364 DAYS LEFT…
General Conference is always awesome for us missionaries ’cause it gives us a little bit of a break. We just kind of bring people to the chapel so they can watch it and learn something. In fact, my schedule for Saturday was basically this:
8:00 — Personal Study
9:00 — Companionship Study
10:00 — Call and look for everyone who said they’d come to conference with us
11:00 — Watch conference
1:00 — Go back to my area (We watched conference in the stake center, which is 30 minutes away from my area!)
1:30 — Eat lunch
2:30 — Go back to the stake center
3:00 — Watch conference
5:00 — Call people to invite them to eat pizza with us and come to the last session
5:30 — Eat pizza (!)
6:30 — Call people again
7:00 — Watch conference
9:00 — Go back to my area to sleep
And I don’t know what it was, but this time the talks were AWESOME! Saturday night I wanted to stay up and keep listening to conference talks because it was so good!… Then our neighbors had to ruin it all by having a party from midnight until 4 AM, meaning I didn’t sleep much… On the plus side, I slept really well Sunday!
And, unfortunately, that’s about everything interesting that I have to report. So I guess I’ll just stick some pictures in here:
Here’s my district:
(From left to right, top to bottom: Elder Seminario, Elder Gil, Elder Rioja, Me, some random woman walking by, Hermana Gonzales, Hermana Lopez, Hermana Manrique, Hermana Gilson)
And then here’s me messing around with the Color Accent function in my camera. I’ve decided this will be my album cover for The Greatest Mission Hits of Elder Schroeder!
The last thing is that I got my first dog bite! I’ve been bitten before, but I’m not sure those really counted because some of the dogs had a muzzle and just kind of squeezed my leg a little because of that, and others didn’t actually leave a mark! And then the first dog that actually bites me is a tiny little white dog, not even something scary or intimidating! I’ll admit that I really wanted to punt that dumb little thing, but I decided not to because it’s about a foot tall and I figured if I did kick it I might send it flying! (And then the mission rules say we shouldn’t do anything that hurts animals, so I guess I’d sin by kicking it…)
But yeah, that’s it! I’ll let you know what’s going on next week, and hopefully it’s a little more interesting!
— Elder Schroeder