Still on that same week-- December 5 through the 11th-- Thursday morning started very early (not bright as it was still the black of night outside as we were getting ready for our zone temple trip to the Bountiful Temple) Because a snow storm was forecasted, we got up at 5:45 to be ready and out the door by 6:40 to pick up Sister Audenart and get to the temple by 7:30 am. There was some snow falling but it wasn't a bad drive up to the temple.
Pictures are taken in the basement parking atrium looking up through the glass....
After dropping Sister Audenart off at her hotel, we headed to the Church History Library for Jena to do the mail and for Gary and I to take care of emails and missionaries. We discovered we were getting 4 new missionaries--a bit unexpected although Gary was predicting 5! Two of them we knew about because they had been invited by other missionaries or staff to join the mission. But that means training more missionaries on Friday of this week......
We were hoping to head to our apartment for lunch and maybe a short nap, when we got a call from Randy Gailey, a friend and owner of the other part of the storage units. There had been a break-in at the storage units and we needed to head up and assess the loss and damage. So change of clothes and off we went--in the snow of course. Only one unit on our side and one unit on Randy's side had been hacked open. Our renter checked and nothing seemed to be missing. The locks had been cut and the doors left open. They got in by cutting through the fence in a small side part. The police were called and told us that this had been happening to other storage units in the area. Lucky not worse and we should get the final repairs done on the fence this week. Gary did a makeshift repair a few days later which has held for the meantime. A weird situation!
We got home in time to change back into our missionary clothes and head to the COB to help serve dinner at another zone's Christmas party on the 26th floor of the COB. It was fun to be there with missionaries we don't often see except on Sundays or mission devotionals.
Friday was a day of training new missionaries. It is always a privilege to attend the Go Forth Meetings and hear the mission president and his wife talk. Even though they frequently cover the same topics, each time is slightly different and I usually find or feel something new or different. And it is exciting to meet with the new missionaries and talk about how amazing the Collections Zone is. This time we had Sister Kaupusi who will be doing SPC and Elder and Sister Olivera from Brazil who will work on the Latin American team.
And by the evening, we were tired and I wrote in my journal--"so we had a quiet evening."
Isn't missionary life amazing!
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