Work and Halloween

I've been working at MasterControl as the Marketing Admin Assistant for 5 months now, and am really enjoying it. The people I work with are all so different, and a lot of fun. As the admin, I'm involved in just about everything that goes on in marketing, so I have learned a lot. This is me at my cubicle (right after I decorated for Halloween).

For Halloween this year I got an idea from my friend Brittany to be a missing person. This is what I came up with. I made it late at night, so it's not as cute as I would have liked, but oh well.

New Home, New Life

So ever since I moved to Salt Lake, I've been postponing the inevitable change of wards because....well, because I don't like change I guess. I was really comfortable in my Ogden ward and knew pretty much everybody. I also haven't been doing much to get to know new people closer to where I live. But this last weekend things started to change a little bit. On Saturday night Brittany Adams invited me to come to a party with her that was for a bunch of people in the ward she recently started attending (down at the U). I went and it was pretty much a huge step for both of us because neither of us knew anybody. But it was actually a lot of fun and we met a lot of people. So on Sunday I went with her to that ward, and discovered I knew even more people because a few members of my old ward had started going there (the members are mostly from Ogden to Centerville). Then I decided to just go ahead and take the full plunge and I went to their FHE on Monday night all by myself (Brittany had to work). It turned out ok, and now I think I have finally found the ward to transfer my records to. Good thing because my tithing checks are building up in my checkbook :)

All decked out

This is Maggie ready for Halloween and Christmas! On her head is her lobster costume from Halloween last year, and on her body is her Santa outfit from last Christmas. We've had her for a whole year already, I can't believe it!

Mission Reunion

Last Friday, October 5th (which just happened to be my year and a half mark home from the mish) I had a mission reunion. It was so much fun! It's so crazy to see missionaries as "real people" and there were a lot there that I worked with. President and Sister Morrow were there and they spoke to us in the chapel; Sister Morrow did her usual Top 10; this time it was the top 10 things we miss about New York. President Morrow talked to us about covenants (some things never change) and a newly sealed convert couple from Flushing, Queens bore their testimonies. It was very sweet; they had just been sealed in the Salt Lake Temple that afternoon. Then we went into the cultural hall and ate chili and socialized. Here are a few pictures:

Left: Me and Sister Collier, my favorite comp in Richmond Hill, Queens.
Right: Me and Sister Ivanova, my "eternal" mission companion. We lived together/were in the same zone/were companions for our whole mission except the first 3 months.

Left: Sisters Kim, Zambrin, Zufelt, me, and Miles

Right: Part of the MTC district - me, O'Donahue, Lee, and Marsh

Part of my last district in Rego Park, Queens: Cordova, me, and Knapp