August 26th and 27th

August 26^th, Wednesday, we worked in the office training the Spencers.  I really like Sister Spencer and we always have a good time talking about our lives together.  She is a quick learner so she would go to typing in Baptisms when I wasn’t around to help.  I seldom have to go over something twice.  She seems to be a very smart person and to grasp concepts quickly.

Elder Tufts and Elder Evans

Elder Evans had told me that they took a picture of him and Elder Tufts together when they got to the border and so he sent me one by email.  I am posting it here so you can see how much they look alike.  When Elder Evans’s papers came Elder Tuft had just gone home and we all said, “That looks like Elder Tuft.”

We took David and Maggie out to dinner with us for one last time.  If you remember we took Sammy and Issac out by themselves a few weeks ago so we still owed David and Maggie a dinner.  We went to McDonalds because we were short on money and at least Maggie likes McDonald’s.  We had a good time with them and then we took them home and took Nathan a hamburger from McDonalds after taking them to dinner.

We let Nathan know that we had decided to go home early because of my Mother’s 88^th birthday party.  He was worried that the U-Haul that he had ordered would charge him twice but we assured him that we would make sure that they didn’t.  He had agreed to pay for our car to be wired for towing and for a U-Haul to get the things to Utah that he wanted to give to his brothers and Sisters there.

Missionaries at the Dilly Texas facility

August 27^th was Thursday.  There was a lady that called during the week that is a chaplain at a facility in Dilly, Texas for women that are picked up as illegal aliens from other countries.  They are charged with helping these people to assimilate into the United State and she wanted us to give her some LDS materials that they could read in Spanish that the people could read.  I was a little reluctant because I didn’t know what she was trying to do but she called and Sister Ferguson answered the phone and she was convinced that we needed to help this lady.  So I told her that we could give her several things and that we could send missionaries out to her if that was convenient.  We called the missionaries and they took her a box of Book of Mormons and some other supplies that we got to them and then they went to find out what they had to do to be able to teach those who wanted to learn there.  The picture is one that she took of the Elders that day.  Today she came to pick up more supplies and we were able to give her a number of things that had been sent back to the office as used but still good that the missionaries did not want besides the things like Book of Mormons .  She sounded like she was converted to the church even though she is Catholic and Sister Ferguson agreed to take her on a tour outside the temple.

Isaac, Nathan, David, Sammy and Maggie at his apartment

Nathan asked me to pick up the kids and take them to his apartment for his Thursday.  He is still quite sick.  We picked the kids up and then went to the Pizza place to get a pizza and went to HEB to get some olives he wanted for Isaac and something to drink.  We had a fun night eating pizza and talking and watching movies before the kids had to go home.  I am glad that I could be here to help him this week when he is so sick.  I really worry about how he is going to survive after we leave but I just have to put my faith in Heavenly Father and his promises to me that Nathan will be okay.

August 25th

August 25^th was Tuesday.  We worked at the office again helping the Spencers to learn the jobs that we have been doing.  We were alone for a while because Sister Williams and Sister Ferguson went to the MLC to feed the missionaries at noon.

There was one sad note at Senior the dinner.  Sister Studevant fell off the edge of the curb going out and broke her wrist. She was brave and acted like nothing had happened but then they went to the emergency room and found out it was broken. We found out about it when we read our email this morning.  We were so sad about this as she has been such a stalwart in the mission and helped us a lot with Nathan and is a good friend.

We offered to take the boys to scouts but Sara did not respond.  Nathan texted us and wanted Panda because he thought that we were coming for the boys so we took it to him.  He seemed to be softening about letting us help him as we get ready to leave I think not feeling well made it so he lost that animosity and just wanted help.  He also wanted us to take some stuff to his brothers and sisters.  Heavenly Father has let me know that he was angry because of the stroke and so I have mellowed also and told him that.

Nathan had asked me if I could fix his favorite pants but I could not because the machine would not work so I took them to a seamstress that works by our mission and told her that I needed them by Friday.