14 November 2012

Hello!

 

So these past few days have been pretty crazy with transfers, we have had to get up early every day so far and drive or pick up missionaries. On Monday we got up early to go to the train station to pick up 8 missionaries that were coming from the north (including Elder Levorsen, my companion in Madrid), then we ran over to the stake center to drop them off and wait for the transfer meeting to start. I passed out all the materials that the missionaries asked for while we waited. We had a good transfer meeting, it mostly focused on fulfilling your calling and to be faithful in the work, and President inspired us to focus on families again and to think about how joyful it will be to find, teach, baptize, and see a family get sealed. (it´s completely true though, when a united family gets baptized and converted, it´s one of the happiest moments that one can get. I can accurately assume that to be together in Heaven, for any family, will be the happiest moment that any person can have. So after the meeting, we went to drop off some luggage of some Hermanas in their apartment, and we picked up some more luggage there for two Hermanas that were going north. Then after that we took a former AP and his new companion to their new apartment in a suburb outside of Madrid, we got lost there for about 15 min or half an hour, and then we went to the office. By then it was about 2 in the afternoon. So we were in the office for about five minutes or so, and then we went over to a missionary apartment to take down a bunk bed, in order to take it to another apartment where an extra companionship was moving in. After that, we went to an appointment that we had with a member couple, that finally got their papers to get married which is really exciting for them. After that appointment, we picked up some missionaries that had been visiting some people around our area because they were waiting for their plane flights, and we took them home to stay the night.

 

So Tuesday we got up early and went to the mission home in order to pick up a Portuguese sister that had a flight for that morning, she ended up taking a tad bit longer than expected, so we enjoyed some pancakes and syrup for a second. Then we hustled over to the airport to drop her off. After the airport, we ran home for a second, and then we quickly went to the office. We stayed in the office for a little bit. Later, we had two lessons with some investigators that are doing pretty well.

 

Well, we haven´t had much time to do anything today either because we had to go to the airport twice in the morning, drop off an Elder and an Hermana after President interviewed them, and then we went shopping, and now i´m here.

 

Also sometime during the past few days we went to an appliance store and a furniture store to buy a few things for a piso that is getting another companionship, so we also set up a bunk bet, two chairs, a desk, and put a mattress in there as well.

 

 So basically we haven´t had a whole lot of time to be doing anything unfortunately. Though the constant being in a car makes me rather glad that I am not going to be in the office forever. Eventually, I will be able to be a normal proselyting missionary again, which makes me rather grateful. One day, I´ll be able to be in the street all day long. Also, i am pretty excited to be able to train, we have about 60 people or so that are waiting for visas or that are in the mtc, and we are expecting a huge increase in the amount of missionaries in the next few months. So my opportunity to train will probably be coming pretty quickly. Hopefully.

 

Well, last Saturday we also took away all the cigarettes and machines that an investigator had. So far, he has smoked one cigarette, which is still too much, but he is almost  down enough to be ready for baptism.

 

Well, unfortunately we rather need to leave now, so until next week.

 

Elder Johnson

 

also, the pictures are of a transfer trip we made, and almost all the missionaries in Madrid at the mission home last Wednesday.