Mom, tell jenny i wish her the best of luck and that i know the lord is on her side. She just needs to keep a happy attitude the whole day so that they can see what a loving generous person she is. She wont have any problem if she trusts in the lord with her whole heart mind might and strength. look up Joshua 1:9.
I am done with my second week and i leave for West Virginia in t-minus 4 days. I have my flight plans and i have when im gonna call home all worked out. So heres the deal, on Monday at 1:10 i will be calling home via skype so be prepared for the best call of your life. So get dad home and be ready for me. (Mom, I need your skype name) they said i can call for however long i want but probably only an hour. Im super excited to call everyone and say hi! My flight plans are this: be at the travel office at 3:30 in the morning. Get on the plane at 7:40 and leave for atlanta georgia. Get to georgia. Have a three hour layover. Fly to West Virginia and ill get there around 4-5. And then from there i will meet my mission president and his wife, have dinner with them, and sleep at their house. Then wednesday we are having a cultural tour and get to know west virginia day. then sleep over again and then on thursday Ill be shipped out to my new area! Whats crazy is that my whole group of people flying to west virgina consists of 25 people. Im super excited!
My week consisted of many very exciting things, as always. haha on friday we had an exciting day of classes but really nothing happened. But saturday. I had the most amazing class of my life! We practiced teaching an investigator to pray and we had a situation with an investigator during this where she did not want to pray because she was atheist. By the way my teacher was gone so we combined with elder quirings district and it was so fun, also the teacher switched up companionships during this class because sometimes it gets too repetitive to teach with the same companion, its good to switch it up so that you can learn new things. So i got to role play this investigator and elder quiring and elder roper got to help me learn how to pray. And it was so amazing. I felt the spirit so strong and i knew heavenly father was there with us and that he cares for me so much! And I know elder quiring is killing it out there in nashville. He left on monday so the last time i saw him was sunday. and im super sad that hes gone now. Apparently he came looking for me one last time to say goodbye and i wasnt there! so yay me for not being in my class at that time. I was going to get something i think. But its all good. I know hes going to be the best missionary our there in Nashville! and also saturday we had a super long devotional about the history of the church which was interesting but all the while super boring because of the way they presented it and then we went and watched the stadium of fire fireworks which was pretty good i guess haha.
Then sunday was super long but really good. We got to walk around the temple. And then we went to sacrament meeting and it was so amazing. It was cool to see how eager everyone was to share their testimony. it went way over. haha and dinner was basically a delicacy for us starving missionaries. We had a salsa party and it was fun but the salsa basically was the hottest thing i ever tasted so i didnt eat much of it. ps. sister missionaries love whales (the crackers) its kinda funny. i pulled mine out and everyone wanted some haha
Then monday came and some of my favorite missionarys left for their mission. They really helped me a lot and helped me realize that i need to kick satan out of my head and realize that i can still have fun while im here. and we didnt even really celebrate at all which i guess was okay, haha but me and some of my friends here took some pictures, and they really do not know how to take silly pictures or clear ones so the pictures are all kinda blurry. sorry bout that.
Then tuesday came and we had a devotional that kinda made us all feel bad. it was one of those devotionals that are meant to weed out the people who havent repented yet but in all actuality all they do is make everyone feel like they are the worst person in the world, which was definitely how i was feeling. But being the strong girl i am, i dwelled on it a little bit, prayed and felt a comforting feeling from my heavenly father then i kicked those unworthy feelings and thoughts to the curb, where they belong! but then me and the girls in my room kinda talked about the things we were feeling and it was good to see that everyone was feeling how i was and it was good to see how strong we all were and that even though we felt like that that we would stick it out because we know what our heavenly father wants us to be. But a downside to this night was that my district kinda got in trouble because some of us had left early and our district president was going to say hi but me and my companion stayed so she could talk to him and our district presidents wife came and talked to us and we kinda told her what our elders were doing during their down time and they got mad about that too. but me and my companion felt like it was the right thing to do because they were doing some things that are not allowed on the mission field. like looking up sport pages and emailing not on p-day. so that was great, but then yesterday our elders were starting to shape up so that was good.
July 7, 2016
But lets see, what else happened... yesterday i got to host new missionaries! and i got to host one of my best friends that i danced with! Sister Hodgson! And so that was cool, it was really sad to see these poor kids being ripped away from their families but it was so fun too! haha And sister hodgson said to me that you guys are posting sad stuff about me missing things while im gone and that made me sad because i dont want you guys to feel like im missing things, in fact i want you to think about all the amazing things i am getting to do here and all the things that i am going to tell you about when i get back home! So dont think about it as im missing everything, think of it as that i am getting one of the best experiences of my life here!
Good luck to all my karate friends who are going to be performing these next few weeks and for all my friends testing this next week, you guys are going to kill it!!
Mom, tell michelle im praying for her and her son. Hope all goes well.
I cant wait to see all the cool things you are doing with the house, by the way... hows my plant doing?
my TRC investigator this week has been much easier, she understands everything and really feels the spirit when we are teaching so thats been an amazing experience seeing someone actually understand and accept the gospel into their lives!
Being honest, my district has really started to get on my nerves this past week. They have all been so rowdy and they dont talk during lessons at all so i feel like i am getting nothing out of it but i am, just i would like to hear from them every once in a while you know?
i am honestly just so excited to talk to you guys. i dont know what else to talk about. Thats really all thats happened. I got to see a lot of friends yesterday and yeah it was cool.
Please send letters, theyve really slowed down which is funny because ive only been gone for two weeks. haha but i really do wanna hear from you!!
I dont know what else to say, so im gonna go, but if you want to talk to me today i can reply until six!
Love you all so much!!!
Sister Schoemig
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