October 17, 2016
Mom and Dad,
Things at the office are
going well. I did my rough inventory and got everything organized in a day. I've
probably mentioned it before, but after I'm done with these little projects my
jobs mostly consist of maintenance. I'm definitely doing more with president
than I've done before. We typically have office meeting once a week. He and the
Assistants had a lot of zone meetings last week and will have a few this week,
but after that I'll see President Stoddard at least once a week in the office.
Yes, President is a neo natal intensive care doctor (or a title close to that)
basically he is a doctor who worked with high risk babies. Elder Markle,
another Senior missionary in the office practiced internal medicine.
Spending time with the
senior couples in the office is one of my favorite parts of being an office
elder, picture a bunch of awesome grandparents, working together to make the
mission run and often spoiling missionaries who stop by with paperwork troubles
or to get other things done. The Kirks, who sent you a picture of me at the
airport a few months ago, are still here and will be here for my whole time
here.
Most things that I do in
the office are in English, I've occasionally proofread things written by my
companions, but they also write well and don't need much help. We're checking
if the area office will translate our mission website into German for us, but
if not then I might be starting that this week. (Not native, but a lot better
than not having a website in German).
The ward is in English
and we have people from all over the world here, typically only one
companionship goes to ward council. Yes, we were able to visit one of the
families who the relief society president is also visiting. They have been
really busy lately and move this week, but we'll be visiting them every other
week. The family is from Argentina and the mother only speaks Spanish, they're
really happy here though and work, language study, and other things are going
really well. The lesson and time with the Rs was also a lot of fun. We met with
Mr A too this week. He is actually from Columbia, just lived in Argentina for a
few years. He speaks English really well, but Spanish is the language of his
heart, so we teach in both. He is so open to the spirit and has a huge desire
to come closer to God, I love it when he prays at the end of lessons because I
can just feel his openness and sincerity with God.
Stay open and sincere,
Love you,
Hayden
Hadyen and his companions at the Frankfurt Train Station
Hadyen and his companions at the Frankfurt Train Station
This is at the Dom in Frankfurt
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