Taichung Time
I'm
lovin' the office! It's a totally different atmosphere in here guys, I
wish that I could explain it, but you have to work in here yourself in
order to truly understand. I'm not sweatin' my butt off all day under
the sun, but I'm twice as tired here in the Office! As a Zone Leader, I
found so much satisfaction as I learned to love and serve all the
Missionaries in my Zone with all the energy I had. I can honestly say
that I fell deeply in love with the rural, empty streets of the
Zhongxing Zone. I'll always be able to look back at that time and know
that I gave it my all and left nothing left in the tank. What an
incredible feeling!
My last Saturday in Nantou was as normal as any
other Saturday. We rode all over and ran into awesome miracles! We got
stood up the day before by a new investigator, which we were pretty sad
about, but as we rode to the church on Saturday, he totally ran into us
on the road and wanted us to take him to the Chapel to sit and talk with
him and his Girlfriend!! He's a great guy and he has some real
interest!
That night, as we were going to pick up a less
active Young Man, I got the phone call. President called me around
5:00pm and told me that Jessi had gotten his Mission Call!!! I was so
grateful for President Blickenstaff calling me to chat with me about
Jessi! It was touching to know that he would call me in the middle of a
proselyting day to tell me such news... but that wasn't it. After he
broke that news to me, we chatted for a good five minutes and then I
told him that I had to go get this kid... he told me to wait
one more second, he had something else he wanted to tell me. He then
proceeded to tell me that I was needed in the Office to fill the seat of
Operations Manager. You better believe I didn't see that one coming
from anywhere. So I finished the day out and then started to pack up all
the stuff that I own so that I could move to the Office the following
Monday.
The Office. It's... different. We spent the whole
week down in Gaoxiong because of some Zone Conferences that we were
doing, so that was totally sweet. I got to hang around my old area, see
my friends down there, and see a bunch of Missionaries that I haven't
seen in FOREVER! Wow, it was a special experience to hang out down there
for 4 days! As Operations Manager, I and my companion, the Recorder,
are in charge of basically taking care of all the Missionaries and their
apartments. We spent the majority of the 4 days in Gaoxiong helping the
Missionaries buy things for their apartments and moving a bunch of
stuff. When we weren't helping out with Zone Conference or moving
apartments around, we were driving to our next appointment! So we are
pretty dang busy in the Office!
One of the most AWESOME parts of being in the Office
is the Apartment that we live in. More importantly, the weight set in
the apartment. We've got a full-on American Bench Press along with a
full set of dumbells (10-70 lbs) along with enough plates to get about
315 pounds. Let's just say that Elder E and I are hitting it HARD
right now, and we're both SO sore!! I'm totally LOVIN' it!! So no
worries pops, there's no way I'm getting fat here!
I'm so pumped guys. To
know that President trusts me with this just puts an unquenchable fire
in my chest! It makes me want to go out and scream out to everyone how
totally AWESOME the message is that we share... so I'm gonna go do it!
No more talk! I'm ready to get r' done!
Love you guys！ Talk to you next week!
Elder Noll
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