Mission Backup

With one of the missionary apartments closed and another opened in its place, we've been moving! Here's the overview: 1. Set up the new Taiping Elders apartment - haul furniture from the storage unit to the new apartment. 2. Move the Dakeng Elders and the Taiping Elders into the new Taiping Elders apartment. 3. Move the Dongying Sisters furniture into the Taiping Elders apartment. 4. Move the (3) Dongying Sisters into the (former) Dakeng Elders apartment. 5. Cleanup and close the Dongying Sisters apartment. Of course, there was repairing broken furniture, hooking up plumbing, and many other tasks associated with this move, which was mostly done with our mission van, so it took LOTS of trips back and forth (always depending on GPS and our faithful navigator Sister Wells), and the fun of parking double or finding a spot, which is very difficult in Taichung. Suffice it to say that we came home completely beat every day (and that includes Saturday, our P-Day)! Now, we're almost...

This past week, the rain we've all been praying for has come at last. After several day of heavy rain this week, the water restrictions in place for the past month or so, where we had water 5 days, no water 2 days, have been lifted. Hurray! Now, if we could just get some rain back in Utah... The work continues here, we're working very hard and come home exhausted after work most nights. A couple of highlights since I last wrote: We set up a new sisters apartment in Chiayi. Sister Yu found this nice furnished place, but some of the furnishings were not missionary friendly, such as double beds. We collected single mattresses, study desks, a dryer, bedding, and a few other things from the storage room and spent the day getting the apartment ready for three (temporarily) sisters. Using three mismatched bases (2 too small and 1 too large) from the double beds, it turned out pretty nicely, we thought. Here's a pic of the finished bedroom: May 28th was our 38th anniversary, and we...