We called the mission office and asked to talk to the President. He was in a Zone Conference but sister Steimle, who is a senior missionary working in the office, was very happy to hear that we had been called. She said three couples were going home and they had not heard about any being called to replace them.

We talked to her about our other missions, asked questions about where we would live, and other things. Mary told her that she had some high school Spanish and was going to take some tutoring. Sister Steimle said that many of the phone calls were from Spanish speakers and she was the only one in the office that spoke any Spanish. She called her language skill as ‘fractured Spanish.’

We are hoping that the mission president will call us back tonight or tomorrow so we can ask him some questions and have him get acquainted with us and our skills. It is up to him where we actually will serve.

On another note, after 2 1/2 months we finally once again have countertops and hopefully later today we the plumber and electrician will be here to hook up the sink, the cooktop, the dishwasher and the water supply to the refrigerator. We will probably have one month to enjoy our redone kitchen before we leave it for 18 months.