We got up a little after 7:00 a.m. and completed everything that we usually do in the morning except exercise. I wanted to mend some pants for Nathan and we had gone to get some things yesterday so we could do that and then when I pulled the machine out it did not have the foot pedal or the cord packed inside and heaven only knows where it might be in the mess that Nathan has stacked in his apartment. I called Nathan and told him I would not be able to finish them.
I had sent Larry to buy some pins so I could do the pants and then he was going to go to the office and pick me up to go to Weight Watchers. I called him when I found out about the machine and told him that I would not be able to do the pants but for some reason he did not process what I said. He came in and I was in the bathroom. He yelled the pins are on the table and I thought he was still in the apartment. When I came out however he was not there and then I knew that he had not processed that I needed to go with him. I ran to the door and barely caught him as he was getting in the car. In my zeal to go with him I forgot my name tag.
We got to the office at about 10:00 a.m. and I tried to print off the orders for MLC that still needed to be filled. The Elders were using the computers so I looked quickly at my email but the orders were not there on my email. So I let them have the computer back and I went to call the Zones that I did not have. As I called each one they all said that they had sent their order. At first I thought that Round Rock East had labeled their order with Round Rock but as I investigated and was able to get back on the computer I realized that I did not print our Round Rock East's order and then printed an additional email from them that came later and added it to Round Rock's order. I was frustrated that I could get so confused. But that solved where that order was. But despite several emails and phone calls when I left the office tonight I was not able to ever get the orders for Hill Country and the Border.
We went to Weight Watchers at 11:00 a.m. and we were happy that we had lost weight!!! We were pretty good at following the food plan this week but we did not exercise all week long so I was worried that we would not lose.
As I left my name tag home we stopped to pick that up and had some lunch at the house. Then Larry dropped me off at the office while he went to Pep Boys to have a fuel filter put on our car.
At the office the Sister Trainer Leaders Leaders were in working on their email and even though there were two other computers in the office empty because the Willaimses were gone they were on our computers. I had orders to do so I did not bother them. But I couldn't find boxes to put them in because most of my Supply order has not come in and so I was trying to figure out what to do. The only boxes I had were small boxes that pass along cards come in and they are too small for anything 8x10. I tried to call Larry to asked him to check with Pep Boys to see if they had any boxes but when I did I realized that I had his phone and I had left my phone in the Jeep. It seemed like we were doing things like that all day. So I said a prayer and got the idea to put the small stuff in two of the little boxes and put the rest of it in 10x13 manilla envelopes. It worked perfectly and then when I got to the next order I had emptied a planner box and was able to put that in that.
Larry was upset because the Sisters have IPads now that they can do their emails on so, nicely he asked them if they couldn't do their emails on the IPads when he got back.
He was super stresses today because he has to bring in 13 cars during this next transfer period and get them processed to sell. He decided to call all the areas with the cars and have them take them in for the tune ups and oil changes he has to have done. So he needed the computer to tell him which cars it was going to be. He spent most of the day doing that.
 |
| Sister Schaefer, Sister Presser, Elder Presser |
In the afternoon I worked on the mail. I had several letters from parents of missionaries who have already gone to the MTC but had not turned in the paperwork we needed so I was able to fill that in and all of them are in except for a few that we will have to get when they come here. I thought I was ready to go at 5:00 p.m and then I walk out into the outer office and there is still mail that needs to be boxed up for what I thought was MLC tomorrow. I did the best I could but it was a little hectic so I called the Assistants to see if they could take it the way it was and they informed me after a confusing conversation that I was wrong about when July 1st was. I was thinking it was tomorrow and it is Wednesday. So the good news is I have another day to get ready. The frustrating thing was it was about the 4th thing that I had through that confused thinking made the task harder. I was seriously wondering if I was okay today.
We promised Nathan that we would come and help him unpack some boxes tonight and bring him some dinner. We drove to Windcrest and ate at Larry's favorite Jack in the Box and got Nathan some food and then took off to go to his apartment. When we got to Gibbs Sprawl Road they had it blocked and so we had to turn there. Because we were not the only ones to have to do this the cars were lined up bumper to bumper and it took us about a half hour to get to Nathan's when it should have taken 10 minutes. I finally texted him to left him know the problem.
When we got there I got the food ready for him and he ate. Marcy called for a while but he was not finished eating so he asked if he could call her back. Then he finished eating. We went through some boxes to try to see if we could find the foot pedal for his machine. When we came to his older machine we thought it might be in there but when I opened it it not only did not have it but it did not have the pedal for that machine. So I was frustrated and thought Sara might know where she packed it but she didn't remember of course. I thought maybe we could buy one easier than we could look through the 20 boxes stacked on top of each other that Nathan thought it would be in but Nathan said that they lost a lot of their old parts inventory to a flood and it would probably cost $200.00.
When Nathan finished eating we asked if maybe we could help him go through the boxes he had there that he had not gone through. I was impressed that he had about 5 more boxes that he needed to go through and then he would have gone through all of them. Although he still has 3 big stacks of boxes and stuff that he does not have a place to put or he wants to give to people so he has a pretty cluttered living room and one bedroom. When I mentioned that he might need to talk to Marcy about a bookshelf they like so he could put the books he was saving in it he just got irritated and said they were not having any bookshelves.
Nathan had been rude all night long about anything I said but when I asked him if he wanted me to hand him some things from the box he yelled no he wanted me to hold them so he could see them. So I started to take them out and show them to him. Then he yelled that he couldn't see them so I asked him what I needed to do so he could see them and he said hold them up for me. I had a stack of papers and tried to show him one and he flipped out and said I was not helping him. At that point Larry said he was leaving and he would be in the car when I got out there. I decided that it was fruitless to try to understand what he wanted me to do because anything I had asked him during the evening was just irritating to him. Marcy says that he doesn't realize when he is talking rude but I think he must know sometimes. It is frustrating that I try to help him and everything is wrong. The last time we went down we were able to work productively. So I don't know if it upset him that I could not finish his pants or if he was mad that we had to call Sara about the foot pedals or if he was upset because I did not want to go through all the boxes he had just gone through. I think that life is hard for him by himself right now but he to move out and live by himself and I would like to help him but he gets mad at me alot of the time. But I try to do what a good person would do and stay out of his life the rest of the time. This is certainly not how I thought this part of the mission would turn out but it is what it is and I am learning a lot about my weaknesses that I need to work on. Also I am satisfied that I did what Heavenly Father needed me to do.
Sorry for griping so much but it has been a frustrating day.
No comments:
Post a Comment