Catching Up At The Office

We understand that when we are out of the office that when we come back there are always things that we have to catch up on, but we were only out of the office one day. Today was one of those days were we were pushing all day long, without any real down time at all.

Since we were out of the office yesterday we had to push our weekly Self-Reliance Services Staff Meeting back to this afternoon. These weekly meetings are essential for each of us to understand what is on the plates of the rest of the team. It feels like we are all very busy. August and September are the two biggest months for new and renewed Perpetual Education Fund (PEF) loans. Add on that are the symposiums that we need to do in each stake and district before the end of the year. Then sprinkle in the My Path Devotionals, Self-Reliance Groups and Resource Development, which are our normal responsibilities and we are all busy.

Elder Oveson has been doing the 2nd Level Reviews for the PEF loans for all of the Asia Area and that can get really crazy this time of year as well. There were 13 in the review box this morning and more got added as he was reviewing those. Sister Oveson worked on correspondence and our Institute Lesson that we need to get done.

Since we drove the mission Toyota Avanza, that we are grateful to have, for our trip around the country, we had to fill it up so we could turn in our gas receipts. Also we were not able to go grocery shopping on Saturday we needed to make a quick trip to the grocery store. We had planned on leaving the office early to avoid part of the crowd, but we finally slipped out just before 5:00. It rained some this afternoon and was trying to sprinkle as we headed out, which adds to the congestion, all the motos are less patient because they are getting wet and are extra pushy to get in front of everybody else. The traffic was so heavy it took us forever to just make it to the gas station, then fighting our way to Lucky grocery store was an adventure as well. The heavy traffic did give us some pictures to include in our collage for the day. We are still wondering where they put all of the big chandeliers that we see in the lighting shops that we pass.