Well, I still don’t know why nobody received the email I sent two weeks ago, but I guess I’ll just try sending it again. If it doesn’t work this time I guess you’ll never know… Mwaa ha ha ha haa!
Aaaaaaaanyway, what happened this week…:
Nothin’.
Well, maybe that’s not exactly true, but it hasn’t really been all that different and I’m not really sure what to write about. So I figure I’ll explain a little bit about what it’s like being a missionary here in the mission Peru Lima North, because every mission is different, of course, so even those of you old people who already served missions should find it interesting! (¡¿Cómo?! ¡No dije nada!) Anyway, here’s what our routine is like:
6:30 — Wake Up and Exercise
7:00 — Shower
8:00 — Personal Study
9:00 — Companionship Study
We start (almost) every day like this, but our schedule after this depends on the day:
Monday:
10:00 — Internet
11:30 — P-Day
6:00 — Start Working
Tuesday:
10:30 — District Meeting
12:00 — Start Working
1:00 — Lunch
2:00 — Language Study
3:00 — Working
Wednesday:
10:00 — Service
1:00 — Lunch
2:00 — Language Study
3:00 — Start Working
Thursday:
10:00 — Weekly Planning
1:00 — Lunch
2:00 — Language Study
3:00 — Start Working
Friday:
10:00 — Start Working
1:00 — Lunch
2:00 — Language Study
3:00 — Working
Saturday:
10:00 — Start Working
1:00 — Lunch
2:00 — Language Study
3:00 — Working
Then every day after ends like this:
9:00 — Return to the house (Maybe)
9:30 — We have to be in the house now so we can Plan for Tomorrow
10:00 — Get ready for bed
10:30 — Sleep
Now, of course, I should probably explain that this is how our day should go. In reality we end up losing 15-30 minutes of lunch because we usually have to eat lunch with members in the 7th or 8th Zone, which is really far up in the hills, and then we have to wait for them to prepare everything, then eat, and then share a spiritual thought, and then return. During all this time we usually lose the rest of the time we had to study Spanish (Or English, for my companion), so we get back to the house just in time to leave again! We’re so far away from everything that we have to leave early to get ANYWHERE on time!
The most interesting thing (And also the thing we do most, of course!) is work, or proselyte, or whatever you want to call it. Here we basically hike up and down hills to find the people who set appointments with in order to visit them. Along the way we talk to people we meet in the street to invite them to learn a little bit about our message or just to invite them to church on Sunday. It’s always a little interesting to talk to random strangers, but it’s also really cool because I’ve become WAY more comfortable with it and now it’s really easy to make small talk with people, something I couldn’t do at ALL before the mission!
But yeah, that’s my day. And here’s some photos:
Someone outside our house started a HUGE fire to burn all their junk!
My companion sleeps the entire night with a blanket over his head:
I don’t know how he breathes, but it keeps his face warm, he says!
I present: The poor-man’s Peruvian version of Ritz crackers:
Leaves a little to be desired…
And your face when your cell phone dies while you’re calling to collect your district’s numbers for the week and the only available outlet is in the bathroom:
Anyway, until next week! I’d love to get any questions you guys have about the mission life or whatever so I can answer them the next time I don’t have anything to write about!
— Elder Schroeder