Hey all! ¿Qué tal?
As I promised last week, I’ve attached some pictures of me with the machete!
I wish I could have gotten better ones (i.e. closer), but the only person who could take pictures was 8-year-old Jasmine, and her camera experience is somewhat lacking (See the one she took when she got ahold of my camera a little after Christmas).
But hey, at least now I have proof and if you zoom in I look pretty cool!
This week wasn’t all that interesting or anything. We did the usual stuff, and since we’ve now been forbidden by our Zone Leaders to do service projects (because the water doesn’t work after 10 AM) we didn’t do anything sketchy or dangerous on Wednesday (Unless you count cleaning the bathroom, which I would because it was pretty bad! It was so dirty that in the time it took me to clean it, Elder Mayta cleaned the other six rooms of our cuarto!).
Also, for those of you who heard about the earthquakes in Japan and Ecuador, we also had an earthquake on Thursday and it was so bad the ceiling in our cuarto cracked and water started dripping in! No, just kidding! (The ceiling was because the people above us forgot to turn off the water) Here they have “temblores”, or tremors, because they’re not big enough to be called earthquakes. I’ve experienced about three in all of my mission, but I hadn’t actually felt one until Thursday. It was actually kind of cool and scary: we were up in one of the highest hills in our area teaching a lesson and off in the distance I heard this rumbling noise and then the little stool I was sitting on began to vibrate. It didn’t really click with me that it was a temblor until our ex-ward mission leader, Cristian, said, “Whoa! ¡Temblor!” So that was cool, but that’s about all that happened this week.
Well, I guess I’ll let you know how next week goes next week (Kind of a “Duh!” phrase), and until then cuídense!
— Elder Schroeder
(Or, Elder Shoroerder, as they put on my KFC receipt) (I’m pretty sure the woman gave up after the “sh” noise and just put a bunch of “o”s, “e”s, “d”s, and “r”s until it seemed right)
