Are You Door To Door Ministers?

To start off, I have to explain my email title. We were visiting an investigator who we've had struggles keeping in contact with because he's been sick. We were outside his house talking when we see from the corners of our eyes this lady, her hood over her head with the drawstrings tied and she has her shades on, walk past us and then wait at the corner, just waiting. We finish up talking to him and start walking the other way cause she was giving us weird vibes when we hear "ARE YOU DOOR TO DOOR MINISTERS?" we slowly turned around and she had FOLLOWED US a couple hundred feet and so we started talking to her and she said I just love when y'all come to my house because I love asking you all questions. She asked us what we believed and we told her and she went "No offense, I love you both but I strongly disagree with your religion" and she decided it would be a good idea to tell us everything that was wrong with our religion. You could feel the spirit leave so fast and you can ALWAYS tell when its not there. Sister Huntington was trying to tell her well its okay we have differences, we just have to ask God what's true because he's the only one that knows and she just kept bashing us back. So finally I looked at my watch and we said we have to go but it was good to meet you. We said goodbyes and walked away. It was a very interesting experience and it testified to me that people are out there and they are TRULY prepared. Sometimes before you get to the diamond, you gotta put a little pressure!

We knocked on a door of a former this week and instead of looking at us to see who we were before answering she just yelled "Is that the stripper I just ordered?" Me and Sister Huntington could not stop laughing because we were the COMPLETE opposite of what she wanted. Ah, the awkward weird moments of a mission. Gotta love it.

We got a call from the Cotton Hill ward Sisters asking us to go visit a Deaf Less Active that was actually in the Elders area. So me being me...got really nervous. I haven't signed in 7 and 1/2 months and here we were being assigned to go talk to this lady. We called the elders and got permission to go out of area to see this lady and when we went I couldn't stop shaking. Man, the sign language lingo out here is STRANGE. She was really nice and we got some things situated so that she could start coming to church! There actually used to be sign language missionaries in this mission for Roanoke, thats how many deaf people there are here! I know that I was supposed to come to Roanoke for MANY reasons. Heavenly Father is definitely aware of us! But I REALLY need to brush up on my sign, cause boy, it was a STRUGGLE!

I love the WVCM. I love Virginia. I love being a Sister Training Leader Just sayin. 

We went on a hike today to the Roanoke Star. It was super cool! It's just this giant star that you can see all over the mountains here! I'll send some pics with this email. 

For transfer news: Im staying in Roanoke with Sister Huntington! Not much is changing here but its good! We have good things going on here!

I had interviews with President Salisbury that were good. He is just so amazing and is so in tune with the spirit always. 

Anyways, it was a good week! I love you all to the moon and back! Have an awesome week! and don't forget to CPR!! (Church, Pray, Read!!!)

LOVE, SISTER SCHOEMIG

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