A Day In the Life of a Missionary

Hi Everyone!

The broadcast yesterday is definitely going to change, quite a good amount about missionary work. You said, "it's exciting that I am part of such a huge change" and it is exciting. However, more importantly you guys back home are part of that change - the only way this change can happen is if the members step up and go out with the missionaries, give them referrals etc. I am excited to hear the stories of those people you guys bring into the church also!!!

This week was a pretty crazy week, we had tons of appointments. In fact many of those appointments were with members seeking after referrals. We have been doing this for quite a while and it really is beginning to show some fruits. We are now teaching two member referrals and we received two more referrals this Sunday.

When I say this week was crazy, I will give you an example of this past Saturday. I documented a day in the life as a missionary. I actually stopped taking pictures around 6:00 pm so I missed 3 stops that we made.

1-3 baptism for John, that's me on the right standing in waist deep water 
4- go back to the apartment (shower)

5- leave the apartment 
6- walk down the street then turn left (this is right outside my apartment)

7- walk along the Savannah 
 8- walk across the Savannah
 9- teach a lesson at this house (kadafi)

10- walk down the street  
11- teach a lesson at this house 
12- walk up a hill and down a trail

13-14 teach a lesson down the trail at this house

15-walk back up the hill and down the hill again

Lots of walking...

16- a members car drove us to the church we helped him prepare his talk for Sunday 
17- teach a lesson at this house 

18- walk up a huge hill for the third time that day then go and teach two more lessons 
(I missed two pictures sorry)

19- meet a member next to this store 

Traditional Trini food that i made. it's Roti and Curry

Here is one story for the week! Elder Salima and I met Jesus Christ on Friday, oh yeah we also met Billy Grahm or however you spell his name. ... this was a vagrant we met walking down a hill. He began talking to us so we kind of got stuck there. We probably got stuck talking to him for like 5 minutes, cause if you tell him you have to go they will just say "alright one last thing" and then talk for another long while. I will tell you right now, if any person came strait down from the states and talked to a vagrant here they would never ever be able to understand them. But hey I can hold a conversation with them now! So yeah just like Connor, I had to learn another language ;) haha but the one I learned was quite a lot easier.

Anyway this Sunday was crazy, we spent 2 hours traveling to and from church and 7 hours at church. This was because of the broadcast, it is amazing to see the commitment of the people here to come to church! I just think, what if we had to spend over an hour and a half traveling to church (like most of the people here do) I wonder how many people would show up to church?

Well now onto the important stuff ;) We had a pretty cool experience with "M" this week. Since his father stopped him from coming to church I thought a lot about what we as missionaries could do, I prayed for guidance, scoured over scriptures I could share with his dad and came up with ever possible apology, explanation, etc. After I had formulated what we should say and do I prayed again for guidance. As I prayed, I basically felt that sharing these things with his father would do nothing. I then felt that what we should speak to his father about was of the great goodness of God. To share with him the great love that God has for him and his family and then to bear witness of the great blessings that can come into his life from the teachings of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It was quite amazing to have this experience. Just another great testimony builder that the Lord will help us after we have done all that we can do. From that, I also realized there is something "M" can do, we taught him about fasting and prayer and asked him if he would fast and pray with us on Sunday, to soften his dads heart. He loved the lesson! It is amazing to see the faith of people being exercised. And guess what? after all of this, when "M" asked his dad if he could come to church, his dad openly said yes! Awesome!

"T" is doing great he received an answer last week that the organization of the church is Gods'. We just need to help him realize what exactly that means. He loves the Book of Mormon! He started reading it just a little while ago and he is now basically one of those people who can't put the book down. When we stop by during the week, we basically just help him understand what he read, because he doesn't have much of an education.

Oh, I have yet to tell you about "V"! "V" is a mostly blind man we have been teaching, we didn't think much of him at first because he just sat in on a lesson we had with a more solid investigator. However, he came to church this week for the whole nine hours and he loved it! He also expressed to us that ever since we taught him it is all he has been able to think about. It is incredible to see how the spirit works in different people! He wants to come to church every week now and we are going to set a baptismal date for him very soon.

To Pops,

I can definitely see the workings of the spirit out here when we teach. In just these couple months my testimony of the fact that the spirit works through missionaries has definitely increased. I have learned a lot down here. the people here don't have the greatest education so most of the time they don't fully understand the lesson. Because of this I have thought to myself what can I do to help these people understand more. As I studied and prayed about this the spirit bore witness to me that I am not the one doing the teaching, the spirit is. Its cool to hear that experience you had and i think about it a lot. the spirit has definitely directed me to stray from our lesson plan, and It is awesome to see how the spirit moves you to teach.

