April 27, 2014

April 27, 2014

Another week done!  I know I’ve said it before, but time sure does go by fast!

Last Sunday night we had Easter dinner at Bob and Linda Crawford’s house.  It was a great meal and wonderful company!

This coming week we have record highs forecast…..90’s!

Last week was steady, even a little slow, so I took advantage of it and went with Gary a couple of times.  We went to Sacramento on Monday to pick up a mattress for a new senior couple’s apartment, the Crockett’s.  Gary opened that apartment on Tuesday and got them moved in.  Then, on Thursday, I went to some south areas of the mission with him.  He had several things to drop off for missionaries, and things to pick up and bring back.  The trip took longer than he told me, so I felt bad for being gone so long, but I really haven’t had a lot to do.   Plus, it is nice getting out of the office when I know that in a couple of weeks it will be zone conferences, and I will be the lone person who stays in the office while the rest of them have things to do at zone conferences…….it gets lonely being the one left!  The trip took so long because he kept getting more calls after we left…..Elder Yearsley, we heard you were going to be down here, can you bring me this?  Or, Elder Yearsley, we have 2 bikes that you can take back to the office for us.

This week I saw another weird driving experience……I am always amazed that there is still something strange to see in driving around here!!  This time, we were driving to the office on Capitol, and slowing to stop at the light at Seven Trees (a street name).  I was in the right lane.  All of a sudden, a car whips  past me on the right to turn the corner, going fast around the corner and then whipping around and making a right turn onto Capitol, beating the red light we were all sitting at!

Gary had a close call on Friday.  I know you won’t know the streets, but I am going to write them because this is my journal too.  Anyway, he had left the office, was on McLaughlin facing south, getting ready to turn east on Yerba Buena.  He was in the left of the two left turn lanes.  The light turned green, and he paused a second, like you do here in case someone runs the light.  The car, a van, in the right of the turn lanes also paused.  Then they started out, and a car came out of nowhere and slammed into the side of the van.  Gary said he slammed on the brakes, and then put it into reverse because he could see what was happening, and moved back enough so that when the van spun around he didn’t get hit.  Crazy!!  This is just on the corner where the mission office is!  I never even heard it!

I have had a hurt thumb on my right hand for a couple of weeks.  It started at the base of the thumb, and I just thought maybe it was arthritis.  I took ibuprofen occasionally, but it didn’t go away.  Then, the upper knuckle on the thumb started being weird, and started popping when it bent, like the ligament was stretching.  Friday night when we went grocery shopping, I decided to check at Walmart and see if there was some kind of splint or something I could put on my thumb to keep from bending it to see if that ligament would heal.  I ended up getting a thumb brace thing.  I slept with it on, because I would find myself bending it in my sleep.  Well, I woke  up Saturday morning and it felt better than it had for a long time!  So I decided to just keep it on.  Today I decided I needed to call Tim (Melissa’s husband who is an orthopedic surgeon who specializes in hands) to get some advice about it….like was I doing what I should etc.  He told me it was called Trigger Thumb….where the thumb just snaps like that.  It is inflammation, and I need to keep resting the thumb and taking ibuprofen.  He said a steroid shot is what is needed to get it healed,  so I will ask the mission doctor about it on Tuesday.  So in the meantime, I will keep wearing this brace thing.  He said if it keeps happening, that maybe surgery would be needed in the future.  This is the first time for me, though, so hopefully I won’t have it happen again.  But typing is going to be tricky this week with the brace on!  I have just endured the pain the last couple of weeks with it.

We have had a lot of missionary MSF cards frauded over the past few months.  Well, this week, Bank of America finally traced the problem to theTarget system getting hacked in December, so I got an email this week saying that another 100 cards would be replaced so they don’t get frauded.  So when the cards come, I need to be sure all the missionaries involved get their new cards and then the bank will cancel the old ones.  Hopefully, none of them will have fraud in the meantime!

Lets see…….Sophie turned 6 this week.  We talked to Melissa, Sophie and Natalie a bit when I talked to Tim.  Talked to Kori and Colton and Logan tonight too.  The Michie’s stopped in to visit us also.  And this coming week is Tim’s birthday.  Today would have been my brother Steve’s birthday too.

Tuesday is the Clayton’s last day!  You can tell how excited they are……I don’t blame them, I would be too!!

Well, I guess I need to close for the night.  My mind is blank on anything else.  Oh, just remembered…..we headed to Gilroy yesterday to the Premium Outlet Mall there to check it out.  It is the largest outlet mall I have ever been to.

Okay, that’s it for the week!