¡¿Que pasa?! This week was pretty awesome! I loved your email! I don't know what Randolph is, but I think by what you were describing it's a senior citizen residence... if that's the case, it was called Emeritus when I went. It's fantastic that the youth could go there! I loved going those years to have a little sacrament meeting. Jaja I can't really imagine what it would be like to have a pine trees and green mountains an hour and a half away from my home... I've forgotten what pine trees and green mountains are! But that sounds like a real fun trip! After Junior year, Jared, Daniel, Tristen, Braden and I went to the same cabin, but just us....... that was a fun trip!!! It's a great cabin!
This week was alright! We got in a lot more work, and that made me feel better! Sometimes after working so much as a missionary, you think that having a week off would be fantastic. NO! Wrong! Haha I was itching to get back out and work, and I finally did! And the Lord blessed us with some major miracles. The first of which is Alejandro and his friend Eduardo. They are two friends of 28 years who live together. We found them while we were in a trio with our zone leader, Elder Critchfield. They are so awesome! At first, I thought they looked like they wanted to rob us, they looked pretty angry and were coming at us quick, but then we contacted them, and it ended with them accepting a baptism date, and telling us, ''I've been feeling pretty alone for a long time, and recently have been looking for God! Maybe he was looking for me too...'' Yes! He was! I am so happy, and they are progressing rapidly! Their only hiccup is the word of wisdom. They accepted it, but said it would be a major challenge. They proved that when Eduardo couldn't come to church for being hungover. But Alejandro came! And he's quitting smoking! I love him! And he has an amazing story, a really sketchy past, but with a ton of repentance. Now all he needs to do is get baptized. ''The first fruits of repentance is baptism!'' Start the path now!
Other miracles are just crazy awesome people accepting to listen to us. But it was good just to get out and put it all down for the lord for a week. Yesterday and Saturday were super hard though. It was as if everyone just flipped a switch, and absolutely NOBODY wanted to talk to us. Every house we went to rejected us, and everyone we contacted just waved their finger and kept walking... it was kind of hard. But we got through it, and we are preparing Alejandro to be baptized! We need to baptize him sí o sí!!! Things with the comp are also going well. We are going to finish the cambio with the best week we've had yet! We have some good plans to get things done this week, and I know the Lord will see our efforts and bless us with miracles... I just have to have my eyes and heart open to receive and recognize them!
We also had some good intercambios this week. I went one day with my other zone leader, Elder Burgos. We had to go to a sector pretty far away to help them with a baptism, but it was a good service. The girl who got baptized looked truly happy, and I saw, right in that service, a change coming upon her father, who was there watching, and who isn't a member. (YET). I also found a really awesome book there filled with classic piano songs, one of which being Clair de Lune!! I'm trying to learn it right now... slowly, whenever I find free time (which really doesn't exist). We worked hard in his sector (of my zone leader). I also interviewed a man from the sector of the hermanas in my district, his name is Rolando. It was a really spiritual experience, and I knew the spirit was there testifying to him the truth of everything he has heard. Unfortunately, his heart was closed. He had set his mind on not being baptized so soon, and blocked out the spirit for his stubborness. But he promised me that that Sunday, he would go to church with the prayer in his heart of whether or not he should be baptized the next Sunday.... he didn't come to church. I was really sad, but just because he is missing out on so much for his stubborness and laziness.
But anyways, that was pretty much my week! Tomorrow we are going to have our conference with President, and it will be fantastic! Thursday we have interviews. I am excited for both! This is going to be a good week! I hope the same for all of you!
Les amo a todos!
Elder Schmid
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