, she
needed to cancel her Facebook account and her personal email account. She called me to ask if it was possible for
her daughter to get online and cancel the FB account, because she had tried and
couldn’t do it. She wanted her daughter
to know that the debit card was cancelled and she would be sending her another
one soon. So, I called the daughter and
relayed the message. The young sister
missionary asked if she had permission to get on FB to take care of it, and
since I had to make a fast decision (the President was in meetings with the
missionaries in the office), I said, yes, just get on and take care of this and
then get off, as your mom said this was urgent and couldn’t wait even until the
next P-day. The young sister said she
could have access to a computer that evening at a member’s house, and would do
it then. I told her to also send her mom a quick email at that time to say it
was done, or if she couldn’t get it done, to let her know that. Then I called her mom back and told what we
had decided. A little later in the day,
the mother called back again. She said
she got to thinking about her daughters cell phone that was put away at home,
and that she ought to cancel that too.
She was just afraid of the fraud stuff and didn’t know how much the
person who had accessed her daughter’s information and account had taken
possession of. Well, she was looking for
the phone, and couldn’t find it! She
started asking her young son about it, and he said, oh, I found it and have
charged it up and have been using it to play free games on! Well, turns out, he was the culprit to
accessing her account! The “free” games
amounted to $500.00! So, the mom tells
me to call her daughter back and tell her that the problem isn’t as bad as they
at first thought. No one was stealing her identity. She could just change the passwords on her FB
and email accounts, but didn’t need to close them. So, even though the family now has a bill
for $500.00 to take care of, it was a relief to them to find out it wasn’t
identity theft or something that they had to deal with! I laughed and told that story to the others
in the office! Gotta beware of the
little brothers at home!!
Tomorrow night is Senior Family Home Evening, and Gary and I
are over the activity. We are doing a
Jeopardy type of game, and worked on it yesterday.
Well, that is about it for this post! Love to you all!
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