December 20th

Today was the last day of our LDS Employment mission.  We got up at six as usual and got ready to go with all our routines. Nathan texted me about 6:40 a.m. so they get him up early in this new place.  I texted him back but he didn't answer me after a while.

We had only received about a half inch of new snow from the night before but it was still in the trees like it had just fallen.  We are supposed to get another storm tonight adding 1-3 inches so we will see.  I posted some pictures of the snow on Facebook and told Maren to show her children what a winter wonderland looks like.

We went to Sam's club to get a fruit tray to take so that we would have something to eat if they brought treats to the mission, which they did.  We also took a lunch so that we could make it until 2:00 p.m. because we needed to be home for the appraiser of our home for the refinance loan so we couldn't take the early lunch like we usually do.  When we got there they had a book for us, "When the White House Comes to Zion" that the missionaries had all signed for us.  It will be a great remembrance of our work there.

Larry left for about and hour during the mid morning and went to the post office to have them hold our mail for the three weeks we will be gone.  Then he also came home and got a check that Mom had given us for Christmas to deposit it in the bank.  So we have barely enough to get to San Antonio

While we were there Senator Hatch's office called me.  A Zenock Bishop (that sounds like a Book of Mormon name!) called and said that I should probably get hold of the Texas Senators about Nathan's placement and retirement.  They said that they would forward the information to Senator Conoyn.  Later he emailed me and said that Senator Conoyn's office would contact Nathan and Sara to see what they could do.

It was a really slow day today.  We only had about 6 people in today.  The computers were really slow also.  It seemed like it would take three minutes or more to load a new page.  Despite that I got all of my people done except one.  When we were getting ready to leave at 2:00 p.m. Frank, our boss, told us and Julie McKinstry to just go home because it was so slow and he kept the Hendersons.  Everyone gave us a hug, even Frank our boss, and told us we were welcome back any time.

The appraiser came and when he was leaving Larry asked him if he was going to be able to get the appraisal done so we could sign our papers Saturday and he said no it would be Monday or Tuesday so I guess that we will have to sign when we get back or have them email the papers to us to sign.

We went to the gym after the appraiser was here.  We stayed for about and hour and a half.  When we were walking they had a breaking story on the news that a judge in the Utah district court had declared that the Amendment Three to the Utah Constitution was Unconstitutional under the US Constitution 14th amendment.  The third amendment was  an amendment that declared that marriage was only between a man and a women in Utah.  Because the judge did not grant a stay hundreds of gay couples were going to the court house in Salt Lake City and getting legally married.  I was deeply disappointed with our society.  Larry was mad and continues to assert that Obama is the Anti-Christ and that the judge was one of his minions because he was appointed by Obama.

We came home and had dinner.  Then Larry announce that he was going to watch a "Bones" marathon on the TV.  I teased him and asked him what he was going to do when he got on the mission and could not watch TV.  He said he was watching it now so he would be ready when the mission comes.

We watched a couple of episodes of "Bones" and I wrapped some presents while we were doing that.  I also tried to get in a little walking.  I keep wanting to study a little about Kathy Reich the person that "Bones" is patterned after but I didn't.

We read our scriptures about 8:00 p.m. because we have to get up early tomorrow.  Actually we are reading "Preach my Gospel"  the missionary manual of the church to prepare for our mission.  It is a really inspirational book.  Larry went to bed then and I got up and walked for another half hour hoping to meet my goal for active link.  I watched the news on another channel while I walked and it was pretty much dominated by the same story again this evening.  They are now saying that it is going to snow on Sunday so that is not good news as we are leaving that day. 

I recorded my food and inserted the active link in the computer and I received 5 points for my efforts.  Don't know why it was so easy to get 5 points today and it is so hard sometimes.