Friday was the first day we got to work on next week’s transfer. This was possible because the assistants left us a transfer schedule so we spent the afternoon working on the things we need to do. I moved the missionaries around on the transfer board in the Church system while Mary got busy working on updating their mission assignment cards. Of course nothing can be completed until President Anderson interviews all the new missionaries and assigns them to their trainers. Those who will train have already been selected as well as where they will be serving but the spirit tells the president who should train who. Getting the correct trainer is probably one of the most important part of a mission. 

I had a number of interesting calls today. The first was a sister from Hawaii who planned to move to Florida and wanted to know about Weston and Pembroke Pines as places to live. We had a nice conversation about Florida, the areas she was interested, etc. I assured her that while it was not Hawaii, she was going to love living here.

The second call came from a mother of one of our missionaries. She was checking to see if a package she sent for her missionary’s birthday would get delivered in time. We talked for quite a while about the mission, birthdays, etc. I checked and found that the package had arrived and then arranged for it to be delivered as a birthday surprise early on Monday.

 

On Friday I took this picture of Mary looking at this blog to see what I had written. If I make small mistakes she just lets them slide but if I really blow something she will tell me.

Saturday is our P-day and after doing some of the house tasks, we drove down to the used bookstore in Davies to restock our reading material. On the way from there to one of the missionary apartments, we stopped at this little sub shop on Davie boulevard. I talked to the man who was working there and found out the shop had been there for 35 years! It is very small, the food was only OK and rather expensive for the area. As much as I like to help small businesses, I doubt if we will stop there again.

After lunch we went to the Grove East apartments to drop off a package for one of the missionaries who really wanted it Saturday instead of Sunday. We try hard to do what we can for the missionaries and it not much out of our way so we were happy to help.

  

Sunday morning we are called on by the missionaries to pick up some of their investigators. While waiting at one home for our passengers to get ready – 8:00 am comes early for some folks – we noticed that a number of large birds were circling over head so I snapped this picture. We drove two young men to church who get up at 4:00 am each school morning so they can be ready for the bus to pick them up and take then down to the Hollywood area for school! They go to bed at 8:00 on school nights. I could understand why they wanted to sleep in on Sunday.

The other family we helped bring to church was one that we had picked up before. Jean is really excited about the gospel and attended last week. He also attended the first Bible study class on last Wednesday night and loved it. I caught him here with his 3 month old nephew. Brother Beille – the one in the back with the big smile – is the assistant ward mission leader and is very committed to missionary work. He was baptized 2 years ago and often seems to date his life from his baptism date.