The Office

We are enjoying our work at the office.  We work M-F, usually reporting in the morning around 9AM and leaving around 4PM each day.  If we stick to this schedule, we can get to the office in 30-45 minutes and the same coming home.  If we vary, then it’s 1 hour+ each way.

The Mission Office is in a building that includes the Mission President's home, an apartment for a missionary couple, and two apartments and bedrooms, shared kitchen and bathrooms for up to eight missionaries on the first floor.  On the second follow, where the office is located, is also space for 15 other individuals that work for the church in the Indonesian Area Office.  The office handles material (books, scriptures, manuals, etc,) distribution, translation of church manuals, financial transactions, etc. for the entire church in Indonesia and the surrounding area.

With two of us in the office, Gail and I discussed who should be the Office Manager.  Considering my many years working in an office and her many years of watching THE OFFICE, she decided she would be the Office Manager and I would be the assistant to the office manager (not the Assistant Office Manager!)

I take care of the financial duties, referrals, recording baptisms, recommends, ordering items requested by the missionaries, ordering office supplies, and keeping the Office Manager out of  trouble!  Gail takes care of missionary travel, paperwork for new missionaries, mail, updating the Mission Office Information System, and follow-up on items for the Mission President.

 This is Gail standing by her work area.  To her left is the work area for the missionaries, the copier, mail boxes, etc.  We gave up attempting to keep the room neat!  It looks much like a 19 year old's bedroom--stuff everywhere!

Gail's work area.  She is located by the door, so it is hard for me to slip out and skip doing my work!

My work area.  Plenty of space for all the work the Office Manager gives me to do!  The Mission President's Office is to my right.