Monday, August 10, 2015

Today has been a great preparation day.  As we started our walk toward the Historic Relay District, I checked my phone to see what percent the humility, I mean humidity was; 93%.  It also showed that rain was to the southwest and moving our direction.  When we got about a quarter of a mile down the street it started with a steady light rain, so we turned around and came back, got cleaned up and ready to go for the day.

I didn't have to iron my white shirts because I ironed the six that I washed early Saturday morning, Saturday night, so they were all ready to go for the week.  Irene doesn't like to iron, but she will if she has to, so I get to iron them and with a little light spray of starch, they turn out pretty good.

We called Rod and Roxanne Barney to visit with them for a few minutes this morning too.  They have a mission call to serve at the Palmyra, New York temple starting in November.  We offered a few suggestions based on our experiences so far.  While Irene was on the phone with Roxanne, I noticed the neighbor trying to carry a big box of something up stairs to their condo.  It looked like it was a mattress and his wife looked to old to be pushing the thing up the stairs.  I went over to help, introduced myself, and they were glad I offered to help.  Well it wasn't a mattress, it was a futon bed.  Not the lightest thing but it wasn't too heavy either.  After we got it in the condo, I found out that she wanted it upstairs in a bed room.  Her husband, Bill, and I managed to get it where she wanted it and only took about 45 minutes.

We drove down to Kennsington where the temple is because there is book store about a half a mile from the temple.  It's kind-a-like a Deseret Book Store only smaller.  They did have some cool stuff and even some sale items.