What do we do these couple of weeks after we arrive on the Mountain.
One might imagine that we sleep in, ride ATV’s, have parties, etc. Nope!
We train, work, clean, paint, move boats, put away new life vests. Yep, we are getting ready for those campers
who will soon be here.
All the
canoes and paddle boats had to be cleaned, moved, and put into the water. This was fun as we ladies got to paddle the
boats over to the dock. Before we could
move them, the men had to put new “bushings”, whatever those are, in each
paddle boat. They then had to go and get
the rubber raft, inflate it, and make certain it still floats and still
runs. The next boat they had to get was the big pontoon boat. It had to be launched into the lake and all
the missionaries had to learn to drive it.
We had
to train the new Sisters how to load and unload campers from the paddle
boats. There is quite a technique, using
boat hooks, to make certain no one ends
up in the lake instead of the boat. Next
we had to train them in the use of our suction system that is used to clean the
water out of the paddle boats after they are used or when it rains.
I had made certain that I told the new
missionaries that we never get wet. I
cautioned them carefully about positioning their feet and hang on to the poles
on the dock, to be certain not to be pulled into the water. Well . . .I was in one of the paddle boats,
cleaning it. I pulled up one of the
seats, and stepped back to put the seat down, only to find that I had completely misjudged my position
in the boat. Instead of stepping into
another area of the boat, I stepped back and found myself in the lake, wet up
to my waist. In the process, my glasses
fell into the lake, but sweet Sister Smith saw them down in the water, and
using a grabber , and laying on her tummy was able to retrieve them for
me. She got big hugs for that.
A whole huge shipment of new life
vests came that all had to be unpackaged and put away. All the old vests had to be removed. This was quite the project, but it looks so
splendid to have so many new vests. This
year all the missionaries will be wearing beautiful blue vests. Fancy!!!
See, Getting Ready #2 for the rest of the story!
2 comments:
I love the snow in the back ground of your first picture. You hadn't mentioned your glasses fell off when you fell in . . .was the water freezing?
looks like you are getting things together for all those girls and families! I hope the water was not too cold!
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