Week of 20260208 – Encouraged Mission Service; TV and Mattress; Flooded Floor; Delivered Food to Coordinating Council; Registered Minivan; Fixed File Ownership; Amazon Balked; Sister Missionaries
= Sunday, I arranged to speak before Steph to get my entire talk in. I emphasized the blessings of service, spoke a little about our experience in Ghana, and closed with testimony, alternating between Twi phrases and their English equivalent. A few quotes..
= Young adults, the best preparation for the rest of your life is to serve a full-time mission, helping people draw closer to God, interacting with other young adults, and learning to manage a household and get along with a companion.
= Seniors, you can grow old at home, doing the same thing day after day, week after week. Or you can live an adventure, meeting new people and helping the next generation of leaders.
= I encourage you to serve a mission and be joyful if God sends you to Africa. Eight of the ten countries where the church is growing most rapidly - are in Africa.
= Steph shared her experience with serving missionaries and spoke of tender mercies received during our mission. She encouraged those who have asked to serve to accept their call, wherever God sends them. She emphasized that you can do what God wants you to do - to become what God wants you to become.
= Elders Quorum and Relief Society were good. After church, we were interviewed to renew our temple recommends. In the afternoon, the Garners came to our rescue. Jon and Peter stacked and hooked up the washer and dryer. James replaced two GFI outlets while I hovered but found that the electrical situation still wasn't right. After they left, I found that a faucet for the washer leaked under pressure; so, no laundry at home yet.
= At 6, we had a Zoom meeting with the Stake President from Tuscaloosa and from Montgomery. For about an hour, we discussed expectations for the young single adult conference.
= Monday, I did laundry at the laundromat. Michelle, our middle daughter, had sent a photo. She looks great!
= In the evening with help from "Alex" Jongchul, we loaded the Blantons' mattress and TV to our minivan. Later, while eating takeout and sitting at our laptops, we found water on the floor coming through the wall! The faucet for the icemaker was leaking under pressure.
= I assembled a bedframe from Wal-Mart, and we slept on a real bed.
= Tuesday, Hank’s Plumbing Repair replaced our washer faucets, the icemaker faucet, and sheetrock they had removed under that faucet to enable the repair. Nice.
= I picked up rolling carts to support moving food tomorrow and some other items. Steph put the microwave and air fryer in the pantry so we could use them. On another trip to storage, I retrieved all of our tables. Getting the round table to and from the roof rack was the toughest part.
= Wednesday when we picked up lunch trays from Publix to the Coordinating Council meeting at the State House, the minivan displayed warning lights, but the manual said they didn't have to be dealt with immediately. We brought the trays early: success. But the fruit trays would be less-messy with forks. We shopped for ourselves and bought forks, but that meant the forks didn't arrive until mid-meal: not as great.
= Then we tried to get a vehicle tag, but the place we used to go was closed and we had to drive and park downtown for the third time today (using the ParkMobile app, we had no quarters). On the plus side, the place to file for a homestead reduction in property taxes was in the same room where we got the vehicle tag.
= Home, we ate from Taco Bell and then Steph went to bed. I arranged for Crosby Electric to come to the house on Monday.
= Thursday, in a folder shared to me by the mission, I moved the ownership, one by one, of my last 600 or so files from my Google account to the mission's Google account. It would have been easier to have arranged to use the mission's account in the first place: lesson learned. I sent a copy of my talk to the office group and wrote down WhatsApp contacts.
= After a lunch by Steph, I retrieved some items from storage and made a Wal-Mart run. Amazon had worked OK from Ghana to send items to Shelley Patterson to hold. But now that we were in the States, Amazon wasn't letting Steph order anything. Amazon wants the CCV value to initially validate the card, but when you update the card, the interface almost never lets you provide the CCV. It let me replace my laptop, then shut me out as well.
= Friday, Steph spent the day with Shelley. I learned the van will take a day or longer to check; had O'Reilly Auto Parts replace windshield wipers; had LS World Window Tint remove the tint from the passenger windows so I can see the right mirror; and met up with Steph and Shelley at Sam's Club. We had sushi from there for Date Night.
= Saturday, we hosted Sister Missionaries for supper. Then they did a Zoom call from our dining table. Steph had mostly finished cleaning up when the person they were teaching (who had come to Tuskegee from Africa) wanted to speak to us. We bore our testimonies of the truthfulness of what they were teaching.
The items lined up on the counter look like small pumpkins but are actually small oranges past their prime.
I wonder how people in Michigan feel about their State being represented by a mushroom?
[No buns or bread in the house yet.]
LS World Window Tint. Once it was my turn, they removed the tint from the passenger window in under 15 minutes and charged only $15.
She documented how lynch mobs were deliberately formed, sometimes as an economic weapon, and common excuses that white officials used to justify these acts. -- womenshistory.org
Associate Training Room - Where Amazingness Happens
[Below, see text from the stairway.]
Sam's 10 Rules to Build a Business
Commit to your business
Share profits w/all associates and treat them as partners
Motivate your partners
Communicate everything you can to your partners
Appreciate everything your associates do or the business
Celebrate your success
Listen to everyone in the company
Exceed customer's expectations
Control expenses better than your competition
Swim upstream
"You are bigger than you know"
"ARE YOU ALL IN"
Sam's Club 4 Core Beliefs
Service to the member
Respect to the individual
Strive for excellence
Act with integrity
(Regular pumps are in the background.)
The flavor is good. However, it doesn't grate as well as the fake spam (chicken luncheon meat) we used in Ghana.
When we drove the RV from the park to covered storage, we dumped some items on a tight turn, hence some of the disarray.
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