Crazy week!

Elder Osmond, Me and Elder Jolley

Good Morning family

This week has been crazy busy. So you know we got into Brentwood on tuesday, Fact: brentwood is the 3rd most wealthy city in the USA. There is money flowing all over the place. So my companion(s) are the coolest kids in the world. Elder Osmond never has a dull moment, and elder jolley has jokes. Elder Jolley comes from a big family and grew up raising cow in idaho and you all know osmond. We have been so busy. We went 350 miles in the last 4 days just trying to figure out the area and the Zone but its really good. We have some really good district leaders and a really good Zone, a little slackish but thats what i love to work with. Me and Elder Rasmussen went on an exchange because he used to be in the area and he took me to all the sweet fams in the ward and all the cool investi's. We had so much fun. Thats the first time we got together since he trained me. thats over a year ago. Time is just cookin by and its goin even faster now. We went to downtown nashville and had lunch the other day. We went to a pita place which was really good. We are on the road a lot. We drive a 2009 Chevy colorado truck ha ha its the sweetest truck, just kinda small for the 3 of us. Last night we had a program called Songs of the savior and we had a couple of investigators there and one of them wants to get baptized before he goes back to africa. he is the mayor of Lira Uganda. he is so cool. We had such a big dinner last night with our WML. Brother and Sister Swenson are the coolest family. We had ribs, and pork, and cole-slaw, and rolls, and beans, and for Desert we had home-made cheese-cake. ha ha off the hook meal. We have tons of support from our ward and the are giving us referrals like crazy. Elder Beck and Campbell kinda messed up a little bit and didn't take care of the ward so the ward is a little standoffish but its gonna be a ride thats for sure.Im pretty jealous of ya'll goin to hawaii. Im so white. IM BEAMING! and almost glow in the dark. I love ya'll so much and i hope ya'll are safe while ya'll are in HI that wounds like fun. I love you

One LoveElder Schwendiman

ZL that's flippin' nutz

The Coots Family

Coots kids

Some modeling

HI family
This week has been really fun but hectic at the same time. Early this week me and rigby bike almost 30 miles to go see some less actives and we found this red barn and we took modeling pics next too it. Its so funny. I'll send you the pics in just a minute. We got chased by a lot of dogs this week ha ha i don't like dogs as a missionary because im convinced that lucy has power over them and he makes them attack us. I carry a knife on me just incase i get really attacked. hope i don't have to do something i will regret. thursday morning President knocked on our door at 8:45 in the AM and he said he wanted to have a meeting with me so we sat in the living room just me and him and talked about leadership and we talked about the district and what i could do to make it better and then he gave me a leadership training handbook and told me to read it and get back to him on it. So on saturday President gave me a call and said he needed to talk with me for a couple of minutes. He told me i was going to be in Old Hickory with Elder Osmond and Elder Jolly. We are in a 3some but Elder Jolly's focus is to watch over the ward while me and Osmond watch over the Zone. Its a really efficient way to do missionary work. PResident is getting wild and ferocious. Im just really excited to be where people have teeth ha ha and they don't rely on EBT(food Stamps). Im glad im going back to Tennessee.. Im pretty sure we cover the mission home because our Zone is pretty big. Can you believe Elder Beech is going home in 2 days. THats so nuts. I remember serving with him a year ago.Seems like yesterday. Kenzie looks beautiful, im happy for her. Who's the goober she is marrying ha ha they look total opposite but i guess thats why they attract. Well the only thing going on here is that Seth Queen is getting baptized on the 10th of october. so i don't think i can come back since its an hour and a half away but its all good. Well i love ya'll so much and hope you have a good week.

ONe LOVE
Elder Schwendiman

What a surprize...

