Transfer Week - Monday, October 4, 2010

Humidity is felt more and more each day as spring progresses. The temperature is still in the 60's and in the low 70's some days, but the humidity makes us realize why we didn't want to spend another summer here. We will leave at the beginning of the two hottest months which are December and January.

Today the President came for a meeting at 11:00 mainly to discuss the mission tour coming up next Monday and Tuesday. Half the mission will meet together one day with Elder Arnold, and the other half the next. Our zone is scheduled for Monday, but Elder Kroff and I will man the office while the elders attend conference. It will be held in our building. Then on Tuesday we will travel to the Capital to attend the conference with the others on that day. At one point we are to have an interview with Elder Arnold, but haven't heard much about that yet.

It is a busy time for the Gulbrandsens since transfers are this week. Then, they go South with Elder Arnold over the weekend for the meetings down there, and come back for the mission tour here next week. Then the next week is the Mission President's Seminar where all the 13 missions from Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay come to our mission to hold the four day conference. I couldn't keep up, but the President thrives on schedules like this. He said he enjoys it.

We were hoping that more would be said about the transfers, but I guess he thinks we have done it so many times that it runs like clockwork. But, there are always glitches especially for Elder Peterson who has to arrange transportation and housing for missionaries with delayed flights going South, or what to do with missionaries waiting for companions coming from the South and they don't arrive until 9:00 at night. They can't go back to their areas alone without taking the new companion with them. It is interesting.

Knowing our daughters are coming to visit, I am trying to think ahead as to what I can get done to take the stress off of being pressured with things that have deadlines. So I prepared the letters and certificates for the November transfer group. I sent them home with the President to sign before he leaves for the South this weekend. I hope I remember to get them back from him before he leaves.

Rich ran errands today and the elders were busy doing what they do. Elder Paz was surprised when he went to get the pillows to add to the blankets and bags that he had set aside for the new missionaries that are coming. He thought he had enough and only rounded up six pillows. Good grief!! So Rich and he had to go to WalMart to buy more pillows. I had reminded him to get the pillows out and bagged up and he said he would do it later. Then he wished he would have listened and got to that project earlier in the day. It is a busy time preparing for transfers and we have to take deep breaths and keep moving.

We were excited to greet Elder Folster who flew in from the South today as he is leaving to go home on Wednesday. We knew him before he was transferred there last August as he was a companion to one of the Assistants at the time, and he was in and out of the office a lot. He has been down there for 13 months and loved his time there. It was fun to have him in the office for the afternoon. He will stay with the office elders tonight.

Such a busy time!!!