Feliz Navidad a todos!! Espero que lo estén disfrutando!
This
week was SO FUN! It passed by unbelievably fast. The first part of the
week was the transfers!!! On Saturday night, we went to presidents house
to help him with the changes. We were able to put a lot of good input
in! After about 2 hours, most of the missionaries were in the perfect
place. It was so cool to see everything fit perfectly. President, for
the most part, has everyones past areas and companions in mind which is
crazy considering we have 144 missionaries. I loved being there during
the process, it gave me glimpse of what I would imagine assigning
missionaries to missions would be like. Then we gave all the transfers
to the zone leaders sunday afternoon! The next crazy thing was monday
morning, welcoming the new missionaries!
I
think this has come to be one of my favorite things as an assistant- to
see all of the new missionaries coming in. They have so much zeal and
desire to serve and talk to everybody! Of course not all of them are the
same, but most of them are just so excited to finally be in the field.
We welcomed them all at the bus station in Pachuca. Then we went in a
combi together to the famous clock tower! Around the clock, we took them
out to contact their first people in the entire mission which was so
fun to be a part of. Then we took all of the pictures and we all headed
to presidents house in Club de Golf! All of the trainers were also there
at his house. We had a really good lunch together with them and the new
missionaries (but they didnt know which one was their trainer yet).
Then we all went to the stake center in Villas and did the presentations
for the trainers and new-comers that went really well! President did
the interviews for the new missionaries. After each interview, the new
guys got a picture of their trainer and they had to go to the church to
go find them. Its soooo fun to see the reaction of everyone when they
find out who theyll be with. I got to translate again for the interviews
of all the Elders from the states. It was so cool to be a part of them.
President is so good with them and the spirit was super strong. Then we
sent them all off to their new areas! It was a good group of 14 that
came in.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, most
everything was dedicated to the missionaries going home. There were
seven that went home, including two hermanas from my generation! Hermana
Smith and Wallace, they will be much missed! I still remember when we
arrived to Pachuca together. On Tuesday, we had a barbecue and party
with the ones going home, followed by the last testimony meeting. It was
so amazing to hear all their final testimonies, so powerful! Being
there for that made me so grateful that I still have a good amount of
time left in the mission. It kind of hit all of us there at the same
time when president was talking that they were all actually going home. I
got nervous for them!! Im glad Im not to that point yet, theres still a
lot of work to do! The Elders stayed with us Tuesday night and then
they all left in taxis on Wednesday morning to go take the bus to CDM to
the airport!
Thursday and Friday were the
Christmas devotionals!!! Sooooo fun! We had a good devotional to start
out with, with talks, videos, musical numbers, and a message from us and
President and Hermana Maldonado! Followed by unlimited tacos for like 2
hours..... that was the best part hahaha. It was also a fortune to
contract the guys but it was worth it. Then after the tacos, we had
every zone perform skits which ended up being super funny! Then after
the skits, we went outside for the Piñatas!! Classic. It was fun to
celebrate with everyone and make this Christmas special!
It
was also super cool to see the final product of the video that Elder
Santos from cali made of all the Venir a Cristo activities. I was able
to put a little bit of input on the video (mainly just picking the
music). And it turned out super good! I invite all of you to go to the
(Misión Mexico - Pachuca, 2019-2022) facebook page to look for the vid.
Its a good summary of all the activites we had! Im grateful I got to go
to all of them. video link: https://www.facebook.com/363199341003895/videos/800216687071090/
Now everything will be a little
more calm now that the Christmas activities are over. We're gonna focus
on buying and delivering what every house in the mission needs, that
will be quite the effort. I think in January or maybe february we might
actually have time to work in our area. Thats the goal! But Im LOVING
working with president. Its very hard work (more mental than physical),
but I have learned so much and Im so grateful I got the call. I like the
change but Ill also be excited to go back to the field when the time
comes.
In my Christmas devo talk, I talked
about the messages of the angels to the different people in the Nativity
story. To Zacharias, Jospeh, Mary, the Shepherds, and maybe more, the
first thing that the angels said to them was "Fear not". Those are
literally the first words in every message from the angels to all of
them. I dont think thats for nothing. That is also the first message to
us! We should never fear or doubt. We need to remember that anything is
possible in Christ who strengthens us. Especially in this season, the
small things make the difference. Keep on finding the ways to put Christ
in the center and make people's day!
Love you all!
Elder Millard
Pic 1: I took advantage when we went to the clock and took pics for momma haha
Pic 2: Filling up piñatas in the offices!
Pic 3: The Christmas devo agenda
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