I don't even know where to start with the insane week we had. But I would like to say, TO MY SNOW COLLEGE FRIENDS YOU BETTER READ THIS ONE TO THE END!! ;)
Thursday: We got up at 5:20 in the morning to go to transfers, I said goodbye to my babies, Sister Cook and Sister Zaugg. (At this point in their mission, I was the Sister Training Leader that's been with them the whole time) I was really sad to see them go because they grow up so fast, but I was so excited for these new adventures they will be going on!) We spent the day as a trio with Sister Rodabough, I LOVED IT. We went to the dentist with her because she had a cavity, we saw how they fill a cavity, that was pretty legit. She is the cutest thing ever, we went back to pick up her companion at 5, when guess who I saw?! SISTER STETTLER. I love that Sister so much. It was good to catch up for a few seconds and take a picture. (WARNING: I look really grown up in that picture, it freaks me out A LOT)
Friday: We got up, had district meeting and went to our very first YSA coordination with our brand new Ward Mission Leader; Brother Wells. Haha, we get there, introduce ourselves and he asks where we are from, you know all that jazz, we ask him where he served his mission, he says the Utah St. George mission, we ask where in that mission, he says St. George, Mount Pleasant, Ephraim. I stopped him in his tracks there, and I told him that that was where I went to school. (Back Story: I went to Snow College for a year before my mission, while I was there we introduced my japanese roommate to the missionaries and they taught her a few lessons.) He asked when I was there and I told him from the fall of 2015 to the spring of 2016. He was speechless. After he got his bearings together, he said I spent 7 and 1/2 months at Snow College and that's when I was there! I was like NO WAY. Because when I was there, I had a friend take the discussions, and I was there for all the lessons. Do you know Mami? He said that he taught Mami when he was there!! Long story short. I met Brother Wells when he was a missionary in Ephraim Utah, and what are the chances that he, is now my YSA ward mission leader. #thesmallmormonworld #goodoldephraimutah
The YSA sisters were having a baptism that night, so that's what we spent the majority of the time working on, we got pulled into being a chorister and a pianist. So we texted Sister Bell asking her if she would be able to make it, we wanted to make it as purposeful as possible, when she dropped everything she was doing that night to come! And that night I was talking about her baptismal program to her and asking her to start thinking of who she would want to be involved, songs to sing and such, when at the very end of the baptism she found a song she wanted to sing at her very own baptismal service! She is so excited to be baptized!! GET READY MAY 20TH! SISTER BELL IS GETTING BAPTIZED. I saw Brother Wells again, we took a picture, I met his mom because she knows ASL and apparently since I got to Roanoke she has been waiting to meet me (apparently when you know ASL words spreads REAL QUICK), she just started signing to me about how crazy it was that we knew each other before now and how shes been waiting to meet me.
Anyways, while we were at the coordination, the zone leaders started calling, they were letting us know that because of the plane crash in Charleston, West Virginia that morning, that the departing missionaries were to be flying out of Roanoke. President and Sister Salisbury, and 8 departing missionaries were on their way to Roanoke and it was our job to make sure it was all worked out. #awesome So we needed to get beds to the elders house and to the YSA house (the sisters there have recently been taken out, so there was room for the missionaries there). Brother Wells volunteered to help us out and so off we went moving beds from house to house and making beds and making sure there was food and all that fun stuff! It was probably the craziest day of my whole mission.
Saturday: We got a text from Sister Bell. She was in the emergency room. The opposition is so real. She's all good now though, home and resting. :)
Sunday: Stake Conference Broadcast from good ol' Salt Lake City, Utah. Sister Wells before it started came up to me and said Sister Schoemig, I need your help. Sister Jackson needs an interpreter. MY HEART DROPPED. I told her, Do you know that its been almost 11 months and above all you'd want my brothers doing this? She pulled me along and said Oh you'll be great! So I interpreted for Stake Conference. I was nervous as all get out but I did it! I said a quick prayer and asked for help and I started remembering signs and doing the best I could. It was actually really really fun! We had YSA ward council, when I met Brother Wells dad! I said Im Sister Schoemig and he said Oh, I've heard about you! I was like, Im sure you have!! haha. Sunday was pretty good! Our investigators have started getting back to us and we have a pretty full week this week so I AM PUMPED.
Also, funny story, we texted the assistants to the President asking them if they would be at Zone Conference this Wednesday. Just look at the pictures, we had a fun conversation with them. :)
Pretty crazy week for me. What about you? :)
I LOVE YOU ALL TO THE MOON AND BACK.
Love, Sister Schoemig
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