We went to the Roanoke Star! It was raining and really fun! (Dont mind my face in the pictures, It's been a while since I've danced...) :)
We had interviews with President this past week. He is just awesome. To put it in short, (this is before we found out my transfer doctrine) he told me that since the YSA sisters are getting doubled out he was going to be giving the Roanoke YSA to us to take care of for a while! When we finished my interview, he was walking me back to my companion and he gave me the biggest compliment a mission president could ever give. He basically told me that he could put me anywhere in the mission and he wouldn't worry about me! I can die happy now, haha! The Salisbury's go home soon. I'm really really sad to see them go but I need y'all to take care of them when they arrive back home kay? Kay.
Sister Theresa Bell. She is AWESOME. We have been working so hard to get her on date for baptism. AND IT FINALLY HAPPENED. We had basically the perfect lesson planned for her to get her on date. Sister Rogers kept telling me before we went in that I had to be the one to ask her to be baptized. I've been here with Sister Bell since the beginning so I know how she works. It turned out to be just what we all needed to happen. The spirit guided me of what to say to help her, and in the end, SHE IS ON DATE FOR MAY 20TH!
Later that night, we went to the church to meet with the Zone leaders and the YSA sisters to start this transition over to us. We were talking about transfers, because me and Elder Stoneberg have served our whole missions around each other and he and Elder Ladue have been with each other for two transfers, I told them that there was no way all four of us would be staying, because we are the dream team, and what dream team has stayed together for a while? Well...the suspense continues throughout the letter. Mwahhahaha! :)
We had to get our car fixed Thursday. Geez. I hate car places. Our car is almost in retirement, but we found out we had 4 out of 5 lights out, a screw in our tire, our filters were nasty, and we needed new brake fluid. Well, that was awesome news. So we called Elder Lambert, the missions car guy, and asked him what he wanted us to get fixed before we soon say goodbye to Blanco (our car is named Blanco, because its white 
). He told us to get our lights fixed and the tire. This altogether took two hours and we were late to an appointment. But the good news is we are now safe on the road. :)
News Flash: Mormon missionaries are famous. We knocked on our investigators door and met her husband. We explained who we were and what we do and he took a Book of Mormon. He told us that he's seen the commercials the church has put out and has always wanted to meet us. Haha! Imagine that! I'm famous for being a Mormon missionary! :)
Saturday, we were sent on a bit of a wild goose chase. The Elders asked us to try to find a Miranda Cosgrove, so we met all the cosgroves in the ward, surprisingly they all live in our area...and none of them knew a Miranda Cosgrove, only an Amanda Cosgrove. (btw, we caught a frog that night) We were in a part of Roanoke that had little to no cell service and we were driving home for the night and we decided to call the Elders to tell them what we knew about Miranda Cosgrove (turns out the elders messed up and we were supposed to ask about Amanda Cosgrove, #awkward), well we went out of service while we were talking to them, we called them back when we got service and they said that they were just screaming SISTERS! WHERE DID YOU GO? when we didnt respond back to them.Haha! That's what they get when they send us on a wild goose chase!
Transfer Doctrine: The Elders like to tease us. Rude. Haha, They called us exactly at 9:00 and asked if we needed anything, and when we said No, but what about transfer doctrine, they hung up on us! So Sister Rogers called them back immediately and we asked again! They told us WE ARE BOTH STAYING! :) Im staying in Roanoke, VA my friends! I'm pumped for this next transfer! They called me out though when we asked if they were both staying, they said Sister Schoemig, who said the dream team couldn't stay together? and i sheepishly said I did, i was confused on what they were going to tell us next....and they were like THATS RIGHT! We are both staying!! So the dream team is staying together! :) #roanokedreamteam
We taught a 19 year old who has a newborn and just got out of jail. She is SO prepared for the gospel!
We accidentally got caught in the middle of a race. We were walking around in this neighborhood when a whole bunch of little kids started running past us, there were a bunch of members in the race, and as they ran past us they all yelled HI SISTERS! It was really cute!!
Remember that family we are teaching, the Esperegoza's? Well, they came to church! AND LOVED IT! So i'm pretty pumped about them too!
OH!! Sister Rogers told Elder Ladue he needed to draw me a picture of Jesus for my birthday and he finally did, but he went above and beyond! He did it with a soddering(?) iron on some wood, Im sending a picture. Its AWESOME!
Let's see, what else haven't I told you? That I love you! Oh wait, I just did!
I LOVE YOU ALL TO THE MOON AND BACK!
Love, Sister Schoemig
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