Week Four

Week number four is a most intersting one.  Perhaps one of the bigest reasons is our move.

We moved flats on Friday afternoon and now live about 10 minutes walk from our work at The National Archives.  Our flat is quite nice but has its own set of problems.  Carpets are spotted and stained; garbage disposal smells and is plugged and doesn't work; 15 lights burned out; cabinet hinges loose and cabinet doors drag on the ground; and we could go on and on.  Nevetheless, its's in a very nice area and we feel quite safe and secure here.  One other thing about our flat is that we have to start from scratch on setting it up.  We need to set up our own phone, internet, tv, and furnish our personal items such as pots, pans, utensils, cups, plates, garbage cans (rubbish bins), hair rollers, clothes hangers, etc., etc..  

It appears the landlord will get the place cleaned today and hopefully get the repair person over to fix everything else.

The lighter side of all this is our Annie who continues to make a very nice home and keeps things light and easy going. One morning we started out for our work and Annie looked down to find that she had two different shoes on.  Mind you, they were close in appearance, but nevertheless, two different shoes.  She felt so bad that she had to return to the flat to change them.  The very next morning we headed out to work and shortly after leaving our flat, she started to put on her gloves only to come to the conclusion that she had one glove and one pair of socks.  Needless to say the socks would not suffice for keeping her other hand warm and again we returned to the flat to get the glove and drop off the socks.  Never a dull moment in our lives! 

One of our biggest accomplishements was the return evaluation of our first batches of images that we sent to Salt Lake City.  We heard back that we both passed - meaning the images that were sent were reviewed by an evaluator and that all was well.  We were quite excited and felt rather accomplished on our first efforts.

We are using computers at The National Archives to post this and so until we get our own internet in 2 weeks, we will not be able to add pictures.

Love you all and rest assured, the gospel is still true!

Elder and Sister Smart