She finally writes

Dear Fam,

Sorry to be so lax in writing, but I got to 3,200,000 in Bookworm on my I-Phone so really, what’s more important!

All here is snowy and fine.   The snows are absolutely gorgeous as there are lots of pine trees and it looks like paintings.   The little towns, hamlets, villages etc are so picturesque that sometimes we feel like we are in a movie about little towns, hamlets and villages.

I am finally getting the hang of the office and love answering the phone and acting grown up.   Call sometime.   Chances are really good that I will answer.   I’ll include the phone number when I get around to it.   I am sitting in my comfy chair in my room with my Ohio State snuggly on so I am not about to go hunt for the office phone number.

I am pretty well up to date on the comings and goings and transfers.   However I did get one note from a mother asking if I would please put Clayton on her son’s certificate instead of Brandon as I had referred to him in an earlier letter.   That’s when I began my breakdown about being incompetent, but the Lord has helped me a whole lot and I think I am   fine.—but then again I don’t know I’m not fine until something is noticed like that.

A Bishop’s home burned to the ground last week and they are scrambling for things to furnish his unfurnished rental until they can get back on their feet so I offered our new beds that we got from the sister’s apartment who left.   It was hard on me because I had bought a great twin set of bedding and the bed was soooo comfortable.   Jamey can attest to that.   Anyhow they took them away yesterday and I immediately got online and went to the Rochester Craigslist and the second bed down was a full bed which is exactly what I am looking for because a queen won’t fit up the stairs and I want something that will sleep two…so I called and met this fun lady who auctions things and has this house full of stuff that she is trying to sell and get rid of.   Oh what a treasure trove!!!   It belonged to a movie critic and is simply full of pictures of stars on walls (the pictures, not the stars) and he had over 3500 dvds.   The bed was fine but she was the find.   Her husband died 6 years ago and she is still struggling.   She is in her fifties and is a golden contact.   We told her that we would like to meet her for lunch and she was thrilled.   We had to get to two meetings so had to go, but I bought the bed (oh and there was a gorgeous handmade quilt that I hope isn’t too much that I want).   Anyhow, needless to say, I will become her best friend in hoping to help her get rid of her stuff.   She is having a huge sale with everything in the house but asked if we have a place where she can donate the rest as she says things don’t sell that well this time of year and with the economy being so slow.

Oh for a DI.   We can have her donate it to the Goodwill but she wanted to do something noble with it.   Anyhow, any movies you would like?   He has them all alphabetized but are in 4 rooms.   I can’t wait to get back there in the daylight.

I bought a great Mormon Tabernacle Choir CD for Gail our other lady with the mother whom we go sing to and she wants us back the 27 to sing for her mother again and her and her sister.   She is a class act and seems a little distant, but that’s fine.
These are mission stories if you are wondering….just my kind of mission stories.

Oh we had this picture on the wall that was about 3’ x 4’ (probably smaller). It was an oil painting of four elders walking in the grove.   It had worn out its welcome and wasn’t a great piece of art so we took it to the “shed” another trove, but I won’t go into that.   Anyhow in thinking about it I have decided to go get it and blow up pictures of our favorite elders and put them on the bodies of the elders in the picture and just change them around when we feel like it.   It will teach me how to blow up pictures or take them to Walgreens and have them done.   So excited.

The elders and the sisters are absolutely amazing.   They trudge around in 3 feet of snow in less than 20 degree weather and are always smiling—maybe the smiles are just frozen on their faces come to think of it.   They are fun and full of the spirit.   I can see why leaving the mission field is hard.

Last Friday we cooked for about 60 at a zone council meeting.   Tina decided to make Café Rio burritos and oh my gosh they were absolutely the best.   We cooked up so much meat that I was sure we would have a ton left over but not one scrap.   It’s always like that.   She cooks up lots of soups and I have never been a soup fan, but am becoming one.

Well, this took up your day.   I will close and get to work.   Our dear friends and neighbors the McVeas have gone to Orem for their daughter’s wedding.   Should be fun in the office as we are totally in control.   Ha ha ha ha ha.   I’ll go get that office number.   585 223 3440.   Ha ha ha, I gave you Camille’s number by mistake to begin with as I had written it on my card to call them to have their extra beds picked up too.   I see her a lot; she is in my district and only about ¼ mile away.   She is where she is supposed to be…on a mission.

On a MUCH different note, I am sooooo sorry for Louise and Spence.   I guess we will never know the pain she is suffering.   I just so hope that things start moving forward for real.   Oh my gosh what a hard thing.   I hope you have been keeping up with her blog.   I now know how to get in and out but only see hers as it comes up automatically.   I love you all with all my heart and hope we never have to go through something that extreme as far as a surgery goes.

Love you much, Mothra….Sister Mothra