Hello world once again!
So this past week has been the most stressful week of my
mission so far! Mainly because it was changes week and us as the office
missionaries, it is our responsibility to make sure everything is ready for the
changes. That includes in finding the houses in the new areas we are opening,
and I have to make the contracts and make all the arrangements for signing the
contracts and making security deposit checks. Also we have to buy and deliver
all of the things (beds, chairs, tables, fridges, etc.) to the new areas. And
on top of that we are missionaries.
So I did have changes this week, I am not with Elder Glenn
and Elder Earl anymore. Now I am training another elder to be a financial
secretary which is crazy. Elder Glenn was going to be the other, but I guess he
just wasn't a good fit for being in the office so now I have to train another
guy and I haven't even had much time to get stuff learned. Yesterday was the
most stressful day of my mission because everything that could go wrong, did go
wrong. People in this world are just so impatient. I am responsible for making
the payments to the companies that make the beds tables and chairs. And we owe
them 960 dollars for an order made in February (before I got here), so yesterday
they called and were yelling and whining because they didn't have their money.
Then on top of that I had the mission doctor calling me because she never got
paid from the last change (because Elder Earl didn't get it done beforehand),
she was wanting 920 dollars. So just dealing with all these people and trying
to make everyone happy is very stressful.
I am going to attach a document that is one of the contracts
that one of the house owners made (I usually make them, but he wanted to make
his own) and understanding all that legal language has been such a challenge in
Spanish. So here I attached the document in English and in Spanish. It is just such an
ugly made document (people aren't well educated in computers here). I also am
going to attach one that I made (more beautiful). It is pretty cool! And there
are a ton of contacts that I have to keep track of, there are about 210
missionaries in this mission (it changes every week) so you do the math, there
are a ton of contracts to keep track of and monitor.
So this crazy week has left me with almost no time for
working in our area as missionaries. One of the other perks of being an office
missionary is that our house is the mission hotel. it is a fairly big house so
we always have the missionaries who are just arriving to the mission and those
who are soon to leave sleep there, yes all of them. The other day the brilliant
idea came to me that I could have fun when waking them up! Many of them have to
wake up in the early morning to catch flights. So I decided to do something I
learned from Dad, that is.. hit a fry pan with a wooden spoon as hard as I can.
It is hilarious! I decided I would have one of the other Elders record it on
camera, the reactions are pretty funny to me!
Well that is pretty much my week! Crazy, stressful, but
rewarding! I hope that you all have a great conference weekend in Utah!
Conference is great for us missionaries because it is a form of rest from all
of our duties! I love you and have a great week!
Love, Elder Joshua Vaughan
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