We had a larger amount of mail than we have been getting today and I thought we were going to be short handed but instead we were pleasantly surprised to find 2 new volunteers today. Karl and Benj arrived. They both work at Caterpillar and Caterpillar gives their employees a morning off to do charity work. Karl was put right to work opening the mail. Notice he is moving 3 of the piles over to Shirley. He wasn't giving Shirley more work he was just making room to open the pile he had.
This is actually Benj's second time here so today we had him read letters.
Chuck and Marvin were put to work at the back table applying labels to envelopes while mom, Shirley, Karl, Joyce, Vonnie and Glenna opened the studies.
As soon as all the studies were opened the group went into the other room where Vonnie lined everyone out stuffing the next study into an envelope.
Mom and Shirley were left in the computer room as they were processing the intermediate studies and we don't allow those to leave the room. We don't want them mixed up with the basic studies. Shirley knows how to process them correctly and mom was helping her.
The next job was to wrap Bibles and today we had 60 Bible requests.
One funny request happened. On a lot of the request letters the hand writing is hard to read. I was struggling with one of them trying to figure out the last name. The first name was obviously John but it looked like John's last name was Jones but I just wasn't sure. I opened the letter and saw John May. He had no number and I gave that one to Marvin telling him. I can't send this man a Bible, his last name doesn't match what is on the envelope. Marvin looked at the letter and started laughing. The May was him asking if he
may have a Bible. We were done by noon and enjoyed lunch while visiting with each other. We kept Karl and Benj so busy they both agreed to come back at least 1 more time this year.
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