Jeremiah's and Briana's candidate evaluations went very well last week. After overseeing three days of evaluation, I began orientation with them Thursday morning. Normally, Karen would have helped but she instead had the pleasure of babysitting for Holger and Maria, missionary friends of ours in town on furlough from South Africa. Holger and Maria went through MMS back in 1998-1999.
With the babysitting done, Karen joined us Friday morning for the second day of orientation. Her presence and insight really helps blend and improve the tone and presentation of the immense amount of information we have to share in such a very short time. And it provides someone else for the approved candidates to look at and listen too instead of 16 straight hours of just me.
Jeremiah and Briana took it all in stride, asked good questions, and headed back to Colorado yesterday evening totally overloaded with the reality of full-time missionary service and the responsibilities of support raising. But that's where we all start out!
Briana, Jeremiah, Me, and Karen in the MMS Conference Room. Everyone at MMS enjoyed getting to know them over the past week and looks forward to their return after they raise the required financial support. We have another young couple scheduled for eval in June. But then, the older we get, the younger EVERY couple seems to become! Ha!
Perfect Weather and The First Day of 2009
Oh man...as far as I'm concerned TODAY is the first day of 2009. Yesterday was nice I guess, but after spending the entire day and into the early evening inside the MMS conference room, I missed it. But I'm not missing today.
Clear sky and 77 degrees at 9 AM headed to 85 degrees, pancakes on the griddle, bacon sizzling in the pan, Caroline's Coffee in my cup, I'm wearing short pants and my Bruce Jones Surfboards t-shirt, and with no major responsibilities for the day...it would seem that maybe the Winter of 2008 is FINALLY over and for me, the new year doesn't start until last year's winter ENDS. So, like I said, this is the first day of 2009 and what a great day it is!
Happy New Year's Day, April 25th, 2009!Don't get me wrong, there's still plenty to do today (track support, mow the yard, trim bushes, buy and mount new tires on my bicycle, move the porch swing from the garage back to the front porch, move wood so we can get to the porch swing, and so on)...but there's no pressure associated with the tasks. And that's nice.
Happy New Year!
2 comments:
Happy New Year.
Doing tons of yard work today.
Chocolatechic,
Happy New Year, indeed. It's a GREAT day for tons of yardwork! We'll see you in church tomorrow.
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