This week was pretty crazy. Sunday was cool. Church was super good, we had lunch with this really awesome family, la familia Chacon. They're really young and just super nice. The husband served a mission a couple years ago and they have a super cute dog named Alaska, I pet Alaska a bunch that day. Also Élder Willes and I were contacting in a park and we weren't having a lot of success until we started contacting people with dogs! We asked them about their dog first so they would actually talk to us and then one of us would pet the dog and the other would contact the person and then we would switch off and it was super fun!
Then Monday was crazy. Élder Willes and I had to get to the offices at 6:30 to give some missionaries who were going to Leticia some documents and we ended up in the offices from 6:30 in the morning until 11:00 at night doing work, that was a long day! Then Tuesday we did more work in the offices and went to Migrations! Wednesday was also a lot of work. I'm learning how everything works. We have to pay pensionistas, reimburse missionaries, pay bills for the houses, do a report on the mission credit card and President and his wife's card and it's a ton of work. We also have to work with a bunch of banks and the church and the church is implementing a new system to do the credit cards but it still isn't up yet so that's causing us some problems. Then Thursday we had to go to Migrations again, we were there for a good minute and then we ended up in the offices super late again. I did the reimbursements for the entire zone, Tunjuelito, and that took like 2-3 hours which was pretty crazy, I finished it at like 8:30ish. We were planning on going home, but then we get a call telling us that Élder Luedtke was coming up to Bogotá from Ibagué! So we went and got him at the terminal and now he's with us! He got here at about 11ish so it was another late night. The offices are so much different than any other part of the mission, it's a ton of work and there's always stuff that comes out of the blue, it's crazy but I love it!
Then Friday was my 20th Birthday! Crazy it's already my second Birthday in the mission! We did some more financial work finished up the credit card report for the month and then we went to a super nice restaurant called Harry Sasson. The chef is known as like the best chef in Colombia and his restaurants are world-famous. I got a super good Porter house steak that I shared with Élder Miller. It's for like 2-3 people and it was amazing, Élder Willes ate it all on his own which was pretty impressive. Then today I officially have 13 months in the mission which is crazy, feels like I just got here. The time is flying by! I'm excited for where the upcoming months will take me. Tomorrow before church we're going to have a baptism in the ward which is going to be awesome! I love and miss you guys a ton! I hope you're all doing well! Now as Financial Secretary, I feel obliged to relate finances to the gospel so I would like to share with you a scripture in theNew Testament.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Élder McBride
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