The Pleasures of Life

We have had another busy week in the office.  President and Sister Pendleton are making sure everything is ready for President and Sister Weston, and we are making sure all the processes and procedures are documented.  I am just a little bit of a control person as it relates to my environment, and worry about mundane things like the signature plate of the new President's signature so checks can be signed.  Our checks have the President's signature "automatically" inserted on the check.  I hope SLC automatically does that changeover on June 28 when the Westons arrive.  I can only hope that SLC deals with this type of thing every year so would have that figured out.  Still, it drives me nuts not knowing for sure.

I have made arrangements for the 2 "Service Missionary" couples that work with us in the office to have Fridays off.  They are very pleased with that arrangement.  These good people did not want to come across like they were not willing to give their all to the Lord, and would match us "stroke for stroke", but unlike us, they still have their homes to maintain and family events to participate in, and they were "killing" themselves.

As part of that arrangement we are giving ourselves Wednesday afternoons off depending on workload and what is happening in the office.  For example, the Westons are arriving this coming Wednesday, and Transfer Weeks are real busy, so for sure those weeks we could not be "off".  But I found that neither the Morgans or the Johnsons, or us, have been to the Temple since starting our work here in the mission office.

So this past Wednesday, Mom and I went to the Sacramento Temple and did an endowment session.  The Temple is one of the smaller designs, with no clothing rental or cafeteria.  It is an "in-line" design without a chapel or waiting room.  After you get dressed you step right into the session room and wait there for it to begin.  I will call it "the movie room" because after you are done there, you have to move to "the Terrestrial/Veil room", and then from there, on to the "Celestial" room.

Everybody was so nice inside.  We have wonderful memories of our work in the Portland Temple, and we just had a great day.

One of the food allergies Mom has is milk.  So she has to make her own ice cream with her soy milk. Well, that full trailer we brought, of course, included her ice cream maker.

It was 102 and 104 degrees this week.

We hope everyone has a great week.  Thank you for your love and prayers.

Love,

Dad