Contracts, Missionary Schedules for General Conference, The Lamb of God Concert, and More Contracts and Schedules

This may be a short Blog post, because there is only so much you can say about processing Contracts and that is pretty much all I did this week. lol

Monday morning I got the needed permissions for all the programs I need to process contracts. Susan sent me instructions by 11 and I got started. The first one took a while as I had questions as I figured out what to do, not to mention that the first one had lots of odd things about it so it wasn't a typical contract. Add to that my Leadership Pattern class shortly after I started on the contract and I didn't actually finish it until a little after 1:00. Once the first one was done, I quickly picked up the process and completed about 16 that day. 

In the meantime I was getting the final volunteers from our mission to help out with General Conference. We can use 16 helpers per session. That gives me about 80 helpers. So as missionaries trickled in I was adding them to my master schedule. That finally went out on Friday morning.

Monday evening we had a Mission Devotional with Elder Jonathan S. and Sister Alexis Schmitt of the General Authority Seventy. They gave an awesome devotional. They shared how they were called as Mission Leaders when they still had four children at home, with the eldest only 15. It had it's trials as well as many blessings. They shared many other things as well.

Tuesday started with our Zone Devotional and the Wellness Center. We had our General Conference Preparation meeting and our Team meeting that day. Then I started learning how to do domestic Contracts. The day before I only did contracts from around the world. Domestic contracts are much quicker to do and I processed about 70 that day. Of course, I still worked on the Missionary schedule in my "spare" time.

Wednesday was more of the same. I had almost all the missionaries I needed so I started working on the Individual schedules so I could send them out. They look something like the attached picture. I sent those all out on Friday morning. In the past I never even started until about two weeks before conference; but, I was getting so many calls and emails from people wanting to help, I started a whole month early. They were anxious to get their schedules so they would know what General Conference session they could request tickets to attend. I'm glad that is done, other than the juggling of changes that are coming in as people have found out they have to work at the Family Search Library all day on Saturday so they need to change to a Sunday. Fun times. 🤣Oh, I also verified attendees for our next training meeting on the 18th.

Thursday was another Zone Devotional and Wellness Center at the same time. That is working out so well. More contracts, more schedule tweaking, and I think I helped someone with an invoice problem that day. I can't remember as it all sort of rolls into one. We also went to the Temple. It was such a lovely time. We were able to do both a session and then Initiatory work. On our way out to the car, we saw our old mission president and his wife. They work at the Bountiful Temple on Thursdays. We see them often and it is so nice.

Friday was a little crazy. For some reason I woke up at 5 in the morning and couldn't go back to sleep. So, I got up and started working. I sent out all the emails with the schedules and some instructions to all the missionaries who are helping with General Conference. I got ready and went to the Church Office Building so I could exercise and then work. The Linfords were heading out of town to attend a funeral so I was all alone in the COB. Since I have been doing well with the contracts, Susan gave me a bunch (over 50) contracts that had been sitting in our Inbox that she hasn't had time to get to. Steve picked me up at 11:00 so we could go to the dentist. He dropped me off back at the COB and he ran errands. He had to take the car in for an annual checkup or something like that. I continued to work like crazy on contracts. At 2:30 I had a video conference call with HawkSoft. It was very brief and I was back at it. A little before 5:00, Aaron sent an email looking for a PLUNET order that Sister Linford hadn't set up yet. She had been trying to get a valid customer so she could set up the order. She wasn't getting any response. Aaron said he needed it and could I help. I contacted Caleb, our PLUNET IT guy and told him we were still waiting on that customer Sister Linford had talked to him about. He apologized and we got on a video call. I had remembered that particular customer was "retired" sometime ago. Caleb vaguely remembered something about that. Between the two of us we found the information and the "replacement" customer so I could create the PLUNET order for Aaron. 

About the time I finished with the PLUNET order, it was time to go to the Lamb of God concert. We walked over to the City Creek Mall for some dinner and then headed to the Tabernacle for the Concert. We were an hour early and most of the seats were already taken. Oh, and it had started raining so we got all wet. When I left that morning to go to the COB it was a beautiful sun shinny day. I only took a sweater and of course, no umbrella. So that was a fun adventure. 😏

The Lamb of God was a beautiful concert about the final weeks in the life of the Savior as seen through the eyes of those around him. It was very moving and beautifully done. It was put on by the faith community throughout Davis County and consisted of a 300 voice choir and orchestra. There was one song near the end right after Peter had denied the Christ three times. It was so powerful as he realizes exactly what he has done. He questions how he could do such a thing. He ends the song bearing the strong testimony that he carried with him throughout the remainder of his life. Instead of "I don't know the man", he declares boldly, "I KNOW HIM!" Even now, as I write this, I am moved to tears as I remember how powerful that song was. This concert has been performed all over the world since 2010 and usually consists of performers from all faiths. If you ever have a chance to see it, I would encourage you to go. It is also available on YouTube. It is a wonderful way to lead into the Easter Season. It ends with the resurrection of Christ. He is our living God and He not only died for us, but more importantly He LIVES so that we may live again too.

Saturday I worked for a little over an hour for HawkSoft and then spent the rest of the day and into the evening processing more contracts. I am hoping we are nearly finished with the backlog and only need to keep up with what is coming in each day. Most of the ones I processed on Saturday came in the last few days. They are still sending out new contracts so we will continue to be busy. 

Sunday I started working on my blog before heading off to my Emotional Resilience class. I think I only have this week and next week to finish up the class. It has been so good and I have made such good friends. I have learned a lot about myself and how to take care of myself better. I'm glad I have the manual and will be able to review the information over and over again. I think I only have 2 or maybe three Leadership Pattern classes left. I know they both end before General Conference. That is good! 😇

Our Sacrament meeting was wonderful too.

Have a wonderful week. Prepare for General Conference and Easter. And ENJOY Spring. It is supposed to come before too long. lol  We had snow again this week as well as some gorgeously sun shiny days. The temperatures are rising a bit and flowers are beginning to bloom. We are even getting some new leaves on the trees. It won't be long now. 

Our Love Always,

Mom and Dad

Grandma and Grandpa

Steve and Leslee

Elder and Sister Wilcox