Let's start off by saying it was SO good to talk to y'all. If you don't already know, I LOVE YOU SO MUCH. To have already made it to my second skype call BLOWS MY MIND. Me and Sister Rogers were talking yesterday about how crazy it is that we only talk to our moms and familys for two hours out of the whole year. Who does that? haha. But you know what, I do it because I know this gospel is true.
Highlights from skyping (for everyone who wasn't there):
-All my brothers are living GIANTS (not really, but boy have they grown since ive been gone!)
-Naomi tried to show me ALL of her toys!!
-We got special permission for Chandler to be ordained to an elder while I was on skype! :)))
-I got to talk to my little bro, before he goes on the greatest adventure of his life, for the last time...
-Lexie Loo Loo told me about her two new bunnies!!
-Kenny and Jess told me about their new house, which I am SO EXCITED to visit!
-Manda and Codie told me about their new house too and it sounds absolutely amazing, and I CANT WAIT to visit!!
-my mom got my flowers and card :) LOVE YOU MOM
-My grandpa thinks I'm hilarious #yesss
-I got to talk to my papi
-Dakota and Carson got to tell me whats going on in their lives and I am just so proud of them!
-Family prayer. I HAVE THE BEST FAMILY EVER
-My family loved my long hair! (not that its really that long, its just longer than when they last saw me)
-My family loved my long hair! (not that its really that long, its just longer than when they last saw me)
Anyways, to my week.
We had exchanges with the Martinsville Sisters on Tuesday to Wednesday. I was with Sister Rosengren. She is new to the zone. She has been out 6 months. She asked a lot of questions about the work, and we went to another YSA coordination and I was sharing some of the things I learned from Blacksburg and how we could use some of those to help Roanoke and she was like WOW! You know so much! Best exchange ever! Which made me feel really good because we had THREE appointments and every back up fall through on us and I was scrambling a little bit. But it was a really fun exchange!
We had zone conference on Wednesday and we taught for 45 minutes! We started out really well, then we got to our role play. We explained it a little weird, but THANKFULLY President knew what we were trying to accomplish and he helped us! It ended up being really good and President loved our portion of it, he used things we talked about in the rest of the meeting! It was awesome!! I learned so much at zone conference and I committed myself to be EVEN BETTER. Now that I'm at the stage I am, its time to push myself and do things I couldn't even imagine before! We had stake coordination that night and ward coordination so it was a day full of meetings but it was really good!
I got a free Dr. Pepper this week. :)
The rest of the week was good, but we did our normal missionary work, nothing too exciting!
BUT...STORY TIME:
We had dinner with our Bishop and his wife and the elders this past week (I was on exchanges with Sister Rosengren) . While we were at dinner, the Bishop and his wife were doing something and the elders leaned over to me and said something about a squirrel that I missed, I figured I'd just hear about it later so I let it slide. We left dinner and I walked past the Elders car, and then I walked back. THERE WAS A SQUIRREL sitting in their car! I turned around with my eyes wide and my mouth open, when the Elders just started laughing! They told us, and showed us the process of them picking up the roadkill squirrel, skinning it, marinating and crock potting the squirrel, drying the squirrel skin, stuffing, and taking it around with them. It's name is Starkey Obadiah Stalarg (the last name is a combo of both of their names). He attends all of our meetings. #bless Now I KNOW, I am in the South.
We went to YSA church and Family ward church yesterday. I kinda actually really love going to two churches a lot, it's really fun! I gave a talk about my mama yesterday, but I combined it from the talk The Music Of The Gospel by Elder Anderson. I got lots of compliments on how I combined motherhood and that talk perfectly together and how what I said was exactly what they needed. I am so grateful for the spirit guiding me to change my talk last minute. I know this gospel to be true and I am so happy to be out sharing it each and every day!
I LOVE ROANOKE. I am so blessed to be here and to be a full time representative of the Lord. The next seven months will be the best seven months. I am ready for whats ahead and I can't wait to see what it will bring.
I LOVE YOU ALL TO THE MOON AND BACK. 
Love, Sister Schoemig
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