I drove back to the house the other day as the mailman was coming up the street. I then noticed a number of our sister missionaries standing out by the mailboxes. I pulled into the driveway and got out of the car just as the mailman drove up. Some of the missionaries were very excited, a couple were quite disappointed. I’m sure it had to do with whether or not the mailman put something for them in their box. All of these sisters had been or were going to be serving at the Visitors’ Center as they’re dressed the the obligatory muumuu. They are so much fun and have so confounded much energy!

Today started early with the training meeting at 7:30 this morning. This is also the morning when we celebrate birthdays for any of the missionaries having a birthday during the month of June. Nina has the assignment to prepare the treat for the birthday party. That means we need to be there well before the training meeting starts to get things set up. The party happens after the training meeting. It was also the morning when we took the “transfer picture”. All of the missionaries at the center pose for a group picture. During the coming month one missionary will go back home to Korea. On July 3rd transfers will happen and companionships will change, new missionaries will arrive, some will come back after serving a term as a proselytizing missionary and others will go out for their three-month assignment away from the Center. Then we’ll take another picture for the next transfer.

After the training meeting the three senior couples at the Center had another (what was supposed to be a) short meeting to plan out some training that we’ll be presenting in two weeks. It was after 11am when we finally finished with meetings actually started our shift at the Center. The sister missionaries cover for us when we have these meetings, but on Monday mornings we only have one set of sister missionaries so they get pretty busy when Nina and I aren’t there to help out.

We finished up our shift at 2:30 and came home for an hour and a half (both of us took a short nap) and then left at 4:15pm for our assignment at the Polynesian Cultural Center. This afternoon our assignment was at the Aloha Luau exit. The task was to help people get around to the front exit (or to the right dining venue based on their ticket) and to check people out and back in who leave to go to the restroom or to take a smoke break. The exit assignment is nice as we can also watch the luau show. It’s a fairly boring assignment otherwise, but someone has to do it every night.

Monday night is also Senior Family Home Evening at 7:15pm in the Heber J. Grant building on campus. Our Aloha exit assignment ended at 6:30pm. After that we went over to Prime Dining to have dinner and then went to the Grant building for FHE, to be there by 7:10pm if possible. Tonight’s FHE program was presented by Sister Jones who has done several humanitarian assignments with various non-governmental organizations. She told stories about some of the people she has been able to serve on these NGO  assignments in India and Peru. The meeting was very well attended, and rightly so as it was a very uplifting presentation.

So it’s now after 9pm and were just back in our home with a few minutes before we crash (head to bed) so we can do much of this all over again tomorrow. It’s been a very good day.

Life is quite sanguine….