New Address in Paducah Kentucky

411 Hutchinson Ave.

Paducah, KY 42003

Paducah Kentucky!!

So im leaving burgess falls tonight. President Hutchings just called me and im being emergency transfered to the Paducah Kentucky. He has to take the Zone Leaders out and Put me and Elder Jolley in as ZL's. This is super Buckwild. so now you can call the office and get my new address. Sorry to throw a wrench in your fire. i love you!

Pics from last Monday!

hey fam

There are only a couple of things that happened this week. on p-day last monday we took a trip to Burgess Falls Waterfalls. They are such a trip. They are so big and beautiful. I definately love waterfalls, we had to hike like a mile and a half to get there and then we spent about an hour there just taking pics and having a good time. There other thing that happened was on Saturday, there was this thing called the day of service. In the morning we went and we helped a lady paint the inside of her house and then helped her rake and move dirt, lay seed, and then put hay on top of it to help fertilize it, it was really nice doing service for someone that was not able to do it for herself. For some reason that brings me so much joy... just helping people do things that they are not able to do for themselves. Okay so saturday i got to save 4 lives. We went a donated blood at the church. the red cross was doing this huge blood drive and i thought i would give my blood to the bloodless. it was really nice. The lady who took it said that i bled really fast and that i have real good blood flow. but it was really good. That pic is with elder McMillan, he is from south Jordan and he was helping me with my OJ intake. but giving blood was really fun. and then the other life that we were able to save was Quinton Bengel. HE GOT BAPTIZED! it was my favorite baptism that i have had on my mission. I have never felt the spirit so strong than i did at his. His girlfriends' dad drove in from memphis to baptize him and on the way in they picked up Quintons non-member mom and brought her too. She love it. but when he was getting baptized, i have never felt so peaceful and just have never had such a strong conviction as to how it is supposed to work. I love this work. On sunday we got to confirm him in front of President Hutchings and Sister Hutchings. They were speaking to our ward yesterday. and after church he got the Aaronic Priesthood. I loved it. so... President Hutchings gave a phenominal talk in church and he talked about things we can do as christians to become better disciples of the Savior. #1. Pray for missionary experiences but be ready when you pray for them. because they will come but not when you expect them too. #2. Give meaningful service to everyone. Act, don't be acted upon. Don't wait to be asked to give service for someone. Just go and do it. and #3. Always have a book of mormon in your hand. We need to use the Book of Mormon all the time. I wanna challenge you family and anyone who reads this to carry a Book of Mormon with you always. We as members of the church are always trying to find ways to help the missionaries, well this is one. For 2 weeks i want ya'll to carry a Book of Mormon with you everywhere, for when you do, people will ask questions and when they do, Teach! then invite them to meet with the missionaries. Scary i know, but Perfect love casteth out all fear. I love ya'll and hope ya'll with take this challenge. Hope ya'll have a good week and may God bless ya'll.

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ONE LOVE
Elder Schwendiman

Burgess Falls!

Hi fam
So Transfers are up again and we are staying the same for the last transfer. its kinda weird because we don't have a car, washer or dryer, or a dishwasher! i feel almost homeless here ha ha but we are having a lot of fun, we are tho running outta things to do cause our area is so small that we are talking to the same people over and over again. We are pretty good friends with the college kids now. This week went really well, Quinton Bengel is getting baptized this Saturday. We are so stoked. He is a 19 year old kid from Memphis and is a student at Tech. The lesson we taught him was so sweet and we went over the baptism interview questions with him and he didn't have a problem with any of them but he felt as if he needed to take out his diamond earrings so he said he would take them out before his baptism. I love the kid. Okay so you know how i had to take that testing for school, ya so I'm pretty sure the spirit bore testimony to me that i will never be an English teacher, i was so super board with the English part ha ha but it felt kinda good but weird. Last night we were walking around because we had about ten minutes left and we always talk to this guy who lives at the Methodist church, well the other day he told us that his wife wanted to feed us dinner but he didn't know when so he said when he talked to her he would come and find us. so last night we talked to him Mr. Parks and his wife was talking to him by the window so we went over to meet her and now we are going to have dinner at their house on Friday night. Their son Alex is one of our good buddies that we talk to quite a bit. So Elder Pearson is my district leader and his companion has kidney stones so he has been in the apartment quite a bit here in the last little bit and we wanted to go out and work and teach so i went with him to a lesson and then reimschiissel chilled in their apartment with elder garrison, but we went to teach the Barrett's family(mom and daughter) about the restoration and it went so well, The spirit was so strong and the mom pitched in some really legit doctrinal points that helped with the lesson. They also fed us pulled pork sandwiches with BBQ sauce. It was so good.

