"Do you not know that I have had diarrhea since the Easters?!?" Jejejejeje
But seriously. It's bad. Anyways, Feliz Pascua!! It's been one heck of a week! I legit have so many stories, it's pretty awesome. First things first, the new companion. Elder Barney is so awesome!!! We click so well, and I love the way he teaches. It's a lot easier to work with him! Not necessarily because I didn't like my other comps, but I just really enjoy working with Elder Barney.
It's funny sometimes, because we are almost the same person! He's just a bit more nutty! But we react the same way to everything, have a very similar sense of humor, and have the same style of teaching and contacting and working and everything. It's awesome. He is technically the compañero mayor (senior fellow), because he has more time than me, but oh well. He talks spanish very very well. He has the Chilean accent down! We have a goal to only talk in spanish, so I am hoping to learn that from him. It's not that I'm not clear when I speak, but the Chilean accent is so destinct, there are times when the Chileans don't understand me simply because their spanish sucks jajaja! It's weird. I have to learn the language, and then basically forget it and learn Chilean. It's dope. The other night, we were in bed, and got woken up at 4:30 in the morning. Our beds are upstairs, with our closets, and everything else is downstairs. But Elder Barney woke me up, and said 'Hey, listen!' So I did, and I heard stuff shuffling and boxes crashing. We stare at each other, and we both realized... somebody was in our house!!! We sat there for a while wondering what to do, and we decided to go confront the person. The whole while we were just listening to them go through our stuff. But then we get up quietly, and tip-toe to the stairs. We didn't have anything in our hands or anything, we were going just fists! So we count down, and run down the stairs! Screaming and yelling like crazy people! We gave it our most scary, gutteral sounds we could muster! We run all over the place, and see a shape moving in the darkness, and I managed to flip on the lights... it was a cat... a freaking cat got in through our broken window and was eating our garbage... unbelievable!!! Elder Barney was completely shell shocked jaja! He was so afraid, and after that, it legit shocked him. His brain wasn't right for the next day, it was all he could think about. But it was kinda funny. Freaking gatos (cats).
It's funny sometimes, because we are almost the same person! He's just a bit more nutty! But we react the same way to everything, have a very similar sense of humor, and have the same style of teaching and contacting and working and everything. It's awesome. He is technically the compañero mayor (senior fellow), because he has more time than me, but oh well. He talks spanish very very well. He has the Chilean accent down! We have a goal to only talk in spanish, so I am hoping to learn that from him. It's not that I'm not clear when I speak, but the Chilean accent is so destinct, there are times when the Chileans don't understand me simply because their spanish sucks jajaja! It's weird. I have to learn the language, and then basically forget it and learn Chilean. It's dope. The other night, we were in bed, and got woken up at 4:30 in the morning. Our beds are upstairs, with our closets, and everything else is downstairs. But Elder Barney woke me up, and said 'Hey, listen!' So I did, and I heard stuff shuffling and boxes crashing. We stare at each other, and we both realized... somebody was in our house!!! We sat there for a while wondering what to do, and we decided to go confront the person. The whole while we were just listening to them go through our stuff. But then we get up quietly, and tip-toe to the stairs. We didn't have anything in our hands or anything, we were going just fists! So we count down, and run down the stairs! Screaming and yelling like crazy people! We gave it our most scary, gutteral sounds we could muster! We run all over the place, and see a shape moving in the darkness, and I managed to flip on the lights... it was a cat... a freaking cat got in through our broken window and was eating our garbage... unbelievable!!! Elder Barney was completely shell shocked jaja! He was so afraid, and after that, it legit shocked him. His brain wasn't right for the next day, it was all he could think about. But it was kinda funny. Freaking gatos (cats).
Our investigators are kinda iffy right now. It's hard now, because Elder Barney and I are pretty new here. But we are finding a lot of new people, which is great! Oh my gosh listen to this!!! We were walking in Pica and contacting people in the street, when we see this one kid who looked pretty cool so we began talking to him! The first thing he tells us is that he's Haitian, and his Spanish is chanta. (chanta=sucky, like it sucks). I was trying to remember what language they speak there, but then he spits out something that I recognized from school! So in what was probably the worst accent ever, I say 'C'est bien! Je parle Francais aussi!!' Jaja, the French classes in school finally paid off! I was able to remember a lot of stuff, and we talked for a bit in French. I honestly think the Gift of Toungues was the only reason I was able to do that. But it was so awesome! We are going to pass for him eventually, when he has time off from work. Christiaan... I need your help jajaja!
