Quick Week!

Hi ya'll

So not a lot of time today, i gotta stacked week ahead of me so this one is gonna be real quick. This week was a phenom of a week. Saturday was such sweet day. IN the morning time we helped a family move for a couple of hours and then we had a really big lunch, we had a bunch of pizza and soda, then we went out for a couple of hours to find new people to teach on campus. That evening we had dinner with a sweet sweet family and they had someone their for us to teach, Bronson is such a cool kid, he is gonna teach me how to pick a quitar and im gonna learn Come thou fount on the quitar. Then we went to a baptism and had one of our investigators there and he liked it, then we went to go find people the rest of the night. Oh ya, so elder kunz went to the hospital on saturday night cause his chest was killing him so we took him to the emergency room to figure out what the problem was with his chest, so we were their while they did the EKG and all that jazz, but like i said not too much is going on this week but we are working hard and finding a lot of new people to teach. I love ya'll and i promise there will be more next week

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Elder Schwendiman

Yep!

Hi fam!

So this week has flown the a jet. I tell you what. So monday after email, we went to the church and played basketball, im just outta shape as picaso! I was weezin like the pokemon, up and down the court all day. but i plan on getting back into shape really fast. I have already lost 8 pounds in the last 2 weeks. so im lookin pretty good. Tuesday we had Zone Conference and i gotta finally sit next to elder Humrich. don't worry, we were really quiet and good. It was all about going about our Fathers business. I really liked it. It was really weird not training or reporting or anything. I miss the heck outta it. So i was gonna call on hilary's birthday but i couldn't find a member's house to go over to and call her but i love you hil. I thought about you all day on wednesday. Happy 18th birthday. i can't believe ya'll are an adult now. So we drove out to baxter to go visit a referral and we drove past a bunch of hollars and ridges and then we made our way out to the Center Creek lake. Such a beautiful lake. we were so far out in the country. i love the country and the country folk. they are good people. Happy birthday to you too mom. Im glad that i got to call you. It was a lot of fun and the Zittings really enjoyed it too. I really like that family. their son ben is the coolest kid. Im trying my best to get him to alaska ha ha he would love it out there. So there other day we met with the coolest kids from TTU and we are trying to convince them to go on a mission. they are both from memphis but just livin life in college. both active members, they are just needing a push. So on friday it was so sweet, we went over the angela's and miranda's house to watch the Testament with them and they invited us back for dinner at 5 so we went back and had pork chops, mash taters, mac, stuffing, and then brownies for desert. and to top off the weekend we went and taught this kid who goe's to TTU and we taught him about the book of mormon and he doesn't know its true but is still reading it and we set a date for him to get dunked on April 24th. He is dating a member of the church and she is totally active. so that was really my week in a nutshell. It was a good week and Reimschiissel is doing so good. He is such a good missionary. He has a really big heart and we have so much fun together. I heard his mom called ya'll the other day. but like always buck up at sunup and smile and have a good week. I love ya'll.
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Elder Schwendiman

Getting my new greenie!!

Another day in what I thought was Paradise!

Hi ya'll

So this week has been a diamond in the rough if i ever saw. So im in my new/last area Cookville. Its not so bad of a place, our whole entire area is about 6 square miles big. ha ha not the biggest place in the world to serve. We tend to talk to a lot of the same people. We are having a good time, Me new greenie is Elder ReimSchiissel the hizzle my nizzle pick up and drop for rizzle ha ha He is from St. George UT. We have been having a lot of fun walking. It been really rainy the last 4-5 days and biking just aint that fun in the rain when its 40 degrees. But we are on a full time bike/walk area so no car. Its weird going from 6 months of straight sitting on my butt driving to 3 months of straight walking. it should be good though. THe other morning we went running(1st time since bowling Green) we ran 5 miles believe it or not. We went running with Elder Velazquez and His comp. Elder V. Plays soccer for Real Salt lake ha ha he is such a cool kid.So this week has been rough with teaching people because we dont know anybody but this week should be a little bit better. So at church yesterday the sisters invited this girl jana to churhc. Big Big black baptist lady. Well someone knew that she played the piano and she was asked to provide the prelude music at church. Well the church got a little more than they bargained for. Out of nowhere she started in on this big Praise God the Almighty and Jesus Song. She definately sings in her choir but it was just like in the movies and it was the best thing i have seen at church my whole mission. I almost died laughing but good thing i was in the back with some non-members. ha ha but thats about how exciting my week has been. I love ya'll and i will def have more updates next week.

