Week one of the transfers

February 3, 2018

Wow. this week was super tough. There was a lot of work to do:

1. Well we had around 10 missionaries come into the field today. Everything was going great until I had to go down to the doctor for a missionary with feet problems and I forgot to take all of the blankets and pillows down to the church. Because I forgot about that I had to make sure that all of the new missionaries had their stuff before 10:30 at night (when I got back to start I had like 3 hours to get it done). I don´t know how I did it but all of the stuff got out to all of the missionaries in their areas.

2. So recently I have gotten all of the office organized and some-what clean. But now I have been working with Hermana Amato and her kids and we have really been cracking down on this office. Now we just need to get all the supplies in here and figure out where they could go in an organized manner.

3. Yesterday was really tough though. So there are some supplies that the mission needs that you can't get from the church (ex. blankets, termas, office supplies, etc.) and so we had to go down to a place where we could find all of that. Just to like explain what it is, it is pretty much an outdoor market place but super unorganized and no where to park. Meaning that everything that we bought, we had to carry. We were there for like 5 hours trying to carry 50 bed covers, 50 pillows, and back packs full of USBs and stuff like that. Eventually president showed up to help us but because they were going to charge him almost 100 soles to park we decided to load everything we had in his car and my companion and I would continue shopping. It was a long day.

Well being the first week of the transfer and the beginning of a month things were super crazy. All of our appointments were cancelled due to emergencies that were going on.  But one amazing thing that happened was that when all of the new missionaries come out of the CCM to go into their mission, the CCM president and wife come out to make sure that everything goes smoothly. SO that meant that I got to see President and Sister Ellsworth from my ward back in Arizona! WOW! That was super amazing to see them again and even though it was like 2 minutes, it was amazing. Just something I thought was the best part of my week.

Miss you tons,

Elder Garbett

CCM again

Jan. 27, 2018

Last week of the transfer past:

1. We had the richest man in Peru come to our mission to talk to us about being successful. Only those who go home in 6 month or before were allowed to go but because we had to help set up and everything the office was allowed to go. It was super eye opening. He taught us a way on how we could be successful in anything that we do. It was super, super cool!

2. Well this week was the last week of the transfer and unfortunately for us it landed on the end of the month. So all of this week we were going and going and going. I had to go out and buy stuff for the office, meetings to go to, meetings to set up, meetings to set down. But for some reason it all fell through exactly how we planned it so that was good. 

So I know I talk a lot about how I am here in the office and that I am always just going and going. But this week we had a very interesting lesson. So last week you all know how I was talking about the lady in the CCM? Well we went back and gave the lesson with her right there on the CCM grounds. In the beginning of the lesson Lia (the investigator) told us that she always noticed (being the manager of the lunch room) that everyone there was happy and that she wanted to know how she could be happy like that, BUT she also said that she did not want to be baptized (SHOOT). But in my mind (and probably Elder Dahl´s mind) we were going to leave the lesson with her accepting a baptismal date. And in the end she did end up accepting. I mean on the CCM grounds you always feel good. There is just that presence of something different (the holy ghost). But during that lesson Lia felt that spirit that we brought there. 

Love you all,

Elder Garbett

Week of the conferences

Jan 20, 2018

This week ended up being pretty busy. We had Multi-zone conferences and because President Godoy told us to, they ended up being three different days and so we had to run:

1. The first day was probably the worst. That morning our terma (the water heating system) broke down and took out all of our electricity in our room. So we ended up not having electricity during the entire week until last night, so that was tough. Also an hour before everything was going to start, President and the assistants started to call me asking me where the mission's projector was. Apparently they lost it and it was my job to find another way for them to do their presentations. But by pushing the meeting back a half hour, breaking into some stake offices, and trying to learn how to use a hanging projector that was 20 feet above my head, I eventually solved the problem and after the meeting found the mission's projector in the assistant's room.  

2. Well the second day went a bit smoother but as the operations secretary I need to go out and buy break (some juice, cookies, and fruit) for everybody in the conferences. So I went out and like normal bought a little more than enough for the three zones that were coming. I ended up getting back and I set up enough for one zone because we always split up by zones and it makes things easier. Well President decided to do something new that day and told everybody that they all were going to do it at the same time. So I was waiting there and my companion comes running down the hall to tell me that the entire zombie apocalypse was coming and that we had to do it all super fast. In the meantime while everyone was coming in I thought "how strange. It looks like there is a lot more people here than three zones." Little did I realize that the plans were changed and four zones ended up coming to the meeting that day and I didn't have enough break for everyone. Luckily no one noticed. 

Well this week was pretty busy. I didn't think that I was going to have something spiritual or missionary like to tell you all this week but it turns out that something happened from yesterday in the middle of all of our rush. So we received a call from the MTC saying that one of our zones leaders at the conference had a package for us to deliver to the MTC. So being the package man in the mission, it was my responsibility to take it there. So we went there and dropped off the package and the front desk man asked who was the referral secretary. Being me he wanted to give us some referrals for us to contact. One was for one of my last areaa I was in and the other was for us. Lia (the investigator) works at the MTC in the lunch room. And right before President and Sister Moore went back home they invited her to listen to the missionaries. She said yes and wants us to visit her right in the MTC. We were able to take that chance and go down to the lunch room in that moment and take out an appointment to visit with her and we are going to visit her this next Monday. Truly the Lord has been blessing us with miracles. By what I have seen here in the office is that as you work hard to keep up with all of your responsibilities the Lord will bless you with success. 

I love you all tons,

Elder Garbett