TRIP TO MISSION TO OUR FIRST AREA

We drove to Heyburn Idaho and visited with my oldest brother Jay & Loa his wife.  We had lunch and visited for about two hours, then drove on to Merdian Idaho to visit and stay with my brother John for the night. we went out to dinner and visited the rest of the night.  Tues morning we left for Seattle.  As we were driving my phone rang.  It was a call from President Don Miller 2nd Counselor to President Larkin(Mission President).  He wanted to know where we were.  We said we had just got into Washington.  He called again and thought we should drive straight to the Mission Home instead of getting Motel as we planned. We said ok, but we got into eastern Seattle in rush hour. We got stuck behind a semi and missed our turn for Mercer Island, we had to drive all the way to downtown Seattle before we could turn around. We were over an hour late getting to the Mission Home.  Sister Larkin and Ally (their 10 year daughter) were waiting supper for us.  We ate and then President Larkin came home from a meeting.  He took us into his office for an interview at 9:30pm(10:30 Salt Lake time).  At about 11pm we were able to go to our room to sleep.  This has been a very long day for an older mature couple.
We got up early, so we would be ready when Pres. & Sister Miller came at 8:30am to take us to our area.  Pres.Larkin and his wife fixed breakfast of bacon and eggs, plus fruit. The Millers came on time.
We followed the Millers to the Chapel in our assigned area, which is the Seattle 1st Ward. The ward area is about 7 miles north and south of the center of Seattle, The Ward goes East of the ocean for about
10 miles.  There are 1000 members in the Ward, but only 123 attend regularly. There 328 members that they know nothing about and have never seen.  There are 23 members that attend maybe once a quarter.  There are 104 they know but don't attend.  There are 115 that want no contact. Our job is to contact each member starting with the unknown, and start to re-activate and reduce the number in the unknown list.We were to be in an apartment today, but all the apartments they had to show us was leased already. So back to the phones,  an apartment was found, but it won't be available until the 19th.  Called Bishop Skog.  He said he would call us back.  We are living in the basement of sister Ritva Swartz.  She is such a sweet lady and insists that she feed us morning and night. 
Our car is still packed until the 19th, we are living out of our suit cases(we only planned for 4 days). our first challenge is how to live out of our suit cases for over a week.