Yesterday I received a call from a lady in Vancouver, BC. She is one of the people who negotiates the Rogers contract between the Church and Rogers. She told me that Samsung, the manufacturer of the flip phones our missionaries use, has discontinued the production of these flip phones and there are no plans to resume their production. She also said that most of the big phone players have already discontinued the manufacture of these rugged flip phones. She recommended that we upgrade as many of our phones as possible immediately at the reduced price of $30 each. These phones were over $100 each last year at one time when I inquired about upgrades. We held off and the price dropped to $50 and now it is $30. Once Rogers' inventory is gone there will not be anymore of these phones. So I talked to the President and we upgraded all eligible phones, 104 of them. It would seem that we will have enough phones to last us for awhile because I still have 16 other new phones from our last upgrade of 25.
Dinner at the Mandarin was good tonight. There are 2 Mandarins in the area. I personally didn't like the other one. Everything looked good, but nothing was very tasty. Tonight everything was tasty especially the clam chowder and the creme brule. Those 2 items were delicious. Bonnie didn't mention the shrimp and crab legs. I never did get to the Chinese food tables. And I still feel stuffed.
Got our computer up and running tonight. Christian came over and got it running for me. We tried booting it up and it wouldn't go. Called the service tech in Utah and he wasn't any help. Finally Christian went into the registry and did something to get it going. Now if Office products work we will be okay.
Hope you enjoy my new life's motto below. It's kind of on hold though till we return home!!
Love to everyone and good night brothers.
Dad/Bob
My New Philosophy
Bonnie: We had a delicious dinner at the Mandarin tonight. It is a festive place, with lights on the trees and bushes outside, and inside, red hanging lantern-like lights and lots of other colorful decor. We ate in the "Bird" room. Two huge make-believe birds hang from the ceiling and the upper portion of one wall has a cage with birds in it. There is also the "Fish" room where there is an aquarium, and probably other rooms with other themes. The food was wonderful. It included prime rib and mashed potatoes and gravy as well as pizza and grilled food and all of the Chinese eating delights one can think of. They are celebrating the Chinese New Year so they had Chinese dumplings. Great!!
Tomorrow I start back at my job of getting the YSAs in to see the Bishop. Many of them will be gone because of a YSA Conference in Montreal, but I'm sure there will be many last-minute requests. The challenge will be getting everyone in because he will be conducting the 5th-Sunday combined meeting of Relief Society and Priesthood. That's a whole hour out of his schedule. We will be eating a delicious soup tomorrow. I made a batch of it today and it should be very good. May we all have a spiritual day tomorrow as we honor the Lord on His day.
Love, Mom/Bonnie
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