hey so I had another transfer. Im now working in the office as president´s new personal secretary, so life is a little crazy, but super exiting. tomorrow I'll write you guys because after an extremely exhausting two days of new missionaries coming in, and missionaries going out, dealing with lost suitcases and flight tickets and such, and after all of us in the office including the ap´s and including presidente, he told us to have a forced p day today. cool. so we´ll be relaxing in the room.
but
I will write all of you tomorrow a little better. thanks!
Elder Hartvigsen
Hello.
Alright, like I said there have been a few changes in my daily life here in the mission haha. I am now being trained as president´s secretary, and wow is it a job. So, first of all we have a new house. We live with the AP´s and the financial secretary and the other personal secretary (who happens to be none other than my great friend Elder Durfey from American Fork) in a 17th floor apartment in a building right next to the office. We live in an area called San Isidro, which is honestly one of the nicest areas in Lima. There are all kinds of business people, all kinds of really tall skinny, really fair-skinned people walkin around. We went to a Wong yesterday, which is kinda like Costco, and everything was super expensive and everbody was super duper rich and everyone has the nicest clothes haha. It is SO different from San Gabriel.
Also, my shoes are still clean from when I cleaned them... THE DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY. I know, its unbelievable, but believe it. They stay clean. Ha.
So I love working in the office. My companion is Elder Dunn from LA California, (we are the only full gringo companionship in the mission of 250 missionaries. I never would have thought it) and he is really good. He is super smart and is teaching me how to handle all the different stuff we do. Some of those duties include flights and travel info for all the missionaires coming in and going home from the mission every six weeks, and that is why we have been utterly exausted this week. Also why president forced us all to take a half day p day yesterday haha which was nice.
The other big thing is health. ANY time anyone gets sick, they call me first (I do have a cell phone with unlimited minutes and texts, something else I never imagined to have out here) so that means I get calls in the middle of the night sometimes. But I´m already learning the blessings and duties of the job, and the importance and responsibility the lord has put on my shoulders. Also, as Elder Dunn says (he´s pretty funny) ´anytime anything goes wrong, we fix it.´
Also, we do have an area to proselyte, but we only get one or two hours at night (after travel time, and after everything in the office is done) and there isn´t really a lot of time to have personal study in the morning, so I am honestly feeling a little sad missing that hour of study every day... (but i do have internet, and my own desk and computer and our rule is that we can look anything up if there is a purpose, which means i can use the church website and mormon.org and stuff anytime I want to study anything or read conference talks or anything. It is super cool.
But yeah. Nothing else really to say.
p day is now saturday, so expects emails then.
thanks,
Elder Hartvigsen
Ok so the apartment is like four rooms four baths and we have a laundry machine and a dryer to do laundry. the main room is huge, and has an entire wall of glass windows, so yeah the view is super cool. giant buildings and you can see far. the only thing is that lima is super foggy in the winter, almost every single day.
president only comes in here a couple times each week. we are here always making sure the mission runs.
typical day is working in the office until about 6 pm when we leave , take a bus for 20 min and go to proselyte, if we can get anything done in 2 hours...
havent been to the ward yet
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