Not exactly a White Christmas!

Rankin Family... also known as "Sacrament Distractions"

Hi there Family
This christmas was one of the best i have had yet. Its was so much fun. early morning we got up and had the fattest breakfast known to mankind. Sausage(jimmy Dean)(2), Bacon(large rack), Eggs(12), Toast(8), Milk, Cereal, it was so way good. After that we took turns opening our stockings which we filled for each other. That was so fun watching someone opening something that you bought them. I love that part. Then after that we played monopoly for hours on end. I got my hine parts kicked. I sucked way bad but i got free parking all the time so it was fun. So in the afternoon we went over to our friends the Neuhaus' they are such a cool family. they are about to have their 9th kid here in a couple of months so their house was such a party. I got to talk to my family which was way sweet. it gets funner and funner everytime i talk to them. we played basketball with the kids and we played airhockey and a bunch of other games with them as well. that night we went to the Rankins' which are my favorite family in the ward. 4 kids in the fam, Allison, Natalie, ben, and jonathan. We started our own band with them called "Sacrament Distractions" its way sweet. So we went over to their house and played catch phrase, bananagrams, and last word(such a loud game) It was so much fun being with a family just like our own. so christmas for me was Too legit. thanks for making this one of the best christmas' ever, only thing better could of been snow! ha ha but cami took care of the for me! Thanks for all the stuff ya'll sent me. I really loved everthing i got. I hope ya'll have a good new years. We are playing sports and watching a movie. Oh so we had a sweet lesson with this lady Wanda. Tim and connie Anderson(who we are related to) had us over to their house to teach her. It was sweet. we are going to church with her on Saturday. Its gonna be so kickin. God Bless I love All ya'll

ONE LOVE
Elder Schwendiman
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ELDER SCHWENDIMAN

Wornout Weekend Warrior!

Elder Haire and Me

Merry Christmas and Happy Flippin Hannukah!
Hey ya'll? Hows the Homefront? things this side 'o the mississippi are super good. This week was super busy. We had Zone Conference On Wednesday and it was one of the funnest ones i have been to yet. We got to train on a couple scriptures about coming to the table with Christ and feasting with him. It was really good and we had a lot of fun doing it. During the middle we had a little testimony meeting/Tell us you favorite christmas hymn and we will sing it. ha ha it was really funny. My favorite is hymn #215 ring out wild bells. ha flippin funniest song in the world. I have never heard it sung or anything like it. ya'll should try and sing it sometime. After Zone Conf. we were given the opportunity to go caroling at an old persons home for the sick. Dont know the name but it was so much fun. We walked in and there was 16 of us and everyone was staring at us and the assistants totally forgot to set it up so i had to talk the manager into letting us split up into groups and go sing x-mas songs to the sick and dying. It was so much fun. I really enjoyed it tons. I suck at singing but neubert had my back so it was all good. Okay so Friday-sunday the mission was doing this whole big choir concerts things around the mission and neubert was singing. so i needed a companion. well luckily there was one in the mission home who was way sick and might end up goin home. But friday we had to run downtown nash to get a couple of things for the assistants and jazz like that so we made the spanish drive us and then i had to drop off elder neubert at the mission home and stay there til sunday night..... so i thought. So all of Friday afternoon and night i gotta watch the Work and the Glory's and Living Scriptures ha ha it was way weird but it was still legit. That night there were 40 missionaries both sisters and elders staying in the mission home and guess who came in my room at midnight. You guessed it ELDER BECK ha ha we didn't go to sleep for ever ha ha Saturday we woke up super early and i had to go pick up some missionaries on the other side of Nashville and have them back to the mission home by 8:00 AM. After that we had to drive 110 miles to go drop off some stuff at a mall for the choir thing so we stayed for the whole performance and it was way good but they picked the worst staircase to perform on. they were right in front of Victoria's Secret and it was so funny watching the elders trying not to look at it. i died laughing but it was really good and the spirit was there. then we had to run to the church and fill the font for gary's baptism which took a couple hours and we ran outta hot water so he got baptized in the Arctic. ha ha it went really good. He bore his testimony after the baptism. One of the best baptizzy's i have been to. After the baptism i had to go do something for the Spanish ZL's and then after that we had our x-mas party for the ward which was way super fun. We went Home that night and i got like 6 hours of sleep Cuz we didn't get home til late and then Sunday morning we were at the church by 7 in the AM. I took Kallush back to the mission home and i fell asleep to Nephi and the golden plates living scripture style. THen we went to dinner, and then we went to Handells Messiah Concert. It was so super good. I am so worn out. this was definately a weekend to remember. Merry Christmas and happy Hannukah and hope ya'll have a super good Holiday

