News/Address Change

This week three of our missionary couples departed the mission.  We are so sad to see them go but so happy they now home with their families.  One of the missionaries, Elder C (not Dear One who is also Elder C) fell a couple of weeks ago and badly broke his foot, the same foot that had previously been fixed with pins, etc, so he and Sister C went home for surgery and won't be returning.  Because our apartment lease is up this month, and their apartment lease is valid until next November, we are going to move into their apartment.  The best thing about that is that it is a GROUND FLOOR apartment!  No more scary icy stairs in the winter!  Not that we had more than three or four icy days last year, but...this year we had a few hundred geese in the park across from the office a month ago but they moved on. I am wondering if they know something we don't.  I hope not.  Last winter was so glorious.  And we had thousands of geese in the park last winter.

Anyway, we have a new address for the rest of our mission:

1400 NE Compton Drive, Suite 250-A
Hillsboro  OR 97006

This is the mission office address but it makes most sense to use that address.  At our current mailbox we receive mail for at least ten previous residents.  I hope not to have someone else have to forward mail to us when they move into our current apartment.

Today reminds me a bit of the week I went to the temple alone several years ago because Dear One stayed home to oversee the take-down and disposal of the log cabin we had lived in for 38 years.  I came home to a hole in the ground.  Today when I get home, many of the things in the apartment will have been moved to the new apartment. Then this evening and tomorrow the real work starts for me.  I had hoped to have the whole month to organize and dispose of the disposables and move a box a day over.  Well, maybe I still will but our internet is moving as of Monday so I am assuming we will be "in" on Monday night.  Yikes. 

This is a reminder that we are in the wind-down stage of our mission, too.