Tuesday, September 18, 2018
Week 60: Mexican food and Fat Mona Lisa!
Hola familia y amigos!
This week went by really fast. We did a lot of work in the offices. A bunch of the same stuff, paying bills/pensionistas. I also worked with Élder Willes in the Migration part this week. We're going through all the old missionary files physically and digitally. It takes a really long time, but it was actually pretty fun. We also found a really good Mexican restaurant that is really good. Today we went to some of the museums here in Bogota which was really cool: They had a museum about how Colombian currency(specifically coins) started, a Museum of Modern(ish) art, and also a Museum featuring Colombia's most famous artist, Fernando Botero, who paints really fat people. My personal favorite is the fat Mona Lisa. Also after visiting the Museums, we went and had brunch at this really good place called the Ugly American. They had pancakes and omelettes and it was amazing. I miss American breakfast food! haha That’s about it for this week! I love and miss you guys! Always remember to put Christ at the center of your life!
¡Nos vemos!
Élder McBride
Saturday, September 8, 2018
Week 59: Pictures
We have a fireplace in our apartment but not always electricity!
Week 59: IM IN THE SYSTEM!!!
Hola familia y amigos!
I honestly don't remember what day it was the last time we wrote but that's alright! Life is crazy in the offices. We are always working and there is always stuff to do. We were changing a bunch of things with Pensionistas starting this month and so we've been working a lot with that. I spent a whole day doing that and transferring old information, gathering the new information from the missionaries, and then making new spreadsheets so we keep all the new information and start working with that. I did a fair amount of reembolsos this week. It´s a little hard sometimes because I always have missionaries calling me wanting to know where their money is!haha. A lot of them just don't understand how the money works in the mission and that we just have free cash to give them all the time.
We always have people staying in our house too. Whenever anyone is here for medical reasons or any other thing they always come stay at our house and it gets a little crazy. We work some pretty crazy hours here in the offices. Sometimes we have to be here at like 6:00 am and then other days we don't leave till after midnight haha. It all depends on what's going on in the mission and I honestly really like it. I miss being out in the field walking and contacting but this is just a new way to do missionary work for me. It's also cool to always be around Presidente Palhua, He's super cool and I really like him.
Other fantastic news I am finally in the system! To enter our offices you have to scan your fingerprint and all that good stuff and for the first while I was just going in as a guest. Being a guest always takes super long sitting in the line and it gets old.haha However this week they finally put me in the system!! woohoo! It's the small things in life. That's basically it for me.
I love and miss you guys and I love this Gospel and I'm so grateful for the privilege that I have to serve as a missionary here in Colombia!
Les Extraño!
Élder McBride
Week 58: Late nights, PF Chang’s,and Octopus?
This past week was pretty crazy. First off Monday. We get to the offices at 7:00 in the morning, we did some work, we got to go to the CCM to pick up some new plaques for missionaries and I got to see my old CCM President, President Hansen and his wife that was super fun. Then we went to the airport to get a missionary that was coming to the CCM. Then we went back to the offices and ended up working for a really long tim. We had some emergency stuff happen so we ended up staying in the offices until 3:00 am! Then Tuesday we went back to the airport to pick up another missionary from the airport. I did a lot of financial stuff this week, I'm learning how to do everything . Most of it is pretty easy, but it's all pretty time consuming. Then Wednesday was pretty fun, we worked in the offices and then we went to lunch and I got a caesar salad...with Octopus! Honestly I thought it was going to be really bad, but I actually kind of liked it!
Then Thursday Élder Willes and I had a 5 hour meeting with someone from the general offices talking about Immigration and finances. Then at like 9:30 pm when we were leaving the offices we got a call that we had to buy some emergency plane tickets...so we ended up in the offices again until like 2 am! Then Friday we were at the offices again at 8:00 am to continue our meeting with the general offices. We were super, super tired so we both ended up sleeping a little bit on the floor of the offices. We had lunch on Friday at PF Changs, I did not know that PF Changs was here in Colombia but apparently they are and it was really good.
Then we had to wait in the offices while some missionaries had medical appointments and for a missionary to come stay with us. Then this morning Élder Willes and I had to get up at like 5ish to go to the airport with some missionaries who were going home, we were at the airport until noon and yeah that's it! Working in the offices is pretty crazy. I'm super tired but that's alright! Still learning more things with the finances and I'm excited to keep learning more. It's a little weird to be in the offices all the time and not out doing normal missionary things but I've learned it's just another way that I can serve the Lord because without me no one would have lunch, water, electricity, or gas! I hope you're all doing well! Love you guys!
Élder McBride
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