22 May 2017

It's been a while! I've been busy!
Sister Henrie was released and I've been doing both Intake and Repair. I've met with a couple prospective sister missionaries, but one isn't sure where she will serve and the other won't start for another week or so. I hope I've charmed the unsure sister as I did the upcoming sister, because I need the help. Sister Aversa and I had a mini breakdown on Thursday because we have so much work to do. She has been adding all scripture links to Sunday School and Primary manuals for Spanish and Portuguese. She finally finished the D&C Gospel Doctrine Teacher's manual, but soon, she will have to move onto French and German, and then Japanese and Korean, which she does not find exciting. Elder Hanson and Elder Thompson, in their service, scan documents and they told me sometimes there are hours when they don't have work! I told them to come down to the 4th floor and I will put them to work reading emails and scouring PDFs for errors. I'm starting to feel very bossy and I like it.
Gary has started a new management system and I am in charge of customer satisfaction. I check for replies to emails and measure the amount of positive, neutral, and negative responses. I've also been trying to figure out from emails the location of different users so that we can build a map to show the worldwide influence of QRS.

The past few weeks I was the happiest I've been in a long time, and I felt an impression that it was a blessing before I had to endure some hard times. Depression knocked me off my feet last week, but I decided to open up and let my missionary friends and others know. They definitely helped me feel better. Anxiety is feeling like it's boiling up inside of me, but I am getting better at relying on the Spirit.

The 12th and 13th, I went down to Provo and I stayed with Ellen, my dad's aunt. She and I watched a lot of tv, picked out plants for her garden, and just hung out. She convinced me to cut my hair again, so I'll probably get that done next week. That weekend, I also saw Fictionist in concert! There are a band from Provo and they had a concert commemorating the release of their new album. I saw a younger church employee at the concert and I felt like we shared the secret that I'm a missionary. Every time I see someone that knows I'm a missionary in a place other than the Church Office Building, I feel like what I call an "undercover missionary".

I am now starting to part of a self-reliance program in my stake. They will have several rotations for every young single adult to take the courses, and I am part of the first rotation.

I have a meeting with some web publishers and developers soon, so I'll end for now! Love y'all!