Hospital Quarters

We have been at the hospital a lot this week. We visit this Lady three times a week who we gave a blessing to two weeks ago. We have also got calls to go give blessings everyday this week and actually have another one we are giving today which means P-day ends at 4:30 instead of 6:00 P.M. This makes it extrememly difficult to wash the car and get my haircut and the reason I need to do all those things is because zone conference is this week on Thursday. This week we have been so busy and I was hoping to get a lot accomplished today, bu,t oh well.

Next preperation day is on Tuesday because it's transfer week. I better not be getting moved. I just got here and I just spent these past 6 weeks trying to get used to the streets in downtown Seattle. Also we are teaching Mariana who is the coolest person ever and she needs to be baptized because she believes everything we teach her.

We had zone leader council this week and President Larkin didn't really change anything. He's keeping the schedule exactly how it is and the only thing he's really changing is nightly calls. Instead of calling the district leaders everynight and talking to them about their day we are going to do that during district meeting. Even last night when we got key indicators for the week are talking was very brief. I got to bed at 10:35 sunday night which is a miracle in it's self. The earliest I've got to bed sunday night as a district leader was 10:40 and as a zone leader it was 11:10. So it was nice to actually lay my head on the pillow and sleep the full 8 hours. Our goal is to get to bed everynight at 10:30 and we are slowly getting there. President Larkin told us he's not going to change any rules or schedules until we can learn how to follow the basic getting up at 6:30, home by 9:00, and in bed by 10:30. After we learn this princple then he will decide what to do next.

Hope everything is fun and warm at home. Enjoy it,

Elder Bottema