A Good Day

Tuesday - August 27th -

Today was a good day.  But I feel like those little old ladies in the play A Christmas Carol. Do you remember them? As soon as Scrooge was determined to be dead, they rummaged through his earthly belongings, looking for useful items to pawn away for petty cash. Or perhaps they would find something useful for their own purposes- mulling over the pile of loot like hyenas at a kill. 

It was a good day, like I said. We did apartment inspections in 6 apartments throughout the West Zone in New Taipei City. We fixed broken items, took needed furniture to some elders and brought back superfluous items picked up at various apartments that they didn’t need anymore. 


An extra desk and fan. Several extra chairs. A broken dryer. A bag of clothes. A pile of unneeded sheets. An oven. 

Moving unneeded furniture - grateful for
the elevator!

Those items end up in the basement of the church building here in Taipei, where all extra furniture and miscellaneous items are stored, patiently waiting for the day when they’ll be called into service again at some new apartment. A row of refrigerators. Several long rows of mattresses. Desks, chairs, etc. They all end up in the basement.

And then I go “shopping” for our  sparsely furnished apartment. Whatever is needed for missionary apartments can be found there, so there I shop. And today was exceptionally good. 

Missionaries are always grateful when
 we  arrive!

Rummaging through old fridges I found a shelf that fit perfectly in our freezer, since ours was missing. A perfect rolling shelf came home too, making an ideal corner for our cooking appliances - a Martha Stewart corner as Elder Coffey calls it. A left over throw pillow added a nice touch to our couch. And a metal mixing bowl! I’m in heaven now! Ha!

I did leave the dulcimer at the sisters' apartment, but have plans to later go back and collect that along with the electric guitar with amplifier found in a second apartment. The electric dual foot and calf massager, unwanted in one apartment, was like Christmas to the elders in another apartment. I think we made their day. 

Electric leg and foot massager -
unwanted junk by one turning into
much loved treasures by another.

Missionaries staying focused on their missionary purpose! And with lots of cash to spend apparently! But these items get left behind when they leave - making happy hyenas rummaging through the left overs. 

Yes, it was a good day!

A happy trio of sister missionaries, complete with year-round
Christmas lights in their apartment.