Still Waiting for our visas! August 1st throught 7th

 Monday: Since our paperwork for our visa did not arrive from the State Department, I decided to help our daughter, Genevieve, and her husband, Sam, with a problem at their new apartment.  The apartment passed final inspection and then they applied for a ADU (auxillary dwelling unit) which makes it legal to rent part of your house.  Well, the city required another inspection and the apartment door to the outside at the bottom of the stairwell to the basement did not pass code.  It needed to be 3 inches bigger.  So Monday, Sam and I tore out the brand new door we had installed and cut the concete foundation 4 inches on one side of the door.  Tuesday, we got the new 36" wide door installed and the casing and brickmold installed.  Wednesday,  I installed some concete patching and interior threshold to cover the space between the door and the flooring. It is ready for the inspector to come back.

 I got covered in mud from cutting the concrete.

                                       Concrete cut day one.

                              Door installed and brick mold on.

                             Casing installed and new threshold.

Thursday we had our Zoom meeting with the startup team for the Quito temple and they are going to start training temple coordinators on Saturday, August 13th.  We so hope to be there by then.  Friday we went to lunch with our good friends, Blake and Michell Rigby.  Then our good friends, Wally and Martha Cooper, picked us up and drove us to their farm in southern Idaho.  They have been working on their farm for more than 30 years.  They have completly redone the original  farm house and added an addition to it.  It is so cute.  Wally has promised to send me some pictures, I will post the pictures next week.  He has rebuilt an old granary and turned it in to a guest house.  They have added a new garage and also a new shop and tractor building.  They lease out the land to a rancher for his cows.  It rained all day Saturday, but it was so pretty and peaceful.  

We got home just in time to watch Stake Conference on Zoom.  Martha suggested that we contact our Senator and see if he can help us get the paperwork we need.  It just so happens that a staff member at the Salt Lake office for Senators Mike Lee and Mitt Romney lives in our ward.  Chris called her and she sent us a form to fill out and indicated that she would try and help us first thing Monday morning.  Everyone please pray that we get that last document we need so we can get to Ecuador in time to start the training on the 13th.