Office Happenings

Monday is a blur.  I was taking cold meds and was admittedly in a fog.  No more meds since then, and I feel a TON better.  (Thank you, Heavenly Father, for a quick recovery!)  Now just an annoying cough. 

Tuesday we received emails informing of 14 new missionaries!  Wow - That's the most received on one day that's come in since I've been here.  Yay - work to do!  Boo - the church application we use did not include their pictures - which we really need! First time that has happened!  Anyway, we are waiting for them to get that glitch fixed.  Of course, we have been able to get many things done.

One missionary from Rochester, New York, one from Arizona, and one from Florida.  Several from Idaho and Utah.  Some coming in November, some in January and a couple in February.  We LOVE getting new missionaries!  (One new elder is from Ammon, Idaho, and Elder Mecham's chiropractor, Dr. Mayo, knows him.  Dr. Mayo has been a bishop in Ammon.  We emailed and asked him if he knew the elder.  He emailed back, "Of course I know him!  There are only 10 people in Ammon - how could I NOT know him?"  Haha!

Ordering missionary supplies from SLC can sometimes be frustrating.  Sister Blue has had her share of frustrations previously.  So I've made up an order form that I fill out and fax.  Last shipment, we got everything as ordered.  No problem.  Today (Thursday) we received one box of our order, not too unusual to receive only one box -- the others we figured would be here tomorrow.  Oddly, only Spanish items were in the box.  Again -- just figured everything else would arrive soon.  However, we had ordered 6 pkgs (600) Progress Records in Spanish.  And that's exactly how I had it on the order form -- 6 pkgs (600).  In our shipment were 6 single forms.   Hmmm, I wonder what mission anywhere in the world would send in an order of only 6 solitary forms.  I WAS just going to wait until the rest of our order arrived to see if they made the same mistake for the English Progress Records and also the Teaching Records, of which we also ordered 600.  But I decided to call and check.  I'm glad I did, because I learned that NONE of the English language supplies made it into our order.  Yikes!  Now, mind you, the order I send has everything neatly arranged in a table, English items first with Spanish items in the next column, all with appropriate stock numbers.  All on one page.  This is because they have really messed up on the orders in the past, so I wanted it to be as crystal clear as possible.  I'm still dumbfounded -- SIX single solitary forms!  Crazy, huh?  It would be interesting to see what the process is at the other end.