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Here is Josh and Rachel

GOOOD Day Schwendy Family!
Today's forcast is a whole bunch of smiling faces with a 100% chance of Love. ha ha How the heck are ya'll doin? Yesterday was absolutely a miracle. SO ya'll know we had the whole family planned to get baptized on saturday but that didn't happen. THey said they wanted to wait til the 12th of September. We Saturday we had a great lesson with the Lowery's and i asked Brenda(mom) if we could baptize her kids on Sunday after church and she was like "its up to them". ha ha i love when parents say that cuz the kids are always up for it. So yesterday we had a sweet baptism for Josh and Rachel. THey are the two youngest ones. It was so much fun and you would not believe the spirit that was felt in that room. everything went perfect and we had about 45 people in attendance there to support them. I gotta baptize both of them because they picked me to do them. Elder Rigby is gonna do the others in the family when the time comes. OH so we got word about RIgby's visa. ITs comin in 2-4 weeks. ha ha he is so pumped up about it. Im way excited for him but im def gonna miss the kid. We work so well together, we have worked out all the kinks, and now everything is working smoothly. So we had interviews with president Hutchings this week and those were really good. All we did was chat about family and the District. There are some problems in the district with comps wanting to light each other up, but its all gonna be okay. Things here in bowlingGreen are goin absolutely good but i think im gonna be leaving in a couple weeks. i don't know if i could stay another transfer here. 6 months is long enough. So on Wednesday me and Rigby split up and i went with a Returned missionary of a week and me and him went out all day. We found a less active family/Part Member family and the husband wants to get baptized so we are gonna get them Re-activated and get him dunked. ITs gonna be sweet. So other than that this week has been alright. nothing too excited to talk about except the fact that i love all who are reading this to know i love you! Mom thanks so much for the Package. Im wearing the shirt as we speak. THats one thing i wanna do when i get home is eat at Pizza Factory 1st. I left with pizza factory, im comin home with pizza factory. Can ya'll believe 15 months down. Time is cookin. Once again i love y'all with all my heart and just know That our Father in Heaven loves each of you!

One love
Elder Schwendiman

Way Cool!

Dear Family, 
Hi~ How are ya'll doin this beautiful mornin? Its such a good day here in kentucky. NIce and warm with a slight overcloud. This last week has been phenominal. As you well know i was not on my side of bowlingGreen for a whole week. What a relief, ha ha it was good though. There was a lot of success in all areas this week but at the same time there needed to be oposition, so there was a lot of trial, and un-success as well. So for the first exchange(tuesday-friday) I was with Elder Davis and we got a lot accomplished except for Thursday morning and afternoon. He was sicker than a cow in a swamp. I mean the kid set a world record for consecutive hours slept. He slept from 10:00 Pm Wednesday,-5:00 PM THursday. I have never been so bored in all my days. I was so bored that i build giant tower outta pass-along cards, i made some pictures for Lesson 3 in Preach my gospel, I read 15 chapters in the BOM, I ate some food, I listened to 10 different CD's, it wasn't too bad, but we went out that night and got 3 new investigators and 2 lessons, so that was a good flipside to it. We had planning session with the spanish so there were 10 missionaries having planning sesh in one apartment, it went pretty well, just a whole lot of A.D.D goin on ya know. Saturday was probably one of the funnest exchanges i have been on, ME and Elder Paddock went down to Franklin, KY and spent the whole day with brother Divens on an Exchange. He is such a "treky" ha ha we were driving all around in his dodge stealth, we went and saw this 85 year old black lady who has Alzheimers she is so funny, she is like 10 second Tom off 50 first dates, she was sportin some sun glasses that i was wearing ha ha she looked adorable. We also went to this family, the Boohers. They are way country and i got some pics with horses and all that jazz but i have mis-placed my camera cord for the time being so i will get those to ya'll in a jiff.We didn't end up getting home til 10:15 pm becuase it was so far away and we didn't get outta the last appointment til 9:30 pm. So overall this week was bomb. I was so proud of elder Rigby this week. He set another baptism date with this girl paige, for September 19th so that should be good. We had 12 non-members at church on sunday. THats the most i have had on my mission, it was so cool. 2 of them showed up outta nowhere. The daughter Betsy, lived in Skagway for a time, so we talked about that and she told us that she was investigating the church, so we will start teaching her next sunday. Lowery's all came, Stephanie and shelby come, it was a really good meeting, one of the speakers talked about change and how important change is to be eternally progressing. Brenda, josh, and rachel are still scheduled for this weekend, the others say they are not ready so in due time. September should be a really good month as well. So the ward is really helping out now, they finally trust us a missionaries, We have set up 11 family mission plans in the last week, we had 2 dinnners with investigators there, a family made us brownies last night, and Bishop Fed us and gave us referrals. What a week. I love being a missionary. THere is nothing greater then serving the One True and LIving God. Oh ya mom i will have that survey done this week and try and get it back to ya'll. I love ya'll with all my heart and im grateful for ya'lls love.

