Well, not exactly sure what happened last week, but I guess my email messed up and didn’t send anything! Hopefully you’ll all get it, and then you can read this one afterwards so you understand it better!
Anyway, this week’s been good — nothing new’s really going on here, except we’re trying to get used to some of the changes in the mission, which I’m actually really liking. The shorter lessons that we have to do now give us more time to work with more people, and I’m already starting to see a few changes! Last week we met a lot of cool people with potential, and it seems like it will just keep getting better!
Of course, I’m also getting used to being district leader of a big district, which is really interesting when I’ve also got to lead the district meetings and stuff. We already know each other from being together in previous districts, but now that I’m DL I have to “be the example!” and all that, so I get a lot of pressure from my ZLs (zone leaders), but it’s all good.
This week I’ve got some pretty sweet pictures because we hiked up a hill as a district and took some photos from there. I suppose I need to explain some of them:
This is obviously me (duh!) holding the Standard of Liberty (but written in Spanish). For those of you who aren’t Mormon (or don’t remember), the Standard of Liberty is the flag that an army captain from the Book of Mormon, named Moroni, wrote to assemble and encourage his soldiers and his people to fight for a just cause. In English, it says, “In memory of our God, our religion and freedom, and our peace and our families,” and I got it from Elder Rodriguez when he left. It’s so cool that I couldn’t just leave it hanging up as a curtain!
This picture’s really cool because I’ve got the sun in the background, the flag, and this cross that’s up on top of the hill (They put crosses on just about every hill!).
A good old artistic shot of my shadow. I think this looks pretty sweet!
Then I’ve got this one of me jumping off a rock. This was my companion’s idea; he thought it’d be cool if we jumped off a rock, but cropped out the rock so that it looks like we’re in the sky. It turned out pretty well, but in order to get this effect you have to jump off a tall rock and you have to jump really high, so it hurt a lot when I landed and I almost collapsed upon impact, but other than that it wasn’t bad. (It’s not like we’re really dumb and thought, “Hey, let’s jump off a rock close to the edge of the cliff!” or anything, but I imagine that thought passed through someone’s head!)
And, just ‘cuz, here’s a picture of a cat eating a rat:
I’ll let you all know how it goes next week! If things go well, we’ll get to baptize one of our investigators (Who we married recently!) named Freddy!
— Elder Schroeder