Buuusy Week!

Buuusy week this past week, but it was still great. We kind of struggled with work, but still got some good stuff done. 

So just a quick summary.

Tuesday we had to meeting for all of the district leaders in the mission about the importance of what they do. It went super well, and I learned a bunch about leadership and the important role that all of the mission. And then there was a twist after the meeting. President Reeder asked us to have a meeting with him and told us about some stuff that had been happening in one of the far areas, involving one of the missionaries we had just worked with. So then we had to spend an hour or so planning an emergency transfer and who would move and when and how so it killed our work for that day. But at least it went smoothly.

Wednesday we got to spend the morning taking missionaries to the airport to get visa stuff done in Manila, then picked them back up on Thursday. It was kind of sad to see them at the airport, because they'll all be outta here in 3 more weeks. 2 of my companions were in that group of missionaries haha, so I'll miss them, but they all had a great time so it was cool. 

Overall, we didn't get a ton of work done because of other random things coming up, but we did have some great exchanges with some other zone leaders this week, including the zone leaders I mentioned last week, one of them being from China. He's soo nice and all the people we were able to talk to loved him haha. Basically, his mom was the first one converted in their family when she visited Hong Kong (They are from mainland China. Not much in the way of religious freedom there.) She then took her son there to have him taught, and he was converted. His church unit is a group of 12 people from his town that meet every in which he was one of 2 Melchizedek priesthood holders until he left for the mission. The law in his place is that the church there cannot receive funding from outside of China, so the church depends almost completely on the tithing of the members. The church also can only be presided over and attended by native Chinese. For a long time, he and his mom were the only members in the family. His dad was unable to join because he works for the government, which completely prohibits its workers from joining churches. But they are working out a way for him to be baptized so that will be awesome.

Anyway, everything else here is goin great and I love you all. We've got two more exchanges this week, this time in the farthest zones of the mission and I get to drive all the way out there! I've been asking around to see what the speed records and journey time records are for getting up there, so we'll see if I can beat it. Just pray that we make it safe! And there is some sort of burger challenge there that you have to eat in 3 minutes. So maybe I can win a free meal or something. NIce.

Love you all! Have a great week!