Reflections of a True Millennial

Hola, Things have been going well here. This week we have been working on some projects for the mission for Christmas. First off, in December the mission will have 8 zone conferences in Rancagua, and as part of that the missionaries will be singing Christmas carols in a nursing home, rehab center, etc to share Christmas spirit. Elder Sawyer and I are in charge of finding 8 different places to host us. Those kinds of places arent as well organized here as they would be back home, so it has been a bit difficult, but so far we have found 3 places that will let us come. Should be a great experience for all the missionaries. Also I have been working on our missions Christmas video for this year, which showcases pictures of everything that has happened in the year. A 15-minute slideshow is pretty boring, so we are spicing it up with a bit of a storyline and clips of the videos of Jesus Christ that the Church has made. My companion is also a piano whiz, so I planted the idea that he...

Hola, So we changed p-day back to Saturday. It wasnt working out so much on Mondays. This week was pretty good and pretty busy. Last Tuesday were the changes. Elder Sawyer and I are sticking around as secretaries for another change (marking my 5th change in Recreo..), so that is exciting. We had lots of work to do regarding the changes, so it has been a busy week. On Monday we drove to the airport in Santiago to drop off the missionaries who are going home. Then on Tuesday we were back up there bright and early to drop off more missionaries and pick up the ones arriving to the mission. So we were pretty sleep-deprived on Tuesday, but thats okay. Since then we have been working on entering the new missionaries into all the systems and doing other change related things. And yesterday we did the final visa work for 6 more missionaries. Fun stuff. Work in the sector has been a bit slow this week, but things are going well. Julian and Gabriela are starting to progress well by g...

Hello, It has been a busy week here. Today is P-Day but we wont get hardly any free time, because we have a lot of work to do. Tomorrow is transfers, and we have to coordinate a lot of logistics for travel, especially for the departing and arriving missionaries. Tonight we will be driving 7 missionaries to the airport to go home. Then 4 more tomorrow morning and picking up 10 new missionaries. Should be fun. All the missionaries that are going home have been staying in our house for the past 3 days, so it is a mess. We also did a ton of work on visas this week. It is funny because whenever we have to bring in other missionaries to do their visas, they are so bored, meanwhile we are stressed out to get everything done smoothly. Currently there is a strike in all the public offices in Chile, and they are only attending certain amounts of people in certain places. Luckily we were able to beat the strike and finish everything we needed to do. It has been a very busy week.  Oh and I am not ...

Hola hola, It has been another good week. In the office we are moving things along for lots of missionaries to get their visas, but unfortunately the government is in strike, so it is incredibly difficult to get things done on our schedule. Oh well. Our other major responsibility is preparing the plans for the missionaries that will be going home this change. This Friday they will all be coming to Rancagua for a weekend of final events. We are also bringing a group of missionaries up on Friday to finish ther visa process and receive their ID. It can be really complicated to plan all that because we have to make sure that every missionary is not left alone and that they all get where they need to go. But we have been able to get things done well, and it has been pretty entertaining. The normal missionary work is going pretty well too. Yesterday I was feeling kind of down before Church started for some unrelated reasons, but as everyone filled in the chapel I realized the impact...