Transfer week - sorry it comes on wednesday instead of monday!
Sister Kendall and I were thoroughly
convinced we were staying together. We both are so new here and based
on interviews with Pres. we had this transfer we both were very
confident we were staying. We were very very confused when we saw on
"the phone call day" President Packard calling.
There are already 2 sets of missionaries in Weston 1 so
we aren't technically assigned there....as in we are not active
proselyting...weird.
My new home is now the mission
office. One of us will work on an Ipad and the other is working on
presidents computer. We are assigned to get rolling.........A PORTABLE
VISITORS CENTER!!!!!
The stake president is the retired CEO of Dell and has
generously donated funds to get this going. The idea is so that when
there are special events in church buildings around the mission such as
special firesides, baptisms, etc we can bring our "portable visitors
center" so that nonmembers in attendance can learn about the church in a
nonthreatening way. A few women like Sister Haight and Sister
Christensen have gotten ideas started for the process but everyone had
such different ideas that nothings gotten rolling. There are so many
directions we should go...should there be one? Should we provide one for
each stake and have them take responsibility? How should we lay it out -
all in one location in foyer or room or make it a church tour? There
are a million pros and cons for all options. We have to figure out that
and mostly figure out the CONTENT for what is going to be on whatever we
decide to display it on such as flat screens, projectors, etc.
President said he called Salt Lake for ideas and they said they havent
really done much like that before so they couldnt provide much
information. We have a missionary here that is on her 6 month leave for
Nauvoo Temple Visitors Center and so we are going to collect content
from what shes done and from mormon.org
and see what happens. It's really really exciting - I feel so lucky i
get to be apart of it! I get to advertise for the church? Heavenly
Father knew that was my dream job and i get to live it early! I am
nervous about the new experience and a lot of pressure from a lot of
people who want to be pleased who have different ideas of how it could
be done. I asked President Haight his advice and he said just worry
about pleasing God and be bold with what we decide to do.
When we aren't working on the visitors center, we will be
doing all the office dirty work for the assistants and potentially at
night we get to be in the portal for the digital mission to chat with
people online! Here we go for being an office sister. President said he
plans the project will probably take us 2 transfers (3 months).
Ill miss teaching at the Haights. Ill miss doing activity
days at President Christensens and ill really miss going on splits with
the Romneys to teach people on the cover of national geographic. Ill
miss Ali's baptism and spiritually packed lessons (although we're so
close ill probably get to go). And of course ill miss sister kendall!
Im excited to focus more on receiving specific revelation
from God for what he wants on this project. Im also excited that this
means i wont have a car and will get to walk to and from the office each
day. since we dont really cover a ward it means no dinners so ill get
to control my potions and what i eat - hoping this will burn off a few
pounds. :)
Love you all! Send your ideas for the visitors center!
Pray for me! P.S. Shout out to Ashley and the new baby this weekend!!
Cant wait for pictures!
Sister Bell
1. The sisters we covered for the transfer!
2.Saying
goodbye to the Zanattas - one of my most favorite families. S. Zanatta
is LITERALLY identical in every way to Ashley so it was fun :)
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