A Look at Our Daily Routine

Our Daily Routine

As Senior Missionaries assigned to the Historic Kirtland Visitor’s Center we are assigned to one of four locations each day. Our shifts vary somewhat in length depending on our assignment. Most days we work six hour shifts. Sundays we work four hour shifts so we can attend church.

The locations assignments and shift hours are as follows:

• Historic Kirtland Visitor’s Center – 6 hour shifts (9:00 am – 3:00 pm and 3:00 pm – 9:00 pm)
• Johnson Inn – 6 hour shifts (9:00 am – 3:00 pm and 3:00 pm – 9:00 pm)
• Isaac Morley Farm – 4 hour shifts (10:00 am – 2:00 pm and 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm)
• John Johnson Farm – 5 hour shifts (9:00 am – 2:00 pm and 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm)

For our first couple of months we took lots of tours with sister missionaries and senior missionaries, in order to learn how to give tours ourselves to the guests visiting Kirtland. This is an ongoing learning process with so much to be learned about what happened in Kirtland from 1831-1838.

When we are not working a shift, we are studying our site guide books, learning about the significant events that took place at each site, studying the scriptures or carrying out other responsibilities we may have been given by our director or with ward assignments.

Creating pot luck items for Family Home Evenings or goodies for the sister missionaries and firesides is standard fare. There are always some activities going on with special tours or working with community organizations or with the sister missionaries.

We currently have ten senior missionary couples and twenty-six sister missionaries assigned to Kirtland. Two of the senior couples are assigned to the John Johnson Farm in Hiram, along with two sister missionary companionships. Everyone else is assigned to Historic Kirtland. The Isaac Morley Farm closes at the end of October and opens up again in March.

We have two site guide books we use for our tour information. The guide book about Kirtland is 201 pages and the guide book we use for the John Johnson Farm is 105 pages. Most missionaries study the guide books every day of their missions. We learn a little more each day through study and giving tours. Everything works out because the real teaching comes through the spirit and what people feel.  We love meeting interesting people from all over the world. We love this mission.