Life right now is really good, me and Reimschiissel are getting along really well and things are gonna start rolling here in a little bit. lately my studies have gotten really spiritual. I am studying the Atonement of Christ and i have been studying outta Leviticus 16 and Hebrews 9. Check them out. they are really good. it talks alot about the new covenant that would come about with the Death of Christ and the blood of the Testament(Covenant) seals the book and brings power to the Testament. I know Christ lives. my favorite quote lately "We don't use the cross as the symbol of our religion because that represents the dying Christ, The symbol of our religion is the lives the members of the Church live because Christ lives and and He lives within us" I know that is true, i know the book of Mormon is the word of God, and is here to do nothing but bless us if we only pick it up. I hope ya'll have a blessed week and may The Spirit of God bless ya'll this week.
-- ONE LOVEElder Schwendiman

Yep!

Okay so here we go.

Hi fam, this week has just flown by light dust in the wind. So this last week we had Zone conference. It was pretty good. We got to play touch football and pakistani one ball after it for a couple hours so i really really like that. We also met a really cool family that we are teaching. Izzy, Brenda and little chelsea. They love missionaries and they feel they need to go back to church. Its so sweet. Izzy is a hard core punk rocker chick and has some super psychedelic views about life. later this week we went over to Noel's house with his son eric and they fed us lunch and we hung with them for a little bit. They are both recent converts and are still super strong in the church. okay so check this out, we got invited to the Baptist Collegiate Ministries building to talk with the Head director of it and we talked for about and hour or so and he invited us back to talk with him some more. He is a cool guy. He is 26 and has a beautifuly wife and a kid on the way. He says he prays that we will teach truth and that we will find the right way. ha ha

So we are teaching this couple aaron and ashley reed right, he has some super huge holdups with some of our doctrine but he had a dream that made him cry, and now he feels he is on the right track. they fed us dinner and then we had a super spiritual lesson with them. So we went out tracking the other night and met this way cool guy sitting on his porch just rockin back and forth, so we went up to talk to him and we got into a big discussion about modern-day prophets and revelation and we taught him the Restoration of the gospel and then he invited us back tonight for another lesson. We are gonna try and set a date with him and his wife. Okay last story, we only had a couple of minutes left before dinner and we walked down 4th street and met this kid Jason, who was just stooping on his front porch. Well he is on his way through addiction recovery and he said he would come to church if we came and picked him up. Well we did and he came to church. Miracle. but he loved it and said he felt the spirit during sacrament meeting. He is 24 and is super cool. oh ya mom. i went to a doctor the other day cause i started to lose some air and had trouble breathing, we my allergies had gotten so bad that my lungs were super weak,,..........well i got a kenalog shot to get me back to normal yay ha ha but i feel great and happy and loving life. I love ya'll and hope yall have a blessed week.

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ONE LOVE
Elder Schwendiman

GEN CON

Hi there family

THis week has been pretty nuts and im pretty sure that God has something to do with how fast time is going. THis weekend was Freakin sicky. i Loved General Conference. I have never gotten so much from a session then i did this last conference. My favorite talk was probably By Elder Foster of the seventy about ones that get lost but the End is always better than the beginning. i love the cow story. It was so good. but im sad cause this was my last Gen Con before i get back home. We watched conference at the church and there was only like 10 people that showed up but for the 1st time ever we had an investigator come to conf but he brought his wife to the priesthood session. It was so super awekward and weird but he was going to leave if she was so we told her to enjoy every second
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ONE LOVE
Elder Schwendiman