It's been a good day.We have been waiting to hear from Pres. Andersen to see if we needed to change our area music plan and today we got an email from him saying it was fine, to translate it to Spanish and send it back so they could have it for their meeting with the members of the seventies and the stake presidents in the area. That is such a weight off our shoulders! However it opens up the entire area for us to be available for so we'll see just how that goes. Talked to Diane Bastion from the church music headquarters so we will be receiving 20 keyboards to help get the training sessions going from the Harmon Grant Foundation.
We went to the Spanish class today. I swear Elder Hammon, the teacher, talks some completely different language! The good thing is I am not the only one lost in that class. We stayed for Family Home Evening which was a presentation on mental and physical health by the McDermits. They are the mental health people for the mission - and they are always busy...
The Snow's from Roosevelt had a daughter and her family visiting. She and her husband, when they found out we were from Morgan, asked if we knew a woman named MaryKaye. Turned out to be MaryKaye Christiansen. The story is these two young people, the girl and her husband, were headed to Salt Lake to a ChrisLaDou(?) concert. Their car broke down and they were at the dirt spot by Peterson when this woman came up to them and asked if they needed help. When they told her their plight she insisted that they take her suburban to the concert. She told them where she lived and said they should bring her car back when they were through and leave the keys under the mat. And they did... How proud were we to say we knew MaryKaye! That's the kind of people you want living in your town.
On Sunday we got to skype with Eli and her two beautiful little girls- you just want to squeeze them. Then on Monday we got to see and talk to Alysha's family. Jakes's family, Joe's family at Megans. Life is much better out here with the ability to see and talk to our family. One of the women here said to me "You make me feel like home." I've thought about that alot because I know what home means to me and I have decided that is one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me. I'm going to remember that because it describes so well how so many of our friends give us that same feeling.
I don't know if I remembered to put this in or not but last Sunday this woman came over to Scott and threw her arms around him and called him Sugar. Now anyone who knows Scott knows he is not a hugger(though he is becoming much better). It is normal here for women to hug women in greeting but that really took Scott by surprise. I thought it was great!! Maybe she was referring to his color.
We got to talk to Mike and Melissa Pfannerstil (haven't spelled their name right all week). What a joy it is to know they have survived such a scare. I'm sure it will take some time to recover mentally as well as physically.
Our water is still off and just as we were getting ready to go to the temple, the power went off. It is so surprising to see things like this happen in such a big city. I'm going to post some power lines here so it's no surprise that the power goes off. They say they don't turn off people's power, they just cut the lines and tie them around the pole until the bill is paid, then they splice them back together.
We went to the Spanish class today. I swear Elder Hammon, the teacher, talks some completely different language! The good thing is I am not the only one lost in that class. We stayed for Family Home Evening which was a presentation on mental and physical health by the McDermits. They are the mental health people for the mission - and they are always busy...
The Snow's from Roosevelt had a daughter and her family visiting. She and her husband, when they found out we were from Morgan, asked if we knew a woman named MaryKaye. Turned out to be MaryKaye Christiansen. The story is these two young people, the girl and her husband, were headed to Salt Lake to a ChrisLaDou(?) concert. Their car broke down and they were at the dirt spot by Peterson when this woman came up to them and asked if they needed help. When they told her their plight she insisted that they take her suburban to the concert. She told them where she lived and said they should bring her car back when they were through and leave the keys under the mat. And they did... How proud were we to say we knew MaryKaye! That's the kind of people you want living in your town.
On Sunday we got to skype with Eli and her two beautiful little girls- you just want to squeeze them. Then on Monday we got to see and talk to Alysha's family. Jakes's family, Joe's family at Megans. Life is much better out here with the ability to see and talk to our family. One of the women here said to me "You make me feel like home." I've thought about that alot because I know what home means to me and I have decided that is one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me. I'm going to remember that because it describes so well how so many of our friends give us that same feeling.
We got to talk to Mike and Melissa Pfannerstil (haven't spelled their name right all week). What a joy it is to know they have survived such a scare. I'm sure it will take some time to recover mentally as well as physically.
Our water is still off and just as we were getting ready to go to the temple, the power went off. It is so surprising to see things like this happen in such a big city. I'm going to post some power lines here so it's no surprise that the power goes off. They say they don't turn off people's power, they just cut the lines and tie them around the pole until the bill is paid, then they splice them back together.
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