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)