Wednesday, October 27, 2010

The Dally Schally

Oct 25, 2010

I forgot to mention something.... Our apartment made a remix to a song last pday you can check it out if you want to, so look it up The Dally Schally on YouTube it is legit. Send it to your friends hahah (if you want)

(Below is the video)

Keith's Baptism

Oct 25, 2010

Well the crowning event for the week was Keiths baptism. It went not quite according to plan a some unplanned outbursts and 4 tries but hes baptised and he is super happy. In Alma chapter 5 it talks about how when you have truly become converted and been reborn spiritually you have his countenance and i saw that in Keith on sunday evening it was prettty cool. I was able to give a talk it went good i hope and we had a stake conferernce as well before that, it was good president reeves and sister reeves spoke i love them so much they are just the best, their son jsut got married and a daughter is going on her mission to paris! Its pretty cool! Lots of blessings this week and lots of moisture! We have had the best hours tracting we have talked to so many peopel and a lot of new people we are teaching! I love it out here so much! Mom happy birthday this weekend and D and John I hope you got your cards for your birthdays this past week! Have a good weeek my family and friends I love you all!
ill send another email forwarded from elder asay about the week with some pics too!

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Elder Schallenberger

Forward from Elder Asay

Hey everyone,
*Well this week was good. I'm super tired today so this email is going to be short.
Keith James was baptized yesterday, and it was the most rememberable baptism I will ever have. Or I think it is safe to say that it is the most rememeberable baptism in church history. First of all we had a recent convert Tarik Lacour baptize Keith James. Both Tarik and Keith are black. So this is the first time two black people have been in a font together haha, black people in a font is pretty common in Africa but not here. But that was the first cool thing. Next when Keith stepped into the font, he forgot that we had to say a prayer before he was able to get baptized. He got into the font and just started falling backwards ahahah, luckily Tarik caught him before he went into the water. so we got everything all straightened out, and Tarik said the prayer and baptized Keith. But Keiths' head didn't go under, so we had to do it again, and again, and again, and again. He had to be baptized like 5 times because body parts were just flinging up into the air.
So the baptism is good, since it was Stake Conference yesterday, we confirmed Kieth right after the baptism. Usually it would happen in Sacrament Meeting the following week, but we decided to go for it right after the baptism. We are all in the circle confirming him a member. Right when Tarik was done saying "And I say unto you, receive the Holy Ghost," Keith just went off and started saying a prayer. And this is all happening while everyone is still in the circle. And to preface the story a little. Keith is from Inglewood, CA he is 53. But it was handled very well, after he said his little prayer, Tarik went on with the blessing. It was the funniest thing that has happened to me on my mission.
Keiths' baptism was the first baptism that the Orangecrest Ward has seen in 1 year. We thought that we would get a lot more support from the ward but, after the service Schally and I were kind of glad that the ward didn't see it. But Keith and his family are Southern Baptist, we I don't think it sounded uncanny to them.
love, Egan

some more2!

Oct 18, 2010

um i cant remember which ones i chose me with some pears, me workin on the ab thing in the morning :/, um maybe and two of the funny pictures of asay but there aren't a ton of times these events happen, hes pretty serious most of the time haha but i thought id show the other side of him!



Some More!

Oct 18, 2010

The one is us coming out of the library haha thats my favorite pic we've taken, the others are on P-Day at the skate park. We have an Elder, his name is Etzel and he is allowed to skate because its a good way for him to talk to people because they respect him so much hes way good. One is him jumping me on the pyramid, im in the blue and then us laying on the half pipe watching him shread it!


more pics

Oct 18, 2010

me with my bug lips face and asay :)


pics galore

Oct 18, 2010

one of our famous crock pot concocktions, me walking and asay with the palm from that took his fingers skin causing the huge gash, he has his little finger thing on and asay sweet present!!








mo pics

Oct 18, 2010

the zone or part of it, me on a custom bike, (bikes are big here) and Tariq and I





Rainy



Oct 18, 2010

this week has been really weird cool and rainy! kind of a cool change. Keith is getting baptised this saturday we are super excited and we just had a good solid week this week. Lots of exchanges and lots of fun as wel. We had a zone breakfast at president plochers house which was way fun and then we had funeral i got Hailee Turner to sing at it for some friends I have down here shonda thats Mallori's little sister I actually was on an exchange so i didnt go but i guess it went rally well. Also we celebrated Asay's B-day which went well, the big 21! haha nothing new i guess 24 is the bug age for mormons because the only new thing we can do is rent cars! haha I love you all and am having so much fun and am loving serving people!
love yall
schally

