This picture was taken yesterday at the beach on Lake Michigan. We decided to go to the beach one more time before snow flies. The drive was beautiful because of the gorgeous fall leaves, listening to the waves was soothing and being with my favorite person made it a great day.
Our granddaughter, Morgan Taggart was baptized as a member of the Church yesterday in Texas. She is the 4th grandchild baptism we have missed while serving here. We would have loved to be there. We love you Morgan and are proud of the decision you have made.
We saw the new movie, "Meet the Mormons". If you haven't seen it, make time to do so. It is well done and will make you laugh as well as cry.
My whole week has been filled with questions.
-Elder Taggart, we accidentally put diesel in the gas tank. What should we do? $935 later, the car was fixed.
-Elder Taggart, we just got a ticket for having expired license tabs (3 companionships).
-Me, have you checked in the glove box and the apartment because I gave those to Elder or Sister _____ months ago? Two of them found them in the glove box; the other one remembers seeing it on their desk but thanks that it must have been thrown away.
-Elder Taggart, we need to get an oil change and tire rotation. Do we have to pay for that? These are two Elders who have been out for over a year, but who have obviously not paid attention to any training given.
-Me, Elders, take your car into Pep Boys. We not only have have a fleet account with them, but we are their oldest and largest client. They will bill me.
-Chief, the Sisters in our ward have been riding bikes because their car is in the shop for accident repair. Can we let them use our car and we will ride bikes? Very thoughtful and kind.
-Elder Taggart, I really thought you would yell at me for not paying attention causing me to hit a curb and cause a blow-out. Thanks for being so calm. I promise I will be more attentive.
-Elder Taggart, Pep Boys just changed our oil and told us that the top of our dip stick is broken off. They can't get the dipstick out. Mind you, this is the first oil change on this brand new car. We're not sure how it got broken; maybe the Elders did it when they checked our oil.
-Two months ago I put 4 brand new rims, tires and hubcaps on a Subaru because the rims were badly bent from hitting things making it so the seal on the tires wouldn't hold. This week I get a car inspection report from the District leaders indicating that the car didn't have any hubcaps on it. I call the Elders - Why doesn't your car have any hubcaps?
-Elders ____& ____ said one of the hubcaps came off, so they took them all off so the car wouldn't look funny. Besides, the car looks really cool here in the "hood" without hubcaps.
-Elders, take your car into Pep Boys and have them put another new hubcap plus the other three on. We don't want the cars to look cool; we want them to reflect the image of the Church and your sacred calling.
-Me- I call the previous Elders and ask them what they hit to bend a brand new rim and cause a hubcap to come off.
-We didn't hit anything. The hubcap just came off.
-Me- then why is the rim bent enough that they aren't sure they can fix it?
-Well, maybe we did hit a pothole pretty hard
Sorry, but this has honestly been my week with cars. All of the missionaries are required to log their car mileage every day and then turn that report into me at the end of the month along with their gas receipts. One companionship who are on bikes felt left out. So they logged their bike miles every day and turned that report into me. They had honestly ridden 451.8 miles for the months. And they said that this had been a light month.
We picked up four 2015 Toyota Corolla's this week. And so the process of assigning those new ones and having the old ones prepared to sell begins again. I have 10 new vehicles on order, so I will soon be selling more cars.
I love my missionaries, but I have lost some hair and definitely do have more grey hair because of them. Needless to say, my weeks are never dull.
The Lord is my light and my strength. Being in His employ makes all that I do worth it. I love Him and love being able to serve Him even when most of my time is spent dealing with car, iPad and cell phone issues so that the young missionaries can invite others to come unto Christ. I pray that you will feel of His love this week.
Elder Taggart, the car czar
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