Elder Rasband and Elder Uceda! ~ June 11, 2016

Hola a todos!


So wow, I kind of left you guys hanging there a bit this last week huh? So just to let you all know now, we are all fine. Everyone is practically to 100 %.

 
So something interesting, the very night of the incident with the killer bees this last week I found another sting on my back. It didn´t hurt or anything and I didn´t even feel it when the bee stung me. It was a little tiny bit swollen, but I´m ok. Only 2 stings! Woohoo! Out of about a thousand bees that were chasing us! That´s pretty good skills there I think. ;) Matrix moves I´m talking. ;) Another thing, the next morning i woke up and my sting on my elbow was really swollen. All the missionaries here said it looked like I was growing a third arm haha. It was funny. But I´ve always swollen up big when I get stung so I wasn´t too surprised. I am pretty sure though that if I was in the back with the one missionary that got stung over 150 times, I would have died. No joke. Anyways, I´m fine though! :D

So apart from the crazy bee stuff that happened, this week has been pretty legit! So this last Tuesday we had what´s called Consejo de Lideres, Leaders Council. Where all the Zone leaders, secretaries, President and Sister Searle, and the Assistants all have a big meeting to talk about the needs of the mission. The secretaries share their announcements with the zone leaders to transmit them to the missionaries so we can have better communication and stuff in the office. It was an awesome experience! I even saw Elder Brunis there because he is a zone leader in Cartagena! So that was fun. 

THEN, the best part of that day was that there was a meeting that night with Elder Rasband and all the stakes of Barranquilla!!! So we went to this big stadium place close by here and Elder Rasband and his wife and Elder Uceda spoke to us! I almost even got to shake Elder Rasband´s hand!! I was like two feet away from him but there were two elders in front of me that blocked the way... :( But I did shake his wife´s hand! It was an awesome evening! Elder Rasband talked about how we need to prepare for the temple that will be here in Barranquilla soon. He shared some stories and shared of how we need to always be ready and worthy to enter the temple.

Hmm, what else happened this week... well President and Sister Searle are now leaving in about two weeks so we are all really sad about that. :( They are really so awesome! Also this transfer is already coming to an end... This transfer has flown by as if it has been two weeks I´m not even kidding! Time has been speeding up so rapidly fast! Elder Muir, my companion, goes home after this next transfer and so after this week he will be going to a different area because well he´s already finished training me here in the office. Normally when the secretaries replace the other the older one usually is only there for like two weeks, but since we have had a million doctors appointments Sister Searle told President he needs to stay pretty much to the end of the transfer.

So yeah I think that is about it! Things here are going great! I am loving working here. I have been missing the piano extremely lately... I have all this music to play and songs that I´m forgetting to play because I haven´t played for about 9 10 months... But oh well, I must press on, and so must we all! 

This is the Lord´s work and he needs helpers! Press forward saints!


Bueno, hasta luegito!!


¡Paz fuera!



Love,
~Elder Tyler Hales~