Well, this is the end of my 5th transfer in the mission field, but my companion isn’t the only thing that’s changed this week, either! I’m still going to be here in Villa Hermosa, but Elder Rodriguez is being transferred back to Canto Grande, where I started in Machu Picchu and he was my zone leader! We’re both disappointed about that because he really doesn’t want to leave this area the way it is; it’s a branch that doesn’t have a lot of active church-goers because a whole bunch went inactive all at once and REALLY needs some help! He trusts that I can help it and things like that, but I understand how he feels because you want to be right there just to be sure! Then we’re both disappointed because we had a really good time as companions — he’s pretty much the only companion I’ve had so far that was a really good friend, and after this he’s going to finish and it’s likely that we’re not going to be able to see each other again because, well, he lives in Chile! We had a lot of fun as companions, but he’s needed somewhere else to help out another weak branch, so it’s all good! We still have Facebook and stuff!
Oh, and this change is also going to be a little different because I’m going to be a district leader! I’m not entirely sure who’s in my district because they got changed around a little, but I know I’m going to be in charge of one of the companionships of sister missionaries (Which, honestly, I’d rather not have because I’ve heard that sister missionaries complain a LOT (Because they’re women and are more open in what they say, not because they’re bad or anything! Us guys just kind of keep it to ourselves, so it’s a little easier! I don’t want to offend anyone! Seriously!)) But yeah, there’s that, too.
As for this week, we’ve just been working hard and trying to help everyone we can around here, and when we have some free time we do kind-of-dumb stuff like share martial arts stuff we know and have a practice fight (I have a bruise on my knee that I thought was dirt because it covers ALL of it a dark purple!). It’s really cool some of the stuff my companion learned!
We also tried to make videos of us running around our apartment as if it was a first-pèrson shooter video game, like HALO or Call of Duty. Mine didn’t really work out so well because I put it a little too low, but Elder Rodriguez turned out looking like some sort of cyborg:
Or maybe a blue ninja cyclops:
So that was fun!
The only other thing different that happened is that we had some really weird circumstances in our district and had to do some strange companionships to make sure we visited all the appointments the six of us had. I worked with Elder Ortega, a new missionary who’s only been in the mission a few months, so I was senior companion for a day! It wasn’t as hard as I expected because Elder Ortega is awesome — he actually knows how to teach and stuff!
Well, not much else to share this week, but this next week I’ll have a little bit more to share about being district leader and having a new companion! ¡Chao!
— Elder Schroeder