Dear Family,
How are you? I am well—the week has been somewhat busy! It started
with documentation work early in the mornings, combined with Zone
Conferences, and finally we're starting to feel a bit more
‘tranquillos.’
The Conferences were good, but I wasn’t able to hear most of it, as my
role involved accompanying the financial secretary (who was there to
do reimbursements for travel expenses), running errands (including
driving President’s car, since it’s an automatic vehicle), and taking
photos, etc.
A new family came to the chapel this week, the Familia Soria. One of
their struggles right now is finding how to get to the chapel, given
that our ward’s chapel has been changed twice in the last few months!
This week we’ll study the bus maps and see what to do.
The Conferences kept us in the office for a large portion of the week,
so I felt a bit disastrous when we finally got to church on Sunday.
Somehow we hadn’t picked up a lunch during the week, we had a family
that we brought that didn’t have a way home, assignments from the
Bishop, questions about home teaching, etc, all coming at the same
time! I enjoy being here, but sometimes our office work makes our real
work difficult!
Elder Bird and I were also robbed yesterday—as we were walking about
in ‘la villa’ we were asked the classic robber’s question “¿Tiene la
hora?” which actually means “¿Tiene celular o reloj o algo de valor?”
The thief didn’t wait for an answer, and proceeded to personally empty
our pockets at gun point! Elder Bird maintains that his weapon was
plastic, as he was casually grabbing it from him, but either way we
lost our cell phones and a few other items. Happily, a friendly
neighbour, after commenting that it was a pity that he was unable to
start his car quickly enough to run over the thief(!) drove us back
afterwards. We were both fine but a little bothered; a new cell phone
takes a few weeks to replace!
Otherwise we’re waiting for some documents to arrive for a family
that’s been waiting to get married for a year and a half in order to
be baptised. The rumour is that perhaps the needed document is in
Buenos Aires, so the mission is willing to send someone there to pick
it up.
This week we have another zone conference, and then transfers!
Love,
Elder Schlachter
