Flats, vacuums and more flats!

Tim has really been busy looking for new flats.  To date, 6 of our flats are being sold!  Two have been purchased by investors so we will be able to keep our missionaries there.  We have been notified that we need to move out of two or three others already because the owners are doing something else with them.  Finding flats is probable our least favorite assignment.  You practically have to be a real estate agent!

This week started another transfer and we only had 7 new missionaries arrive.  About the same number finished their missions and went home.  Our transfer days are going a lot better and are shorter now!  We used to go 'til 4 pm but now we end before noon.  Yay!

We've had a lot of vacuums go bad.  These missionaries have to change and clean the filters regularly and they are not doing it.  Some are trying to vacuum up liquids!  We have been drowning in vacuum cleaners and parts!  The senior missionaries inspect the flats and they complain that the vacuums are not strong enough but my question is, "How expensive a vacuum cleaner can we afford for the missionaries to ruin?!"  We are already paying $50 more for them than our predecessors.  Hmmmm.

The sister missionaries are teaching an amazing woman in her 40's from Colombia.  I've been assisting with interpretation but she understands quite a bit.  It has been rewarding to be able to help with missionary work.  Our job has been almost entirely temporal affairs-- taking care of the missionaries' temporal needs.  It was nice to see the sister missionaries at work and to feel their strong spirits.  

My brother, Richard Brown, will be coming next week so we've been going over what we want to do with him for 3 weeks!  He wants to go to New Zealand for one of the weeks.

Not much going on this week except a week-long migraine.  Here are some pics I took this week.  Love to all!

Transfers in the underground car park at Kangaroo Point.