The Famous Yellow Tie

Hop, Skip and a Jump

Hi mom, this week has been okay. Really long!!!!!!!! maybe thats an understatement.I cannot wait for conference to come. We are eating at o'charlies after on Saturday. I have a huge gut feeling that something gigantic is gonna go down and i think ya'll should take notes. This is gonna be one to remember forever! but the work is good. Mike webb got baptized by Elder Beech on Friday night and I got to confirm him on Sunday. That was my first confirmation. It was really exciting thats him in the picture. Not a whole lot has happened this week just the baptism. Im glad to hear how good everything went with the Ascend thing.  Thats so awesome. Did you get to meet Lavelle Edwards and if you got a pic with him send it here. Thats sweet that ya'll had good support. That trip over Christmas is gonna be fun. Are you going back to the same village or are you going to Guayaquil this time. I wish i could go but i got a few obligations at the moment ha ha. did you get my letter! i sent you a letter on Thursday. I really hope you got it. im trying to be much better on sending letters so that you get them on saturday's. I promise i will do much better. here is a yellow tie picture for you. sorry it took too long to get it to ya. all the guys are doing good. i still email with greg landan mitch trey and jeremy and ryan thats pretty much it at the moment. but i really do hope all is well! god bless and you will get a letter by friday or saturday. i promise. Hope you have a good week and tell the fam i love them. "Time is just taking a hop, skip, and a jump on by"
Love Elder Schwendiman Jr.

Could we please stop smoking?

Hi there Mom!
I love you so much. Im in such a good mood right now. This whole mission thing is the most incredible thing i have ever done in my whole life. I really haven't been this happy! Me and Elder Beech are having so much fun but at the same time we are getting so much accomplished. We are getting ready to set two more baptism dates this week and we already have two set. So last night i went over to the Amackers. I gave philip a blessing to give him the spirit of discernment. that he would know when he was being tempted to smoke. and then after that i have tiffany a blessing also. It was so amazing! i love that family. So we are setting a date with Jenna lake. She was the one that told us we were going to hell and all that crazy non sense. She has come to church 2 weeks in a row and she loves it so much. she just needs to stop smoking. pray for her especially. she is gonna need all the support she can get. So im starting to get a lot of scruff under my chin. i have to shave every morning. Its weird to have it but oh well. So we no longer have a car. we have to ride bikes full time. its really tiring but its so worth it. i love being on a mission. So we just had zone-conference. It was a lot of fun but there is gonna be a lot of things goin on in this mission here in the next couple weeks-months. but ill let you know what is going on. I love you so much. I really can't express it enough how much it means to me to have ya'll care and love for me and the support i get from ya'll. I truly appreciate it. I love you and have an incredible week.
Love your missionary Elder Schwendiman Jr.

Pics for the week

My district

My new companion Elder Beech!

Another Crazy week!

Hi there fam fam
So this week has been so crazy. As you know i have a new comp. Elder Beech. He is such a cool kid. We talk all the time about the people we hung out with. We used to hang out with the same kids but we never hung out. I have been to his house in pepperwood but i never talked to him before. So he is really a hard worker. A lot harder than elder rasmussen. I loved elder rasmussen, dont get me wrong but elder beech is incredible at missionary work. We have set two baptism dates this weekend. One on friday night and one on sunday night. It was a lot of fun. Mike webb is getting baptized this saturday and then Jovanna braddock is getting baptized on the 4th of October. So pray for them please. Tiffany is still doing good. I finally got them to sit down as a family and have scripture study and family prayer together. They really like it. We are going to set another date with all three of them this week. So pretty much we were biking around and we came up to these two girls who were like in the early 20's and we started talking to them and they were really mean to us and telling us we were going to hell and all this craZy non-sense. but we kept at them and they kept getting madder so we gave her a card and we left. We got a referral request that night for a jennifer Lake. So we went down to her street and right as we turned onto the street i knew it was the girl that we had talked to. And it was. We taught her the first lesson and about faith and she was like, " if i read that book of mormon(the whole thing) then i will come to church. Well i called her on sunday to see if she was coming and she was already on her way. Well she brought one of her member friends with her. IT was so good. but we are on full time bikes now. We don't get the privelage of driving anymore. SLC is cutting mission cost so we lost our car. but all is well in Zion and hope ya'll are having an incredible week. I love ya'll so much.
Love your missionary

a GOOD WEEK!

