You were right, it was a very busy week! We had the audit on Tuesday, and
it went well. Two of the ladies from the Central Offices of the Church in the
Caribbean came over to do it. Their names are Dayanara and Francisca. I talk
to them all the time on the phone, like everyday probably. It´s kind of funny, one of the
sisters that baptized Dayanara lives in Queen Creek, AZ!!! Pretty crazy, and
Dayanara says that she actually goes down to Arizona every couple of years it
sounds like, so the next time that she is down, you can meet her! I work with
her all the time, she is kind of like our boss and helps us know what to do.
Anyway the audit went well, they seemed impressed because we
actually found the audit form online and just went through the whole audit and
filled out the questions before they even came, so we knew all of the questions
that they asked us, and we even had the true or false stuff already marked many times
on the questions, so they said they were quite impressed that we had practically done the
whole audit before they even came. So, thinking of it that way, it went
well.
Despite how well they thought that we had done in the preparation and
cleaning up of the policies and filing, there are many things that still need to
be fixed. One thing will be that we will need to review all of the housing
contracts that we have in the Mission because of some issues that we have
there. There are probably about 80 of those contracts. We need to do that as well as go
back to 2011 and do some more filing for that year. There are several other
procedures that either need to be done differently or just set up and started. We also need to go and try to get copies of missing receipts
that we need. So we have thirty days to do all of that. (Guess that works out well since Jeff has about 30 days left in the mission!)
Thanks for sending the debit card, I should be getting it hopefully in this coming week. I´ll send you an email to let you know once I receive it so that you can
activate it.
So, is Leah all set up for school? She's going to love ASU. It's a good
thing that you chose to take another class, you will really be grateful that you
did that later on.
Happy Father's Day Dad! I hope that you had a great day.
I don't recognize the name actually of the guy that asked you if you were
the DeSpains, my family, at Stake Conference. Wow, I can't believe that Amanda Hansen is leaving on her mission! Tell her best of
luck for me and that it's too bad that I can't see her before she leaves! (One of Jeff's good friends from high school leaves for her mission two weeks before Jeff gets home so they won't get to see each other. Bummer!)
Things are going good here, we've been in the office a lot trying to train
and learn, do an audit, pay everybody that needs paid, and getting all of the
new items for the houses ready, and sometimes it seems like we're doing it all
at the same time, haha. There is a big housing project that President Hernandez
started here so that the missionaries can live a little more comfortably. He is such an
understanding and loving man. He and his wife had visited some of the
missionary housing and were pretty astounded at the overall quality of living
that they were living it, so he has been working for a long
time to try to make the missionaries more comfortable and help them have nice,
clean housing. This week we were able to get microwaves, blenders, irons, and
toasters (which were also waffle irons) to a good amount of the missionary
houses. The missionaries are going to be really grateful for those blessings!
I'm busy, but that's a good thing, everything here is going good, I'm just
a little tired. I still can't believe how far the Lord has carried me in my
life and in my mission. He has changed me and helped me overcome so many things
on my mission. I am so grateful for His Plan and His Love. I know that He
knows all of us, that He will always help us pass through our trials, whatever
they may be, and however hopeless they may seem to us.
I love you all, I'm sending a picture of me and Elder Perschon so that you
can see us both! (Elder Perschon is the missionary that Jeff is training to take care of mission finances. The picture has been added to the blog!)
Elder DeSpain
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