ONE LOVE
Elder Schwendiman
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ELDER SCHWENDIMAN

Divinity yahoo's

tis the season to be merry. "well thats my name".......
Ha ha i thought about christmas vacation the other day. thats my all time favorite christmas movie. So this week was so busy and crazy nuts. On tuesday morning me and elder neubert got to sit in for the assistants at Belmont University. Some of the students were doing a project about our church for their world religion and divinity class. It was so sweet. They gave a very positive presentation about the church and our stand on the humanitarian aid. at the end of it we got to stand at the front of 60 students and teach about missionary work and what we do and we had one of our members with us and she gotta bear testimony of her son being on a mission. and then we got to answer questions that the class threw out to us. It was really sweet. so this weekend Gary is getting baptized. Saturday at 4:00 Pm and then after that we are having a ward party and we get our own booth. Its the "Ben and Nephi" instead of barnes and Noble book store and we are gonna have all the church material a non-member needs. so i saw the other day my favorite family from brentwood. the robinsons. I spent christmas with them last year. I love that family. Me and her had a good talk about life and her family and stuffs like that. On saturday I had lunch with Amber Blackwell from clarksville. SHe works down the street from us so she took us to Pei Wei and it was so good to get caught up and everything. Her daughter is now over 2 years old which is nutso. She brought us some christmas music. This morning we had a meeting with PResident Hutchings so i got about 5 hours of sleep last night getting the graphs and the numbers and trends and paths that we are doing and all the plans for the Zone to fix what we need to. It was a really good meeting and we felt really confortable because as a Zone we have 2 baptized and 7 future dates and if all goes well this will be the 1st time Nashville Zone has ever reached its goals in almost a year. so Heavenly Father is playing a huge role in this right now. We had to get thru the Furnace of affliction(purification process) before we could see success. We know the Lord was testing us to see if we would hold faithful and i cannot express the Love and thanks i have for the blessings that he is bestowing upon us right now. Its the greatest feeling you can have as a missionary when the Holy Spirit of Promise seals what you are doing. I love this work and everything about it. the good the bad and the ugly. So right now im looking at a guy who looks like the main character from NottingHill, not the underwear one but the other one. I love ya'll so much and hope ya'll have a happy week

ONE LOVE + Happy Holiday's

E. Schwendiman

Is it sad that i already forgot that song (Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat). ha ha i would love some christmas music anything ya got. Its so much fun so this morning we traded cars with smyrna. ha ha ha ha ha ha that was my evil laugh. we got an '09 malibu instead of the truck. Its a much nicer car. im suprized president aproved it. 

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318 Edmonson Circle

Nashville, TN 37211

MIND is officially BLOWN!

18 Months

well Hey there
What a week Huh? can ya'll believe that its christmas time almost? I can't. time is going by way to flippin fast. It feels like im trying to hold on a rope dipped in karosine! its not working. It seems the harder i work the faster time goes. so im done working..... Ha ha JK i love it out here even tho its getting pretty daggum cold. Thanksgiving was off the hook. We spent it playing in the turkey bowl in the morning when it was 40 degrees witha chill factor of like 16. and then went home and took a 2 hour nap that felt ridiculously amazing. Longest nap i think ever. Then we went and hung out with the Rankin Family. We had so much fun. Before dinner we played "catch phrase" for like an hour and then we had the usual, turkey, stuffing, taters, dressing, rolls, etc and tons of freakin pie. It was so much fun. and then after that we created a band. its called "sacrament distractions" and our record label is "NO SHAME" ha ha Me and Natalie were playing Heart and Soul on the piano while mama rankin played the guitar, Neubert played the cow bell, jonathan played the bongo's, alyssa played the tamberine and then ben play the banjo. Its freakin tight and i will send you the link when they post it on the internet. i have never had so much fun playing that song. So i had to speak in church yesterday and ya it was on gratitude ha ha it was only 7 minutes which is lame but they didn't give me more time to speak but it went really well. Our organist is an 11 year old kid. he is freakin amazing. Gary is moving along pretty nice. he is gonna be dunked here in a couple of weeks so that will be good. but other than that we are still trying to fill our teaching pool. Just know i'm thankful for ya'll and i love ya'll with all my heart. Keep it real.

ONE LOVE
E. Schwendy