Well… I hope no one actually expected much of me as district leader, because I’m not doing great… I mean, I guess I like being DL, but you get tired of being scolded by your Zone Leaders every day for not doing the stuff you didn’t know you were supposed to do, and then this week was REALLY busy and we didn’t do very well, so I had to listen to 15 minutes of THAT…
Yeahhh………
I suppose it would be better if I wasn’t basically doing everything on my own– my companion still doesn’t know the area or the people, so he doesn’t help me plan for the day… or the week… or contact people… or start lessons… or end lessons on time… So I’m just kind of doing everything solo, but I admit I kind of like the responsibility because at least I feel useful, and I get to do some pretty cool stuff, like teaching my district and practicing how to teach well. It’s true what my last companion said: You learn a lot more when you’re forced to do it (As long as you don’t give up, that is…). But at least my companion’s cool! He’s a little weird, but he’s pretty funny and he’ll help me a lot.
This week was really just a really crazy way to start being DL and leading my area for several reasons. First, we went and finally got everything ready for a wedding — we married a family so that we could baptize the wife, Flor.
So that was cool, but it took so much time to do all of it! We had to take an hour-long bus ride to get there, and we went there and back three times in two days! And I’ll tell you: It was a pain in the butt to try and organize all of the changes with other missionaries, because, as with everything else, I basically had to do all of it! But it was worth it because we baptized her the next day.
And if I thought the water was cold in my first baptism, I learned pretty quick to appreciate even slightly-heated-by-the-hot-air water, because it’s better than refrigerated-by-the-night water! Poor Flor was so cold that she was shivering like a chihuahua– she couldn’t even keep her hands still long enough to plug her nose, so she swallowed a bit of water! When we posed for the photo after the baptism she looked so ridiculously cold that I made a face.
But at least we’re all good now!
Well, that’s all I’ve got to report this week, aside from a few problems with interviews (I do the interviews for baptisms now, as a DL, and I TOTALLY bombed two of them! Augggh!), losing the rest of my district (The Sisters got off at the wrong bus stop and none of us knew it until 5 minutes later!), and other things like that. But at least it keeps life interesting!
¡Chao!
— Elder Schroeder