This is kind of how I feel right now:
It’s kind of cold, I don’t have a whole lot of time to exercise because I’m so busy doing stuff, I’m still not entirely sure what I’m doing so I just go with it, and I feel kind of dumb and it all keeps life interesting.
This week was good , even if I did have a few downsides, like always. Traffic’s been especially bad in my area because they’re doing a bunch of construction to put gas lines under the roads here, and even if they work really fast (They finished almost everything in two weeks!) they have to block the roads. Then I’ve also had trouble doing the DL stuff I need to, like visits to get to know people in the other area in my district and visits to see how the sister missionaries work. Then I don’t sleep much ’cause I have to plan and organize so many things… To be honest, I really like being DL, but sometimes I would like a break to actually have time to study. That’s the biggest problem: I haven’t been able to study almost anything for an entire week straight, and it makes it hard to learn Spanish and know the Book of Mormon and the Bible when I can’t actually study them.
But this week, as I said, was pretty good, mostly because there’s a lot of good things that happen. For example, my companion fell asleep like this:
Then I got to eat some sort of weird fruit that they grow here:
I also ate another one that was REALLY sweet, called a custard apple, but I didn’t get a picture of that one.
And then, of course, it’s always good when someone gets baptized:
On Saturday I baptized one of our investigators, Silvia (I think I wrote a little about her last week). She’s really cool because she’s really changed and during the baptism, when she bore her testimony, I couldn’t stop smiling! It was also great because she had a lot of doubts about if anyone would actually support her in her baptism, since her family is Catholic and she didn’t know many of the members in Villa Hermosa. Well, I think she got some support:
These are all the people that came to her baptism (Well, minus me, my companion, and someone else who took pictures)!
So it’s been pretty good here, and here’s to a more interesting week to come!
— Elder Schroeder