So my mission president told me this
week what I will be doing for the rest of my mission. So the senior
couple arrived and they will be the new executive secretaries in the mission.
So I will spend the rest of this transfer with Elder Aragão and I training them
and then Elder Aragão will be transferred and I will stay in trio with the
other secretaries while I continue training them for a whole transfer.
Then, if the senior couple is ready, I will leave the mission office, and
I will be a zone leader for the rest of my mission (which is like 2 transfers).
It was very strange to have the mission president tell me exactly what would
happen. I think it finally hit me that I will be going home and I will
not be a missionary for the rest of my life. It’s kind of weird. I
also didn't really want to be a zone leader but the president said my calling
has already been made so I guess there is no getting out of that.
The missionary couple is very cool.
They are Elder and Sister Hawkins. Elder Hawkins baptized President Brum
when he was serving his mission in Brazil in like the sixties. President
Brum was just a kid but he remembers. I am mostly training Sister Hawkins
because she doesn't speak Portuguese so even though Elder Aragão speaks English
more or less, I guess I am more suited to that task. Sister Hawkins is
very grandmotherly. She wants to get rid of everything in the office that
I don't know what it is, which isn't always the best course of action because
there are other people's stuff here. But it will all work out in the end,
I am sure, and the office will end up being less cluttered, even if we do throw
out somebody's stuff.
But it is a good week. I love
you all!
Elder Russell
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