Transfers Again Already

This week was transfers.  How did that come around again already?  We had to say goodbye to two wonderful sisters: Sister Harris and Sister Amendola.   

We got three new Sisters from the MTC, all Spanish speaking, we got two Sisters back from full proselyting and 4 went out on full pross.  Lots of changes.  New companionships, new trainers, new schedules, new areas, and new adventures.  I must say, I am quite impressed with the new Sisters and the way they jumped in to help give tours the very first day they got their scripts! 

While the Sisters were in a meeting with the Mission President (President Clayton) hearing their new assignments, Craig and I were asked to give the tour to two other new non-Battalion missionaries.  There was an Elder from Honduras and a Sister from Hong Kong.  We were called out in the middle to take a picture of all the Battalion missionaries.   Sorry the sun is casting a glare.  President Clayton and his wife are the ones in the upper right.  Everyone is laughing because right before this, Sister Clayton simply could not hold a sneeze anymore!

 It has been SO HOT this week!  High 90s, and the inland areas were over 100.  Plus all those bad fires.  Some of the schools were closed due to the fires so some of our school tours were cancelled.  This is way too early in the year to have these fires!  Our Costco fans got a workout.  We are happy it is back to the beautiful nice and cool San Diego weather now.

Our dear friend Judy came over for dinner.  She was in town for her mom’s birthday and stopped by.  It was such fun to catch up!  Now she can picture us in our little apartment.

We went to Sea World one morning until it got too hot.  The best thing was when we went in the shark exhibit and we were the only ones in there besides the guy that works there.  So we got to ask him as many questions as we wanted and could be right up by the glass with no one obstructing our view.  We only spent a couple of hours in the park, but that was nice. 

We had the shark exhibit all to ourselves!

How cute is this?

Two Orcas close up!

Last week was not Craig's best week.  The Battalion is open every day and after four years, things are starting to give out.  Someone stashed a small wooden stool next to the room divider where it did not belong.  When Craig needed to open it up, the divider pushed the stool right IN TO the wall.  Then it was stuck.  Nothing could move.  He got out the saw and had to saw the stool in pieces to get it out.  Then the keys to open and close the divider went missing. He worried and worried over that and we made a special trip to the Battalion to search for them. Nothing.  They ended up in the pocket of one of the Sisters' costumes.  And she only gave back one at a time! Next, he was opening the door to the theater so the people could come start the tour and the auto-close mechanism on top broke, splintered wood around the top of the jamb and then the door could not close.  We are still waiting for parts for that.  It was a happy day when the old-fashioned hand water pump gave way on Elder Rasmussen's watch.  The baton has been handed off!

We went to the temple this week and I made sure to look up at Moroni through the top of the atrium.  I didn’t know you could do that until someone told me about it when we were working at the Temporary Visitor’s Center.  This is the only temple where you can see Moroni from the inside.  Pretty cool.