Another day in Paradise!

So there i was, tuesday night...............

okay so the super sweet story of the week is this, so there we were, we just got out of an appointment with a recent convert and we had 2 messages from our bishop. !st on said. "hey elders call me back" 2nd one said "elders i have a baptism for you next week, call me back" a little background on this guy Randy Wills, He has been coming to church for 6 years, his wife is a member, He has had callings in the primary and all sorts of good things like that. He called up the bishop and told him that he was super sick of being stubborn and he knew the church was true and he wanted to get dunked. So we went over to his house on Saturday night and did the baptismal interview with him and he is ready to buck up at sun up on Thursday! He is such a cool guy. So this whole week has been in the 40-60 degrees range but supposed to get cold again this week and then stay warm til summer HA. We just bought stuff for the Grill and we are gonna start grillin with the neighbors every monday for p-day. Its gonna be sweet. So me and Elder Rigby found this new cool place to start working. Its called chapel hill Tennessee, its only a 35 minute drive to get there, and its straight country if i ever saw, but the people out there are so sweet. Those kinda people out there are homebread country style people, good hearted, and God blessed people. I love the South. no better country. We rode with a guy this last week who hates the Yankee's. He calls the war between the North and South, The war of the Northern Agression. He is a confederate thru and thru ha ha So i just found out that the KKK was founded 1 hour away from where we live. THere is so much history here in the south. Its fun to hear the stories of all the peeps who grew up out here since the stone age. We had interviews with President and We also had Zone Conference all on the same day so friday morning we were up at 5 getting ready for it and then on Saturday we got up early to play tennis for our work out, and Then........Comes sunday where we are up at 5-5:15 ish. THose make for super long days but church was way sweet. oh Schwendiman clan, ya'll need to do some family research, cause there are quite a few Schwendimans living here in the Great south. There are some in Hole-in-wall tennessee, and one in Franklin, and some in brentwood Tennessee. Imma try and get out to Hole-in-wall to see those one and see how country our family is. Im glad to know i not the only dumb redneck in the family now. I got comroderies with me now! I love ya'll and hope ya'll are blessed.

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ONE LOVE
Elder Schwendiman

It's still cold!

Hey Ya'll

So right now its snowing here for the 3rd week in a row. THis weather is actin all sorts of crazy right now. THis last week was a really good week. We Set a date with this girl named ashley L. She is such a cool girl and she is super stoked to get baptized. She is going in the water March 13th so here in about 4 weeks. I went out with brand new missionary in the zone Elder Hathaway and i took him down south for the day to show him real country and we taught her Gospel of Christ and she loved everything about it and she has no objection of getting wet! Church almost got cancelled on sunday because of the snow. It gets so bad out here that no one can get outta the driveway to get to church cause no one out here has 4x4 cars and it gets super icy and nobody knows how to drive out here. ha ha They have had us park the cars for the day so now we get to walk and freeze our little butts off haha Yesterday we got asked to stand in a circle for an advancement to The office of Elder. Is was super cool. So yesterday we got fed like we were kings. at 2 we had treats with a family, and then at 4 we had tacos for dinner with a way sweet family, and then at 6 we had brownies with a ballin family and then at 8 we did the same thing with the coolest family ha ha we were stuffed but other than that we just walked and tried to find new people to teach. We got ZC this week and interviews the same day so it should be really busy. Can yall believe that mitch gets home in like 4 days. That ridiculous. Hope all is well and hope all ya'll enjoyed NSA(National Singles Awareness) day and all that jazz. HAPPY VALENTINES DAY

One LOVE

Elder Schwendiman

a week i can't remember

Whats shinin ya'll....
So there i was Sunday morning, waking up to an alarm set for 4:30, in THE A.M.! We had stake coorelation that we had to be to the stake center at 6:00 and its a 35 minute drive. So that started out what i know now to be, the longest Day of my life. After stake coorelation we went to the church which is an hour away from the stake center to go have our PEC meeting with the Bishopric. We told them that we were going to have a baptism that afternoon but biship said "i got a call from her inlaws saying to postpone the baptism til a week later" just because they didn't want to miss the super bowl. So dumb! but we ended up just havin the baptism anyway. She said she didn't care if they came or not so.... we did it. It was so awesome. Her name is Kelly Connelly. She is such a cool lady. She had us over for a celebritory dinner saturday... it was so good it was pretty much thanksgiving all over again. The baptims went really good, not a whole lot of turn out but on the next one we will have the whole ward. We made a deal that if kelly would keep the word of wisdom we would walk with her every monday, wed, and friday morning. she wants to get back in shape, oh ya so do i ha ha so its a good thing we go down to walk with her. So you will never belive what i did... I worked on a farm last week. ha ha city boy is gettin dirty. We fed the cows while stompin thru the mud, we fed the goats and got to play around with the baby ones, we cut down a ton of wood for this baptist guy and then he fed us some bomb chili. Homemade chili out here is a little bit of heaven if i ever knew. but other than that i cant think of what we did. I was so tired when i got up this morning that i cant even think straight ha ha but God Bless and ya'll take care


ONE LOVE
ELDER SCHWENDIMAN

Kawalla Newsletter 2 February 2010

Snowy Paradise!

This pic is me getting ready to go Royaly Freezy my butt off!

Hello
So not much happened this week.... Sad day... So i got into my new area on tuesday and that afternoon i had to stay in Pulaski Tennessee to give a baptismal interview. This place was in the stick, i mean it was so far outta town we had no reception on the phone or nothin. I talked with this guy out in the middle of the forest next to a river, it was super chill. Then i was on exchanges for the next couple of days. We had such a super awkward ride home with a guy who is not a mute but HATES to talk. So on Friday night we got a giant snow storm and a mini ice storm here. It was so sweet. All of saturday we were confined to our apartment. Super boring. all we did was clean the place spotless and studdied. Yesterday we got to shovel a bunch of people out of their driveways. My arms are super tired. but we had a lot of fun doing it. but hey hope ya'll have a good week and just know i love you.

ONE LOVE
ELDER SCHWENDIMAN