For me, this week has been pretty slow. Monday began early. This week was the Mission Tour by Elder Pino, our visiting member of the Seventy, so we had combined Zone Conferences on Monday and Tuesday. Monday’s conference was for the northern half of the mission, which consisted of the following zones: Livermore, Pleasanton, Fremont, Menlo Park, Saratoga and Los Altos. It was held in the Menlo Park Zone. The schedule both days had the meeting starting at 9 a.m and going until 1 p.m., then lunch till 2, then the majority of the missionaries were finished and headed back to their zones, while the Zone Leaders and Sister Training Leaders of those zones stayed for another hour for a meeting with Elder Pino. Tuesday the meetings were held in the San Jose South Stake, with the following zones: San Jose, San Jose Evergreen, San Jose South, Morgan Hill, Santa Cruz and Monterey. The same schedule was followed, with an additional meeting after the ZL and STL meeting—-between the Pino’s and the Mella’s as an evaluation meeting. Both days the cars were inspected like they usually are during Zone Conferences, so Sister Nedreberg and Gary were busy with that, along with other’s who had volunteered to help. So, for Monday, they were planning on leaving the office at 7:45 a.m. to get to the meeting place on time. Elder Michie was going along with them in the mission truck. So, I was at the office beginning at 7:45 that day. The office was fairly quiet for the most part all day long. At 2:20, Sister Wilks was flying back from her visit to Flower Mound, Texas where she had been for a long weekend visiting her family. Her grandson is getting ready to leave on a mission, and it was his farewell. She had been dropped off to the airport when she left by Sister Nedreberg, but since they were busy with the zone conference and not back yet, I had planned on picking her up. I had a couple of the Yerba Buena sisters, Sister Busdicker and Sister Gilvarry, come in to man the office while I was gone, to answer the phones and be there in case of any deliveries. Then I headed to the airport. When we got back to the office, we learned that there hadn’t been any calls or deliveries, so it was quiet. Sister Wilks was there the rest of that day, and around 3 or so Gary and Sister N. got back to the office. When the work day was done, Gary took the mission truck home this time, as he was leaving from the apartment for the conference location on Tuesday, which was just down the road from where we live. We both left about the same time on Tuesday morning, with me getting to the office at the usual time, about 8:45-8:50 a.m. Sister W. came into the office in the morning, then she headed to the conference to take pictures like she usually does for the zone conferences, and I was again alone in the office till everyone got back around 3 or so.
Wednesday through Saturday, President and Sister Mella were gone to San Diego for a Mission President Seminar. Things were okay in the office. Just one item dealing with a missionary that President Mella needed to be notified about, which he will have to deal with this week. Also, we got a new couple. Gary opened a new apartment on Wednesday to ready for this new couple. The wife is our new mission nurse. We had an official mission nurse when we first arrived, then shortly after we got here, she was released and we have had others called to handle the position, but they weren’t really nurses, just using “mom” knowledge when dealing with the ailments of the missionaries, and recommending doctor visits as needed, or rest, or whatever. So, this is now an official real nurse. Not sure yet what all her husband will be doing besides helping her out with the paperwork part of it all. He has computer knowledge, so maybe can help us in the office when we have issues with the computers. Also, maybe he can help with other things in the office. We just aren’t sure yet. President Mella will meet them them tomorrow and figure things out. They arrived Friday night about 8 p.m. We met them at the office and then took them to their apartment. Oh, they are from North Carolina, and they are Elder and Sister Conner.
So, for Sister W. and I, the week in our areas of the office were pretty slow. Nice for a change! You just never know from day to day how it will turn out. This coming week is going to be a busy one for Gary. He is opening up 3 new apartments and getting people moved around.
Saturday, we had decided to try another whale watching trip. We had gotten a new camera and were anxious to try it out and get some better pictures of the whales. Well, the weather turned out to be not so good. The time on the boat was from 10 to 2. It rained until about noon. And, the sea was rough. So, well before noon, I started getting seasick, and the day was pretty much shot for me. I don’t handle motion sickness too well. In fact, by the time we got back, I wasn’t even sure if I could drive, as I just felt dizzy. I never really threw up on the boat, but gagged a couple of times. After I had gone to find a place to sit down (because on these trips you mainly stand up at the rail to see the whales and other things), so after I sat down and shut my eyes, and leaned my head against a wall, I started feeling a little better. I think I even fell asleep a little. I just couldn’t open my eyes to see anything, or the dizziness hit hard. So, after we left, Gary drove back to San Jose. The place we went whale watching was called Moss Landing, on Monterey Bay between Monterey and Santa Cruz. When we drove back, we stopped in Morgan Hill to get a bite to eat. By then I felt I could eat and hold it down. We decided to just take it easy the rest of the day, only do a little laundry and cleaning, and then we headed to the movie theater to watch a movie, “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day”. Melissa had recommended it. In fact, she had sent us the gift card to use to see the movie. Thanks Missy and Tim! It was nice to relax and watch a comedy. Just before the movie, my wallet that I have had for a LONG time finally broke. It has 2 zippers, one for the money section and one for the credit card/driver’s license section, and the zipper has been acting up for a long time. I knew it was going to go soon. It broke just before the movie started, and I made the comment that I really was desperate now to find a new wallet. I had been looking for some time, just hadn’t found what I wanted…which was exactly what I had! So now it was find something soon, or put a rubber band around the wallet to keep my money from falling out!! So we decided to look around at the mall, and happened to be right next to Sears, so checked in there first. Well, I found a wallet just like I was looking for!!! And it was on sale….yippee!! Then I decided to check purses, because the purse I was using, the strap was started to fall apart. I found a purse I liked too, also on sale. Score!!
Oh, forgot to mention, we did see some whales, not as many as before, but it was hard to see or take pictures because with the rolling of the waves, you might roll down and not be able to see a whale again, and the movement made the picture taking hard. We haven’t even looked at the pictures yet to see how or if they turned out. We did see some dolphins on this trip. I can’t remember the name of the type of dolphins at this time. If I think of it later, I will put it in. When they were just under the surface of the water, they looked kind of fluorescent. They were a white color, and nicknamed ghost dolphins I think the lady said.
Today, our branch was combined with the 16th ward that meets at the same time as us. This is the ward that our primary child goes to and our young woman. Anyway, today was the primary program, so we had a combined Sacrament meeting. Then we separated after that for our regular meetings.
This afternoon, we had a chance to FaceTime with Shelley. She checked in with us at 3, but I didn’t see the message until about 4:30 while I was working on this journal entry. So I stopped writing and we visited with them for about half an hour. Shelley and Grant were very tired today. They had a Ragnar race they ran in this weekend, which I believe she said was a total of 200 miles for the 12 of them on their team over 2 days or something like that. This race was located from Chattanooga to Nashville Tennessee. Crazy people!
Well, time to finish up for today. Catch you next week!
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