This week was a turbulent week, as I mentioned last
Saturday night we picked up our new President and his wife, President
and Sister Wright. It was way more diffucult for me than i imagined to
say goodbye to Pres and Sister, particularly for President. I have spent
so much time with him over the last few months and he has had a great
influence in my life. That being said I already love our new President
and his wife. He is very different from President Pavan, he is very
outgoing and excited, he will be a great President. His wife couldn´t
hurt a fly if she tried, and if she tells every missionary in the
mission that she personally loves them i think she goes to bed happy.
We spent most of our time this week traveling to
various cities doing zone conferences for the missionaries to be able to
get to know President. It was a lot of sitting and doing nothing and
repeating to the 200 missionaries that asked me that No, I dont know
anything about the transfer yet, and no I dont know if he will prohibit
Coka Cola or Chimmarrão. On on the last two conferences i wised up and
slipped out for 30 minutes to drink a coke while we were waiting. We
raced home all of the nights to be able to salvage a bit of our teaching
pool, and we actually had some great lessons this week. Our group is
small, but solid, President even left with us to teach on Tuesday night!
The guy came willing to work! Sister already wants to go knock doors
with the Sisters...
Thursday we amped ourselves up for a long day in
front of the trasnfer board. We had to pound it out in about 5 hours
because if not we wouldn´t hvae been able to make the necessary
preparations yesterday for the transfer. Seeing that this will be the
last transfer that I will actually be here to assist in the process
after we picked our next Assistant we called him in for an interview and
to watch the process so he can catch the ropes. I couldn´t be happier
with my new companion, his name is Elder Persinger and he is the man. He
will not officially be here until Tuesday, and no one knows yet so
don´t let the word out Di, I know what kind of a gossiper you are.
Yesterday for the last distirct meeting of "The
Council" my future comp and zone leader Elder Persinger prepared America
Jeopardy. One of the categories was "Countries that End in Merica...",
all of the answers were The United States, and you got double the
points if your team spontaneaously broke out into chants of U.S.A.!!
U.S.A!! Needless to say it was a rousing good time. (I remember once
when I said that in a Preiesthood church meeting and everyone laughed
embarrassed and asked me if I knew what that meant. I responded, Yes.) I
love America.
I can´t believe I have one month left on the
mission. That blows my mind, Im excited for the transfer, i need one
last breathe of new air before I put my head back down to finish strong.
We are going to be traveling a lot until the end so I should get home
with holes in my shoes and pretty worn out, that will be good.
I put Mitt Romney faces on our Mission Newsletter, Go Mitt.
Stay Classy.
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