This week was extremely stressful and busy not because of the
magnitude and frequency of changing events but because of one HUGE and headache
inducing assignment as a finance secretary… AUDITING!!! I had no idea what that meant until this week
and now it has forever been imprinted in my brain as a time that requires much
patience and diligence. For those of you who, like me until a week ago, have
always heard of auditing and never really known what it was, it is when all of
your records are checked and your computer systems are inspected to make sure
your company (or in this case, mission office) is doing things legally and your
records are kept correctly. This means I’ve had to pull out certain designated
records from 2012, to be checked by officials from the Area Office. It was a 3-day process to have everything
audited with me and President DeLaMare but we eventually passed with flying
colors and some of our procedures and websites that we use will be suggested to
the other missions in the Philippines to make things easier for them. Like prepaid vs. postpaid load. Anyway, it’s too long to explain I’ll talk
about it another time.
But auditing went by well. It was just 3 days of anxiety, which
ended up being as useful to me as being anxious for the driver’s test when I
was 16. Lesson learned: Don’t stress out about things you can’t control. It
will make life so much easier and happier. But through it all I learned many great
lessons. I learned the importance of keeping good records and making them easy
to find. *Note: Everything I did was easy to find… it was the previous finance
secretaries’ files that made it difficult because I never considered that I
needed to know where their files are.
Okay, I am making it sound a lot worse than it actually was. I just didn’t know what to expect and I would
freak out if I was a receipt short or didn’t have a certain voucher. It was just super tedious, was all. And I spent all night for 3 nights organizing
papers and reports. (Side note: the
person who was auditing me, Sister Venus, saw my picture of Laney and commented
on how cute she is.)
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| My very cute niece, Laney! |
Then on Thursday, we had our zone conferences, which was fun. It had a lot of good workshops and I was
taught a lot of things and I met a lot of new people. My zone, the Quezon City South Zone has all
trainees in every companionship except for the Zone leaders. So it was nice to see how they’ve been
progressing. I met a new sister that apparently went to BYU the same time I
did. Found out that we have seen each
other at the dances and have a few mutual friends. Haha!
It’s such a small world…
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| With Sis. Wilson |
That was basically all that had happened this week. We only had
one lesson and it was at a family home evening. Well, tomorrow is stake conference/area
broadcast so this is where the first round of Melchizedek Priesthood holders
will be sustained and ordained so we’ll see how we’ve been doing on that. This
will be the evaluation part where we’ll be seeing how many we’ve gotten and how
much more we need to get to our 200 Melchizedek priesthood goal.
Well, other than that, last fast Sunday I fasted for a mountain to
climb like President Eyring talked about in one of his talks. I thought it was
quite noble to ask for a trial and to grow stronger from it. Like the Lyrics
from a song “Mountains to Climb…”
I
know that it won’t be easy,
But
it’s making me strong so give me,
Mountains
to climb, give me
Rivers
to cross, give me
Something
that’s going to make me
Better
than I was, give me
Mountains
to climb, cause I know
That
it’s taking me higher than I’ve ever been before.
Well, this week was quite a mountain for me and now that the dust
has settled, I can look back from where I am and see that I am much higher and
much stronger than when I started. I
thank the Lord that he has given me the strength to overcome these things.
Spiritual Thought:
^_^ Just smile and do all things cheerfully that lie within our
power! D&C 123:17
I hope you all have a wonderful week and that you may know that it
is through hardship that we get stronger and grow in our faith. Have a goodnight! I love you!!! Have fun at the party and you better send me
pictures! Until next week…
Doing You Proude,
Elder Froude ^_^
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