This week started out with President Richardson’s birthday on Monday. We, mostly the office elders, surprised him with more than 60 balloons in his office. The AP’s and office elders just about passed out blowing up all the balloons. Then the next day they had fun popping all the balloons.
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I have had a tooth that has been bothering me for a little while. It was one that I had a crown put on before we left on this mission and the dentist said that he had trouble getting it on and I might have trouble latter with it and may need a root canal done on it. Well, that’s exactly what I needed. The wife of our bishop in the ward here is a dentist so I asked if she could check my tooth out and I also needed a cleaning. I made an appointment with her for Wednesday morning. She has a small office not far from where we live. She does not have an assistant or hygienist to help her since she only works part time. She can’t hire someone part-time so she does everything, including the cleaning which only cost $30. Since she doesn’t have an X-ray machine in her office she sent me across the street to another dentist’s office to get the X-ray which only cost $10. I returned on Thursday to have the root canal done. This only cost $165. Can you imagine how much that would have cost if I had done it in the states? Total spent $205. It probably would have cost 10Xs that if we had done it in the states. That’s one thing nice about here is the medical and dental is not nearly as expensive.
Our newest project now in the mission is preparing and getting into all of the missionary apartments 72 hour kits. We had been encouraging the missionaries to always have these but it wasn’t proving very successful so rather than have each missionary have one and move it with him/her when they were transferred, it was decided that $5 would be taken from each missionaries mission money and we would prepare the kits and have them stay in the apartments. The mission nurse was put in charge of preparing a basic first-aid kit for each 72 hour kit. Sister Allred was put in charge of preparing hygiene kits that included a small portion of toilet paper, a couple of wash cloths, a small piece of soap, a small box of matches and a couple of reusable paper towels stuffed in a sandwich size zip-lock bag. I helped her assemble these last Saturday. Sis. Richardson was in charge of the food and water, just survival portions. The food items are being put in sealed bags that we are getting from the Distribution Center in our building. They have a sealer to seal them and that will be done tomorrow. It was felt that it was wise to have these sealed so the missionaries wouldn’t be tempted to “borrow” from the 72 kits. Sis. Allred was also assigned to make some large draw-string bags to put everything in. So, this month we will be distributing these kits to the missionaries.
As part of the training for being prepared in case of emergencies they plan on having a drill sometime in July where they will see have fast the missionaries can respond and report of their safety. We may be gone by the time they do the drill.
Today at church we had some visitors attend church. There were about 16 student nurses plus their leaders from BYU who were here for a learning experience and to help in clinics. They spent about 2 weeks in Guayaquil, about 1 week in Otavalo and will be here in Quito for a few days before returning to the states. There were only a few of them who spoke Spanish so we had most of them in our English Sunday School class. Since it was my turn to teach I was excited to have so many in the class. Several of them came to me after and expressed their gratitude for being able to be in class with us. After having spent the last several weeks of attending church where only Spanish was spoken they were happy that they could participate in a class in English.
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