Kay and I had the missionaries over this week (our social life). they texted me a few hours before to see if they could bring an extra missionary to dinner. It was the Mission President. so we had them over to our Storage unit/house. I had a hard time finding drinking glasses for everyone. Not one matched. I made soup bowls the day before and vegetable chowder and Kay decided to rotisserie 2 chickens so they were fed pretty well. We went out for “team-ups”. The two district leaders went with the mission President and we went with Elder Savage. We first visited the neighbors who are just coming out more to church and surprise surprise we went to visit one of my ladies I was assigned to visit teach. Shayla has been inactive for quite some time but when she asked “who is it” and heard “missionaries” she got herself together and answered the door. I chatted her up finding she was married to a Muslim who is at Oxford University in Medical school and they have one daughter together and she has two older kids. Humm Shayla is living in North Omaha in an old house with her grandma. go figure.
Thursday his renter from Denver said his furnace went out so Kay authorized a service company to go over who called to say to replace a motor it would be $800. The next morning we were off with a furnace in the truck driving to Denver. We drove 8 hours, picked up some car parts, installed a new furnace (my job was to keep Kay company) in the crawl space under the house with the spiders and dirt/sand floor. I could stand up if I made sure there were no pipes above my head. Kay made me a nice chair on a overturned 5 gallon bucket with a cinderblock on it.
Oh, I was at church and one of the bishopric members asked to speak to me. he tried to talk to me last week but we ran out right after church. last week they had a Relief society calling but they changed it this week to counselor in the Primary. I asked if I could observe this week and they said yes and did I want to do music time in a few minutes so… I did music time, for my first time ever. New things happening all the time.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
new adventure
I am on my new adventure. Kay and I are living in Omaha Nebraska for a few months in his low income apartments. I have people living in my home in Utah taking care of things there. I had my phone number transfered so if you need to call, use my Utah home phone number.
We drove out to Omaha mid January just in time to go to Ethan's baptism. Ethan is my oldest (8years old) grandson. My parents, who are serving an LDS mission in the ManhattanTemple had a break so they flew out to Omaha for the occasion. We put them up in our apartment the first night, showed them some Mormon history sites in the area and went to Ethan's basketball game.
the baptism was at 4PM at their church. grandpas gave talks, I lead the music and the other two grandmas said the prayers. It was nice.
the weather started getting bad as we were leaving the baptism so we decided to stay overnight on Saturday night at Rachael's (30 min away). the other two grandparents had the bedrooms so Kay and I slept on a mattress in the partially finished basement where the 3 older kids were sleeping. They were all ready asleep. We ended up staying on. Church was canceled but one ward had a late sacrament meeting we attended.
Monday My parents, Rachael's 4 kids and I went to the zoo. Rachael stayed home with the baby. Omaha has a great Zoo! Dad and I went and talked to the internship people about Janell and her application. We went out to dinner at Olive Garden with the whole family that evening and Kay and I finally left Rachael's on Tuesday when I took my parents to the airport. It was fun having them here to see where we live and what Kay is doing here.
Where do I live? In North Omaha in a 3 bedroom apartment with 2 of the bedrooms being used for storage and 1/3 of the living room being used as an office/storage/tool shed. it used to be 2/3 but I have been working on that. We have old tiled flooring which is why I let Kay weld his snow plow blade he keeps on his 4wd truck in the living room. Sparks flew everywhere and except for catching a towel on fire, It worked.
No live mice this trip. I guess the 30 blocks of poison and traps I put out in November finally scared them off!
Sunday we had normal church. the missionaries passed out their dinner schedule. I signed up for 2 dinner appointments and noticed they were free Wednesday. I was busy but my week changed.
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday were snow emergency days. It snowed and the wind blew and the schools were closed. Windchill was -25 so I took the advice of the news and stayed home. Monday I made a huge batch of cookie dough. Tuesday I looked at my food supply and decided I have everything to make lasagna except the noodles so I found a recipe using uncooked noodles and used spaghetti. It made a lot. Kay said it was OK but didn't want to eat 12 servings so whatahyagonna do?
