It's Up to Us, New York, New York

 Tuesday was a day of meetings. We had agreed to skip this week's meeting with our WSR manager, Chris George, but because the enthusiasm of Sunday's coordinating council meeting for the video bled over to several other stakes wanting to have it, we thought it necessary, or at least advisable, to get his input. He felt that it was still fine to go ahead. If it is a solution to the challenge of  in-person Self-Reliance Devotionals, he will show it to his superiors as a recommendation. It has not gone through correlation for approval, so it can't be used on a general basis. We told him that if he loses his job over it, we will put Elder and Sister Packer, the Employment Services missionaries, on the alert in case he needs to seek another career.  We raced from that meeting to our district council meeting where the missionaries were quite sure we would meet our district's goals for the month. I should have done a screen shot on Sunday, because the Zone was one of only a few...

And a new posse, too. This week was transfers, so most of Tuesday was taken up attending the mission transfers conference and helping move the new elders' luggage to their apartment. They will share the apartment with the district leader and his companion. The apartment is right behind our apartment building, so we could just take their luggage to our garage and wait until they were ready to move in. Elder Young, who has been our district leader was transferred to become a zone leader in another zone. Elder Asay is our new district leader. Elder Harris, who has been serving in the Far Rockaway branch was transferred to serve with Elder Clayton, an amazing district leader who is in a completely Spanish speaking area. It's exactly what Elder Harris needed. With the two new elders and the two new companions, we only know the two who were here before the transfer, so it's like a new district, entirely. We were able to meet them at the district council meeting the next day, but ...