End of First Week

Saturday 18^th October

Nearly the end of a very busy week.

Elder Saunders has been travelling around the area and also has been in the office going through the various paperwork he needs to manage. Friday he moved the missionaries from one flat to another. One of the missionaries he moved was Elder Hawkins, Mark Hawkins nephew. Don’t tell anybody this BUT one of the Elders had to make a confession to my husband!!!! He accidently made a massive hole in the wall, so how did this happen you may be asking. He did a handstand, slipped and his bottom went through the wall. Ha ha ha ha! So how do you put that into your report Elder Saunders??? But like I said shhhh don’t go spreading this around.

Me well I have been trying to get to grips with all the office paperwork. Inputting all the recent baptisms data in the church records, sorting all the mail and parcels into their different Zone area, and answer the phone to whomever calls. My melt down on Friday was when a lady called and wanted the Mission Presidents mobile number. I said I could not give out his number and asked her for hers so that he could call her back. She was extremely  rude but I was very polite and apologised for not being able to give her his number. Phew I did shed a tear or so but I’ve gotta toughen up as I believe that that was a very mild incident. On Saturday Elder Saunders and I went to the Visitors centre beside the Temple and met Sister Swindler who explained that this rude sister (I shall call her Sister F) was known to her and explained that this lady also tried to get the Mission President’s number from another Missionary and she too had said she couldn’t give it out.

Well Sunday night Elder Saunders and I are going to a musical fireside the Visitors Centre and will meet Sister F. Well not if I have anything to do with it, I’m going to hide in a corner. I will let you know later what happened !!!!!!

Let me tell you how I know Sister Swindler. A few weeks ago while I was working in the London Temple I met a man looking for his wife Michelle Jones. It took a little while to find her then we couldn’t find Brother Jones. Eventually the two were reunited. When I spoke to then a few hours later I said that they were just causing trouble (I was joking as nothing is too much trouble to help anyone in the Temple). Well eventually we got onto the subject of me waiting for my visa to go to New Zealand to serve a mission in Hamilton. Well can you guess it………. Sister Swindler is her sister.  Later that week Michelle gave me a gift to give to her sister which I delivered last nigh.