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| I love America. How weird is this? In the Atlanta airport, my blue duffle bag never came out of the belt...I had to go to the baggage claim office to fill out a form with my address and everything. They told me my bag was probably put on another airplane. I was mad. But then, at 6:30 in the morning, I open my front door to discover: 
HOLY COW! They brought my bag and just left it here. | | |
| This is A-Dawg typing.
I'm home...finally.
A few hours ago I was released from my mission.
Wowzers. No puedo creer.
I suppose I can take this opportunity to share my...little travel ordeal.
This is my little traveling party. We all completely our two-year (18 months for the sister missionaries) mission in Uruguay. On Wednesday we came to the mission home with all our stuff...
It took me forever to sort out my luggage.
We ate dinner together. Yum.
We got on our plane Thursday evening in the airport in Montevideo...
It was a nice flight...
That's a nice little night shot over Montevideo.
Our first flight was to Buenos Aires. When we got there, the place was all fogged up. They had zero visibility. We had to sit in the plane for four hours, just to wait for them to send a bus to take us out. When we arrived to the airport, they informed that our flight had been canceled. In fact, all the flights had been canceled. They closed down the whole airport! We were...stranded.
Dang. We had nowhere to go for the night...so we slept the same way our fellow travelers...
On the floor! With our backpacks as pillows! It was even more uncomfortable than it looks.
Ouch.
Anyways, on the morrow, we were rescued by a Church travel agent who helped us reschedule our flights, and took us down to the Argentine MTC:
We have our own in Provo, Utah. This is the MTC for the latino missionaries serving in the Uruguay, Paraguay, and Argentina.
This is like their world map.
They gave some nice little rooms:
Just like our MTC.
I ate lunch with some cool latino missionaries!
Buen provecho!
This coolest thing about the Buenos Aires MTC, is that it's right next to...
The Argentina Temple!!!
We were allowed to do a session Saturday morning:
It was awesome.
That same evening, I took a flight from Buenos Aires to Miami, then Miami to Atlanta...which is where I met with my parents. We drove up to the stake center in Augusta, where I was released by my stake president:
My mission is over. I'm a returned-missionary. Wow.
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| Elder Alex Kolkena was due home today. Unfortunately, his flight from Buenos Aires to Miami was canceled due to heavy fog, delaying his return 48 hours. Elder Kolkena is now scheduled to arrive in Augusta Sunday afternoon at 2 PM. Family and friends are welcome to telephone Alex Sunday afternoon or evening at (706) 726-5047.
Roger Kolkena
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| Dear Friends and Family, I hope y'all enjoy this...my last message from URUGUAY! On Friday we spent all day helping out at the house of the Collazo family. Hermana Collazo is our branch's Young Women's President, the sister of our Primary President, and the sister-in-law of the Branch President...and her husband is a counselor in the Elder's Quorum Presidency. Hehe, it's funny how everyone's somehow related in such a small branch. Anyways, Elder Samaniego and I chopped tons of firewood, it was fun. We also went to Carmen's house and helped her out with some yardwork. We spent all day yesterday cleaning out our house and packing up. I'm leaving behind ALL my clothes (except the ones I have on) for Emilio. I'm very excited about my homecoming! See y'all in two days! Elder Kolkena 
All Bundled up 
Chopping firewood 
Hanging out with Cono, Hermana Collazo's little bro 
Hard at work 
Brrr...I bet that sheep is cold 
Our last Zone photo | | |
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