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| One of the apartment missionary boxes, the man is the driver of the truck that has often delivered for us. |
MISSIONARY APARTMENT IN A BOX
One
of the things Mission Housing is responsible for is the furniture and
supplies in missionary apartments. President Meredith asked us to assist
Elder and Sister Peele at the end of June,who were the Housing
Coordinators in our mission.
One
of the first apartments needing furniture was a senior couple apartment
in San Bruno Ca. The apartment is a one bedroom and really sits in a
beautiful area overlooking the Oakland Bay.We found furniture from
Salvation Army which required some fun shopping just to see what they
had. Salvation Army in north Oakland has a great reputation for
thoroughly cleaning all of their soft furniture, (sofas, love seats etc)
and making sure there are no bugs such as bed bugs, lice etc. After we
chose a sofa, love seat and chair for the apartment we went down the
next day with a truck and trailer to pick up the furniture. No small
feat in a city like Oakland. But thankfully they have an area out in
front of the store just for furniture pick-ups.
We
also had to buy kitchen, laundry and bathroom supplies for the
apartment. Then we took all of the items to the first apartment in San
Bruno Ca. Elder and Sister Peele went with us as did Elder Olvera
another older Elder. (His wife is our mission nurse) We had lots of help
from our young Elders who are serving in the area. It was so fun to
meet them and get to know them a bit. We all went out to Wendy's for
lunch.
After the "Senior" missionary apartment, we have been doing what we call the "missionary apartment in a box."
What
this means is that all the furniture for the apartment (beds, dressers,
desk, lamps, book case, chairs, kitchen supplies, etc.) all arrive by
truck, on two separate pallets. We wait for the truck and with at least
two preferably four young Elders we unload the pallets and carry the
boxes to the apartment, which is usually two to three floors up. Then
everyone pitches in and sets up tables, beds, the bookshelf, and
dressers plus putting the kitchen supplies in the cupboard. The housing
coordinator needs to find missionary apartments in areas where
missionary work is going to expand. This last transfer (meaning 6 weeks)
the coordinators had to find 7 apartments before July 31st. The miracle
is it all happened. The next transfer which is on Sept 11 the mission
will need 12 new missionary apartments. The most difficult to find are
in San Francisco, because of cost and because of location. Three have
been leased as of today Aug. 5th. So Elder and Sister Felt will be
meeting trucks again at missionary apartments this month and part of
next month. We took some pictures of the boxes arriving and our
excellent missionaries unloading and setting up the apartments.
These
first pictures are of the apartment in San Ramone, this was the second
of our "Missionary box apartments," the one day before was in Danville
and the same Elders helped us. In the pictures are the two large
container boxes arriving. The Elders tearing it down and then how the
apartment looks when all the furniture is set up. It is pretty amazing
for two hours of work.
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This album has 14 photos and will be available on SkyDrive until 11/12/2013.
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| Elder Felt unloading the box. |
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| Every apartment needs a vacuum |
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| box of four chairs, mop, broom and dustpan |
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| Elders helping us unload and set up the apartment, Walnut Creek Zone |
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| The book shelf in a box |
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| missionary beds, and a dresser. Very heavy dresser! |
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| desk, lamp and bookshelf outside of its box. Wa-la |
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| Elders who have helped us a lot |
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| Elder Orr, Elder Fajardo, |
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