Elder Donaldson and Elder Jamison

Our Visitors

(Gosh, if I get any bigger, they’re going to have to try to just fit me into the picture .  .  .)  Anyway, enough ‘over weight’ talk.  We had some training today from Elders Donaldson and Jamison.  They came to our mission from Salt Lake City, Utah.  They are here to not only help us learn our ‘stuff’ in the office, but to work with the missionaries and give them thoughts and ideas and what Salt Lake has in mind for the missions.  Basically we found out that by June we should have a huge influx of missionaries.  It will start in February and work up from there.  The church is gearing up and getting ready for all that this will entail.  Exciting times  

I asked if they will need Senior Missionaries even more and they said emphatically “YES”.  Senior Missionaries are going to be needed even more.  They are going to try to use Service Missionaries NOTE:  Service Missionaries are members who for some reason or another, usually health, cannot travel far from home, so they serve either from their homes or they live at home and come into the Mission Office.  It is the plan for Service Missionaries to work in the offices, that way they can use the missionaries, such as Elder Boehrer and I, to work with the inactives, non-members, help in wards, be in leadership, serve at historic sites (which is what Elder Boehrer and I would like to do for our next mission), or to do whatever is needed. 

We love serving – can’t say it enough.  It is the most fulfilling thing we have ever done – next to raising our family.

Sister and President Richards with Elders Jamison and Donaldson