Barranquilla with the President ~ May 14, 2016

Elder Muir and Elder Tyler Hales~ Health Secretaries

¡Hola!
¿Qué tal? ¿Cómo va todo?

Well as you all should now know is that this Monday I was called to be the Health Secretary of the mission. So now I´m here working in the offices with all the other missionary secretaries, the Assistants, and President and Sister Searle! It really has been and is such a priviledge to be able to serve here, and for that I am grateful for my Father in Heaven who has given me this opportunity to work with these great leaders here.

So first off, my companion is Elder Muir (from Idaho, but born in Orem, Utah) who is practically like my twin here in the mission haha. A lot of people really get us confused. Anyways, he is super awesome and he is training me to be the new Health Secretary for the mission. So this week has been super crazy! Firstly, I came here to Barranquilla really early in the morning on Tuesday and when I got here they had the presentation for all of the new missionaries, and when they presented all of the secretaries they had me go up with Elder Muir to present myself and also to describe some of the things we do as the Health Secretary (even though I didn´t even know very much and it was my first day haha). Anyways, so one of the responsibilities of the Health Secretary is to receive all of the calls from the missionaries who are sick or have health problems, and so this week i have been doing that and it has been super crazy sometimes because sometimes I receive like three calls from missionaries all at once! I also have to go with the missionaries to their medical visits and this week we already had like 5 medical visits! and more scheduled for the first of this week! So that has been fun. We also have to help make sure all of the missionaries are able to communicate with their families on Pdays and to call their families if they´re not writing to their missionaries. So this week being the week after Mother´s Day we have had to make a few calls to missionaries and families to make sure they can get their call in for Mother´s Day. Hmm... what else... We have to keep records of all types of medical stuff here and everything we tell the missionaries to take to get feeling better and yeah... I think that is about it! It has been a great experience though because I am able to work with President and Sister Searle and talk to them about the needs of the missionaries and be able to know how to help them. And well even though, as you all know, that I am not very good with medical and blood and stuff, so far I´ve been ok haha. The hard part is just trying to understand the names of the medicines in Spanish and knowing how to write them because imagine... they´re already tough enough to write in English! ;)

Concerning working and preaching in the area, well this week being the first week of the transfer we haven´t been able to get out to work much, but Elder Muir has said the area is super good and the people have been progressing well.

Oh! I almost forgot! So yesterday we had a ward talent show activity and well we were part of it and it was awesome! Our part we did was a little dance things where two missionaries put their heads through a blanket sheet and put their hands through as well but with shoes over their hands and then two other elders with their hands through the sheet as well to be the arms of what would be a "little person" type thingie. I hope that made sense haha. Anyways, we did that and the two elders with the other two behind, danced and sang to Glorious while I and another elder held the sheet up. It was pretty funny.... but not as funny as we were hoping haha. ;)

And well I think that is about it for this week. I will write you more next Saturday about what more I learn! Oh yeah, Saturdays are Pdays for the offices. :)
I love you all!
¡Ciao!


¡Paz fuera!



Love,
~Elder Tyler Hales~


P.S. Yep I´m here! so yeah Saturdays are the new pdays and I think I will be writing at like 4:00 until i´m done with my training as health secretary and then it will be at 5 again but saturdays. yeah so if you send the package now I will be able to receive it super fast!!! :D Well I love you so much! Say hi to all the family!