Office Adventures

 On Mondays lots of missionaries come into the office to do their p-day e-mails.  Elders Newman and Wright come in every day because they work with the young singles and they e-mail every day.  We have lots of fun with them.    Once every six weeks I fill zone orders for all of the missionaries.  Because our mission has more than doubled I now get to have help.  Thursday Elders Pistorious and Botello were the "lucky" ones to come in and help me gather supplies.  Both of these Elders are very shy and very quiet.  Elder P is brand new so he was especially so quiet and "all business".  After working together for over 3 hours getting things together and packing them up, they finally relaxed and had fun.  I knew I could get them to laugh and enjoy it.  These Elders are fine young men and very dedicated.  They helped me so much too.  We packed over 8 boxes average per zone.  Elder P took the initiative to copy and print of lots of forms for me too.  I really appreciated all of the help.

 Several weeks ago one of our sets of missionaries had a phone that exploded during the night.  They woke up to a strange smell.  When they went into the front room, they saw a room filled with smoke and an exploded phone.  Luckily they were not using the phone when it exploded.  Sister Nilsen and I were surprised to see it when it came in.  It was fried!  I deal with all of the phones in the mission so that is why the phone was being returned to me.