Monday was when all the
missionaries going home had their final interviews and such, and somehow
everything ran a little later than normal, so in between getting everyone out
to President's house, getting them back for the night, then going back to the
office and loading all their luggage into the van, we didn't get home until
about 2:10 or so in the morning. We had to be out the door and on our way to
the airport the next morning at 4 in the morning, so we didn't sleep, just
wrote a bit in our journal, and then showered and changed, then got back in the
car and headed off to the airport. We were a little tired at first, but it wore
off pretty quick at the airport, or at least for me, because everything seemed
to go wrong.
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| Note the Time |
I was in charge of getting all
of the Americans and one German sister onto their flights, and everything with
the German sister went fine, but we had a ton of issues with the Americans. All
the machines where we were supposed to check them in for whatever reason didn't
read the passports, and kept saying that we didn't have tickets. I frantically
worked with the helper lady, seeing as we were already running late, and
finally we got everyone into the line, waiting for the baggage check, where the
lady said they'd get their tickets. I sprinted over to help the German sister with
her final things, then sprinted back to get back in time to help pay for all
the second baggage fees for all the Americans just in time for them to board
their flight, and then sprint across the whole airport to grab a cell phone
that a Finnish sister had accidentally forgotten to give back to us.
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| Surprise Birthday Party |
All in all, kinda stressful,
though the rest of the day was ok, despite the fact that right after that whole
situation me and my companions were drifting hard core in and out of sleep for
a few hours before the new missionaries got there. However, Thursday was my
birthday, and it was fantastic. My companion had a bunch of missionaries in
Lyon go to the institute without me knowing they even knew about my birthday,
and then got me there on some excuse, where they threw me a surprise small
birthday party. It was a ton of fun, and everyone was happy. After that, my
companions and I went out to lunch with the assistants to a great taco place in
Lyon, and had a ton of fun. After some last minute office work, we went out to
our sector and taught a great lesson over the Savior to one of our amis, one of
the best parts of the day, and then went out again to dinner with the mission
nurse, one of the best people I've met on the mission. Overall, it was a
fantastic week, and my birthday was a ton of fun, in the morning I got to read
all the letters my family sent me, which might have been the best part of the
day. I love everyone, and hope everyone had a good week as well, au revoir!
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| Out to Eat |
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