March 23, 2014
This was a busy week for Gary, and a steady one for me. Gary opened an apartment on Monday for the
two new senior sisters that arrived the end of the week, then spent the week
furnishing it. The two sisters are named
Sister Nedreberg, who will be replacing Elder Clayton as Vehicle coordinator,
and Sister Wilks who will be replacing Sister Clayton as Mission
Secretary. Sister Nedreberg arrived by
plane on Friday. Gary and I picked her
up at the airport. She is just a few
months younger than my mother! Sister
Wilks arrived on Saturday. Her son drove
her here from Utah, then flew home later that afternoon. We met them at the mission office, then
showed them the way to the apartment and helped unload the car and settle
in. The young sisters who live in that
complex came each day with warm cookies to welcome in the new senior
sisters…..so sweet of them! They
were: Sister Arias, Sister Fischetti,
Sister Bradshaw and Sister Monical. We
sure love those girls!!!
We have another senior sister arriving the end of this week,
I believe, who is going to replace Sister Chambers in the Employment
Center. By the way, Sister Chambers is 2
years younger than Gary’s dad! It is
amazing that these sisters who are really getting up there in age are desirous
to serve a mission. What an example to
all of us!
Sister Chambers and Elder and Sister Hallman are all leaving
by the 7th or 8th of April. We have two other couples arriving in
April…..the Wahlen’s and the Crockett’s.
Elder Michie has been a great help to Gary in setting up the
apartment this past week. It was nice for him to have an extra pair of hands!
So, this coming week, we have the new senior sisters
starting their training in the office.
After meeting them both, I think we will get along just fine! It will be interesting to see how Sister
Nedreberg fits in as vehicle coordinator.
She is willing to learn, which is great.
I hope the work isn’t too much for her.
She is a retired computer and math teacher, so the computer part, the
paperwork part, should be easy. Sister
Wilks should do just fine in her assignment as Mission Secretary.
Today we face timed with Shelley, Hunter, Ayla and
Emi. It is always fun to chat with the
kids and grandkids!
Oh, today in the Vietnamese Branch was fun in Sunday
School! During the lesson, the talk was
on eternal families, and Brother Bui, who has 3 adult children who aren’t
married and around 30 years old, got on one about the fact that they needed to
get married! Of course, it was all in
Vietnamese, but was quite animated, and a lot of people got into the
discussion. One lady, Sister Nga, said
she had a daughter, age 28, that she could match up with one of the boys! The boys and their sister were pretty good
natured about it……the pressure is mainly on the boys to find someone and ask
them to marry them……the boys looked a little bit embarrassed, but they laughed
at their dad along with everyone else. I
think they must hear it all the time at home.
They are both in school getting their Masters in Engineering. Their sister is also in school working on her
Masters, but I don’t remember what field.
They are all very dedicated to getting their education finished first, I
think, before considering marriage. The
boys go to school around here, but their sister is farther away, so doesn’t
live here but lives wherever her school is….not too far, because she comes home
weekends sometimes.
The weather is beautiful here….it has been in the 70’s most
of the week. But allergy season is in
full swing….so many people are showing some symptoms. I have felt allergy symptoms since I arrived,
and take allergy pills and decongestants daily.
I have heard of others who have been doing the same.
Next week, we have some chances of rain again. It is definitely needed.
We had auditors one day this week, one evening the week
before, and they said they need one more day to finish the audit of the records
for 2013. They found some errors in
records from two or three years ago that I need to clean up, dealing with the
security deposits on closed apartments not being recorded properly. So, another job for me to get done in the
next couple of weeks.
Oh, I forgot. On
Tuesday, Gary opened an apartment in King City, which is the southernmost city
in our mission. It is about 2 ½ hours
south of here. The President had told
Gary that when he went to set up that apartment, he could take me, so I spent
the day with him, loading up the truck with items to take south, then helping
in getting the apartment set up. We had
Elder Alvarez and Elder Martin help us.
Two sisters will be living in this apartment……Sister Lindsay and Sister
Quintana. They had been living in the
stake presidents house until this apartment could be secured, so for about 2
weeks. It was a full day. We ate dinner as we drove home, and arrived
back at the office about 6:30, unloaded a few items, then headed home getting
home about 7 p.m. We learned the next
morning that one of our new sister missionaries who arrived 2 weeks ago was in an accident Tuesday night.
She was crossing a street with her companion, and didn’t make it across
before the light changed. Her companion
headed back to the center divider, but the new sister thought she could run
across the last part. Well, a car didn’t
see her and hit her. She is still in the
hospital. She ended up with a broken
shoulder and a fractured skull. They had
to do surgery that night to relieve pressure in her skull. Her parents flew up from Georgia to be with
her. As soon as she is able to leave the
hospital, she will be going home with her parents to continue the healing
process. It could have been so much
worse….we are so grateful that she is okay!
Another item: we
started a small container garden on March 10th. We bought a cherry tomato plant, and lettuce,
spinach, radish, and cucumber seeds. It
is amazing to see how fast they are growing!
All but the cucumbers. So
yesterday, we headed to a different nursery to see if we could find cucumber
plants already growing. We had been
checking other places all the time, but hadn’t had any luck. This time we found some, and brought them
home to plant in the pot. Well, as Gary
was getting ready to plant them, he found that the seeds had finally sprouted
that he had planted earlier, so we will have some farther along than others, as
he planted these plants in that same big pot.
We hit our 7th month mark this week.
Sister Clayton had a birthday this week…turned 60. I think I forgot to put on another post….on
February 8th Sister Watkins turned 50. That was the day of the big zone conference
and the Tet festival.
Well, you can see my mind jumps from here to there as I try
to remember things from the past week. I
hope you can follow it okay!
The evening is coming to a close, so time for this entry to
also close!
We’d love to hear from some of you as to what you are doing
too! Just a quick email to fill us in
would be nice occasionally. Thank you to
those who have kept us informed. We
love reading about your adventures too!
I hope this format of blogging our memories works okay for
everyone. I don’t email, just do this
blog. But, if someone emails us, we try
to respond back! If you need our email
address, it is: yearsleygw@yahoo.com
Hugs and kisses to our kids and grandkids XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX
Love to all!!
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