The day starts with the Singletons and ourselves being in the office working on a number of projects. Sister Singleton and Sister Pier have about 100 or so letters to write, 180 board cards to up date, 21 board cards to create and the Zones with Pictures to reorganize. Now unless you have worked in a mission office most of these tasks will mean nothing to you but I can assure you that it is a lot to do over the next 3 days.

Elder Singleton got most of the transfer board moved around yesterday so today was pretty quiet for us. However a couple of problems popped up – don’t they always – which caused some head scratching and some creative work arounds. But everything worked out.

About 9 the APs came in to start a day that will stretch from 9 in the morning until about 9:30 or so tonight. First on their list of things to do is not to eat breakfast! They all munched on apples while they made the accountability calls to the Zone Leaders. The Zone Leaders basically are prepared to talk about how their Zones performed during the past week, why any baptisms that had been scheduled did not occur, problems they see in areas and districts, and how they think they can solve them. The APs encourage the ZLs, do some training and ask some very pointed questions but everything is done with lots of love. They keep careful notes that are assembled and passed on as a report to President Anderson. It is a special experience to listen to them and to feel the spirit that they convey in their conversations and training. It is truly the kind of teaching that D&C 50 suggests as both the APs and the ZLs are edified.