Elder Hunter Reese: I Was Like Dead

Hey guys!

So this week was absolutely exhausting.

This week was transfer week and of course I didn't get transferred. For the whole mission, transfers mean that it is one day every 6 weeks in the mission and sometimes you go and sometimes you stay. For the office crew it is a little different.

Monday is the day when every one does the traveling and the day that the missionaries going home do a training and spend the day with President and Sister Whitesides. It pretty much means that we have to babysit them for a day.

The next morning (Tuesday) all the missionaries that finished go home and the new missionaries get here. Also if there are any missionaries that live in the mission boundaries that are from district I do all their travel stuff as well.

The Tuesday morning started at 1:15am. I had to take two missionaries to the airport. I got them through to their planes and then had to be back to the house to be ready to leave by 5am. We got home at 4am and slept on the couch for like 30 minutes and then had to take a sister and an Elder to the airport.

We sent them off at around 5:45 and I was waiting for a sister that was leaving on a mission that I had met the day before when she got set apart. She is from Palmira which is the zone I started the mission in.

She got there and she only had one bag and I had told them that they were allowed two bags that both could weigh 23 kilos each. While we were waiting in line I asked them how much it weighed and they said they didn't know but that it shouldn't be that much. I asked if I could try lifting it and I almost threw out my back. It definitely didn't weigh 23 kilos (50 lbs.)

When we weighed it, it weighed 35 kilos (almost 80 lbs.) and they definitely couldn't pay the overweight fee so we started unpacking things to take out. I even took all the things out of my bag so that she could take it but there was still no way. I got a prompting to call Elder Wright who was bringing the rest of the missionaries to the airport.

As I called they were picking up the sisters. I told him to ask Sister Hernandez if they had an extra luggage bag. They happened to have one.

We waited for the group and when they got there I ran through the airport to get the bag and we rushed her through the line.

We said good bye to her and to all the other missionaries and ate some breakfast.

This was about 8:10am.

The new missionaries got there at about 9. I took them to the notary and we did some stuff there.

I didn't start to feel super tired until about 5pm. I was like dead. My presentation made no sense because I couldn't speak either one of the languages I thought I knew.

I still had to do a format for them to go to immigration the next day and was at the office until 9pm doing that. It was terrible.

We got everything done on Wednesday and it all worked out but boy was I tired.

Yesterday I had to take a missionary to the airport that I had just barely received last transfer. It was a sad day.

Anyways, other than that the week has gone by pretty quick.

My companion and me were crawling into bed and he asked me ¨Elder Reese how does nothing ever bother you?¨

I had no idea how to respond. I remember when I was little it drove me nuts to watch someone laugh at me or make fun of me about anything.

I think that one day I just realized how much easier life was when I just laughed at things and pretended like they don't really bother me until they really don't.

I just told him that he needed to just find his own way to vent things. His own way to brush things off until they are forgotten about.

I love you guys and I will send a voice recording to go along with this email for more details!!

Con amor,