What an appreciation for missionaries I have gained! It just seems so simple to send our boys on missions and all is well - now we know how it really is. They make learning the language and communicating with people sound so easy. It is certainly not!
We went out to the Area Office today to meet with the Stake Presidents that work there. Three work there and only one happened to be in but we met with the area facilities manager and talked about how to get keyboards and lesson books into some of these poor wards so it was a successful trip. I went back to give Dunfords a letter to mail home for us and meanwhile Scott went out to the distribution warehouse - without telling me. I looked all over for him and finally went into the reception area and hoped he would come out some time. Funny thing, on the table was a picture book about Utah and some of the interesting places to visit. There were things I want to see when we get back! An hour later my husband finally appeared.
We haven't had any water since yesterday morning for one hour and heard today that they didn't have any more money to buy water. Just what that means to us I don't know. Having dirty dishes around most of the time because you have no way to wash them just draws more of those pesky little ants.
Plus they don't have many paper plates here or we would just use them as much as we could and throw them away.
Scott was trying to get a vocal on Fox News and couldn't get that to work so the Yturraldes came down to help us. It ended up even worse so I guess we'll just have to hear the news from them.
Eli called to Skype so that was a happy end to the day!
A couple of days ago we had one of the worker women here for lunch and she told us that she worked just 2 hours a day and would come be and mop for ants the next day. We decided that we would hire her to do some things for us so she could make more money - says she has 6 kids and no husband. Husbands are few and far between here! The next day she didn't show up but is out in the guard building all day. We ran in to her today and she said she would be up at 11:00. Sometime after 12:00 she showed up without a mop, disinfectant, or bucket. I'm not sure just what she had in mind but we didn't have any water anyway. We're not sure what is true and what is not anymore. That seems to be true with alot of the communication around here.
This afternoon we went shopping with the Snows to a mall here. It was fun to see what kinds of things they have here. Lots of jewelry and shoes for sure! They took us too a little bakery they go to that has all kinds of interesting looking things. Their favorite is a bar cookies that looks like, and tastes like pecan pie.
When we got home Louis met us and said that the signal light on our car was on. Sure enough, it was, and the car was dead. Scott finally found jumper cables and got the neighbor to help start the car. Then he took the car to put gas in it and was picked up on the corner by one of the cops that stands in front of our apartment. When Scott couldn't find his international drivers license the guy told him since he was a missionary he could go. What is amazing are the things they do not stop people for...
Does this look like an accident waiting to happen? You just have to wonder how fresh these eggs are.
So much of the work is done here by hand. An example is the man we watched hanging from a tall building on a rope ladder painting. The men above kept a bucket of paint in a big bucket that they sent down to him on a rope when he needed it. I was relieved when he got closer to the ground!
We went out to the Area Office today to meet with the Stake Presidents that work there. Three work there and only one happened to be in but we met with the area facilities manager and talked about how to get keyboards and lesson books into some of these poor wards so it was a successful trip. I went back to give Dunfords a letter to mail home for us and meanwhile Scott went out to the distribution warehouse - without telling me. I looked all over for him and finally went into the reception area and hoped he would come out some time. Funny thing, on the table was a picture book about Utah and some of the interesting places to visit. There were things I want to see when we get back! An hour later my husband finally appeared.
We haven't had any water since yesterday morning for one hour and heard today that they didn't have any more money to buy water. Just what that means to us I don't know. Having dirty dishes around most of the time because you have no way to wash them just draws more of those pesky little ants.
Plus they don't have many paper plates here or we would just use them as much as we could and throw them away.
Scott was trying to get a vocal on Fox News and couldn't get that to work so the Yturraldes came down to help us. It ended up even worse so I guess we'll just have to hear the news from them.
Eli called to Skype so that was a happy end to the day!
A couple of days ago we had one of the worker women here for lunch and she told us that she worked just 2 hours a day and would come be and mop for ants the next day. We decided that we would hire her to do some things for us so she could make more money - says she has 6 kids and no husband. Husbands are few and far between here! The next day she didn't show up but is out in the guard building all day. We ran in to her today and she said she would be up at 11:00. Sometime after 12:00 she showed up without a mop, disinfectant, or bucket. I'm not sure just what she had in mind but we didn't have any water anyway. We're not sure what is true and what is not anymore. That seems to be true with alot of the communication around here.
This afternoon we went shopping with the Snows to a mall here. It was fun to see what kinds of things they have here. Lots of jewelry and shoes for sure! They took us too a little bakery they go to that has all kinds of interesting looking things. Their favorite is a bar cookies that looks like, and tastes like pecan pie.
When we got home Louis met us and said that the signal light on our car was on. Sure enough, it was, and the car was dead. Scott finally found jumper cables and got the neighbor to help start the car. Then he took the car to put gas in it and was picked up on the corner by one of the cops that stands in front of our apartment. When Scott couldn't find his international drivers license the guy told him since he was a missionary he could go. What is amazing are the things they do not stop people for...
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