well everyone it has been a pretty good week. We have had the lords hand in our lives so much. We have been tracting a good amount and teaching as much as we can find time. But tracting used to be such a waste of time and such a burden because we didnt reap any fruits from it right away but this week we were so blessed. We talk to around 160 people a week tracting and we have just been getting return apointments after return apointments! Like one out of five houses and i know thats it not because im a persuasive talker or because i say some great thing its because the spirit is working on the people we come in contact with everyday and its completley and totally due to the fact that we are being obediant and we are striving to be worthy of the spirit. But its a new year crazy! and this week (the 8th) i turn six months man has time flown by! It seems like the weeks go by like days. (of course the days go by like weeks ha) We are so close to seeing some great miracles happen i can feel it. This week is the last week of transfers so that should be exciting to see if either me or browning leaves or who goes just everything. We have an awesome zone that gets along and supports each other so well. I cant remember if last week i talked about the training the zone leaders had or not but they talked about getting rid of the one or more things that hod us back from being the best we can be and then we dug them in the earth and so thats my challenge to all of you. Whats holding you back from reaching your goals? Whats holding you back from setting goals? what is holding you back from having the spirit with you? what can make you truly happier? Bury it! Not only cause its the new year but becasue it truly will give you pure happiness. not temporal happiness. Maybe thats why I have been blessed idk for sure but what i do know is that the lord will bless us if we have righteous desires, if we put our desires and align them with gods we will feel and experience true happiness!!!! I think people that i come in contact with dont realize how happy i truly am. Its so sad that people dont know how to find this great happiness. But yeah new years was good we pretty much just had a normal day of work except form 6-9 at night we played ball. But its so fun to see peoples new goals. Mamma P (sis putman, the lady we live with) Said that we have been an insiration so she started walking today and Im so glad we have this tradition of new years resolutions! This week was Elder Brownings senior week and it was fun to see him planning what we should do and setting up all of the stuff. I learned alot of ways that i can be a more effective senior comp and leader. We missed a couple return apointments this week which was really sad. One couple was waiting for a half an hour and then left and left a note and so I learned the hard way of keeping an apointment. There were things that hindered us getting there but that is one of my new priorities i never want to leave anyone waiting again. I felt like such an idiot!! BUt this week i have been doing a lot of study about the bible, I mean i read the new testament a month or so ago and read Jesus the christ so a lot of things have been learned about christs life and so i realized i didnt know lot of the history. Like how many times it had been translated and a lot of the parts that are missing. Like i knew the apocrapha(spelling) was missing which some is deemed inspired and some not but as for the new testament i had no idea that there was stuff missins. Like the epistle to the laodiceans or even other epitsles to the ephesians and more! You can only think of the council that those great apostles had for the church and for the people! Thats why im so greatful we have both the Bible and the Book of Moromon to bring to us two testamonies of the truth of christ. Of the truth of our salvation and the things that are going to come to pass. Well I love you all the thing just said im running ouit of time.I am greatful for the support i get fromk you!
Love Elder schallenberger
o and this week we had a super clean day, talk about finally having everything in order it was sweet!
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