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This morning we went to Snowflake, which is 20 miles north of where we're staying, and met with Christopher Frasier, director of the LDS Family Services Office there and Ken Brown who is over all the Family Service missionaries in this area. Both of them were extremely nice and welcoming. They told us there were 11 Family Service agencies who tried to get Dad assigned to them. Snowflake won because Civecue has been 2 years without a couple missionary. While there we registered for a conference on Substance Abuse that the church is holding in Layton October 19 and 20. I'm almost afraid to tell Cade and Andi that after all the times they've said goodbye to us we're already coming back again!

After that meeting we changed into our work clothes and went to Cibecue. We were a little apprehensive about seeing the inside of the trailer, but I'm happy to report we were pleasantly surprised. Two of the church maintenance engineers were there and they told us the place had indeed seen some rough times. The mission spent $10,000.00 dollars repairing the trailer so that it was liveable. And it really did look nice. The one man had even purchased a mixer, toaster and electric can opener for us. He put toilet paper in the bathroom, paper towels in the cupboard, and garbage can liners that as near as we could tell he lifted from some meeting house. He, himself, had even put contact paper in the kitchen cupboards. This trailer may be a humble abode but how could we complain when he was so proud of all he'd done for us? Again super, super nice people.

Unfortuantely we didn't have as much success with the native postmistress. We went to the post office to rent a postal box and she told us we'd have to use the one the church already has. That won't work, but we didn't have the courage to tell her that right then. She was pretty adamant she wasn't about to rent us a box. We'll try again tomorrow. Seems we've met our first femi-Nazi-Apache.

Back at the ranch the young missionaries came. They have been staying Monday nights in the trailer and working in Cibecue on Tuesdays. They were delightful and we were glad to invite them to continue to stay with us on Mondays, not like that was really generous or anything, as the only other choice would be for them to drag mattresses over to the church building and sleep on the floor. We can't be that cruel. The nice maintenance people took the two twin beds and put them together as bunk beds in one bedroom. The really important part of this story is that now my grandchildren will have a great place to sleep if and when they come to visit. Unfortunately, the parents will have to sleep on the floor, but that's how it goes. As long as my little darlings are comfortable!!

Ended this day with a trip to Wal-Mart to start furnishing our new pad. Nothing but the best will do for the new abode. We bought a bed-in-a-bag set for our bedroom, numerous pillows, not because we needed them but because I was determined we need to have as many pillows as we had pillow cases in the bed-in-a-bag. I'm not sure why it was so generous with the cases, but they'll not go to waste. Also bought a mop, detergent, Downy, bleach, towels, shower curtain, bug spray (the maintenance man is married to a woman who apparently hates spiders as much as I do and recommended his favorite death spray) and miscellaneous other stuff.

Another missionary couple called today and they're coming to visit us tomorrow afternoon. We plan to sleep in our home tomorrow night. I hate to give up this lovely room at the Holiday Inn, but can't afford to live here for 18 months.