Our mission president, President N, is the busiest man
that I have ever met, but what a wonderful man he is.
Transfers were this week, and I got to drive the 15
passenger van!!! Ole!!! It was good to be able to just focus on driving for a
little while after the hectic schedule of the week. Unfortunately, immediately
after transfer station 2 (there are 3 transfers that occur on transfer day, we
pull everyone we can into central locations, and transport the missionaries in
vans from A to B then back to A) chaos began to reign. We were supposed to be
out of there between 1:30 and 2:00 to begin travel to the next transfer
station. The cars got mixed up, travel arrangements were lost, keys were in the
hands of people that shouldn't have had them, the luggage was missing as was
the mail, and the list goes on and on.
Anyway, we didn't end up leaving until 3 o'clock.... Then,
on our way up to Calgary, one of the tires for the trailer broke off. Didn't
just come off, didn't just loosen up or flatten, it busted clean off. Bolts,
nuts, tire, gone. Everyone made it safe, as did the luggage, it was just a mess
:D. Hahaha
After that, we went to the going home fireside. The
missionaries going home all bore their testimonies, we watched the slide show,
President N gave a brief talk about the importance of member missionary
work, and then we closed with "Called to Serve" (oh, how I love that
beautiful hymn).
We gathered together and got all of the luggage weighed and
put together, and we all slept at the mission home for those 13 missionaries' final night.
The next morning we went to the temple (HAVE YOU SEEN THE
NEW TEMPLE VIDEO!?!?!?!?!? I'M STILL A GEEKING OUT ABOUT IT!!!!), which was a
very revealing experience, I learned so much. After that we took the missionaries
to the airport (can anyone say, "Trunky"?) and dropped them off to
head home to their families.
After that, President told us to go get some lunch, then
some rest. So, we got lunch.... and went to the office to send out some emails
to the new missionaries, organize new templates, set up google docs, and finish
out what we needed to get done for the day. We then went home and took a brief
nap (which only really felt like blinking after such a long series of late
nights, minimal studies, very early mornings, and a tough workout regimen) and
then we were off again. We got home around 10:15 that evening and weren't in
bed until around 11, because of all the phone calls we needed to return.
We woke up early yesterday morning, actually got to do a
small part of our studies, and then were off again. There was one more
missionary to go home yesterday because of passport problems. We took him to
the airport and then did some office work. Part 1 of our p day finally began.
We picked up some food, did our laundry, and went shopping for warm clothes for
the winter.
After that we had an appointment with a new investigator. We
were handing her off to the Sister missionaries, so, our 3 leg was there, along
with the sisters (5 missionaries, 1 member, 1 investigator, and another random
non-member... they didn't stand a chance). They asked us to teach just a small
portion right at the end of the lesson, and they taught the rest. We ended up
extending the baptismal date, which she accepted for the 26th of October. She
probably won't be baptized until mid-November because of her work, but the fact
that she accepted the date shows a good deal of her faith.
I feel like everything that I've written has been one, very
long, run-on sentence. But I know you wanted to know more about what I was
doing.... so there you go. I'll include what I've learned this week in my
regular weekly email. I love you!
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