October 28, 2013

Hello Family! 

How are all of y'all doing today! We went to the temple today so that is why we did not have Pday yesterday and moved to today! Yay! 

Well let's see what happened this week on my mission, SICKNESS. Haha, insane no joke, everyone and their dog was sick, more than half of the zone was all out with something and for a while too. I was and am fine, so it's ok. But my companion was another story...haha we was sick BAD! We woke up in the morning to go running and he was sweating like crazy and shivering at the same time. So we just walked until he could take it anymore and we went back in and got him a cold shower, but that didn't really help. We had a bunch of set appointments that day so we did splits for the day. And during the splits my companion and then my DLs comp got sick even more. So we stayed together for 2 days. haha, The whole zone was out including our ZLs for a day. But we still go work DONE! Woot woot! 

We had such good lessons this week, we have really been trying to focus on the people more that the numbers of a mission, and ever since that...it's been taking off. We have a baptism this week and probably another on the 10th too. I love my mission and helping people be better when coming unto Christ. 

One of the baptisms we should have is with one of our miracle story. Othelia, the strongest woman I have ever met. She has had a rough life and fell away from the church basically without knowing. For 27 years she just fell off the Earth when it came to church, she even forgot she was baptized but the English elders knocked into her and gave her to us because she only speaks Spanish and yeah, now she comes to church every week and is more than just active, she is a missionary herself. Kaytle her granddaughter is the one that will be getting baptized. The whole family is really, really cool, and we have seen just some really cool miracles out of members and less actives now! So cool! 

So as you know this week was Mom's birthday, and it didn't really hit me hard until I got Kaydog's package and then...haha yeah the emotions flooded in. I just gotta say that I LOVE my family so much, with all my heart. To celebrate mom's birthday my companion and I made the noodles with rice and cheese toast (mom's favorite) and just talked all night, about our families and how much we love them, I love talking about my family. Y'all pump me up to be a better missionary every day! I love how close we all are, and how even though I'm on my mission, it's not too hard to be away. I know it will be a grand fiesta when I get back! Kinda like it will be when we all see Mom again after this life. One big grand ol fiesta! Haha, I love it! 

But yes, so today we went to the temple and it was so good, I love the house of the Lord and I love being able to enter in. I know the things inside are from our loving Heavenly Father that wants us to return.

Ok well family I love y'all so much, I don't have too much time because temple pdays are always a little bit busy but I just love y'all so much. It's been a blast! For Halloween we decided to buy our nice costumes and go all out, that's right...we bought some nice polka dot socks. Woot woot! Haha, I know we can't go out that night but maybe we will go to a member's house or something! 

Love you all! 
Elder Schooff

October 21, 2013

Hello there family! How are y'all doing today?

I bet just so good. I love it. Well this week was a very good week, and we have seen a lot of miracles go through. I love my companion and it's pretty crazy to see how I think I am training him, but really he is just making me learn how to be such a better missionary. Man it's the best.

Ok, so let's see, this week was packed full to the brim with TONS of service and other good things, we painted for the first time in my mission (which was always one of my dreams of the mission to do) haha and boom now I have done it! Yes! Cool huh, but yeah we painted an entire club house and had some really, really good lessons after with our investigators. It had been fun. I love this area and as I feel like it's coming to the end of the transfer too fast, I still have 4 weeks and I'm already freaking out about leaving. I LOVE this area on Buena Park, I can basically call it my home. I have so many people that I would consider family here. And it's been a ball. Like I think about it and a fourth of my mission is spent in this one area and I can name it inside and out. Cool. Man I love my mission.

We started those classes this week with the members and it was a pretty good success, we taught and it was fun, we decided to change it up and not take them out with us this week just for the invite so cool. I loved it!

This week was a typical funny bike probs. Cool huh, in the last 7 days there have been a total of 4 blown tires, haha man it's so funny, and every time the Lord has shown us why. Every time it happened we just laughed and started to walk, and contacted more. I feel like it was the Lord's way of telling me that I need to contact more.

We have a really cool investigoter who is awesome. She is named Petra and is 80 years old and really, really wants to be baptized. It's the coolest thing ever and I love her to death, she is a very wise lady who has a lot of good ol stories to hear. It's fun.

So this next week is going to be different, we go to the TEMPLE on Tuesday next week! So pday will be changed to then. I love the temple and the miracles it has inside. It is the work of salvation and I love it.

