Long Meeting

5 July 2005
"We had our MEC today and it was one of the longest ones yet. We got everything form President, and he just kept adding more and more to do. This morning we were in the office at 8 as we had to meet some missionaries there that were leaving to get new immigration cards. Well, I got several things done that I needed to. The meeting started at 10 and we went forever. President is just not happy with the work in Saratov. He wishes that it would go better there. He asked us to pray about the work and think of ways to get the work moving there. We thought up some good ideas, and President told the assistants that they basically need to change all the transfers so that work was going better there. We talked about how we need to get out of the office earlier to do more work, and also about how we need to make sure we enforce the office rules more. Too many people are sitting in the office doing nothing and wasting a lot of time. President wants us to work that out more. So after 4 hours of talking, we decided that we would eat. We had tacos before we left to the church. We were suppose to have собрание миссионеров but we were too slow. Well I took a nap on the chairs. Well we had to teach English again for the second week in a row and this time we had 2 students! Wow. Well, we then got the water out of the baptismal font before coming home. Tonight we are trying to get hold of people to get things done that president wants. It is crazy - office life!"