Holiday, New Mission Leader Seminar, Latin American Assembly, Temple, HawkSoft, and Music and the Spoken Word

It has been a very slow week in terms of "work". Monday was a holiday, so we had the day off. Since last Saturday was spent with Audrey and her friend, we did all our errands on Monday. We got haircuts and then went to lunch before we went to visit Vicky and her family. We had a delicious lunch at R&R BBQ. We had a wonderful visit with Vicky too. I helped her get setup on her laptop so she can start working on Family Search again. She said she used to love doing genealogy but hadn't worked on it for several years because of taking care of Roy. 

We headed home to get ready for our Family Home Evening group. The Parkins were in charge and we spent the time sharing miraculous stories about temples around the world. We enjoyed it very much. We also played a couple of fun games. The first one was to draw our favorite Temple with our eyes closed. For the second one we had to build a Temple out of marshmallows and toothpicks.  We all had some good laughs over our "masterpieces". 

Tuesday morning started with several changes to the Mission Leader Seminar setup after I went to the Wellness Center and Zone Devotional. Once the changes were all done, I was able to do a little work on Dataverse. Matt, the guy I work with on Dataverse was in the office on Tuesday, so he decided to come to my cubicle for an in-person meeting. We usually meet briefly once a week on Teams. I showed him what I was working on and he asked me to do a few things for the next level. Unfortunately, the roadblocks I'm running into is importing all the data so it will properly fill in the fields to the new tables. I can get most of the data, but my language field is not coming in because it is setup as a multi-choice field that is populated from another table. It is very frustrating. I'm still researching. 

As soon as Matt left, I headed to the 27th floor for our afternoon event. The Linfords covered the morning session, and we covered the afternoon session of the Latin America III Regional General Assembly event. We had our Team Meeting while the event was going on. They both ended about the same time. We went home about an hour after our meeting ended.

Wednesday was kind of boring. I went to the Wellness Center again and then spent most of the day on Dataverse. We hung around to about 3 before we went to the Family Search Center so Steve could make a cool 9-generation Fan Chart. Most of his lines went back that far. Only his Wilcox line was not quite so filled in. We stayed for a while before we headed home.

On Thursday I stayed home so I could help Sister Crockett with her PowerPoint presentation for our Zone Devotional. She practiced before our devotional and did just fine. She did a great job for the real thing. After our devotional I did my scripture study at home before heading to the Wellness Center. Once in my cubicle, I worked on some changes to the Mission Leader Seminar and then some Dataverse work.  Just before we were ready to leave early to go to the Temple, Baptiste called with a request for a special report. At first, I didn't think I would have time to get the report done before we had to leave, but the report was easier than I thought. I was able to get it done within 10 minutes.

We then left to pick up the Ures on our way to the Temple. Our Emotional Resilience Class was doing a session together. Most of our class were able to attend. We had a wonderful session and went out to dinner together. I can't believe how much fun we had at dinner. It was a great team building activity.

Friday was another slow day. After a little work in the morning, we headed over to the North Office Building (NOB) to the Mission Office. We needed to pick up some reimbursement checks. We did some visiting with friends we don't get to see very often.  We stopped for lunch and then headed up to the 27th floor to setup for my last Emotional Resilience class. We had such a wonderful discussion for our last class. After my class I headed up to the 28th floor to get ready for my video conference Team meeting with HawkSoft. We had a great meeting, and it was fun to see old friends. 

Saturday, Steve did his normal shopping and I stayed home. I did some final work on the Mission Leader Seminar. I also did some work on HawkSoft. I relaxed with some movies too.

Alex Melecio with the Tabernacle Choir

Sunday dawned bright and early. Normally, Music and the Spoken Word is a pre-recording done the Friday before the Sunday broadcast. We only record the spoken word part. Usually everything else is live. Most of what Lloyd Newell says is pre-recorded. Last week, the Tabernacle Choir was on tour in Mexico. One of our Interpreters, Alex Melecio, actually hosted the concerts as well as performed with them. In addition, the artist Adassa, who is the voice of Disney's "Encanto" character Delores Madrigal, and a premier guest artist Mariano Osorio were there. They recently returned home, and Alex went to the MTC to interpret for the Mission Leader Seminar. Anyway, on Sunday the choir pulled excerpts from their tour and recordings of Lloyd Newell to put together the Sunday morning Music and the Spoken Word. The Choir didn't sing in person partly so they could rest up, but also because several choir members came back with COVID. Long story short, we had to do live interpretations for the morning broadcast. It was our turn to support the event since the Linfords did the Friday night Worldwide MTC Devotional that was part of the Mission Leader Seminar even though the interpretation was done at the COB instead of the MTC for that one.

After the event, we went to Church for the second hour of our meetings. We had a great discussion for our Ward Conference on Ministering. After Church it was time to work on the blog and relax for the afternoon.

President Nelson at the 
MTC New Mission Leader Training Seminar

I hope you have a Wonderful week. We will see some of you in a few days. We leave for Oregon on Wednesday.

Love and Prayers Always,
Mom and Dad
Grandma and Grandpa
Steve and Leslee
Elder and Sister Wilcox