I love you guys and I thank you so much for the great support!

Have an awesome week!

Love,
Elder Schroeder

This week has flown by! I am already almost half way through my second transfer, my goodness how the time is flying! Sounds like a fun water park - they supposedly have one here over the ocean called Harry's or something. Hearing that makes me miss the ocean, can you believe it, I live on an island and I miss the ocean? haha! It's cool that you got to go to the speedway, looks like fun.

That is a sweet story dad, I do recall the name Matt, I think you have mentioned that story in the past. And also about what you said that it is an accumulation of experiences that changed you. I can definitely see that Satan has a huge grip here and already I can see that Satan works in lucrative and hidden ways whereas God works powerfully and gloriously. I am sure that throughout my mission, I will see it ever more. Thank you for that.

Alright the crazy story from last week... Myself and Elder Contrerez - we were on trade offs, met a lady that exclaimed, "I love to see my sons!!" she then invited us inside. Once we got inside her gate she locked it behind us and yelled to one of her friends on the street and said that we were two gentleman from England who have come to spend the night with her. After she stated how old she was and that she was born on June 28th 1921 she said she wanted to show us something weird. As we followed her through her yard she continued to relay to us on more than one occasion that she was born on June 28th 1921. She led us to her backyard and showed us the view from her backyard and said now you have something weird to tell your brethren when you meet up with them again. crazy !! You had to of been there. Then she led us back to her front gate and before she left she said that we can just call her moms when we see her again. As we left we said, "bye moms" she looked at us strangely with her hands on her hips and said, "no, no, no Moms is for your mothers call me Grammy" she was crazy ..... it was pretty funny - now anyway, at the time it wasn't too funny. I have met more crazy people than you would ever believe. So many people are affected by drug use and what not. 

Anyway here are some more Trini things. The people here love to add the letter S to the end of words. For instance: traffics, that's mines, and whatever word they really want to. Also the people here think physical labor is super hard, like cutting bush which is super easy or shoveling and carrying gravel. Anything that requires physical labor the people here think you need to hire someone who specializes in it. Like a gravel carrier or a bush cutter. There are also some other weird things I have learned about - they have things called manicues which are basically opossums and its a delicacy here. Also, you know that tree we had growing in our back yard that was destroying the sidewalk, it is a native tree here. I have also eaten so many different types of mango's I cant even think of them all! .. long ones, short ones, tiny ones, huge ones, slimy ones, dry ones, some of them taste pretty weird. I am sending a picture of the doubles here - they are the texture of crepes - kind of, and they put curried garbanzo beans on them (they call that chana) they are amazing!

                                                                     Doubles

One of my friends emailed me and he talked about the weather on his mission. He said it is 99 degrees and like 50% humidity and he had to walk everywhere cause their car privileges we taken away. it just made me laugh. I will tell you it is the worst when it starts to rain and the clouds have yet to block the sun its like over a hundred degrees and raining . 

Now to the important stuff. "M" the 15 year old boy I told you about, who is a solid investigator is supposed to be baptized on the 29th of this month but his father won't allow him to come to church. His dad was offended about 10 years ago. Could you pray for him that his heart will be softened? "T" is doing great! He has been struggling receiving a confirmation from the Holy Ghost that this is the true church and on Sunday in gospel principles he got his answer!!!!! So now basically all he has to do is get his divorce finalized and be married then baptized! booyah!! "J" who is 11 was able to come to church and he loved it! His dad took him and he loves his dad. His dad is supposed to be baptized this Saturday. He seems to be taking the lessons very seriously. The other night when we ended the lesson, we asked him if he would pray as usual, and he did. It was a lovely prayer but in the prayer he expressed that he will likely drink in the future. We have yet to teach him the Word of Wisdom.

It just struck home to me of how different it is here. The kids here see everyone over 15 drink and they see their parents have many relationships.  It just amazes me how much iniquity there is here. The people change so much for the gospel and it is amazing!!! 

We also went to the zoo today - the zoo is sketchy haha., no it was super fun cause you can basically play with the animals and they also have three ocelots which are awesome!!! There was also a crocodile cage that basically if you wanted to you could touch the crocodile.