I Forgot

there is a huge tennesee titans fan in the ward and he said that marc mariani is having some great minutes for them thats crazy i didnt realize he did anything after the griz, i heard his kick return set it up for the the beat chondas cowboys thats cool. lov eyou

week three with asay

Oct 12, 2010

So this week was solid a lot of things done we went on an an exchange with some missionaries one day and another day we did service for a family, trimming palm trees, i was up the sawing and then to get them in the trash bin we had to cut the frons into smaller pieces, the have sharp shark teeth type pokeys on the side and i was sawing one of them and asay was holding it and it caught the saw blade and cut a huge 1inch long gash into his finger, blood everywhere, haha i was like i told you you should have wore gloves, he was angry more cause of our stupidity and the pain but we got a band aid on it, we had such a solid day planned with a bunch of appointments for it wasn't till ten hours later that we went to urgent care and they finally slapped some super glue and bandages and a metal splint thing, he has to wear it for ten days haha "happy birthday elder asay" wasn't the right phrase i don't think, but we met with a new guy Fransisco who we met one day when we were going to see Keith, they are next door neighbors, he is so cool and so searching right now, he already had a book of Mormon and is go in to read it to find questions for us haha we walked out of the appointment and the street was blocked of by cop cars, our car being on the street, a next door neighbor was going to commit suicide in his house and there were cops hidden at various places all over the neighborhood and a lady cop talking on the loud speaker trying to talk the guy out of it, so we sat on the curb and watched and talked to all the neighbors about what was going on and the gospel of Jesus Christ! one of them gave us water and another grape soda and were set to go. Finally a guy we like to call the closer showed up in his cop polo and one gun on a new cop bike, said a couple things to the guy pulled out his gun and then they went in apprehended the guy and took him off in the EMT, it was pretty interesting for sure. We had a good week though lots of lessons and finding, trying to be better each day. I'm having a lot of fun out here and we are getting a lot done, i traded my little crock pot for a big one so we have been making some pretty solid lunches! its chrome and big so all four of us can eat out of it, its pretty cheap we all itch in on the ingredients, right now there is like a beef stew type of meal in it! Asay bought a huge London broiler steak to cook up for his twenty first birthday on Friday that should be fun!

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Elder Schallenberger

schally and ace






Oct 4, 2010

hey family elder asay will be forwarding his thoughts on the week and minute now i have a headache and i dont want you to think we had a downer week just because im not as exciting at this point in time haha conference was sweet and being able to work throughout the week was rewarding we had some great finding this week. hopefully he'll talk about it im so grateful for the family and the friends that write and support me even though im getting progressively worse at that part of my misison! i told you id get you some of the great pics we've taken but i cant find my card reader so ill send some old ones that are saved to a flash drive!
actually ill send this one off and then the other one too sorry mom this might not work on your email i think it has too many pics the pics are from when asay and i were somps for two weeks almost a year a go to the day
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Elder Schallenberger

hey this is elder asays email on how are week went i got a killer headache out of nowhere so i had him do the email for both of us.



Hey everyone,
Well this email is going to be a lil' different than my usual. Elder Schallenberger isn't really feelin' too inclined to write an email, so I will be fusing his email and my email into one.. It should be legit.

The weather has been off the chain this past week. Monday through Wednesday it was no joke 115+ It rocked my socks, i was pretty content with the 85 degree weather that we have been having for the past 2 weeks or so, but somebody left the oven open, and we just got baked. (not to confuse baked with getting high from drugs) Then near the end of the week it dropped down to the 60's and rained. It was weird. But the cool weather was definitely a nice break. Kind of a funny story, My (asay) shoes are so worn down that there is a huge hole in the bottom of my shoes about the size of a large 50 cent piece, that goes directly to my sock. Every time it rains, both my feet get soaked within seconds of the contacts of moisture. haha

But on a more serious note, Schally and I had a very successful week finding. We tracted for a couple hours each day. And door after door was just slamming in our face. But nice thing was, we didn't let that discourage us, we kept out heads high and continued to work in the 115 degree sun. During the week we were able to find a family of 4 and a family of 6! Both families are very interested. The family of 4, we just knocked on their door, and we automatically brought up Jesus Christ and following his example through keeping the commandments, and through being baptized. The family concern was... "We all want to be baptized together." So we said we'll be holding a baptismal service on October 21. Will you prepare yourself and your family to be baptized on that day? We'll come over and show you ways in which you can prepare. They said..... Yes!!! It was super legit. So please pray that these investigators will follow through with their commitment to prepare for baptism.

