Let’s just say we had NO IDEA all that is involved in running a mission office!!
The Rowleys who we will be replacing are AMAZING and we have grown to LOVE them DEARLY in this short week!
They have organized their tasks and created documentation to help us step by step to know what to do but it still feels like a firehose of information!
Some of my responsibilities are to create a weekly Agenda for meetings. Send out information to missionaries and their families when coming to the mission and leaving the mission. Keeping track of arrivals and booking flights home. Send birthday texts. Answering the phone and order supplies. Preparing bedding kits for new missionaries which include sheets, pillowcase, pillow, comforter, blanket. Organizing food every 6 weeks for the 246 missionaries and leadership currently serving, as well as monthly Mission Leadership meetings and Pizza/Salad for incoming missionaries. Keeping a roster board current with pictures and filling the Giant candy jar in the mission office, a job Elder Davis is grateful I have. 😉💗I’m sure there is more I will be doing but that is all I can think of at the moment🤣.
We arrive at 8am and go home after 6pm exhausted but after sleep we seem to be able to feel refreshed in the morning to start again. The first of many miracles we will witness ❣️
We know the focus of a mission is to bring people to Christ and we are part of that great work. Being behind the “scene support” for the Elders and Sisters in the field to help move the work forward is a blessing and we are thankful to be part of that.
There is an energy that is hard to described when you are around young Elders and Sisters who have set aside 18-24 months to dedicate their lives full-time in the service of the Lord. It is humbling, inspiring, uplifting, energizing!
We know it CAN be done as it has been done beautifully by those who have gone before. This is where faith comes in and we pray for divine help which includes our son Nate❤️
We have a testimony that whom God calls he qualifies.
Someone once said…
“There is no growth in the comfort zone and there is no comfort zone in growth.”
This is our time to stretch and grow!
Skittles❣️ Elder and Sister Davis