Stephanie

Sister Lowery

#1 Family wassup.
This week was off the hook sweet. Okay so brenda Lowery got baptized on saturday night. It was such a good baptism. All of her non-member relatives were there and now some of them wanna start leaning about how to get baptized. iTs pretty cool how that works. So we are gonna teach her cousin and teach him. He has had all the lessons and almost got baptized but he got really sick and went to the hospital but now he is out. So you are never gonna belive this but here it goes. Do you remember me telling you about a Johnny Jeskie and how he was dating a non-member. Well she called us yesterday and told us the spirit told her to get baptized that evening. So she drove 2 1/2 hours to come to the church and we threw a emergency baptism together and it was the most spiritual baptism i have been to. Me and her are really good friends and she calls me all the time asking q's about the BofM and stuff like that. I was so happy for her to get baptized. There were 50-60 people there to watch. So yesterday i got the privelage to teach junior sharing time in primary. I had so much fun with those kids. They are freakin wild. We talked about prophets and how they bless families, played follow the leader around the inside of the church, oh and get this, they were so dead quiet ha ha it was so sweet. So i just got a call from one of my favorite members and he is taking us golfing right quick. ha ha havent played in a really long time. Oh so right now im going through an intense study of the pualin apistles. and im also doing a summary of all the chapters in the old testament. its pretty wild. So other than that i think thats about it for this week. Dad im catching up to you pretty soon. Im back up to 175 ha ha only 20 pounds to go thats my goal. how cool would that be if i finally passed you up in weight. we will see. im working out pretty hard right now turning all my fat into muscle so im gonna be 2nd best to the hulk when i get home. but congrats on losing that weight. You too mom. ya'll are the bomb. well i love you all and have a safe, but enjoyable weekend.

Quote for the week. I came up with this yesterday.
"Personal Accountablilty"
If you want something done, Do it yourself.
For the time that you wait for others to
accomplish your task, Your time is far spent.

ONE LOVE
Elder Schwendiman

I'm a Country Boy!

THANK GOD IM A COUNTRY BOY. isn't that the coolest machine. ITs like the one Crawl drives in Son-in-Law

Eye to Eye!

Good Morning Ya'll.
I cant believe its already September. August went by really fast. i just hope i can hold onto this month a little longer. So as an update the Lowery is still planned to get baptized this saturday and Elder Rigby is gonna do the baptizing. He is way pumped up for it. Brenda and Jesse are the ones that are gonna be getting baptized. Pray for them extra hard this week they are gonna need all the prayers they can get. So we set another baptism date with a 9 year old boy for the end of September. He is such a cool kid. His dad has been doing WWF wrestling for 12 years. ha ha he is such a funny guy, he was showing us some of the videos of him whoopin some people... It was totally legit. We are getting the Family ready for their temple sealing. They are recently getting activated so that they can go to the Temple. So this last thursday and Friday i spent time in Tennessee with Elder Osmond. (Jay osmonds son) his is such a cool kid. We went and Taught some Samoan kids. They are so tight. They taught us how to speak Samoan and how to pronounce some words. E Alofa OI Mom That means i love you in Samoan. and Then on Friday afternoon we had dinner with the Baileys. Sis Baily is From Australia and she is such a good cook. For dinner we had Fried chicken, Green Beans cooked with bacon grease and with real bacon bits inside, and then bbq baked beans, and Fried green tomatoes, Ginger Ale, and then for desert we had peaches with butter, brown sugar, and some other stuff inside, it was absolutely the best meal i have eaten on my mission. lets see I got to go on exchanges with elder bytheway. Their apartment caught on fire so they are living with the ZL's for a week but osmond stuck me and T-dub together in an area neither of us knew and we had an exchange with some dude we didn't know. ha ha we were whatev so we went tracting with this guy, he is bald and has tatoo's all over his head. he is the coolest guy. oh so i got chiggers. Ya they diffinately suck. They are so itchy and they don't go away for weeks. Last night we went out with a future missionary and we were pretty much in the Blaire Witch Projects(by the way those are in our mission) but like fog was coming off the ground, we were in the middle of nowhere surrounded by forest. it was nuts but we went and taught two ladies who just had a husband/Daddy pass away and we went and taught them about the plan of salvation and they loved it and they wanna come to church and to a ward party on friday and i know they are gonna be ready for baptism for October. We talked with them about being able to be sealed with their dad/hubby, it was really cool. Darlene and Wendy. Pray for them too, they are going through a hard financial situation. Have i ever told ya'll that i love being on a mission. Im not sure if im coming home next summer. I gonna be a missionary for 4 years and pull an Alma and Amulek. That would be wild but im jk mom im comin home for ya. I love you Family. Ya'll are the Worlds Greatest. Have a good week and make it eventful.

One LOVE
Elder Schwendiman