Dear Family,
Wow, one week of March already gone and we are about worn out. We spent this last week cleaning, packing and moving to another apartment in order to get this apartment ready for our replacements. They will arrive tomorrow. Let me not get ahead of myself and go back to get the rest of the week detailed.
Monday was the beginning of the week that we finally had to think about getting ready to go home. We can’t ignore it any longer. Our replacements will be here March 9, so the apartment has to be ready for them. At the office I started to get my 2016 documents shredded and my 2019 documents boxed up. I wanted to wait until after the audit to move the 2019 documents because leaving them in the file would make it so much easier to get to them for the auditor. Now that the audit is over, I can get the files ready for the new person. Garn went to help David move to his new apartment. The new apartment he moved into is still in the ward that he has been attending which is really good. That ward has been so good to reach out to him and welcome him in.
When we got home from the office we ate a quick dinner and then got started on the cleaning and packing. I was able to get all of the drawers wiped down and went through them to make sure that we got the things that were ours out so we wouldn’t leave them. I even got the oven cleaned. We crawled into bed at 10:30 and started to have very vivid memories of cleaning out our home in Santa Clara when we were getting ready to come on a mission.
Tuesday was another day of shredding, trying to get a few vendors approved, and the usual bills. And another day of cleaning at the apartment. We hadn’t been too concerned with this move because everything we had had fit into our car when we came and we have bought VERY little while we have been here. With the exception of 2-3 three books, there should have been just the same amount of stuff. We will see—it seems like so much more.
Wednesday we took a load to the new apartment before going to the office. The apartment we are going into still had a little of the “lived in look” and either it was older and couldn’t get things really clean or the people there before us ran out of time. We went back to the office and Garn got ready to go deliver mail and go to a district conference where he did his presentation on getting the conversion stories written and sent into the office. I stayed at the office to get things done, but was tired enough that I didn’t get as much done as I would have liked. By the time we got home that evening I was feeling better for which I was grateful because I was able to get some more cleaning done and a little packing.
Thursday was a 2 district meetings for Garn and I stayed to hold down the fort at the office. Most everyone else was out doing things away from the office, so I got to answer Garn’s phone and take care of my things. We are getting closer to getting things done, but it will be nice when I don’t have to work all day at the office and then come home and clean all night. I’m getting too old for all this.
Friday Garn helped me get all of the 2018 documents that I had found into the 2018 boxes and then one of the senior sisters in the office didn’t have anything to do, so asked if she could help get the 2019 stuff filed. I was so grateful for her help and then we found old leases and utility bills in another file that should have been in storage boxes and some of them shredded. She and the housing secretary helped to get that taken care of. Hopefully things will be better organized for the new finance secretary.
Tonight we were down to the last of the cleaning except for the floors that needed to be done last. One of the things that I cleaned was the stainless steel refrigerator. Sadly the more I cleaned the worse it looked. I used windex, spray way cleaner, warm soapy water. It still looked bad. The inside looked great though. The apartment, however, is beginning to look like we might make it out by Saturday evening. It is the cleaning, not the packing, that has been the hard part. We went to bed very tired again.
Saturday morning dawned bright (?) and early. We got up and began working. We knew that we didn’t have the stamina to work 10 straight hours, so we worked until 11:30 and stopped to get ready for a baptism and went. It was such a nice baptism and fun for us to realize that we had met him at a previous baptism that he had come to to observe. While at the baptism, I was asking Sister Caplin if she knew of a good way to clean stainless steel. She didn’t, but said her daughter had a stainless steel refrigerator. She texted her daughter and asked what she used. We bought one of the suggestions and wow. It was like magic. Now I can leave feeling good about how it looks.
Garn worked on his class for “inviting” and I finished up the dusting and polishing of the furniture and mopping the floors. About 10:30 we packed up one more load and left for the new apartment. We had to unload the stuff and this apartment is a lot further from the parking lot than our old apartment. How grateful I am that we had our original apartment. We got into the apartment and unpacked our clothes so we could find something to wear in time for church (daylight savings time) and a few other items we needed to get ready in the morning. We got the bed made up and dropped into bed. Since we don’t have any internet in the new apartment, so will go back to the old apartment and do our letters.
Sunday was another early day because of daylight savings time, but we did make it to church on time and it was good. We really do like this ward. Relief Society was taught by the bishop’s wife and she did a wonderful job. She is one of those people who does everything well, especially doing what the prophet asks to do.
We came home and took a nap and then got up and had lunch. Just as we sat down to eat Garn got a call on his phone from one of the senior couples asking if they come by and get something to eat. They are the ones moving in here after we leave. They had left their home early this morning and had been in meetings all morning and had more meetings to go to. They were starving and couldn’t get back home to eat. I was so pleased that they would stop by and let us help.
We then went to the old apartment to throw out the garbage and write our letters. Then we went to dinner with the family that has fed us every month for the entire time we have been here. Good people here!
We love you lots. Sorry that I am a little less than coherent this week, but hopefully I’ll get better this upcoming week.
