Transfered!

December 13, 2010

So I'm getting transferred, off to Murrietta, CA! Los Alamos and singles branch. Should be interesting, the area is probably the most sought after area at the moment so i feel pretty lucky to go there but im going to miss the area im in right now! I love them so much and its jsut a good place to be, but thats part of being a missionary i guess, i lot of goodbyes but i didnt get to say goodbye to everyone i wanted to. Ill be in a quadpanionship, because the two elders that are there now are going home in two weeks and then it will be me ad Elder Blackett! I dont know him all i know is he is from UT. I have no idea how the phone call thing will work on christmas ill have a member down there call shonda and get it all arranged! I will be living 1 hour and seven minutes from san diego so thats pretty cool, probably the closest ill get to LIndsey's mission!

We had a weird week, we had a steller week too, it was good but went nothing like the way it was planned, lots of people being taught but not the ones we planned on. Keith James got a job which is exciting. We were able to go to an awesome baptism this week for some girls that live in our area but are getting baptised in the bordering ward, Etzel di done of them and I gave the closing prayer haha

The best part of the week was definetly going to the temple. Ue Vogt from Hemet went through for his first time and I was able to go down there with Elder Etzel and Elder Parrot! It was amazing, THe Bocks took us which are great friends and on the way home we got in-n-out, so good! Elder Etzel is the funniest guy ever he jsut goes and sits down and starts talking to people, he was talking to this guy who was walking to Detroit for like 20 minutes and so we said a prayer with him and then he bought some homeless guy a hamburger hes jsut non stop service!

I have mixed feeling about going because i was so attached to the area but the area Im going to has had like 30 people join the church in the last month! So i will go from tracting all the time to teaching non stop! plus Elder Ngwaka one of my buddies that went home already i guess i should say Zach is playing college ball at MSJC and he lives in the ward im going to go serve in so thats pretty cool. This christmas will be good though i fell, it got up to ninety the other day, i know dad is probably super jealous! Id just like to publicly thank my two beautiful parents! They are the coolest people! Both of them are just amazing!

But I have to go! Ill let you know how murrietta treats me the first week, we have 6 elders, four beds, one bedroom :) Because Elder WHimpey has his weights in the other bedroom, at least thats what i hear! haha love you all happy holidays!

Elder schallenberger

ps I will be sending a christmas card picture thing to my mom to give to people in MT to save postage! so if you want one contact her, she should be getting them in the next month! IM going to put happy holidays so it can come late! that way it will include my birthday! Janurary 28th!

:)

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Elder Schallenberger

two pics one at the temple an one we took at a mexican restaurant!

Christmas Spirit is Here

December 6, 2010

Ok here it goes this week was full of huge blessings! Elder RIch one of my other best friends out here and I were tracting and we found a letter on the ground, he asked if we should go and give it to the person, i didnt want to get a federal offeense so i suggested hiding it going and telling them and then telling them where we hid it haha so we looked around and saw nowhere but then we found a place and so we went back to the truck, as we were walking we talked to some people, one guiy who i had talked to 5 months before and to make a digression shorter I forgot we hid the letter and that was our plan of action at that point haha so we went on to see some people and then we were driving and Rich pointed and said thats the street! so we remembered and we went ot the address, as we knocked on the door the kids said Elders!!! which mostly only people who know us say that, so we gave the story of how we found it and so one of the kids ran to get it and I asked the lady if she knew missionaries because the kids called us that and she said she had been inactive in the church for about 20 some yrs, the spirit overwhelmed me at that point and bore witness to me that we weren't there by accident, that we were on the Lords errand, so we talked to her and emotions were flowing as we talked about her life, I eventually told her that it wasn't a coincidence that we were at her door and that the check she would have lost was her child support check! She teared up as she realized that the lord had sent us to talk to her, her kids were amazing, they said mom please! Please Let us go to church, we love it so much, the one boy said mom i want to be baptised haha, it was sureal to see the spirit work on her, she was truly touche and she said she would think of it, she said that she was glad we weren't overbearing and were understanding. I told her we would be there for a couple weeks and she said she'd call, but it was one of those experiences you couldn't pay enough for to have happen it again, i think Elder Rich sumed it up best, as we were walking back to the car he said, "Did that seriously just happen?" It was awesome and it made me feel the love that the the savior has for her and all of her children, that day was good! We found five people on that street that all wanted to learn more! so Etzel and I went back, one is an older grandma age lady Ann, She's 100 proof Dego she always says, 100 percent italian and she is the best! she is the funniest gal from chicago which is where etzel is from and she has already listened all the way through 2nd nephi in the book of mormon, she said she wants to be baptised if she comes to know if the Book of Mormon is true.Also one girl Bethany she said we could come back so one night we didnt have anything to do and we went to see her but it was 7:30 and since shes in high school we had doubts to knocking because it could come off weird you know what that looks like two 20 yr olds knocking on her door, so we said a prayer and got the go by the Lord! haha so we knocked on her door and her sister anwered whos around 20 and the next blessiong happened, We ahd the best lesson ever with her, the spirit was super strong, jsut talkign about the Book of Mormon and really coming to make changes in our lives, we are going to see her tomorrow! Etzel talks about how it was the most spiritual experience he's ever had on the door step and i cant say its not for me as well. There has been distinct experiences everyday that have jsut blown our minds but those two were the most prevelant, we had President Interviews,a zone meeting, and ZLC aned MCM so this week was full of jsut good stuff, the zone had 8 baptisms this week a lto of peopel are really making great sacrafices to know this wonderful message, i hope everyone is recovering from the holiday feasts! Love you all!

