Wild Week!

Well I'm as hot as a firefly in summer!

Its getting really hot and the humidity has just settled in and we are sweatin like cows. Its fun tho. This week was really wild, i was up in west Frankfurt Illinois and Foxcroft Illinois this week. We have a companionship that is about to go MMA on each other so i went up there for a while. We got things straightened out and now they are on their way to having some great success. we met up in the middle between the two areas and ended up in Vienna Illinois at a McDonald's and had a little chat but we forgot something so they brought it to us but they accidentally got on the freeway ramp when they weren't supposed to because it was too outta the way so i backed them down the entire freeway entrance. good publicity for the Church huh ha ha Jolley has it on camera. This weekend was really fun, we have this placed called heaven which is right where the Ohio and The Tennessee river meet, well we went and talked with a few people Saturday night and found some new investigators and caught a fish it was so wild. So just about every other day we have been teaching Larry and his family(Tasha Christina and Robert) they are so sweet but have a long way to come. We are helping them overcome their addictions and other impurities, but since day one they have progressed insurmountably. I love this family and im so sad to leave them this will have been my first family to get baptized together on my mission. but the work of the Lord goes on with or without me here. this morning we played volleyball again and it was wild. more people show up every week and now we have our stake President coming to play with us next week ha ha its gonna be so fun. Later this afternoon we are going up to Illinois to go fishing with some other missionaries. its gonna be sweet but hope ya'll have a good week and enjoy the cold weather while it lasts. Love ya'll.
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FOUR PLUS
Elder Schwendiman

It tastes so good you'll wanna slap ya'lls mama!

We hey there

So this week has been so wild. First off we had Zone Conference this week down in Murray Kentucky. It was really good. The whole focus of the conference was about Faith and the ministering of angels. Study moroni chapter 7 and it is chalked full of Faith and the ministering of angels. we got to give our traing about having the faith to find and how it relates to a four leaf clover. The entire zone got a four leaf clover from us and from that training 5 dates were set this weekend. We set 3 of them with this family. It was so sweet. Larry, Tasha, and their son Robert all agreed to get baptized on the 12th of June which is too bad that im not gonna be here but im glad that they have committed themselves to the Lord. We had the Annual Paducah Stake day of Service this saturday. We got up about 6:00 in the AM and headed to the Methodist Church for some Grub right before we started to work. I was in charge of Building a Deck and i got 3 other people to help me with it. WE almost got it all finished but we ran outta wood before we gots to the end. It was really fun, we work for about 6 hours getting everything done, Jolley was in charge of building sides for one of the trailors and makin it all pretty like. Friday we went over to The O'brians and we help Bro. O. put in his hardwood floor in his new house. we laid about 100FT of beautiful hardwood floor in about 3 hours, and then his wife who is from Russia fed us the best meal. well we got home about 5 in the PM and we had a message on our phone of a lady who said she had dinner waiting on the table for us to eat but we were still 20 minutes away, so still sweaty and dirty we went into Illinois and had dinner with sister Adams and it was phenominal but we were so full from the first meal that we were just packin it down. We left their so full. We check this out, we went over to a less actives house who we had never met and they invited us in (mom, daughter and son) well they were cooking dinner and refused to let us go until we had tried some of their spaghetti. I about passed out. but we were nice and only tried a little of it so we would not die. ha ha but this week has been really good. We are finally starting to get to know the ward. We cover 6 counties and its so hard to see all the active members cause they live so far outta town but we are getting to it. I love ya'll and hope this week has been faithfilled for ya'll. It was for me and i can't wait to see what happens here in the next couple of weeks. Love y'all.

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FOUR PLUS
Elder Schwendiman

PodunkChunk Paducah

Well i'll be darn

Okay so this has been on of the Craziest weeks ever. Im now serving in Paducah KY. Its so wild. Me and Elder Jolley are having the funnest time in the world. IM only gonna give ya'll skim milk this week and wait to give you the whole milk on Sunday when i talk to ya'll. but i got the call about monday afternoon from President Asking me for a favor and then the next day, all i knew what was going on is a 3 hour car ride north of nashville to Paducah Kentucky. We had Stake Conference yesterday and the stake President Lance is such a stud and the has the coolest Family. My companion Elder Jolley is from Shelley Idaho, His name is Dallin Todd Jolley (WTFlip i know) That has been the joke ever since we got together, He has been out for 16 months. but i love ya'll and im excited to still be serving here in Kentucky. Oh ya ya'll prolly heard that there was some intense flooding going on in nashvill this last week and some tornado's that tore it up in middle tennessee, check out the news and look at the buckwild pics. I love ya'll can't wait to talk with ya'll on sunday. -- FOUR PLUS Elder Schwendiman

New Address in Paducah Kentucky

411 Hutchinson Ave.

Paducah, KY 42003

Paducah Kentucky!!

So im leaving burgess falls tonight. President Hutchings just called me and im being emergency transfered to the Paducah Kentucky. He has to take the Zone Leaders out and Put me and Elder Jolley in as ZL's. This is super Buckwild. so now you can call the office and get my new address. Sorry to throw a wrench in your fire. i love you!

