18 Months Later

Hey fam bam and friends. :)

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!!

MONDAY: We went and tried a referral that we got that same day. We gave him a Book of Mormon and set up an appointment for the next day. We tried some less actives and investigators. Then we went and saw Cheryl. :)

TUESDAY: We tried lots of peeps...lots of potentials from other missionaries that didn't exist anymore...so that was fun. We went back to try that referral from Monday, and he didn't show. :( We ate dinner with Sister Markworth and her son. :)

WEDNESDAY: We tried MORE peeps in Cross Lanes. We met with Barbara and Joanne. Joanne LOVES the Book or Mormon and the concept of eternal families, but it's gonna be hard to put her on date because of her mom...she's very baptist and loves to sit in our lessons. So this is gonna be interesting. :) I'm excited!

THURSDAY: We weekly planned. Yay. Then we went out.... BUT WE HAD A CRAZY MOMENT. So we went to this government housing place but we just felt like we needed to leave. So I was driving (AGAIN, I AM ALWAYS DRIVING lol), Sister Jefferies was backing me, and suddenly she stopped me. A black Audi pulled up RIGHT NEXT TO US on the passenger side, so we backed real quickly and she hopped in the car. I pulled away, then then pulled away....we drove to the main road and they were still behind us! (this doesnt sound too crazy, but it was!) When all the sudden, we heard yelling, I looked in my side mirror just in time to see the black audi take off to the left of us INTO TRAFFIC while they have a man running after them yelling "Thats my car!!!" So we are watching them go up and down the hills of West Virginia when a cop pulls out of nowhere! THERE'S A HIGH SPEED CHASE IN CROSS LANES. So this other guy comes up to our car (we are still sitting at this stop sign cause of traffic) and tells us all about how that car has been missing for a week and that the guy probably wasn't getting his car back. So we were like Oh thanks for telling us that. So we started driving in the same direction as the black audi, talking about how crazy it was when we saw cops lights again, this time they were stopped. The black audi had turned and crashed into a random brick wall that west virginia has and the cops had the two guys in handcuffs sitting on the ground and on top of the hood of the car. IT WAS CRAZY. Sister Jefferies just kept saying "we started that! they followed us!" lol. We then ate dinner with Sister Pierce, and we taught Jonathan!! We had a super killer lesson, and we took the Tooleys with us. We taught about the rich young ruler and how sometimes that can be us, we were really bold and straight up with him as we talked about his commitment keeping. Twas a way good lesson.

FRIDAY: MY EIGHTEENTH CLICK DAY. #what. We had district meeting. The sisters talked about our mission vision and what we wanted to become. And because the Tooleys had come with us to our lesson, they went on and on about how awesome we were and eventually....well I guess you'll have to look in my pictures. ;) We then went ON MY LAST EXCHANGE. I was with Sister Paulson in South Charleston. It was the best exchange ever. <3 It made my heart so happy to be in my old area. To see my peeps. We saw Sister New, Nathan and Felicia (for a sec), Sister Payne, Sister Minnich, Sister Deborah Jones, and we also saw Cheryl. :) We ate at Olive Garden as all four of us, because it was mine and Sister Stettlers 18th click day and we got to celebrate together! THEN a nonmember paid for OUR WHOLE MEAL because she had a member friend. YAY! :)

SATURDAY: We ended exchanges. We went to the Suttles family christmas party for dinner. Then we had Daizy's baptism!! :) It was actually really rough but it was really good because she had tons of nonmember family come!

SUNDAY: CHRISTMAS EVE! :) We went to church at Teays Valley. We got to sing in the program with the primary kids. We also spent time with Cheryl playing are you smarter than a fifth grader....evidently none of us were smarter than fifth graders. lol. We went to the Ruffells (like my FAVORITE family in Teays Valley. And we went to the morgans in the second ward! It was really fun! We got to roast smores and had a good dinner with them and their kids. Their two kids took us out to go tour the lights as they took us home, it was AMAZING. 

MONDAY: CHRISTMASSSS!!! <3 We went and hung out at the Haupts. It was fun and chill, exactly what I needed. We went to the Schaefers for dinner, we had hawaiian haystacks. :) we played Clue for a little bit, then we skyped home. :)

I LOVE MY FAMILY. Whenever I skype home it just makes me more excited to work. It reminds me of how much I love my family and want to be with them forever, and how much I truly want that for others. That is why I'm on a mission. For the Lord and for them.

It was definitely weird to end the call by saying...See ya in three weeks though. Lol. :)

Thank you for all the love and support. What a mile marker for me. EIGHTEEN MONTHS DOWN. What a blessing. What an adventure. What a time to be alive.

I LOVE YOU ALL TO THE MOON AND BACK. 

Sister Schoemig​