I think this was the craziest/hardest/most fun/most depressing/stressful/exciting/short week of my entire life!!
Craziest: So this week we have been recuperating from some different things from last week, as well as doing about a million things for this week. Because we moved houses, we had a ton of stuff (and still have) just laying around in random places. We have not had time to organize anything in the house due to the other 876453994 things we have to do...So basically going into changes in these conditions was a recipe for craziness!!!
Hardest: I don't think I have every had a week as challenging as this in my entire life. I have had some really hard times in my life, or at least things that I would consider hard, like doing 15 push ups or running 1/2 a mile. But this was for sure the hardest time of my entire life (so far). It felt as though it was challenging in all aspects: physical, spiritual, mentally, socially. I always felt like there was something I needed to be doing, so I felt like when I was wasting like 30 seconds I was going to fail in doing something else. My memory (if any of you know my memory, it already stank), is really terrible right now due to lack of sleep. If I don't write something down that someone tells me, it is gone from my head in about 17 seconds, to be pretty exact. So that is really tough....
Most Fun: So amidst all of the craziness, changes are actually really fun when you are in the office. The most fun part is to be in the mission home with all of the new missionaries watching them be all nervous! It reminds me of my first day, when I found out that Managua was hotter than Heck, and that I really was not very good at Spanish and I could have learned a ton more in the CCM. But anyway, the best part is when they all come in and they present the trainers one by one to their new comps. It is such a happy time! And super fun!
Pics that Elder Barker took of me during changes. This was my first time without the help of elder Clark...
Most depressing: So this week we did not get to go to the area for even 5 seconds. :( That has honestly been super hard on me. I just want to be able to help out with our investigators to overcome their doubts and stuff so that they can take the important step of baptism and change their lives!! But it is hard to do that when you can't even be in the area.
Also on another depressing note, two missionaries went home this week that were not supposed to go home yet, for reasons that I don't even know. It was really sad to have to see them off.
Stressful: So when we have changes like this, all of the people that have no place to live in Managua that have to stay overnight get to stay in our house!!! Woohoo partaaaaay! But no... the problem is that we had to be in the office or doing something else every day from early until late, so we aren't in the house to keep an eye on them. For that, it is stressful, because we have yet to find the key for our room, so we could not lock it. And that means that they all had access to all of our stuff while we weren't even there. As much as I would love to put complete trust in the missionaries, Latinos have this culture of "sharing". But for them it means you "lend it to them for life". I don't like that culture, so I was stressed for those few days, aside from eeeeeeverything else, that I was going to come back to find something missing. Luckily so far I have yet to not find anything.
Exciting: When you are really using almost the full potential of every day, things tend to get exciting! Just to give an example of how crazy things are, it all started on Saturday night! We got to bed at 11:00 pm and woke up at 5:00 am! But wait it gets worse :) On Sunday night, we got to bed at about 12:00 pm and woke up at 6:30 am. Not too bad there. On Monday night, we got to bed at 12:30 am and woke up at about 3:15 am. I didn't feel like sleeping anyway. ;) On Tuesday night we went to bed at about 11:30 pm and woke up at 5:30 am. And finally on Wednesday night, we went to bed at 11:00 pm and woke up again at about 3:30 am :) Just the excitingness of being in charge of taking people to the airport for early morning flights, but also having a fair amount of things to still do before the next day when it hits that "9 o'clock". I remember when I got to go to bed at 10:30 and wake up at 6:30. Those days were nice, but I think it's better to get less, you really get to use the days more efficiently! And I am getting older quicker!!! haha At this rate I might gain a year or two of extra "awake time" while on the mission! :)
Short: Well when you are doing a million things at a million miles per hour for a million people, you tend to look back and wonder where your day went. The hardest part of it all is that to get from the mission office to the main chapel that we use in Managua, it takes about 50 minutes with traffic. Without traffic it is possible to get there in half the time. But the only time there is not traffic in Managua is in the middle of the night, like from 1:00 am to about 4:00 am. Anywhere outside of that, it takes like double the time to get somewhere! haha but point being, these past two weeks literally felt like one day. Probs cause I hardly slept!
So apart from all of that, I would just like to say that when we are trying to do our best and giving full effort to be the best we can be, God will take care of us. He totally gave us a pretty big blessing this week, and that was that Ronald came to church with his wife this last Sunday. We had not really visited him one bit the entire week last week, but we passed by Sunday morning and he had already made his house more secure and he showed up to church with us!!!! So keep giving it 100%, and don't dwell on the things you did wrong, or the things you weren't able to do today, just move on and get better. Appreciate the things you were able to do in the day, even if they weren't on you to-do list!
Love you all!!!
Elder Moser
Pics this week...
Just a giant branch that fell off the tree in front of our house. No big deal.....
The 6 of us missionaries that all work in the same branch! now were just four. President took the sisters out of the area!
We made this whiteboard to help us keep better organized our investigators and what we have taught all in one big place!
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