A Rainy Day - Friday, July 30, 2010

It was raining when we got up and it was to continue throughout the day. On days like this the office elders are glad they are are working in the office -- warm and dry. Our walk to the office wasn't in a downpour, but it was raining lightly and we had to walk around lots of puddles on the very uneven sidewalks.

The elders were already at the office when we arrived because Sabrina was coming to audit Elder Peterson on his work with the visas and residency matters. She goes to five missions in Argentina and ours is one of them. He had to finish getting organized for her visit.

Elder Hales worked on apartment problems and talked with some dueños over the phone, while Elder Kroff bundled up and went to the bank to cash a check, hoping that the signature of the President this time will pass inspection.

It felt good to get welcome letters addressed and in the mail, then I started on the carpetas for the August transfer, although I have no binders in my possession. An email said the binders are on their way and should be here in two to three weeks. What??? I need them now! I guess I will have to run everything off and stack them up hoping the binders make it. I have no idea what I will do if they do not arrive in time.

Sabrina arrived at 11:00 and Elder Peterson was ready for her. She later told us that he is an on the ball secretary. He is organized, knows his stuff, and learns quickly. I could have told her that.

Before we left home, Dr. Snell called to see how Rich was doing after speaking to him yesterday about the pains in his stomach. He said he always checks up on the old people because they are usually in a state of denial. However, Rich felt much better today, but the doctor wanted him to come in so he could check him out. I thought it was a good idea to put to rest any worries that he had, and if he had something that needed treatment he could get on it immediately. Sister Snell and I had a great visit while Rich was with the doctor. Fortunately, he could not find anything wrong and everything he tested for was normal. He told him a couple things to be aware of and to monitor for a few days. He is really a nice doctor and is very thorough. Too bad he is only here for another month until the regular one comes. I like him.

Because we had to go to Bonpland to see the doctor, we decided to stop in at Carlson Wagonlit Travel. This is the travel agency at the Area Offices that handles all the missionary travel within the country and around South America. They also handle all the travel for the mission presidents. Alejandro answered our questions as we begin making preliminary plans for Melissa and Marianne to come in October. We are taking them to the South to Tierra del Fuego so we inquired about flight times, prices, accommodations, and how to arrange what we wanted to do in the short amount of time we have available. It was a start, and now we have to talk about it and decide what we can and can't do. This is getting exciting!

Driving down the autopista on our way back home, we saw the Carrefour sign and pulled in to do our shopping. Rich had hometeaching with Ezequiel later, so we needed to shop now or never. We were out of many things, so serious shopping it was tonight. We were glad for underground parking to get out of the rain.

Both of our cell phones were back at the office and we were anxious to get them because surely there were calls we'd missed. Only one -- from the doctor saying Rich left his name tag and small missionary manual which were in his shirt pocket. We'll get them at a later time.

Did we have time for McDonalds? Hometeaching was at 7:30 and we had about 45 minutes before he had to leave. Too bad there was a line up to place the order so we opted to just skip it tonight because we didn't want to gulp our food down. We still had a car load of groceries to unload and put in the elevator.

While Rich was gone, I was able to skype chat with Melissa and then talk to Marianne and Mekhi on skype as well. That is always fun.