Elder Jordan Vanderlinden's Mission: Emailing on saturday... Big news‏

So ya I'm not in Zambia anymore. I'm back in Harare. Which kinda sucks but is also really powerful. I got emergency transfered here on thursday. I got a call from Pres. Dube on Tuesday morning right after we woke up and he told me. The reason is because we have a couple here in the office that for medical reasons need to go back to the states. And they are the ones that pretty much run the office.
Because of that I have a new companion now. His name is Elder Baird. He's pretty sweet, he's from Idaho Falls. He's only got 3 months left on mission. But he's going to handle the front office and getting people here in the mission VISA's and TEP's. And as for me I've been called to be the financial secretary for the mission. So basically I've become an accountant. All the money that goes through the mission goes through me and I have to approve everything. Any money used in the mission I give out. And everything is done in cash. Lots of cash! It's crazy! But it's making me kinda nervous but it's also a big compliment because that is a HUGE responsibility. And it really shows the trust they have for me. And I've only been out in the field 4 1/2 weeks. They pulled me out of my first xfer to come do this.
We now stay in the transfer house. The transfer house is powerful, we stay there with the Harare North Zone leaders and the APs. The AP's are excited to finally have someone to share a p day with. Also the xfer house has a WASHING MACHINE!!!!! And hot water! Yay for washing machine and hot showers again!!!!!!! You don't know how powerful it is! But mission is really powerful! Oh Elder Baird also has a waffle maker! I'll take a picture next time and show you. It's amazing how small things like that become a big deal.
So we drive a Toyota Hilux now. It's actually really nice. It's kinda like a Tacoma if it was diesel, 4 door and slightly bigger. Oh and you're not a DB if you drive one. They have alot of them here. Today's my day to drive we just got it yesterday. So we'll see how I do on the wrong side....
So we are going to be dang busy. We're going to be in the office all day and then after 5 we will go out and teach. We'll be in an area called Mbare. We met with the Bishop last night and he is really excited to have us there. They haven't had dedicated missionaries in that area for like 6 years. Even when we went and saw him last night he gave us 6 referals of people who just showed up at church on sunday. So needless to say we are going to have no time. We'll be teaching lessons all night every night. That area is going to be powerful. I'm really excited. These next few months are going to be really hectic and really fun. Because mission is really powerful and is fun. You do alot of cool things.
I'm sad I had to leave Lilanda early. We had some baptisms on the 7th coming up that I'm going to miss but it'll be good. That area will be taken care of.
But ya we'll have to see what happens here in the next week. Oh ya, we think we're going to start a new hit TV series it's going to be called The Mission Office. It'll be just like The Office but like 50 times more spiritual and just as funny. Because we have so many characters here haha XD anyways we thought that was funny here. But that's all I have for now. I emailed on Monday so that's what's happened in 5 days. Talk to you all next week.
~Elder JV

Pictures Finally‏

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