Today was "Apartment Checks" in Port Angeles and Forks!

 

It has been 5 weeks since we first did apartment checks. We had asked the missionaries if they would like us to come right before transfers or right after. They all said that it would be better for them if we came after, so that is what we scheduled. The new missionaries coming in felt the brunt of that decision and from now on we will check right before transfers! 

I got up early this morning and made 6 loaves of bread and as soon as they were out of the oven we headed out. 

The Sisters in Port Angeles II are so bright and cheery that it is a joy to visit them! Their apartment was clean and they had exciting experiences to share with us! They wanted some advice about a tulip plant someone had given them that was looking a little pale. I couldn't help them.  They had drowned it with love.

The new Elder in Port Angeles I, looked a little frightened as I made suggestions about what needed improving, and was so glad to tell me that the dresser with clothes hanging out and on it was the Zone Leader's--not his! It is a hard place to clean because it is old and small and the missionaries are big but the Zone Leader did go in and shut his dresser drawers. I asked him when he planned to get married. Dad was a bit shocked at the question, but the Elder could tell me right off! His girlfriend will be returning from her mission just after he gets home and they already have a time in mind. I explained that she probably thinks he is a knight in shining armor, but she won't if she finds out he is a slob! Instead of lovingly searching for ways to serve him she will feel like a maidservant! He blushed a little and said he could see my point. 

We went with them to look at an apartment they had found that they felt would be better, but when we saw it we thought it was still too small and $300 more! Empty, it looked much better to them!

     The trip to Forks is always beautiful, and tho' we were in a hurry because we were taking the Elders to lunch, we did take a minute to stretch our legs and shoot some pictures--not much different than our last trip but with clear skies in stead of rain.

Crescent Lake is huge! It goes for miles and is very beautiful.

 Dad read the information on this marker that declared the lake was created by a huge glacier millions of years ago and wondered just how they knew! Then he showed me where we would go wading when it was summer time.

 I wanted a picture of the stones covered with moss so he made me stand by them and then I caught a picture of him as he came up from the lake.

 There wasn't a place to pull off the road so I didn't get a picture of a tree trunk so thickly covered in moss that large ferns were growing out of it!

 Forks isn't that far away from Port Angeles, but the road is all curves so one can only drive 35 - 45 miles per hour. Its a good thing the scenery is pretty!

The Elders in Forks are great and while we were there the Zone Leader called and said they had found the perfect apartment for us to look at when we got back in town. We had thought of taking the long way home on the road that follows the ocean, but because we needed to help them we hurried back the 35 mph way we had just come.

The apartment was great! I would love to move into it! The rent is $375 more than their current apartment so we will see what the Mission President says. The Elders felt so loved tho' that we talked to the Housing Coordinator and pulled for them. (The Housing Coordinator calls me "Sis" because I look like his sister, the non-member man (and his wife) that we so love and visit every week says I look like  his first wife, and a woman at a fireside Sunday evening asked me if I had been there to speak about 12 years ago--she thought she recognized me. It happens to me all the time! I must have the most generic face in the world!

Love you all! Thanks for sharing our adventure with us!

We're glad that you live in this beautiful world Heav'nly Father created for us!