One Love
Elder Schwendy

Southern Phrase for the Week: That right there's like trying to slip sunup pas a rooster!

Hi

Hi Family,
This week has slowed down a little bit just because we are spending a lot of time getting our baptism dates solid. THings are starting to get wild and ferocerious. IM not gonna be in my area 1 day this week except sunday. I'll be on exchanges tonight until saturday night, there are some problems in the in the district that president needs me to fix, so im letting Elder Rigby run the area while im gone. He is gonna do just fine. The kid is getting more like a missionary each day. its really cool to see the progress he is making and how far he has come. He is loosening up quite a bit. He was quite a "quarter pincher" when he first got here but i love the kid. I don't know if i told ya'll or not but we set a date with brenda Lowery. The mom of the Kids. Rose didn't come to church on sunday so we are gonna post-pone her baptizy til september. We drove an hour down to glasgow Ky to go see her and we had a really good lesson with her in the church down there. We had our WML and the other BML(branch mission leader) with us and they are both spiritual giants. I felt like i was in science all the way down because Bro Rinehart teaches mIcro biology at WKU and Bro Vibbery is A Micro Biologist and they had the craziest talks about Hydrogen and how you can run a vehicle on it with some gas and all the jazz. It all went over my head. Im no science smarty. So last night we drove down to Madison TN for a Stake Priesthool meeting, and then the General Priesthood meeting. IT was so good. Pres. Barjarnson Talked about how we reap what we sow, and he told the story of the Hen when was gonna make bread but she needed help with the ingredients and grinding up the wheat and nobody would help, but they wanted to reap all the benefits, and how that related to us as members and Christ Second Coming. IT was really cool. I'll try and get a copy of the talke and send it to y'all. So i have become good friends with this kid Elder Haire! He plays volleyball for BYU. He is 6' 7" and he is gonna hit all day on me. ITs gonna be sweet. He is from vegas. HE is very good at volleyball. Thanks so much for the Package by the way. Ya'll are awesome. Tell G-ma and G-pa thanks as well. They sent me a package. I just wanna let ya'll know how much i love My Saviour and how grateful for you mom in giving me such a big push to get on my mission. Yesterday was a day where we as priesthood brotheren Reflected on the Women in our life and all i could do was think of you and how much ya'll have helped me get to where i am today. I honestly don't think i would be here if it wasn't for your testimony and your good example. THANKS mom. Your the Best. I love you with all my heart and i love everyone else as well. Have an awesome week. Keep the lowery's in your prayers. THey are gonna need them this week and next. Buena Suerte Hilary with st george! ONE LOVEYOUR MISSIONARY ELDER SCHWENDIMAN

Dallin's current address:

1040 Shive Lane #E5

Bowling Green, KY  42103

This week's pics

Me and the sugar glider

Utah?  That's awesome!

