Elder Oliver and Elder Torgerson spent most of Thursday looking for missionary desks.The misionaries each get a study desk with a built in bookcase of one or two shelves at the back. They are really small and most of the desks we saw on our house inspections were just used to put things on. They were too small to study at. We have new houses and we want to get them desks with bookcases. The office had told the missionaries to find a carpenter to built them a desk. That would have cost about $180. We set out to buy desks. All wood desks were $200 for a small 3 foot desk. Wood frame with formica top desks were $150 for the same size. The La 14 (catorce) or Exito stores sell a "you-put-together" desk for about $75 without bookcase. The only thing with a bookcase was a computer station which is not as deep as a regular desk and has a pull out drawer for the keyboard. It did have a shelf and a CD rack at the back. Elder Oliver wouldn't buy those and that caused the search. Saturday the search continued. When I told Sister Prince that in Monterrey we bought resin tables for the elderes use as study desks at COSCO, she remembered we have a MAKRO. Today we went to MAKRO. They actually had two good choices; a table like we used in Monterrey ($50 on sale until Monday) and a good put-it-together desk for $60. Neither had the required bookcase. We continued on to HOMECENTER, a Home Depot type store. There we came up with a plan to buy shelves and brackets for attaching them to the wall, about $10 each. Both the desk or table and the shelf would be bigger than anything we looked at on Thursday. Now we have to sell Sister Prince that the shelves don't have to be attached to the desk.
I really like our new bookends.
I like your rocks!
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