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Elder Wall and Elder Johnson

Good Morning Gill!

Good Morning Gill, I said Good Morning Gill

I feel good i feel great i feel wonderful, I feel good i feel great i feel wonderful. So this week has just been i hectic week. Lots of meetings and other things to take care of in the Zone. First off Im running off 3-4 hours of sleep last night. I got a call at 11:30 last night from some other Zone Leaders informing me that one of my missionaries was doing something he shouldn't have up in another area so that was fun. at 2:30 i got a call from One of the DL's and some black dude broke into their apartment and held him up at gun point in his living room, so i was on the phone with him for a bit. he couldn't sleep. and then president Hutchings called at 3:30 thinking that he had called the Franklin Zone Leaders telling me that Elder lawrence needed to go to the hospital to have his stomach checked out. so right now im really tired. early this week i got to go on an exchange with Elder Boswell. He goes home in 3 weeks. We had a lot of fun chatting and working. I miss hanging out with that kid. So we have been playing this little game with the assistants where they came into our apartment and kidnapped craksak(that little monkey puppet) and now Elder Panda(a stuffed aminal) has him hostage. I owe him 274 lbs of bamboo and a corndog for ransom. Its fun. So this week we had Stake Correlation... thats where we sit in front of the stake presidency and give a report of how the Zone is doing. Its an hour long. We have the coolest stake Presidency. they are so much fun. They brought us cookies and we had a good chat about byu and utah football. Saturday morning we helped on of our friends move into their new apartment. and then later On saturday we had a DLC(district leader council) in our apartment from 12-3. It was a good meeting. we got to run it how we wanted and we gotta talk on what we wanted. we have some of the best district Leaders in the mission. Our Zone is really turning around pretty quick. We had a really good meeting and we are all on the same page now. I hope me and Neubert stay together for christmas. Thats gonna be so much fun. So right now im very thankful for a Loving Father in Heaven who loves me and cares for me. Im thankful for the Eternal Sacrifice of My Savior. Im grateful for a loving family who supports me in all things. I love ya'll so much and i would be nowhere without ya'll. ya'll are the best. I love being a missionary and how much fun it is. There has not been a better reward thus far that i can think of. I hope ya'll have a freaking sweet Thanksgiving and pack the weight back on. Sorry not too much to say. Gary is still good from X-mas but not this month. Colleen dropped us like we were hot! ha ha so she is outtta the pic. I love ya'll HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

ONE LOVE
Elder schwendy

Nutso freakin Week!

Hey there ya'll

First off let me express my gratitude to ya'll. I am so thankful that ya'll are my family. There is no greater blessing out there than being a part of this family. I love ya'll. so this week was off the hook crazy. So on wednesday we had our Zone conference with Elder Arnold of the Seventy. First thing he did when he walked up to me and put his hand on my neck and the side of my face and was like "your just the happiest guy i ever saw" i guess it looked like i was beaming or something, or he was just looking into my soul. but the meeting throughout the whole day was so spiritual. I have never been in a meeting where so much revelation flowed. It was incredible. We learned a couple new tactics of how to contact people and it works like gold. He talked a lot about goal setting and being personally accountable to that goal, he gave us 14 points on how we can be more effective in our missionary work, and the neat thing is that the whole afternoon he was shootin from his hip with his trainings. Unbelievable. after the Meeting he had 1-on-1 interviews with the Zone Leaders. I can't even to begin to tell ya'll what a blessing it was to sit knees length away from someone with so much power and to have a conversation with just him, was incredible. Never in life have a experienced something so real, and so spiritual. The things we talked about were of the Spirit and revelation. I know he was called of God to work in this ministry. that night we had a fireside with him as well and we took Gary to go meet Elder Arnold. He met him and the two talked about growing up on a farm and jazz like that. He loved it. we are gonna talk to him about getting baptized this month instead of next month. So i was supposed to give a talk in church again for the 2nd week in a row but the dudes cancelled on me but im speaking on the 29th of this month so it should be good. Just know im happier than ever and that im loving life more and more everyday. I love ya'll and hope ya'lll have a super tight week.

