Epilogue

Epilogue

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Another New Missionary!

Hermana Waltee arrived on August 19.
She is a brand new missionary!
She is the 5th brand new missionary that has lived in our home
in the two years that we have housed the missionaries.
In all, we have had 17 different missionaries living with us thus far.
 
I always ask the Sisters to write in my Missionary Log
when they arrive, so I will know a little bit about them.
She wrote that she is from Utah and that she loves to play sports...
especially volleyball and basketball.
She says she likes working hard.
One thing I know for sure....
during the next 18 months she will work hard!
 
She went to a year of school at Utah State University
before her mission.
She wants to go into nursing.

 It has been very hot ever since she arrived.
One evening at 6:00 p.m. they stopped by the house.
I took their picture outside so you could see
it was still 100 degrees.
Evenings do not cool off very much here.
It has been a mild summer,
but it is an adjustment for the new missionaries.
 
Hermana Waltee is a nickname.
She has only been here for 6 days, but she told me
that she already realizes it is better to be cool
than to be cute in Texas.
I can see she is smart!
 
Hermana Cat Fish is training Hermana Waltee.
Amongst the Sister missionaries they call themselves
the mother and the daughter.
I think that is funny.
 
 These Sisters both like to make silly faces
for the camera, so get ready....
 
 I think they will have a great time together.
They have already found some new people to teach.

 They have just the right combination
 
 of enthusiasm for the gospel
 
and energy!

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Transfer Call Day

 Our quiet Sister ReeKay went to the University of Houston before
coming on her mission. I know she must have been very successful
because I caught her reading the DICTIONARY at the kitchen table
this morning!
 
 She has been practicing the simplified hymns frequently.
 She is getting quite good. 
 
 Hermana Catfish is helping Hermana ReeKay
with her piano lessons.
 
The Sisters have been very excited about today...
Transfer Call Day! Sister Catfish had a big idea about
who would be transferred where and which missionaries would stay put.
They sat my camera on the table and took this cute picture.
They set out with high hopes for a good day!
When they came in for the night Mike and I were reading
our scriptures. They told us they would come out into the
living room so we could know who was going and who
was coming, etc. ....  We heard squeals from the bedroom.
We knew the call had come.  Quickly they rushed out....
 
 They had the phone on speaker-phone....
They found out that Sister ReeKay is being transferred....
 
 to the city that Sister Catfish had thought.
 
 But her plan was not completely right about herself.
She found out she will be TRAINING a brand new missionary!
 
 She was so surprised!!
 
 And somewhat overwhelmed.....
 
She is a bit worried about being a trainer....
But she is a perfect missionary and I know she will
be a wonderful trainer!
The revolving door is beginning to turn once again......

Thursday, August 14, 2014

New to Me

Normal activities of Hermanas?
This is new to me~~
at 9:45 p.m. Hermana ReeKay walks through the living room
holding a tissue over her mouth.
I am reading a book with my glasses off ....
I have to put my glasses on to see ...
Hermana Catfish walks out looking like she has a
white moustache.  I ask them what they are doing.
"We have Nair on our upper lip," they report.
They say they remove hair that way.
"Well, that is blog worthy," I reply.
"You can Blog it, we don't care," says Sister Catfish.
OK. Here you go.
The secret to missionary work?
Who would have ever known?

Saturday, August 9, 2014

Family Reunion!

Hermana M (from Arizona) returned to her first
"Missionary Home" this afternoon at 4 p.m.!!!
She came to pick up Hermanas Catfish and ReeKay to
take them to a baptism of a family that
Hermana M and Hermana Catfish found when they were
companions together.
Hermana M has only NINE days left on her mission!
She was as beautiful and bubbly as ever.
It was so wonderful to see her once again.
During the past 18 months all three of these Hermanas
have been companions at one point or another.

 I don't know if she noticed or not, but her picture
was still on the family wall, right where she left it
in June 2013.  

Last Week

Last Sunday afternoon Mike and I were doing a jigsaw puzzle
that we started with our grandkids, but did not finish.
 
The Hermana's came home for dinner for about an hour.
After they ate, they came in to see how we were doing.
They put some pieces together for us. 
 
 
 We found out that they were experts at jigsaw puzzles!
The above picture was taken at dinner time.
 
When they came back home around 9:30 p.m.
they found us still working on the puzzle. When they were finished
with their work for the day, they came in to see if they could help us.
The Hermana's were really much faster at
finding correct combinations of puzzle pieces then we were.
Their hands moved like lightning!  
 
 The next day (on P-day) they finished it up!
 
 They enjoyed their work!
 
 The puzzle is still setting on the table a week later.
 
I caught Hermana ReeKay studying while eating breakfast
one morning, so I snapped her picture.
The Hermana's are working hard!
They are knocking on a lot of doors in this 100 degree heat.