Welllllll... so a bit has happened hahaha! First things first, I send my condolences to the the Hoopes family. The first sibling has passed on, that is hard. I hope everyone is dealing with the pain well. The plan of Salvation is real. I am so grateful for that. I know that we will be able to not only see, but be with Aunt Iris for eternity. We need only live now in a way that will give us that opportunity. And that's also very scary with what happened with Gunnar! But... there's a first for everything! I hope he begins to feel better. I cannot begin to tell you how jealous I am of the monsoon you are having right now... it sounds absolutely amazing! I saw a little bit of rain a few weeks ago, but I need a big storm...
So this week, as I said, was kinda busy. To begin, we had cambios!! And Elder Flores and I actually had a cambio. I am no longer with our beloved Mexican. He has been cambioed to Alto Hospicio, my birthplace. He is actually with an Elder from my group, Elder Hirschi. He was excited to go, because Alto Hospicio is flying right now! Everyone baptizes there. I stay here in Torreblanca. My new companion is named Elder Vicente. Get this. He's from the Phillipines!!! How awesome is that! He got here today from Alto Hospicio, a 18 hour trip! Haha! But he seems pretty cool. I don't really know too much about him now, I can tell you more next week.
This week, this Sunday, I had a talk in Sacrament. Nobody else could, I guess, so they say, and so they assigned me. They let me choose my topic, and so I talked about Gozo, or Joy. I decided to talk about this because so many people talk to me about the problems in their lives. I was thinking, I need to tell them why coming to church helps them have joy. I feel like it went very well. People told me I did good, so I feel good. I feel like I learned a lot too, and I applied the joy into the Plan of Salvation. It may have sounded a bit too much like a lesson and not a talk, but oh well! I tried to just tie the what we need to do into the why we need to do it. I enjoyed talking. But then again, there were only 50 people. It'll be different in my homecoming talk, when there's a few more than 50 people haha!
Everyone has been out of town, we are in the middle of their winter vacation. It was kinda hard finding people, but we were able to find some. We spent a lot of times in intercambios, every day almost this week. I went to Baquedano with the zone leader, Elder Levrino. Then they wanted another one, with Elder Cook. I was here with him. While here we had an awesome day. I met this less active kid, a recent convert from a year ago who hasn't come to church in a long time. His name's Jonathen. He is such an awesome kid! He said an amazing prayer better than I could say one at the beginning, and knew all the answers to everything I asked him! He just doesn't come becacuse his mom, also recent convert less active, doesn't come. She works. So he doesn't feel any reason to go. So we talked a lot, and he is starting to progress. We've also been talking a lot with a family who hasn't come to church in a while, the family I mentioned last week, la familia Carmona. They are great, and we had a very good Family Home Evening with them and an investigator friend of theirs. They are progressing. Then the LZ s wanted to have intercambios the next two days with two other elders, but we said no, because Elder Flores was leaving and wanted to say goodbye to people, and we were tired of intercambio.
But that's my life! I'll tell you more next week of the new comp and everything! Hope y'all have a good week!
Les amo a todos!
Elder Schmid
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