Sunday, February 27, 2022

 ***RUSH, RUSH, RUSH***, CANCEL, CHANGE!

That is the story of this week. We didn't have that many events; however, they were all very fluid. My main focus for the week was putting together two very important emails to our SLC teams. A few weeks ago I sent out the mass email to the areas. I have received very positive feedback and lots and lots of work has been moving forward to get everything ready for General Conference. This week and next week I am focusing on the SLC teams. 

Sister Petty is responsible for all of our SLC contracts. I mentioned last week that we are trying to help Sister Petty with all the follow-up she has to do with all the people who don't send in their paperwork. I sent out a mass email to each SLC team that has 1 or more interpreters who have not returned their various paperwork. I was surprised about how much positive feedback I got on the first day. Then on top of that, they emailed me about the results they got by calling or emailing to their people. Some immediately sent in their paperwork and others said they would get right on it that day! All of this should eliminate (or at least cut way back) all the RUSH jobs we get to activate interpreters at the last minute before GC. This coming week I am just about ready to send out the clean-up spreadsheets to the SLC teams. I am in the process of refreshing all their data so they are the most up to date data.

Monday evening we had a our 2nd Leadership Pattern class at our apartment. I really love meeting in person with our friends.

On Tuesday, we received a RUSH job for the Coordinating and Training Session - Council - Caribbean. Lucky for us it was a Zoom meeting so we just needed to do the computer work.   Tuesday afternoon, Elder Wilcox and I did our Teams video meeting for our other Leadership Pattern. We are on lesson 6 in that class. We are enjoying this very much.

On Wednesday we went to the Bountiful Temple and did Sealings. We also had a morning event for more Face to Face Youth Pre-recordings. The Linfords covered this event. The afternoon was filled with our Team meeting and PLUNET meeting. The Linfords left a little early so they could go to the Temple. While we were finishing up a few things we received an email from Eunlan a little after 5. My first thought was I'll just have the Linfords take care of it the next morning. I took a look just to see what it was about and the heading said it was a ***RUSH*** event that was starting at 6:30 AM the next day!!! I saw the date and time and panicked since it included a meal and a lot of languages. I immediately contacted Eunlan to make sure I read it right. Well, I read it right; however, she did NOT write it right. It was supposed to be 6:30 PM with dinner. Whew! Still a RUSH, but at least not first thing in the morning. So we stayed for about an hour to get everything set up since I needed to send the PLUNET order to our Mandarin team who were doing Tieline. I let the Linfords populate the event on Thursday, but the preliminary work needed to be done ASAP. The Linfords saw the email when they got back from the Temple they called us immediately to say they would do the 6:30 AM event since they were already covering a 9:00 AM event for Thursday. I told them not to worry it was 6:30 PM and that we would cover it as it was our turn.

So, Thursday we had one event in the morning and one in the evening. Both were part of the Face to Face event. Eunlan was in charge so it was fun to have her in the office all day. We are also very happy that MASKS are no longer required. That also meant we no longer need to serve the meal. They can serve themselves. Everyone was happy about that. It no longer requires all four of us missionaries to serve the dinner meals to all the interpreters. 

We received several cancellations on Thursday for events we had scheduled and had already ordered food. Our Saturday event was cancelled kind of last minute. Then there was a rumor that the following Saturday was also cancelled. I contacted Aaron, because I didn't want to believe it and he said it was true. So we dropped two Saturday events. We were very disappointed. We were going to cover March 5th with Elder Holland so it was disappointing. Although, we will now be able to at least see part of Roots Tech. Saturday is when they are going to broadcast the Family Discovery Day with Elder Soares. Should be GREAT!

Friday and Saturday we didn't have any events that we needed to attend. We were able to get caught up on our daily tasks. I had a meeting with my PLUNET guy and finance to see if we could get the Invoicing process better for our interpreters. We are praying Caleb (my PLUNET guy) can figure out the two things we need to happen for this to work for both finance and our contractors. I also got a special request from Daniel on Thursday night. We have been told there are going to be more stringent requirements to be able to use Church Employees for interpretation. So, I spent much of Friday putting together a report of all Church Employees that we currently use for interpretation. The tricky part was trying to find the employees we use that are NOT currently in PLUNET. It took all day to put together because of ALL the interruptions I get throughout everyday. I think that is why I usually stay late because there are far fewer email, calls, and stop by requests that come my way.

I spent Saturday doing some HawkSoft work. I also spent much of the day working on our taxes. Let me just say it was worth it! I also worked on the Zone SharePoint site, and finally I spent some time cleaning up my emails that piled up overnight and during the day. I still have more work to do in that department. Maybe Monday! lol

Sunday, we attended President Ballard's ward for Sacrament meeting because we had an event for NAW California Member Devotional. Curtis is over the event and he and I were tasked with the employee report for Daniel. We spent part of our event time discussing the report.

I hope you are receiving some of the beautiful weather we are getting. It is very cold, but the sun is so bright and beautiful. We have had intermittent snow this week, but it didn't stick around. The mountains are so beautiful with all the snow on top. I love it!
All our Love and Prayers,
Mom and Dad
Grandma and Grandpa
Steve and Leslee
Elder and Sister Wilcox


2 comments:

  1. It must be rewarding to help put together such an event as a General Conference. I´m sure you feel grateful, but I dare to say the Church is grateful too for the excellent work you and Dad are putting into it.
    Good reminiscences from the Bountiful temple, which we got to visit previously to its dedication.
    Lots of love and hugs for you two!

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    1. So HAPPY to hear from you. It is a wonderful experience to do all the things we get to do It is a lot of work, but we are blessed with the health and strength to do it all. It is funny, but we don't feel tired at work. When we get home we are exhausted. haha.

      I am SO VERY GREATFUL you got to be with us for that wonderful year. You were and ARE such a blessing to us. We think of you often. We LOVE you!

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