Movie Night - Saturday, July 17, 2010

Our week on the go accommodating the schedule of a new president caused us to sleep in today until 8:00. At least that's what we blamed it on. But we had nothing making us get up any earlier so I guess we needed the rest. A phone call from an elder with a medical question forced me out of bed, but I was awake anyway.

Because we were involved with the Meet the President conference last Saturday, our apartment did not get any major cleaning, so today I had to get it done. Saturday is the only day we can fit it in. In between vacuuming, mopping floors, scrubbing the bathroom, cleaning the sliding glass door and outside balcony floor, I did three loads of laundry which included all the small area rugs we have around. It was a good feeling getting caught up and a fresh start to the new week.

I even washed, bleached and ironed three of Elder Hales' white shirts. Who knows how they they get laundered when dropped off at a lavanderia, and he was complaining that they were looking dingy and grey. I told him to bring them to me and I would wash them in good sudsy water with a healthy doze of bleach and see if that would help them. They looked much lighter and brighter when I got finished with them. I'll do the same for Elder Peterson.

For movie night we all brought something to share, so instead of trying to bake something in my wonderful oven, we decided to just buy an assortment of delicious pastries at a panadaria. That was a no brainer! Why would I cook? Pan and postres like these are found on almost every block. We had never been to this one before, but everything looked tasty, so we will return. Good looking help at this one and they were happy to let us take their picture.

We have had one of the mission cars all week at our office. There has been a lot of going back and forth to the mission home for all the meetings and activities with transfer week, and it has been nice for the assistants to be able to drive instead of going by train. We hope this will be the norm for a while. We checked with Elder Peterson and told him that if the car wasn't needed for any official mission business this evening that we would like to drive it up to the Capital for our get together with the seniors. We just go directly there and back and late at night it is faster and nicer to come home in a car than to make our way by bus and train to San Fernando. It takes us an hour that way and only about 40 minutes by car.

Charles and Eileen Fuqua will be going back to the US in a week or so when the pain subsides from her fractured pelvis. She fell in the lobby of the Area Offices where they work. Coming in from outside she felt her shoes might have been wet on the bottom and she slipped on the tile floors. She has had some mini strokes in the past and cannot see out of one eye, so she has had some health problems, but was still okay to come on their mission. They have been here just shy of a year. They will return to the Logan area.

Our new interim Area Medical Advisor is Dr. George Snell with his wife, Clara. They are from Kaysville, UT and were suppose to be here three months, but told us that the regular doctor coming on an eighteen month mission is going to be here the end of August. So they will only be here two months. He has been a mission president in the Phillipines, and served a mission as an Area Medical Advisor in Guatemala. It will be fun to get to know them.

The Davidsons, Jolene and Ross, have been here just four days. He will be the executive secretary to Elder Arnold (also new), a Seventy who has been assigned as the South America South Area President. The Davidsons claim Texas as their home, but he has worked for the government back in Washington DC (don't know much about that yet) He has also been a mission president in the Mexico Guadalajara mission. This is their second mission together. In their youth they both served here in Buenos Aires when it was just one mission.

Zella and Kelly Grieves, the music missionaries, and us make up the five couples in our group. Someone said that two more couples are scheduled to come in the future. We know of only one.

Amazing Grace, was the movie we watched and it was so good. It was about the campaign against slave trade in England in the early 1800's. Slave trade was abolished in the British Empire, but not slavery itself. This is a good one for you, Doyles.

When the party ended, we were grateful for a warm ride home in our car. It was soooooo cold outside.