Dear Family,
Today has
been a nice Mother's Day with calls and remembrances from our family. We enjoyed hearing the primary children sing
in sacrament meeting and wished we could have seen some of our grandkids
singing to their mothers today. We
enjoyed the Tabernacle Choir broadcast today also -- we aren't usually here on
Sunday morning, but didn't start our meeting schedule until 11:30 am
today. Our week has been full and also
fun and it is hard to believe that we have completed two months of our mission
already! We look forward to another
adventurous week and hope we can help make a difference to someone
somewhere. We send our love to all of
you, Elder and Sister Hunt
Monday: We went with the Langkildes to Shiprock to
help Sisters Kesler and Patrick clean out their trailer – they are moving to
Farmington and a new senior couple will be moving into that trailer (which is
right behind the seminary building across from the high school). We pulled a trailer behind the Silverado and
pretty much filled it with boxes and trash – there was no place for the sisters
to get rid of it. After we got back we
picked up beds to take to the Crystal and Toadlena elders the next day.
Tuesday: We left Farmington about 8 am on a day trip
to scatter sunshine:
·
Took new beds to Elders Eging and Dean at
Toadlena. Toadlena is at the base of the
mountain and we missed the turn-off to their place and realized it as the road
began its incline. The elders’ trailer is by the church and we missed the
church because it is yellow and has a very small brown steeple which blends
into the tree next to it making it hard to see.
The chapel is just off the road so wasn’t hard to find once we realized
we had gone too far. We also took them
light bulbs for their ceiling fans in living room and bedroom (a different type
of bulb than most).
·
At
Crystal Elders Ford and Barron had pads on the floor so we helped them move in
bed frames and made some adjustments to get them up off the floor. We moved out their couch and moved in a desk
and chair for Elder Barron. We also
helped wash up dirty dishes, scrub their microwave, scrub their greasy stove,
scrub mold in the bathroom, and clean out their bathroom. We left the Crystal place BTIW!
·
Elders Harris and Buynak left us a key above the
door of their trailer next to the church in Tohatchi. While we were there, Virgil Tsosie came by
with a lady he wanted the elders to help, but she didn’t want to be
helped. They both had bloodshot eyes and
were “under the influence” of alcohol.
We did an inspection and left their place a little BTIW.
·
We hung a new mini-blind at Teec Nos Pos for
Elders Iversen and Thomson and checked out their bed situation. Their bed frames were in the church shed and
they didn’t have a key, so we weren’t able to help them get their beds up off
the floor. That is the place that had
bedbugs and we don’t want to have to burn more beds so were anxious to get
those frames in place! They promised they would take care of it the next day.
Wednesday: There wasn’t a lot going on at the office, so
after devotional we left to work on “fix-up” projects. We came back to our apt. and donned work
clothes and got to work. We went to the
AP house where Elder Hunt worked on broken chairs; I worked on rummaging
through the rummage sale items. We
painted a couple of chests of drawers that had lots of missionary graffiti on
them – they turned out better than we hoped for.
We came
back in time to change our duds again and head to Aztec. The Combs (the new couple in the mission
office) invited us to their setting apart for their calling. Their Bishop set them apart under the
direction of their Stake President. It
was a good experience to share that special time with them.
Thursday: I spent a couple of hours doing Indexing
while Elder Hunt filed and took care of inspection issues. In the afternoon we went with the Langkildes
to Shiprock to clean and furnish the trailer there. The new Sr. couple was supposed to move in on
Saturday. It was bedtime before we got
home so we just crashed.
Friday: I printed out the baptism report for the
month of April and checked it for accuracy against the original baptism reports
sent in by the missionaries. There are
always corrections that need to be made and called in to Salt Lake before the
report is finalized. Our mission had 67
baptisms during April.
After
lunch we changed into work duds again and got busy. I got out my Bernina and put a new zipper in
a couch cushion, made arm covers for a worn out couch, and took apart a chair
cushion for a reupholster job. Elder
Hunt worked on plugged vacuum cleaners and got a couple more running and has
two more that need new parts.
We went
to American Home Furniture and purchased my Mother’s Day gift -- the cute
little recliner that we picked out earlier in the week when we went to pick up
beds for our missionaries. After that we
went out to dinner at Olive Garden as our Mother’s Day celebration.
Saturday: We
slept in until 7:30 and it felt sooooo good!
It turned out to be a REAL P-Day for us:
laundry, cleaning, fixing, napping, mending, shopping
Sunday: Kirtland 1stWard Bishop Huffman invited us to
attend their Ward Council meeting a couple of weeks ago so today was the
day. We enjoyed being included in their
ward planning and look forward to meeting with them again.
We drove
back to Farmington to attend meetings in George’s ward as we knew that Lauana
would be there. It was a pretty tender
scene to see George greet his mother as she came in and give her a big
hug. She snuggled up to me during
sacrament meeting and hung on to me during most of the meeting. She got pretty agitated towards the end so we
offered to take her back to Beehive House so Joann could stay and attend
meetings with her family on Mother’s Day.
Lauana seemed to really enjoy having the Payne boys give her hugs.
Joanne
was looking forward to being able to SCIPE with their missionary son, David, in
the West Indies. I’m sure many missionary moms around the world have been
looking forward to this day. This
missionary mom has certainly appreciated the cards, calls, flowers, and
remembrances this weekend!
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