June 15, 2014
Happy Father’s Day!
We have face timed with our 3 daughters and their families so far today, and Gary was wished a happy father’s day by them.
We have had great weather this week….70’s and 80’s. All the vegetation looks beautiful, there is always something blooming, different things than I am used to so I have no idea what they are called. You can actually tell by looking at some of the trees that they have been in a drought for a few years……some are dying. But most everything else looks beautiful. The sad thing is, for living in a place that has such beautiful vegetation, there are a number of people who don’t care about keeping their city beautiful. There is a lot of trash by the sides of the roads all the time.
Friday night we had a fun night planned…..we bought tickets 2 or so months ago to go to the Oakland A’s vs the New York Yankees. We drove up to Fremont to catch BART (the train in the bay area) and take it to the stadium. It took us an hour to drive that far….twice as long as it would have if we weren’t caught in traffic. Then another 26 minutes I think it was to the stadium by train. By the time we arrived at the stadium, and were getting our seats, the game was beginning. It was a good game….the Yankees won! But it was a long night…..by the time we got home, it was 1:30 when we were getting into bed.
So, after that late night, it was to be expected that we would sleep in somewhat. I woke up at 8:45, and by 9 we were up and getting ready for the day. We had our usual Saturday activities to get done in a few hours, because we needed to leave here before 1:30 to head to our church building to catch a bus chartered by the Foothill ward and head to the temple…..it was so nice of them to invite our branch to ride with them. Gary kept commenting how it was the most pleasant trip to the temple yet, because we didn’t have to worry about the traffic! So in the morning we cleaned and did laundry quickly….I even had stuff washing here and in the laundry room of the apartment complex to get done faster. Then we did our grocery shopping for the week and had lunch and changed clothes to leave. We got home Saturday night about 8:30. The temple is now closed until Aug. 5th for cleaning etc. to get ready for the 50th anniversary of the temple.
Today, I was assigned to speak in church. I got asked on Tuesday, so I only had those few days to work on it……since Friday night and Saturday were already filled up. It isn’t long to speak in the branch, I think I have mentioned it before, because you have to allow time for translation. So it was okay. This was my second time to speak in the branch. After church, they had a social. I didn’t remember hearing them mention it last week, though they said they did. So, I didn’t bring anything, but that was okay, there was plenty of food. We left earlier than most because we knew kids would be starting to contact Gary for Father’s Day. We also both got in a brief nap today too.
So, here we are to the end of another week’s report, and getting ready for another week’s work! This week, on Thursday, we will hit our 10 month mark.
When the new mission president arrives on June 28th, he will be immediately involved in planning for transfers……he will have the one week, and the next week are transfers. Talk about jumping in with both feet! We look forward to getting to know him and his family, but I am a little apprehensive at having to train him on the bank stuff with the credit cards which I just got trained on a week ago…..an updated program, so a little different setup than I was used to. I hope the transition and the learning of office things goes well. I am not the greatest teacher…..or very good at explaining things. Oh, well, que sera sera!
Bye bye!
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