The Sabbath

Happy Sunday!  I am SO hoping I can stay awake in church today!  It has been the hugest struggle since we came back to Oxnard 2nd Ward, which meets at 1 p.m.  It's not the ward - it's the time!  It doesn't matter whether or not I had a good night's sleep, whether or not I don't eat anything close to meeting time -- I simply nod off during sacrament meeting, no matter how hard I try to stay awake.  Even if it's really good!  Sigh.  Evidently my body preferred nine o'clock church.  :)

We will be having dinner with the bishop's family this evening - the Sweets.  They are great people. I made a pretzel salad this morning to take.

After dinner, we will meet up with the Trumans and transport several vehicles from the office church parking lot to the Ventura Stake Center parking lot, so they will be there in readiness for transfers on Tuesday morning -- because there really will be no time Monday (or Tuesday morning) to shuttle them up.  These cars get SO dirty sitting in the parking lot, minding their own business - haha.  They were filthy.  So yesterday, a guy (hired by Elder Truman) came to the parking lot and got them all looking new again.  Not only the new cars waiting to be placed into action, but also an older one, which had been up for sale -- now we will need it!  He also washed up the mission vehicles, so everything will look spiffy for the trips to the airports tomorrow. 

Did I say trips?  Did I say airports?  Yes, I did!  Four of our visa waiters will be departing LAX tomorrow on their way to their assigned missions in Argentina!  Hooray for them!  They have been serving here for 12 weeks, so I imagine they are excited to finally be heading to "their" mission!  In the meantime, they have done much good, however, in this mission.  Two of them have been serving in Oxnard the past 6 weeks, so we got a chance to get to know them quite well.  Randy and I will be taking these four to LAX early tomorrow.

We will be back in time for Randy to catch his breath, then take the van to the airport in Santa Barbara where we will be picking up 40 incoming missionaries, making a total of 42 coming in this transfer.  (One is arriving from California and did not go to the MTC.  One arrived a week early last Monday!)  Half of these wonderful missionaries are Spanish speakers.  Have you read the Book of Mormon lately?  Prophecy is being fulfilled!  Love it! 

If I remember to take  picture, I will add them later this week!  How exciting!  Oh, and can you say "Sister Missionaries"?  Last transfer we received 17, this time there will 16 (four of which are visa waiters, so they won't remain in this mission -- but they could be here for several weeks). That is a LOT of sisters!  We love them.