So this week was a pretty well one! Let me just make a short summary of everything that's been going on.
Monday - We Picked up the finishing missionaries and helped them get to the mission home. In this group of finishing missionaries were three of my former companions - Elder Aleluya, Elder Sepúlveda and Elder Rivera. Because Elder Huffstutler (my companion and the Commissary) and Elder Prada (being trained as the new secretary of visas) don't have licences it meant that I did a lot of driving. I'm nervous for when Elder Morales leaves the office in five weeks and I'm the only one with a valid license. To have an "international license" you have to have a valid license from your own country and no one else does! We worked into the night driving people after their meetings at the mission home as well. Not the best day for mission work because we woke up at 4:30 and didn't have that much time during the day.
Tuesday - We went into the office at a normal time and worked like normal. Elder Morales and Elder Prada went to drop people off at the airport at five o' clock and we started to get things ready for the missionaries that were going to come into the mission. We had a Brazilian coming into the mission and his flight was delayed so President left the assistants and I in charge of the rest of the newbies for a couple of hours at the mission home where we improvised a couple of classes or something for them to do. The North Americans who came in were cool but were drop dead tired. Apparently they had been awake for almost 48 hours. We stuck around in the mission home until the end of the day and then once President and Sister Dalton came back they set us free. I basically just stuck around so I could drive the Assistants back. Sister Dalton did the unspeakable though. We had saved some of the empanadas from lunch and they were in a plastic container on the counter. She got there and asked me how long they had been out. I responded about three hours and then watched in horror as the sabrosas empanadas were thrown into trash. You could have fed many starving missionaries with those empanadas for many moons. I guess she didn't want anyone getting sick but still. It hurt inside to see them trashed.
Wednesday - We got up early to go receive the trainers who were coming in to receive their trainees. Everything went off without a hitch. We also went to work like normal but nothing really interesting happened.
Thursday - The mission was audited. We had a church representative sent from Santiago and he basically spent all day revising our financial records with me. He was a really nice guy and we only had small things to improve. Our president can still be really intense sometimes though. He has a presence that just kind of stresses everyone out. The cool stuff that happened this day was that Junior, our investigator who went to Peru got back and when he saw his first words were "I want to get baptized, When?" We talked a lot more with him about how his trip was and it was everything you could have hoped for. He also found out that many members of his family are Mormon. We talked with President to get special permission to let his attendances in Peru count and Junior well get baptized this coming week. We also received a call from Johnson and Maria José saying that they got an hour to get married (here it is a ridiculously complex process to get married) and they will be getting married the 21st and she will get baptized on the 28th! We're seeing some miracles happen here in the office!
Friday - We did a lot of walking and then met up with Junior and he had his baptismal interview. He passed! He wants to accompany us to a lesson today and we're super excited!
Saturday - We've just been kind of hanging out.
Sunday - I'll be giving a talk in church about Humility.
I love you guys so much! I know that when we let him the Lord does miracles through us!
-Elder Walker
