*Sister Coombs Starts Laughing*

My dearest friends and family. It's the beginning of the end.

Ew.

I begin my last transfer this week with a change. In companions. My dearest Sister Coombs is leaving Cross Lanes. (In all seriousness, she really thought she was going to be staying in Cross Lanes her whole mission, so when the zone leaders told her she was leaving *this is where my email title comes into play* she just started laughing!!)

So I am not really feeling up to doing a day by day thing soooo...here are some highlights. 

We taught two lessons as a less actives named Brent this week. He's been a member for like three years, and loves learning, he just has a hard time coming to church. It was so good. We picked up three new investigators there! We had a good lesson on the restoration there last night, and we were super bold in inviting and testifying, it was probably one of the best lessons we've taught together.

I had my SEVENTEENTH CLICK DAY. I never ever thought I'd write that. Lol. I celebrated by getting ice cream, on an especially cold day. Probably not the best idea, but we did it anyways! You only have one seventeenth click day. :)

On Thanksgiving we went to the Schaffers! They had another member family over named the Palmers. It WAS SO FUN. :) At first the day just felt really weird and we felt kinda out of place but we ended up talking about so many things and brother schaffer showed me all these cool apps that help with gospel learning and stuff so that made me super excited! haha. We also weekly planned and made sure we did lots of fun and productive stuff. We actually went shopping for these two boys that we are going to doorbell ditch christmas presents to! :)

So also during weekly planning, we were talking about things we need to do this next week and I said "I start My Plan next week" and again Sister Coombs just started laughing! That was so not funny. 

We had a fun district meeting! So we go to the mission office for district meeting, and while we were there the mail man came with so many Christmas packages, he couldn't even open the door by himself, so I ran out of the room as soon as i saw him to help him out. I love Christmas, its so fun!! 

We had an amazing lesson with Sister Slater. She's a less active that doesnt want to progress. We were going to go in and bring the hammer down. But the spirit was telling us when we got in there, to go a different way. We asked her about how she felt when the missionaries come, what shes learned, why she likes us coming and stuff like that. And we ended up reading from Alma 32 about faith and how she has great faith because she lets us come over and she continues to read from the Book of Mormon, so we just thanked her for letting us come over. She is softening her heart more and more. Hopefully we can get her to church soon! 

Did you know that out of 193 recognized countries, the church has a presence in 136 of them? HOW COOL IS THAT? 

So now just a sappy moment about Sister Coombs. What a blessing it has been to have been her companion. I am so sad she is leaving. I've known her since the very beginning of her mission. I called her before she came out to welcome her to the WVCM, I was her first sister training leader, and I was her second companion. I've seen her go through it all. She has especially grown so much this past transfer. She will accomplish miracles here in the WVCM and I am so excited for her. I am so so blessed. But I really do not want her to go. :(

I've been thinking a lot about the Gospel of Jesus Christ this week, and how it is so perfect. It fits into every aspect of life. I've been thinking about the future, the past, the present, and how it just works. To have faith in crises, or in good times, just makes sense. It just works. I wish I could find the right words to use to describe how I feel about my Saviour and his perfect perfect gospel, but there are no words, just indescribable joy. <3

I challenge you ALL to share the new Christmas initiative video! go to mormon.org Its so so good and it will help to #LightTheWorld in this Christmas season. 

I LOVE YOU ALL TO THE MOON AND BACK!!

Sister Schoemig

BTW I find out my new companion tomorrow night, and I will pick her up friday! :)