Life Update

Job Update
Things change here so often, it’s ridiculous. People come and go all the time; new people come, old people leave, current people visit home for two months at a time.  It’s ridiculous!  So, in light of these changes, I’ve taken on more responsibilities.  In hospitality it’s: keys.  Keys.  Keys.  Keys.   It’s a nightmare, but it’s all about organizing and categorizing…sooooo, (call me loony) I love it!  At any given time we’ve got between 15-50 visitors, they sleep in their own little area we call the Visitor’s Compound.  They each get a set with 3 keys (their room, their kitchen and to the actual compound which stays locked 24/7).  I’m the one who has/gets to make sure each set of keys is correct.  I’m not sure how to explain just how headachy this job is.  I’ve been doing this since December and it’s just never ending.  I just stepped in and took over because I love organizing.  But I didn’t realize it would never be fixed.  We never truly have all the keys we need and certainly not the number of extra copies we want.  But it’s cool, it’s cool. :o) 

I’m also doing this new thingie I call “car mileage.”  The directors asked me to do the admin on keeping track of cars: how much they’re driven, their problems, and how much money is put into their tanks.  It’s pretty messy because there are 14 cars and one missionary keeps track of these things for one car.  So every Monday I’m emailing all the missionaries trying to track down what they wrote for their car.  But it’s working pretty well, I’d give it an 85% success rate.  It’s only lacking because drivers don’t write everything down the way their supposed to and I’ve got quite a bit of chasing to do with my colleagues.  It’s a work in progress. :o)

The big change is this: Laura’s going home for 6 months!  She’s leaving in mid-June, 7 weeks before I follow suit and head to Richmond.  This is going to be tricky, because it means I’ll have to train-up a new missionary, leave for the States and then Laura will come back to a new person running the dorm.  It’s going to be a bit odd, but I’m really excited for Laura.  She’s going home to spend more time with her family and to start graduate school.  I’m such a huge supporter of both these things :-)  Please pray that a missionary will come here long-term with a heart for working with my dorm.  And pray we get one before I leave.  I don’t particularly want to run the dorm alone again, it’s a bit lonely and I still haven’t learned quite enough Portuguese to feel confident with the Tias’ explanations for things.  But I especially want the chance to train a new missionary so that the boys’ lives are still relatively the same until Laura comes home. *I know I use the word home a lot, to talk about the States and here.. but that’s just my life*  Pray over this whole situation in general :-)  I know it’ll work out, but as usual, I just wish God would let me (little miss planner) know soon.

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