June 2, 2014 - Hello! Apostles and Dead Cats

Hello everyone! 

How are y'all doing, this week was another killer week and we had some awesome success, prayer is the best! Let's start out... 

On Tuesday I went on exchanges with an Elder Morelos, he is boss and he came out at the same time I was training, he was my greenie's companion in the MTC. The exchange was awesome! We had an awesome lesson with their investigator - in the middle of the lesson it was super powerful as we were speaking about the Holy Ghost, in the middle of speaking about it, 2 DOVES flew in and started walking right by our feet..wow! So she accepted to get baptized! It was an awesome exchange and I saw a car crash...cool! 

Wednesday night I got back with my companion and it was awesome! We found a family that we are now teaching and they are super solid! The mother's name is Alicia and the daughter Yori and Ramon! Alicia's dad was baptized in Mexico but she never was, she knows a lot about the church and has a belief that God can change lives! So cool! When we taught them, it was one of those experiences when you feel the Spirit guiding your words, not us! It was powerful! We really tired to implement the power of prayer of all things!! We prayed like no other! Haha it was cool! 

This week we had an awesome District Meeting and we had an obstacle course involved, we were showing the lesson of extraordinary prayer plus extraordinary effort equals extraordinary faith and results! It was super fun and there were doughnuts at the ends :) haha cool! I had a lot of fun and the mission president's wife came to see too! Cool! Well, it was fun.

 

After that, on Friday we wanted to get the members involved and take hold of Pres. Ballard's commitment to ask and invite members to share the gospel, so we did just that and we actually got a referral from someone and their neighbor! It was awesome, it was a POWERFUL lesson and by the end of it the man, (Angel) was asking us to come back and he told us, "Elders I hope I don't disappoint you, I'll do anything to get closer to God!" He didn't know how to pray, we taught him and he prayed, it was a powerful and beautiful prayer, it wasn't amazing huge words but you could tell that God heard that man's prayer! 

Saturday was the day we were waiting for, Elder Ballard came and spoke to us and it was fantastic! It was very powerful in the words he shared, we spoke of how to find and teach more! He said, "Don't be preachers of the Word, Be DOER'S of the Word!" Go out and get it done! Cool huh! haha, Then he opened it up for questions to the missionaries and it was a unique experience to talk to an apostle!  

Later that day we got a call from a member in the ward that lives near us and she said she had an "emergency service job for us" and we could come in pros. haha so we went...kinda nervous. Well we get there expecting something gnarly, it was...a dead cat. Yup, she asked us to come throw away a dead cat that she killed on accident, it was a trip. hahaha. 

Saturday night we had an activity and it was pretty good! And we really wanted to invite everyone! So we went out and started to contact everyone possible! Once again skateboarding came in play...haha like always, I finally know why I did it for so long...to share the gospel! haha, Well there was this kid skating in the parking lot of the church and we went and contacted him. Invited him into the church for the activity! I said if I do two kick flips he has to come in, well I did them and we talked for a little and it was a spiritual contact! But last second he chickened out and ran away. haha, But the experience taught me a lot! As we do EVERYTHING we can we will feel accomplished! No matter what the success number is! But your soul will feel light and free! Cool! 

Well family I love you and have a great week!
Elder Schooff