Wow, such a busy week for everyone! At least none of you can say you're bored! That's one crazy scar, grandma! Hope you're doing fine! And dang, Caelan's wedding is coming up quick! This is her last week as a single! It's about time hahaha! This was all supposed to happen before I left! But oh well, I'll find it in my heart to forgive you! ;) I'm excited for you! And mom, I still feel like you're stressing a ton haha, I know you too well. Stress is good, but I imagine you're not just stressing anymore, you're dying. But I know it will all turn out fantastic!
Well, this week for me was pretty good! First things first, we had cambios come in! I'm staying here in Caliche for another 6 weeks to finish the training of Elder Aparicio. It's gonna be a good cambio! We're going to see many more miracles, and many more baptisms! Elder Ramones is leaving for Iquique, the filipino elder who I lived with for a while. My zone leader became the assistant. It was exciting as always to hear it all. We were in a zone training meeting when the assistant called for the cambios, so we were all listening together. I was kind of hoping to leave, honestly, but that's just because I get bored too easily. I want to see more places and meet more people. But there's more for me to do here, so I will get to work! Or rather, keep working.
This Sunday was stake conference. It was interesting inviting people to the stake conference, especially investigators. As we invited members, they all had the attitude that it was 'just a conference', like a day off! Some members went to the beach, others went to another city to vacation with family, and all that stuff! What the crap! But then as we were inviting the investigators and telling them what it was, they all got super excited, thinking ''Oh man, everyone in the stake is coming to one place! The leaders are going to talk! I want to go! I want to see! Whatever they say is going to have to be important!'' It was very awesome to see that, and their viewpoint of the conference. I don't know what happened to the members! Why would they think that?! They missed out on so much! How is it that the investigators can see the value of the stake conference more than they do?! It was just confusing to me. But Presidente Ferreira and Hermana Ferreira talked in the conference, which was interesting. Basically it was them calling the stake to action in the missionary work! Hopefully it worked! We are always trying to work with memebrs more! The Saturday before the conference, we called a reference that a family gave us from another ward, an hermana who told us that she couldn't attend us that day, but wanted to come to church! So we told her where it would be, not thinking much of it because so many people tell us they want to come to church and then never come. But then we are there waiting for one investigator when some family walks up looking really lost. Some missionaries walk over and start talking to her, and it ends up being the hermana we called with some of her sisters! It was awesome!
This week we moved out of the piece of crap apartment and into a realy nice house! President decided to come see what's up with our apartment because we kept complaining. He walks in, stands still in the doorway, and just says, ''No!'' He walks further in, takes a look around, and says ''No!'' He goes to the kitchen, and looks around, and says ''This is disgusting!'' Then he goes to the bathroom, opens the door, says ''Nope'' and shuts it again! Haha the lake came back on our bathroom floor because the pipes are leaking again! He tells us he's sorry that we've been living there haha! Apparently, everyone else has houses or something, and he just didn't know that ours was so awful. So he moved Elder Aparicio and I out of there to a house in the other zone, Antofagasta Centro. And now we are there with 4 other missionaries from another zone! It's a very nice house! Very big. And we can't hear the neighbors! But I haven't slept with blankets for a week, so that's been rough. But it's still so much better! and now we are looking for a new house in my sector. We now have to cross over 4 other wards to get to ours! So that's fun, but I love it so much more! I feel relaxed now!
Anyways, the work continues! A lot of our stronger investigators are falling because they don't want to follow the commandments, so that's frustrating. But we are always looking for more! We found two new families that seem promising (mostly because the parents are married). It feels good to finally have investigators who are already married! I thought they didn't exist! But anyways, that's pretty much my life right now! Not nearly as exciting as all of yours right now, but that's ok! Just working away here in Antofa! It's a different mentality now having a year down. Everything goes quicker, and seems more rushed. I can only wonder what it will be like at the end! But I don't ever think about that, right? I'm super consecrated! ;)
Hope you guys have an awesome week! Good luck with the wedding and reception! Don't worry mom, I'll try not to tell you're secret about the tables! ;) Hehehehe put that one on the blog! Well, cuídense, todos!
Les amo a todos!
Elder Schmid
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