Mission Life-- Week of August 7 Through The 13th

On Fast Sundays, we do a Break the Fast in the Brigham Apartments Social Room.  We had about 30 missionaries and lots of yummy food.  One of the blessings of serving a mission is the great people that we have gotten to know from all over the place--people who we would have never met if we had not served this mission.  We will always be grateful for them.

On Monday, we had to say goodbye to another missionary--Sister Branda Judkins.  She has been serving for 6 months as a service missionary, two days a week.  Her mother is elderly and recently fell and had to move in with her so she is being released to care for her mother.  We will miss her sweet smile and kind ways.

Later in the week, Elder Bae and Sister Lee received their new assignment in the Family History Library.  They had served with us for 9 months doing work with Korean oral histories and other projects dealing with Korean Church History.  We loved them and they were dedicated hard working missionaries.  I forgot to get a picture with them but will try to do that to add to our record.

I had held off sorting and getting rid of boxes of stuff attached to the Collections Zone because I thought it was something I could do with the new zone leaders so I am not the only one making the decisions.  However, since we are here for six more months and will continue to be zone leaders for a while longer--not sure how long--I decided the job needed to be done now.  I sorted it out, gave stuff to the other zone leaders, and then gave other stuff to our missionaries.  Now the zone stuff is all labeled and boxed up and the extra stuff is waiting to see if the Branch Relief Society leaders want any of it.

Zone stuff

Extra stuff

I met a new employee this week--Natalie on Matt Heiss's team.  In her office, she had a very unusual item so Gary asked her about it. She pulled it down on her desk and then showed us how it opened and asked if we could guess what it was.  Gary guessed it---

An old Toaster from around 1910, I think she said.  Her husband had brought it for her from a table of extra "inventory" at the Museum of Electronic Devices in some small town in the mid-West.

I want one now!  (I ran back to ask for the photos which is why it is back on her shelves.)

You never know what you might find in an historian's office.  Adventure around every corner.

(I bet you wished you had served a mission at the Church History Library.)