Conference was amazing. My favorite speaker were:
Elder Holland
Elder Ballard
President Monson
Elder Ering
Elder Packer

There was one more but i forgot my planner and it had the list of talks and key points that i liked. I thought that the main focus point was following the prophet council. I thought that is was amazing how much they stressed that. The words of living Prophets are more vital and important to us, compared to the ancient prophets. I have even got into the rut of just studying the standard works, but every month we get the Ensign, we have so many resources that we skim over. I promised myself during conference that I would always study and follow the Prophets council no matter how bogus it was, or how much i didn't like it. I know that if I do that, i will always be kept out of spiritual harm. They also really stressed how real the Devil was. It blows my mind that some people have the false notion that there is no Devil. Whenever I hear that i just want to slap someone upside the head, and tell them to wake up. I loved conference, it was my last one on the mission. It is so weird to be experiencing these "lasts" in the mission. But overall the week was incredible. I love you all and thank you all for you support and love.
love, Elder Asay and Elder Schallenberger.
(i elder asay wrote the entire email FYI)


Woah!

September 27, 2010

This week just started, o dang it its over, it has flown by! we had such an amazing week, im still just trying to stay awake im so tired from just bustin tail this week, every single night when we were planning we would just say where did the day go, how did all of that just happen? We had the opportunity to be at the RCC campus for tuesday and wednesday and we had a booth for the institute on campus but it had a sign that said what is the book of mormon and why should you read it and i felt like dan jones on the soap box telling every person we talked to about the love of the savior and why they should be a part of the institute and read the Book of Mormon. It was sweet we talked to so many people and we just we swamped, we also roasted hot dogs which brought people in to talk! it was so much fun, we also had a quorum of the seventy come elder Ringwood and he had a lot of important info that helped me receive greater revelation on what it is I'm supposed to be doing as a missionary, he asked at the start and he sayed why are you here today? a bunch of missionaries sayed to teach about Christ or because they have always wanted to serve a misson etc but i stood up and told him I'm here to receive insight on how to receive inspiration and revelation, he asked to hear more and i sayed Ive been looking forward to you coming and i am expecting for great council on how to be a better missionary and I know that you will say something today that will help me, I also am looking for tips on things to say etc and i went on on things i wanted to hear, so he asked how did i prepare for the meeting, i sayed i read the assigned reading and i prayed, he said did you pray for me, i said no haha he asked if i prayed for myself and I sayed yes, he asked other ways i prepared and i couldnt think of any, i felt kind of stupid and then i sayed, i got a haircut and i dry cleaned my suit and i put a good part in my hair took extra time to shine my shoes but i told him i didnt now if that was what he was looking for and i learned a valuable lesson from that experience, he picked on me from time to time throughout the meeting asking my opinion and stuff but i learned that preparation is everything when it comes to learning and teaching by the spirit, he recognized that the thing i had done had prepared me but he talked about how at all meetings, church, baptisms, anything we need to show up early, we need to prepare our minds to learn and that in any class or meeting we can learn if we have prepared ourselves to hear the message, he sayed he could talk about kitchen sinks the whole time if he wanted and if we prepared then the spirit would still teach us the things we needed to know! I will prepare myself from now on, i guess that's why dad is always early everywhere haha. He just helped me so much to realize the little things are important and that charity is a necessary attribute that i need to strive to have.
We tracted and taught a lot,, i was able to do a baptismal interview for a girl that got baptised on sunday and both the interview and the baptism were very spiritual. She had the same birthday as me! her name was Jesse! It felt like everyday just flew by, we were at lunch and then we were at dinner and then we were sleeping in the no time it felt, it almost was ridiculous. Church was really good Elder Asay had a really good testimony and we were able to give the primary children the church tour it was so funny. I love the ward im serving in now and Im lucky to be serving with my best friend in the mission. It makes it so nice to have a teacher that is at the same level ok maybe a higher level haha we had two lessons in particular that were two of the most spiritual lessons ive had in months, just addressing concerns and discerning through the spirit. We are so compatible as companions that it makes things nice, Elder Asays birthday is on the 15th of october. Im excited for general conference and for the opportunity we have to hear from those great leaders of the church. prepare yourselves this week to hear the promptings that the spirit has for you during conference I love you all!
Elder schallenberger
I have some sweet pics for you next week!

last week and the best news!

