Saturday, December 21, 2013

Happy Birthday in Chile

Dear Mom,
     Yes, I am in the office. I am the new financial secretary. My companion is Elder Wright (for the second time, he was with me in La Rioja). Grandma´s friend Joyce Condie is serving here too. She and her husband are training to be the new housing secretaries. I know that she has already emailed Grandma, telling her about how she met me. It´s pretty fun. My life revolves around the office. I get here when I need to do stuff, and I leave when the stuff is done. I would say that my schedule has been thrown off, but I don´t really have a schedule. I´m learning from Elder Wright how to be the finance secretary - reimbursing missionaries, making and approving payments, and receiving lots of phone calls from the missionaries about their accounts. I haven´t met Elder Holland yet. And yes, I did buy some pants today. Dockers actually. One pair is khaki, and the other is a shade of gray that is really hard to describe. Good news: I´m down to a size 40. Bad news: The pants are kind of long, so I´m going to ask Sister Condie to hem them for me. 
     I got my package on monday, and the first things that we ate were the pepperoni sticks and the hot chocolate. I´ll be waiting for the other package. I celebrated my birthday by waiting in line for a long time to get my new visa. That was fun. I doubt that Isaac is really that much like me. My new P-day is saturday, so keep those letters coming. I love you Mom,don´t forget that. I´ll be home in five months, so don´t worry. I´ll be back soon enough. 

Keep on smiling,
Elder Hjelm

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