Schally

also this week check out the dally schally and then click on videos fromt he same user, we're having a member put on our video from when Etzel and I sang at the ward christmas party.

O i didnt even recognize in this email Asay, he is gone and ll the women in the ward are sad because their cute elder is gone, Him and i sang at church on sunday and everyone loved it, it was sureal seeing him go home but hes doing well. in the class they said , "how can we have charity like our elders, look at them! have you ever seem such love and companionship unity in a companionship? II have no doubt Asay would sacrafice his life for schally!" hah it was kind of weird to hear that but it was pretty cool too because people saw the admiration we had for each other, i miss you ace but i know your in a good place right now.

Schally

hey

November 22, 2010

hey this week flew by we had a ton of rain and its chilly now, snow in the mountains! which are quite aways away! we are on elder asay's last week so we're making it the best week. This time of year is just so fun, holiday season is jsut the best time of the year because peoples hearts are softened, i liked Britts email on gratitude i wasn't even thinking about that when i thought about turkey day i was jsut thinking about appointments and dinner etc, but how greatful i am for the gospel in my life, for the opportunity i have to be a missionary! Seriously i have the best work in the world, i will never get laid off hopefully, the pay is prettty good (spiritually) and I have the best hours anyone could ask for, no matter what goes on at work i know the next day will be a new day. I dont see a lot of the clientel consistently, not that thats a good thing, and I just love it so much! I have the good health, i get to read the sriptures everday, I am so blessed, the lord literrally provides every day of my life, i dont have a lot of time but ill upload some pics, you probably like those more anyways! Im grateful for all of you and your righteous desires! have a good thanksgiving week!

the pics are:

i got that painting from the sisters i have always loved it so now it hangs in my room, southern baptism i call it

and one i took with bishop Tjaden and his wife, asay got one with them since they were leaving so i figured i would too!

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Elder Schallenberger

Three more weeks for Asay

November 8, 2010

hey everyone ok well this week was good i know this Will be short though. We have dinner at six and we have to go drop off the other elders in their area! I don't know if you all know the saga with Lindsey's emails to me from her mission but i printed them all off and am almost done with her mission and she talks about how much she loves yogurt and granola so last pday i did that and I am converted as well, i really like it its way good! so thanks linds, this week we got a call from a lady in Menifee that had a friend who just got out of a very hard relationship and needed help moving etc. so we went to the place, it turned out to be just outside of our area but we gave her a blessing and the spirit was amazing she has been so scattered brained and the spirit was flowing in comfort towards her, we were in tears because of the comfort that the lord had given her through the blessing! In James when it talks about how if there is any sick or afflicted among you to call the elders of the Church and to have them lay their hands on you and call down a blessing from on high it brings me great comfort that blessings and the blessings of the priesthood exist today and that man can work miracles in the name of Christ. It is one of the greatest blessings in my life and i am grateful it is one of the many truths that were restored! so we helped her move the next day with the elders from her ward we helped her a ton with service and we also on last pday helped the Malone's for 5 hours or so and then helped them throughout the week to finish their remodel of their house before their son got married, it felt like we did more service this last week than anything which is way good but the best is to be with people reading the scriptures and coming to know the gospel of Jesus Christ clearer. Asay only has a couple weeks left but hes not dying off he's still working hard which is good! we are excited for this week we have a bunch of great lessons and have a big training meeting this week so we'll have some elders from different parts of the mission staying with us so we'll have a different companion for a day or so so that's always fun! This is the best part of my life I love it here in riverside so much. I didn't even tell you the reason i have to keep it short is we were headed to come email and then we got to this road and there was a line of literally hundreds of cop cars with their lights on with a chopper over the top and with a van in the middle so we automatically think either the president or some really really legit criminal is in their so me took an alternate route and were going to follow them to see what was going on we took this really random way and we thought we lost them and then i took a turn and boom we were right there, turns out a cop got shot to death last night in a gun fight with a guy from a hit and run and it was like a cop funeral procession... so we had less time to email, but it was pretty exciting! i love you all!

Elder Schallenberger

Happy Halloween

November, 1, 2010

well this week was jsut and average hard working week, not a lot of super intersting things happened, except elder asay got bit by a dog at the trunk or treat at the church, haha it was pretty funny it seems like so much crap has happened to him since ive been with him, i always have someone that is pretty accident proned around me it seems, Britt couldnt be here so elder asay is his replacemnet, i guess Dwain could have been here too since it was a dog biting someone! he kept it cool buit it was a pretty deep one, I chose to be the good friend and point and laugh! Halloween was... interesting for us because there are a lot of jsut weird people, we had to go in early so we weren't out to much that night. We just had transfers but nothing changed in our apartment. We got some of my best friends here close in the bordering zones so ill be seeing them on Pday's including cousin Jolley! I dont have any crazy stories but I truly am so happy to be a missionary, Service is jsut the best, we are going to finish our pday today by helping the Malones remodel their house, they have a dealine super soon so we're going to go over there for 4 hours or so, also mom, Sister Palmer wrote you on facebook on mine, she is not mamm P that is Laurie from Jurupa, also i think sister carr called, is she related to us, i think she is through the harts! anyways have a good week! love you all! SERIOUSY I REALLY DO!

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Elder Schallenberger