We Survived Transfer Week!

Here is a picture of the apartment we live in.  We are on the second floor, and through the railing of the balcony you can see the tomato plant we just bought at Costco.  Mom is determined to have a garden.  She just can't help herself.

Our apartment is nice and functional.  It has 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.  Mom has the closet in the "Master Bedroom", and my closet is in the second bedroom.  That is also the bedroom which we use as our office.

Here is Mom in "The Office" in the apartment.  Really just a fold-up table where we face each other with our computers, and share the one printer by the window.  

Ross was just here on his way to San Francisco, and dropped off the Prius.  The Tundra Truck is nice and is my favorite, but all the parking lots are small and difficult to maneuver with the big truck.  We are glad Ross had to make a trip down which allowed him to help us out by driving our Prius to us.

I have mentioned before how our Stake building has two Chapels and houses 6 Wards.  Jason has dubbed it "The Great and Spacious Building".  Here is a picture I took today after our block meeting.  The wings on each side houses a chapel.

It has a second floor with classes.  The staircase would be great for pictures of Gold and Green Ball attendees coming down the stairs in their formal attire.

Now about Transfer Week.

On Monday we had 5 missionaries come into town to get ready to leave for home Tuesday morning.  We were included in the evening dinner at the mission home, and were asked to bear our testimony together with the 5 missionaries.  Hearing their testimonies on this last night of their mission, was really sweet and tender.  They are a great bunch. (Of course, they ALL are a great bunch).

On Tuesday, we had eight new missionaries arrive and to process.  They were like us!  Uncertain of what to expect and nervous.  We did our best to put them at ease.  Of course, our office staff are all new too, so it was a little of "the blind leading the blind".  We did not make it out of the office until 6:45pm that night.  I had the President's Electronic Transfer Board finally done.

Wednesday morning I received an email from the Pres. that he had made two more changes in the Field which I now had to update on all the systems and boards.  Apparently he had placed an Elder that has to be in a "car" area for medical reasons, in a "bike" area, and that had to be corrected.

On Saturday we helped clean up a park with the other members of the Ward we live in.  The whole Church Area had this service day planned called Mormon Helping Hands, so we laid down bark dust and weeded for a couple hours in the morning.  We wore our grubbies with our name tags, and got to know some of the members better. We capped it off with a "bring your own picnic lunch".

It was a GREAT week!

Love,
Dad