life in the office

Hello my family,
Sounds like you guys had an awesome missionary type week. One of my favorite parts of the mission is being able to see people make that first sacred covenant with the Lord. It´s such a joyous occasion and the spirit always testifies strongly of the goodness of the step they are taking. Super awesome! Thank you for sending the package, I´m excited to get it :) And thanks for taking care of the international driver´s permit, I´m really anxious to drive! I´ve missed it a lot. And driving here is a little crazy at times, but I´m a good driver ;) And we just got a brand new car here and I´m itching to take it for a spin. But in a completely safe way :) So to answer a few questions. Do I think I´m going to Morocco. Honest answer is, not likely. The area has been closed for over a year and it´s still a little dangerous for Americans to go there after that stupid Muhammad movie that guy made. But it would be really funny and kinda ironic if I did. I remember president Deere telling me ever since I got called to Valdepeñas that I´d get the chance to serve in a bigger ward. Still haven´t :) Valdepeñas: branch of about 25, Badajoz: branch of about 50, Mijas International: branch of about 20...I guess we´ll see what comes next :) But I love branches, I just love missionary work. It´s hard at points and at points I beat myself up because I don´t feel like I´m doing my best, but I know that I´m trying and that it´s just that dumb Satan guy that tries to convince me otherwise. So let me tell you about our schedule here in the office. We try to get out and teach whenever we can. The last few weeks have been really crazy because we received new missionaries and stuff so we hardly had any time to do anything other than be in the office figuring things out. But this is the normal (new) schedule for us. We get up like normal (most days. I´ll explain later) and have a normal morning up until about 10 o clock. Then we head into the office and work up until about 1ish. Then we take a little lunch (in the office) and continue working until 5ish. At that point we go to our piso to eat dinner (it´s super weird because we´re now on kinda an American schedule) and at 6:30-7ish we are working until the end of the night. Now that is our schedule, but there are times where it just doesn´t work out. There are times where we are in the office finishing things up to the early hours of the morning. From what I´ve heard there have been weeks where the Elders have had to be here until 2 in the morning to get things done before transfers. With 229 missionaries that are traveling all of the southern half of Spain, things get crazy. So when that happens they are usually commanded by the mission nurse to sleep in a little. Obviously they are getting the same amount of sleep as the other missionaries, just at a later time, but it´s super different. But we are just normal missionaries with a lot of responsibility :) Kinda crazy how much actually. But it´s interesting. It´s hard at moments, because it doesn´t feel like missionary work, but then you remember how absolutely vital it is that you are doing this so that everyone else can get their work done. Our main purpose is to save other missionaries proselyting time, and that allows us to fulfill our other purpose of bringing others unto Christ. And honestly there are many moments where I really love the office. It allows me to serve others all day every day, and even though there are moments of very high stress, it´s really nice to know that you are helping.
So you wanted to hear a little more about the obra de teatro. I´m not sure what else to tell you. Have you ever seen ¨My Turn on Earth¨. Because it was based off that. It was a grandmother reading a story to her grandchildren and then the rest of the people act it out. We used some of the songs from the musical but basically changed the whole thing. You remember that one church video we had with the kids and the worm and the bird that all sang primary songs? And there was the kid with cookies or something like that? Well some of the songs that are in that video are in the play too. Like "Once Upon a Time," and "Everybody Ought to Have a Body." But we had to translate it all and then I had to choreograph, direct and music direct it all! But luckily I had a co-director who was awesome! But that´s basically it.
So didn´t get much of a chance to tell you about my week, but it really wasn´t that interesting. We did explore an old abandoned castle type thing, which was pretty fun, but that´s about it. Other than that, just normal office/missionary work. But things are going great. Thanks for everything and keep me posted with details about everything. I want to see more pictures of Peter Pan when you can get them off facebook or whatever (who´s doing the photos now that Amy Paulson is gone?).
Love you all!
Elder Charlie Flint