During office meeting President made a cryptic remark - although he´s mentioned many times that he doesn´t want me to finish in the office, he´s also told me that that´s probably what´ll happen. But then, on Wednesday, he said that he might have to send me out because a missionary was having a hard time adjusting. They didn´t want him to go home, but he send himself home. Although I really wanted to get out and work (because Elder Gustafson has already taken my whole job) I didn´t want to hope it happened because that would mean somebody else had to go home. And the mission has meant the world for me - I couldn´t actively look for somebody else to leave.
But then - this missionary decided to stay. And ANOTHER missionary did something stupid and went home. So President called me into his office and said, "Elder Maxfield, I need you to go out of the office." At this point I was so excited - finish my last four weeks doing more than office work! And then, President said, "We´re going to send you to Gijón." GIJÓN!! For those of you who know your Spanish geography (Squid) that´s about 20m away from OVIEDO. WHERE I SERVED. Yes, I am free to hoe to the end of the row and give these last four weeks my all in a place that I already know and love. I think the Lord has blessed me a lot with this opportunity. I am so excited and I´m certainly not going to let it go to waste. Not that I´ve wasted my mission, but this is certainly going to be more fulfilling than the office. I´ll be able to finish strong here. I am so excited. My companion is Elder Lords, an excellent missionary from Idaho. It was his companion that did the stupid thing, so I´m hoping that we can get some work done.
It was a bummer to leave the members and missionaries in San Sebastián, but this is an opportunity that I never could have expected. I feel so blessed and so lucky.
So it wasn´t that normal of a week at all :)
It´s kinda hard to express how I feel right now. I had almost resigned myself to not getting much done these last weeks. Sure, I was going to work and not die - but I was already doing a bunch of sitting around while my companions worked with not much to do. I kinda felt que sobraba yo. Not sure how to say that. I was certain I was going to finish normalito, just keeping things going and slowly edging myself out. It was going to be hard to not die. Every day you were getting closer (geographically and time-ly) and I was losing responsibilities. Not exactly hard, but I want to finish on the right trajectory.
It´s like the Lord said, "I have something else planned for you. Now do your best, get all the gas out, because you still had something left. This will be your last chance to do missionary work without a serious distraction. You´ve done well until now - but this is my blessing to you to leave it all on the track. It´s going to be hard to not give up, because this job will be harder than the past and you´ve got an expiration date that is closer than ever. But I need you to put your heart in it and give it your all, this one last time. Now GO."
I am so excited. So, more info on ASTURIAS in the coming weeks.
Elder Maxfield
P.S. I ordered the ECON books. I sure hope they show up before you do. Not sure there´s anymore administrative tasks. How many maletas are we sending home vía sending them and not carrying them? One or two? How much stuff do I have to ditch?
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