Transfers

You're probably going to be wondering why I am writing again this week by the Church e mail system. Well, there is a good reason for this and that is that I have had transfers in the mission field. At first I did not believe it when they told me where I was going to serve, but I have gotten over that now. I am serving in the office as a sort of assistant to the President. I am the head of migrations and the Mission Executive Secratary. Basically I keep everyone here that's supposed to be here, legally and send the others home when they finish on planes or buses. I have a team that I work with out side the mission which consists of a lawyer of operations and a managment director of the Church for El Salvador. I have a few other people I work with. They told me, as far as it goes, I probably have one of the most important jobs in the mission because I hold all the legal power in my hands. Scary! The only thing that impeeds me is a signature of the President when he is being represented. Other than that, if it doesn't concern him, I have the RESPONSIBILITY of the mission on my shoulders. This means that the President trusts me and that I trust him. I just hope I can do my best in this position and leave the office a better place then when I came in. It is in need of a little organization and cleaning because the guy that is traininig me wasn't too organized. I am just lucky I have someone to train me and that I can learn so fast. You can do anything you put you mind to. Never say I can't. That has been something I have learned in life. If you say I can't you never will, but if you say I can, then go for it do it.

Some other things you should probably know, at least for the time, is that I am in the office. My p-days have been changed to Fridays and we don't have a cook, which is good because we would probably never make it to her house and with the last cook's experience, it's probably better not to have one. On the other side, this is one of the three best areas in the mission. The people here have a bit of money and the members are always inviting us to eat. As a matter of fact, last night was my first actual dinner appointment since being on my mission. I know... after 1 year and 1 month. We had Chinese. It was take out, but there was a ton of food. Afterwards, they gave us half of a watermelon. When we finished that, there were Mexican candies of good quality. Oh, and I saw Tapatio hot sauce for the first time! I almost cried because I thought it didn't exist. Thank you, Father. Life has purpose.

My area is called San Ramon and it's really nice. We have from what I am learning, a goal of about 7 people to baptize this month. It's looking rather real due to the number of families we have. It's so much better when the people accept the Gospel as a family. We are planning a "white day" in December. That's where a whole zone will baptize on this day. It's going take some work, but we can do it. I think it would be really cool to have 28 missionaries all baptize 2 to 3 people in one night. That would be 56 baptisims. I think we would invite the Mission President to that and he would be very happy. Our goal for the month as a mission is a minimum of 200 baptisms and that's for 180 missionaries. So, not crazy, but we can do it. Just need faith and for the mission to do the little things, like read, pray, and do the work.

Something else interesting this last change was that we had out of 180 missionaries only 16 didn't have changes. That's crazy. Entire zones were changed. The president did this because he doesn't want them to have to change 2 days before Christmas and feel alone in a new area without anyone they know in the branch or ward. It can be really tough on a missionary. I am learninig a lot. I'm also helping a lot too. It's learning by a fire hose. I love you guys. This is the Gospel on steriods right now and it's awesome. I am feeling better, too. Thanks for all the concern from there and they have me taken care of now.

love you all,
Elder Proksch