Hi

well everything has been so good this week. We have been working really hard and been really busy. It seems like the busier I am the faster time seems to go by. I don’t like it. I want time to slow down. There is so much to get done but there are just not enough hours in a day to get it all accomplished. So this week We moved into a new apartment with another set of elders. Its so much fun. MY COMP IS GETTING TRANSFERRED and now he will be a ZL. Crazy huh. We are headed to Nashville tomorrow for transfers. Im excited. My new comp is gonna be elder BEECH. Crazy huh. Your gonna have to let bryce and Kenzie know. So amber was baptized yesterday. It was so amazing. She is so incredible. She was crying the whole time. When she was in the water and after she came straightway outta the water I heard a little voice in my head. It was the same thing that Heavenly Father said after Jesus Christ was baptized but it was a little different. This is what I heard. “This is my beloved Daughter, in whom I am well pleased.” That was one of the best feelings I have ever felt in my life. I knew that god was pleased with Elder Rasmussen and I, and with Amber. This work is so true. I love it with all my heart and there is nothing that could ever take away how I feel about this church. So today after emailing we are all going caving for the last activity as a District. Every companionship in the zone is getting changed up. But that is all that happened this week. Other than me getting jumped by Elder Bytheway and my comp. Look at this crazy picture. No stitches luckily but It was so funny. I love you so much and hope that ya’ll had a good and successful, and spiritual week as I have had. God Bless

Love always Your Missionary

New Address in Clarksville

Well im moving out tonight to another apartment. so i will have a new address. I know for sure im not getting transferred. but here is the new address.

126A West Concord Dr.
Clarksville, TN 37042

Crazy week!

HI mom, well to start off i love you very much and i love everything you give me especially the support. I have done a lot of finding this week. Finding out who i am, why i'm here and what kind of example i need to be. Sorry about the negative comments about the comp. I was really being selfish. I finally figured out that its about the Lord and not about me. I have prayed much and i have figured out what it means to be a MISSIONARY. i promise everything i write or send with be positive no matter what. I'll make sure to send that tape home so you can hear my Voice.
This week has been NUTZ! So much has happened. So first of all it was a very good and successful week. We have 10 new investigators, 4 progressing and one with a date. Next the sisters got kicked out of their apartment this week so they needed a place to live, well president put us in another apartment with another set of missionaries and the sister got our apartment. The place we live in is tiny.We live in a room the size of dads office. So little. NExt thing is there has been a lot of confusion going on. So ill start off with my comp and president. Someone had told president Hutchings that my comp had been talking crap behind his back and that my comp was aspiring leadership and that president was only doing things just so he could get higher up with the brotheren in the Seventy. Well president found out and was pissed. Then MY ZL was talking crap behind my comps back and my comp found out so they had beef. Then last night, President came to the apartment and had a little sit down with me, my comp, 2 other missionaries, the ZL's and an AP. They didn't leave the apartment til 11:00 Pm and we didn't get home til midnight almost and then the ZL's stayed the night and we didn't go to bed til like 2:00 am. Im so tired. But everything went well last night and i was the only one to get a hug from president. IT was kinda cool. but amber is getting baptized on sunday. We are having a member do it so that when we leave she will still have other people to rely on than just us two. So other than that this week has been off the hook busy. I love missionary work. it is so much fun. i'll let you know when transfers are over if anything happens to me or my comp. I love ya'll so much and thank you for the shorts. I love you so much and everthing is going to work out for the better.

LOve Elder Schwendiman Jr.
Your MIssionary

ps i need to know whats going on with greg because the state of Louisianna is getting destroyed because of the Hurrican Gustav. I'm really worried for him and i need to know how my best friend is doing.