Absolutely No One Is Expecting What's Happening Right Now

Ahem,

I feel like the title of this email is significantly self-explanatory. I really doubt that any of you were ready for this. This is happening for a very specific, unforeseen change that has gone on.

I'm a filing cabinet.

Literally, the term for what I have been made in the mission is the "fichero," which  means filing cabinet in Spanish. I take care of all kinds of files and reports for the mission and take care of all of the houses. It's what's being called an office elder, where I work from 10:00 to (if we're lucky!) 4:30 Monday through Friday in the Mission Office  Therefore, P-days cannot be Mondays, so they have to be Saturdays! Yay!

That means we get to go to the zoo at some point! Woo hoo!

So, to finish things up about last week, I'm now in the office, I am in a super ridiculously chuchi Ward called Campo Grande, back in Asunción Norte where I began! I'm seriously right close to where I began my mission, which means I'm back close to SOFÍA!!!! That's going to be awesome. She still hasn't come by to pay me a visit, but it is going to be great.

The office is pretty much awesome. At this point in life, there are two poles to me:

1. The ridiculously goofy sarcastic nerd

2. The more serious leadership get stuff done kinda guy.

Here in the office the two are extremely aggrandized into being perfected. The office life with the other Elders is immensely goofy and filled with nerdliness, whereas negotiating house contracts with super mean landlords who try to rip you off is bringing out the leadership guy. And, the time that we get to work is super awesome. Super difficult to have ANY investigators or lessons, but we're managing and trying to find some people. This week we were actually able to get out and work every day after change day (or rather, the last two days), and I'm enjoying it. There's the temptation to be like the Customer Service people I worked with at Sears and Shopko and just hate everyone, but that's not really my thing and we're definitely keeping charity a part of the office. My companion in these adventures is Elder Billings, who is training me on how to be a filing cabinet. The office itself is full of ridiculousness that I enjoy IMMENSELY. For example, the four different office Elders have some competitiveness, but none greater than the Fichero, who is KOTO- King Of The Office, who has a special rolley chair (better than all the rest) called the Throne, and access to things like the pig (it's oinks sound oddly real). I sit next to the Cartero, Elder Crandall, who gets mail and many other things, when Elder Billings leaves, I'll be companion with the Secretario, Elder Valenzuela (who's sister I knew before the mission from Highschool), and then inside of a glass cubicle we have the Financiero, Elder Salazar, who will be finishing his mission from within the confines of his crystal vacuole.

Such is life! Enjoy pictures of the despedida with Capiatá!

Love,

Elder Harris

 The other one is my very own despedida in Capiatá, the youth all got together to say goodbye to me. It was fun. :)

1st one is saying goodbye to Hna. Pelicó of Guatemala, she went home.

 The second is with Pablina Cañete, whose family we began to teach. She's the only member in her family and was inactive, I hope she's well now. :)

No. ! is with Hno. Gil, who is the Ward Mission Leader over there, crazy Argentine!