Saturday, November 23, 2019

CHILL WEEK

Monday morning I went to the office while Mom drove Ed to the Auckland airport for his return flight.  Since he purchased the cheapest ticket home, his return odyssey took 36 hours, with a number of lay-overs.  It was great to have him here as our guest, but we miss him again now that he is gone.
I put in a lot of extra hours at the office this week.  Elder Riggs is finishing up his mission this coming week, so I have been learning his real estate responsibilities so I can take over for him.  Since his replacement doesn’t come for at least 2 months, I’ll be doing his work and mine as well, essentially doing the work of 2.  The good aspect of this is that I’ll be able to design my practice a little more, and give the parts that I don’t enjoy as much (such as tax issues!) to the new attorney coming in.
Friday evening we had Elder and Sister Layton and Elder and Sister Mickle over for dinner.  The Laytons have been here a couple of months, he is the executive secretary to the area presidency.  The Mickles, social workers, are just wrapping up their mission and returning to St. George where they have retired.  We had a nice visit.
Due to all the adventures and travel with Ed the week before, we decided to have a quiet weekend at home in Auckland.  Saturday I got up late, had breakfast, then went to the office.  I had a little legal work to get caught up on there.  I also worked on my power point presentation about The Little Red Hen and Developing a Work Ethic, which I will be giving to the For the Strength of Youth teenagers youth conference in January.  Also, we found out this week that our mission release date is now December 1, 2020.  That matches up to an 11 night Royal Caribbean cruise we found that will go around the South Island of New Zealand, so I made our reservations for that.  We are located on the North Island and will have the chance to see most of that while we are here.  The cruise will give us a chance to see the other part of New Zealand we likely won’t get to.  And that will also be during our summer here but before school summer break.  So the timing will be about right for us to see the rest of New Zealand and perhaps a little more, then be able to return home to America in time to spend Christmas with the family.

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