We Receive a Transfer

Most of the folks in the Interpretation Department  (The Bridges were with family that day!)

We knew from the time we first opened our mission call that we were going to be serving in Interpretation at the top of the Church Office Building.  We did that from August through April and two General Conferences. As we have mentioned before, we worked with the interpreters who served during Conference and other voice overs and events.  And we thought we would be doing that our whole mission.  Here are some of those great folks:

Stewart Bridge

Sead Osmani

Belisario Benites - one of our managers

Nick - a producer

Kevin -  - a producer

Amy -  - a producer

Jason - Social Media

Darly

Michelle Draper - ASL Language Coordinator

Carmen - Spanish Language Coordinator

Eric Anderson - African Language Coordinator

Much to our surprise though, in May, we had a change in our mission assignment...  Rob was tapped because of his career experience in doing marketing research and surveys to begin work in the Language Quality Department, helping with the project of having end user surveys for General Conference and other translations to determine how the reader or listener in the audience felt about the quality of the translation.  He has been very busy with that.  I am serving as more of an administrative assistant to our manager and others in the department.  I have been doing a little work with the Fog buzz team to respond to unsolicited user feedback on issues and problems in Gospel Library.  It isn't as busy as Interpretation, so I have been also working on this blog, family history and family stories to keep me busy.  

The change involved our moving from the 28th floor down to the 2nd.  Rob referred to this as moving from the Celestial Kingdom to the Telestial, but only in terms of altitude!  

Here are the interpreter badges that we had to show for General Conference and other events.  

Here I am in our office on the 28th

Here is Rob - you can see that our offices allowed us to communicate easily.

They even had a little going away party for us, which included Dunford donuts!

And here we are in our new offices.  Our chairs back up to each other.  We continue to work with great people, and we are learning a lot.  

Grace's Birthday and Dance Recital and Duncan's Robotics

To celebrate her birthday the end of March, we were able to take Grace for frozen yogurt.  There is a great Farr's ice cream place in Provo, and that was her choice.  We enjoyed Farr's ice cream parlor when we grew up in Salt Lake, so this was fun to do for us to have a little one-on-one time with her.

                                

Grace's dance studio put on the Lion King, and we were able to go see her.  She is such a lovely dancer and it was such a well done production.

Then Mom was able to go with Heather to watch Duncan's robotics competition.  They had programmed their robot to go along a line drawn on a track.  It was really cool!  Several other teams robots couldn't stay on it at all, but Duncan's team's robot was right on.  They didn't take first place because of some other parts of it, but this was their first year and the teacher didn't really know what she was doing.  She didn't even come that day!