1/10/2011

Just thought everyone would like to see an UNedited email from JD.  I think he will need to take English as a second language when he gets back to BYU.

So me and my companion decided to play a prank on one of the Elders that lives with us. He spent all morning looking for his name tag, then we pulled it out of the freezer when he wasnt looking and put it on the table. Then he asked for like the 20th time "Have you seen my name tag" I was like "I dont know, did you look it the kitchen". His reaction was so funny!!!



Elder Da Rosa melting the block of ice!

Finally was able to get it out of the ice!

These are the Elders I live with in our Kitchen. So yesterday was Elder Wilkinsons birthday. (He is the one next to me, he is from Texas) So me and my companion threw a suprise birthday party for him and made a mint chocolate cake, chocolate chip cookies, and brownies! He was really really happy!

Playing ping pong on our way smaller tha regulation size table!

This week we combined the two districts to have a breakfast and district meeting at our house to help the Elders be more excited! It worked well. It was a very spiritual experience, and everyone loved it!

Me and My companion after ping pong.

Hey Everyone!

Well this week there are lots of pictures! This week was so good! At our meeting we had with the missionaries in our Zone we talked about spiritual experiences, and everyone took turns bearing testimony and telling stories of mericles and spiritual experiences that happend to them on the mission. It made everyone was excited, and then On Saturday till Sunday we did a fast as a Zone for more spiritual experiences... Well me and my companion had a mericle happen!

So things in this area a kinda really hard. Its been over 2 months now since we´ve had someone that has accepted a basptismal date and since we´ve had an investigator at church. So this week we found a man that moved here from a different part of the city that was being taught by the missionaries a long time ago. So we met with him and he said that he wanted to be batized and he would do all that was necissary to prepare himself! Sweet huh!? But the catch is that he is kinda crazy. Like maybe is a little slow mentally from all the drugs he did in the past. So we were kinda skeptical if he would actually go to church like he promissed. But Sunday morning at 9:00 he was there, and took notes in sunday school and asked questions and made comments. It was so awesome! So I thought that we had recieved our mericle that we were fasting for. But just wait... It gets better! ... So when sacrement meeting ended (sacrament meeting is last here in our ward) The Elders Quorem President came up to us and said "Elder come here, I want you to meet someone" (The golden words that every Elder loves to hear) Then he introduced us to a man and his wife. He has been inactive for the past 10 years and decided to come back to church. His wife isnt a member and wants to be baptized! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So this tuesday night we are going to go teach her! Im so excited! After so many weeks of effort and no results, the Lord let us have a mericle! Im so excited for these two people, and I hope that we can keep having success.

Thanks for all the prayers and letters from everyone!
Love
Elder Schoen