Hello Family and Friends:
So the big news of the week is I’m a grandpa, again. This time it's a GIRL. She was born on Tuesday (I think) it was late at night. Her name is Elliett Taylor Ashley Fullerton (not sure any of the spelling is right other than Fullerton). Shortly after she was born she was taken to the ICU because of an infection. We held a family fast on Thursday for her. When they tested her again the infection was gone. One more little miracle in life and prayers are answered. Elliett will be blessed in May when I return. She will come home from the hospital on the 9th after she is done with the antibiotics (the Dr wanted to complete the regimen even thought the tests were negative).
Well I survived the Board Meeting. Actually it went very well, the Board is very pleased with how the plant is operating. With increased production, the plant is also making money and there is a good chance earnings this year will meet the budget set last year. The prospect of meeting the earnings budget just a few months ago was totally out of the question. So things have turned around very nicely. Hopefully we can keep the wheels on the plant until the end of March when the year officially ends. Then we will be given a new year to work with. There are outages planned early in the year to make repairs so both plants operate more smoothly and hopefully the stress level will go down even more. But with a plant that will turn 100 years old this year there are plenty of opportunities for problems.
Rusty the new finance guy returned to the US on Friday. His work visa was approved so he will return on the 21 and start working in Magadi for two years. I’m over half done with my assignment and not sure I would want to be looking at two years. Two years is a long time!! It has gone pretty fast and I’ve had a lot of good experiences. But the work trials have been plentiful. I’m sure Rusty will experience the same thing. There are many opportunities to fix finance. The purchasing and the stores areas are in need of a lot of help and I hope Rusty can fix those areas.
Church today was interesting. They organized the other branch so next week Langata will be really small. When the Stake president was talking about the change he told of a ward they split that had about 90 people attending. Shortly after splitting, both wards were back at 90 attending. He made the comment that the church grows by division, interesting way of looking at it. It will be a challenge but I’m not in this alone. Stake conference is coming up in two weeks and the visiting Area Seventy wants to visit will all Bishops and Branch Presidents so I guess I’ll have an interesting interview. They are going to reorganize the Stake so I know what they are looking for but that person won’t be in the room when I’m being interviewed.
Not much else to say other than the wildlife is still all over Africa. Saw four twigas on the way to church today. For those of you that don’t know Swahili, a Twiga has a very long neck and brown spots. I looked twice Mom, once for me and once for you.
Love you all
Paul/dad
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