Monday, September 8, 2014
Today was a long shopping day. We bought all the food for the 4 zones that come in this week. The zones coming in are Las Piedras, Durazno, Florida, and Maroñas. The Harris' came with us and they were a big help. We also attended the temple group FHE. I brought my bread since I had just baked it today. It is always appreciated.
I haven't mentioned anything about the medical calls we get every day. Somedays I have 7-8 calls. I almost always have at least 1 call per day. It is taking more and more of my time. Every call that comes in, I have to log on an internet site that the church has. I keep my phone back on my hip now and I always have a small notepad with me. Whenever I send them to a clinic, hospital, or doctor I have to call the insurance people in the States and have them email or fax a letter of guarantee payment to the facility. I carry Mike's iPad everywhere now so I can find answers to medical problems, log into the medical system and use Skype to call the states. We wondered when we first bought that iPad if it was worth the money and if we would really use it. Yep! We have used it alot at home for business and now here in our mission.
Tuesday - Friday, September 9-12, 2014
Here is our routine:
10 am Shop for fresh food or other food that the missionaries devoured the day before
10:30 am - 12:30pm Prepare the fruit salads, wash the lettuce, cut the onions and tomatos
11:30 am Mike begins cooking hamburgers and does so until 1:30 pm
11:30 am Office elders come and help set up tables, condiments, chips, cut the hamburger buns and carry food over to the church when it is ready.
12:30 pm We serve the first group of missionaries (12-16 people). I eat 1 low carb hamburger with them.
1:30 pm We serve the second group. Mike joins us to eat and I eat 1 low carb hamburger with him.
2:00 pm We start to clean up the church. We then clean the dishes at the mission home.
3:00 pm We take inventory of what we need and get ready to start all over again.
If it is a Tuesday, I go home and bake 60-70 cookies for the nights dinner group.
On Tuesday nights, the zone that lives way out come into the temple hotel around 8 or 9pm.
7:30 pm We gather cooking pans from the mission home and take them to the hotel and begin baking the empanadas.
8:30 pm We serve 20-30 people their light dinner.
9:30 pm We go home or we take missionaries to the local hospital. When they come in from so far it is a good time to get them in for what ails them and they don't have to make an extra trip. If that's the case, we get home around 2am or later (earlier?)
The next day we start all over again. We cook rain or shine and Mike did have to BBQ in the rain this week. He wore his pancho and cooked away!
We eat hamburgers for lunch every day. ;)
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