OFFICE EXCITEMENT

Today...Friday the 20th...Elder Breinholt and I were the first ones here and unlocked the front door to find the office had been broken into.  There was a vent removed on the financial clerks door, and it had been pried open.  I'm sure he was hoping there was lots of money in there.  He used bolt cutters to open a couple of combination locks and get the key to the rest of the doors.  He stole some new Samsung tablets from Elder Fleming's office and several gas credit cards from Elder Breinholts.  Plus the petty cash ($5?).  He ate half a gallon of ice cream in the kitchen downstairs and the candy our of the dish on the lobby counter.

One thing he didn't know was that he was on camera during much of it.  There are a couple of good full face pictures.  He came in the front door...just like it wasn't locked.  So now we're trying to find out if it didn't get it locked or if it wasn't shut tight when we left. Anyway...it's made for an exciting end to the week!  The police just left and there's a bunch of fingerprint dust left behind.  That stuff is hard to get rid of.

I decided to stay home Weds. this week. Don came home about an hour early because the computers had been down all day.  So...Thurs. I stayed home too which was a good thing because there's not much I can do without the computer and it took a while yesterday to get it up and going again.

We've been told the fall colors will be at their best the first part of November.  I can't wait.  It's been driving me nuts wanting to go and look at some and there's just a few that have turned so far. I've had to make my screen saver a picture I took last year.

I'm beginning to think I'm not making the best use of my free time here.  I've decided I need to study more than I am when it's slow at the office.  I mean...what a perfect time to learn.  Instead of bring bored!

So the church is trying to consolidate the number of  missions open. They opened up 80 new missions around the world with the huge influx of younger ages for the missionaries.  That has slowed down so that it is almost on par with what it was prior to the change.  So they will be closing missions again and adding them to some of the adjoining missions.  That will be interesting.  It won't be immediate and it may be through attrition, but some missions may be getting bigger. 

On the 5th, we have a two-stake conference.  The Crestwood Stake, that we belong to, and the Louisville Stake.  They are going to make a third stake from both of those.  What I have been told by the president is that we will be ending up with a much larger ward. That will be nice.  We also have two convert baptisms on Saturday afternoon and that night we are going with the sisters to teach a couple who have been investigating.  Busy weekend.

No pictures this week.  Love to all!