February 19th

Today had several eventful happenings.  It started off well.  We got up and did the rituals and then went to the gym.  I worked hard today and it paid off as I got 3 points on my active link. It was fairly warm when we went into the gym but when we came out it was really cold with a wind.  The 43 degrees that it was this morning was the highest it got all day.

On the way home we went to the grocery store to get some bananas and a prescription I ran out of this morning.  As we were paying for the food Larry suddenly remembered that he had left eggs boiling on the stove when we went to the gym.  We were kind of worried about what we would find.  Luckily he had put a lid on them like you are supposed to do and when the eggs exploded it did not go very far.  The pan was pretty black but I think it will clean up but it will probably have hot spots after this.  We were certainly blessed that it didn't do more damage.

Larry went to work cleaning up the mess and I went to work writing curriculum supposedly but we received a letter from the Mission President in San Antonio today telling us about the housing situation.  It wasn't clear to me whether we had to find our own housing from the letter so I called the number and asked them.  The Sister that answered the phone said that we would be taking over for a Brother and Sister Kasper and we would be living in their apartment, so she asked me if I wanted to talk to her.  I decided to talk to her and she told us about the apartment and the address.  Then she told me that she knew our Bishop Marshall McKinnon because her first husband had been a doctor at Tanner Clinic where he is the CEO.  I was surprised and asked her what her first husbands name was and it was a Dr. Hicken.  He died of cancer in 2004 and she has only been married to the Kasper for about 4 years.  It turns out that she was a person that helped us a lot with our sewing projects when I taught at North Layton Jr. High.  I haven't seen her for a long time but I know who she is.  Like everyone says it is a small world especially in the Mormon Church!!

The people at the mission said that I would be the media secretary and that Elder Presser would be the vehicle coordinator so we know more about what we will be doing.  Our apartment is at 13000 Vista del Norte, San Antonio, Texas 78216.  We went online and found out that is is about 7 miles from Nathan's rehabilitation center and about 4 miles from the Mission Home.  It is about 14 miles from Sara and the kids.  So I am excited about that.

After that call I started working on learning more about the selling process.  I think I can start writing tomorrow.

Sammy with his first lost tooth

While I was working Sara texted me a picture of Sammy with his first lost tooth.  She said that it had been lose for a few weeks and she had tried to help him pull it last night but he finally pulled it himself during school today.

Nathan texted me to say Hi but didn't respond when I replied.  Kirsten also texted me today.
 
Most of the afternoon it snowed and it even started hailing very hard about 3:00 p.m.  The snow did not amount to anything much on the ground but it was really coming down.

I quit reading about 4:00 p.m. because my body could not work anymore on the curriculum.  I found the taco soup recipe I had been wanting to make for dinner to use up some of the liquid from my fresh salsa and started to make that.  I needed two things so Larry volunteered to go to the store for me.

While he was gone I watched the evening news and set up an automatic payment for our new 15 year mortgage.

I made the taco soup and we ate and then we settled down to watch American Idol and I worked on several things on the computer and paced back and forth for an hour to make sure I had some points today.

Larry went to bed but I am finishing this and then I will joint him.  He is getting pretty congested and I am congested again after finishing my antibiotic on Sunday.  So life is rough.