Summer is Here!

I think summer might finally be here! This morning we had five motor coaches come within an hour of each other. It was pretty intense. At the West Gate booth we are in charge of making sure that all of the sisters taking motor coaches have their bags with the right number of referral cards (also in the right language) and the right number of pens. Also we hand out the microphones that sisters use on their motor coach tours. This morning we came to West Gate and because we weren't the ones to close up at night, we didn't know when early the earliest motor coach was coming. It turns out that the first motor coach was at 9:00 am. It's a good thing we left early this morning and that the sisters that were there last night put all of the bags together. It was a life saver. Then we spent most of the rest of the morning assembling the bags for the tours that are coming tonight. There are about six motor coaches coming this evening.

Another thing that we do at West Gate is we send out pages for language tours. For example, a sister from one of the desks will call us and tell us that they need a Mandarin tour for five people at the Eternal Families desk. Then we send out a mass page (we use pagers here on Temples Square...old technology, I know) to all the sisters that speak Mandarin. Then they are all supposed to call us back and one of them will take the tour. The most stressful part is when no one responds back and there are guests waiting to take a tour. It's quite exciting though.

I've had a number of dreams about West Gate in the past few days. The other night I dreamt that we paged out a Russian tour and no one responded. It might have been because the day before we paged out for a Ukrainian tour and no one responded to the page! There are only two sisters here that speak Ukrainian and one of them was on P-day. It was a little ridiculous. So we got someone to take them around in Russian which kind of worked, but it was a little frustrating that we couldn't get the sister to answer her page.

Today is Brigham Young's birthday! So after this we are going to go to the Lion House for some pie. It's going to be pretty good. I've been there twice since I've been on my mission. It's really tasty.

Since being on West Gate we don't have as much time as we used to on the computers to call people, but I've still had the opportunity to talk with some wonderful people on the phone this past week.  As you can probably imagine, calling someone out of the blue (for them) and then trying to have a conversation about religion over the phone is something that is unusual for a lot of people. RC is a bit nerve wracking, but once you get talking to people it's usually fine. A lot of the time when I'm talking with people on the phone it is hard to get things to flow exactly right, so it is always a miracle to me when someone refers to have missionaries over the phone. I've learned that the Spirit makes up for a lot of things, that's why it is so important to have it.