May 14, 2011

HELLO from New York!!!

I am EXHAUSTED! I have NOT had adequate SLEEP!!!...
So...! On Wednesday, Elder McMullin and myself got assigned to be the new assistants to President Smith (we call them Apes) and they put us to WORK man! Between tuesday and today I have proabably had a total of 17 hours of sleep and have put on HUNDREDS of miles onto the truck we drive and the HUGE Mission 14 passenger van!!
It was so cool picking up the new Missionaries from Westchester County Airport- I remember my dad told me he used to land and take off from there all the time when he flew for Skaggs! We had MORE incoming missionaries than we have ever had at one time- 20 of them! It was crazy! MOST were Spanish Elders.. 1 Chinese sister and 2 for the English program- I knew one of those! Elder Joshua Stevens from Farmington- he went to South Davis with me and then to Woods Cross! WX represent! I went up to him at the airport and said "you look SO familiar!" He said "BRANDON!" Haha we remembered having Spanish together in Mrs. Vialpando's class 9th grade- and he knew Connor! We loaded them (and their 60 suitcases... 3x each) into the big vans and trucks (we rented a uhaul for all the luggage) and then took them all to the Mission Home! Transfers were on Wednesday ALL DAY and then we drove all the Missionaries going HOME to Laguardia on Thursday morning...! In addition, we've had to make several special errands to the city and back... SO starting on Tuesday morning and ending last night, we went... from... Eastchester to Westchester Airport to Scarsdale to Yonkers to Scarsdale to the Bronx to Ossining to the Bronx to Scarsdale to Yonkers to Eastchester to Scarsdale to LaGuardia (Queens) to Scarsdale to Eastchester to 32nd ST in Manhattan to the Bronx to Scarsdale to Eastchester! AHH! So much GASOLINE! haha! And we are headed down to CHINATOWN soon to drop off some supplies to the Missionaries down there. I am SO excited to be companions with Elder McMullin! He's so great! We were in the same district together down in Kingsbridge! We are now in the White Plains and Scarsdale Spanish area! SO, I'm still in the little wonderful Spanish Branch, Westchester 3rd! Hooray!

Life is going well! It's Busy! But great!
The Church is TRUE!

All my Love,
Elder Hellberg