I called the missionaries. they still didn't have an appointment and were excited to come soooooo, I made 2 loaves of french bread, got out some shrimp and some vegetables. It was a success. 3 missionaries polished off the lasagna, loved the shrimp and gobbled up the homemade bread. I sent home the leftovers with them. My friend made an easy dessert so I decided to try it. I used small corelle bowls but you are supposed to use raimken bowls. Mine worked great.
recipe:
cookie batter to equal 2 cookies (the size of 2 walnuts)
press in the bottom of a small bowl
bake in oven until barely krisped on the edges and soft in the middle, about 10 min @ 350 degrees
remove from oven, let cool 10 min.
when ready to serve, scoop some vanilla ice cream in the center and serve! yummy
After dinner Kay and I went to an appointment with the missionaries but we were stood up. We'll try again some other time. I guess the temperature will be up tomorrow.
We drove out to Omaha mid January just in time to go to Ethan's baptism. Ethan is my oldest (8years old) grandson. My parents, who are serving an LDS mission in the ManhattanTemple had a break so they flew out to Omaha for the occasion. We put them up in our apartment the first night, showed them some Mormon history sites in the area and went to Ethan's basketball game.
the baptism was at 4PM at their church. grandpas gave talks, I lead the music and the other two grandmas said the prayers. It was nice.
the weather started getting bad as we were leaving the baptism so we decided to stay overnight on Saturday night at Rachael's (30 min away). the other two grandparents had the bedrooms so Kay and I slept on a mattress in the partially finished basement where the 3 older kids were sleeping. They were all ready asleep. We ended up staying on. Church was canceled but one ward had a late sacrament meeting we attended.
Monday My parents, Rachael's 4 kids and I went to the zoo. Rachael stayed home with the baby. Omaha has a great Zoo! Dad and I went and talked to the internship people about Janell and her application. We went out to dinner at Olive Garden with the whole family that evening and Kay and I finally left Rachael's on Tuesday when I took my parents to the airport. It was fun having them here to see where we live and what Kay is doing here.
Where do I live? In North Omaha in a 3 bedroom apartment with 2 of the bedrooms being used for storage and 1/3 of the living room being used as an office/storage/tool shed. it used to be 2/3 but I have been working on that. We have old tiled flooring which is why I let Kay weld his snow plow blade he keeps on his 4wd truck in the living room. Sparks flew everywhere and except for catching a towel on fire, It worked.
No live mice this trip. I guess the 30 blocks of poison and traps I put out in November finally scared them off!
Sunday we had normal church. the missionaries passed out their dinner schedule. I signed up for 2 dinner appointments and noticed they were free Wednesday. I was busy but my week changed.
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday were snow emergency days. It snowed and the wind blew and the schools were closed. Windchill was -25 so I took the advice of the news and stayed home. Monday I made a huge batch of cookie dough. Tuesday I looked at my food supply and decided I have everything to make lasagna except the noodles so I found a recipe using uncooked noodles and used spaghetti. It made a lot. Kay said it was OK but didn't want to eat 12 servings so whatahyagonna do?
I called the missionaries. they still didn't have an appointment and were excited to come soooooo, I made 2 loaves of french bread, got out some shrimp and some vegetables. It was a success. 3 missionaries polished off the lasagna, loved the shrimp and gobbled up the homemade bread. I sent home the leftovers with them. My friend made an easy dessert so I decided to try it. I used small corelle bowls but you are supposed to use raimken bowls. Mine worked great.
recipe:
cookie batter to equal 2 cookies (the size of 2 walnuts)
press in the bottom of a small bowl
bake in oven until barely krisped on the edges and soft in the middle, about 10 min @ 350 degrees
remove from oven, let cool 10 min.
when ready to serve, scoop some vanilla ice cream in the center and serve! yummy
After dinner Kay and I went to an appointment with the missionaries but we were stood up. We'll try again some other time. I guess the temperature will be up tomorrow.
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