“I thought we were gone for sure!”
Some of the elders got chased a mile by a huge dog this week and they told us all about it. I was laughing so hard! I wish I could’ve seen it, but I hope it never happens to us.
We started off this week on a very good note called Olive Garden. Shout out to my awesome parents for giving me a gift card so we could enjoy unlimited soup, salad, and breadsticks. The only sad part about our trip to Olive Garden was that we went 2.5 hours before dinner. So we stuffed ourselves there and at dinner. I haven’t eaten that much in a while so it was a little rough the rest of the night. My stomach has definitely shrunk on the mission and I can’t put away as much food as I used to. I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing.
We did a lot of service this week. There’s a lady in our ward who’s trying to organize her house more, so we went over last week and we’re going again this week. We’ve spent a few hours there and it doesn’t look like we’ve made a dent. Her house needs a lot of help. And then we did dishes at someone’s house, and Sister Hart was a champ and she washed while I dried. The kitchen looked 100% better when we left over 2 hours later. It taught me an important lesson: if your dishes take over 2 hours to do, you have a problem. It felt good to serve some people though, because we haven’t done service in a very long time.
The most exciting thing that happened this week was finding two new people to teach! That hasn’t happened in a very long time either. One of them lived in Damascus and speaks mostly Arabic, and a little bit of English. We have to talk very slowly and very simply, but she wants to learn more about the gospel so we’re going to make it work. The other lady lost contact with the missionaries a few years ago so it’s a miracle we found her again. Her last name is Miracles so I think that’s a sign.
That’s all for this week folks! Have a fantastic week and remember that everything happens for a reason. That’s a lesson I’m learning a lot out here.
Ciao,
Sister Schroeder
One of our eggs froze in the fridge and Sister Hart was the lucky one who tried to crack it:
We took pictures by a Joshua tree because that’s a stereotypical thing for missionaries to do in this mission:
We got Cold Stone for Sister Hart’s 4-month mark:
She’s the cutest!
