I never thought I was going to have a desk job. Let alone on
my mission. I guess it has its perks though. I mean I get to know tons of
stuff. And I also get to work a lot more closely with President
Kumferman.
This week I came up from Cherkassy and met my new companion.
Elder Glade is from Washington state and is like an old grandpa with all of his
terrible puns and dad jokes.
After I met Elder Glade, Elder Mattina grabbed Elder Johnson
whom I was replacing and then they head down to Cherkassy, after they had
Domino's.
At first it was kind of awkward for me because I had these
things to do but I didn't really understand exactly what I was supposed to do.
That was mainly due to the fact that my companion had other responsibilities as
well and therefore wasn't able to help me a ton. But the next day I read the
little PDF manuals for us Office Elders and a few videos and then got to work.
Now I know what I am supposed to do and what is expected of me. Even though the
assignment of office elder is pretty cushy it is pretty crazy and involves a
lot of work. A lot of work, as in trying to complete all of our different
assignments, complete weekly and monthly reports, help the office senior couple
what whatever they need help with as well as every one else, translating
things, setting up for meetings and things like that. And by cushy I mean that
we have probably the nicest missionary apartment in the mission and the biggest
ward and the most on fire members. We also have comfy office chairs too.
Here in this area we are at the mission office almost
everyday from about 9-5 but on Saturdays we get to weekly plan and do some good
proselyting. This past Saturday we went out with our district which consists of
us, the Zone Leaders and the Sisters along with five other members from our
ward and went balloon contacting. Balloon contacting is when you contact people
on the street with balloons. We went to this big park that had lost of kids and
families and handed out a ton of balloons. One of the members that came with is
was a recently baptized eight year old boy. He is the smallest cutest thing,
and he is the best missionary out of all of us. He would always come up to us
and ask for a stack of cards and then we would see him run of into the crowd
and hand them all out. No one could say no to him.
Here in this building we have the only building where two
units meet in this mission if not in Ukraine. We have the International Branch
and the Borshagovsky Ward. We go to both so we get double the fun. Usually what
happens is that a senior missionary or another non-Russian-speaking person
comes and we have to trans;ate for them but what happened yesterday was the
opposite. We were at the International branch and one of the members of the
regular Russian/Ukrainian ward came and then I had to translate everything that
was going on to him in Russian.
In other news. The Kiev Temple is getting a new Angel
Moroni. What happened what a little bit ago the Temple got stuck by lightning
and it hit the Angle Moroni. After that the under side of his arm and the
trumpet got blackened. So for the past week while the Temple has been closed
for cleaning, they have had workers up on top putting scaffolding up to prepare
for when hey will replace him with a new one. Other than that it is pretty
quiet here most of the time. We do English practice as normal and District
meeting and even had my first Office Staff Meeting. Life is good as a
missionary.
Старейшина Класон / Elder Clawson
Companionship Unity.
This is with Elder Mattina when we went down to Smela to that crazy hospital.
Don't freak out that we aren't wearing name tags. It was just not allowed down
there.
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