In the Quito mission we kept the passports of all the missionaries in the safe. Someone had made 16 little compartments to divide them up alphabetically so they were easier to find. As we moved into the new office we found that the safe was designed a little differently and we needed to come up with some way to divide them as they were in the other mission. The office elders had them divided on the bottom of the safe with elastics. I was finding it really difficult to get down to get the passports I needed. I decided that it just wasn’t working. I found a perfect size cardboard box and put all the passports in it standing vertically with dividers between them. We all love this new way of keeping them. Now instead of just retrieving a few at a time as we need to work with them we can just bring the whole box out and have them right where we need them without having to stoop down to get them. They Quito mission really likes the idea and may be changing theirs as well.
When we got to the office on Thursday we found that the elevator wasn’t working. Since our office is on the 7th floor this was not very good news. As many times as I have to go from the Quito Mission office on the 2nd floor to our office on the 7th I was not very happy. Fortunately they had it working before lunch and so work went on as usual.
Elder Kaneen has been busy this week in the Quito office doing some rearranging and moving some unneeded stuff out as they prepared for the arrival of the Nuttalls on Saturday. It really was a much needed improvement.
One day, at about lunch time, Sister Thomas had gone down to the Quito Office for something and found that the office was closed. Sister Platts and the Kaneens had gone to lunch together. Since most of the offices in the building seem to close down during the lunch hour they did the same. This will require a bit of a mind shift for Sister Thomas. She was trained that the mission office should always be open and that it was necessary for someone to be there at all times during the day. Since she was the one to usually hold down the fort she has missed a lot of opportunities to interact with the missionaries and do some extra things. With the division of missions and as short of help that there is the policy is needing changing, since the office staff is needed to help with the preparations of meals for the various meetings for both missions. So now, during those times, we’ll need to close the office in order to have the help. It’s interesting to see the changes that are occurring, I think for the better.
The Nuttalls arrived Saturday night, quite late. The Kaneens and Sister Platts were at the airport to meet them at about 5pm for their 6:30pm anticipated arrival time. But, their flight was delayed so they didn’t get in until about 11 and with getting through immigration and the hour drive home they didn’t get to their apartment until close to 1am. To say the least they were exhausted. We met them at church. It’s going to be fun working with them as Lynn and I train them to replace us in the Quito Mission Office. They are from Riverton, Utah and have 8 children and 17 grandchildren. They are especially excited to be here. Elder Nuttall served here in Quito, Ecuador when he was young. He said Quito only had two branches back then. The church has certainly grown since he was here. He was here a couple of years before Sister Phelps served here.
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| Elder & Hermana Nuttall |
Tonight was FHE at the sisters’ apartment. We shared pioneer stories and since Lorena is a convert she shared here conversion story. We tried to do some planning for our Saturday senior missionary excursion on the 27th but now we aren’t all in the same mission we need to clarify with the presidents where we are allowed to go and if we can all go together. That will have to wait until tomorrow.
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