Sunday, June 18, 2017

Secretario Ejecutivo, Week 10

Quetal? How goes it?

Well that is crazy that school is finally out and it´s weird to think that I left a bit before school started.  Now the school year is over, that is the fastest school year I’ve had yet hahaha.  It sounds like you are starting to feel the hot temperatures over there as well.  Here we have been averaging about 38 Celsius or about 100 degrees, but apparently it is still pretty cold.  I guess here in Chihuahua we get up to about 48 Celsius (118 degrees) by the start of August.  I´m just glad I’m not still in Ojinaga which gets even hotter than that. Oofele, that would be quite painful, I’m glad that I am in a air conditioned box hahaha.

Well this week was basically dedicated to preparing for the new cycle and finishing off the month.  Basically I spent the week collecting the baptism records from all the zones and then putting each one into the church system, quite the time consuming task, but with my new improved typing speed I have been trained to average about 1 record every 5 minutes (assuming 1-2 errors).  In the end when you are the secretary that has to do this in a mission in Mexico you usually are spending 2 or 3 days doing this all day! By the end of the day one has quite the headache hahaha. But in the end, it has all gone well and even though there was a lot there hasn´t been any mistakes quite yet haha.

This week we also had to help out getting the letters for the missionaries who had more than 4 baptisms this month. Our President really likes a ball and stick game (where you have the ball with a hole attached by string and you have to fling it and try to impale it with the stick) and so for all the missionaries that get more than 4 baptisms they get one of these items (valeros) with their name engraved and their accomplishments of the month. So we spent the week trying to find all these Valeros because there were 12 companionships that achieved this goal this month!  Then on Thursday we had a big feast with all of them where the President gave each of them their Valeros. It was pretty fun and we got to see a lot of the future leaders of the mission who are working hard.

On Saturday we woke up at 5 and went with a member to the top of the biggest hill in chihuahua (that doesn´t involve hiking), just a car hahaha)  On top we watched the sunrise over the city, pretty cool stuff hahaha. Afterwords we went the damn here in Chihuahua and relaxed some more and messed with the ducks that you can pick up due to them being extremely domesticated (they were the pet ducks the school classes have to train children to be kind to animals).  Afterwards we went back to the house and cleaned and rested a bit, before going to lunch and then working in the area a bit.

All in all not a super eventful week, but still not to shabby either, this next week is going to be the end of the cycle so that means a ton of work to do! But i´ve got most of it done and it´ll be cool to see who the new recruits are going to be in the zone!

Well that was the week here in Chihuahua México,

Con amor,

Elder Bunch
México Chihuahua Misión




Secretario Ejecutivo 

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