Fun fact, press release announces we get iPads in the fall! Whatever 'fall' means. We get a call from President Packard on Friday about how we are ready to now send an iPad with our app and content on it to 'the bretheren'. How quickly can we send it?
Uhhhh.....it still needs a little cosmetic and logistical TLC..plus
we'd have to make slight video changes...if we got our act together we
could have it done by monday night? My head is slowly calculating the
hours of sleep that will be diminished as monday night spills out of my
mouth. We get things collected to race over to the mission home to show
him what we have so far and we get the most relieving phone call saying
basically salt lake is on vacation the month of July. We have more than
till monday night. What a relief! We will be way more prepared for an
august shipment than a TODAY shipment. But we need to have it all ready
to go so when 'we do get ipads' - we will have it downloaded on each
missionaries iPad so use in their in home lessons. Excitin stuff!
The GREAT news is we did our first official church tours using the script on Saturday!
We went to Providence, RI. The tour is completely preach my gospel
style and we were able to walk the missionaries helping through it
before hand so they could help do tours. We did 15-20 lessons total that
night! It was crazy! We had a tour running at all times. One set of
missionaries even set a baptism date with someone! We got return contact
information from 85% of the people. One had a lesson with the
missionaries again yesterday and wants to come to church next week. The
person who agreed to the baptismal invitation attended church yesterday
and is so excited to get baptized in August! What the heak is right.
Words cant convey what happended...what IS happening.
Sunday S. Hurst and I did a split - she did an awesome missionary sunday
in Greenfield and I did a little presentation shout out in a meeting at
the church. Elder and Sister Vail were my companions for the day :)
The meeting was Elder Bennet (the area 70), Pres. Packard, Pres. Bowen
(the Temple President), and about 9 stake presidents. I laugh as I type
it out because - GET THIS:
First off, you have to understand that we drove back from amazing providence Saturday night, had to drop off my half of the goods for Sunday
at the Weston building, and between that and helping some lady that was
lost (now wants to meet with the missionaries though! woo!) - we dont
get in bed till 1 am. The alarm goes off at 5 am
to go pick up S. Hurst's companion for the day. In all of this, its
understandable that we forgot to unload the TV stands at the Weston
building for my half of the Visitors' Center. We didnt realize this
until S. hurst is 2 hours away in Greenfield. Time to put on the
creative hat. The Vails looked at me like I was psycho as they said, you
can just put the TV to the side and tell them the stands in greenfield.
they'll understand and i said "leave a hole in the middle of the
restoration banner?? Think again!!" Bless Elder Vails heart-after trial
and error spending about 2 hours and digging through the junk in the
church library, holding up a tv in my hands for at least a half hour,
and wasting 50 zip ties......you bet we found a way for that tv to hold
up magically in the air. used the back of a tv stand using a screw to
rest it's back mounting on. Oh wait, the tv stand is too short? 2 large
kitchen pots can handle that one. Surprisuingly, the sitution was very
very calm. Elder Vail sweated just as much as Dad does when he lifts a
flower pot and blessed sister vail was running all over the church
building. I think the spirit gets out my stress through laughter or some
way because the Vails were a little scared at how calm I was. I told
them it was all that french toast they fed me that morning!
Moral of the story? God loves me. A lot.
Pics to come next week.
Sister Bell
keepin it real....as real as kitchen pots.
Here are some pictures of the sopping wet 4th of July experience.
Drenched head to toe and crowded side to side. But we're still
alive...so that's a plus.
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