Saturday, February 28, 2015

    Another week and another month have become history and we are into our last days here.  This next week will find us saying our good-byes to friends and co-workers whom we most likely will never see again.  We have already had so many people express sadness at our leaving and they have left us feeling happy with “warm fuzzies.”  We will miss our friends.

    Well, it may be a good time for us to be leaving or our luck is just running out.  The water filter for our drinking water has quit working and there are no replacements—they have to be ordered and are way out there some place.  Hmmm—could this have been anticipated?

     After pestering the engineer (who acts as a trouble shooter, too) we found one of those five-gallon blue water bottles sitting on our counter when we came home from the temple yesterday.  He was so thoughtful!  Now we just need a siphon J

    The lazy-Susan in our lower corner cupboard has lost its balance and remains tipped and askew behind the doors.  We emptied it and have just left it as is and assume maintenance will take care of it before the Christensen’s get here in a couple of weeks.

    Tonight after our shift we came to the door of the Guesthouse and neither of our keys would work—so we were locked out of our building!  The keys we have are like hotel keys—a card with a magnetic strip on one side.  This happened two nights ago, too; but one of the guards saw Glade struggling with the key and walked over form his station and let us in.  He couldn’t let us into our living quarters, but at least we got into the building.  We woke up the couple who work at the desk and he re-programmed the keys and got them working.

    Well, tonight there was no one around.  The couple who works at the desk, goes home on the week-ends since they live in Tegucigalpa and we didn’t see the guard.  So we went around the corner and knocked on the Gomez’s window and she let us into the building.  Glade took the elevator down to the equipment room in the basement where the engineers have an office and luckily found our water-bottle helper doing Duolingo lessons in English on his computer!  Lucky for us he was able to re-program the keys and we were “home again.”

    We are thinking that the new couple at the desk may be re-programming all the keys each time a group of temple-goers leaves and they are doing the whole building including our wing.  Hope they get it figured out!!

    Enough of all that!  We are happy for our week-end.  It has been a stressful and busy week with all the extra activities and we hope to get rested up for our last week of temple work.

    Love to all.  Good Night!!