Huh it just occurred to me that I seem to have missed a week in my labeling of blog posts… seeing as this week is my 1 year in the Country mark and it will be post 51…oh well
And just so everyone knows I posted another post underneath this one labeled week 49. I had it typed up and everything last week but somehow forgot to actually post it… so there it is.
As for this past week, it was yet another busy week of office work and since we are still catching up and getting things set here we didn’t get a whole lot of actual missionary work done. As for some of the many projects I worked on this week, as well as all my other day to day tasks, here is a short explanation
So last week I was working on getting my computer all up and running nicely again after just having put Windows 7 on it. This week I was able to successfully put Windows 7 on two more of the computers here in the Office. Elder Darowski’s computer was first after mine because when he saw how cool Windows 7 was he kept pestering me to upgrade his next, which went a lot smoother than my installation because I had solutions for all of the hiccups already from the experience with my computer. Next was Sister Richards, which I upgraded last night, and that one had some new bugs and fun stuff to fix but eventually I got around it all and got the operating system loaded and everything. Then when I went to use the church provided program to install Microsoft Office I very quickly discovered that it wasn’t working…so I called my good friends at the Global Service Desk and asked them what was up. Of course it had nothing to do with my end; they had recently taken the church servers down to fix some apparently major problems they were having… And I also had a nice little issue with one of the printers… bugger just would not install correctly and I spent over an hour searching for the dang driver. Eventually found one that would suffice and now both of her printers work again
I was also assigned recently to design the format for the new mission newsletter, which is coming along nicely. I also had to design a new mission header thing for documents and such and I think it is kind of cool, I have had to edit and revise it a couple times because people keep changing their minds of what they like and what they want… oh well. I am still working with both President Nielson and Sister Nielson to get the newsletter format to work just right for what they want.
I also submitted our monthly orders this week and had to do a lot of cleaning in the supply room to figure out what we actually need and what we had tons of. And now as a result of that, the mission supply room is clean now and almost organized how I want it.
I was also giving the special assignment recently from President to learn more about something called “Mifi”. I have thus discovered how much I have missed since being on my mission lol… Mifi is a device that can take a 3G signal and convert it into a broadcasting Wi-Fi signal!!! For those of you who are wondering why that is so cool let me explain. Normal internet can be broadcasted through what we call a wireless router so that things like iTouches and laptops can get an internet signal wirelessly. A couple years ago when the iPhone first came out a new system called 3G was also released, it is essentially a connection to the internet through the cellular system so that things like smart phones can get internet signals. Now the question, why would anyone want a 3G signal to suddenly be a Wi-Fi signal? One of the main reasons is the new iPad, which has 2 versions, one that has a 3G receiver built in and one that doesn’t. The one that doesn’t have it built in can only get internet through a Wi-Fi signal. So to solve this problem people use this device, Mifi, to put a 3G network enabled SIM card in so they can then broadcast a Wi-Fi signal so they can still have internet on the go on the iPad. It turns out the internet is generally faster as well, and there are some apps like Skype that won’t let you run them if you are connected to a 3G signal but will if you are hooked up through Wi-Fi. So President asked me to find out about the Mifi and see if he can get one to use with his iPad, we will be buying one this week
Those are some of the big things that I did this week
Some of the other things that have been done/ worked on in the past couple weeks are listed here
• Updated the mission directory
• Cleaned up and improved phone directory
• Losing track of time in Office
• Working on buying new phones for the Office
• Working on getting some new comps and printer
More to come next week, unless I have enough pictures to post and if you didn’t already know I post some a little while ago
http://picasaweb.google.com/football80/ChristmasToTheNewYear#
Until next time :D
-Starszy Taylor
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