November 28th, 2016 - Times Are Changing

Well we have 2 new secretaries now. Just so you know, here in the mission offices there's a secretary to the president (me - 2 months), records secretary (my comp Elder Decoud - a few weeks), materials secretary (Elder Palomar - 6 months), a financial secretary (Elder Cummings - few weeks), nurse (Sister Huber - whole mission), and the assistants (never more than 6 months - Elder Eduardo and Lara). It was Elder Cumming's 20th b-day this past week so we had a lil party in our house with papa john's pizza that showed up here in Bolivia for the first time about a year ago and has been way successful since then.

Elder Eduardo is taking the pic, I'm there in the back, Elder Palomar is there posing, and Elder Lara is up in the corner.

Anyway I'm just kickin it trying to help our dear mission president get adjusted to our mission and work a little better with us in the offices, trying to train and help the other secretaries, enjoying the fun activities and food that's here in the center of Santa Cruz, working with my companion through any difficulties, organizing the calendar for the whole mission, learning new stuff about Windows 10, computer shortcuts, Excel and Word, and being a secretary every day while balancing working in my area that's one of the toughest in the whole mission. We're headed into Bolivian summer which is not too fun but there's no other position in the mission that allows one to spend more time in an air conditioned room than the one that I have so I can't complain. I'm learning and growing with every day and loving mission life as always. Love and miss all you guys, always feel free to hit me up with your updates, things you want me to pray for, things you wanna talk to someone about, etc. :j

Love,

Elder Van Horne