Elder David y Hna. Pam Johnson

Friday, August 7, 2009
One thing I can say about working in the mission office is that I can never count on anything to stay the same from one day to the next. Today we had a full of scheduled work to do. When we arrived at the office at fifteen before 8:00am we were on schedule. By 8:05am the rest of the day was completely topsie turvie! Painters had arrived! By the end of the day a complete remodeling of the office was in full swing. President Almonte arrived to oversee the planning. Shelves cupboard and storage racks were ripped from their mounts on the walls. Holes, cracks and chips were patched and painted over. By the end of the day everything had been moved and/or shuffled at least twice from room to room. It looks to me like the project won’t be done for weeks!

Oh well, the work in the office must go one so we’re figuring out ways to keep the computers up and running through the whole process. It is another grand adventure we are on and we truly are loving it. We love the people we work with, the Almonte’s, our assignment in the office and we love the missionaries. We are so blessed to be serving here in the Santo Domingo West Mission. The Lord has blessed Pam and I in so many ways since our mission call. Patience in adversity is another blessing we’ve learned on our mission.

In the afternoon Elder Bates and I had to run several errands that must be done on Friday. We dropped off our weekly report at the “Centro de Servicio” the churches Caribbean Area Offices. We went to the “Aduana” (Customs office were packages from the US are held for inspection) to pick up packages and mail for our missionaries. We dropped of payment checks to several of our venders the mission contracts with.
And we a couple more stops along the way. One stop was at one of my favorite places to shop, the office supply store. Ya, I’ll be spending more time there. We didn’t stop but drove by “Price Smart”, the Dominican equivalent of “Price Club”. Ya, I’ll be spending more time there too!