Well, I love you all until next week. 
Love,
Elder Schroeder

Interesting & Awesome!

Last week was interesting on Friday (5/31) we got fed breakfast lunch and dinner. Breakfast by an investigator - while we doing service and digging a cesspit about 6 feet deep we had a type of roti that is kind of like a quesadilla. Lunch with a different family, we had coo coo with kingfish. And dinner with a someone in the ward we had Potato salad, macaroni pie, pelow, and Stewed Chicken, that was amazing. However, at about two in the morning Saturday night I woke up with food poisoning. I never threw up but laid in bed for about two hours not able to fall asleep. I finally fell asleep but when I woke up in the morning I felt exactly the same. I stayed in bed til about 7:30 :/ A cool thing about this experience though is that I prayed for strength to go throughout the day  and it was given to me. Pretty much all of our appointments fell through that day so we went to members houses to try and get some referrals. By and by Elder Salima and I ended up doing service by cutting bush for two hours, it was pretty interesting and fun.

Lots of opportunity to help people out.

This week has been pretty awesome! Today is the two month anniversary of me being on my mission.

P- day today 6/10/13 Maracas Falls

For the young women preparing to go on a mission really emphasize the first couple lessons in preach my gospel meaning the restoration, plan of salvation, and the gospel of Jesus Christ. When you know these lessons deeply you can teach them simply. There is a saying that goes for students when they learn vocabulary - if you cant explain a word simply, you don't know it good enough. The same goes for the lessons in order to teach them simply you have got to know them inside and out.
The two teenagers we are teaching love the message we have and they really don't like the people that live around them - cause they are always drunk of doing other things. This is good cause it is hard to find youth who don't like to participate in those types of things here. They both want to know the truth really badly so its only a matter of time. We have taught the restoration to one of them and the other the restoration and the plan of salvation. Thank you so much for the idea of using the For the Strength of Youth. I didn't even think about it! If it isn't available to us at the mission office then we will just get one from church. By the way it is a young woman she's 17 and the young man is 15, they are cousins.

The work is going awesome here we just started teaching a kid, his dad is going to be baptized soon, the dad lives in Diego Martin and the son lives in our area so we get to teach him. It was pretty crazy how it worked out, we actually had been teaching the mom without knowing that the dad - who had been coming to church, was the father of her kids. When we asked if we could teach her son she gladly said yes. Getting permission to teach youth here is super hard. The kids are usually super excited about it but the parents don't trust us.

Yes, I am sleeping well because I work out every day! Who says you get out of shape on your mission.
Interesting fact the other day I was in a maxi and it had air conditioning and I actually pushed the vent away from me cause I was cold, it was still probably like 75 degrees in there haha.

To pops
Happy Fathers Day! You have been a great father and your guidance has always helped me - especially as I was growing up. I really appreciate the opportunity I had to work with you so much before I left on my mission, we got to do quite a lot together which I thought was pretty awesome. You have been a great father and I am sure you probably will continue to be ;) haha.

I feel like once you get the taste of missionary work and really get to teach someone, no matter how inexperienced you are, each missionary has something they can offer that another missionary can't. It really is awesome because after basically the first week every missionary in the district speaks with credibility. It is super hard to explain exactly what I am thinking. Anyway, I am loving the mission, even though it can be challenging. I also know that it is definitely changing my life. What would you say changed your life the most on your mission just curious??

Love,
Elder Schroeder (The Real #1)

P.S. I didn't really have time to tell you the crazy story this week but I should be able to share it next week.


FYI- you can look at Connor's post and you'll see there is a little rivalry between our boys. They both think they are #1. They actually are; Connor was 1st born by a whole 4 minutes and Kyle was the 1st to leave on his mission. I think they are both great!!

Momentous week!

Well that's great that Connor got there without a hitch. Its crazy to think we are a full world width apart.

This week was a momentous week! Besides zone conference, I got attacked by a dog for the first time. I did pretty good, it was a medium sized dog so I held my ground and took a couple pretend (but very fierce) kicks at the dog and then kept walking. It was pretty terrifying, definitely got my heart pounding haha. The other missionaries keep asking me if anyone has tried to rob us yet. I am very curious how that will go, if it every really does happen. Every missionary I have talked to here seems to has a story about it so ... 

We do arrange with the members to go out with us and I spoke in church last Sunday. It is amazing the attention that the members give to missionaries here. Basically because every person in church is a convert, so the people here hold us in very high regard. So when i spoke it was like every person was staring with the most extreme intent, and they hung on to every word... so it was quite different than speaking in a ward back home. 

