Week 19 - Mexico City - The Office Season 1 Ep 1 - October 6, 2025
What's up everyone!
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| Busy in the office |
First, the secretaries:
Elder Murri (My trainer/Executive Secretary)
Elder Neilsen (Financial Secretary)
Elder Luna (Housing Secretary)
Elder Mendoza (Lunas replacement)
Elder Valladares (Reference secretary)
I love those guys so much!
Monday
Last Monday I went to my new area. Normally we move on Tuesdays, but the secretaries are super busy during transfers so I had to leave early.
I said bye to Hickey and then got in the car... alone. Super weird, but I talked to the driver in Spanish the whole time, which was sick. When I got to the house I got out and unloaded all of my stuff and then just sat there outside. I had not been given any instructions so I had no idea if I was even in the right place. I sat there for probably 15 minutes until someone walked out of the building. I asked her if she knew where the missionaries lived and she was super awesome and helped me get everything in the building and told me what floor to go to. W neighbor! I spent that night talking to all of the missionaries that would be going home the next day. I didn't get to bed till really late. Oops. It seems like that's just how it is here though.
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| Saying goodbye to Elder Hickey |
Tuesday
I woke up at about 5 to go to the airport with all the missionaries that are headed home. Elder Murri, the secretary I'm replacing, showed me what to do and then left me and Elder Nielsen, the other secretary (and my new comp for the next 6 months), to figure things out because he had to figure out some issues that arose with one missionary that we were sending home. So here we were in the airport with no idea what we were doing. Luckily it's not that hard to print a boarding pass and take missionaries to their terminal, but it was still like, oh crap I have to do this now! Then after we got everyone home, we went to the offices and I started my first day of work. Elder Murri is awesome and is teaching me so well.
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| Me, Elder Murri (my trainer, who I'm replacing) and Elder Neilsen, my comp/finance secretary |
I have to be real though I have no idea what he taught me the first day because I was so tired. That night we went home and just had fun talking.
There are 6 secretaries in the house right now because 2 new ones are being trained. It's such a party. It's super fun because there are 3 native secretaries so I get to practice my Spanish a lot and they get to practice their English.
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| Elders Murri, Valladares, Mendoza, Luna, Robinson, Neilsen |
Wednesday
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| View from the roof of my apartment in the city |
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| Setting up for the new missionaries! |
Thursday
I met the district and the zone. They seem super chill! After that we went back to the offices. 
I learned how to prep for migration and how to order all of the supplies for the mission. It's crazy how much I'm going to have to do. Now, if that doesn't sound fun to you, remember that the office is full of 6, 19-year-olds, so we mess with each other from time to time. 
If that still doesn't sound fun to you then uh, yeah, I can't blame you.
Friday
I got locked out of my church account. 
Apparently I am in the church system as a part of the mission presidency now so my church account requires 2 factor authentication and something got messed up so I got completely locked out. After a few phone calls we got it fixed, but it was a process. After that I just did some little things. All of the missionaries send us little things they need help with all the time and it's our job to respond and make sure we help them if we can. After that I booked flights. I love booking flights. It's fun to figure out what works best for the missionaries going home. It's also funny to text the missionaries and have them freak out because they aren't ready to go home yet!
Saturday
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| Got a package from mom and Grandma Warner. |
Conference. 
We synced our computers so that we could have surround sound general conference. It was sick. So many good talks! It's actually the best to get to watch conference on the mission.
It was a very different experience. After conference we booked more flights!
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| Made a paperclip necklace during conference. |
2 conference 2 furious. So awesome. I loved President Oaks' talk.
After that we did more little things 
and sent out the mission's monthly email/newsletter. That was weird. I remember being in the CCM and getting it from Elder Murri and now here I am taking it over. After that we checked that we had everything we needed for the next day for the missionaries that needed to get through migration.
Then we went home and waited for those missionaries to show up at our house. We have people stay at our house a lot, especially if they have something they need to do here in the city.
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| We found a box of really old broken cell phones. |
Monday
Today we went to migration. I'm currently sitting outside the building with Murri hoping that all the missionaries make it through okay and that I didn't mess up their documents. After we're done, we're going to go to Costco.
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| On our Costco run. |
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| Ran into Elder Garner, my CCM comp while we were out in the city today! |
"Whenever I'm about to do something, I think, 'would an idiot do that?' and if they would, I do not do that thing" - Dwight Schrute
That's it for this week!
Watch conference if you didn't. All of the talks were fire!
Love you all!
-Elder Robinson
*From our phone call.
Explanation of the migration process: Each missionary gets a temporary resident visa from the Mexican consulate in their home country. Sam got his in Arizona about a month before he started his mission. Once they get to Mexico, they have to report to the National Migration Institute within 30 days. At the migration office, they exchange their temporary visa for a temporary resident card which allows them to stay in the country for one year. So, they'll all repeat the process one year in. Sam will help get all the paperwork ready for each missionary to take to the migration office.
Super random crazy story. Before Sam left, he went through all our pictures and picked some to take with him in a little photo book. Today, he had a bunch of missionaries at his apartment who did their migration process this morning. One of the missionaries was looking through Sam's photo book and noticed a few mountain bike pictures. This missionary also raced on his own mountain bike team from Farmington high school, so they started talking about mountain biking. Then they looked at Sam's pictures and tried to decide what races they were from. They flipped to this picture and were trying to decide what race it was, when the other missionary started grinning.
That is Sam in front. The missionary pointed to the next rider behind Sam and said, "That's me!". In a mountain bike race, the parents only see their rider 4-5 times for a few seconds throughout an hour-and-a-half long ride. The riders are constantly changing positions. So the fact that we even took this picture is wild. Then, of all the hundreds of mountain bike photos we have of Sam, he picked this one to put in his little mission photo book, and it just happened to include a rider from another school, who would also one day serve in the same mission as Sam, and Sam would just happen to get assigned to be the executive secretary, and would just happen to take this elder to migration, and he would just happen to end up at Sam's apartment for the afternoon, and they would just happen to be looking through Sam's photo book and spot each other. Or maybe it didn't all just happen :) Feels like a God wink letting them each know they are right where they are meant to be!
Super random crazy story. Before Sam left, he went through all our pictures and picked some to take with him in a little photo book. Today, he had a bunch of missionaries at his apartment who did their migration process this morning. One of the missionaries was looking through Sam's photo book and noticed a few mountain bike pictures. This missionary also raced on his own mountain bike team from Farmington high school, so they started talking about mountain biking. Then they looked at Sam's pictures and tried to decide what races they were from. They flipped to this picture and were trying to decide what race it was, when the other missionary started grinning.
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| Elder Freebairn and Elder Robinson before they were elders. |
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