Monday, January 29, 2018
We didn’t have our weekly office meeting as the President
was touring with the missionaries that are going home this week. We spent most
of the day at home. We did make a trip to the bank, store and distribution
center.
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
We had 14 new missionaries come in last night and today. We
were supposed to have one more, but she got held up with a visa problem. We are not
sure when she will come. There were 5 English speakers, 4 sisters and 1 Elder.
One was from Australia. The rest are Latinos from Guatemala, Honduras and Salvador.
We held our last new missionary training. We started the day
talking briefly to the trainers, emphasizing the need to set the example and
help them learn and follow good principles of health. Since we began talking to the trainers, we have not had as many
new missionaries get sick with preventable illnesses, especially stomach
problems.
We then taught the 10 commandments of health to the new missionaries and Sister Bell
had a private conversation with each one to discuss any health issues. We made
a run to a local pharmacy to get medicine for one of them and gave medicine
from Sister Bells med box to another. It was a full day.
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
I started by getting a new bed from Villa Venezuela
(Sisters) and taking it to Los Laureles (also sisters). I installed new smoke
detectors in each apartment. Sister Bell stayed home and did the wash.
After lunch I paid our rent and stopped at Pricesmart. I
updated my housing inventory spreadsheet today and a few other misc. things.
All in all it was a light day. Sister Bell talked to several missionaries and then updated emed.
Our neighbor got home from the hospital today. She had surgery. Sister Bell made Chicken Noodle soup and we took it
over to her. A little bit of neighboring kindness.
Thursday, February 1, 2018
I took the car in for service this morning. Then we went
with the Helbergs to Huembas and spent several hours shopping for gifts for the
grandkids…. Sorry sons, daughters, sons-in-law and daughters-in-law… only the
grandkids get gifts.
We then went to a Brazilian steak house, similar to Rodizio
Grill in the states. But here you pay by the pound. It was very good,
especially the pineapple and mint juice. The Helbergs then took us back to the
dealer to get our car and we came home. It was a nice day out.
Friday, February 2, 2018
I started about 7am, (leaving Sister Bell at home to do wash) to visit 5 missionary apartments. Mostly to replace smoke alarms. We have about
20+ missionary apartments without smoke alarms. We find that they go off
frequently without cause, so the missionaries deactivate them. Therefore, we
are having to replace them regularly. Most of the apartment are small, dark and
frequently will be dusty or the fumigators will fumigate and the smoke alarm
thinks it is smoke. My first stop was to the Sister Leaders house. I needed to pick
up a table, used clothes (the sister missionaries who are going home usually leave a lot of their clothes. We pick it up, sort it and take it to our little groups and branches for those who are going to the temple and need
modest clothes) and a DVD player that doesn’t work.
I then went to Bello Horizante. I didn’t know where their
new apartment was located, so I met them at McDonalds. They (H. Orellana y
Lopez) hadn’t eaten yet so I treated them to breakfast, then we went to their
house. I was going next to the La Catorce but when I called them, they were
already gone. I called Elder Baxter in Villa Flor but they too was gone. Finally,
I got Elders Arias and Bashore home in Reparto Shick, so I went there and
installed a new smoke alarm.
I went home, picked up Sister Bell and we went to the
office. The leader counsel was going on and we wanted to touch base with the
zone leaders during their lunch. I had asked them to bring me surplus DVD
players. I got two. We have 23 trainers that need DVD players. The zones only have 17 DVD
players that work. So we are needing at least 6 more DVD players. I scrounged 7 extra DVD players and 6 chargers. But as I worked on them, I found that only two of the chargers worked and three of
the players worked. We can’t buy DVD players in the country. No one carries DVD players because it is old
technology.
Saturday, February 3, 2018
We bought donuts and gave them to the gasoline attendants in
Sebaco. We also gave one of them a Book of Mormon with my testimony written in it. He
accepted it with a big smile on his face. He helps us almost every time we stop there, which is several times a week when we drive north.
We stopped in Trinidad so that Sister Bell could give a piano lesson to Maria Clara. Then
we installed a smoke alarm in El Centrol in Esteli. Afterward, we took a table
and broom to Elder Simpson in Rosario. We taught Freddy and Virginia more about the temple in Condega. We showed a short video about the temple and answered several of the
questions. We taught about doing work for those who have died, why we do it. We
taught from D&C 138 about how the Savior organized a missionary force in
the spirit world, while we do ordinance work in temples. Next lesson we will help them begin to gather family history information to take to the temple in April.
Sunday, February 4, 2018
We visited Pueblo Nuevo this morning. Hilario conducted. He
had been called as an assistant group leader. This was the first time to
conduct and he did very well. He is very soft spoken, so it was a little hard to
hear him, but since I was on the front row, I could tell he was doing fine.
Elder Davidson was sitting next to him and helping him.
Hilario
Javier blessed the Sacrament again today and Jose passed. We
gave coloring books and crayons to the primary. The had two boys today, Areyls
two sons. They began immediately coloring. Areyls is the primary teacher and
gave a good lesson. Sister Bell went in to help with the music. So, they sang
a couple of songs.
Elder Davidson is calling Javier to teach the Priesthood
lesson. Hilario was the Priesthood instructor before his new calling. Things
are progressing in Pueblo Nuevo.
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