Pics from last Monday!

hey fam

There are only a couple of things that happened this week. on p-day last monday we took a trip to Burgess Falls Waterfalls. They are such a trip. They are so big and beautiful. I definately love waterfalls, we had to hike like a mile and a half to get there and then we spent about an hour there just taking pics and having a good time. There other thing that happened was on Saturday, there was this thing called the day of service. In the morning we went and we helped a lady paint the inside of her house and then helped her rake and move dirt, lay seed, and then put hay on top of it to help fertilize it, it was really nice doing service for someone that was not able to do it for herself. For some reason that brings me so much joy... just helping people do things that they are not able to do for themselves. Okay so saturday i got to save 4 lives. We went a donated blood at the church. the red cross was doing this huge blood drive and i thought i would give my blood to the bloodless. it was really nice. The lady who took it said that i bled really fast and that i have real good blood flow. but it was really good. That pic is with elder McMillan, he is from south Jordan and he was helping me with my OJ intake. but giving blood was really fun. and then the other life that we were able to save was Quinton Bengel. HE GOT BAPTIZED! it was my favorite baptism that i have had on my mission. I have never felt the spirit so strong than i did at his. His girlfriends' dad drove in from memphis to baptize him and on the way in they picked up Quintons non-member mom and brought her too. She love it. but when he was getting baptized, i have never felt so peaceful and just have never had such a strong conviction as to how it is supposed to work. I love this work. On sunday we got to confirm him in front of President Hutchings and Sister Hutchings. They were speaking to our ward yesterday. and after church he got the Aaronic Priesthood. I loved it. so... President Hutchings gave a phenominal talk in church and he talked about things we can do as christians to become better disciples of the Savior. #1. Pray for missionary experiences but be ready when you pray for them. because they will come but not when you expect them too. #2. Give meaningful service to everyone. Act, don't be acted upon. Don't wait to be asked to give service for someone. Just go and do it. and #3. Always have a book of mormon in your hand. We need to use the Book of Mormon all the time. I wanna challenge you family and anyone who reads this to carry a Book of Mormon with you always. We as members of the church are always trying to find ways to help the missionaries, well this is one. For 2 weeks i want ya'll to carry a Book of Mormon with you everywhere, for when you do, people will ask questions and when they do, Teach! then invite them to meet with the missionaries. Scary i know, but Perfect love casteth out all fear. I love ya'll and hope ya'll with take this challenge. Hope ya'll have a good week and may God bless ya'll.

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ONE LOVE
Elder Schwendiman

Burgess Falls!

Hi fam
So Transfers are up again and we are staying the same for the last transfer. its kinda weird because we don't have a car, washer or dryer, or a dishwasher! i feel almost homeless here ha ha but we are having a lot of fun, we are tho running outta things to do cause our area is so small that we are talking to the same people over and over again. We are pretty good friends with the college kids now. This week went really well, Quinton Bengel is getting baptized this Saturday. We are so stoked. He is a 19 year old kid from Memphis and is a student at Tech. The lesson we taught him was so sweet and we went over the baptism interview questions with him and he didn't have a problem with any of them but he felt as if he needed to take out his diamond earrings so he said he would take them out before his baptism. I love the kid. Okay so you know how i had to take that testing for school, ya so I'm pretty sure the spirit bore testimony to me that i will never be an English teacher, i was so super board with the English part ha ha but it felt kinda good but weird. Last night we were walking around because we had about ten minutes left and we always talk to this guy who lives at the Methodist church, well the other day he told us that his wife wanted to feed us dinner but he didn't know when so he said when he talked to her he would come and find us. so last night we talked to him Mr. Parks and his wife was talking to him by the window so we went over to meet her and now we are going to have dinner at their house on Friday night. Their son Alex is one of our good buddies that we talk to quite a bit. So Elder Pearson is my district leader and his companion has kidney stones so he has been in the apartment quite a bit here in the last little bit and we wanted to go out and work and teach so i went with him to a lesson and then reimschiissel chilled in their apartment with elder garrison, but we went to teach the Barrett's family(mom and daughter) about the restoration and it went so well, The spirit was so strong and the mom pitched in some really legit doctrinal points that helped with the lesson. They also fed us pulled pork sandwiches with BBQ sauce. It was so good.

Life right now is really good, me and Reimschiissel are getting along really well and things are gonna start rolling here in a little bit. lately my studies have gotten really spiritual. I am studying the Atonement of Christ and i have been studying outta Leviticus 16 and Hebrews 9. Check them out. they are really good. it talks alot about the new covenant that would come about with the Death of Christ and the blood of the Testament(Covenant) seals the book and brings power to the Testament. I know Christ lives. my favorite quote lately "We don't use the cross as the symbol of our religion because that represents the dying Christ, The symbol of our religion is the lives the members of the Church live because Christ lives and and He lives within us" I know that is true, i know the book of Mormon is the word of God, and is here to do nothing but bless us if we only pick it up. I hope ya'll have a blessed week and may The Spirit of God bless ya'll this week.
-- ONE LOVEElder Schwendiman