Steve spent a couple of days marking the wall map of the mission where the 93 apartments are located. Elder Barfuss is the housing coordinator and drives the length and breadth of the mission.
Byron and Aimee bought us this Garmin GPS before we left Boise and it has been such a blessing!! I love the "Maps" on my I-Phone too, but there are times we lose the signal and the Garmin gets us through. Other times the I-phone will recognize an address and the Garmin won't find it, so between the two we can find our way. We also bought an Alabama laminated road map and a Mississippi paper one that helps a little. We are so thankful for modern technology in the car, but often frustrated with our lack of expertice on the computer programs we are required to chart on for housing and Mission Medical.
The Tiwi is a monitoring device that cut down driving accidents, speeding and recklessness by 50 %!! It is a unit on 64 windshields of every missionary car and even the church owned trucks Elder Morrison and Elder Barfuss drive all over. It can be a source of horrible frustration at first because it won't even let a driver put the car in gear until he signs in with a credit size card, buckles his seat belt and the passenger has the seat belt on too!! It will say, "log in," watch your speed!" and "aggressive driving" as the suction cups let go and it falls onto the dash board!! Steve nicknamed the one he fusses at, "Betsy!" Even when everyone is passing you on the freeway and we were in the slow lane, Betsy fusses at us. Steve will say, "Quiet Betsy!!"(He consistently wears his seat belt)
Recently her voice began to crackle and just sounds like static most of the time.(hard on the nerves) When they malfunction, the unit drains the battery and several cars had to have replacement batteries. Because 17 Tiwi's are unplugged (they are broken); there will be new units coming to the mission in December. It will be from another company, but a similar monitoring system.
During one Zone Confernece when Elder Morrison (Car Zar) announced the Tiwis were being taken out of the cars, all the missionaries cheered!! When Elder Morrison told them there would be replacements, everyone groaned. (It was pretty funny) Next Elder M announced the car quota had to be reduced by six cars and the driving records may be used to choose those who would be riding bikes!!(dead silence among the young missionaries!)
Elder Morrison gets a monthly report about who was speeding from the Tiwi data. One missionary lost driving privileges when he drove 90 miles an hour!!(Rascal)
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