Greeting sports fans (I may or may not have taken that from our dear friend Holden)
Surprise! I am sorry that I haven't been writing so much these last few weeks, but I have been
pretty on the go and we have a little bit of time left at the end of our P-day today, so I decided to
write y'all! Yay! Unfortunately, not much has happened this last week, as far as the work goes
in Soldati. But I have good spirits nonetheless. =)
We didn't have much time to work this week because the mission decided to put on a choir
again, and they called me to be in it! Again... It was super fun, I'm always up for a good gig or
two, but we literally had less than ten days to put it on, so I put my SUBE card (public transit
card) to the SUBE scanners, hopped on some buses, subways, and trains and made a couple
trips to the mission offices for some good clean singing fun for hours and hours. I'm pretty sure
that's not how my companion wanted to spend his last week, but he was a good sport and put
up with it. It was a pretty cool idea of a devotional that we did. It was a lesson about the
Restoration, and there is a missionary here that is super musically talented and rearranged
some church songs and even made one up for the event. So yeah! It turned out pretty cool!
We got to go do my companion's final interview with Presidente Ayre this week. It was actually
kind of crazy because my companion need to be in the interview in the mission house while I
had choir practice in the mission office. I ended up finishing before my companion, and got to
chill with the secretaries for a few hours. It was fun because I am pretty good friends with a lot
of them, and got to see the behind-the-scenes of the mission, which consists of comfy chairs
and computer screens. But man do they work! There is one elder that has been in the office for
seven and a half months, and when he had a few minutes to go do some personal study time,
the poor dear fell asleep while reading! They are always in the office until laaaaaaaate and I
really appreciate all they do to keep the mission running.
My companion is officially dead now. I got into a remis (it's like a taxi) like an hour ago, so now I
am in a trio with the other elders in the villa! Elder Millar from California and is hijo, Elder
Lucas from Guatemala. President told me I should be getting another companion in a few days,
but for the time being I am back to the trio life. =)
And the saddest news of the week is that our Presidente and Hermana Ayre are going home
this week. They have finished their three years of service and it's time to pack the bags and get
out of here. I have grown to love them so much and really appreciate all the they did for the
mission. I got to say goodbye to them yesterday at the devotional we did, and I made sure to
invite them to my wedding, whenever I find my wife. =) Hermana Ayre told me that when I get
home we will all have to go and eat dinner together. They are really like a second pair of
parents! I will miss them but I am also excited to get to know our new president and his wife
this week, Presidente and Hermana Smith. And Allison and Steve, You have to promise me you
will NOT come to visit until AFTER I finish. Do you hear me???? =)
Love you all and hope you have a great week. Do something nice for a stranger!
See you all soon enough!
Elder Hardcastle =)
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