Week 32...and the rain came tumbling down

This has been the most hectic week. I have learned some good things though. At home we talk about how if you had just won a million dollars, you wouldn't care if someone cut you off in traffic, because you have this 'reserve' of good fortune. If we consider the good things in our lives as part of this reserve then when bad things happen they don't really bother us. This was definitely true for me this week. Physical Therapy is finally starting to pay off. My head barely hurt at all this week, and it was such a relief that I didn't even care when I spent 2 hours on the phone in a wild goose chase.

I'm starting to think it would make a shorter list to say what I didn't do this week, but here goes anyway:

• Finish setting up international phone call meetings.
• Spend 2 hours calling people who sent me on to other people and so on because my HR software access got locked. 2 hours. Nobody knew who was supposed to be in charge of it. "Oh, you're a missionary, I'll send you to the CSM rep."-->"Oh, you're a young missionary, you have to see the YCSM rep."--> "No, you have to talk to your mission coordinators"--> "No, you have to talk to HR." I am HR! It was ridiculous.
• (Not to disparage anybody though. Everyone was really nice and doing their best to be helpful. They just didn't have any idea).
• Processed a nice, simple, pre-calculated education reimbursement.
• Get caught in the fallout of a misunderstanding about who was supposed to register 500 interpreters. You read that right. 500. Nobody did it. And now the manager is mad. He wants it done ASAP. But we need personal information for all 500, and then have to enter it manually after creating a job just for them. I'm not exactly loving Church Security this week because they were the ones that insisted that everyone be registered. Well, pooh to you, Church Security. (Okay, not really, I'm glad you keep everyone safe. But really???)
• Ball of Snakes. There is no verb here. Nothing has been done. We can't even figure it out. Somehow the information for 4+ jobs has gotten mixed up through all the hiring and transfer processes. We can't figure out which job is which and who has been hired for what. In the end, Andrew and I decided to leave it for Monday in case our unholy thoughts about it caused the whole skyscraper to come tumbling down around our ears (okay, and because he had an appointment).
• Try to organize information on all the Sister Missionaries that my co-Assistant and I are over. I have decided that her code name is Sister Polynesian Princess, because she seriously looks like the Tongan version of a Disney princess. Big eyes, pretty smile, long, thick wavy hair...
• Almost beat Sister Board Games at Chinese Checkers, my second time playing. We ran out of time though, or I'm sure I would have been beaten soundly.
• Transcribed "confidential" meeting notes. It kind of made me laugh that they were confidential. Not being a business person, I barely understood what I was reading, and certainly didn't find them interesting enough to ever bother someone else with the information...
• Track down more mystery employees.
• Assign access so people can get set up for RootsTech. I had no idea what a huge project RootsTech is. It's crazy!
• Attend lots of meetings...
• Glare at spreadsheets.
• Call and e-mail Bishops to get clearances for potential interviewees.
• Move lots of employees.
• Make phone calls, answer an elephant load of e-mails, and do a lot of record sleuthing in order to figure what the heck is going on with everything. Why can't people have nice easy problems to solve?