Our mission, the Family and Church History Headquarters Mission, had a special meeting this morning. I suppose I should have figured out that this meant organizational changes were in the works.
As of January 1, 2017, the name of the mission is being changed to Utah Salt Lake City Headquarters. Like the other missions in the Church the missionaries will still be members in the wards or branches they came from [Yay! I will be able to look up phone numbers and addresses of my friends back in Missouri!]--so my records will be returned to my ward. The two missionary branches will be reorganized, based on the zone one is in, not the month one arrives in. There are some other organizational items that I am not clear on, but pretty much life will continue as usual for me, since I do not have leadership responsibilities. I do wonder if I will still be teaching a Relief Society lesson in February--I expect so, which is not a bad thing. I wonder if I will still be assigned to the tasks for coordinating the Young Elder Dinners--probably so.
Anyway, change is about the only constant, isn't it? I was glad that my Cuban sister is now safely at home in Florida, as we would have been in different branches, and I think the change would have been difficult for her.
The special meeting interfered with our branch choir practice, so we never did get to run through the entire special Christmas program--but the angels probably helped out because our director and the congregation were touched by how well we did. After the service the choir was asked to stay for a few minutes so that our picture could be taken, as this was the last time the Salt Lake 2nd Branch choir would be together. About half of us will be in the new City Creek Branch, and the other half will be in the Ensign Peak Branch.
Talking with my Sweetheart was very nice tonight as we had plenty of time. Friday night he will be helping with his ward's youth temple trip, so I sent him a list of names to have them do for me.
I got one batch of German indexing done today, but the other two batches will go back into the system, as 5 a.m. will come way too early in the morning!
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