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......

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?

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.

Hot Missionaries

 Hermana Catfish played a smorgasbord of hymns this morning

while Hermana ReeKay was finishing getting ready for the day.  

 

 I love music, so this was a great treat for me!

 

 Hermana ReeKay finished all too soon.

I could have listened to the piano for hours.

 

 One of my aunts in Washington was baptized yesterday.

Our family made her cards. Since the Hermana's are

part of the family, I asked them to sign the card.

My aunt is 75 years old.  It is never too late to be baptized.

This was a red letter day for our family!

 

 The Sisters are headed out to the library.

Then they will go shopping.

The Sisters have been so hot lately that last week
Mike suggested they go to the grocery store
so they could talk to people where it is cool.
They went to a nearby Fiesta store,

which has a lot of Mexican food products and kind of caters

to Hispanic taste. While they walked along with food in their basket
they were approached by an undercover police officer
who told them they didn't allow missionary work
in the grocery store. They were asked to leave. Oh my.

I know other missionaries have done this in the past.

They didn't know it was against the store rules.
They left immediately.

 

 The Sisters will also go to the church to play volleyball and basketball.

P-day is their day off (until 5 p.m.)

....and they always, always make the best of it.

 

I asked them if they were embarrassed about being asked to

leave the grocery store. They said, no.

Such is the life of a "hot missionary."

(These pictures were all taken this morning) 

Your Delightful Daughters

 The weather was a little cooler for the Sisters

this week. They seemed a little more spirited.

 

 One night they stopped by Sonic on the way home.

Sister Cat Fish says they love Sonic in their family.

 

 Today they were given permission to do a batch

of Indexing for the big church-wide push to go over

the current record. The church is hoping to top 50,000

indexers submitting in a 24 hour period.

 

Apparently all 50,000 people are attempting to submit

their batches at once. The Sisters were unable to even

pull up a batch to index, but they had fun waiting.... 

 

 We took a few pictures.

 

They were in a crazy mood!

I hope you enjoyed seeing your daughters.

They are delightful!



Obstacles

 

 The Hermanas have been having a lot of obstacles lately.

Tonight, it was rain.  A random storm popped up

about 10 minutes before they came in for the night.

They were drenched to the gills!

 

They are having exchanges today, so Sister Catfish is in another area.

She will return tomorrow. I'm sorry that I have not posted in the past

two weeks. One of my daughters had a baby on July 2 and I have

been doing Grandma Duty, helping her during the day.  I have been

home at night, but the Sisters have not been very talkative. It has been hot

and they are tired and ready to plan, so they head straight to their room.

They have had to knock on a lot of doors lately

and have not taught as many lessons as they would like.

Being a missionary is not a cushy job.