Seventy Eight Weeks

Hello Everyone!

This has been a very, very busy week... ...and we have a new mission President!!!

First of all, I don't have my weekly planner from last week, and so I kind of forgot all the things that happened; it all passed by in a pretty fast blur. Basically however, we spent all week preparing useful information in a 3 ring binder for the new mission President and his wife for them to have, as well as doing a few last small things to send off President Robertson and his wife. On Friday then, President Resek arrived with lots and lots of energy, and so we will see in the coming weeks all the changes that may come. 

One fun thing that happened though was that we were able to get together all the office staff on Monday (P-day) and we chipped in a little bit each person to have an asado (grilling out, but Argentine). One of the best parts of the asado was that President and Hermana Robertson cleaned out their pantry before leaving and I they gave us Root Beer concentrate. Thus, I was able to make Root Beer and enjoy it for the first time in a year and a half (picture included).

Other than that, we have been trying a lot in our area to share family history with people (knocking on people's doors and directly presenting the gospel hasn't really been super effective for finding people to teach) and it has actually been pretty successful. We have found a good few people that we are going to be able and go back to help them get a basic family tree going and it is a really good conversation started for why we are interested in family history as well and the importance of families. Plus, it´s really fun to just hear other people's stories too.

Other than that though, as I said there is not all that much new that I can think of that happened this last week without all the notes I jot down, but it was plenty busy.

I hope that you all can have a great week and love you all!

Love,
Elder McCollum