We had better not pin our hopes on anything being “set in stone”. The Archives says that we have reached the end of the road and in 3 or 4 weeks we will have completed all the work they have on the contract. We were then to go to Keene, New Hampshire for the remaining 3 months or so of this mission. We were instructed to call the mission office and as them to arrange an apartment for us in Keene, and because they had not heard from our supervisor, they called him for a definite date to go ahead for the apartment and he said, “hold on for a while, the contract with New Hampshire has not been signed”. So now we are in limbo. I had better mentally unpack and stay in Augusta a while.
This is Mothers day weekend and we went out to eat today to celebrate the occasion. We were told that a restaurant called Rebecca’s Place was really good. So we went there and Bill ordered a small steak and it came back to him covering most of the plate. I wonder what a full size steak would cover? I thought I would order a Lobster Roll. I guess this is the last Lobster Roll I will eat. It consisted mostly of mayonnaise with some Lobster in it. Of all the Lobster Rolls I have eaten here on this mission I think I liked the one at LLBean the best, then comes the local store, Damon’s, and way down the list is Rebecca’s Place. The restaurant is clean and the staff pleasant, but there were no table cloths on the tables and they only give one napkin per person. I am at least a two napkin person. Dress me up, cannot take me anywhere.
In the mail today there was a really nice surprise. Sara had the children send hugs to Grandma. These consisted of the kids lying on the paper and drawing around each other and then coloring the figures. Oliver colored each eye a different color – one eye is brown and one is blue and he made sure that I knew that the paper figure was really him. They even included some balloons with messages specially worded for Grandma for Mothers day. This was totally cute and more precious than a Hallmark Card.
The current president of Mountain Top Quilters sent me a small wall hanging as a thank you for my support of her and her decisions as well as a reminder of MTQ and the recent quilt show. From the Label it appears that it was in the small quilt auction and three people worked on it. This makes it pretty special to me.
We were visited by the Mission Home Staff today. They wanted to look at our apartment in terms of having the young elders move out here from their apartment in town. Our apartment is really nice compared to the one they have in town, but we are very far out of town and they do not have a car of their own to drive around and inconvenience of travel would make things not compatible with the missionary work. So now we do not know if we are coming or going so we best stay here in Augusta till we hear from our supervisor and then pack the car and leave. I am afraid we may just find ourselves in a time and space crunch and that is a situation I really do not like to be in.
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