Hey y'all
Sounds like there were a lot of updates! Pretty cool stuff.
At the rate everyone is growing up, Jaxon might even be potty-trained by the
time I get home! :) (hahahahahaha sorry, that was mean, you should probably not
put that on the blog...). Its crazy how much goes on back there!
We had a pretty busy week in the office yet again. This week
was my first time going to the airport since I first got to Argentina, but I
ended up having to go there 3 times this week. 2 of the times were to pick
up/drop off someone that works in the church area office in Buenos Aires. He
came to do a training meeting with me and the president about budget stuff, and
then he spent about 5 or 6 hours with me doing an audit. So that was great.
Haha I guess there aren't many 20 year olds that have had to go through an
audit in a foreign language. But I learned a lot of good stuff from him...plus
he took me to lunch and bought me ice cream afterward so...totally worth it. Haha
and he told me all about the new iPhone 6 Plus. I guess he's thinking about
getting one...haha the people I meet working in the office are very different
than the ones I met when I just talked to people out in fields. Oh, and on an
unrelated note, I found out that Elder Christofferson is going to be coming to
our mission in November, so that should be way cool. Everyone in the office is
pretty excited about it (I'm not sure the rest of the mission knows yet or
not...but I'm sure they'd be excited if they knew also..).
We've also been way busy this week trying to get everything
ready for transfers next week. At first we were planning on receiving around 28
missionaries, but it looks like some are visa-waiting, and now no one is quite
sure how many are coming, so thats making things a little difficult. Oh and
this week we sent a bunch of missionaries to Chile and back for visa stuff. We
actually ended up working it out with 2 other missions to all go together, so
it was interesting getting to work with them.
Well other than that, not a lot of news this week. I've
literally had to stay working at the office until around 9:30 every night, so I
haven't been able to go visit those teenagers in the plaza for a while.
Hopefully I'll be able to go take some new missionaries next week to go meet
them. We'll see.
As a verse of the week, I was thinking of something I read
in Alma 46:12,19-21. There was one phrase that caught my attention, but you
kind of need all the verses to set it up. Verses 12, 19, and 20 explain that
Captain Moroni set up a sort of flag as a symbol of their purpose in going to
battle, which was to protect their families and religion. He shows it to the
people and essentially asks them to come forward if they supported it and where
willing to fight to protect those things. The phrase I like was in verse 21,
when it says that "the people came running" in support of such a
cause. It kind of makes me think of the things that we are often expected or
asked to stand up for or to do-to be an example or to stand strong in our
beliefs. Sometimes we might hesitate or feel that it is a burden. The people in
this verse didn't think like that. They literally came forward, running, to be
able to support such a cause. I think we could all (at least I can) learn a
little from their strong desire to go forth and do what they had to do, in the
moment that it was asked of them.
Anyway, I hope you all have a great week. I hope I don't get
any news about Hailey wrecking the car :) Keep being awesome.
Elder Webster
The people that came to family home evening, wearing their
"armor of God"
Elder Smith and I taking a break after some hard work of
"organizing" a bunch of boxes that showed up at the office this week
(we finally got some materials we've been waiting on forever...and now the
office is flooded with cardboard boxes).
And our finished soccer court!
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