(Written by Mom)
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President and Sister Perez with the new missionaries
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This is an excerpt of Elder Meyer's letter home that his Mom shared with me (Heidi, not Avery). He also sent along pictures. Elder Meyer's is the financial secretary in the mission office right now. There are 4 missionaries who work in the office.
" Tuesday was a crazy day. We spent the morning doing some office work, and then we did a deep clean of the office to get ready for the new missionaries. They all arrived at about 5pm. There are 11 new missionaries, one hermana and ten elders (3 latinos and 7 gringos). They are all awesome, happy, spiritual missionaries who are excited to work and baptize. They arrived tired, but excited, and we spent some time chatting with all of them while they each wrote quickly to their families, filled out a questionnaire, and had a quick welcome interview with Presidente Perez. After we finished up all the interviews, we all went to the mission home for dinner. I sat next to Elder Tutton, and we talked a lot. He seems like a great guy, and he was happy, and excited to get out there and work, and excited to be in Argentina. After dinner, we took all the new missionaries to our apartment so they could get some rest, and then Elder Llanos, the asistentes and I went back to the office to wait for the suitcases. The suitcases always arrive separate, and normally about an hour before the missionaries, but they had been delayed. We waited, and we waited, and we waited, and they weren't arriving. We called the guy who was in charge, and he told us that the driver's cell phone had died, so we couldn't communicate with him. Finally, we left Elder Blackmon and Elder Robles waiting in the office, and Elder Llanos, Elder Maynard, Elder Pearson and I went to Walmart to buy some things that we needed for the next morning. We had planned on going earlier, but the suitcases delayed us, so we ended up going at about 11.30 at night. Definitely a first in the mission. But we took a couple pictures just for the memories. As we dropped off Elder Pearson and Elder Maynard at their pension, Elder Blackmon and Elder Robles called us and told us that the suitcases had finally arrived, and this was about 12:30 at this point. We called the stake president, Presidente Carlotta, who has a big van and was going to help us bring all the suitcases, went back to the office, loaded up the suitcases, and brought them back to our pension. We finally got to bed at about 1:15am. It was definitely a long day. Sometimes the suitcase guy just doesn't deliver jaja.
Wednesday morning Presidente and Hna Carlotta came and made breakfast in our pension for all the new missionaries, and then we headed over to the church to have the meeting where all the new missionaries meet their trainers. We gave an introduction to the mission, I gave my little short training on the finances of the mission, and then everybody got to meet their trainers! That moment is always fun. After that we had lunch together, and then we sent everybody off! That evening, Elder Llanos and I spent most of our time preparing our announcements for consejo de la misión (mission leadership council) and getting caught up on our office work from the last three days."
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Everyone and their new companions.
Avery is with Elder Orozco |
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| Training meetings on day 2 |
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| The luggage that finally made it at 12:30 AM! |
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| I see one of Avery's bags with the teal ribbon :) |
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