3 October 2012

Helloo!

 

So this week has been a festive week in the office (not really), so basically all of last week we were in the office until about 6 or 7 at night, and then we usually had a lesson or two afterwards.This week we started with transfers, so basically we went to the transfer meeting, then ran out the building to drop off a missionary at the airport because he was going to the Canary Islands, then afterward we went to the office for an hour, then ran to the airport again to pick up a future missionary because the mtc couldn´t do it, we then dropped him off at the temple and then ran back to the office, later we had a lesson with Fran. He is from Cameroon, Africa, right now he lives in the homeless shelter, but he seems pretty good, he appears to be genuinely interested in what we have to say and he also brings his notepad to all of our lessons. We recently set a baptismal date for the 27 of October, which is kind of close, but he said that with God, that we can make it. Afterwards we met some members that are really cool, the wife is pretty active (in energy) and wants everyone else in the ward to have the same excitement about the missionaries and the church. They got me pretty excited too, because unfortunately not all of the members want to help out the others, and unfortunately some people don´t even want to help the missionaries. However, it´s always pretty exciting when we can find members that always want to help the others as well as non-members.

 

Anyway, yesterday we had a crazy day, we started with going to the mission home to take an inventory of the supply closets there, then we sent some packages (which ended up taking half an hour), which of course made us late to pick up a missionary ending his mission at the temple. So we quickly drove there, found out that he had just gone into his interview with the stake president three minutes before (and his train was going to leave in half an hour, with a 15 minute drive to the station). So we quickly ran out of the temple square with the Elder after his meeting, and drove very franticly ( I don´t remember how to spell that) to the station, he ended up making it with 6 minutes before it left. Then afterwards, we went to the office, then we had to pick up all the new missionaries up from the mission home and take them to the Temple to get their companions. They (of course) were late too, so we drove them down to the temple amidst complaints in English, Spanish, and maybe some French, as to the poor quality of the driving ( it was a manual 8 passenger van, with a poor first gear, and in traffic, so it really wasn´t that bad of driving). Afterwards, we waited at the meeting and then drove over to a piso to steal a desk and mattress for another companionship that had just been put into a trio. Afterwards, we ended up having to cancel our appointment in order to go to the office and finish the newsletter for tomorrow. Soo, despite the fact that we did not end up having to drive some other elders to the train station at 10 at night, we still had a crazy day of driving.

 

Well, that´s basically the run down of what happened these past two days. It is definitely a different type of work that we do here in the office, and there is a ton of stuff that has to get done. Soo, welcome to the office...

 

So there have been some letters that have been sent to the MTC and not to the mission office, so just so everyone knows the mission office is at the street Calle Fuerteventura, 4, 2 8-B. San Sebastian de los Reyes, Madrid, España, 28703.

 

Well, I believe that that´s about all that I have to say right now, so ...

 

Until next week,

 

Elder Johnson