Is it not weird to think that I'll be doing this only a few more times? I think that's kinda weird... so many good things are going on back home! I'm stoked that Ashlyn gave such a good talk! She's gonna have to give it again to me when I get back! ;) And Bronson, that kids a crack. Jajaja that story made me laugh pretty hard! I can imagine his face as he told Dad to clean up the jenga! At first I was bummed that I won't be coming back to my double bed, but you're so right... it's better than the cot that Christiaan slept on!
So this week has been pretty busy. Más que nada it's because we had so many activities in the ward. It was their ward conference yesterday, so Bishop wanted to do something special during the week. They had a night of ''Who knows the Book of Mormon best?'', and a pass the Book of Mormon to a friend challenge, and a movie night of The Testaments, but the big activity was on Saturday, when we had the open house. Instead of having the normal tour, bishop decided to have different ''theater interpretations" of the Book of Mormon. The young women did the tree of life, the elders did Captain Moroni, the primary did the visitation of Jesus Christ, and last but least, us the Elders (missionaries) did when Joseph saw Moroni in his room, when he received the plates, and the translation. Joseph Smith was played by yours truly. I think we did pretty well. We had to fit a ton of people in a tiny room, and so my space was limited, but I'm still one dang good smokin actor, so it was ok. All the preperation and whatnot took up a ton of our week, so we didn't really work in the mornings.
Ok, so about TB. Doc says my XRay looks good, no sign of TB. To be sure, tomorrow Hermana Ferreira has me and five others going in to get our blood tested. So... I'm so sorry, but official results will be coming next week.
My investigators are coming along alright. Luz and Danny are progressing, but slowly. They did come to church again, and to the breakfast that the ward put on before church. They were with their parents from Peru for the whole week, so we couldn't visit too much with them, but they're still ok. There is another family who got here a few weeks ago from Bolivia, Victor, Elsa, Emilyn, and Mary. We have had some awesome citas with them, and they are progressing very well! They promised to come to church, and I was worried when sacrament was finished and they weren't there, but after the meeting, I walked out and they were standing right there! Jaja apparently they were walking around the city for a bit because they got lost and that's why they were late, but they stayed for the classes! They're so great!
Something a little funny happened yesterday during gospel principles. I was there with Victor, Elsa, Emilyn, Luz, Danny, and everyone else and we were talking about talents, and how we need to develop them. In this moment, we were talking about how some people have certain dificulties to overcome for their talents. The teacher asked if anyone knew about Beethoven's difficulty in developing his musical talents. I was the only one who rose their hand, so I was called on. Now, so you know, in spanish ''sordo'' means deaf, and ''surdo'' means left handed... I was explaining how Beethoven is a world famous classical composer who lived a couple hundred years ago. He was a musical genious and wrote music that lasts until today, but it was very difficult to do for him because he was ''left handed''. Jaja I was explaining that nobody thought he could write or play or anything due to the fact that he was 'left handed'! Everybody was super confused, and the teacher recovered from her laughter enough to correct me. It was kinda embarassing haha!
It's been confirmed that on September 22 we will have a conference with D Todd Christofferson! We are starting to prepare for that. I'm really excited because I'll finally meet an apostle!
So that's my week!
Les amo a todos!
Elder Schmid
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