September 20, 2010

Hey so to get the biggest news off my chest my best friend in the mission elder asay has only ten weeks left and I was afraid i wouldnt see him again but guess what! they went back to two zone leaders in the mission and hes my new companion! o my goodness we are going to tear it up we love each other so much our comp unity is off the charts plus we have so much faith together! Its still not even real even though i look to my right and hes there! spaeking of looking around hte guy at the library waved me over and pulled up his shirt to show me his tattoo, kind of random haha but it was a huge CTR on his left shoulder and the T is a sword, asay doesnt think he goes to the church i think he does but either way super funny! we are just on cloud nine! Man it doens't even feel like this is real. I love Asay so much and he is the apitamy of a solid missionary. I am fully confident that the Lord put us together, so we could work hard and just have a bang up time together. The direcet quote from president Reeves was I usually dont like to put best firends together because they wont' work." But the Lord has spoken to me and said that "You two need to be together, and that you two will work hard and see amazing success together."The next 10 weeks are going to be the best 10 weeks of my mission.... That is how much i love this kid.-- anyways this last wek was good keith moved his baptism date back to the 21st of oct but its better that that should happen, elder rice's diabetes was acting up so we had some dificulties with that, our zone is stacked this transfer we have so many solid missionaries! Im sorry i jsut talked aout the future and not what went down this week but thats only where my eyes are set at this time! I LOVE YOU ALL! I APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT! PRAY AND DONT TAKE THE SCRIPTURES FOR GRANTED!

love
Elder Schallenberger

another week just flies by


September 13, 2010

Some pics of some unplanned service we helped a guy put in a wood floor that was pretty fun! This week was crazy we had so many lessons but it was all with people on the street jsut teaching we had so much fun, the weather was amazing it cooled down so much for a couple days! we're moving Keiths baptism back a couple weeks he's not ready and we would never want to have him baptised without him being prepared to take upon him the name of christ and follow him! i really just have so much to say that it seems as though im not saying anything at all. WE have been so blessed with appointmnets and people to see, we have had great miracles of people being humbled and compelled to take a better path in life, we have jsut got to talk with some really really cool well-grounded people! transfers will be coming up here in a week i think im staying its a toss up whether or not rice is staying so we'll just have to wait and see we have a qorum of the sevnty coming to talk elder ringwood! so that pretty sweet its on the 22nd and we get to go to the temple on friday! so some cool things to look forward to! love you all!

Week five Diligence

September 7, 2010

This week was packed with meetings and stuff that took away from my efforts in my own ward but i have grown a lot and have had great experiences following the spirit! Tuesday we had a leadership training meeting and it was powerful we went out for lunch and just went tracting and the success was tremendous of people just truly wanting to know more! that night we had a solid dinner with a Samoan family Ive never been so stuffed in my life! Wednesday we had Zone leader council i got to see elder Asay Tue and wed. so that was cool, i got to see all my other mission buddies too (all the ones that are for sure coming to MT for my homecoming) which was good because some of them are going home soon! you know what i was going to just give details day to day but i don't think ill do that ill share just a coupe of stories. We have been able to teach a lot more and just have had some amazing opportunities while teaching!
Chet Trupp has been coming to church for a couple years but his family is Jewish so they go to their church. they are both very supportive of each other (his wife and him) and we are over there quite a bit. Rebecca Trupp their daughter. Their family is pretty much one of my favorites. They are the ones who were in MT and called you mom, the ones that wanted to stop but didn't have time. Well a month ago Rebecca was in a tragic car accident where many people died. Out of the ones living she was in the worst shape, when we first heard news we didn't think she was going to make it. she got a priesthood blessing right before they flew her over to Reno and i think she got one at the hospital too. But everyday was truly a miracle. her recovery has been nothing short of amazing. she has literally defied all odds in her recovery and now is at home going to school and recovering. Well her family came to church on Sunday to thank everyone for their support and prayers etc. During testimony meeting she got up and bore her testimony of the power of God and the reason for her still being alive and man was it so powerful! It was awesome, a lot of people were crying because the spirits influence was touching their hearts> i have been nothing short of grateful for the opportunity I've had to watch this happen and to see her attitude and the testimony builder its been for me and for her family. Its amazing, so that was a highlight for sure. When i got hit by the car she made me cookies haha so i had to return the favor, i looked in my cabinet it being Sunday and i had a brownie mix and some craisans haha so i made her Brownie cupcakes with craisans on top i hope she liked them if not its the thought that counts. Keith moved his baptismal date back a week to the 19th so that's exciting too. Everything is going well I just want to go out and work so ill let you all go. Have a good week. thanks for the letters and support.

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Elder Schallenberger