April 8, 2013

SUP family!! How is it going?! I bet it's going soooo good!

Man, I love yall so much- I have been thinking about you all this last week a lot because of Conference here!

Muchos Muchos de cosas han pasado aqui en CALI!

Well, let me first say how much I LOVED Conference. Here, on the mission it's bigger than Christmas. Every elder and sister has been freaking out for it...no one more than me. haha I was sooo excited for it. And it flew by! These last two days (Sat and Sun) went way too fast. Dad - how was it going alone without me, did you cry? ;) Haha, jk. But I missed you and was thinking about yall soo much. It talked a lot how to be a family and I was like, "Well my family is already perfect so yeah." haha But really it was so cool about the messages about how the most important things that we can do are within the walls of our house. THIS IS SO TRUE. I have seen that with our family and how blessed we are to have such an amazing role model to look up to - that's you dad. So I just want to say thank you for all that you have done for us. LOVE YOU!

I also thought Elder Perry's talk about obedience was great! I have never heard him talk so profoundly and basically just lay it out there for all of us to hear. Really, really good. 

But again, my favorite like everyone had to be Elder Holland. The way he talks and just the way his voice is, is so comforting! Love it! Just believe, that's all we have to do! 

Ok so besides Conference, a lot has happened here. One, thank you sooooo much for the music!! Ahh wow, that is literally the greatest thing to have on the mission ever! I love music. 

I also went on exchanges this week, that was super fun. I love my District and my DL! He is such a good leader, he taught me a bunch! 

Ok well, I'll just tell you a really cool story that actually happened last night. 

My companion and I were on a spiritual high because of Conference and we decided to go knock IN the one ways (which they have recommended to be VERY cautious when doing so because it's pretty rough) but we knew one day we would have to so we did last night! It turned out great! WE actually got into a house by knocking and taught a lesson and committed them to baptism! Que en el Mundo?! It was soo cool, they were the nicest people and they LOVED to hear from us, they always wanted another way to know how to pray to God because they felt like their prayers of repetition were not good enough. We taught them to pray and they prayed for us at the end of the lesson. Basically this could turn out to be a golden investigator. Really, really cool.  We had a really cool contact with a girl a last night too, she was walking by herself balling her eyes out and we started to talk with her, she just started to tell us her life story. She was walking around because she had to leave her boyfriend's house because he was drunk and started beating her...so that is why she was crying, but she said she prayed to God that morning asking for a sign if he was really there or not...she said we were her answer. She has a really hard life, but she wants to come to church on Sunday but doesn't have a car. But we have many ways to get her there! 

California is different than Colorado. Being here I have realized how lucky I have been in my life. It's insane. I am soo blessed, and all these people here have really hard lives. Many of the members of our ward literally have NOTHING. Like Nothing. But they are some of the happiest people I have met. I am so blessed in my life. 

So yeah, after our amazing night last night, we were walking back to our bikes (we lock them up to stop signs) we noticed that some one had "messed" with our bikes. My companion's seat was stolen! hahaha, It was so funny! So yeah. They tried to take mine too, but I bought a lock for my tires and seat, HA! Nice try!

Haha ok well family I love yall soo much! I'll see yall soon! And thanks for everything. 

Elder Schooff! 

PS. Tell Casey congrats from me on his mission call!