Executive Secretary Duties

Hey Dad! It was a very good week. Only President Treviño is allowed to drive in the mission so travel is always by taxis, buses, and public transportation. I dont need to travel to much normally. But my responsibilities include dropping off and picking up missionaries from the CDMX airport, everything that has to do with Visas for the missionaries in the mission not from Mexico like making sure they renew it when they complete a year, next week I´ll be taking 11 american elders to immigration here in Cuernavaca and I gotta make sure the have all their paperwork right. 

I communicate with and sometimes receive training from a group of people in the Mexico MTC that are experts and train all the executive secretaries in mexico. I work very closely with President Treviño, he´s here in the offices almost everyday. I book his hotel reservations when he has to travel throughout the mission. The APs work in my and my companion's ward with us so we see them all the time and work closely with them as well. I schedule the travel plans and buy the tickets for all the missionaries in the mission that need to travel which can be a lot during transfers. 

I keep a lot of records and have to be very organized in all that I do. I´m getting good at using Excel, Microsoft Word, and Publisher, and basic office stuff like working with and maintaining the computers and printers and whatever needs to get done really. I´m also a district leader, but the only members of my district are the APs and my comp. Which means my only responsibility with that is to prepare a training each week in the district meeting. 

Each Monday evening after district meeting, we have an office meeting with President, the APs, and the other two secretaries (Records and Materials/Housing secretary) and this meeting is to plan out things and be on the same page. I think those are pretty much all my responsibilities as the executive secretary and I guess whatever else president asks of or assigns to me. I liking it a lot! 

The basic daily schedule is get up at 6AM, work out for 30 minutes, eat breakfast and get ready for the day, 1 hour of personal study, 30-60 minutes of companionship study, 30-60 minutes of language study, 9:30 or 10 get to the offices, update records, figure out what needs to get done, make plans, make calls, everything depending on the day and what needs to get done, 3PM comida with a member and the APs, after the comida we proselyte and go home around 8:30 or whenever it gets dark, update the area book, make plans for the next day, maybe get in another little study or journal entry and in bed at 9:30. I feel like I´m doing a lot of stuff that´ll prepare me and give me good experience in the future!

Cool to here about John and Jayton. Do you know what John is gonna be up to? Dinner at Alinea sounds like it´ll be fun! You´ll have to tell me all about it and send pics! I've still been doing a lot of pushups. I´m up to sets of 30 now and I weigh less than I did sophomore year of high school haha. But it´s a good weight loss, don´t think I've been starving out here or anything.

Thanks for the email! Love you and miss you.