Praise to the Man
We started this week off with Zone Conference on Tuesday. There was some really exciting stuff there. Like 2.5 hours of watching videos of how to do missionary work with smartphones. Riveting stuff, people! It’s actually really exciting that we’re getting smartphones. In the words of one of our recent converts “we’re being brought into this century”. I can’t wait until we can stalk our investigators on Facebook!
Not much else happened this week. Or at least that I can remember. I feel like I’m 80 sometimes because people will ask us at dinner what we’ve done that day and I can’t even remember. We did have exchanges on Friday with the other sisters. Sis Taylor went with Sis Cowley and I went with Sis Gillespie. It was pretty fun because we did a picture scavenger hunt during exchanges, which spiced things up a little. It was a rather normal exchange though. Nothing crazy happened, at least to us. Sis Taylor and Sis Crowley talked to some lady we now refer to as “crazy drug lady”. Apparently she got really close to Sis Taylor’s face and started stroking her hair and telling her she’d make a “beautiful, holy nun”. Sis Crowley said she was afraid that she was going to bite her. Being a missionary is fun!
This week was fun too because Sis Taylor got so many comments about how young she looks. She’s only 4’11” and she’s pretty tiny and everyone thinks they need to make a comment about it. One of this week’s comments was pretty great because a member said they thought she was 10. At church, they wondered where my companion was and why a child was sitting with me. We made the mistake of telling a recent convert, Jason, about this and our whole lesson with him was full of “when do you get out of grade school again?” comments. He’s such a funny guy and I’m pretty sure that hour with him was the most I laughed all week.
The sad part of this week was that President Thomas S Monson died. The other sisters texted us around 11:30 Tuesday night, but we were already in bed so that was the first thing I saw Wednesday morning. It became quite dramatic when I told Sis Taylor and she said “The prophet is dead?!” I must be a horrible person because I started laughing. It was because it sounded so dramatic and if anyone’s seen the movie Legacy, there’s a part in there that it reminded me of. In all seriousness, I’m really going to miss President Monson. He was an amazing person and an amazing prophet. There was a quote he said that keeps me going almost every day out here on my mission. He said, “Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says ‘I’ll try again tomorrow'”. I’m sad that he’s gone, but glad that he can be with his dear wife again.
I wish you all the best this week!
Ciao,
Sister Schroeder
Photos:
Posing like the walking sign:
Our high quality crowns (cause our Father is a King):
The best picture of the night (I didn’t know it was zoomed in):
A sign with Sis Gillespie’s name on it:
Placing a pass-along card in a store (we thought we were so funny!):
