week 8

My hours this week were:
Monday 9am-2pm
Wednesday 8:30am-12pm
Friday 9am-12pm
Total for the week is 11.5 hours
Total hours is 118.5 hours.

This week I experienced how much it can stink to have your work edited. A few weeks ago I was assigned a task to write e-mail receipts for donations. I wrote about 20 different receipts that were for specific fields and I spent a lot of time researching the fields to write a nice little paragraph for each one about what the donation to that field might be helping (which was in the instruction of the assignment). For example, in the El Salvador donation receipt there was a paragraph that said:

Your donation has been set aside to assist ministries in El Salvador. The Focus of WGM El Salvador is to develop and inspire leaders who will guide the future of the church and to transform communities by inspiring people to be followers of Christ. In addition to church planting, the El Salvador team is working with the David V. King Medical Center and also hopes to start a bilingual trade school. These two ministries will be the key to meeting the physical needs of today and the spiritual and emotional needs of coming generations.

So today I hear back about all these receipts I submitted. I’m told the content was cut in some places to keep the e-mails short. So I was thinking, ok that’s fine. Then I look at the sample receipt for the fields that was sent to get approval, and the entire paragraph about Japan has been cut except one sentence. And it is fine- I understand wanting to keep everything short. But it just stinks when you spend time on something and it gets trashed.

Other than that, still working on field updates and Heroes of the Faith stories.You can read the first one here! I am working on 2 of those stories right now. I am realizing I do not like calling strangers on the phone- I would much rather use e-mail. This is probably because our culture is going to texting and social media, the art of phone conversation will soon be lost. I’m not bad at talking on the phone, I just don’t like it. On Wednesday I interviewed Carol Wonch, a retired missionary to the Mexico-Texas border. So I have that story to write now. I also did an in person interview with Dean and Leta Strong, retired missionaries to Kenya.

Tuesday I was sick with strep throat, but I came in to do the interviews Wednesday anyway because I wasn’t contagious and it is important to get those done. Wednesday afternoon to Thursday night I went to Cedar Point with JCBodyshop- so that rocked. And then worked some from home on Friday, getting another home page focus article written about famine relief. It’s been a busy week!