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Elder Schwendiman

Elder Neubert, Me and Elder Reimschiisel

The Final New Address in Cookville...

19 South Jefferson Ave. #210

Cookeville, TN 38501

Talk about stretch marks!

Hey There Family

So i got a call from The President Doctor and He told me i was PREGNANT! ha ha ha Im gonna be training again but not as a ZL. IM going to be opening a new area in Cookville(burgess falls) its gonna be so sweet. Don't worry i didnt do something dumb to get kicked outta ZL-ship. Im super stoked to go to that area. Im gonna miss Spring Hill though. it has been a lot of fun serving here. So this week has been freakin nutso. we did a lot of finding this last week and found some really good new investigators but i wont have a chance to teach them. Friday morning we had to get up at 4:00 and drive an hour to go pick up one of the new assistants, he is such a muggins, haha and then we had to drop off his companion in franklin, and then drive to brentwood for a 8 hours ZLC meeting. it was so super long, but we played games and had a good ol' time. we didnt get home til like 5 and then we went straight to dinner with the coolest confederate son ever ha ha the dude is so rad he is a member of the KKK down here and is super biased against the North of the Yank's haha he hates em. Sunday was probably one of the best days ever. I finally got up and bore my testimony. ITs been forever. There were only like 70 people the so that was not bad and the whole rest of the day we had a good time. We took pics with the hadaway family(my favorite family here) and they bought us kit kats because we are now all in the KKK (kit Kat Krew) ha ha it was way funny i'll send the pics next time. After church we went to go see ashley and try and get here to accept a baptism date so we pushed it off a couple of weeks but she will be good to go on the 27th of the month and after that we got a message from the ivey's and we went and said goodbye and had a good time with them and the then this family invited us over for sunday lunch/dinner and we played air hockey i whooped Mckensie ha ha she did beat me tho at the last second on one of the games and all was way fun we played with their ginny hens and tried to catch them and just had a good sunday. but thats about it for the week, nothing too excited going on. I love ya'll and hope yall have a blessed week.

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Elder Schwendiman

What a week!

Hey ya'll

I gotta tell ya'll this has been such a fun week to be a missionary. Lots of things are happenin here in Spring Hill. We had a baptism on Thursday. Randy Wills is such a cool guy. The baptism lasted 10 minutes. He didn't want talks or anything he just wanted to get dunked and thats it. So thats all we did. His in-laws drove in from utah and his father-in-law baptized him. So last monday walking through electronic express some guy came up to me and asked me if i wanted a job. He said he would just let us start today cause we were dressed up all NIce and stuff. but i told him BOY i gots the best job in the World.ha ha monday night we were brushing our teeth in the bathroom and we realized it was 10:30 exactly so we hurry and spit out our paste and prayed right there on the bathroom floor. ha ha the things you do as a missionary!! Tuesday we were down in a place called chapel hill which is a super country place where everyone there is homebread souther country folk. they are the nicest people we serve around but we went to sonic to get some lunch and our bishop owns it, so were ordered our food and the girl came out and was all happy and giddy and i told her i needed to pay for it and she was like oh no you don't! and skated away so we got free lunch. it was so ballin. Wednesday i have never been so full in my life. We ate at La Hacienda for lunch and got a huge platter of who knows what, then recent convert took us out to O'Charley's for a snack and a lesson, welll i ended up having a 7ounce steak with a salad and sweet potato fries, and homemade raspberry lemonade, and then 2 hours later for dinner , we had carrot Soup YUCK MCGUCK! it was nasty and then she gave us a cornicopia of spaghetti, i got about halfway through and thought i was gonna implode ha ha Friday we met a family of 9 that we are now teaching, they are so cool, they have met with missionaries in the past so they should be good to go here in a couple of months if not weeks. sunday was a really good day, after church we went to the Penningtons and had a super fun time with their family, oh yeah before i forget, our bishop rebuked the ward for not feeding us everyday so he personally took it upon himself to make sure that was getting done. We have 16 dinnners in a row now, so there is no chance of weightloss for the next couple 3 weeks. but sunday afternoon we ate dinner with a family of 13 ja ja it was so fun. I love big fams. but really thats all that happened this week. Hope all ya'lll are having a blessed week! i love ya'll

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Elder Schwendiman