Wow, so much stuff going down for Caelan's wedding! Doesn't really make sense to me, because y'all are gonna wait till I come back to get marreid, right?! Jaja but that's good you got stuff done. Scary how close that day is getting, huh? And dad sent me all the pictures of your trip for church history, and it seemed really awesome! And yeah, about your experience at Pete's, I have one of those every week haha! It's awful, and it usually ends in them yelling at us and throwing liquor at us, but hey, all part of the experience!
I was thinking of whether or not I wanted to write about my year mark this week, or next week, but seeing as how everyone commented this week, I'll just do it! Wednesday, October 25, 2017 will mark one year from the day I said goodbye to my family, home, and life in the airport in Arizona and embarked on the mission! I can't belive this point is here! I want to say it came quickly, but.... jajaja it's been hard! I am very, very grateful, however, that I did it. I have learned so much this year, and am excited to learn a lot more in this coming year. I can tell how much I'm growing, even though I couldn't before. I know now the difference, and I'm anxious to keep molding myself more and more to a worthy servant of God! This is a new beginning, a new chance to change things and improve myself yet again. My testimony is as strong as it's ever been and gets stronger every day! Here's to one year down, and one year left (just one year) to give it all to God!
Well, this week was kind of slow. We've been working a lot with several awesome people. One family is progressing rapidly, we call them the ''familia grande.'' It's the family I talked about last week, Cyntia, Kimberly, María, and Ricardo. They alll have different last names. But they've been reading, praying, and Cyntia and Kimberly came to church! So we've been trying to progress further with them, but we still have to tackle a few commandments that they have trouble with. Cyntia, it seems, might be feeding us this week, seeing as how we are need of a new mamíta. That explains the question you were asking, mom. That stuff I was cooking was a 'baked tuna roll' from the recipe book given to me by the familia Konuiszy. It looked like garbage, but it tasted really good! I didn't understand exactly what to do, so was experimenting a bit, and I'm sure Hermana Konuiszy wouldn't recognize the dish from her own cookbook, but hey, it all worked out fine! We are also working a lot with a less active named Gabriel and his non member family. He came to church, but his family was working. But they are coming along, a little slowly, but that's ok!
Elder Aparicio and I are coming along great. We had a very heated companionship inventory, but that was a good thing. 'Better out than in, I always say!' As soon as it was done, I felt a lot better, and just needed to talk with him. We are coming along really well as companions, and working a lot better together. He still needs a little training in some places, but he is so much better off than I was at the end of two cambios! I am proud of him.
We had an inter-cambio with the President's assitants on Thursday. It was interesting. It was very clear the vision they want for us on the mission, and how I haven't been exactly keeping up with that vision. We are working a lot with the talk by Alvin Dyer called 'A Challenging and Testifying Missionary,' or something like that, we have the spanish version. It's basically about going out and testifying to everyone of Christ and our church, and challenging immediately to be baptized We set 13 baptismal dates that day! The old standard for the week was 6. So, we're going to see where this new vision takes us! I was with my old zone leader, Elder Lozano, who is now the president's assistant... something that surprised me haha but he's doing great. Now I just need to fit myself to the vision of this mission and help my district do the same.
Well, this week was kinda boring haha, but that's it! Today we watched Shrek as a zone and went to some other pension to cook. But, this week we are going to have a conference with Pres, and it will be the first time I've seen him since 'the accident!' But I'm excited. We'll see what changes Pres has made this time! But anyways, love you all! Hope you have an amazing week! You best celebrate on Wednesday!
Les amo a todos!
Elder Schmid
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