This transfer call was a little more involved for me than all the others. Just for recap of the week, it was a really good week, we taught a few of our amis once or twice, in addition to seeing quite a few of our less actives, and had a great few days, after our P-day where we went and did a service project for a members less active father, who then took us out to this very nice restaurant for lunch called La Calade, where we had some of the best pizza I've ever eaten, he recommended it highly, and it didn't disappoint. Then Wednesday night we took a train out to a small ville called Gap, where we had district meeting the next day. District meeting was great, we learned some good things, and then we all had a good lunch together.
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| P-Day |
Then the next day, Friday, we got our transfer calls in the morning, and everything went nuts from then on. President Roney called me at about 8:30, and then proceeded to tell me that I was going to be the new office elder, which means I will be doing a lot of administrative work, taking care of all the train tickets, legality, cars, transfer information, all the tech stuff at the conferences, and basically doing a ton of behind the scenes stuff for the mission, in addition to still contacting and teaching in all of the spare moments we'll have from the office work. It's a lot of work, especially during the first week, and conference weeks, but after that they told me it'll be less so, and we'll get to do more of the actual missionary work, so it'll be ok. In any case, President told me I would be coming up the next day, Saturday, because for the transfer day and the first week, there is so much stuff to do, he wanted me to get a little bit more time to unpack and prepare before the week. I'm excited, but I wasn't able to say goodbye at church to all the members in Aix-en-Provence, which made me sad, but I was able to go to two last rendez-vous' with members before I left. Now my Pday is on Saturday, because office work takes most of the real week, the weekend is a little more free. All is well, but in my next week I did not get much sleep, but it's all good!
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| Llama ties |
Life here in Lyon is very different now, life in the office is quite a lot of fun, while at the same time quite exhausting, especially during transfer week, with all the new missionaries coming in and the old ones leaving, but overall I'm beginning to love the office, its quite nice to be around everything going on, and knowing what's going to happen all the time. This week was nuts.
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Spontaneously traded ties with a man on the bus
- but it smelled like beer and cigarettes. |
Monday we took care of all the incoming missionaries to Lyon, and got all the missionaries going home out to the mission home in our car along with all their luggage. We then went and grabbed some dinner and planned for the week, before going back and grabbing the all again and taking them to where they were going to sleep, and still porting all their luggage, getting home at about 12 AM that night. Then the next morning we woke up at 3 AM to take all the luggage to the airport, where we spent most of the day, taking care of all the outgoing missionaries, and welcoming in the new missionaries with the APs, and then getting all of their luggage from place to place. Our car is rather large… or at least one of them is, we have two, one for all that, and one for normal days. Then Wednesday was spent getting all the newbies from place to place and helping them see their new trainers, which was a lot of fun. The rest of the week was spent helping out with the come back conference for the bleus (newbies) who just finished their first transfer, and just taking care of all the needs of the mission, broken ovens, car wrecks, and dozens of train tickets.
Though today was really cool, we got to go to a baptism of a man named Elu, which in French literally means, "elect", and it was truly wonderful. When he came out of the water he just stood there for a moment, and started crying, he was so overcome with emotion. I think most of us in the audience were fairly close to shedding tears ourselves, he was radiating light and happiness. All is well here in Lyon, I truly love it here, and am still getting to go out and talk to people as a real missionary, which is the best. I hope everyone has a good week, au revoir!
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