Saturday, April 16, 2016

Where We Spend Most Days - In the Office

The Church owns an office building in Takapuna, an eight minute walk from our flat. There are over 100 employees and 20 senior missionaries who work there everyday.


The Public Affairs Department is on the top floor along with the Area Presidency, the legal  department, Family History, membership statistics, the area mental health counselor, the area doctor and missionary department infield representative.

There are two Pubic Affairs senior missionary couples in the Pacific Area Headquarters in Auckland, New Zealand. Our companion couple is Elder Barry and Sister Su Preator from Alpine, Utah. There could not be a better couple!


Although we work together on many assignments, we are each assigned various geographic areas in the Pacific.  We are responsible for supporting public affairs efforts in Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Vanuatu, Tahiti, Solomon Islands, Cook Islands and the South Island of New Zealand.

The Preators are responsible Samoa, Fiji, Tonga and the North Island of New Zealand. Austriala, New Caledonia and Papua New Guinea are supported by two couples in Australia who are part of the Pacific Area Public Affairs team.

Map of the Pacific Area of the Church.

A list of our upcoming projects. Several on the list are projects outside our geographic areas of  focus - flexibility is something that is needed everyday.

The work space in the building is tight.  We share a cubicle with two desks.

Stopping at the reception desk on the ground floor.  Buildings in NZ have a ground floor, then a 1st floor, 2nd floor and so on.