Hey que tal!
1 YEAR ON WEDNESDAY!!!
Well your thought was half right, I´m getting transferred, but in
about 2 weeks since I have to train the next secretary so he knows what to do!
So in about 2 weeks I’ll be able to finally get back into the field! I´m hoping
that I get to leave the city and will get sent to some small village but we
shall see in a bit I guess haha. But due to this whole training process, we
have been super busy and I haven´t had time to do literally anything that I
used to do in my free time. That is
also why I didn´t end up writing last Monday, due to how chaotic it all ended
up. Almost the entire mission had
changes whether in the area or with their companion! Only 7 companionships
didn´t get changes out of 140 missionaries! Super chaotic day for someone that
has to organize a large portion of it ha ha. My new companion (future
secretary) name is Elder Dustin and he´s pretty cool and lives down in Provo,
about 7 minutes from BYU. He ´s going to
UVU so he´s alright ha ha. Elder Mendoza is training Elder Consospo (future
financial secretary) which is pretty cool because Elder Consospo is my younger
brother in the mission (same trainer).
So that was super sweet! The hardest hit to our district though was that
the Samoan Sister missionary Brown got changed after 3 cycles. She was one of the hardest working sister
missionaries in the mission, if not the hardest working one overall ha ha. In her place we have a sister missionary from
México who is fresh from the CCM. She´s
pretty cool and is working hard to fulfill the expectation of who she is
replacing, super cool!
This week was a pretty long week on my part due to not really
doing anything. Now that I’m training I
don´t have any work to do in the offices other to check every once in a while
to see if everything is going well. So
basically I have just dedicated myself to studying the bible throughout the
week, I got through hechos (Acts) and I’m halfway through romanos (Romans). I’m fairly convinced that Pablo (Paul) was
the most powerful Apostle of that time in terms of converting thousands and
having literally no regard for his own life. Super cool guy ha ha ha. Yep, that was basically how I spent almost
every day this week when I wasn´t working in the area in the afternoon.
The coolest moment of this week and maybe my mission so far was
the opportunity I had to return to Ojinaga on Wednesday… So the day before the
President asked the assistants if they wanted to go to Ojinaga or if they
should send Elder Bunch (due to it basically being his second home). In the end I won out and I got to go to
Ojinaga. So on Wednesday the president
passed by the house at 8 am, and little did I know, but it was just him and I
in the car for the entire trip. Ojinaga
is about 3 hours from Chihuahua city. On
the way up we talked about life before and after the mission, family, friends,
favorite foods, favorite books, drones, insects, etc. basically just a whole
bunch of stuff! When we finally got to Ojinaga we went to the new prayer house
(we went up to see if everything was good to open the prayer house). it was super cool and I got to see a few
members and the branch president again! It was awesome! Before we went home
President asked the branch president where there was a good place to get some
tacos because he had a strong desire to eat tacos. Unfortunately, all the good taco places were
closed so we settled on a steak restaurant and we had grilled cabrito, it was
super good! On the way home President asked me to take him to the famous Pei Wei
canyon that is up in Ojinaga because this would be the only time he would be
able to take the curvy scenic route that leads to the canyon (due to his wife´s
bad car sickness). When we got to the
canyon we took a few pictures and then he began to try and through a rock to
see if it could reach the water down below…it didn't. I tried as well and
couldn't even get close, so I started pushing massive boulders down, and after
a bit of trying we left without success ha ha ha (turns out I also gave
president nightmares where I slipped after throwing a boulder and fell
into the canyon ha h aha). On the way
home he shared an instruction that only the new mission presidents receive in
order to start their missions well. Afterwards he asked me how we could do better
in the mission and we focused a lot on how the new Secretaries can be better,
and be more missionaries than secretaries. It was a super cool experience, and
felt a bit like a 10 hour interview with president haha, great day!
Well that was my week!
Hopefully Maren´s muteness has healed ha ha ha
p.s. Here´s a few photos of my week, and so you get to know who my
mission president is a little more!
Con amor,
Elder Bunch
México Chihuahua Misión
Secretario Ejecutivo
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