WHY DID YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO THE PRESIDENT, ELDER RODRIGUEZ?!?!
This past week, our mission president taught us that the Gift of Prophecy is not only for prophets and apostles — every person can prophesy if they do it through the guidance of the Spirit! That’s really cool, but of course my companion accidentally used it to trash our week a little bit! On Tuesday we went and died during our workout with the nutritionist (The excercises we do are so hard!) and afterward Elder Rodriguez said to me: “Siento que va a pasar algo hoy. Algo diferente” (“I feel like something is going to happen today. Something different”). Then we rode in a convee to our cuarto and when we got there we realized we didn’t have the keys! At first we figured we’d just left them in the house — as you know from some of my previous emails, we’ve needed to break in a few times because we’ve forgotten them before — but we couldn’t break in because there wasn’t an open window! Eventually we got in by climbing up a ladder to the window without glass that looks to the inside of the landlady’s house:
That was sketchy because the top of the ladder was about 4 feet away from the window, so we had to grab the bottom and jump up! (And, of course, this was after we’d just done a bunch of arm, leg, and core excersises and we were DEAD!)
Then we had a work visit from one of our leaders later, so we knew we had to do something to get the door opened. The problem was we hadn’t forgotten the keys: they’d fallen out of my companion’s pocket while we were in the convee and were long gone! So my companion tried to open the door by brute force and brains: Removing the hinges and pushing the door.
That didn’t really work, so we put the hinges back and when our zone leader came over we just climbed through the window again.
Then on Wednesday we lost the cell phone! So this week was a little more difficult than usual…
But it was still pretty good because at least it was interesting!
— Elder Schroeder