Zone conference was awesome! I got to get to know my mission president a little better which was fun. Before that however was of course all the lessons, there was a lot of emphasis on the concept of member missionary work. President Mehr specifically spoke about how we as missionaries are teachers and the members are finders. He also spoke concerning the problems or concerns that missionaries have regarding obedience. He is definitely an inspired man he spoke about every single thing I had questions about. My interview with the president went really well, I spent the most time with him out of all the missionaries cause right when i got in there someone from church headquarters had called him and he had to pay some bills for the mission right away so he spent about 15 minutes doing that while we just talked. So about 20 minutes into the interview, the interview actually started. We talked about lots of the doctrines in the scriptures we both enjoyed ,and we probably spent 10 minutes looking for one scripture that we both knew but we couldn't find. In the end we couldn't find it so he asked me to tell him what it is when I find it. It was Hebrews 11:3. 

The work here is going good. We taught one of our investigators the law of Chastity this week and we found out that the woman living with him is not his wife :/ bummer! He was married before and he hasn't been able to get a divorce so that is why he isn't married to the woman he is living with. He has however been working on the divorce for the past couple weeks (even before we started talking to him about it) so it should be wrapped up soon and he should be married. We also started teaching his younger sister and she loves the gospel too so hopefully she will get baptized too.

It's getting ever easier to wake up early and work out, which definitely helps throughout the day. I think I have already gained 5-10 pounds from both eating very well and working out every day. 

The rainy season has definitely started it has been raining quite a bit. It has basically been raining all day today and half of yesterday and some the day before. I have some pictures on the Savannah in which I am soaking wet. It's so funny here when people see you soaking wet they say "what are you thinking? you are going to get a cold" all I think is are you kidding me its like 80 degrees out haha. I just tell them "oh back home when it rains it is freezing so I am used to it"  I have also taught a lesson while the woman we are teaching is breast feeding (with nothing covering her or anything) its quite different here.

We had a big activity for all the missionaries last week in Port of Spain - it was like a sports activity. So since our apartment is the apartment in Port of Spain, it basically became the staging house. Lots of the missionaries didn't sleep at their apartments the night before so they could get to the activity so basically nobody had eaten breakfast. So I made pancakes for about a 10 missionaries. 

I'm starting to get into the swing of things here and getting use to the area. I know my way around the area really well now. However, with getting to know the investigators and people here I am really starting to understand the struggles of the area. It's pretty frustrating actually because I know that if people just listened to us and did what we asked them they could receive so so much more than they even know is possible. I have already been out in the field about a month, pretty crazy. Its weird to think I am living in the Caribbean.

Thanks for the scripture reference, Connor actually wrote me and said the same thing - to read John 15 Thank you for sharing that, I will read it. A mission is quite a bit more trying than I expected but it is awesome. 

I hope you guys have an awesome week and oh yes I have gotten a hair cut I did it myself hehe. 

Love,

Elder Schroeder

Me and my companion Elder Salima. A cool bug I found.
I'm learning Samoan from these two, Elder Gibson (left)

Elder Hill (left) Elder Ferrin (right) they came out with me from the MTC.
Soaking wet on the Savannah (middle of town)

"wheas-da-seen"

Thanks for all the information about the money and razors and stuff. I got the Razors they were delivered Monday at 2pm my time. Thanks for sending them, they work great! It's nice to have enough to last the whole 2 years.  We have a district meeting every Tuesday at the mission office, that's when I picked them up. Yes, I have met the Monson's they are super nice. We had a car wash over there last p-day and they fed us. To answer the questions about how we contact people here, well when we meet people on the street you say "good day" (or whatever time of the day it is afternoon, night, morning, etc.) and then you say "how are you" or "wheas-da-seen" (if you say the word phonetically as fast as you can you will be saying it correctly) and when you say "wheas-da-seen" you put your hand up in front of you like you would if you yelled "what!" Then you start talking to the person. The people here are generally super nice and basically everyone you try to talk to will stop and listen to you, just out of respect. About a third of the people we talk to are pretty interested in what we have to say. Besides all that the people here are very, very friendly and very inviting. When we approach houses we go up to their front gate and yell "good day inside!" Which seemed a little weird at first. Now, I think knocking on doors would be weird.