Sugar bears and DL's

Why hello there Sugar bears!
This week has been even better than the last two. We have really vamped the ward. When i got here they were not too excited about missionary work but now they are so stoked. Friday after noon was one of the best days of the mission. So i have talked to ya'll about the Lowery's and i can tell that ya'lls prayers are coming true because They all have baptism dates. We went over their friday afternoon and taught them a solid 1st lesson about he restoration. WE were all jam packed into one bedroom ha ha it was so cool all of them were jam packed onto one bed. We'll after the lesson we talked to them about baptism and asked if any of them had obj's of getting baptized and none of them did. We have some word of wisdom issues but thats about it. and then friday morning i was planning with Elder Giggidy RIgby and i got the impression to call Destiny. We talked for a little bit and i asked her how she felt about being baptized in August. She said she would love it. She needs to know more but thats just fine.All the Dates are for the 29th of this month. So right now we are sitting at 6 baptism dates and we are gonna try for 2 more this week. We are not sure if Gary Lowery's wife is a member. She acts like one but we still are not sure so this should be another great week. So with rose she lives in another area now but we are still teaching her. We are using the other branches President and WML to get her baptized it so crazy right now. THings are rollin' just fine down here. So on sunday I have all the Auxillaries in one meeting with me and we sat down and talked to them about missionary work and i introduced a plan called "set to wet" and if the members follow it with the investigators they are guaranteed to get baptized. I had the Bishop and all the PEC members, Relief society president, YMP YWP, primary president Elders quorem and the YML. It was so good. Now they are all on the same page with us and we pretty much turned the investigators over to them to start working with them. All we are gonna have to do is teach. Nothing else. ha ha i have been trying to get this done for a couple of months and i finally figured out how the Lord needs it done. So im Staying here in BGKY for another transfer but Im now taking over as DL again. President said he needs me in leadership again so this transfer is gonna be even busier and im so stoked for it. So i gotta hold some sugar gliders at the Flea market on saturday morning. They are the coolest animals on Planet Earth. Ya'll should get a couple. ha ha we'll i love you guys. Ya'll are amazing and congrats on losing the weight. Tell chase i love his guts and same with the Farringtons. Tell Jodi i love her and her whole family. Tell her next year we are gonna do another double date thing with bowling.(me and my sweet mom, and Ryan and his sweet mom.) that will be so much fun. well have a great week and enjoy life.

Pics for the week

Here is Me, Elder Richins and Elder Higbee

Here is the coon I was playing with

Here is the coon that i was playing with

Did you know?

Why hello there family!
So i am having the hardest time trying to see ha ha They dilated my eyes and my pupils are so big. i look like a gecko! This week has been oober good. Things are on fire here. Its taken me 4 months to figure out what this area needed because when i got here it was so dead. we were only teaching like 14 lessons a week. THis week we hit 22 lessons. We are having so much fun. SO this week i was on exchanges with elder richins for 4 days. It was a total blast. Me and him get along like buzz lightyear and Woody, We went down with Brother Higdon on Friday to Scottsville and Had 2 of the Best lessons of the Week. First we saw a guy named Russ. He is absolutely nuts. He has spent over 20 years in a State penn on lock down becuase he has killed a few people. He is the one we got to take down all the bad pics he was drawing, well we taught him about the plan of salvation and he was so enthrauled. He had no idea where he came from, or why he is here, or even where he was going when he dies. We were inches away from getting him to pray for us. He stopped drinking and smoking, now we just have to commit him to baptism. i believe he could be baptized in September but he needs to be interview by an apostle. how cool would that be. and then the other lesson that we had was with Destiny. She is doing amazing. We taught her about the Restoration and she said that she would pray and read to know the truth. I give her 3 weeks and she will be baptized. Oh and while we were in Scottsville we went out to amish country and i got to hold a bapy racoon. it was so sweet. IT was crawling all over me. They would make good pets. ha but he took us shopping at the Amish store and baught us bread and fruit and vegetables. Lately i have been eating a lot of zuccini and peppers and tomatoes and potatoes. Sounds weird comin from me huh. i know but i love em now. So yesterday was fast Sunday and it was AWESOME. I still chickened out and Didn't bear my testimony but i was really good. We had 8 people in gospel Principles class the Priesthood lesson was really good. Half the time i don't even pay attention but i did this sunday. Destiny got up and bore her testimony. How cool is that. thats the first time i have had an investigator bear their testimony in church. Bishop had the Biggest smile on his face. After church we went over to Gary's house and gave him a blessing, and gave his son Casey a blessin as well and Gary started to cry and it was such a spiritual meeting we had with him. We are gonna teach his sons, Casey, jesse, josh and his daughter Rachel. They have huge potential for August as well. Keep the Lowery Family in ya'lls prayers, they need 'em. and then last night we set up two family mission plans with the Dunda's and the Coots. they are my two favorite families in the ward. Me and Brother Coots get along like Timon and Pumba. he is such a cool guy. but other than that this week has been fenominal. I love ya'll so much and im grateful im apart of this family. Ya'll are #1.

ONe lOVe
Elder Schwendiman