Oh wow, crazy week entonces for everyone! I'm happy everything there is going so smoothly! And welcome to the ranks, Oma and Opa!!! I'm excited to hear some of your stories as missionaries in Indonesia! I hope everything goes well for dad and his surgery! I will definitely be praying for him! Darian's working? And it's not babysitting? Awesome! And everyone freaked out when I waited until after the day to wish a Happy Birthday, so I guess I can wish it now! ;) Happy Birthday Kiwi!!! 17, how awesome! And crazy! Still a jovencita, but getting older! Hopefully, wiser at the same time! ;) Hehehehe! AIDEN!!! What the deuce?! So many awesome opportunities!! I'm jealous! But I do recognize that you had to put some work into this, and so you earned it! But still... that's all some crazy awesome stuff you're doing! Sacrament meeting with Elder Holland?! I would kill for an opportunity like that right now! And what are you doing with President Trump? Do you get to meet him? Crazy...
Well, things are going well here in Good 'ol Caliche. Antofagasta pleases me. It's cool. I like it haha. This week was kinda crazy in terms of mornings. We had a lot of meetings and what not with various people. Tuesday is when we have our weekly district meetings, and right before, all the district leaders in the zone meet for a liderazgo meeting. I have to teach classes each week to my district, but it's chill, because we're all missionaries, so we try to butt in every five seconds with our testimony and knowledge and what not. All I have to do is say the topic and afterward basically just keep everyone on track. After district meeting, we had intercambios, and I went with our Zone Leader, Elder Rupe. He's a super chill gringo from Utah, Morgan Utah. It was cool, too, because I got to work in his sector, and it's been a long time since I have worked anywhere but my sector. Usually, if we have intercambios, the district leader goes to the other sector to do interviews and what not. But the sector of the zone leaders is a very rich part of Antofa, and it seems like it's a bit harder. But it was super fun to work with Elder Rupe. He's super awesome! He was made zone leader when he only had 6 transfers. He is a very capable missionary.
Thursday is the day we have weekly planning, and I have forgotten to do a few things, so we took Thursday morning to update our area book and a few other things. Usually, weekly planning should not take nearly so long, and you should work in the morning anyways, but we weren't able to. Friday, we had a service in the morning for some people in our ward. Actually, they're investigators, and they're adding on to their house. They live legit at the top of the city, so they can just start building backwards. It's hard, though, because they live on the mountain, and so we helped clear some dirt and level it all. It took a while, and we kind of screwed around a lot, but it was cool. They're a cool family from Ecuador, and would be baptized, but they are not married. They're in the process, though.
The president wanted everyone in the mission to try their hardest and try new things to meet the mission standard of 6 investigators in the sacrament meeting this Sunday. So all week we were trying hard with the people to meet that. We compromised everyone to go, made a list of everyone, a bunch of stuff. Then Sunday came, and and almost everyone fell through. But there were a few that pulled through. Actually, one investigator who is planning on getting baptized this weekend came, Jhoadel. He's super cool, 18 years old. He's just not quite as animated. But this Sunday might've changed that. In fact, I'm sure it did. The thing is, while we were walking into church, we looked over, and Presidente Ferreira and his wife, Hermana Ferreira (President of the mission and wife) were walking up with some family from Concepciòn. So... that really freaked me out!! Haha apparently, Hermana Ferreira served in my ward when she was a missionary here in Antofagasta! So she likes to visit from time to time! Nobody decided to warn me... but after sacrament meeting Presidente Ferreira decided to teach our Gospel Principles class. He taught basically all the missionary lessons wrapped up in one, and at the end, bore a really powerful testimony! It was super awesome! We had four investigators there, 1 from Caliche B, and three from us, and the one from Caliche B is getting baptized for sure, and we go today to find out if ours as well.
But anyway, that was our week. The work continues forward! Hope you all have a great one! Cuídense!
Les amo a todos!
Elder Schmid
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