We have two new investigators last week. They are the most promising they each love what we have to teach them. One of them we contacted calling into a house, the first time we met her we taught her a 45 minute lesson on the restoration and she loved it. She expressed to us that she wondered why there were so many churches on the earth today an that she had been searching for the one true church. The only sad thing is she doesn't live in our area so we are going to have to hand her off to the zone leaders. The second one is basically is a dream to teach, because she has never really been taught anything about religion, so we got to basically start from square one with her. She loves the lessons and has three kids two of which that are old enough to be baptized also! The last turns 8 at the end of next month. The only thing that is really difficult with the investigators here is getting them to come to church, cause basically everyone works on Sunday :/ which stinks cause it is a requirement for baptism. Those two investigators baptismal date is set for June 1 so hopefully they can come to church. The man I told you about last week is another investigator who is really progressing, he has been fellowshipped by the elders quorum president. He came to church on Sunday and loved it!! His baptismal date is the 25 of this month and it will be in the Ocean. He seems super excited so hopefully he keeps coming to church. It

One quick story on the third day I was here we visited a less active family. After we taught them a lesson on keeping the sabbath day holy they offered us food, so we said yes. They gave my Elder Salima and I huge plates of food we insisted that they eat with us but they said they will eat after, so after blessing it we started to eat. Their little kids probably around 4 and 5 were just hovering around us gawking at us. Elder Salima then yelled outside to the father and said "are your kids hungry" he yelled back saying "they better be they haven't eaten for two days" Elder Salima and I looked at each other with looks of astonishment and since both of the parents were out of the kitchen we promptly handed the food to the kids.

Also one last, thing keep your eyes peeled for a picture of me and my companion in the Ensign or Liahona, basically any church publication. At the baptism this last Saturday an older missionary couple showed up from church publicity. They had us each sign a release form for our pictures and she continued to take about a million pictures of the whole processions but mainly she focused on Elder Salima and I. So, if you see any pictures from Trinidad in church publications look out for me. haha..
 In ward council last week the Bishop talked about the fact the ward needs a disaster plan set up before the end of next week cause we will experience about 10 hurricanes this season... their hurricanes I found out are not really hurricanes, they are just big storms.

I learned some customs here this last week. Whenever people get together in somebodies home for a birthday or something they get a loaf of bread say a prayer holding it in their hands and then break it put honey over it and each person there eats a piece. Also here the people more so eat a small breakfast a very large lunch and a small dinner. I am pretty well used to it... your body feels way better too just saying. here is an interesting fact if you were wondering, there is a steel drum band that plays outside of your apartment pretty much every night. I didn't think that something like that would really happen. haha...

I love you all and it was great getting to see you guys and talk to you on Skype... tell Grandma I love her too.
                                            

Maracas Beach P-day

                         

                                         

First area- Trinidad, Port of Spain

Elder Schroeder and Elder Salima

Looking down on the city

Baptism at Blue Basin

Wheasdaseen nahbuy!!!! Yep, that's one of the slang words here it means whats happening boy. I am serving in the Port of Spain in area 2. If you look up pictures of the area its basically the main city and the hills surrounding it. It was super hard to understand the people here the first one or two days but now it comes pretty easy. You know the stereotype where everyone walks down the streets saying "good day brotha" yep that is definitely true. So every person you pass on the street you greet by saying, good morning, goodnight, etc., depending on the time of the day. Also, there are really weird slang words like "whamto nahbuy". The first lesson I taught was with a less active member and it was on the floor in her hut. The people here have a ton of weird names, words, food, and drinks. On Saturday, we had a baptism at a place called blue basin which is under a waterfall, and we went to their house after for lunch and we had giro neck (chicken neck), some rice dish and a drink called mauby which is super strong its made by boiling down tree bark. I had roti the first day here, I have also had what they call doubles, they are both super good. I have already had some crazy experiences here we taught a lady and she is a spiritual baptist, she has been an investigator for awhile so we went to just follow up on whether or not she had been praying to know whether or not the church was true. She said yes, she has been praying to the holy spirit. We went on to tell he that we pray to Heavenly Father and we explained why. She still didn't understand, we asked her how she prayed... She continued to say you don't wanna know how I pray, you don't wanna know!!! After we persuaded her to tell us she started rocking back and forth and yelled some gibberish this went on for about thirty seconds. The moment she began to speak you could feel the power of Satan just surround the place. It was extreme... this was my first day. I can definitely tell that the adversary has a huge foothold here. However, those people who are good people here, are extremely good. The members here are awesome, some of them even walk around with us all day to our various appointments. Let me tell you our area is huge!!! To make it even worse there is this area called Laventille, there is a war going on and we can't go there, and basically a third of our area is on the other side of Laventille so if we want to go to the other side we have to catch a maxi to the other side which is ridiculous. I have heard gunshots but don't be worried the area is really far away from where i am (I think) haha ;) It isn't as hot as I anticipated, I do actually have to run in order to break a sweat. The other new missionaries are dying though, they are getting eaten alive and sweating like crazy regardless of the weather. The bugs aren't nearly as bad as I thought they would be. I have yet to put on bug spray and have only gotten two or three bug bites. It really depends on the area though our apartment is supposedly one of the nicest if not the nicest in the entire mission. We have a/c and hot pressurized water, the water here is pretty nice. I forgot to mention my companion his name is elder Salima and he is from Samoa he has trained one missionary before me and he is awesome. English is his second language but he is super good I couldn't even tell when i first met him. After our first lesson he basically said to me (as my trainer) I don't even need to train you, you are already trained. That was definitely a comfort, coming out of the MTC feeling comfortable with the lesson helped me more than I know. It is so much fun to teach people and see the lights just illuminate when they hear the truth! The power of the Book of Mormon in conversion is amazing, more amazing than I could even imagine. We have 5 investigators right now, you will hear more about them next week.

