This week was a busy one for Gary. He opened a new apartment for a new Senior Couple who arrived yesterday, so he spent 2 days getting the apartment ready to go with the furniture, kitchen things, etc. that goes into getting a new apartment ready.
Saturday (yesterday), I went to a baby shower at noon for one of our Vietnamese families. It was for Phuong, who is the one we went to their wedding last September shortly after we arrived here. They are expecting a baby boy in about 3 weeks.
Gary was on standby Saturday, waiting for the phone call from the new couple to say they had arrived in San Jose, so he could take them to their apartment. When I got home from the shower, Gary said that they had called awhile before that saying they were still about 100 miles from Sacramento, so we went and did our grocery shopping. So after shopping and putting things away, then we just puttered around waiting for the call. It wasn’t long after that they called, saying they were just getting to 101, so we headed out. Gary had brought the work truck home Friday night in case they arrived while I was at the shower, since I would have the car. So, we got in the work truck, headed to the office where we were to meet them. We showed them briefly around the office, then got back in the vehicles to lead them to their apartment, which was about 20-30 minutes drive from there, in Santa Clara. After getting them settled, we left them to the unpacking and headed back home. Gary dropped me off to get the car, and I followed him back to the office to leave the truck.
We have tomorrow, Labor Day, off from the office…..there really is no sense in being there on a holiday. There isn’t much going on with no mail and the Salt Lake offices are closed anyway so we can’t communicate with them unless it is an emergency, as they only have a skeleton staff on in most departments. And, it is P-day for the missionaries, so they rarely call us on a Monday. Also, they know how to reach us on the cell phones if it is an emergency with them. However, I need to go in for a brief amount of time to get something I need to take tomorrow night to Senior Family Home Evening at the mission home. Also, I will spend part of the day getting a food item ready to take for the potluck dinner. Plus, I would like to get me a new pair of tennis shoes tomorrow. We hope we can facetime with some of the kids tomorrow too if they don’t have other plans for the holiday.
All in all, it has been a pretty basic week. Not too much exciting here! Oh, wait! We had the earthquake that hit the Napa area last Sunday….we didn’t feel anything here, but there were some missionaries that woke up feeling the shaking. Our fellow seniors, the Michie’s, have a son that lives in Napa, and they said it was pretty bad there. Roads really broken up, and their son said everything glass in the house broke, so there was glass everywhere, and his wife stepped on some getting up to check on things after it hit. He said he learned that they need to keep their shoes and a flashlight near the bed for those types of emergencies. The first I learned about the earthquake was messages from 2 of our kids asking if we were okay, and I didn’t know what the question was relating to! I didn’t know at that point that there had been an earthquake. I learned more about it at church that morning, so when we got home, we went to see if the Michie’s had heard from their son and how he was doing. That was when we learned about everything broken in his house.
So, that is it from us for the week. Let us know how things are with you….even if you think it is boring! Thanks to Kori for starting an email update to let us know the things going on in her family. They just started back to school…..and her oldest, Brendan, just started high school! And Christian just started junior high. Can you believe it??? They just grow up way too fast!
Oh, I guess I can put on here what grade everyone is in now:
Ashley is now graduated from college, as of last spring.
Brendan is in the 9th grade.
Jackson and Nathan are in the 8th grade.
Christian is in the 7th grade.
Kyler is in the 6th grade.
Colton, Tristan and Kaden are in the 4th grade.
Dylan is in the 3rd grade.
Hunter, Logan and Brooklyn are in the 2nd grade.
Sophie is in the 1st grade.
Ayla is in Kindergarten.
Natalie is in pre-school……and it is regular pre-school for the 1st time. In the past she has been in schools that specialized in hearing impaired children.
And little Emilie gets to be home by herself with mommy playing each day! She is almost 19 months old now.
Our grandkids are all growing up so fast! We recently saw the back to school pictures of Jackson, Kaden and Brooklyn, and I couldn’t believe how old Jackson looks now. It definitely shows up when you don’t see them very often.
Oh, and I can’t remember if I told on here about the quarter saga with Sophie. Well, one day she was carrying lots of things, and had a quarter also, so put it in her mouth as her hands were full. Well, you guessed it….she swallowed it! How it went down her throat is beyond me….I can’t even imagine swallowing something that size. Anyway, it took several weeks for it to finally come out, but it did this past week and she was so excited! We saw a picture of her holding it in a plastic bag. The most exciting thing for her was that she could quit drinking that nasty stuff to help it move on out. Plus, if it didn’t come soon, they might have had to do something more drastic to get it out. So, it ended okay. And, in the process of X-rays to check on the location of the quarter, they discovered that her spine is a bit curved. After her discovery, they checked the other 2 kids too, and discovered that Dylan also has a curved spine….in fact, worse than Sophie’s. So both kids will be doing some things in the near future to help take care of that problem. So it turns out it was a blessing that she swallowed the quarter to discover these other issues that need correcting.
Well…..here I thought the entry for today was going to be so small!
I will end with something that was said by a recent convert in our last Outgoing Devotional:
“The more you are willing to give to God, the closer you will get to God. It will fill the holes in your life.”
Remember that the Gospel is about finding joy and happiness…..”Adam fell that men might be; and men are that they might have joy.” 2 Nephi 2:25
As one missionary stated in the last outgoing: “the Gospel of Jesus Christ is a Gospel of change—each of us has done things we are not proud of…we make mistakes. Jesus Christ makes it possible to repent and change”.
By getting rid of the bad in our lives and changing for the better, we can begin to feel a small portion of that joy in our lives.
Here is to a week of changing for the better!
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