Love,
Mom
Wow, one week of March already gone and we are about worn out. We spent this last week cleaning, packing and moving to another apartment in order to get this apartment ready for our replacements. They will arrive tomorrow. Let me not get ahead of myself and go back to get the rest of the week detailed.
Monday was the beginning of the week that we finally had to think about getting ready to go home. We can’t ignore it any longer. Our replacements will be here March 9, so the apartment has to be ready for them. At the office I started to get my 2016 documents shredded and my 2019 documents boxed up. I wanted to wait until after the audit to move the 2019 documents because leaving them in the file would make it so much easier to get to them for the auditor. Now that the audit is over, I can get the files ready for the new person. Garn went to help David move to his new apartment. The new apartment he moved into is still in the ward that he has been attending which is really good. That ward has been so good to reach out to him and welcome him in.
When we got home from the office we ate a quick dinner and then got started on the cleaning and packing. I was able to get all of the drawers wiped down and went through them to make sure that we got the things that were ours out so we wouldn’t leave them. I even got the oven cleaned. We crawled into bed at 10:30 and started to have very vivid memories of cleaning out our home in Santa Clara when we were getting ready to come on a mission.
Tuesday was another day of shredding, trying to get a few vendors approved, and the usual bills. And another day of cleaning at the apartment. We hadn’t been too concerned with this move because everything we had had fit into our car when we came and we have bought VERY little while we have been here. With the exception of 2-3 three books, there should have been just the same amount of stuff. We will see—it seems like so much more.
Wednesday we took a load to the new apartment before going to the office. The apartment we are going into still had a little of the “lived in look” and either it was older and couldn’t get things really clean or the people there before us ran out of time. We went back to the office and Garn got ready to go deliver mail and go to a district conference where he did his presentation on getting the conversion stories written and sent into the office. I stayed at the office to get things done, but was tired enough that I didn’t get as much done as I would have liked. By the time we got home that evening I was feeling better for which I was grateful because I was able to get some more cleaning done and a little packing.
Thursday was a 2 district meetings for Garn and I stayed to hold down the fort at the office. Most everyone else was out doing things away from the office, so I got to answer Garn’s phone and take care of my things. We are getting closer to getting things done, but it will be nice when I don’t have to work all day at the office and then come home and clean all night. I’m getting too old for all this.
Friday Garn helped me get all of the 2018 documents that I had found into the 2018 boxes and then one of the senior sisters in the office didn’t have anything to do, so asked if she could help get the 2019 stuff filed. I was so grateful for her help and then we found old leases and utility bills in another file that should have been in storage boxes and some of them shredded. She and the housing secretary helped to get that taken care of. Hopefully things will be better organized for the new finance secretary.
Tonight we were down to the last of the cleaning except for the floors that needed to be done last. One of the things that I cleaned was the stainless steel refrigerator. Sadly the more I cleaned the worse it looked. I used windex, spray way cleaner, warm soapy water. It still looked bad. The inside looked great though. The apartment, however, is beginning to look like we might make it out by Saturday evening. It is the cleaning, not the packing, that has been the hard part. We went to bed very tired again.
Saturday morning dawned bright (?) and early. We got up and began working. We knew that we didn’t have the stamina to work 10 straight hours, so we worked until 11:30 and stopped to get ready for a baptism and went. It was such a nice baptism and fun for us to realize that we had met him at a previous baptism that he had come to to observe. While at the baptism, I was asking Sister Caplin if she knew of a good way to clean stainless steel. She didn’t, but said her daughter had a stainless steel refrigerator. She texted her daughter and asked what she used. We bought one of the suggestions and wow. It was like magic. Now I can leave feeling good about how it looks.
Garn worked on his class for “inviting” and I finished up the dusting and polishing of the furniture and mopping the floors. About 10:30 we packed up one more load and left for the new apartment. We had to unload the stuff and this apartment is a lot further from the parking lot than our old apartment. How grateful I am that we had our original apartment. We got into the apartment and unpacked our clothes so we could find something to wear in time for church (daylight savings time) and a few other items we needed to get ready in the morning. We got the bed made up and dropped into bed. Since we don’t have any internet in the new apartment, so will go back to the old apartment and do our letters.
Sunday was another early day because of daylight savings time, but we did make it to church on time and it was good. We really do like this ward. Relief Society was taught by the bishop’s wife and she did a wonderful job. She is one of those people who does everything well, especially doing what the prophet asks to do.
We came home and took a nap and then got up and had lunch. Just as we sat down to eat Garn got a call on his phone from one of the senior couples asking if they come by and get something to eat. They are the ones moving in here after we leave. They had left their home early this morning and had been in meetings all morning and had more meetings to go to. They were starving and couldn’t get back home to eat. I was so pleased that they would stop by and let us help.
We then went to the old apartment to throw out the garbage and write our letters. Then we went to dinner with the family that has fed us every month for the entire time we have been here. Good people here!
We love you lots. Sorry that I am a little less than coherent this week, but hopefully I’ll get better this upcoming week.
Love,
Mom
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