Another great suprise came in the mail yesterday! I got the CD you sent,
Jen! Thank you so much! I love Nashville Tribute, and it`s an awesome CD! I also
got the announcement for Corinne`s graduation finally! Congrats again
sis!
Anyway...not much has happened since we talked as a family on Sunday!
Unfortunately I wasn`t able to get to internet yesterday due to some weird
circumstances that we had. Just some bad planning on our part, but we were able
to get permission to come today. :)
It`s really weird to think that in just one week I could be in a completely
different area of the mission...I`ve heard that the areas really are way
different. Some of them, for instance have to wash their own clothes! Mom asked
me a couple questions about that, here we actually have a lady that does our
laundry for us once a week. Also, in other areas, the pensionista doesn`t cook
for the missionaries on the weekends, the members do! FYI, all she does for us
is cook...and then we have our laundry lady. :) We don`t have maids
mom...unfortunately we have to clean our apartments ourselves!
Also, just to answer a few questions mom had asked, the market has pretty
much everything you could think of in it: clothes, sound systems, TV`s,
vegetables, fruits, chicken, pirated DVD`s (a LOT of them), etc. They usually
have all of the food in one area. A lot of people own their own tiny store,
which usually has some cleaning supplies, which really only consists of clorox
bleach and a mark off of Tide, and food. I don`t really like the parts that are
pure food...tons of flies everywhere. It also doesn`t smell the greatest because
you`ve got a bunch of chicken mixed with the smell of rotting tomatoes and
stuff. Glad I don`t have to shop there!
As far as my companion...I really haven`t shared much, have I? He really is
an amazing guy! Elder Ramirez only has one brother, and they live with his
parents. He was just baptized two years ago at the age of 24! He BARELY got to
go on a mission, and even got his call after he had turned 25, but he felt the
impression to go on his mission, and so here he is! He`s studying to be an
OBGYN, and is super smart. He`s grown up most of his life in Guanaco, which is
pretty far down south in Peru. He`s grown up near the jungle and has told me of
a few crazy experiences he`s had down there in the jungles!
His parents are not members, but his brother was baptized just after him.
One crazy thing is that a lot of his family didn`t even know he was on his
mission for two years until Sunday! I guess a few of them are really opposed,
saying he should come home and finish his studying. I`m really impressed at how
devoted he is to the missionary work, and the way he follows through with the
spiritual promptings he receives from God. God told him to go on a mission, and
so he`s here, despite the many friends and family members that called him crazy
and tried to get him to stay.
As far as if he`s funny, he`s a pretty funny guy! He has a way of finding
one tiny thing funny and then always repeating it...it honestly used to annoy me
because I didn`t find it funny the 50th time! However, I think it`s just kind of
his character now, and we have had some fun times together. One thing that may
not be the best thing we`ve done...but hey, Elder Smith and I have to occupy
ourselves somehow...we taught Elder Yupa and Elder Ramirez how to say `I like to
wipe my bum` which somehow Elder Smith turned it into `Kiss my bum, fruitcake!`
I know it`s very immature and not something that we should teach our latin
companions considering they know so little english...but hearing them say it
with their spanish accents may be the most hilarious thing in the world! :)
Sadly, my maturaty may be going down mom. ;) Haha, but really...I promise you I
wasn`t the one who started that one!
Well...I need to go now, we`ve got an appointment we`re supposed to be at
soon. I love you all! Thanks for all of the letters and support I receive from
you! I`m praying for you all every night!
Love,
Elder Schofield
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