Soooo as you can probably imagine, this last week was a pretty crazy one!! But also a lot of fun and cool things happened.
To start off, Monday (the day of changes) was a very special day here, because it was Hermana Collado´s birthday!!!! So being the awesome missionaries we are, the Sister Training Leaders and Assistants and us secretaries put together this poster for her. In the changes meeting they had (Pte and Hermana Collado do not attend) on Monday morning, the Sister Trainer leaders had everyone that was there write a little sticky note to Hermana for her Birthday. Then that night, because it is their Pday, we all put together a poster. We drove up to their house, and while they were having activities and such for the missionaries leaving, we left the poster hung up on the car right outside of the door. She told us the next morning that she loved it!! It was lots of fun too!
Tuesday is always the more stressful day for us secretaries because it is the day that all of the new missionaries come. So we have to get all the breakfast and lunch for them, and we always also get to go to the airport to receive them! That part is soo much fun...when they actually come... thats kind of a funny story. Sooooo USUALLY the Latinos arrive at 8am and the North Americans from Mexico arrive around 9:40am. Unless there are missionaries from the Provo MTC, they come in the night time because they have to travel all day. So following the normal schedule, we went to go pick up the Latinos, they came, we went to have breakfast and all was great! Then we went back for the North Americans and waited..... and waited...... and waaaaaaited.......and decided it would be a good idea to verify when they said they would be coming. We discovered that they had all changed assignments from Mexico MTC to the Provo MTC, so they wouldn't be coming until the night!!!! SOOOOOO we waited for like 2 hours for nothing... We continued all of the activities with just the new latinos. Then we went back that night and received the new North Americans at 9:30ish. We all headed to a restaurant Rosti Pollos and it was so awesome!! It was with President and Hermana Collado, Sister and Elder Barker, and Elder Maradiaga and I, with all the new missionaries. I really enjoyed my time and the new missionaries had a ton of questions for me!!! It was really great!! Then they all came and slept in my house and did the activities and such on Wednesday morning as if it was all planned to work out that way!
There is ALWAYS something that goes wrong, and it is ALWAYS something different each time changes come around. The first time I was in the office for changes, the North Americans came and their luggage did not. The second time was just crazy with more people going home at weird times and people coming at weird times. And this time, none of the North Americans even came until super night time and that threw us off a lot.
So anyway, that was that, but that was not all........ We also had the part of taking the people home that were finishing the mission :( this one was a little more meaningful than the other ones I have done, because two of my old companions were leaving me! Elder Clark and Elder Rodriguez. But they left all good and content, so I guess that is nice.
Saying goodbye to Elder Clark.
Overall changes were fantastic, but I am really excited for them to be over and hopefully to have more time to get out and focus on our investigators. Overall, these changes were a lot easier to handle than the others. President is making small changes that make them all easier, and we are also getting a lot better and more used to the normal routine of the changes. But now that I think about it, there will not be much of a resting period after these changes because we have Christmas coming up!! So it will be nice and busy with that. But HEY, I was informed of a little Christmas present from Hermana Collado to Elder Maradiaga and I. They are taking us to Puerto Cabezas for the Christmas party that they are going to do there!!!!!!!!!! So all is well!
Anyway, this week was awesome and it was really cool to spend a little time with some missionaries that were literally brand new in the mission. And to be able to talk to them was really awesome as well. They are so excited and so ready to serve, and it reminded me of when I was brand new. It gave me the desire to strive to always think of myself as a new missionary so that I can more easily maintain the buen animo and always have a good attitude in any circumstances!! So I am sooooo stinking excited to be here in Nicaragua!!
Love,
Elder Moser
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