8:55 AM (4 hours ago)
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This is not going to be a normal letter today. I will start from the beginning and take you through the roler coster ride with me.
Since I have spoken with you on monday I have said good bye to my beloved area of Centenario. I then went to San Martin de Los Andes, a touristical lugar that is the same as Bariloche, but smaller version. I was excited because I was going to be the senior companion, and the second companion of Elder Perez, which is called greeny breaking, second only to training. I arrived on tuesday and was super tired, but super excited, we left to work that day. At night I organized all of my things, cleaned the pension, and went to bed as fast as I could, the same thing early in the morning to organize everything, by thursday organizing the apartment in the night and in the morning when we had a little time, everything was ready to work. During the day we would go out and visit all of the investigatores, and members it was great. I was super excited because they had lots of investigators, but E. Perez´s companion before didn´t know how to help them get babtised very well, and I was excited for that. E. Sydal, the trainer of E. Perez left to Neuquen to be a zone leader.
Thursday in the afternoon Elder Page, the assistant called me. We were in a lesson, so we hung up, ended the lesson and left to call him back. I knew something was wrong when he had called, but I thought that it would be something with Hna. Ortiz who just went home (she was in my district in Centenario). Elder Page told me to pack up my things immediatly, and go to the termanal that night I would be going to Neuquen, and the next day to Trelew to be a Zone leader. I asked him very confused if he was shure, he said he was shure and that Pres. Lovell had been praying very hard and I had to go. Mara a member who was with us in the visit, after the call, saw that I was nervous, or something, because she began to tell me her story, about how she was an awesome missionary, and her husband was to. He was an assistant two times, went home and was asked to serve again to be assistant again, but after they got married he showed a different side of him. He was a pornagraphy adict since he was 9 years old, even on the mission, he beat her to the point she had to go the hopital several times, now they are divorced. That story scared me.
The first thing I did was to get my ticket in the bus stop, then we ran (all of this running) to the apartment to take algunas photos. I was on a super what do I need to do before I leave adrenaline rush, and Elder Perez was freaking out. He is from Mendoza who is going to Mexico for his mission. He has to wait several months for the visa to enter mexico and is doing that part of the mission here. He was freaking out, because we had already become good friends, and he was worried about the Elder who was going there. What happened was the Zone leaders in Trelew had made a mistake and President took them both out and they had become zone leaders in other zones, but after an interview with the president they became senior companions no mas. One went to where I was and the other in another place. So we went running to the pension to look for the camera to take a few pictures while there was still sun light. I had said to my self earlier, "self, finally you are going to a pretty place," now I am back in Trelew. So we ran around taking pictures of the mountians for 20min, like I had said to elder Perez. Then we came back and I backed all of my things as fast as I could, because the bus was going to leave that night at 12:00 at night. Then the other Elders Mendoza, and Frances came over to meet me and also to say good bye. Elder Frances was in the MTC at the same time as me and we were excited to be together again. We left for the Terminal, at 11:00 at night a little early, because I had packed so fast and to take a few pictures of centro. Mara the only member I had known, and her brother the bishop and her parents all came to say good bye to me, they even bought me something for the trip. Really they are they best members that I have seen yet in the mission.
On the trip to Neuquen I did not sleep very well, I spent the whole night thinking of what was going to happen. I arrived in Neuquen the next day without sleep, but still with adrenelin. All of the Elders who had said good bye to me there in Neuquen were there to recieve me again, Elders Jara, Taylor, and Clark. We left my bags in some lockers in the terminal, and I left to go work with the new Zone leader and Elder Clark. In this "emergency transfer" they had called two new zone leaders him and me, but he had already been district leader, and trained, niether of which I had done, I was only senior companion for two days. Dad I need your words of wisdom. Then that night we went back to the terminal to send me off to trelew at 10:00 in the night. Finally after a few days of bad sleep and no sleep I got to rest a little on the bus to trelew. On the bus ride to Trelew I passed for every single one of my old areas.
The only thing that comforted me about this very sudden change, was that I was going to be with Elder Salines, my zone leader in Neuquen, who is an awesome, humble, but super capable, smart chilean. We are opening the area here, because the two old zone leaders are gone. The same thing we had to do with Elder Hernandez in Confluencia. President Lovell is making many changes, most of all in the leadership, to answer dads question from last week. Now we have arrived in this zone and not only inherited an area to open, but a zone that is not animated. Tomarrow we have a zone meeting, in which I have to give a tiller, shop, about our setting apart to be missionaries. Wow, what I am the most worried about is how I am going to be able to gain the confidence of the missionaries, who have more time than I do, or more expirence, what can I say to them.
Also the problems with the ward. The old elders didn´t work much here and the area is pretty much dead. The elders were good "friends" with the young women, and had lost the respect of the members. For example when I arrived there were already girls smiling at me in the sacrament meeting, and groups of girls forming around us in between classes. We decided before had that we were going to be super formal, and strict with the rules, because problems like those that have already happened arise.
One more thing that I must share. I called president when I arrived in Trelew for little details, but really I wanted to ask him a personal question. I tried to ask in spanish so that my companion could understand and listen, but he wasn´t understanding. So I asked in english, "President I know that if this problem hadn´t happened I wouldn´t be here, but I want to know why I am here?" He told me something that I know he was inspired to tel me, because it was what I was thinking, but I had not said it. I was also worried that my companion was going to be a super zone leader, and I would just be the fill in companion, because he needed someone obedient with him. He said, Elder Evans, "your not a jounior companion now, your not just a fill in, yoru are a zone leader, i don´t know exactly why your there but you are there for a reason, and I need you there."
There is much to be done. I have not changed, only my work load has changed. I must leave. I love you all. Mom and Lillian I am righting you for your birthday already.
Corezoncitos Elder Dallin Evans
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