How are you? I am well, though a bit sleepy! Last night I was occupied
until past midnight, and today got up at five thirty to go downtown
and do visa paperwork!
We've been busily preparing for the Christmas zone conferences this
week. Some adventures have been picking up 20+ packages from customs,
sending two missionaries on a six-hour bus ride at midnight, with a
significant sum of money to pay for a rented bus, because it was less
expensive than sending it in any other way, arranging for several
missionaries to stay in C贸rdoba tonight, combined with arranging their
visa paperwork (today we were nearly thirty missionaries in the little
waiting room in the migrations department!), receiving more than a
hundred boxes of copies of the Book of Mormon, and then constructing
something to protect them for the rain, and generally preparing the
arrangements for 200 missionaries to be meeting together (on three
different days) this week and the next.
This week we went out teaching with the bishop, and stopped by houses
of various less-active members and investigators. We also went out
with our ward mission leader, Elder Fenn, and found a few new
families, and received some references. We were extra-pleased when
Elder Bird called a family on Sunday morning, and then they came to
church for the first time! They're the familia Dur谩n, and so we'll be
working with them a bit extra this week.
Love,
Elder Schlachter
P.S. As I was waiting about for a few office things last night, I was
watching this video about Elder Christofferson's recent visit to
Argentina. If you watch the part where it shows the mission
president's seminar, the second person to walk through the aisle
between the table is Sister Salas (the mission president's wife):
http://lds.org/study/prophets-
