P-Day Adventures

We have a very busy schedule at the Visitor's Center. Monday, Wednesday and Thursday we work two different shifts.  Either 9 am to 3 pm or 3 pm to 9 pm. Tuesday is our P-day for preparation such as grocery shopping, laundry, and cleaning. Friday, Saturday and Sunday we work the three four hour shifts, either 9 am to 1pm, 1 pm to 5 pm, or 5 pm to 9 pm. It is very exhilarating to be at the center and be with the young sister and elders and investigators and we come home very tired. But it is a good tired! We enjoy serving. We pray constantly for inspiration. We visit with many members and their families. We are taught to teach them the same as we do everyone else. We have shared many tears as the spirit touches our hearts and theirs.

We can go to our ward when we work the later shifts. We went this week and met many people from our condo complex. They know who we are now we need to figure out their names to go with the faces. Someone from the ward brought us a secret FHE treat Monday night. One little older lady came to me and said I guess you can see we are the newly wed, nearly dead ward. I laughed. I thought it was only the younger people that said this. Her saying it struck me funny. The building is very old! Not like any ward house I have been in. They just divided a Spanish ward and they come to some of our meetings. We haven't got that figured out yet? When we can't go to our ward we have several others we can choose from to get to a Sacrament meeting each week.

We get up at 5:30 am most days to walk since it's only in the 80's then. When it is humid due to rain it feels more like 100's, but we have been doing it anyway. Then we eat breakfast and get ready for the day. We pack a lunch if needed. Next we study together which we are enjoying.

I only go the aerobics class if we don't work the early shift and then we study a little later.

We used our first P-days shopping, cleaning, ironing and setting up our condo. This week we wanted to try to fit in some fun things. So yesterday we worked 9 am the 3 pm. We came home and Elder Ballard made spaghetti while I did some housework and laundry so we could look around today.

We started at the Alpine bread store. A clerk comes to me and says you get four loaves free for being missionaries. We can't even use four loaves but we took them and then bought two more because Elder Ballard felt guilty. My little fridge freezer is now full of bread. We can share with the Sisters. We also bought some jalapeño cornbread which was yum! We stopped by the Mesa City Visitor's Center and met the Director of Marketing, Milt Fort, a church member who's son served a mission in Ogden. He visited with us for a long time and told us all the great places we should see but not in the summer, too hot! Their center has recently been updated.

Richard in front of a stagecoach used in Western movies filmed in AZ

In front of some Mayan Art. I forgot to mention I had my hair lightened to better hide the gray hair. I feel a little washed out. We'll see if it really lasts 6 weeks and I can get used to it. I have never had highlights before? Oh, hair issues! Hate them.

Threw in some rocks for the boys that love rocks!

Emily shows real animals on her blog, mine are plaster!

Lots of dinosaurs

This is very funny! We went to a Lutheran thrift shop our friends told us about to look for a blender, a treadmill  or whatever. The cart is a walker. He won't go to the Senior center but he'll push around a walker-cart! They have the walkers all lined up in the front and you can take your pick. Some have a red basket to hold your things. I guess they have a high volume of walkers!

We had dinner at the Organ Pizza Stop. The Organ is huge and all around the room are instruments.  When a certain instrument is played on the organ it lights up. They play requests and it is very popular! The pizza was so so but the music was fun. He played the whole star wars score and it was amazing. We also heard Phantom of the Opera (with the lights going off), Little Mermaid, Happy Birthday, and many others. They were having Christmas in July,
(why the trees),  which is a theme used quite a bit around here. They were collecting cans of food for local charities.

Dancing cats. Interesting.