This week I started working in the mission office in the capital of Salta. The missionaries who are assigned to the office work from 9am until 5pm managing the housing, finances, medical, travel, and technology stuff in the mission, then go do normal missionary work in their teaching areas until 9pm.
My companion and I are the assistants to the mission president. That means that we deal with everything that isn’t a normal occurrence, such as planning for and presenting at meetings with other missionaries, helping missionaries arrive to and leave from the mission, and planning which missionaries will get moved to new teaching areas.
This past week, we received 19 new missionaries. My companion and I got to go with President Janzen and his wife to go pick up the new missionaries from the airport. It was so fun to watch them walk through the airport, see us, and get so excited that they had finally arrived. We then had a big meeting introducing the mission, had them try some Argentine food, then sent them on busses to their areas.
It’s been a crazy week, but I’ve been learning so much about getting stuff done and just loving people despite their flaws.
Thank you all for your love and support,
Elder Hansen
