There are a few big changes now! I was District Leader for like 2 days so that was cool but now I am something much different!
We did not have transfers this last Monday because of this Paro. Although, it ended Monday so we had transfers on Tuesday! I got a nice little call from the Presidents Assistant at 10 o'clock on Tuesday
and he said ¨Elder Reese how are you?¨ Then he made small talk for 30
seconds and after he said ¨Elder Reese the Lord has called you to have a
new assignment in the mission.¨ So I told him to lay it on me! He said
¨The Lord has called you to be the Presidents new Secretary!¨
What
does that mean? I'll tell ya. It now means I am in Cali at the mission
office everyday. I am the Presidents personal secretary. I handle every
flight of all the missionaries going home and every
passport/identification material of every missionary in the mission. I take
all the new missionaries through migration when they get here. I work
very closely with President Whitesides and schedule all of his meeting
and flights as well.
When I got here on Tuesday
night I asked him why he choose me and he told me that he didn't choose
me but God did. He said God only puts the missionaries in the Offices
that he and President Whitesides can trust the most.
We
have a lot more responsibility but also more freedom. We have a higher
level of trust. There are 3 other secretaries. One handles the finances
of the whole mission, one handles all the materials like the houses and
the packages, and one handles all the baptismal forms and references.
I live in a huge house with all of them and they are all gringos except for 1 of them. My new companion or well companionS are Elder Eldredge from Texas and Elder Aragon from Utah.
Elder
Aragon is training me how to do my job because I can't mess up or a lot
of things can go way wrong! He will be with me for this whole transfer
helping me with anything I need to learn.
Elder Eldredge will stay with me after that and we will be companions until one of us gets switched.
There
are perks though. We have a maid!!! She washes all our clothes and and
cleans the whole house everyday and also cooks us food! It is great! We
just throw our clothes by the washer and when we come home at night they
are all hanging up ready to be used!
The
downside is that I am sitting behind a computer screen from 10 in the
morning until 6 at night. We only get to proselyte for 3 hours every day
and my P days are now on Saturday!
We
have already found like 4 investigators of gold since I have been here!
Not to say I am the reason that we found them but they just got found!
They are neighbors and they had a bunch of questions that we answered
together.
As missionaries, we try to avoid the
coffee and alcohol question until later in the lessons because we need
to explain that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that he received the
revelation for the Word of Wisdom. But, sometimes it doesn't quite
happen that way!
We were teaching these
awesome investigators on the street and they asked this question. Me and
Elder Aragon had been teaching most of everything and Elder Eldredge
hadn't said much. When they asked that question I whispered to Elder
Aragon ¨On the count of three both of us just look at Elder Eldredge¨ So
we did and he scrambled very fast and it was very funny because he
wasn't paying a whole lot of attention but we worked it out!
I also go to the airport to see missionaries off and when the new ones come in! So I sent home my first missionary on Thursday.
Her name was Hermana Solorzano. She was from Ecuador and she had a twin
sister in Bogota serving the mission. They both wanted to get home on
the same flight so I had to call Elder Johnson who does my job there in
Bogota. We coordinated very well to schedule everything perfectly!
Wednesday
the missionaries' mother kept calling President and she wouldn't pick up
when I called but FINALLY she answered me and I talked her down and
told her how everything was going to go.
That
is a great tip parents. One call to the mission president is okay but
unless it is an emergency you shouldn't bother him. Call the office! I
get to deal with the crazy parents now!
Anyways, Hermana Solorzano called me and asked me a favor on Wednesday
before she left. She wanted me to bug Bogota to call her sister to see
if she was going to wear the outfit they had picked out together. I was
blown away. That is one of the dumbest questions anyone has ever asked
me. I politely told her it might not happen but that I would try. (I don't think he tried)
Alright, you all have extra time to get your emails in for next Saturday! Love you all hope you are having fun! Stay strong!
Con Amor,
Elder Reese
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