Saturday, January 26, 2013
It's Us!!!
Well, we can forget the "regular" blogging, obviously. It's not going to happen! It looks like my last one was in September. Would you believe that we are busy??? We actually really are. We continue to enjoy this mission as we approach our 8-months-out mark. The time is flying by!
In our mission we are seeing the flood of new younger missionaries. Where we usually receive 8 - 10 new missionaries at transfer time, in February we are receiving 23!!!!! Sister Shumway, the missionary over housing, is going crazy now trying to find 10 new apartments and purchase the furnishings and move into these apartments over the next couple of weeks. Also, we have been told from Salt Lake to not expect any more cars until at least May. That poses a real problem in Wisconsin during this time of the year. With our winters, bikes and walking aren't too good of options and there aren't many areas that have public transportation. All in all though, it is a very exciting time to be serving a mission in the office. I really NEVER go home at night with all of my work caught up.
Christmas was very no-stress this past year. We missed our family dearly but it was nice to not do the shopping thing......making a list and checking it not twice in my case, but usually about 50 times! Elder Smart and I went to our son Jeff's to spend a few days at Christmas time. We had a fun experience on Christmas morning with our darling 4-year-old grandson, Michael. It was about 6:30 a.m. and Mikey was opening his presents when he looked at us and stated "Grandma and Grandpa, you don't have your missionary name tags on!" Good grief........we were in our jammies! Well, we went and got our tags on because we wanted to be obedient missionaries!!
Another funny incident was a week ago when Elder Smart went to the doctor. He had removed his suit coat with his nametag on when the doctor came in the room but I still had my nametag showing. The doctor came in the room, said "hi" to Wayne and then looked at me and said, "Hi Sister, you must be a nun!" I guess we do things differently in our church, we nuns can be married!
When we were coming out here and knew we'd be office staff missionaries, I told my daughter Kelly, who had graduated from Utah State University in something to do with computers, that she really needed to move out with me. She said, "mom, just ask the missionaries for help". Well, I can't count the times that I've done just that. Something kind of interesting, our new Assistant to the President (they come into the office every day) is Elder Bradley Johnson, our friend Betty Jean Mumford's nephew. Our missionaries are the best, and we simply LOVE serving with them.
The weather here has not been too bad regarding snowfall, but then there is the COLD!!! I thought I knew what cold was, being from Idaho. I didn't! This is humid cold and it is just......HORRIBLY COLD! However, the way time is flying spring should be here soon!!!
I'm going to try to post a couple of photos. One is of E & S Smart (us) in front of the Mission Home Christmas tree which we cut and pasted and added information on about 200 cards of our 2012 mission baptisms. The other is me with a Wisconsin cheesehead......pretty dorky, huh? Take care.......I hope to blog again a little sooner next time.
In our mission we are seeing the flood of new younger missionaries. Where we usually receive 8 - 10 new missionaries at transfer time, in February we are receiving 23!!!!! Sister Shumway, the missionary over housing, is going crazy now trying to find 10 new apartments and purchase the furnishings and move into these apartments over the next couple of weeks. Also, we have been told from Salt Lake to not expect any more cars until at least May. That poses a real problem in Wisconsin during this time of the year. With our winters, bikes and walking aren't too good of options and there aren't many areas that have public transportation. All in all though, it is a very exciting time to be serving a mission in the office. I really NEVER go home at night with all of my work caught up.
Christmas was very no-stress this past year. We missed our family dearly but it was nice to not do the shopping thing......making a list and checking it not twice in my case, but usually about 50 times! Elder Smart and I went to our son Jeff's to spend a few days at Christmas time. We had a fun experience on Christmas morning with our darling 4-year-old grandson, Michael. It was about 6:30 a.m. and Mikey was opening his presents when he looked at us and stated "Grandma and Grandpa, you don't have your missionary name tags on!" Good grief........we were in our jammies! Well, we went and got our tags on because we wanted to be obedient missionaries!!
Another funny incident was a week ago when Elder Smart went to the doctor. He had removed his suit coat with his nametag on when the doctor came in the room but I still had my nametag showing. The doctor came in the room, said "hi" to Wayne and then looked at me and said, "Hi Sister, you must be a nun!" I guess we do things differently in our church, we nuns can be married!
When we were coming out here and knew we'd be office staff missionaries, I told my daughter Kelly, who had graduated from Utah State University in something to do with computers, that she really needed to move out with me. She said, "mom, just ask the missionaries for help". Well, I can't count the times that I've done just that. Something kind of interesting, our new Assistant to the President (they come into the office every day) is Elder Bradley Johnson, our friend Betty Jean Mumford's nephew. Our missionaries are the best, and we simply LOVE serving with them.
The weather here has not been too bad regarding snowfall, but then there is the COLD!!! I thought I knew what cold was, being from Idaho. I didn't! This is humid cold and it is just......HORRIBLY COLD! However, the way time is flying spring should be here soon!!!
I'm going to try to post a couple of photos. One is of E & S Smart (us) in front of the Mission Home Christmas tree which we cut and pasted and added information on about 200 cards of our 2012 mission baptisms. The other is me with a Wisconsin cheesehead......pretty dorky, huh? Take care.......I hope to blog again a little sooner next time.
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