Thanks for your emails. I love hearing about things happening back home like 7" of snow at Mt. Baker. We are just drenched here, either with sweat or rain, sometimes both. I did get my birthday package, 2 weeks ago when Elder Holland came. The candy is gone... dang, but I am excited to open my presents! I plan to go to a member’s house in my neighborhood for dinner on my birthday. I’ll bring the cake there. I am so excited to eat a cheese cake with cherries! That's going to be amazing!
We have a mango tree right outside our house on the other side of a big concrete wall. Every few days a mango or two will fall on our side. They are really ripe and kind of explode. Sometimes the ants get to it before we do, but we try to eat them anyways. We had one for breakfast this morning. From my study room upstairs I can see a mango tree, coconut tree, papayas, corn, kamongay ( a leaf that they put in soup, supposedly the most healthy vegetable in the ENTIRE WORLD!), and just out of sight are endless rows of sugar cane. I am going to miss that when I go home. We just have plums and pears and some rhubarb shrubs. Coconut is amazing!
I love being district leader. The Lord really does qualify who He calls. The increase in revelation has been amazing! I have given 14 baptismal interviews this transfer, and each one I do a little differently. The spirit really does guide. Sometimes I am prompted to teach a doctrine or share a scripture, and other times there is a question that is not mandatory that helps me to better understand their concerns. Our zone had 5 baptisms last month and has a goal for 8 more this transfer! There are only 4 companionships too! Bogo zone is one of the leading zones in the mission. My area hasn't had a baptism for over a month and probably won’t for the next month or so. We are trying hard to find new investigators right now. It is a bit of a struggle, but we are having some success. Last week we had 26 lessons and 20 new investigators. Hopefully we can get some progressing towards baptism.
Yesterday I made a layered dessert for our zone activity today. It has graham crackers, then fruit, then cream and sweet and condensed milk mixed, layered four times. You eat it frozen. Hopefully it is good.
Well I love you all. Take care!
Elder Schenk
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