Well, this week was intersting. Very, very slow. But pretty good, I guess. That's awesome that you got to talk in sacrament meeting! Haha, I'm sorry I missed it. And it means that I won't be able to see you talking again for a long time. Oh well! And I'm sorry for Shawna and her family. I'll be praying for them, definitely. Her and her family. It's so sad that it happened while they were so young. But I'm always grateful for the plan of salvation in moments like these. We had a very good lesson on the plan of salvation with some less actives yesterday who were in a lot of pain over the deaths of their family members. But we know as long as we do our part, we can not only see them again, but live with them forever with God in happiness... I haven't felt the pain of a death in the family yet, but I am glad that the mission is preparing me for that well.
This week, as I said, was very slow. But it started out interesting. We were shopping on Monday, and I was thinking about maybe buying a new pan for our kitchen, because our old one was absolutely disgusting. And as I was thinking that, all of the gross crap about my apartment came to mind, and I snapped! I bought a ton of cleaning supplies, wasting the rest of my money for the month, and decided to change our apartment! The whole rest of the day was straight cleaning. I scrubbed every inch of that place! The bathrooms were awful, so I went at them. The walls of the shower were covered in a layer of mold that I didn't even know about! I thought it was just the color of the tiles! But no! As I began to scrub the tiles, the mold came off a little, and I saw what color they were supposed to be, and then I went ham on it. And didn't stop there. I scrubbed every inch of the floors, the tub, the toilet, the ceiling, even the light-bulbs! Haha I cleaned it all! And it was like that with the rest of the house too! I then went to the kitchen and deep cleaned it in what I am sure is the first time it's ever been cleaned. It was absolutely disgusting, and I can't believe I was cooking in it. (I did end up buying the new pan. Best choice ever!) I scrubbed the oven, the stove, the fridge, the walls, the cupboards, the everything! And the end product even then wasn't perfect, because I couldn't get all of the stains out of the floor and cupboards. So it still doesn't look like the kitchen back home, but it is now safe to cook. I also took bug killer to every corner of the house, and found out how infested our house really was. There were so many bugs! (I counted how many massive spiders we had...... 84.......) But they are all dead now. I killed many with a flamethrower made of axe body spray and fire. Then I swept and mopped. Since I've been here, I've been the only one who has swept, and only some places while I tried to get everyone else to sweep too (they never did). I swept and mopped with a mop and bucket and cleaner that I bought. I am also sure that the place has never been mopped before, either. the end product was a completely different house! It was amazing! I felt so good! I kept reciting to myself the scripture in D&C, put your house in order. I definitely felt a ton more of the spirit after I was done in my house. It made me think real hard of how much it was always stressing me out to live in a filthy home like that, and how much time I wasted just taking it! So my comp kind of also got dragged in with me to clean, he didn't have a choice (though I did have to go over everything he cleaned again, because he didn't do it right) and we were there until the night when work time was over, and I was thinking maybe it wasn't the best thing that I could have been doing with my time... but at the end, I knew it was exactly what I needed to be doing! It was night and day difference! I also created a chore chart to keep the house looking that way. The others laughed and thought it was weird, said ''Ok, mom, whatever you say,'' but I am serious! It was absolutely disgusting how it was before! It was the first time I've seen our sink empty of dishes, even! That's just bad... we're going to keep it clean. I have to come up with a punishment for not doing there chores......
The rest of the week was normal. Slow. We worked one morning with the President's assistant, an old zone leader of mine, Elder Rupe. We were basically just being pulled along by a leash of some massive hyperactive dog who barks and runs at anything that moves. We contacted so many people! It was fun, but it wasn't my style of teaching, and I'm not sure how much I liked it. But that's the thing about missionary work, you have to forget everything you think the work should be like. That is absolutely outside your control. You can only do what your leaders tell you to do, and how they tell you to do it, even if you don't like it... that's the hardest part of missionary work. Ditching all of your opinions, because they really don't matter. It's you versus the guys who gets revelation from God about the subject, so... we will be trying to do the work now more like Elder Rupe, crazy contacting to everyone we see, not just everyone we pass by, 5 minute lessons, 10 maximum. A ton of walking and a ton of talking. Should be intersting, no?
We found a Haitian man! Finally! His name is Jonas! He's super awesome. We actually found him last pday, but couldn't teach him because he works a ton. But he told us he was going to come to church Sunday, and he came! What?! Haha it was great! We got him to stay for Principios del evangelio, and ended up teaching him in french, with a little help of somebodies smart phone and google translate... I think he got the message. He said he would pray and read. He at least can read and understand spanish, so we gave him a book in spanish, and he said he wants to get baptized! So we'll see how he progresses.
We played Cover Your Assets today with the zone leaders. One of them, a peruvian, Elder Donayre, crushed us all! It was embarrasing! But still super fun. Elder Bravo fell one day while walking. Haha he tried to hop over a small wall guarding a sidewalk, and he tripped and ended with his feet in the air! I helped him up and everything, and made sure he wasn't hurt.... then couldn't stop laughing the rest of the day! Some kid was right there as well, and he laughed too. It was a spectacular fall. He almost completely flipped over! What can you expect. He's old. He's 26, can't do what he used to! ;)
Anyways... that's pretty much it for this week. Not too much, like I said. Yeah, it's only 75 degrees, but it gets a bit worse when the sun will burn you completely after just a half hour, and you have to be outside the whole day in church clothes. Things seem a little hotter with that. You guys do have 115 degrees, but you also have AC. That don't exist here. And you guys aren't walking around in church clothes in the sun all day. SO yeah. It's a little hot here! ;) I hope y'all have a fantastic week! Good luck mom with the iodine thing! Don't drink too much Mtn Dew!
Les amo a todos!
Elder Schmid
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