Apartment Carpets

Regarding carpets, I have to tell this little story. Lots of the carpets in the mission need to be cleaned. They have had missionaries living in those apartments for many years, with NO carpet cleaning. The mission used to own some carpet cleaners. Don't know how old they were, but they just didn't do the job. Agreed -- some missionaries don't know how to clean up a spill, either :(

We were inspecting a four-man apartment in Simi Valley a while back, and the carpet was just gross. (Elder Mecham said I should see a couple of others in the mission - Egad! How could they have been worse?!) The elders in this place in Simi said they had been over the carpet three times with the mission cleaner -- they really had tried. Well, Elder Mecham has hired a professional carpet cleaner to clean carpets in the mission. Yay! Of course, the mission cannot afford to have them all cleaned at once, but will spread it out over time. The place in Simi was high on the list and was cleaned. One of the elders from that apartment happened to call the office about some other matter, and I asked him how the carpet was. His reply? "The quality of my life has increased exponentially since the carpet was cleaned!" I told him the quality of my life had also increased exponentially just knowing their carpet had been cleaned!  Seriously - it has!!

Oh, and the four-man is now a two-man -- two of the elders are in a newly found apartment. The mission is moving in that direction - (doing away with four-man apartments). Elder Mecham is in the process of getting two new apartments up the coast and has already "split up" three four-man apartments. Go Elder Mecham!  [More lining up and moving fridges and furniture :]