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