Joy March 14, 2016

She is my favorite right now if you can't tell how she gets her own email every week. She couldn't meet with us wednesday and I felt so bad because her phone wasn't working so we didn't know what was going on. But she really wanted to meet this week and rescheduled for Thursday. Everyone else was home sick so Brad and I met with her after going out in the field. She is so sweet and is genuinely trying. She brought her business explained in 30 seconds written out with why they are better and all the list of services they provide. It is a bummer she can't actually use her name on anything because of the whole business permit thing. That makes it difficult so we are putting that on hold for now. She brought her most recent financial records and we focused on that most of the time. Right now we are really trying to separate her business from her personal expenses. She says she used to do it but when all those financial difficulties hit she got them all mixed up. Right now she takes money out of the business for her personal expenses and then uses her husbands salary to pay her employees. We need to get that switched and she understands why she just doesn't know where to start. We also taught her about keeping more specific track of her expenses which she has never done. She just includes them all in "shop expenses". We also taught her the difference between variable and fixed expenses. Which isn't detrimental right now but it was good to introduce it. We are going to create an excel template and print it off for now until she gets a new computer. That way she can transfer her daily sales and expense log to a monthly or bi monthly report. Kind of like a profit and loss statement. Anyway, she loves us and is so sad we didn't find her sooner. I told her I am sad too. She couldn't believe we were leaving so soon. I don't know her religious views but I bought a Book of Mormon at the distribution center the first time we went to the temple and I think she is the one I want to give it to. Luckily we get to meet with her again before we leave for Palawan!