Today was Groundhog day and they say that he saw his shadow so we will have 6 more weeks of winter. We probably need it in Utah. They are saying the snow level is really low.
I stayed home from church today to try and get feeling better. I have lost my voice and cannot talk over a whisper. I feel like I have problems in my sinuses and my teeth ache but when I went to the doctor yesterday they said that I did not have a bacterial infection. I will be grateful when it goes away. I slept a lot today.
It was Stake Conference today so Larry attended and took notes for me. He also went to the adult meeting last night by himself but he took notes so I got a smidgen of what the meeting was about. He said that last nights meeting theme was assigned by the First Presidency, which I guess from what he said is unusual, and it was on hastening the work-specifically missionary work. I listened to one of the talks they quoted from today, Elder Ballard's October 2013 talk.
Larry fixed lunch and dinner. He is so great. We still have pork left that he cooked for me the night I got home so we had pork quesidilla's for lunch and for dinner he fixed a steak and salad with fresh pineapple. I haven't been especially hungry the last few days but it all tasted really good.
While we were eating a friend in our ward, Nancy Barlow, called and asked if we would consider renting our house to her daughter while we were on our mission. They said that they would help her keep up the yard and such so we prayed about it and felt good about it so we just have to work out the details. I felt like it was an answer to prayer because we didn't want to leave the house with someone we did not trust.
Larry watched the Super Bowl for the first half but got disgusted with it and turned it off for most of the second half. I told him to turn it on that maybe Denver had a come back so he turned it on towards the end and was even more disgusted with the games final score of 43-8 for the Seahawks.
For a while tonight we worked on our wills and power of attorney so we can get that finished.
The last time I wrote it was Thursday. As you know my flight was canceled that day as well in the evening so I spent another day with Maren. I was surprized that they had taken the tent down that they had built the night before for Gauge before I even got up. I helped Brinlie finish her Hello Kitty pillow that we had started on Monday. It just needed some different glue. I watched the kids play. I took a shower and convinced Maren to do my hair for me. Then Maren took some pictures of Me and her together and another of Me and her and the girls together. I got to see why instagram is good to have for photos when she fixed the pictures right on her phone but when I tried to download it and login it said it did not recognized my Facebook password so I just gave up.
The snow in Richlands really melted that day and the ice on the streets melted so that it was about 45 degrees when I left. I was pretty sure that I would go this time because Maren's Cul-de-sac was dry and the roads were dry by the evening. So I was able to take off for home.
When I got to Atlanta I got off the plane and I felt like I was missing something but I went to Chick-fil-A and got a light lemonade and some fries. I thought that would go good with my sandwich I had made for dinner. Then I found my flight which was two terminals down and began eating in the waiting area. When I went to get my sandwich I realized that the thing I was missing was my dinner sack that I had left on the plane from Jacksonville. Luckily I was not very hungry.
I usually just read on the plane but I was falling asleep even before we took off so I purchased a set of headphones and I rented the move "The Butler" and watched that. Larry had told me he didn't want to watch it because Jane Fonda was in it so that is one reason I chose it. He would be even more upset if he knew that the main character was thrilled when Barack Obama was elected. After that I was able to use the ear buds and play Stack the States a geography game I downloaded for Sammy but for some reason I really like to play it.
When Larry picked me up he said that he had fixed roast pork and dipping shrimp for me so when we got home he served me dinner at 1:30 a.m. I was thrilled. Even thought I could not talk. We got to bed about 2:00 a.m. Part of the reason was that when he came he had our Misson Call. I was so excited to find out when we were going and that we really were going to San Antonio that I had to post it on Facebook that night even before we ate.
We are going to the Texas San Antonio mission and will be office assistants. We go into the Provo MTC on March 10, 2014 so we only have about 35 days now to get ready.
The next morning we were supposed to work at the Family Search Center but I felt so rotten that I called and got a substitute to go in. Larry went over but he said that they had plenty of people to work so he came home. We took a nap together for awhile.
I decided about 2:30p.m. that I would go to the Saturday Urgent Care at the Doctor's office. The doctor said that he didn't think that it was bacterial but to come back in about three days if it had not gone away. He told me that even whispering was hard on the vocal chords and so to go home and rest and drink plenty of liquids and not talk.
Mostly on Saturday I just rested and slept. I had a few people call to congratulate us on the mission call and then they were embarrassed, as was I, when I could not talk. I told them I would call back when I could talk better. Hopefully it will get better soon because we have a ton of things to do before March 10th.
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