Mission office Day 2

Tuesday we worked again in the mission office. I got to move a bunch of boxes of Books of Mormon on the small dolly they have there. Dee took the Canfields to the post office to apply for their permesso docs. Sorella  Canfield speaks some Italian, but it was good to have extra support. I drove them over and dropped them off, then came back to pick them up an hour or so later when they were done. At the post office, you go to a machine to get a number, based on what you want to do. This means that the number also has a symbol next to it. We had an actual appointment, so our number was V21 with a little symbol next to it. It popped up  on the board right at our appointment time, but the woman at that window told us we had to wait for a normal number. Strange. So, we waited until our number appeared for a different window. The woman there was much more helpful. The Canfields also had a parking ticket to pay, so we did that as well. We kept telling this postal employee that she was an angel. Sister Canfield wished she had some chocolate to give her. They were very grateful to Dee. Here is a photo of the four of us. The Canfields are a great couple. This is their third mission together!

In the afternoon, Dee got to message a bunch of missionaries who had not yet finished some online training. She enjoyed reaching out to a number of the young missionaries we have known. She also got to put together the "farewell packets" for the missionaries going home the next transfer. If they're Italian speakers, they get the letters in Italian. Interestingly, the Tuberculosis letter says different things in the Italian version. It is nice to offload the Balzottis and Knieses, who are too busy these days. I helped out with a few small tech things, and then in the afternoon I went with Anziano Balzotti to a (very nice) brand-new  apartment for the Rome 5 Sorelle, who currently live below us with the Rome 2 Sorelle. I installed my shower curtain contraption without holes, although it is not as stable as the prior one, where the rods were able to rest on the lip of the tile. Hopefully it will hold up. Anziano Balzotti spent time putting up ceiling lights -- there were only bare wires hanging from the ceiling--no junction boxes. I helped him for a couple of hours, handing him things as he stood up on a table. It was very hot and  sweaty inside.

I got back barely in time to pick up Dee and head home for me to meet with Claudio at 5pm to work on his computer. We got home in time, and Dee soon headed out to a nearby orthopedic shoe store -- no luck unfortunately. It was nice to be home early enough to take a walk, anyway. Claudio was 90 minutes late. I finally sent him a message asking if he was coming, and he apologized profusely that something had come up. He said, "maybe I should have let you know". Duh, but this is Italy, where time doesn't mean the same thing as in the US. Anyway, finally he showed up and we got started. It went very slowly, with the CPU cooler alone taking over an hour. There were no manuals for anything except the motherboard, so we had to spend a bunch of time googling and watching YouTube. Finally about 9pm we gave up because the power cable wasn't long enough to go to both the graphics card and the motherboard. He will order an extension cable. Meanwhile, it turns out that he is leaving on vacation with his family on Wednesday for two weeks. We still have a few hours of work to go.