Team Temple Trip, Mission Leader Videos, and Training Meetings 

Elder and Sister LeGrand R. Curtis Jr.

This has bee a very busy week. On Monday I had another eye appointment. I seem to be stable so that is good. The new prescription is working well...as long as I continue the regimen the doctor gave me. Drops twice a day and gel twice a day. I was doing so good I started forgetting the drops and gel during the day. My eyes declined again, so I have to do the full regimen everyday.  Monday evening we had an awesome Mission devotional with Guest Speaker Elder LeGrand R. Curtis Jr. he and his wife both gave great talks.

My Zone Devotional

Tuesday morning started with our Zone Devotional where I shared my Lost in the Forest experience. I think it turned out OK. Right after that we did a global training for our Team Leads explaining the change our new MLCs (multi-language coordinators). I presented a small part about invoicing. 

The Team at the Jordan River Temple

Tuesday evening was AWESOME. Sister Linford organized a Temple Sealing trip for our team. There were twelve of us that went to the Jordan River Temple. We had to break into two different groups. We had a wonderful time and I got all of my names done. I was able to share my names with several members of our team who didn't have their own names. The last sealing we did was very special. We were able to seal two daughters to their parents at the same time. I have never experienced that before. It was very cool.

The Social Hall

On Wednesday we had an early morning event for Sharing the Gospel Broadcast - HQ Videos. The morning event was the tieline teams; however, the French team did it from SLC. We ran into a few glitches. The first thing was the producer didn't realize we had a morning session and he forgot to get an engineer. So Curtis called the producer and he got an engineer over right away. The second problem was since our security breach a couple of months ago, they locked down the tielines for security purposes. That took a little more work but Curtis got that taken care of and we only started about 15 minutes late. The evening event was the SLC teams with a couple more tielines. That one went much more smoothly. We only had one little glitch with that one. Curtis told everyone at dinner they would watch the video once through where they could take notes. Then we would do the first pass and record the interpretations. If needed, we would do a second pass. Well, unfortunately the Mandarin team that was doing tieline and didn't hear Curtis's little speech. So, while the we showed the video the first time, the Mandarin team did their interpretation, felt good about it and left without telling anyone they were done. We didn't record that pass. So when we were ready to record the first pass we realized the Mandarin team was no longer online. So Curtis called them and they came back in to record the second pass. It all worked out in the end.

The Terrace

After the first session Wednesday, a group of us went on a field trip to a brand new "Social Hall" a few blocks from the COB (see above picture). There are about 6 or 8 wards that meet in that building as well as commercial offices in the top 20 floors (the blue section). We are having a Fireside for our Interpreters on June 26th in one of the Chapels. Venky goes to Church there so he arranged for us to use the Chapel and the terrace for our Fireside. Curtis is going to do a presentation on Joseph Smith. It is only fitting as June 27th is the anniversary of the martyrdom of the Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum Smith. The chapel and terrace are beautiful. Curtis has so much knowledge and pictures on Joseph Smith. It will be an AWESOME presentation. He has shared with us many times some of the things he is going to present. I'm very excited for that Fireside.

Global Training 

Thursday evening we had two events back to back. The first one was the J. Reuben Clark Law School Devotional and the other one was our second Global Training. This time we did the training in person as well as on Zoom. Both events were good, but I really wish we had more in attendance at both of our training events.

Friday was slow. I mainly worked on the Global Training PLUNET order. We gave a tour to one our missionary couples in our apartment complex. They live just down the hall from us. I finished up some work on the MAJOR new project for the week of June 22 through 26. It is the Seminar for New Mission Leaders 2022. It will be held at the Provo MTC center. We are hoping to be able to go to help out with the event. Aaron is in charge and he is going to Provo next week to check it out and see if we can be part of the support team. That would be so AWESOME.

All the presenters for the Training

Saturday was a very light day. We had no events and I didn't have any HawkSoft work to do either. So, we decided to go to the movies for the afternoon. It was a lot of fun. It was very hot so we decided to stay indoors. After the movie we went home and just enjoyed the rest of the day together. It was nice to have a whole day free.

Sunday was pretty laid back as well. We had a lazy morning before Church. I worked on the blog. I also had a video call with Curtis and Aaron. Curtis loves to talk and wanted to share some things he is doing to ITI. He also shared the invitation he made for the fireside and then couldn't help himself and shared some of what he is considering to use in his presentation. He is awesome!

Our Sunday meetings were great. We had two wonderful speakers for Sacrament meeting and our RS class was really good as well. After Church I had choir practice for our Father's Day song. I think it is coming along pretty good now. I was worried the first time we sang it, but I'm fairly comfortable now. It's a song I never heard before called "I Knew My Father Knew" by Sally DeFord. It is quite pretty. 

Have a GREAT week!

All our Love,

Mom and Dad

Grandma and Grandpa

Steve and Leslee

Elder and Sister Wilcox