Moving to Monticello NY

Elva and ReVon checking out our new pad, we are on the 2nd floor and this is our rear balcony.
Elder Langi told Doug about this famous donut place downtown near China town. So he had to stop and get a dozen. They were the best donuts ever. They were square and filled with what ever you wanted. I had a peanut and Jelly one and doug had a coconut one filled with coconut syrup.
Elder Langi moving stuff from the convent three flights up.
All the Elders came to help us move stuff into the moving truck.
Elder Mook and Gale helping move in our apartment, trying to get the broken air conditioner out of the slot to put in a new one Doug bought.

What an adventure. We are being transfered to Monticello which is about 95 miles north east of the Bronx where we are at the Bishops storehouse. We did find us an apartment in the same building as the Elders. The Lord was sure guiding us the day we found it. Anyway, the apartment is empty. We have been on a furniture hunting spree. Downtown at the 14th street chapel where the old convent the church owns had a table and chairs, a bed, coffee table and couch. All of the these items you would recognize from your church buildings furniture. Then we went to Yonkers to the base in the chapel there for more items. The mission home had a bedroom set that Tom Nickich donated to the church. The Elders on Olmstead street near us had a dresser and night stands.

We arranged with the AP's to pick up the mission van downtown in China town. We brought our Zone leaders, Elder Grahl and Langi with us to help us move items as the Elders in Manhattan south were at a Zone Conference. It is always an adventure in the convent. Things had to be moved three flights of stairs, the building has no air conditioning and it was about 95 degrees.

Now here's the kicker: we parked right out front of the convent, we put money in the meter. As we were walking out with our last load of stuff, we notice a police meter man at the rear of our car. We asked him if we could help him, what seems to be the problem? He told us he watched as the meter ran out and then proceeded to start writing us a ticket. He was in the process as we came out of the building towards our car. We told him we were just leaving because we knew the meter was running out of time. He didn't even care, told us it was too late and gave us a $65.00 ticket on our windshield. Doug was not a happy camper, he share a few *%&@#+++%&* words with him. I think that was #13. There is one great reason Doug is thrilled about getting out of the city.

We brought the furniture back to the store house to unload in our little garage, then the Elders took the van back down to the convent to get the rest of the load that didn't fit and Doug and I went to rent a Budget rent-a-truck. We met the Elder's back at the storehouse and interupted our District meeting to get the other Elders to help load everything in the Truck. They are such awesome young men, we are really going to miss them.

We then enjoyed dinner with the Formans who are replacing us in the storehouse, answering questions and training, then home to finish up with odds and ends that we needed to box up. During the night, the Rent-a-truck got "tagged". The missionaries called it getting "Bronxed". What else need we endure? Anyway, we finished loading our food from the frig and off we went to the mission home to pick up a few things there. Sister Searle fixed us lunch, we had a great visit and then off to our new home in Monticello. The Elders from our building and the Middletown Elders came and helped us move into our apartment, Then we treated them to dinner and was able to get to know them.