Gary was very busy this week. He opened a 2 bedroom apartment and closed two 1 bedroom apartments. He also secured 3 other apartments. I had an average week.
In the office, we had an interesting experience one day while Gary was gone…too bad! We had a mailman show up and help an elderly gentleman into the office (it wasn’t our usual mailman, someone else). His car had a flat tire, and he had pulled into the parking lot. He needed us to call AAA for him. He said he didn’t have a cell phone on him, it was always dead. He told us his name and that he was 92 years old. I looked up the number while Sister Wilks called it. When she got them, she repeated the man’s name to them to look up his account….he didn’t have his membership card on him. His name was Pete Wismann. They didn’t show anything under that name. Then he said his real name was Lawrence, he just went by Pete. So they tried that name. Still no luck. Then he said, maybe it was under his wife’s name, they tried that, asked where he lived, he gave his address in San Jose, and they said they only showed a person of that name in Mountain View. He said they had recently moved from Mountain View, that that was them. So, they made arrangements to send a truck to help him. Shortly after that, some elders came in the office. Pete wanted to go back out to his car to wait for the truck, so they helped him and offered to change the tire for him, but he insisted he wanted to wait for AAA. When the elders got back in the office, they said, did you know that that man is the oldest living player who used to play for the 49ers? I was thinking at first, ya, right! But I did a google search on Pete Wismann…..and he was! Too bad Gary was gone, he would have enjoyed chatting with that man! We (Sister Wilks) and I chatted about it for awhile, then we each went texts or emails to family members telling them about it. Then I said, we should have gotten a picture with him! So she grabbed the camera and we went outside, but too late….he had just left. The truck from AAA was still sitting there.
Here is a link to the article about him:
Or, type in a search on Pete Wismann and see what you find.
On Friday we hit our 13th month mark. When we got home on Friday, we found that someone was parked in our designated spot! So we took down the license number and drove to the apartment office to report it. They are supposed to be towed if parked illegally….there are signs all over the place about it. Anyway, when Gary went in to the office to report it, she said, I will call him and warn him, (obviously she knew who it was) then stopped and said, no I better call the tow truck, this is the 2nd offense in a week for them. Gary said that we expected to park in our spot in an hour then. Well, we got back to the apartment, changed, and went outside, meaning to take a picture of this car in our spot, and it was gone! We walked around and found it was just moved to another spot, not a designated one this time, and not towed! Which means the lady in the office lied to Gary and called them like she had started to originally. We watched, and no tow truck came around at all. That car was parked in the lot all weekend. And, it was still illegal, even if it was in an unmarked spot….it wasn’t registered to be in our lot at all, but the one across the street! Gary said to me, well that seals it. Meaning he was correct in not getting a new apartment in this complex for the new couple who is coming. We have been very disappointed in how the management here doesn’t follow the rules. And they have pages and pages of rules! When Gary opens a new apartment, he has to sign or initial every single one of the pages, and there are 40-50 and up to 70 at some places. With rules for everything. We know that other places follow them, because we have had missionaries kicked out of places because of breaking the rules!
On Sunday, we had a baptism after church. She is the wife of a member who had been inactive, but was recently activated. Her name is Ut Ngo. After the baptism, we had the usual meal. We got some pictures taken with Sister Lien, because she is leaving soon for Vietnam and will be visiting there for 6 months. So we won’t see her again. We also gave her a True to the Faith book in Vietnamese. We had decided some time ago that we wanted to give every family in the branch a little gift from us, so bought several. Then Gary wrote something up to be put in the book, and had the elders translate it for us. We will give the others out in a few weeks to the rest of the branch. We have some in English for those who are English speakers, which is a few of them. Sister Lien talked to me (through a translator) as we told her we would be gone when she gets back, and told her about the book. She said she wanted to keep in contact. Maybe on Facebook? I said, well, that would be nice, but I wouldn’t have any idea what she was saying! She had said she talks to Elder Bruggeman (who left in May) and he helps her with translating English from people, and he could tell her what I say.
After we got home, I was checking messages and emails. I saw that Kori had tried to FaceTime us. I was reading her email, and one from Logan, and started to write back when the FaceTime started ringing, so I answered it. It was Logan. He was talking to us as he was walking upstairs. He gets in their family room and we have a great chat! He is quite chatty when it is just the 2 of us! Last time we talked, everyone was taking turns, and it was hard to get things out of any of the boys. Not a smooth chat like this one was! It turns out it was him that had tried us earlier. I said, did your mom call for you? No, he called us. He knows how. I said, grandpa doesn’t even know how to call on Face Time! Well, he does. You just push this button, then you look for Wanda Yearsley, and you call! After we had chatted for awhile, Brendan came up and we chatted a bit with him, then pretty soon everyone was up chatting with us (Gary had come over to chat when it was just Logan). We had a nice long visit, then said we better go, because we were going to try to call Scott and Traci’s family since it had been so long since we had talked to them. Then, before I got around to calling them, the phone rang and it was Jeff! So I had a nice visit with him. By then, the time was getting late. So, we started getting ready for bed. We will have to try for a visit with Scott and Traci another time I guess.
Next week’s post will be later as well. We have the next Outgoing Devotional next Sunday. Yep, it’s that time again…..transfers are next week!
We hope everyone is doing well. Be good and keep smiling! Remember to hold to the rod!!
Here is a picture:
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| This is us with Sister Lien |
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