A Well Deserved Breather

This was the first week we have had no events. That doesn't happen very often. That doesn't mean we weren't busy. We found out this week that are trainers are going home the end of THIS month instead of the end of next month.  They said they were both prompted at the same time and were afraid to tell each other because they don't quit early on anything. They said they feel comfortable that we have a handle on everything and that the time has come for them to go home. As it turns out the people who were renting their home just bought a home and are moving out the end of the month so it was another sign for them that it is time to go home. It is a little scary, but I think we are both up to the task. The mission is actively recruiting to bring in another couple as soon as they can and it really does work best with two missionary couples. We will definitely need another couple before General Conference so please pray they will find one for us. Apparently this particular call has to go through a little different vetting process because of the sensitive work we do. Who knew?

We have a fairly busy week ahead. We will do the next training for Temple Presidents 3 nights this week and then finish up the process with 3 more nights next month. This particular training is interpreting pre-recorded messages. Because of some of the languages we are doing (10 in all) we will actually have 5 different session. Our German team in Germany is down a sister so a sister from Salt Lake City will fill in. Consequently we have an early morning session on Thursday to accommodate the time difference in Germany. For one sister we will have to include 2 engineers, 1 supervisor, 1 interpreter (of course) and 2 missionaries. And we will provide breakfast. Then later that same night we will have 15 interpreters for three languages, plus 2 engineers, 2 supervisors, and 2 (or maybe 4) missionaries. So that will be a long day for us. 

Tuesday we also have two different sessions only the single sister this time will come at 4 PM. She is also staying for the evening session so it is only 1 meal we are doing. I think that night we have anywhere from 4 to 7 interpreters for four different languages plus 2 engineers, 2 supervisors, and 4 missionaries.  Wednesday is just the one evening session but again we have four different languages and 6 to 8 interpreters per language. We have Japanese for Tuesday and Wednesday. On Thursday the team in Japan will do that which is why we drop down to only three languages. Of course this could all change before Tuesday night. Last minute changes are not unheard of. It can get a little crazy.

The rest of the month is pretty slow with only Language coaching events happening. They don't really involve us other than getting it in the computer and tracking it through invoicing. We are already starting to get events for August. We have the final Temple Presidents Seminary and a new area conference scheduled. We are getting geared up because we will be completely on our own for those.  Hopefully we will be able to start training someone soon.

Since things were slower this week we decided to take advantage of our time off and go visit Steve's brother Roy and his wife Vicky. About a year and a half ago Roy got very sick and almost lost his life. He is making a slow recovery and is still pretty much home bound. We visited them last summer when we went on our vacation. He has vastly improved since we last saw him. The doctors say it may take another six months before he is back to normal.  Here are a couple of pictures of our visit.