Mission Office-Week One

Hello World!!!

This past week, I arrived at the mission office. My new companion is Elder Arscott from Utah. He is the old Executive Secretary and he will be training me on how everything goes here for the next three weeks. I will just say that now that I am in the office, I am seeing a whole 360 view of the mission. It is really different than what I am use to seeing. However, I am loving it. The other two secretaries that we work with are Elder Cappi (from São Paulo) and Elder Lira (from Pará and he was also my first companion in the field). I am excited to get to be with him again. 

Here is what I am responsible for doing... I am in charge of buying all the materials that we need in the mission, buying airplane flights for everyone, renovation of visas for all the missionaries from other countries, etc. It is a lot of work, but I am loving it a lot. 

The highlights of the week:

• Zone conference for all the zones in the mission. I got to see all my old companions and all my friends in the mission. 
• We made BBQ at our apartment one night that was super good.
• We went to the temple on Saturday, which was really good because it has been a while since my last time.
• I taught the Restoration in Spanish. We are teaching a family in this ward that are from Venezuela. They have been in Brazil for one month. The speak very very little Portuguese. Elder Arscott speaks a good amount of Spanish. After our first lesson there, I was completely lost, but the Arscott taught me the pronouns and some other stuff. The next day we went back, I was able to testify and respond their questions all in Spanish. I know that the gift of tongues is real. I feel comfortable saying that I speak Spanish now. It was a really cool experiences. I know that Heavenly Father uses our talents to do His will.

Thank you all for writing. Love and miss you all lots.

Com amor,

Elder Pinkney

P.S. My P-day is now Saturday because I am in the office. I will only be able to write on this day.