Daily Archives: January 11, 2013

A Quiet Thursday

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Thursday was rather quiet – other than the regular activities that go on around the mission office almost everyday nothing exciting happened. We like it that way! Mary had her normal activities with referrals and writing letters to families and missionaries who are either coming into the mission, arrived at the MTC, or are leaving. This amounts to about 200 letters a month which can keep her busy for a few days. Referrals come in each day – from the MTC, from missionaries, and from members. They must be sent to the correct area for contact and then followed up on to see that the contact was made.

Mail comes in to the office every day and must be re-routed to the correct address for the missionary. Since this is the week before transfers we start holding the packages on Tuesday and the letters on Thursday because we can not be sure that they will be delivered before the missionary is moved to a new area. We will take them to transfer meeting next week and the majority of them will be picked up by either the missionary if they were transferred or have a new companion or by the zone leaders for those who did not get moved. We have pretty much perfected the system thanks to E/S Collins and E/S Evans. They take care of the mail most days and if they can not get in we see that it domes.

In the afternoon we went to Weston so Mary could give a piano lesson. It is the time of the year when the bougainvillea is in full bloom and I keep taking pictures of this beautiful plant. We had them in Indonesia – where trees could reach 30 feet or more and South Africa where they were plentiful if not as big as those in Indonesia. I have tried to grow them in Provo but while they are OK, they are nothing like the ones we found on our missions.