Kick IT Kitty!

Elder Knaras was sitting in that chair until i jumped on him and we went right through it ha ha

Fat gut in window

Hey whats kickin Fam.
This week has been kinda uneventful for me to say the least. So monday we had the phone call with president all about missionary work and what needed to happen. He told us if we didn't contact all referrals we got we could not have a P-day. Pretty bold if i ever knew. He also told us that Elder Arnold of the Seventy is gonna tour our mission next wednesday and we have to give a personal report to him on our Zone. Its gonna be way intense. but our Zone has improved 100 fold since we got here. The last Zone leaders did almost nothing with the area and the Zone.  But they got released from ZLship so its cool. Elder Knaras(assistant) came out with us for 3 days M,T,W, and we saw a lot of good people. He is from riverton. His family is just like ours. Spiritual but loves to have a crazy amount of fun too. They go boating and all that jazz. Ya'll should become friends! ha ha   But Thursday morning i went down to Smyrna TN to go with one of the DL to help him out in his district. This is his first transfer as a DL and he has been out almost 6 months so still kinda new but we got things rolling and now we should see the Zone really explode. We got attacked by a dog, ok well, he got attacked.  I let the dog run past me because i was riding a bike that wasn't fast at all. 1st time on a bike in 6 weeks. ha ha i'm still hurting.  We went to a wedding of a kid in their ward.  oh check this out, I learned how to do a Rubix cube and now i can do one all by myself ha ha i feel dang smart. Elder Marsh taught me how to do it. He can do it in 1 minute and like 19 seconds. It takes me 9 minutes and some change. So this is pretty funny every morning when we wake up we send a message to the whole Zone and we play a primary song on the ipod and send it to the whole Zone. This morning we did primary jamboree ha ha we thought it would start everyones day off on a good note and its working. ha ha so right now its turning really pretty because all the leaves are changing colors really fast. I love the fall here but its gone way too fast. Winter will be here in 1 1/2 months and then everything will be all grey. Yucky! but thats about it for the week. I love ya'll and thanks for all you do for me.

ONE LOVE
ELDER SCHWENDIMAN

Archuletta?!!!!!!

Hey there wicked sweet family,
Okay so just to get it outta the way, i met david Archuletta yesterday. I saw this kid at church and i walked up to him and said hi im E. Schwendiman and he was like hey. Come to find out it was David A. ha ha He was in our sacrament meeting. He is in town writing music these next couple of weeks so ya.  Also the girls from Shedaisy are in my ward. I was talking with them yesterday and their little brother Clayton is one of my good buddies now. This week has been pretty normal except the last couple of days. We have found a lot of new investigators, taught some good lessons, we have been teaching this girl Jessica and we taught her about Joseph smith and The Restoration and then we taught her grandpa too and now they both have a book of mormon and are loving it. so they will be progressing here in a couple of weeks. Okay so here is the nutso news for the week. Yesterday I got a call from elder rasmussen telling me and elder osmond to pack our bags and be at the mission home by 10:00 monday morning(this morning). all the ZL's in the mission had to pack their bags and be at the mission home by 10 today. He was gonna replace every ZL witha different one. All of us were freaking out because i have fallen in love with this ward. it reminds me of our old ward back home hee hee but President is acting like someone who just licked his lolly-pop. he is real mad. We have a conference call with him at 12:00 Noon so that should be fun. Our Zone is not doing really good. We have a lot of obedience issues and laziness and no desire.  So me and Elder Osmond came up with a competition to get every one excited about missionary work.
NEW INVESTIGATOR= 2 Pts
MEMBER PRESENT= 10 Pts
CHURCH ATTENDANCE= 15 Pts
DATE SET= 25 Pts
Its gonna be so much fun to see who wins. whoever beats me and elder Osmond, we will take them to a restaurant of their choice. But they are gonna have to fight real hard to beat me and elder osmond. we are putting up what districts are doing right now so this should be a good push. We are gonna try and set a date wit jessica this week so pray real hard that we can do it successfully. Okay funny story, there is this lady in our ward who came up to Osmond and told him that she dated his dad for like 6 months and almost became his mommmy but she told us she will be our mission mom. ha ha poor kid. Every single person without skipping a beat asks if he is related to the osmonds. We also have the worlds largest osmond fan in our ward. He is handicapped and loves elder osmond. He calls us between 30-40 times a week. I love it and he leaves messages that are like 10 minutes long just repeating the same things over and over again. so thats about it for the week but i love ya'll so much and hope all is well in the new ward and tell Elder J. Baker i love his guts. Have a super week and take care.

