Oh my goodness, oh my goodness. I thought I'd get a headstart on my weekly email while Christiaan heads over for the skype! I'm so excited!!! This will most likely be a short email, like yours, because I'm about to talk to you guys face to face. You're gonna hear everything already! What do I write?!
Well, this week was pretty awesome! I loved getting to know Copiapo. It is an awesome place! My sector is so big! If you look up Copiapo Chile in google maps, everything under the Copiapo River is my sector. The rest is divided in between 24 other missionaries. That comes with some pros and cons. (Just finished the skype call! WUT WUT). But anyways, pro, there are a lot of members, which means a lot more possibility of getting help with the work. Con, it's extremly massive, and we don't have bikes. But this week I was getting to know it a bit more. Apparently, it's a little more... dangerous? Than my other sectors. For example, my third day here, we were walking in a park, and some guy walks up to us, and my comp begins freaking out, because it's a man who's robbed them a few times. So he walks up, and begins the whole routine ''Give me all your money! Give me your packs! Give me everything!'' But he was a shrimp! He was tiny! And so I kept walking and said ''No''. Then he tried to follow us, and I kept telling him we didn't have anything! So then he pulls out some ruler or somethig and threatens to 'stab' us! I grab it, throw it, and say ''Lárgate'', and he kind of just walks away. The interesting part is, the whole time that was happening, there was an investigator of ours right behind him, talking to us! It was a little girl, no taller than Bronson, and she was just kind of talking with us! It was so weird!! Jaja but the rest of the week was pretty normal. It's kind of hard contacting people here. They're not as receptive as the people in Antofagasta or Alto Hospicio. But we've been working hard. We want to baptize weekly together.
This week we focused a lot on an investigator who lives with members but is from Peru. her name is Yvania. She is really cool, but a little difficult. She knows everything we teach, she knows it front and back, but still remains in doubt. She feels like her baptism is good for her from when she was baptized in the catholic church as an infant. So we explain everything about the authority here on the earth, and she tells us she understands, but then restates the same thing. So it was a little frustrating. But she still wants to come to church and everything, and we are not giving up on her! We are also working with a family, that same girl I was talking about before! her name is Karen and she lives with her parents Juan Carlos and Aida. They are super great and super receptive, but they just recently ran into a lot of problems. They lost their car, and that's his only work. They are out of work and just barely moved into a new house, and have to give up their other house before they have to pay another month's rent. So they're struggling a little, and we began focusing heavily on putting their trust in God especially in this situation, but they still are struggling. We promised them the blessing of everything they needed on the basis of them keeping God's commandment and keeping the sabbath day holy, but they didn't. But we're just gonna keep moving forward with them! They are still very excited to hear more!
My companion is really awesome! He is super funny, and really chill! He's usually pretty quiet, but he has a hilarious dry sense of humor. He's 25, and is a convert of a year and a half. So he's basically still learning. I say something sometimes about church history that I thought was obvious or really well known, and he'll look really surprised and start writing it down because it's the first time he's heard it! But it's really great to be with him, and he has a lot of excitement for the work! I love being with him!
Christmas was great. Here, they celebrate more Christmas Eve and open gifts at midnight and it's really weird, so basically we did all the big things yesterday. We got invited over to dinner with a really great family of members, and we ate a delicious baked chicken with pork. And we talked and shared together for a bit. I opened my Christmas Eve gift, and then in the morning the rest! Today we got together as a zone and I made everyone pancakes and we ate breakfast together! As we were eating we watched Kung Fu Panda, which was really hilarious! It was a good time. Basically from there, we went home, cleaned up a little, and came to this members house to call home! This family is really great, and their wifi is better than usual, so I am grateful that all went well! It was so great to see all of your faces! And I finally met Brad! But it was great to hear from all of you! Even Tasha was there! And Jared, Daniel and Ethan showed up! That was fun! But it is weird to think that now I only have one of those (a Skype call for Mother's day) left! 10 months, baby!
But that's pretty much my week for now! You already heard everything in the skype talk! But anyways, Merry Christmas everyone! Feliz Navidad! Cuidense!
Les amo a todos!
Elder Schmid
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