Clive is at the temple doing his shift. I'm home messing with the computer and am pretty excited that I finally have a blog started. This blog is to be a journal of our New Mexico Farmington Mission.
We received our call way back in November and were surprised to have 5 whole months to wait before entering the MTC on March 26. However, as is often the case there was a good reason for us to wait so long.
In December I decided to get my eyes checked because I thought I needed a new pair of glasses. I was very surprised to learn that I had cataracts in both eyes and they were at the point of needing surgery. My right eye was operated on first, January 17th, and the left eye will be this coming Tuesday, January 31. My surgeon is Dr. Kontos and my eye doctor is Will Fagan, Angie Pabst's husband.
Will told me that they usually wait 5 weeks before checking the eyes to see if glasses are needed. He has already told that I for sure would need glasses which means that with only a couple of weeks available in March, my new glasses will barely make it back from eyeglassville in time for our departure. If we had left in November for our mission as we thought we would, all of this would have had to wait until we got home and my eyes would have been a constant problem.
I'm not going to bore anyone with my complaints but suffice it to say that having this surgery in both eyes with the attendant avalanche of eye drop meds and the time consuming schedule for receiving them as well as going around without your glasses for so long squinting your way around the house and wherever else you happen to be, is not a walk in the park as I had been led to believe. And..........one more complaint and then I concede to silence on the subject, I reacted to the sedation given me before the surgery. It took 2 hours to wake me up which was not such a good idea because I woke up sick as a dog and stayed that way the rest of the day. Dr. Kontos said they would do something different for the second eye. I should hope so.
We have been over to the employment agency in Spokane several times for training which was very helpful and have a lot of materials through the Church and online to help us in understanding our job which will be to run the Church's Welfare and Employment Resource Center in Window Rock, AZ. The center is set up in a single or double wide trailer, we're not sure which, located on the parking lot of the local Church building. We will be living in a house owned by the Church which is 50 yards or so from the Church property. Our address is actually in St. Michaels, AZ which is just a mile or two from Window Rock.
Well, that's enough for now given that I don't even know if this will work. I hope I do all the proper clicks. If it works I will hope that I can get some help on decorating up this blog. It's pretty blah as is. Farewell.
