SO my first week in the office was CRAZY BUSY but it was so good!
So Monday I met the Assistants and left with them while Elder Wright joined a spanish companionship. I spent that night with Elders Omer (who i replaced) Elder Griffin (who is my new companion) and Elder Nagtalon who is visa waiter who left this week. On tuesday we gave training to all of the new DL, ZL, and STL's on principles of effective leadership. I was assigned t prepare one on how to conduct an effective exchange. I enjoy exchanges so that was pretty easy. I do feel a little bit out of my league here though. We also gave training to the trainers for th upcoming transfer. Elder Bennett is the only Elder training so he was there. We also had to conduct with President Craig and the senior missionaries to review the plan for this week as it was transfer week. There is so much to remember but it is all coming to m slowly!
Wednesday was crazy as well, it started a little before 5:00 am when we woke up with Elder Nagtalon to help him catch his flight. Then we had to be at the office like all morning adjusting stuff for transfers. We are responsible for making sue every missionary gets tlo here they need to be. There is a "transfer train" that comes from Saskatoon through Regina to Winnipeg and back. We are in charge of making sure every one gets in the cars they need to be in and that everyone always has a companion and that any cars or phones that need to get transported get transported. It is a ton to think about. hat made it fun was that some members were going to take a Sister from Saskatoon to Regina because She was the only Sister in Saskatoon getting transferred. A member got sick so we had to redraw the whole sisters transfer train and through a series of unfortunate events one sister was given the responsibility to be the driver from Saskatoon to Winnipeg and back! Poor her. That Wednesday afternoon we met President and Sister Craig at the airport and picked up the new missionaries. We then went back to the mission home which we had helped prepare for that night. We had a huge meal with the new missionaries and the senior couples. We also had to copy and organize the legal documents for the new missionaries. Lucky for m there was only 2 this time. 11 next time though. We then had a testimony meeting where I was asked to go first because I am the new assistant. After the meeting we Helped the new Sister find the Sisters we had arranged for her to spend the night with. After that we went to the chapel to set up for transfers and the new missionary orientation the following day. We returned home around 11:00.
Thursday we went to the office to make a few more preparations prior to going to Presidents for Breakfast with the New missionaries. From there we took the New Elder to the Chapel to begin the meeting. We gave a bunch of training. I felt so bad for the new missionaries, they are just wiped out and shell-shocked. That first day is TOUGH. We gave a bunch of training and helped with transfers. Transfers happened partly during the meetings.When we got out we had to get the transfer train on the road so they could get to Regina before 9. Only problem was that the Thompson keys got on the train too. Lucky for us we worked that out without too much difficulty. That was a relief and a half. Elder Omer then left us, made the ceremonious I-pad hand-off and left to Thompson! Getting the train away on time! But wait there is more! We spent that evening with the departing missionaries at the mission home. We are pretty much just in charge of doing all the things that need to be done so President can focus on important things like interviews during transfer week. One thing that threw a wrench in things was that a sister got sick and went home this week so we had to do a little transfer call changing. I got to make those calls! That was fun. We had a great meal with the departing missionaries and then had another testimony meeting. That night there was only one departing Elder So he came back to our place. Got to bed way late that night too.
Friday began at 4:40 am when we got up to go to the mission home with Elder Coleman (departing ELder) and then went took all of the luggage to the airport where we met resident and President and Sister Craig and dropped off all of the Departing missionaries. That was weird! After we got them off President Craig took us out to breakfast at denny's. When we left Denny's he instructed us to take the much awaited recovery nap. That is the only time we get to nap on a mission. It was great! 2 hours later we woke up and hit the streets! I LOVE TRANSFER WEEK AS AN ASSISTANT!!! It is the most tiring thing ever but is so much fun and so good! Working with President is amazing! He asks for our thoughts a lot more than I realized! Hope everyone had a great week!
Love Elder Stewart
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