Onward and Upward

Our re-model of the bathroom
After Paint Ball
Before Paint Ball


Happy Birthday Grandma and Neil! I love you both!

All is well - I might change my motto from "It's All Good" to "All Is Well." I just had a very relaxing day on the bay - one of the members from the Panama City Ward is a caterer for a living - she had a bunch of left overs from a shin-dig that she did this weekend and gave us the extras. We had a picnic and threw water balloons. I am coming to find that the sound of the waves hitting the sand in a constant motion is soothing to one's soul - plus walking barefoot in the sand is better than getting a pedicure.

Reading your description of the house and all the extension cords brightened my day considerably. We are currently having a roach problem - a huge colony of them just hatched and we always keep the Raid handy. We had a brilliant companion inventory on Thursday. We noticed that there was a not small amount of roaches hanging out near the microwave. We noticed this as Sister Hall was cooking rice in the microwave for about 10 min. It was too hot in there for the Roaches to stay and several scurried out. We found two itty bitty ones in the clock on the microwave and couldn't get to them. I concluded that there must be more in there and we stuck a huge bowl full of water in the microwave and let it go for about 20 minutes. We each stood on the ready with a bottle of Raid in our hands screaming every time we saw one and then killing it with great flare and accuracy. We got around 15 roaches in that 20 minutes. The next day we found that some had hatched and there were little creepy crawlies all over the place. We killed around 40 then and put a Raid perimeter around the kitchen before going to bed. In the morning I swept up the dead ones that had thought they survived the day of mass killing but got caught in our traps that evening. There was one that was about 3 inches long EWWW! Anyway we are working really hard to keep the apartment really clean and making sure there is always Raid ready at hand. We found out from a member that Roaches love cardboard and we had a lot of it in our apartment - we threw it all away and are on our way to a Roach free zone. We may have to bomb the place one day - we'll see what happens. I totally blame the Elders for this - I'm just saying.

We were able to work really hard this week. We are starting to get into the groove of things and we are starting to feel confident-ish in how to do things here. Our numbers were OK - not great - but OK. But honestly I think this is the best week we've had here - the only place to go now is up.

The Winterton family (members here) are adopting a 2 year old boy who has no verbal communication as of yet and is missing an ear. They asked me to teach them some signs to help communicate with him. They will be getting him in about 2 weeks. He knows some signs but they are looking to teach him more. He's not really deaf just under developed making sign language a good launch board for him till he can master his verbal skills. I'm really excited - if you can't tell. Which reminds me - Thank you, thank you, thank you for renewing my CNA Certificate. I thought I'd have to take the test over and wait 3 weeks before I could get a job. Oh that takes a huge weight off my mind - you're wonderful - and so is Greg Wynn. Huzzah!

On Saturday the PCB Elders had a baptism with a girl I had worked with while I was on "The Beach". Sister Hall and I went - I saw a lot of people from the Branch out there - it was fun to walk down memory lane with them. Most of them asked me how much longer I had 'cause "You've been out forever!" Thank you - I know. Fifty-nine days to go - not that I'm counting or anything. One of the Elder told me how many weeks that was and freaked me out - it's coming way too soon. I don't know if I'm ready or if I've done all I need to - but I have 59 days to get it all done. Ready, set, go!

Congratulations on your increased mobility dad! Independence is just around the corner. I like your glasses you look very Clark Kent in them:)

Love ya'll!

Kelli