February 25, 2016

Bonnie:  It's been a learning day today because I have to update the "pocket card" from now on so the APs can do more missionary work. It's a laminated card that fits into a pocket that has all of the missionary information by zones including phone numbers and companionships. Of course, after transfers alot of it changes. It took me about 4 hours or so to do it. Then, after it's printed on card stock it's laminated and cut into sections. Then the sections are taped together with clear tape into a folding card that fits nicely into a shirt pocket. That will happen tomorrow because we are not going to Temiskaming. They expect a lot of snow on Sunday, and we may not get back until Monday night if we were to go. With MLC coming up this would put lots of burden on Sister Cannon and Sister Erickson to prepare for it. 

Today I was able to talk to the sister who wants a blessing and to the missionaries who will give it to her. And there were no phone calls from stranded missionaries like there was yesterday, thankfully. A Sister missed her second flight because her first flight ran into bad weather. She said she was ok and she had just to eaten something. She had also talked to her parents so she felt alright about things. I can't imagine how hard that would be, though.

Tomorrow we will be having a missionary discussion here with Grace and the missionaries!! We are so excited about it. Please pray with us that it goes well,

Love, Mom/Bonnie

Bob: Boohoo, the weather didn't cooperate. Maybe we can go next week. But we're super excited to be able to go to the discussion with Grace and the Elders. We will keep you informed as to how that goes.

The weather is not real good right now. The wind is howling and the temperatures are below freezing without considering the wind chill. Roads are good now, but I am afraid Sunday will be bad up north. Not a whole lot of snow expected here, however.

Got almost everything done today. Even had the opportunity to go stand in line at the bank. Wish I could do that every day!! (Not) Took quite a while to deposit one American check into the Canadian account. Poor teller didn't know what to do. Probably the two employees that were in the lobby making over another customer's children might have been able to help, but they were just too busy.

Had a great experience with customer service for Rogers, our wireless carrier. Finally asked the guy to let me talk to someone else and he wanted to know why. Told him he didn't understand the problem. Then he wanted to know what he didn't understand. That's when the phone went dead in his hand!! Called back and got another guy that fixed us right up. When he asked if there was anything else he could do I suggested he give some of his team members some training. He said he was sure the issue would come up in their team meeting.

Well, got to go to bed. Love to all and good night brothers.

Dad/Bob