The New Missionaries Are Here

It is amazing to see how things time out for us as we go through the day. Last Sunday Elder Riches asked us to take some paper work to the Mission Office for him. Since getting back we have not had a spare minute to walk over there, so finally we dropped off the car to get it washed and walked to the Mission Office. We were thrilled to see a lot of shoes out front as we arrived, which meant there were a whole bunch of missionaries, including new ones at the office. Originally we thought that the new missionaries arrived yesterday, but this morning we bumped into Elder & Sister Leavitt while we were on our walk and they told us they were coming today. It seems like the busier that we get the less of the young missionaries that we know, we just don't have time to interact as much as before. Sister Oveson did get some nice pictures for the Blog while we were there.

This morning we Skyped with Sister Roberts in Hong Kong. We try to Skype with most of the Self-Reliance Missionaries once a month for about an hour. With Sister Roberts we usually Skype three times per month for about a half hour. We have said before, Sister Roberts is a friend that we enjoy visiting with, who helps us in many ways with our Self-Reliance assignments.

We had on our calendar that there was suppose to be an Asia Area Self-Reliance Committee Meeting today at 10:00. We made sure that we were ready and dialed into the conference room in Hong Kong where it was suppose to be held, but it was empty and the lights were off. After checking with our Area Manager we found out that the meeting was canceled two weeks ago. He promised to make sure we receive updates more consistently in the future. Oh well, at least we tried to be obedient in our calling.

We have our Institute lesson for Saturday most of the way done, now we just need to go through it a couple of times to get more comfortable with the presentation. Since we have to find more updated quotes than the manual has, we are definitely learning as we are preparing.

Today we also worked more on the various PowerPoint presentations that are coming up. This afternoon we Skyped with Elder & Sister Ricks in Thailand who are helping with the presentation at the manager conference. Phanna finished translating the Delegation PowerPoint slides for Elder Oveson's talk at Stake Leadership Training this Saturday. We also worked a little on the slides for the Service Center Devotional. They are all coming together, which is really fun.