That same day in Pica, we were super excited, because there was going to be a youth activity in our branch back in Pozo. We were invited, because we were bringing an investigator, and we were stoked. We were going to play fútbol with all the kids! It was going to be awesome! But then, things went super bad for us in Pica. Not bad for us, I guess, but things that were keeping us from the activity. We weren't able to leave Pica until super late, which is kinda bad, because it's an hour or so from Pozo. But then while we were in the bus, the driver turned out to be basura (trash)! He was slow as crap, and was just bad. And then, on top of that, there was crazy traffic for la semana santa (The Holy Week)! There's a crazy big Catholic town in between Pozo and Pica called La Tirana, where tons of catholic people meet for holidays and do crazy demon dances. I don't know, it's weird, just look up dance at La Tirana. They dress up crazy and put on demon masks and dance. But anyways, there were a ton of people there for the week of easter. The entire week is big here. They celebrate the whole week. But anyways, because of that, there was a ton of traffic that also slowed us down. And also, we had to wait a ton for some construction on the road. So we got back way too late for the game, and we were honestly really bummed, a little mad. So we decided to go back to the house, for some reason I can't remember, which is weird because we usually don't, we just go straight to work there. But as we were walking to the house, we ran into a guy, and he started talking to us! Apparently, he was an old investigator, and he wanted to talk to us again! We were like, well ok! And we set up an appointment the next night. The next day comes, and his girlfriend, who is a member menos activo (less active), calls us and wants to talk. Which never happens. It was a weird call. But we go over, and he isn't there, but she is obviously really distressed. So we talk to her a little, and it turns out that her pareja (couple?) has cheated on her for the second time. (I'll remit names for privacy purposes). They have two kids, and she is just done with it. She needed advice on what to do. She asked for counsel. So we told her only what we could, that Jesus loves her and can help and will help, but then reffered her to the branch president. Then, we leave, and we have the cita with her partner. I go into it really skeptically, because I know what's up. I wasn't sure what he wanted. But we began talking, and he just came straight. He told us everything, what he was feeling, and what he wanted. He told us what happened, and then said that he is feeling a change. He is realizing that this isn't the person that he wants to be. He wants to change. But not for the sake of his relationship, necessarily, but for himself. He isn't happy with who he is. So I was stoked. I knew what he was feeling, and how to help! So we talked to him about repentance, how it's a process, and how he is starting that. We talked a bit more, and he ended up telling us what happened the day before. He had prayed, sincerely, on his knees for something from God, any sign that he is listening, and asked for help with this new change. Then he walked out the door, and saw us two walking by, and immediately knew. It was great to use that and testify that God really does hear your prayers! Sometimes he doesn't answer so physically, or rather, usually he doesn't. But sometimes he does. And we learned why everything went against us to go play soccer. It's because God was using us as tools to help out his son who was sincerely looking for help.
Oh man, one more thing. For the past week or so, I keep getting woken up in the middle of the night by freaking temblores! Little earthquakes! Jaja I lay there and wonder what woke me up, and all of the sudden everything just starts to shake. Not too bad, but definitely enough to move me around. It was cool at first, and I loved it. But sometimes they last a while, and I'm getting a little annoyed, becuase they keep waking me up! Jaja I never thought I'd say I'd get annoyed by earthquakes, but hey... Chile changes you!
Anyways, sounds like you guys had a really great Easter! I'm so happy for Jace to go through the temple! And that's awesome that he invited you, mom! I'm so stoked to hear about his mission! I got an email from him this week, I'm excited to read it. Hopefully I'll have time to answer! O_O And what?!?! Oma, Opa, that's is SO AWESOME!!!! Jakarta, Indonesia!!! That's so cool!!! I'm so excited for you two! And we'll be serving together at the same time! Dang, I'm not sure the Schmid family can handle so many blessings ;). But I am really so happy for them! And hey, I have a friend there right now! I need to email him... and wow, yeah, 61st ward is everywhere! That's so awesome! I'm excited for all of them, they are going to be fantastic missionaries. But thank you for the email, for the updates! I love you guys! Take care! ( 23 days until mothers day!)
Les amo a todos!
Elder Schmid
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