We've been in our new apartment for about 2 1/2 weeks. We continue to make progress on fixing it up. This past week, we've put up blinds (some of the old ones had sun rotted strings), put up curtains, and fired up our heaters (got down to freezing a couple of days).
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| Bedroom with Heater in Corner |
On Thursday of this past week we had a visit from the missionaries who previously lived here and, thanks to their help, we now have satellite internet. It isn't all that fast, but it is way better than what we have had up to this point.
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| Elders Maxfield & Smart Working on Internet |
Now that we've got things going pretty well, guess we should leave -- at least for a while. Yes, we'll leave this next Saturday and go home for a week. We'll take care of doctor visits, look for a winter car, and make arrangements to be gone for another year. Sometimes we wonder if it is really worth it since we need to take care of all our responsibilities in the office for the week we are gone and the following week, as well.
One of the things that we acquired this past week was scheduling. Sister Smart is now in charge. She puts it together on a magnetic board and then does it on a spread sheet for each of the missionaries. This is how we know whether we are in the visitors' center, cleaning toilets, in the office, etc.
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| Nice Shoes! |
Everyone has been busy this past week getting our handcarts ready for next summer. If we're not doing handcarts, we're pumping toilets so we can get them ready for next year.
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| Handcart Sealing |
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| Handcart Prep |
We've all had several socials getting ready for missionaries to go home. This past week, we had family home evening on Monday evening. We had a get rid of all your frozen and excess food on Thursday evening. On Saturday evening we had a good bye social for the eight couples that will leave us this next week.
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| Get Rid of Food Social |
We're not sure that we mentioned our 8;30 am daily correlation meetings. Here we have prayer, read from Preach My Gospel, read from our mission handcart experiences book,and issue daily works assignments. The Smart's had the prayers and readings this past Saturday.
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| Missionaries @ Correlation Meeting |
Every once in a while we have some unusual "happenings" in the mission. This past week Sister Smart took a phone call from one of the nearby ranchers asking if we had any fire equipment so we could come help them put out a fire on their property. We had a big water truck that we sent. The rancher ended up losing a baler and tractor. Could have been worse.
On Friday evening a Sister at the Visitors' fell and broke her nose and had other bruises and injuries. She and her husband were closing the Center. It was cold that night and she had her hands in her pockets. She went down head first and ended up in Casper in the hospital.
A few weeks back one of our visitors saw something on her way to Martin's Cove. She even got a picture of it.
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| Unexpected Visitor |
Our prayers go out to the Barr family. They had just been here a month ago. They thoroughly enjoyed their visit. Dave was in an accident on Friday. The accident broke his neck. He never gained consciousness and passed away at midnight on Saturday. Connie and Dave have been good friends of the Smart's.
We have very good feelings about this place and our mission. We know that we are involved in the work of the Lord. What a privilege it is to honor our families, both past and current, by serving here.
We may not get to a blog next week so we'll be a little ahead by wishing Audra (24th) and Elder Smart (25th) happy birthdays.
Love you all,
Elder and Sister Smart, Mom and Dad, Grandma and Grandpa, Annie and Paul
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