Week 11

I feel like I didn't do anything this week, but in reality I just did thousands of small things that add up to consume a lot of time. I don't mind doing them, but if you are trying to work on something that takes extended thought (like writing), getting derailed every two minutes makes it impossible.

Here are some of the things I did this week:

• Institute
• Explain that I only deliver mail, not pick it up, so it's not my fault if it goes to the wrong place nor do I know how to fix the problem.
• Move eight boxes (not reams, boxes) of paper.
• Deliver a case of tissues.
• Use the maintenance elevator in 3 different buildings.
• Schedule about 30 meetings (we finally fixed the calendar problems!)
• Work on a memory book for the previous director
• Interview one writer and finally write their bio.
• Nag one more writer--I finally got a response!
• Avoid answering the phone because I'm still afraid people will ask questions I don't know the answer to or I will drop the call.
• Get lost in City Creek Mall while trying to run an errand.
• Find a phone case that is both cheap, indestructible, sleek, and "not zippy." (The director's last phone shattered when he dropped it, so we're trying to protect our new investment).
• Practice processing resignations and re-entering them as empty positions.
• Process receipts.
• Celebrate that my companion's cancer was miraculously removed when it was first discovered.
• Work on a puzzle...more on this to come. =)
• Tease Ringo about his new haircut.
• Take a VIP tour of the tabernacle with my district and the producer of all MoTab performances. Did you know there is a Native American buried underneath? They discovered him/her while doing renovations and the Ute tribe requested that the person be replaced and then built over. I think that makes for a pretty cool burial site, personally. They can listen to MoTab practice. Also, the organ in the Tabernacle has over 11,000 pipes. For comparison, the one in the Conference Center has more power but has only 7,000 pipes. We got to see all the recording rooms and things. The sound studio is specially built to remove excess sound and so its only connection to the rest of the building is by sitting on a styrofoam platform.
• Juggle meetings
• Become a companion study leader (making me the official boss of companion study instead of the sheepish but impatient unofficial one).
• Create a powerpoint for an employee meeting that I don't attend because it is on Wednesdays.
• Schedule about three meetings at 3:30 AM instead of PM and have to reschedule them because people know exactly what I meant but don't like the way it shows on their calendars.

Sometimes when I am tired I get discouraged. Fall is my favorite season and it is hard to go to Salt Lake every day when I know school is in session. I've been a full time student until now, and I love learning, so it is hard to do something new. As the weather gets colder I also miss my comfy school clothes more. I miss jeans. A lot. I kind of had a minor emotional breakdown because I had to buy winter church shoes and I don't want to wear them. There's nothing wrong with the shoes, I just wanted more casual ones.

Despite the little difficulties, I also know that I am where I am supposed to be. I don't really understand why, but I feel at peace with where I am and what I am doing. I may not be serving a traditional mission, but I am still serving the Lord, and I am just as valuable in his sight.