My first experience after going through customs was that of piling 14+ missionaries into an 12 passenger van and ten driving insanely down a highway which is one of three in the entire mission. Spent the night at a nice bed and breakfast, the next day met my trainer Elder Salima and went over to my area. Port of Spain, all the elders like Port of Spain mostly cause it has all the amenities you could want, and the biggest ward in the mission. Supposedly, this is the most successful place and all the elders hear are jealous that i get to be "born" here. In other words, this is my first area. Basically, all week has been just regular missionary life, going out teaching the truth. The investigators we have right now are awesome. We have one that is our most solid, we basically have to get her to come to church and then she is ready. The only problem is that the church is under construction right now so we have to take a maxi all the way down to Arima which is about a 30 minute drive. This makes it super hard to get people to come to church. Another investigator has just recently received a confirmation that the Book of Mormon is true, but he is having problems committing to live the commandments, he smokes and I don't know what else, but he is really trying to figure it out. The third one, we just taught for the first time and she is basically already a Mormon and doesn't even know it, I hope she figures it out, haha. We are teaching an older man and he loves to visit with us, time is just a precious commodity for him and it is hard to get him to commit to read the Book of Mormon. He is definitely going to read it, just only on his own time.  I savor the time that I have to share what I know, and look forward to the time that I still have. I just hope it doesn't go by too fast. Well I love you guys and I will talk to you later. Until next week. Also, it rains a lot here .... haha

Elder Schroeder

MTC and travel to Trinidad

We were so happy Kyle was able to call us this morning bright and early. He was the first group off to the Salt Lake airport at 3am, he said there were a lot leaving to make room for the missionaries coming tomorrow. There were 2 chartered busses, two "old folks home busses, and three vans." There would be more leaving a little bit later in the morning too. He had an amazing experience in the mission training center. He said, "The MTC is awesome! My companions name is Elder Gutierrez, he is from Phoenix, Arizona and we are super similar. We clicked right away and we have taught each other so much. I can already teach all four discussions without a hiccup, not only that, I have found I have a natural talent at connecting the lessons to their life. The spirit is so strong here and is the true teacher. I have learned so much in such a short time. I have already grown in my love for the people we will teach, I am so excited to get out there and teach them!!" His group will travel together there are 18 of them (2 French speaking and 16 English)
In our conversation this morning, I challenged him to find someone in the airport to take his and Elder Gutierrez's picture and text it to me. He said he had been talking to a woman this morning who was nice and her faith is baptist, he wanted to give her a pass along card (for those who don't know what that is, its a small card with a with a picture on it and a gospel message to invite them to learn more about Jesus Christ or other topics) I assume he continued to visit with her. The picture of the group is attached to this post and was sent within a few minutes of us hanging up and it was sent to 8 other missionary moms as well:) Made me happy! Kyle has always been comfortable talking to anyone of any age, it's not uncomfortable for him to talk with someone he doesn't know. No doubt, he is going to do just fine! Monday will be a day to look forward to for the next to years, thats the day he sends an email:)