SLOW is FAST and CLEAR is KIND!

A Week ago we got a new boss...I'll call her Sister J. She looks SO young but she had adult children and grandchildren. She is a bright light and is continually modeling Christlike behavior. Because she's new to this department and the rest of us are new too there is a LOT we have to learn together. She taught us that "SLOW is FAST" meaning, if we are patient and take the time for EVERYONE on the team to learn how to do everything....then later on we'll all be able to work very fast because everyone will be properly trained and everyone will know how to do every task. We can totally divide and conquere many assignments at once. My job has been to document everything the team has identified as problematic...unclear procedures, missing items, faulty or redundant tasks. This has been quite an undertaking. Every time we think we have it all "Tied up with a bow", we get a new assignment and we find we're still bumbling around and things need to be added or deleted or clarified. Today was particularly frustrating and I could tell our morale was slipping. We were divided into teams to check out some Young Sister Missionary Housing. We thought it was just a check of the exited missionaries home. It ended up being a deep clean and it took each team 4 hours and we still hadn't finished. The Basements were the scariest... Ancient and spidery...lol We realized we had forgotten to put dust caps in our totes...our heads were inches from the spiders..we didn't get our normal lunch/snack break because we had all left our food at the office "knowing" these homes only take us a couple hours. So we were both tired and hungary and thirsty...and yet, no one complained or lost their temper. They stayed kind and considerate of each other. At our end of day feedback council, many people expressed their thoughts on how we could have done this better. We were direct, unaccusing, and kind and it ended up being a very productive day. Sister J was so grateful for the feedback and so grateful for everyone's work, their comments and observations. I added MORE edits to our inventory lists and protocols. Tomorrow we will test them again on another assignment. I can't wait until this "slow" part is over and we can start being FAST! LOL Actually I am extremely grateful that we're here now at this SLOW time to learn all of this. In March hundreds of people will be staying here to be in the shows and help with the thousands of visitors...We will not even have time to think. So...grateful for this learning period. I can feel Heavenly Father blessing me with energy and strength.. My knees don't even hurt walking up and down stairs...it's a miracle.