La vida apurada

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 being transferred. Going on my fifth change here in Recreo and staying with Elder Sawyer. 

Also yesterday Julian came to church again with his kids. He really loved it and wants to be baptized. The main problem is that he and Gabriela are not married. So we are working with them, and I know that if they keep coming to church consistently they will be able to be baptized and follow Christ. I hope we can help them out with that.

Thanks for everything, have a great week.

Elder Richards

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