Yesterday we really had a hard time getting going in the morning. We finally made it out of the apartment at 10:15 a.m. We went straight to Weight Watchers. Larry wanted some help in canceling his membership and I weighed in. I lost 1.2 lbs this week so I was feeling good. After that we went to the house to eat lunch and then went to the office.
Larry had lots of things to do with the cars. He needs to take the tiwis out of the cars that have come in but it has been about 102 every afternoon for a week and he can't work outside for very long in that temperature.
I worked on several things again. I am trying to find the bad address referrals that have a phone number or email but it is usually a miracle if someone of those call me back. One did today and she happened to be a member. The name on the referral was her Uncle's but she said that he is in Phoenix so I told her to have him turn it in to the mission is Phoenix Arizona if he still wanted to have the missionaries. It was weird because whomever had entered the referral had put that the person was 0-7 so I was expecting a child and it was a 40 year old man.
Ken Jackson had told me that Nathan wanted him to take him to the airport to fly to Utah so I was not surprized when Marcy texted me and asked me if I knew what Nathan was coming to Utah for. He told her he had a surprise for her and she told him not to come unannounced but of course he did not listen. She wanted mine and Kirsten's opinion so I told her to do what she had to do and be straight with him. He called her later and wanted her to come and pick him up but they do not have an airport in Vernal now for some reason so he was asking her to come to Salt Lake City and pick him up. That is a 3+hour drive and Marcy did not get off of work until 7:00 p.m. So she told him to get a hotel and ride the bus out the next day. I was fine with that. She called and we talked for about an hour about life. She finally hung up at about 11:00 p.m. our time so despite the fact that we thought we were going to bed early that did not happen. I enjoyed talking to her though so I am not complaining.
We went to sleep and then about 12:20 a.m. Maren called and was all upset because Nathan had called all of the brothers and sisters that were at her house for a get together trying to get someone to pick him up because he could not get a hotel and he was at the bus station where he had purchased a ticket. She felt awful because no one could work out anything for him and she wanted to know if she was bad for not going to get him. I told her that if he was in the bus station he would be okay and it might be good for him to learn the consequences of coming to Salt Lake for a surprise. I guess that I am hard hearted but he should have planned on someone to pick him up as it is not just a matter of driving your car to pick him up and he is pretty resilient, I knew he would be okay
So this morning I was a little tired but not like yesterday. I actually slept pretty good after Maren's call. We made it to the Office by 9:15 a.m. The Williamses were right behind us so we had devotional and then we left for the last zone training with Hill Country Zone at Bulverde.
They asked me to go first this time for some reason and so I thought I was doing well until I looked at the clock and I had taken 45 minutes. But Elder Presser adjusted and so it worked out okay but I felt bad. Again the IPad I was trying to use would not bring up the website that I needed to show them so I just had to verbally tell them what I was trying to help them find for information.
We picked up another car to bring back to the office and then we drove to the apartment to eat lunch. When we arrived at the office Sister Williams was in a panic because she had 3 sets of missionaries waiting to see Elder Presser and he was not answering his phone because he left it at the apartment. So he spent the next hour getting them in the cars they needed to be in. And he tried to get some more tiwis in the 103 heat today.
I worked on referrals, phone calls, IPad problems and putting away the Book of Mormon order that I got last week. It has just been in the middle of the floor in the Supply Room. We were hoping the cleaning lady will vacuum there if we moved it to the sides.
Driving to the temple I read Elder Presser an article by a Stephen Webb who is a teacher of philosophy and religion at Wabash College. It talks about how after he read the Book of Mormon he realized that the Mormons are more Christian than many of the Christians. It is titled Mormonism Obsessed with Christ. It is an interesting article.
We left about 4:45 p.m and went straight to the temple for the 6:30 p.m. session but I guess straight there is not so straight if you stop at McDonalds for dinner. Then we went to the temple. Sister Williams was there tonight too with some of her Seminary Students that she taught that are going on missions so it was good to see them and her. We had a good session.
We read scriptures on the way home and looked at some of the Bible Videos on lds.org on our phones. They are so good. We are learning so much about the New Testament right now and it is amazing all the good things that are there. We have used David Ridges commentary on the New Testament and the Institute manual of the Church It has been so helpful to understand the Cultural practices of that day that are tied to the comments in the Scriptures.
So now I am trying to update some of the blog but this is as far as it goes.
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