ok some new changes

So Im getting transfered to Jurupa its northwest or riverside im excited. Ill be training which is exciting ive only been out 4 and a half months though i dont even know what im doing haha but im excited. THanksgiving was fun there was so much food! like meal after meal after meal. we are pretty lucky. Sorry this email is short but ill be sending a christmas letter out to everyone, if you dont get it by dec 20th ask shonda and maybe i didnt send it to you, she'll have copies haha but i have to go and pack and stuff. Ill get a good email out with the first week with my new comp straight from the MTC. Love ya'll Thanks for the support.
Elder Schallenberger

HELLOOOO

Ok so this week has been one of the most spiritual weeks of my mission. Elder Kenneth Johnson from the qorum of the 70 came and gave a mission tour and he is the coolest guy ever! I think he has the scriptures memorized! It was very humbling to listen to him. Four missionaries had the opportunity to bear their testimonies and two to give 5 min talks. I was able to be picked as one of the people to bear testimony! haha so i was like crap i need to get a testimony first! haha just kidding but it was neverwracking going in front of half the mission and having him there when i know he can see inside of me pretty much but no i just put faith in the holy ghost and bore witness of the simple truths i know. It was awesome. He spoke in april 08 conference i think so look him up he is a very powerful speaker and so funny! I love Elder Scott we get a long so great and are so close. He and I love teaching the gospel and we have had a ton of opportunities to do so. We are definetly looking for ways to be better missionaries. One thing Elder Johnson said was People dont need information they need revelation and thats so ture. Its all fine and dandy but if we havent knelt and got a confirmation then its not truth to us technically. I look forward to reviewing my notes. He quoted over 100 scriptures at least in being there and was a walking talking quote book. He quoted Carlas E Asay (elder Asays gpa) "memorization to the brain is like exercise for the body" im going to work on that a lot. We have a ton of places to eat for thanksgiving so I consider myself very lucky.
Love you all! thanks for the support!
Elder SChallenberger

O hey I didn't see you there, how's it going?

Ok so this week flew by! We're teaching a lot though which is good. We are having fun too. Hemet has become a second home i hope i stay one more transfer cause we're so close to getting a couple people from dropping some unhealthy habits!!!! But hmmm i dont have to many funny stories. My tire gets punctured 1-2 times a day haha so thats unfortunate but i have a good repair kit and just keep fixing it. I carry all the stuuf in my new bag i got. The bag is sweet too! its perfect in everyway, blus it had built in speakers that i can plug my portable cd playr into! haha so thats a bonus. i got it for $10 at grocery outlet. nothing like bumpin so Mo tab. We are now in a three some sort of and are covering 2 wards because an elder from VAlle Vista ward went home so now we have a car every once in a while! the elder is going between us and the span ams for the next two weeks till transfers. So we will be extra busy. Its basically like everything doubled.... except time. o sorry span ams means spanish missionaries, we have all this lingo that i dont realize. anyways thanksgiving is coming up so im excited for that. Also this weekend Elder Kenneth Johnson from the 1st Qorum of the seventy is coming to tour the mission and to speak at multi zones and is also having a fireside. I am very excited for this! I love you all

Thanks for all the great support, it helps so much.

Elder SChallenberger

four months! time flyes

K so the work is going really well. We are reallly having some great success. Elder SCott and I are having a lot of fun working together and are great friends. We had exchanges for a day this lst week and i went with Elder Arthur into spanish land. LIke two people the whole time spoke english so it was definetly a treat for me, always trying to figure out what was going on. We ran into one family and they were wheeling around a man that looked dead, his arms and legs were down to the bone and he was extremely weak, they asked us to give him his last rights and so we said we could give him a blessing and they told us to come back the next day at eleven so i didnt go but Elder Arthur and his companion Elder Mcdonald went the next day and in this experience is where the lesson lies. They showed up twenty minutes late (11:20) and the man had already passed away, he had died 15 min before they showed up, if they would have been on time they would have been they to give him a blessing and to share a message with all the family in there instead they showed up to see the man lying there with no life in him. Super sad. It goes to show you why you need to be on time for appointments, the precious time we have here in life, the quality to know that we do live after this life and will see our family again and the fact that when the lord needs something to be done he puts his servants in the right places at the right times to give comfort to those who stand in comfort and to help those in need of it. Later that day we ran into the brothers of christ headquarters. They are missionaries for life always walking around in all white with no purse or script and they always are going and spreading the love. THey follow a man named Lightning Amen and for them he is Jesus Christ, to explain this he is Jesus's spirit reincarnated into Lightnings body. So we went and shared our message and they shared theirs and we had diner with them. So we had the opportunity to break bread with his disciples it was definetly the experience of a lifetime. They sang their hyms and prayers for us and we just had a cool experience sharing our faith, we didnt get to meet Lightning himself his back was hurting but it was something most missionaries here really want to say they have done and im pretty sure we're the only ones to have broke bread with them. But yeah we have had a lot of luck tracting and have been able to talk to a lot of people. We are just continuing to grow spiritually. Im getting close to finishing Jesus the CHrist and the message and the expounding upon the basic things that Ive read before bring so much more understanding about Jesus and the symbolism and just everything that ive never realized even though ive read it before. I would extend a comitment to all of you to read it! I love you all, the support i get is so tremendous! I have the best family/ friends.

i added some pictures, Me eating "Elote" a guy goes around and sells them. Its corn on the cob on a stick with mayonaise and parmasian cheese, its so good. My USA basketball coat which was 25 cents at a yard sale and me and Elder Scott :)