Our Love/Hate Relationship With Computers and the Internet

Elder Lau one of our friendly translators 

We are so very grateful to live in the time of computers and the internet.  When our parents served their missions we did talk with them on the phone occasionally, but not very often, and we had to rely on the U.S. Postal for the weekly news.  We are so blessed to be able to FaceTime with our children and their families just about anytime they and we are awake at the same time.  This morning we ended up FaceTiming with all of our grandchildren and their parents for one reason or another.  The most traumatic was Hudson, he fell off of a Monkey Bar and broke two bones in his arm. He had to show us his cast, and the transformer motorcycle he got today.

The computers and the internet also help tremendously with our work in Self Reliance and Perpetual Education Fund.  We have a list of PEF participants who we are trying to call and speak to about their school, jobs and loans.  We put together an Excel Spreadsheet to help us track those calls.  Right now we are less than 50% successful in getting a hold of the ones that we are calling, but we will catch up to them.

Elder Hibbert aka the tall Elder & companion

Just before lunch a couple of workers came into our part of the Church Building installing new internet cabling.  Right now our internet is so very slow and part of the employees are working through the Wi-Fi.  All of the computers will now be hard wired, hopefully that will make a difference.  Now for the only problem with the new project.  They have to attach the wiring to the wall and boy are they noisy.  At 4:00 p.m. they came in to work in our office, so we decided that it was time to go home.

For lunch today we decided to go to a small restaurant not far from the Stake Center that several missionaries had recommended, Mama's New York Deli.  The owner is Cambodian and had lived in New York for 30 years, but it really isn't like the delis back home.  Sister Oveson had Fish & Chips that were fantastic and Elder Oveson had a Chicken Caesar Salad.  We will go back.