June 3, 2014

June 3, 2014

My update is late this week because I got a new computer!  Yeah!  Typing in the past had been a pain because my “L” key has been broken for some time, so it took several taps on the spot it should have been to get the “L” to show on the screen.  Saturday, we decided to go and finally get me one.  I got a Macbook Pro this time—I was tired of PC’s, and had 2 daughters who had Mac’s and were very pleased with them, so I took the plunge.  So, I left my old PC with them to transfer my files, and picked it up yesterday.  However, because of yesterday’s schedule, tonight is the first time I had a chance to actually open it up and use it.

So, for my weekly update............ 

Can you believe it is actually June already???  Here is the latest for us:

Monday, May 26th, Memorial Day.  We went to the beach, down a little past Monterey and Carmel to Point Lobos State Reserve.  We went on a hike there with some of the young sisters, Sister Bradshaw, Sister Fischetti, Sister Mehr, and Sister Zidek.  We had the other 2 office Sisters with us, Sister Wilks and Sister Nedreberg.  They just did a little walk and spent time at the museum there.  It felt so good to actually do a good workout like that hike!  After the time there, we went to lunch with everyone at a Mexican restaurant in Monterey.  Then headed for home.  We didn’t want to be too late, and it was good we left when we did.  The traffic was horrible!  We were on the highway that connects between Hwy 1 and 101 from Monterey, and were at a complete standstill.  We noticed several other cars moving over to the left lane, and at the stoplight that was there, turning left and getting off the road, so we decided to go to and find another way to 101.  We got to Hwy 1 and headed north aways until we got to a road that our GPS told us to take.  We finally made it to 101, and headed home, still in lots of traffic but moving.  We wondered if there had been an accident or something on the other highway to stop us like that, but we never learned for sure what was going on.  

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were the usual transfer activities, keeping us busy as usual.  Friday, I had letters to get out to the apartment managers, letting them know the missionaries that now lived in their apartments.  This is a busy time, but was made busier because there was a leadership meeting going on in the office too for the Zone Leaders and the Sister Training Leaders…..so over 40 missionaries in the office from 9 to about 2:30.  Every time they had a break, there would be some coming in my office to do business.  This doesn’t usually happen on the Friday after transfers.  Usually, it is pretty quiet in the office and I am able to get my work done quickly.  I was hurrying to get the letters done before the end of the day so I could get them in the mail.  Because of my hurrying and the busyness of the day, I never had time to eat lunch or even get a drink of water all day long.  And, we ended up working till about 6.  Most of the days during the transfer week we work 9 to 10 hour days.  But, I got my work done.  

Saturday, I was beat.  I slept in until 7, then just laid there because I was still so tired, and dozed off and on until a little after 8, then I got up and we started working on the laundry, cleaning and the grocery shopping.  That evening after all was done was when we went to look at the Apple store and I made my purchase.

Sunday, church.  After church, Gary had a meeting with Brother Bui, which was late starting.  We had 2 ladies to take home after church who sat there with me waiting, and finally they told Tien Bui (in Vietnamese) that they needed to get home, so he took them home.  If I had known how long it would be, I could have taken them home right after church and still gotten back in time to get Gary.  We didn’t get home till around 2, and church is out at 12:30.  We chatted with Shelley’s family for quite awhile, and with Jeff for a bit.

Monday, work. During the day on Monday, I took a little personal time and ran my errand to the Apple store to pick up my computer.  I had gotten a call earlier that said the data transfer was done and I could come get it.  So I got it and dropped it off at home and headed back to the office.  We were all late leaving the office because a young sister was waiting for her companion to come and get her after she had been to a doctor appointment, and they were late in arriving. So, we were late leaving the office this day…..it was about 5:30 when we left, and we were supposed to pick up the Michie’s at that time to head for Senior Family Home Evening.  So we got there a little late.  This was the last family home evening with President and Sister Watkins.  There was a surprise presentation after the meal……Brother and Sister Lambert had coordinated a special gift for them—a quilt that Sister Lambert had made and Sister Davis had quilted on her quilting machine.  The rest of us donated money towards it.  It had the names of the senior missionaries embroidered on the back.  I will put some pics of it on here later.  

Well, that catches me up till next weekend!