ONE LOVE
Elder Schwendy

okay so here is another funny story that happend this week. We had to go get our truck fixed at a car dealership, and when we got their we had a 2 hour wait and we were far from home. So, you know me, I like to go exploring so we did and we found a $140,000 Corvette ZR1 in the show room and we got permission to go sit in it so we took pics and all that jazz. Well inside the car we sat and then the car battery died on us so we sat in this car for like 35 minutes and couldn't figure out how to get out. its nuts. The door handle isnt on the door. its in the floor. ha ha we had to have like 3 people come help us figure out how to get outta the car. it was real dumb but real funny. ha ha

ONE LOVE
ELDER SCHWENDY

New Nashville Address

Elder Dallin Schwendiman

318 Edmonson Circle

Nashville, TN 37211

Man That's Crispy---

So we meet again,
Okay so first off for the week I got a hair-cut. Now i don't have a mop on my head anymore. I had a neck beard and sweet ear mullets. There is a member in the ward who gives 55$ hair-cuts to missionaries for free. Her husband is Tim Anderson and his cousin Heidi is Marrried to Gary Schwendiman. Don't know where the relation is but i told him we could just call each other cousins. He is a way cool dude. Mom Thank you so much for the package and i was going to totally send pics but our truck is getting fixed in the shop(and it wasn't even my fault) our brake distributor went out so our truck was all sorts of messed up last night oh so my backpack is in the car and my camera is in it so ya i'll get them to ya'll next monday. ya'll will really dig 'em. We had a lesson with this guy Serkin who is from turkey and we walked into the house and he went out and got him som Mo-TAB some how and thats what was playing in his house. it was cool but it went from good to evil in like 1.1 seconds. He got mad at his wife for something and he went and kicked down his bedroom door and went in the other room and slammed the door shut. I think he felt way dum dum after kicking the door down so he had to make up for it by slamming another door. ha ha So we are not going to be teaching him anymore. He was acting like someone had stuck their finger all up in his ice-cream. I mean he was mad. He likes to drink way too much. Elder Boswell called me and asked if i would take him on an exchange, cause as assistants they don't get to do much missionary work so he came with me and we went and saw a bunch of poeple and talked about past times and had a really good time. He is gonna come see ya'll when he gets home around christmas time. Oh mom before i forget to do so, tell G-ma Schwendiman thanks for the package of cookies and candy. and tell her i love her and Tell your parents that i will be sending them a letter soon. They wrote me last week. and Tell everyone i love em. IM really sad about the ward splitting. Me and Trey had these sweet plans to be home-teaching companions. Now it can be me and mitch. Thats cool cami is in there as well. Same with julianne Egbert. They both are really good girls. So we had Zone Conference and me and Elder Osmond got to train on Positivity and Accountibility, and There is no such thing as a dead area, just dead missionaries. I like everything about it except the things i didn't. ha ha THis week is gonna be even Busier than last week. Thursday we are hitting up all the companionships in the Zone to have a come to Jesus Talk with them about missionary work. But we are gonna do it with love of course. Well just know im loving the work and im working my little heart out. I don't have too much time and i wanna go out with a bang. I love ya'll so much and Just know i love this gospel with Everything i have.

ONe lOve
Elder Schwendiman

Alofa oi!

Hello there my Hawaiian family
Im pretty jealous that ya'll went to the islands but thats way sweet.  Ya'll are just buck wild ya know ha ha  This week has been really busy. Starting on wednesday We had district meeting with one of our districts and after went and got some lunch at CiCi's pizza. Then we split up. I went to nashville to my old ward GreenHills with that companionship on wednesday and then another compship needed some help getting motivated and doing the work so i went over thursday morning to bellevue to help them out. Meanwhile Elder Osmond went to smyrna to go with the smyrna elders while elder jolley stayed in the area with another misisonary and took care of things here. He set a baptism date for the 24th with this guy from turkey. Sirkan Sinan is the coolest guy and he gave me a sweet italian tie. But when elder osmond went to smyrna he got so sick and got a temp of 104.4 and ended up in the mission home for 5 days. Half the mission is sick right now its crazy. So i have never had a better conference weekend in all my days. So saturday morning we got up at 5:00 and headed over to the mission home for a wonderful weekend of zone Leader council conference style. All day saturday we had all the Zone Leaders in the mission over at the mission home having meetings every hour of the day wth president and the Assistants and then in between that we watched conference and then sister Hutchings cooked us home made meals for every meal. My favorite talk was by President Uchdorf about work and the responsibility and accountibility we hold in doing work. "Its in the doing and not just the thinking" that was my favorite quote from that talk. but it was a really fun weekend and now elder osmond is back with us but elder jolley is getting emergency transfered to Dickson Tenn. Im gonna miss the kid but he has to go fix another area so now we have more work to do but its all good. I love ya'll and hope all is well and let me just add my witness that i know this work is true and there is none other that brings eternal happiness.

ONE LOVE
Elder Schwendiman