Computers, Lunch & Presentations

Yesterday afternoon Elder Oveson's network connection stopped working. Which meant that he had no access to the Internet, printing, or sharing files with others. The Facilities Manager tried several different things including the switching port that his connection went through without any success. We left him still scratching his head as we headed home last night. This morning as we got to the office the network connection was still down and a majority of our work involves the Internet. Again after more frustration the FM said he will have to see if Hong Kong can help him figure it out tomorrow. Fortunately we had our laptop and the WiFi was still working, so he was able to do some of his work through that.

Today we went to lunch with Elder & Sister Leavitt, the Office Couple. They had never been in our new little Avanza so we drove. Everyone was ready for some place different and none of us had been to Fat Boys Burgers for a long time. Sister Oveson was the only one to order a hamburger, Sister Leavitt had a pork patty sandwich, Elder Leavitt had fish and chips and Elder Oveson had a mac and cheese with chicken. It was good food and even better company.

With Elder Oveson's computer limitation we spent a majority of the day working together on the various presentations that we have coming up. This week's Institute class is on Marking Scriptures. Visual aids are a must and the easiest way for us to do them is a PowerPoint presentation. We were able to get it 90+% done today. There are always minor changes as we go back through to practice for our class. We also have the Service Center Devotional training for next Tuesday most of the way done as well. Sister Oveson put some final touches on the transitions between slides to give it a little more action. Right now we are feeling pretty good about that one as well.

One thing that we see and include in our collages are ladders being carried on motos. Today's ladder on a moto is unique because it is a little ladder carried by a little person, so we figure that he must be in training. There were some beautiful and interesting skies this morning as we went on our walk. The building across from us now has most of its solid glass facing up. Of course none of the workers five stories up have any safety equipment and the scaffolding are a mixture of metal and bamboo. Finally, how do you get new bushes to their destination? On a moto, of course.