June 8, 2014
Busy week, and we were both so tired we took a nap this afternoon! I sure hope I don’t pay for it when it is time to go to bed tonight!
Monday, June 2nd - I already told part of the day. I forgot to mention that for the last Senior Family Home Evening with President and Sister Watkins we had several old timers who live locally who came….those who had served in the office and those that had served as counselors. Family home evening night is always a later night, so we know in advance we will be a bit tired the next day. Gary also opened a new apartment today.
Wednesday, after we finished with our usually work day, we headed to the institute to help with the meal that is prepared for the Young Single Adults every Wednesday night. As mentioned in the past, this meal is under the direction of Elder & Sister Layton, but they have had some problems again with his cancer recurring, so he just recently had surgery again and needed help again while recovering, so we volunteered. The first week, the Crockett’s helped out (the Cattron’s took over the lead on the meal again both times), and the second week we helped. Elder Layton said this surgery was a little harder to get recovered from than the first time. I haven’t heard from them since Monday to see how he is doing, but we sure pray that this time all will be better and that they will have gotten it all. He is to find out next week, I think it is, what type of treatments he will be doing to make sure it doesn’t come back.
So, Wednesday night was also a late night. As to the other days, I don’t remember all the specifics. Gary opened 2 apartments this week total and secured a third…..one in Monterey for the senior couple that are military relations, and the other one and the secured one in Redwood City for young sister missionaries who were being evicted because the building they live in is being sold……we aren’t sure if it is being remodeled totally or torn down and a new one put up…it is a pretty old building I guess. The 4 sisters had been in a large one bedroom, and Gary was trying to find a 2 bedroom but couldn’t, so got them 2 small 1 bedrooms. We move into those 2 apartments on the 30th of June and the 11th of July....we have to be out of the old one on the 15th, so just in time! The senior couple move this coming Tuesday. They are moving closer to where they serve. Gary also was dealing with a bedbug issue in some elders apartments this week, and had to take out their mattresses and destroy them, and get them new mattresses and had them sealed in something that keeps the bugs out and the apartment management was spraying or whatever they do to the apartment. They had tried that before, the spraying, but thought maybe by getting rid of the mattresses it would work this time.
We have another apartment we are being evicted from in July that Gary has to start looking around for another one. This one has elders in it, and they just don’t want us anymore. We don’t know all the details, whether they just don’t like us, or what the elders have been doing, but we have been told that there were several complaints, so we are evicted from there, and not fighting it. I have my doubts that the elders are totally innocent in the situation. Just knowing how they have been on their power bills that I pay each month…..WAY higher than others…..I know they aren’t following some of the rules and trying to be obedient.
This week was busy everyday for me. Usually by this point in the transfer cycle I have some slower times, but it didn’t occur this week. Part of the reason is that President Watkins is doing interviews, and all of them are in the office. They are long interviews….we have heard of one lasting 1 1/2 hours! So, every day we have lots of missionaries in the office waiting for their turn for an interview, and while in they are bored and spend time talking with us in our offices, asking if there is anything they can do for us, and ordering things or paying for things. So, it keeps us busy.
The change in mission presidents takes place on Saturday, June 28th. We don’t know yet what to expect on the change, when we meet the new president or what he will expect of us. The next transfers will be the week of July 9th, so he will be busy getting ready for that I am sure, then getting ready for zone conferences. He will definitely have to hit the ground running!
Saturday we just did the usual laundry, cleaning and shopping. I ended up making an appointment at the apple store because some things on my new computer weren’t going right. Earlier, the first time I did my journal entry and saved it, I couldn’t drag and drop that entry into the correct folder…..it just wouldn’t work! Melissa face timed with me on the iPad, and tried to talk me through stuff, but what she told me to do didn’t work. Later in the week, that part started going okay, so I don’t know what was wrong before, but now it works. However, when I tried to do some things in iTunes, I couldn’t move things around there either. And the icon by the music said file not found. So, at the appointment, the guy said he didn’t know what had happened, but the music files weren’t in the place they should have been. He moved things around, had to get rid of everything I had in playlists so I spent yesterday evening getting those things partially put back in playlists, but he got it working for me. I hope it is all okay now. I need to try different things to see if everything is where it should be and working as it should. He said if I find other issues, I may need to bring it back along with my old computer, and do a retransfer of files. So far, things look okay, so that may not need to happen! Saturday, we also took a drive through a local cemetery here, and found it was WAY bigger than it first appeared! It was very interesting seeing headstones with all types of writing on them in the various languages.
Today was ward conference in our little branch. We probably had as many stake visitors as we had branch members! The theme was on hastening the work. It is a wonderful feeling to know that we are a part of that hastening by serving this mission at this time. We talked recently with the 2 ladies that serve with us in the office about this topic….how the office work is different than the rest of the mission, but that it is needed work to keep things running smoothly to help in the hastening of the work. Needed but hard at times and way too busy some days! In relief society today, a member of the stake relief society presidency taught the lesson. She talked about how Satan tries to discourage us, make us feel insignificant and unimportant. She shared scriptures that showed how important we are to the Lord……each one of us is important and loved. That is always a good reminder.
Well, this week we have a fun thing to look forward to……we bought tickets awhile back to go to a baseball game in Oakland this coming Friday. The Yankees are playing there. Sister Nedreberg is going with us. More on that next week.
Bye for now!
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