Hola

This week has been #awesome. We have been working so hard and with these new changes that have been implemented, I feel really good. :) 

So to start off we picked up some new investigators and they are super awesome. Yolonda is taking care of her paralyzed nephew and she has been wondering if God exists. Tori has had some recent big changes in her life and she needs help. And Kishona has also had BIG changes in her life and she really needs help getting through the tough times.

We have recently met this family of four. Al is the dad and Michelle is the Mom and Alelie is 18 and Ashley is 13. They are super awesome and they are super prepared to receive the gospel. We asked them to be baptized last night and they accepted! So they are on date for March 4th! Al was looking some scriptures up on his Ipad, he already has gospel library installed on it and  Ashley has been marking scriptures in her Book of Mormon, they read and pray as a family and man, the whole family is just doing so well! I love them!

So something really cool JUST happened. My mission president emailed me last week and gave me a quote about always having our line in the water like a fisherman, and I've been focusing on that this week. So I've been doing the little things that really make a difference a lot more and I have a testimony of those little things now and how our Heavenly Father rewards us for those things. We are sitting in the library emailing family and such when a lady in a wheelchair wheeled up to us and asked us if we were Jehovah's Witnesses. I responded and told her we were Mormons and she said Oh, right and she asked if we read the Bible and I told her yes but we also read from the Book of Mormon and I explained it to her and asked if we could give her one and she wanted one and I gave her our number and a Restoration pamphlet. Miracles happen every day!!

We went on exchanges with the Martinsville sisters, Sister Callister and Sister Overly, this week and we brought them both to our area to proselyte and we saw miracles!  Sister Huntington and Sister Overly taught a lot of lessons and me and Sister Callister found a lot of humans who are interested and are ready to recieve the gospel. It was a really cool exchange.

I taught at my first Zone Meeting as a Sister Training Leader and it went really well except for the zone leaders, Elder Lawrence and Elder Stoneberg, were supposed to set up the TV for us before the meeting and they didn't so the TV wasn't working for the videos we were trying to share so we had to interrupt the zone leaders in their role play and ask for their help. But in the end it was just really funny and it's a story to tell from my first zone meeting here. 

I dont really know what other stories to tell... EXCEPT THIS ONE!

The other day we were walking back to our car and Sister Huntington was like we cant go this way, I just saw a really big dog and I am not going to go be attacked. So as we turned the corner I looked to see how big the dog was and THE DOG WAS TINY! I couldn't help but laugh for the next ten minutes because she thought that tiny dog was huge! It was really funny!

Well, to answer all the questions I've been getting about the new missionary schedule. I absolutely love it! It's supposed to help missionaries make more decisions and to eventually help us transition back to home life easier. I know it was something definitely guided by God! 

I have interviews with President Salisbury tomorrow that I'm really excited about! I always love getting to talk to him! :)

Well, I love you all TO THE MOON AND BACK. And I'll talk to you all next Wednesday (because of transfers) I'm probably staying in Roanoke so no worries about me.

LOVE, SISTER SCHOEMIG