11/18/09

JD is sitting next to Elder Richard G. Scott

Hey Everyone,

So this week was... slow. Not really anything happened. So sorry this email is going to be so short.

Umm so we have a mission rule that at all times we have to have a book of mormon in our hands. So we all have little plastic folders that we keep the book of mormons in to protect it from the rain. And also in it I kept a picture of the family and that map of the US that you sent so I could show people my family and where I lived. Brazilians love that kinda stuff. Also it has some other important papers and some reciepts and things of that nature. We call it our wife because it is always with us... Unfortunatly I lost my wife this week. We were in Sorocaba and I left it on the bus. Which is terribly unfortunate. But oh well.

Thats not all. Also each compaionship has a cell phone, which is pretty much our life, because we have to use it to call the other missionaries to report the numbers, and we need it to call the members and our investiagators to comfirm appointments and what not. .. so anyways, last week we got of the bus and Elder Briggs was like OH CRAP! ...The cell phone fell out of his pocket on the bus. We waited for the bus to come back after doing its round and the phone wasn't on the bus. So we ran to a members house and called it, but it was already off... someone took it.

Then last night Elder Briggs lost his wife with had the remaineder of all the important papers that we own.

So as of right now me and elder briggs are without wives and without a cell phone.

São Roque is a really lonely place right now. It feels like were on an island in the middle of nowhere.

But other than that everything is going great!

Thanks for all you love and support!

Love
Elder Schoen

The mail is suddenly incredibly slow to Sao Paulo.  I mailed a box on October 13th and it still has not gone through customs.  Before it took 3 weeks.  I am worried he will not get the Christmas boxes in time - so please pray for the mail to Brazil!!