The Fletchers
by
Barbara Fallick
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last modified
Nov 19, 2006 02:56 PM
Brother Fletcher is the executive secretary to the area presidency.
Sister and Elder Fletcher
Ronald and Jean Ann Fletcher are from Sandy, Utah. They served a mission here when the temple first opened and they have a son who was a missionary here soon after the missionaries were first sent to the Dominican Republic. Sister Fletcher has treated us to homemade bread.
November 19th we invited the Fletchers over for dinner and to get better acquainted with them. When they were here in 2000 as missionaries, an area authority named Spencer Jones lived in the Casa de Huespedes. He was called to the Seventies. He told Elder Fletcher that when he was assigned, he wanted Brother Fletcher to be his executive secretary. Elder Jones was assigned to Guatamala (by the way, he is the one who gave the conference talk about the skunk odor) and he requested Elder Fletcher to go there. After they had served two years, it was rumored that a Carribean area presidency was going to be established. Elder Fletcher said he would love to come back to Santo Domingo. When the area presidency was announced, Elder Jones called President Mask (the new area president here) and recommended Elder Fletcher. President Mask said that was an answer to prayer. He had planned to call someone he knew to the position and then learned the individual had died. He was praying about whom to call when he got the phone call from Elder Jones. The Fletchers had not even submitted their papers when President Mask contacted their stake president. They were told to get their papers in. A call was waiting for them.
I asked him what an executive secretary to an area authority does. Evidently he spends a lot of his time delivering President Mask to and from the airport. We were here quite a while before we even met President Mask. He takes notes at presidency meets which can go on for many hours. Elder Fletcher knew no Spanish when he came on his first mission. He does quite well now. And, this is just one of these things, he keeps candy in a dish on the secretary's desk and mixed nuts available for the area presidency.
When the Fletchers were here as temple workers, he was assistant to the temple recorder. He said that one of his jobs was to shred the names after the waiting period of 30 days after the endowments had been performed. He said that occasionally he would go to shred a name and the slip would jump out of his hand and fall behind the shredder or on top. He would pick it up and try to shred it and it would happen again. Then he would look at the slip and inevitably find something irregular about it such as it had not been stamped indicating the ordinance had been performed.
November 19th we invited the Fletchers over for dinner and to get better acquainted with them. When they were here in 2000 as missionaries, an area authority named Spencer Jones lived in the Casa de Huespedes. He was called to the Seventies. He told Elder Fletcher that when he was assigned, he wanted Brother Fletcher to be his executive secretary. Elder Jones was assigned to Guatamala (by the way, he is the one who gave the conference talk about the skunk odor) and he requested Elder Fletcher to go there. After they had served two years, it was rumored that a Carribean area presidency was going to be established. Elder Fletcher said he would love to come back to Santo Domingo. When the area presidency was announced, Elder Jones called President Mask (the new area president here) and recommended Elder Fletcher. President Mask said that was an answer to prayer. He had planned to call someone he knew to the position and then learned the individual had died. He was praying about whom to call when he got the phone call from Elder Jones. The Fletchers had not even submitted their papers when President Mask contacted their stake president. They were told to get their papers in. A call was waiting for them.
I asked him what an executive secretary to an area authority does. Evidently he spends a lot of his time delivering President Mask to and from the airport. We were here quite a while before we even met President Mask. He takes notes at presidency meets which can go on for many hours. Elder Fletcher knew no Spanish when he came on his first mission. He does quite well now. And, this is just one of these things, he keeps candy in a dish on the secretary's desk and mixed nuts available for the area presidency.
When the Fletchers were here as temple workers, he was assistant to the temple recorder. He said that one of his jobs was to shred the names after the waiting period of 30 days after the endowments had been performed. He said that occasionally he would go to shred a name and the slip would jump out of his hand and fall behind the shredder or on top. He would pick it up and try to shred it and it would happen again. Then he would look at the slip and inevitably find something irregular about it such as it had not been stamped indicating the ordinance had been performed.
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