Week 58: Late nights, PF Chang’s,and Octopus?

Hola Familia y Amigos!

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