Thursday, September 22, 2016 – Cleaning our Carthage Home

Today was our “Cleaning Day.” When Senior couples are moved in the mission they are given two days without work assignments to move. The first day is to be used to move all of the couple’s personal items. The second day is to be used for cleaning the house they are leaving. The list of instructions to the Seniors is two pages long and very detail. The instruction sheet starts with this line: “Leave it better than you found it.” Then it outlines with specific instructions what and how to clean. Let me just say that I now have a new appreciation for the term, “Deep Cleaning.”

Again today, we had to do some of our regular chores at the Carthage Visitor’s Center in spite of the fact that we are supposed to have the whole day without any work assignments. Yesterday we had to clean and water everything before we started packing. Today, after seven hours of “deep cleaning” our house, I still had to mow all of the lawns at the visitor’s center.  It made for a long day but we got it done. Sis. Johnson is a trooper. She now has little bruises all over her knees from kneeling and scrubbing tile. But you should see the house, everything is clean, it sparkles.