One love Elder Schwendiman

Garff Waters!!!

Elder Neubert and Me

Hey there Schwendy Family,

Its good to be alive! Im sitting on cloud nine right now. this week has been a real good week for us. So yes i am now with Elder Neubert and we are having so much fun. its been fun talking about past memories of the Murf turf. We get along better than we did when we were together the 1st time. this is gonna be a fun couple of transfers. So right now our phone went off and it was in Elder Neuberts pocket and everyone in the library just turned and gave him the "i hate your ancestors" look of death. ha ha so funny. We have had a couple of meetings this week. one was a Leadership Training meeting with President and the assistants and the Zone Leaders and District leaders in the Nashville area. It was really good and their focus was on The Gathering of Israel and asking effective q's so that we understand our role in that process. and then on saturday we had a meeting in clarksville(which brought back a lot of memories as well) we got up at 5:15 because we had to be fully prepared for the meeting and we had to be at the mission home at 6:45 IN THE AM! way too early. i never knew 5:00 existed until this weekend. but the meeting was good. i got the see Elder Richins because it was a ZLC which means all ZL's in the mission were there and the meeting was super long. For lunch we had these mega subs and i think the pic explains all that needs to be. My face hurt for hours afterwards. Then after that meeting i had to go back into nashville and give 2 baptismal interviews. and then we set a date with colleen for the 28th of this month. Gary has a date for Christmas but we are trying to move that up so there wont be any room for error. Me and elder Neubert are trying something with our Zone this week. We are having each companionship invite 70 people to join the church. that is gonna be 500 for the zone. The jacksonville florida mission on averag invites 6000 people to join the church a month. That freakin insane. No wonder they are the highest baptizing mission in the East and south. but we are on our way up. There wasn't anything too exciting that happened this week just a lot of meetings and taking care of our zone. Thanks for all ya'll do for me. i got the K-dub times thanks. sounds like homeboys are doing really good in their missions. have a great week and i love all ya'll

One Love
Elder Schwendiman

Still in Nashville but Neubert?

Smyrna District

well good morning cadets!

How are we doing this morning. this week has been on to remember. transfer calls came in on Saturday night and im staying but im training elder Neubert (yes my 1st seed to come forth) how to be a Zone Leader. I was really shocked to see him go Zone Leader at 9 months out but he is still an incredible missionary and am stoked to serve with my boy. we are gonna have so much fun and we will have some oober success. im sad to see Elder Osmond go. He has taught me a whole lot for better and for worse. He is such a good kid and i got tons of Respect for him. This should be a real interesting situation since we have to give Zone Reports to 2 general Authorities next week. Elder Arnold and Elder Cornish are going to come tour the mission and Me and Neubert have to give a presentation to them 1 on 1. Its gonna be buck-nuts but it should also be a lot of fun. sorry i emailed so late. We were in meetings with President all day. This next transfer is gonna be fun. we got a lot of work to do but right now we have two dates. Colleen Law and Gary Glass. we had lunch with some members the other day and they brought gary their non-member friend and we had a great gospel discussion and he is wanting to join the church. its gonna be sweet. Next time we teach him it will be in their home so we wont have too many distractions. but colleen almost got baptized but her parents threw away her book of mormon and told her she couldn't join a few years back but now she is living by herself and wants to join the church some more. He date is the 28th so pray real hard that she will some to church and get baftized. Elder Rigby is going DL this transfer and elder richins is going ZL too. this mission is gonna rock this month. We are shooting for 100 baptisms so it should be good. We need lots of prayers. I love ya'll so much and just know that im having the time of my life and enjoying every moment. Thanks for all ya'll do for me. ya'll are the best.

KICK IT!  Elder Schwendiman