This past week has been a real doozy for me. (Sister Smart) It has been the "creating of the mission newsletter, The Liahona" week. In case any of you are familiar with the Preston Citizen Rural Route article for Clifton that I used to write - that was ENTIRELY in a different city, county, state, and country than this Liahona is. To begin with, this was a 10 page newsletter this time. This goes out on e-mail to all of the missionaries in our mission, Stake Presidents, Bishops, Branch Presidents and anyone else that has any remote thing to do with our mission. We print off the front page with the Mission President and his wife's articles, the monthly calendar, the monthly scripture, and the Mission President's wifes "stuff" which can be health tips, cleaning tips, and this months plea to dress appropriately and cut your hair, and mail it to the missionaries. Thank goodness we don't mail the entire thing as several trees would have to give their all for us.
I put baptism photos, Zone Conference photos, photos of the incoming missionaries and photos and departing paragraphs from the outgoing. This precious little epistle took me well over 2 full days to produce......I felt like I had given birth!!! It turned out really good, I hope, and my sweet Elder husband was heard to say "Only 16 more!!!" (he was almost dead meat!)
Then I had a HUGE senior moment (blame it on the Liahona!) You see, as Mission Secretary I always answer the phone even though 90+% of the time I transfer the call to another desk. Anyway, around 1:30 on Wednesday afternoon I thought to myself, "Wow, it has been a really peaceful day on the phone today." OOPS!! I forgot to take the phone off of "night" when I got to the office that morning so the answering machine message told anyone if they really needed something or needed to talk to the Mission President to call Sister Smart at ---------- (my cell phone #) I was wondering why some of the missionaries were calling me on my cell phone...............how did they get the number??? Many more goofs like that and I'll be sent to the Upper Peninsula close to the North Pole!
Anyway, things are going good. Elder Smart is figuring out ways to save the mission $$$. He discovered that the mission shouldn't pay taxes on utility bills since we are a religious entity so he has been making tons of phone calls and already figures we will pay about $200 less a month on utility bills. (He won't be sent to the North Pole!) He is doing amazingly well on the computer! We are officially trained, and I don't mean potty trained, and on our own now. HELP!!!
We are loving it here. Milwaukee has even gotten a little rain lately so the lawns are looking alive again. We'd love to hear from everyone. Our email is wsmart5218@gmail.com. Everyone take care and I'll blog in 2 weeks if I live through transfer week! (that is this week.............)
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