So the one less active, well inactive that we found named Otalia is the coolest person I have ever met. I dunno if I have told the story of here, but the English elders knocked into her and we went over and it turns out she was baptized 27 years ago, so we are trying to find her records. And she is the STRONGEST woman I have ever met. She lives in the house that was owned by the person who made Knott's Berry Farm. Sick! And now she wants to teach her family, so we are and they came to church this last Sunday, it's so cool to see the Lord and His hand in his mysterious ways! Soo cool.

Well family I love you all so much and I just gotta testify that I know with my heart and mind that this is the true church of Christ, not just a church to go on Sundays, but the one the Living Christ dictates and runs! I love it!

Love you and have a good week!

Elder Schooff

We helped and member decorate his house for halloween, hjahah

October 14, 2013

helllllooooooo family! 

How are y'all doing, guess what...I LOVE my mission! I say it all the time but man it only gets better and better as I go on! I was thinking this morning and man, I don't know but I just love my mission, I would be NO WHERE else but here right now! 

Ok let's see, well this week is the first week of the transfer and I'm crying already. It's so sad because it's inevitable..95% sure I am leaving this area in 5 weeks, this is my home Buena Park 3A man, it's my home! It's a whole 1/4 of my mission! And I know soon I'll have to say goodbye to it! Boooo! 

This area has taught me so much, I truly have and still am learning how to be a true man of God, that true happiness is only in following the bounds of the Lord! I love the gospel. Yes! 

Also, this week was kinda cool. I had to go to the office like 3 days in a row. So it was a lot of driving other new elders around and good old stuff like that, oh and woot woot! A car hit me this week! My first official car crash on the mission! We were at a stop light turing left and there were cars behind me, and boom, the lady behind me...her foot slipped off the break and BAM, she tapped into me, very major damage! Haha jk jk, I didn't even feel it. But Ndb, I got the mission some nice money. Cool. haha, 

So yesterday, we taught both second and third hours of church. To the youth class and the Elders quorum to talk Missionary Work. This Friday we will be starting our classes on how to be member missionaries and to say the least...we are PUMPED. We will teach for one hour and go out for one hour! Cool huh! Yeah! And the Anaheim elders will be with us the whole time, so we can get this ward unified! Woot woot! 

This transfer our zone leaders really wanted to focus on being People missionaries and not "number" missionaries, which I think is a really good thing to focus on! Sometimes we can get wrapped up in the ways of numbers and that's all we care about. But really, it's the souls to Christ that is important! Woot woot! Ok. Legit! 

Well family I love y'all so much, and I just have to testify that I KNOW that this work is true, it brings eternal happiness for so much good! I love it, also I love the temple! Yay! 

Ok well have a good week Family! 

Elder Schooff 

October 7, 2013

Hello there! 

Family! It is so good to be here again, it's insane how this mission is so so so fast. It's kinda sad to think.

Well let's just start out on how awesome Conference was! Seriously here in the mission, it's like christmas morning! So so so fun. We went over to a member's house in the morning and made some nice breakfast sandwiches and had a really good 10 hours of hearing from the prophets! So cool. 

I think my favorite one was the talk from Bednar about tithing, he threw down on us! It showed the true meaning of tithing and what it really means. 

Also Elder Packer's was so good about the family being sealed and also Elder Funk, I feel like Nam and Nampa might know him, is that true?

Ok well also this week we had a pretty cool miracle happen! We found this woman named Otalia. She was a referral a LONG time ago from the English elders, they told us that she talked to missionaries in Mexico and wanted a Book of Mormon. Well...that's what they thought she said, get this...she was BAPTIZED in Mexico 27 years ago and even went to the temple! Like what?! And when she moved here, she kinda forgot about it all. She couldn't find a job and the church and life just weighed down on her shoulders. But now, we are trying to find her records in Mexico. It's just hard because she can't remember anything! But it was a pretty cool story about how the Lord will never forget about anyone, even if we forget about Him sometimes.

So this week was transfers also. Like I predicted all is the same with my area, a few changed in the zone a district but I'm staying here in BP for another one finishing training! Woot woot! 

It was been a weird week, it really makes you love the time you have to have lessons, we had 2 days full of meetings on Saturday and Sunday and now p-day here. so really sometimes when all that is going on you have to fight to be out on the streets! It makes you appreciate it so much more! 

Cool.

Well family that is really it right now, I'm  really excited for this transfer and the things we have in store! I love you all so much and let me know if I can do anything for y'all! 

Elder Schooff