Some here think I should be sent home for insanity. I am wishing for more snow...and 2 more days below zero. We break all previous records with 2 more days below zero and a mere 6" of new snow. I say lets go for the new record---bragging rights and stories to tell for the rest of our lives. "I lived through the winter of 2014 in Chicago.....walking to work uphill both ways....with only a thin Seattle coat for protection!!" You get the drift. (no pun intended.)
What a week it has been---the lull before the storm.(transfers next week) Quiet office for the most part---except for the Taggart's desks. Elder Taggart has had 7 accidents in 7 days...plus one of our Elders slipped on ice and fell while crossing the street and was then hit by a car. D&C 84:88....he was definitely protected by angels and all of the millions of prayers that go up daily on behalf of missionaries. He suffered broken ribs, a concussion,and had surgery for all the internal bleeds but will be as good as new as soon as his 12" incision heals. OUCH!!!
One of our Elders told me to read Alma 17:14 this week, then added, "Don't you think that describes the ______________ area of Chicago?" Oh these missionaries.
I started the new referral system on Monday. The training from SLC was hilarious. "Now I know you aren't looking at an Ipad and have no access to one but you need to train your missionaries how to report their own referrals on their individual devices." Funny man. I am a visual learner so all his descriptions of what would be on the device screen meant nothing to me. I'm supposed to train 225 missionaries yet can't be trusted to see an Ipad unless it belongs to one of the missionaries.(and the Church won't allow us to have their software on our own Ipads) So Sister Taggart has described over the phone countless times this week, "Turn on your Ipad....go to Safari....here is the website....now enter your password which will connect you to Area Book..."
I had one Sister say to me, "Sister Taggart, what is my password?" On any given day, I deal with 6 different passwords on my own computer. Yes--I have them written down in case the black hole shows up in my brain that day. Funny Sister.....thinking I know HER password.
Yes, you read correctly....225 missionaries. On Monday we gain 14 more missionaries. We lose only 4 plus 2 Visa waiters. Our Russia visa waiter is going to Russia next week where she will have no need of most of the ward clothes she has desperately needed here in Chicago. Go figure!!
I had 4 Elders to dinner one night this week. I am a grandma to all but one and his mother is my age. Hard for me to comprehend having a son his age....especially as my second granddaughter prepares for a mission. My can these Elders pack away the food!! We watched 2 of the Elders put half of the chicken on their plates and wondered what the rest of us would eat. They raved about the orange jello with grated carrots and crushed pineapple in it. Famous Mormon jello and 3 of the Elders had never had it.
No meals to prepare for transfers this week because Sister Abbott has that under control.
Missionaries reporting their own referrals.
Brother Abbott taking care of all the apartment inspections that are coming in.
I may just prop my feet up on my desk and take a nap this week!!
Ya'll have a great week and keep reading your scriptures!! Answers for everything, you know.
Sister Taggart
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