Covid-19 Visitors, No Need for TP

Another week has flown by and here we still are social distancing, staying home, and staying safe?  We wear masks when we go to the grocery store, but luckily we can go for walks and breath the fresh air.  The weather has been so beautiful and the flowers and trees continue to scream, "it's Spring".  To bad there are not people out to enjoy it!
The work continues on the temple and we continue to go watch 3-4 times a week.

View from North Temple, you can see the spires continuing to come down.

Hazmat team working on getting rid of the asbestos.  It looks like they are afraid of Covid-19!

The deep holes are being filled in with clean dirt

Debra's sister Sherry and her husband Richard Jensen from St George, came for a welcome visit.  They are in Salt Lake working on their rental house to get it ready to sell.  They also enjoyed seeing the progress on the temple.  They continue to remove the spires and it is so hard to see "my temple" the one we were married in coming apart.  But President Nelson reassured us that we will love the finished product and I am sure we will.

Front Sherry, Debra, back Richard, and Bob April 23, 2020

We are doing eight classes a week in our zone for all the missionaries, and having devotionals two times a week and zone leadership meetings about every other week.  Of course all is this is by way of WebeX.  We are getting a bit more familiar with doing everything online, but you never know when there is going to be a glitch.  One class last week started 10 minutes late due to a glitch that had everyone scurrying around.  They finally got it up and going and even still over 100 people hung around for the class.  It is amazing how many just want to see other faces.  We can be grateful for technology even if it is a challenge for us older missionaries.

Friday we had a knock on our door that has added to the craziness of our lives.  UPMA, the company that takes care of West Temple Apartments, wanted to know if we had a leak in our master bathroom as the apartment below us was getting water through their ceiling?  Come to find out the main pipe below our toilet which is encased in cement was broken.  Bob thinks it was probably from the earthquakes.  So now we wait to see where we will be moving.  I'm hoping to stay here at West Temple.  We looked at a couple of places yesterday, but it is up to mission housing to let us know.  We hope to be moving today as it is smelling mildew, and musty.  Luckily we can keep our doors and windows open with the nice weather. In the mean time we have one bathroom and a smelly, but clean, apartment.

Beautiful tree framing the Salt Lake Temple from North Temple

Sunday after our WebX  zone Sunday School we took a ride to the Salt Lake City Cemetery.  We found President Kimballs headstone, also Neil Maxwell, and President Hunters.  It is a beautiful and huge cemetery.  We also found the "Christmas Box Angel" it was covered with flowers and toys.  I was surprised to see so many people at the cemetery.  It is a beautiful setting.

President Spencer W Kimball headstone. at Salt Lake City Cemetary

Christmas Box Angel Salt Lake City Cemetary

We continue to pray for a solution to this Corona Virus so we can be turned loose and get back to work.  I think we will be very busy this week moving and doing classes.