Oh my goodness what a week! Where do I start?
Well a few words of wisdom I forgot to mention last week: Pineapple juice with pitajaya and papaya in a fruit salad do not make a good breakfast mixture for an American Missionary with a not-latino digestive system. It did not agree with my stomach hahaha and sent me to the bathroom quite sick.
Also, if you live in a place where it rains almost daily, bring an umbrella everywhere you go. We were finished eating lunch one day and realized that there were super dark clouds coming our way, and we didn't have our umbrellas, so we ran as fast as we could back to the offices to avoid getting completely drenched. Well, me and another Elder tripped over each other mid-run and the collision -plus running at 9269712356 thousand mph- sent me flying to the road hard. When the nurses decided to drop by the building to work, they were very surprised to see us with the first aid kit out and the other 3 elders playing doctor, using alcohol wabs and bandages to clean me up. (I can't find the picture, so maybe I'll send it next week). It was exciting, really. So moral of the story? Don't forget your umbrella. You never know what it might save you from. :-)
Okay SOOOO, on Monday we were helping with all the missionaries ending their missions. They always have this big "You guys should use your first names and get married" capacitation (weird), and I had to go buy lunch for all of them before doing their financial interviews that afternoon. That night, we went home after working in the sector and stuff to quickly make our house a "Mundo de Los Espíritus." You see, in mission linguo, if you say somebody's dying, that means they're ending their mission. So, we decided to be a little funny and put the Plan of Salvation to practice, and made our house a "Mundo de los Espiritus," (The Spirit World). Hahaha we put RIP papers on their beds to be their "tombstones" and dressed up in white to be the "angels" that welcomed them. We're such dorks haha but goofing off and laughing a lot together helps us not get stressed out from all the office stuff and keeps the mission enjoyable.
We also had to help with the people at our house weigh their bags and stuff, and since I'm in charge of finance stuff and my companion's in charge of flights, we were up very late working together to make sure they all had the right bag weights, calling airlines and checking on bag prices, making sure everyone had the necessary money to check-in bags and buy food and all that, making sure they got to the airport, etc. Hahaha we basically dropped dead in our beds afterwards.
But the party don't stop! Tuesday we getting things ready for all the new missionaries coming from the MTC, when we saw a weird email. It was a flight itinerary for some of the American missionaries that had left that morning (or so we thought). Turns out, there were problems with the plane that we didn't know about, and their flights were changed to the following night at midnight. We didn't know anything about it cause the missionaries didn't have phones to call us or a way to communicate with us, but we quickly made arrangements to bring them back from the airport. We got pizza for the new missionaries and greeted them and all, and rushed out to get the missionaries that should have left, got them lunch, and brought them back to the house. It was a fun little spin on things. But that evening we went to an appointment (we were both nodding off while trying to teach haha) and beforehand they showed us a "Cuy" (Guinea Pig) they'd bought and were preparing to use. Afterwards we went to the church with a bunch of members to watch one of the youth get set apart for his mission. It was so powerful and there was such a strong, sweet spirit as the Stake President congratulated him and the new missionary bore his testimony.
Woo-hoo! Wednesday was just a lot of running around to help with meals for the new missionaries (they were having capacitations about the mission all day), giving our capacitation, and watching them receive their trainers. After they all got on buses to go to their zones, we just kinda let out a huge sigh (the "GO GO GO" was finally over), and went to catch up on things to do that didn't happen during all the excitement.
Friday after studies we went to the Bishop's Storehouse to help Sister Christensen and the Mission Nurses prepare emergency food kits to take to all of the Zones before the Zone Conferences. We were using the sealing machines to seal a lot of bags, and after we'd figured out what the heck we were doing and how to seal well, we joked that we were ready to go be temple workers hahaha.
But the neat thing is, as I was looking back over all the craziness this week, everything that needed to be gotten done was done. It's so neat how it works out like that. I know that this is the Lord's work, and I'm so grateful to be a part of it.
Love,
Elder Stolle
Elder Stolle
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