Elder Hayden Roper: Transfer Week!

Hello all! Right now its pouring rain and lightning. I love this place! This week was eventful, but we didn’t get to teach anyone. Tuesday was transfer day which means that everyone was flying and going all over the place. It is fun to see the hard work that Elder Neves does pay off on transfer day. It is also really sad to see people not do their jobs on transfer day and cause that all that work that Neves does go out the window. Oh well. It is weird sending people off to areas not knowing if I will ever see them ever again hahha. Luckily no one missed their flight this time! We ate pizza with the new guys that came in and Elder Neves and I got pretty sick off of it hahaha. So that was a fun couple of days. That same transfer day the flights for the people going home were different. They went home around lunch time, not at night. So that meant that Elder Neves and I had to be there and essentially miss lunch. So, President Parker invited us to the mission home, and we ate PB & J´s with him and Sister Parker. It was awesome! I hadn´t had one in over 6 months hahaha. I love the Parker's.

Sunday and Monday, it was literally cold outside. We checked the Internet and it was only 68 degrees, but it was COLD. We proselyted in sweaters on Sunday hahaha. Something that I've only done maybe 3 times in my whole mission. It was crazy. Peruvians here don’t really know what to do when it gets cold, because it never ever happens. Kinda funny.

Sweater Weather

Tonight, we have a baptism. It is a man of 25ish years, the AP´s found him a while ago and have been fighting to get him in the water. We have taught him a bit, but its more or less the AP´s baptism. Either way it will be awesome!

On Thursday night we had a visit from the area, and they brought us all new computers and stuff. They’re pretty sweet, Windows 10 is definitely an adjustment to make though. It is also hard making the switch of something that you use every single day. I wasn’t too happy, but I figure with time it will be alright.

My New Computer

Last night as part of transfers, we had to take all the suitcases to the airport and send them as packages (which consists of the company looking through all of them, and then we wrap them up basically in saran wrap. It sucks). There were 15 or 16, and we fit literally all of them in one motokar. It was awesome. Dennis the menace helps us so much. He is a stud. Last night when we got back, we realized that we left all of the keys in the office building. We called President, and…………… he left his in the office too hahahahah. QUE BIEN.

Lately, we have been having awesome meetings with the Parkers. They call them “Huddles” and we just plan things out. Last night we had one for over 2 hours, but it didn’t even feel like it. I really admire the way they they work as a “companionship” and the friendship that they have together. I hope to be like them one day. Being a mission president would be hard work.

Last night I “cowboyed up” (Jake Brown phrase) and asked President Parker about my “fate”. He told me straight up that my replacement would be here in 3 weeks. President Parker also said that he didn’t like the idea of somebody being in Iquitos so long to finish in the same city. I was kinda sad. I was expecting it, but the fact that it´s already here. Dang it. So, I’m really hoping I could get out to Tarapoto or Moyobamba where it is cold all the time hahaha. I think if I do get out there, parts of my Patriarchal Blessing would be fulfilled. So we'll see. I will be really sad to leave the office; I just feel that this is home. I have all my friends, and everything is just awesome here. It might be that we have 5 more weeks of video calls and then 6 weeks of just chatting and before you know it….. I'm home…….. Kinda sad, but what can you do? I´m just hoping that my replacement is who I want it to be hahah.

President Parker gave us a copy of the new Missionary Handbook, and IT IS AWESOME!