Transfer 15 Week 4 Sept. 26-Oct. 2 Week B10
It’s getting dark early out here
Preaching: “It is no small thing, my brothers and sisters, to have a prophet of God in our midst. Great and wonderful are the blessings that come into our lives as we listen to the word of the Lord given to us through him. … When we hear the counsel of the Lord expressed through the words of the President of the Church, our response should be positive and prompt. History has shown that there is safety, peace, prosperity, and happiness in responding to prophetic counsel” Russel M. Nelson
Monday: Eldrex’s surgery was this morning so we picked them up (Eldrex, Estrella and Michele) and drove to Children’s Hospital. Art gave Eldrex a blessing before we went. It was a long day at the hospital. Estrella didn’t know they wanted the braces for his legs so we had to run back home and pick them up. The surgery lasted for five hours. Sister Knowles was working on crocheting around a blanket for Eldrex, and Michelle wanted to learn. She was a quick learner and ended up doing most of the blanket. Estrella and Joyce had a long time for English lessons. After talking to the Doctor, getting Eldrex in his room and eating, (two meals of hospital food, not good) it was pretty late. The plan was for Estrella and Michele to spend the night, but Michele had to work early on Tuesday so Estrella asked Joyce to stay instead. Estrella slept on the pull out bed, and Joyce got to sleep in the squeaky reclining chair. (She wanted Estrella to sleep a little because she won’t get much sleep when she gets home!) Joyce got to help the nurses change Eldrex and give him his oral medicine during the night. From the time we picked them up Thursday morning, until Art got home, was almost twelve hours. Not much of a p-
Tuesday: District meet was in the morning and since Joyce spent the night in the hospital, Art went alone. There was another meeting with President and Sister Rasmusson after district meeting, so it was 2:15 by the time Art was done. Eldrex and Estrella could go home on the Hope bus at 3:30, but Joyce couldn’t ride with them, so Art went and picked her up. We met the Bus at the Acosta’s so we could help carry Eldrex and wheelchair into the house. The Elder Sisters had brought pizza for their supper, plus they had a pizza and chicken so we had to stay and eat with them. Then, the whole family came over to see Eldrex, so it was a good thing there was lots of food. Joyce was tired after sleeping in the chair at the hospital so we went home and called it a night. We had made arrangements for Sister Stevenson and Larson to take care of the SRS class for us. It ended up being another long day so we were glad not to have to worry about the class. The Hermana’s were supposed to come over, but cancelled because it got too late, so our bed looked pretty good by that time.
Wednesday: Art picked up the Elder Sisters and went to Northwest Harvest and Joyce walked to the Acosta’s to help there. Joyce was going to go with Art until Estrella ask her to come at 10:00 instead of 12:30. At Northwest Harvest Art boxed pasta while Joyce helped Estrella with Eldrex and Nathalia, Mary Ann’s baby girl. After picking up Joyce, we went shopping so we could make supper for the Acostas. ReyMark loves baked potatoes with stroganoff ,so that’s what we made. We delivered it then went to our Bishops meeting. We don’t know what happened but we heard lots of gun shots, followed by lots of sirens just down the street from us. Another exciting night in Skyway.
Thursday: We thought we would need to help the Acostas in the morning, but they never sent us a text. Mary Ann was staying home from work so she was going to help out. We are trying to make an effort to get up in the morning and work out. It is hard to get used to that. Joyce also spent some in the morning setting up some appointments for visiting teaching some of her 10 sisters. Our day quickly went from not having much to do, to being out of control. We made a visit to Joyce Johnson and Joyce read the Book of Mormon with her while Art played with Gideon and Eric. Gideon burned the popcorn while we were reading, so we quickly had to get it out of the apartment. He is still as rambunctious as ever, and we made an appointment for next week to try to get him back in kindergarten for the entire day. We also got better news from her concerning Thomas. He is calling more often to check on them. We hurried home and had the Spanish Sister missionaries over and made pizzas. They have been wanting to visit Joyce since she was sick, plus Joyce had finished their blankets and they wanted to pick them up. As soon as they left we walked down to the Acostas to check on Eldrex. We did get a call from Mary Ann earlier that afternoon, but we couldn’t go to Acosta’s then, because of other commitments with Joyce Johnson. Estrella had wanted Sister Knowles to help take out a line in his knee that was pumping medicine into his leg to deaden the pain. The hospital had called and wanted Estrella to take it out, but we were at Joyce Johnson’s house. By the time we got to the Acosta’s, she had the line out and Eldrex was all settled in with his new wheel chair that the hospital had delivered. After that visit we went visiting teaching to Margarita Sanchez. She is always so thankful to have Sister Knowles come and visit and answer questions that she has. Then, we went to our missionary meeting. Same attendance that we usually have, but it was a pretty good meeting, with lots of yummy treats! We had a lot of stuff for Sister Kemp from our visits.
Friday: We went to the institute class first thing in the morning. It was a good lesson about following the prophet. We are back in the routine of lunch after class since we had the Elder Sisters with us today. We came home and Joyce made a salad for the Acostas and for the party for Sister Kakuda at the mission home, since she is getting ready to go home. After delivering the salad to the Acostas, we picked up the Elder Sisters and drove to Black Diamond to the mission home. The traffic wasn’t as bad as we thought it would be, so we were way early, even with a stop at a fruit stand. The apples are on so there are some good deals for fresh apples. President and Sister Rasmussen had invited: the Elder Sisters, us, the employment office sisters (Sister Kakuda and Sister Johnson) and the mission presidency to the dinner. Sister Kakuda didn’t want a big party. She is going home this coming Wednesday. It was a fun dinner and we were able to get to know Pres. Campbell a bit. He will be over us and start having our Wednesday afternoon meetings again with the older missionaries. The Rasmusson's are very easy to talk to and the Layman's we already know pretty well. Pres. Campbell’s wife was out of town so we will have to get to know her at a later date.
Saturday: We attended General Conference at the stake center. It is mostly just missionaries that attend there. After the first session all the Sr. missionaries that were there went to lunch at Chopsticks. Another going away party for Sister Kakuda. Both conference sessions were very good! After the last session, we made a visit to one of Joyce’s V.T. families. Sister Fish lives way up north, but it was fun to get to know her better, since Lehi and Hyrum and in her primary class. Art was going to take a less act with him to the priesthood session but he wouldn’t answer his phone. We kind of expected this. We ended up watching the Priesthood Session at home on our computer, since Art didn’t have anyone to take with him.
Sunday: We got up in the middle of the night to make the taco salad meat, beans, and salsa. We made two crock pots full, and it all was used. We usually feed the elders and sisters between sessions of conference on Sunday, and today we again invited everyone there, watching conference, to join us. We knew we had plenty of food. We had the two
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