The Office

Hey all! hope everyone's doing well.. i just lost my last email i was writing so you'll have to do without the proper grammar and stuff.. we'll.. I'll try.. so this past week has not been too fruitful but we finally have a baptism coming up the week before transfers! Bradley.. a way cool guy, and a blessing too because he is marrying a member!.. so that's cool!

Well.. there is a reason why the work was not as productive perhaps as it could have been.. and its a story of the legendary mission office.. and attic of names!.. So anyway, Elder Burrows and I were working on Wednesday morning just tracting when we got a call from Elder Moon (senior elder) and he told me that he had a one time offer for me. The computers at the office were having a major problem and so they needed Elder Littlefield (the other biking elder in Sumter, who happens to be a smart computer guy, but also pretty much one of the coolest Elders I've met yet.. way funny normal guy..) to go and see if he could fix the problem.. So they wanted me to go with him. So that morning we headed back to the apartments and went on exchanges while Elder Littlefield and I waited for the Moons (senior couple) to come pick us up and drive us down to the Mission Office in Columbia (about an hour away).. During all of this I had mixed feelings about the subject cause yeah, I happen to know things about computers.. and well, generally If you go to the office you don't really want anyone to know you have some computer "skills".. anyway, at length we arrived and Elder Littlefield went to work and I met the cool senior sisters who work in the office, as well as the current office elders (Elder Robinson from my MTC district is a current office Elder, so that was cool). Anyway I helped out now and then and eventually we were both working on the problem.. we worked all day and spent the night with the office elders at their apartment and then went back to work early on Thursday morning around 8:30ish.. we pretty much found a good solution and had the computers fixed around 9:30 in the morning but then other problems arose and things broke again.. so we ended up working all day again, but got it fixed and stuff.. It was cool to be there but also some of the boringest two days on my mission (office elders have a bit of a different job.. this is why i hope not really to serve there, but if i do i decided i will be one of the best office elders i can and actually get some baptisms..) Anyway the office is a cool place and actually kinda fun, and the office elders have a way cool apartment too... I got to talk with president mcconkie and also help him do some stuff on his computer for awhile (mistake?), also I took the liberty of siting in his chair when it was just us there.. heh.. and as for the attic, well there is an attic in the office that is full of names of missionaries all the way back to like 1993, so that was cool.. i put my name in there.. its cool cause you have to know "the secrets of the office" to have your name up there.. so yeah i went up there and wrote mine down.. and eventually we made it back to Sumter in a car Elder Moon let us drive down and we got home around 8:30ish that night.. so that trip kinda slowed the work down.. but it worked out getting another car here in Sumter because ours just broke two days ago, so we just got it towed this morning and have a new car now so that was a cool blessing in disguises.. anywho! I don't have a whole lot of time.. stinking computer messed up my last email!... well i love you all! And miss you guys too! oh also the weather is still cold here and I'm pretty much ready for that to go.. anyway love ya!! thank you for your emails and for everything you guys do! keep the streets clean.. i guess!

-Elder McMurry