The Changing of the Guard

04-07-2015

Well, this week was anything but boring. 

On Monday, before our last day in the office with President and Sister Robinson, we met them at the city hall in Leidschendam to sign them out. After, we returned to the office to clean up a bit for the Bunnells. We finalised plans for the switch of presidents and reviewed a few things for transfers. Instead of Sister Robison making us lunch, we ate at Oudt Leyden for one last time all together. It has been a good 17 months.

The next day, we waited around until President and Sister Bunnell were picked up at the airport and driven to the office. We met them there and introduced ourselves and straightaway (I at least) started setting up their mobile devices. They did not stay long before they all went to the mission home to look around there. Just before we went out that evening, the Robinsons  dropped by the office to say goodbye to us and the Robisons. Sister Robinson shed a tear as she bade us farewell. They will be missed.

The following morning, the Robinsons flew home and we signed the Bunnells into Leidschendam and took them to Rijswijk for that legality stuff. It is weird to think that President Bunnell is now the mission president. What a change it is. After dropping them back off at their home (since they were going to Breda and then Amsterdam later), we just got back to work. I spent most of the day preparing the office computers for the replacement the next day; mainly backing stuff up and making sure that the computers were accessible/removable.

Thursday was the day. Two workers from the Area Office in Frankfurt came to replace 5 of the office computers with fresh ones (and smaller too). It took them most of the day to get everything set up, especially with the printer and NAS box. But when they were done, everything was in much better shape. It's just a pity that they had to take all the old computers with them. I will have to share with the Assistants on Monday, but I think having a good computer the rest of the week will make up for that. We'll manage somehow, haha.

No Belgium trip on Friday, which was probably good, since that allowed us to get our systems back up and running as they were before. We did, however, bring the sandwiches to mission leader council and help set up the printer. 

Today, we played football, and there were 8 of us, which was a better turnout than it has been in a while. I enjoyed it more than last time, as well. This afternoon, we are going to go spend time with our ward mission leader and he's going to teach us how to clean herring. Sounds exciting, haha.

It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure. - Ernie Harwell