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| Goodbye to Elder Wattenye |
Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014
Hey Mom and Dad!
Long time since we have talked! I'm doing
great, tired, but really great! I have a lot to talk about, so brace yourselves
;) hahah I'm glad you guys had a great week! Your guys´ steaks sounded
unbelievably good.... I will definitely hit that place up when i get back!
YUMMMMM haha I'm sorry Dad was so sick last Sunday! How crazy! But at least you
were feeling better and were able to go to Milkcreek and have the labor day
breakfast! Yummmm :) That's awesome ash scored a goal last Saturday too! I cant
believe that Jake is in the MTC now! How crazy! I feel like he just barely got
his call! The same with Mathias! He will be here in the great land of Nicaragua
in like two weeks! I didn't understand what was going on with your elbow, but
hopefully that gets better and you aren't in so much pain Mom. But that sounded
like a pretty crazy hectic day, hopefully you don't have another one of those! I'm
glad Laubs is doing good in soccer and made the CH team! that's awesome! What want to know right now though, who are the new Bishopric. dad keeps saying
Bishop, and I'll have no idea who he is talking about!! keep me updated on the Utes
as well!
Well you guys had a pretty crazy week, so did i! So ill
just try to keep it brief haha. So on Monday the new gringos come in and we had
to pick them up from the airport to the house of the President, and then when
they were there we had to go back to our house and drop off the suitcases, and
bags at our house. Then we had to go back up to presidents house with lunch, and
i had to give a presentation to the news about their support cards and how they
worked. After that we went to this place called Pricemart, which is the Costco
here in Nicaragua haha. Its pretty sweet. But we go there to buy all of the food
(muffins, juice, water, snacks..etc) for the new missionaries. You would not
believe the amount of food we buy to keep them fed and happy! So then we went
back that night and brought 8 boxes of pizza, and then took them back to our
house to sleep and get ready for tomorrow.
Tuesday, is when the new
Latinos come in and they basically go through the same process as the gringos.
But the Gringos, early early in the morning go out and work with missionaries
here in Managua, and get a taste of Nicaragua till about 4 in the afternoon,
while the Latinos are up at presidents house. And then at 5 everybody comes up
to presidents house and has pizza again, and this time we had 12 boxes of
pizza... tons and tons of food! then later that night, all of the new
missionaries, Latinos and gringos, come and sleep in our house. but that is only
starting our night! we then after they are all settled in their beds, we, along
with the APs, come back to the office and start working on changes. President
has them all made, we just have to write them all down on papers, that the
missionaries will receive the next day at changes. We were up doing that until 5
in the morning.
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| Wedding preceding baptism |
Wednesday, change day. After we got back to our house,
we woke up all of the new missionaries and all of us got ready for the Change
Day. There is a bus that comes to our house and takes them all from our house
and drops them off at the church where we have to Reunion. but during changes we
are taking the suitcases of all of the missionaries that go home back to our
house(elders), or up to presidents house (sisters), and come back to the church
just in time to put all of the missionaries that are going home, on a bus to a
nearby city to buy stuff at a market. We go and prepare for the departing dinner
at presidents house, and get packages ready for them, that have medicine and
other papers for parents, bishops, and themselves. And like I said, that night
all of the "deads" have their departing dinner and then just chill out in
presidents house until about 10. We are there the whole time cleaning, and
making sure we have things for the next day. After all of the partying is done,
all of the deads go to bed. the elders sleep in our house and the sisters in
Presidents house. But no one goes to bed because we are all awake weighing bags,
and helping the deads get ready for their plane ride home.
Thursday in the morning we were out of the house at 3 AM on a bus
to go to the airport, and send the deads off haha. Once all of them have been
checked in, we just send them through security, and then they are gone!!!!!
President usually tells us to go home and sleep, which is what we did. I had
never been so tired in all of my life haha. We got home at 6:30 am and slept
till 12, and at 12 we had to start to do stuff for President and other
missionaries.
