Buenas tardes mi querida familia,
If I were to
describe this week in only one word, that word would be TIRED!!!!!!!! I
can´t explain all that went on this week. This was the most crazy
changes week that I have ever had on my whole mission. Let me tell you
why!
Monday:
We had a meeting with President Laboriel talking about the results in
the mission. We worked so hard as a mission this month! We ran, fasted,
prayed, suffered, worked, sweat, burned and over all just sacrificed for
the month of May. In the last couple of months, we have gotten around
40-60 baptisms monthly. Now, with all of the hard work that the mission
did in May, we achieved 116 BAPTISMS!!!! The most that this mission has
ever had since the split! We went from 66 baptisms to 116 in a month of
hard work. We are very very proud of the work, but not satisfied because
we know that it´s not enough. We have the potential to have more! Elder
Bullecer is now training elder Frederiksen to be the new secretary. He
is from Idaho and will be my comp in July!
Tuesday: The new missionaries came. At 8:00 am,
3 Latin missionaries came. and Also the old missionaries came to the
office for their last interviews with president. I got all of the
paperwork done for the news, and then we had to run and get lunch for
them. Then, I had to go to the Honduras, Colombia, and El Salvador
embassies here in the country. I had to take each of them to the embassy
to fill out MORE paperwork. Very stressful but I took care of it. Then I
had to take them also to get their fingerprints taken. We got back
around 6:00 pm and then went and had 1 lesson with our recent converts. At 8:00
we had to go BACK to the office to wait for the new North American
sister. Then I had to do migration stuff with her. It was a crazy day.
Wednesday: Well, I thought that I would have been going to the temple that morning, but the APs called us Tuesday
night and said "hey you guys aren´t going tomorrow." so we couldn´t go.
I didn't ask why, I didn't argue, but I wasn´t happy either. After
everyone got back from the temple, they assigned the trainers and I had
to bring the other missionaries to their embassies. After we got out of
the office, we got a call from the APs saying that there was an Elder
that had been in the airport since 8:00 am and it was 7:30 pm.
So I made some phone calls to see what the heck he was doing, and it
turns out that he was an elder from the Panama mission that got deported
because the Migration secretary in panama didn´t do his job correctly.
So that was fun. After that, I had to go to San Jose to try to sleep in
the other secretaries house so I could go to the airport in the morning
with the old missionaries. I also got an email from President telling me
to by a plane ticket for a missionary that would be going home that
morning! So I had to wait for the plane ticket to arrive!
Thursday: I woke up at 2:00 am
to go to the airport. I had to take all 13 Missionaries to the desk to
get their bags checked and weighed. Then we left them to go through
security. It was a little hard seeing Elder Dale leave. He was there for
me in my first area. He helped me a lot, now he is back in Utah. He had 4
months when he trained me, so now I only have 4 months. I was so dead
after dropping them off. We went and ate breakfast, and then went back
to the office in hopes of sleeping, but I had more work to do. I had to
go to the Argentina Embassy and do paperwork. Then when we got back,, we
had to set up everything for the Leadership counsel. Tables, chairs,
flowers, food, tablecloths and a whole bunch of stuff. After, Elder
Contreras and I had to drive the APs back to Heredia at 8:00 pm. (No, I didn´t drive don't worry). I didn't get to sleep the whole day. And then on Friday, I had to wake up at 5 do go to the Leadership meeting!
