Well, another transfer week has come and gone and this last week was perhaps the hardest, busiest transfer week we've encountered since being missionaries. It all started last Friday. Elder Lund received a call that they had 11 new cars for him in SLC that he needed to pick up. Since we had been awaiting these cars since May, we told Motorpool that we would be right down to pick them up. I didn't know they had a full fledge motor pool with car wash, and repair shop in the 3rd floor basement lot under the church office building....who knew? So all the office personnel, along with 4 other missionaries piled into a van or car and went to Salt Lake. Two hours later the cars are in Ogden. Now the fun of the paperwork came for Elder Lund. We both went back to the office on our P-day, Sat. and compiled paperwork, license plate numbers, vin numbers, made new accident booklets and packets, new file folders, marked keys, etc. etc. Oh, later Friday night Elder Lund and I took three sister missionaries to the Martin Harris Pageant in Clarkston. Now we can say we saw it. We stopped in Brigham City to get us a Wendy's and oh how wonderful the Brigham City Temple is going to be. It sort of looks like a smaller Salt Lake Temple with only 2 spires. It is lovely. So, on Sat. we were tired because we didn't get home from the pageant until about midnight.
On Monday, we were just plain busy in the office. Elder Lund started calling missionaries to come and trade in the old car for the new one. One Tuesday, we received another 10 missionaries. Wednesday was transfer day. What a crazy, hectic day. We had probably all but 25-30 missionaries who came into the office that day. Most were being transfered, some were to pick up new missionaries, about 45 to pick up new cell phones, some were changing cars, and others who just wanted to come "hang out" with all the missionaries. Then of course we had member drivers that were chaufering the missionaries. It was just one big hectic day. I was busy getting missionaries their boarding passes home as well as paying for their baggage. By the time we went home, we were exhausted. I told Elder Lund that I felt I had been to girls camp all week and I just wanted to sit.
On Thursday morning we drove to Ogden, picked up and old car and drove it in to Salt Lake. Pres. Olson dropped the departing missionaries at the airport and then came to the church office building to pick us all up. We spent the day regrouping and by 2:00pm, Elder Lund and I drove another car back to Salt Lake. The night we were so tired, we drove to Ethan's soccer field, set our chairs up and watched him play while the breeze ran through our hair. We were so tired.
On Friday, we spent the day fixing the transfer board, making telephone and address lists of the missionaries, working on President Olson's correspondence. Later in the afternoon, we drove the last of the 11 vehicles in to Salt Lake. What a week! We had worked hard, handled many problem situations of the missionaries, received 10 new missionaries, sent four missionaries hone, picked up, relocated, collected, and returned 11 missionary vehicles, traded in 45 cell phones, and set them up, as well as collected and recorded almost 200 baptisms for the month of July. Not bad for a bunch of Senior Citizen Volunteers.
On Sat., the youth investigator from our ward, that we worked with at Youth conference was baptized. I would say it was a pretty good week.
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