Hey Guys,
Well I am now serving in Arequipa....
haha apparently the mission needed a new assistent. so im the one chosen to
fill in that gap. :)
its kinda crazy. i guess i really dont know what to think of it yet. but we
are hitting the ground at a full sprint. so i got here today about 2 hrs. ago
and we have a training meeting for all the new trainers this change in about 2
hours. tomorrow we have the newbies coming in from the ccm and will be going to
pick them up and then train them all up on how the mission is and what they need
to do and what to expect. then on wednesday and thursday we have all the zone
leaders and sister leaders coming into arequipa for a training meeting. we are
booked! some welcome hu?
So just to give you some of the updates on how my schedule will be
changing....
pdays will now be on saturdays. so dont expect my letters anymore on
mondays.
My new companion is one of my best friends in the mission: Elder Cornejo
from chile. we have always been really great buds and we are so excited to work
together. He was actually comps with my former comp elder priebe who just went
home and was also comps with elder chipman who i just sent home. haha its funny:
inbetween the 4 of us (Chipman, Priebe, Cornjeo, and Me) we have ALL been
companions at one time or the other in the mission. so i am really excited to
get going. nervous as well...i sure will be on my knees praying hard for the
lords help in everything.
but some of the past weeks updates just to fill you in quickly and i will
try and touch up more on it saturday: but chipman left :( so i was in divisions
all week long with other companionships of elders. it turned out really great
but also very very tiring. not to mention the weekend. so chip had left but then
came back to help out with the rectial musical that we did in tacna this last
weekend (well actually yesterday). we were so busy running down to tacna and
practicing and returning sunday and really really tiring. when we were trying to
come back to moquegua sunday night we got the terminal at 9:15pm and the last
bus that left from MOQ was at 8:45pm and we were stuck! we couldnt find any
rides and we ended up walking down many dark alley ways and markets trying to
find anything to return because we still had to pack everything up and get our
room ready for the 2 new zone leaders and also get us all ready to go to
arequipa. Elder chipman just met up with his parents about an hour ago and now
im getting to work. but crazy crazy trying week we had and will be having from
today on. we also had a little halloween party which i will send pics later and
for the day of the dead on saturday we went to the cemetery and passed out tons
of plan of salvacion flyers and also shined shoes for free for a couple of
hours. really had fun with that as well.
All in all....i am sad that i left moquegua. i had the best zone in the
mission, some of my best buds. the ward was sure sad to see both chipman and i
leave but we had a good farewell. sad to see chipman and all ton of my friends
who just left..but we are in for some great times ahead. i look forward to
learning all i can from president and help the mission out with what i can and
what the lord wants me to do here in his vineyard of Peru Arequipa.
I love you all and will talk to you all some more on Saturday.
Con todo el amor que tengo.
Weston
Elder Birtcher
Perú - Arequipa
Mission
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