First week at the MTC

Hey everyone!!! To answer my mothers questions first, I leave for
Seattle July 25!!! My mailing/shipping address is

Elder Chandler Alma Schoemig
JUL25   WA-SEA
2005 N 900 E Unit 241
Provo UT 84602

I have no idea, I'll talk to my branch president.  (Mom's note: this is where I asked him
about skype (calling home) before he fly out to mission field, this
is common especially when you have parents that are both deaf.)

But the MTC is great! We've had two devotionals already, one was Elder
Hallstrom of the presidency of the seventy and another was Donny
Osmond, he was way funny and he even sang let's get down to business
and some girls absolutely freaked out it was so funny. We have one
investigator who we've been teaching its way awesome! So my district
has 13 people, there's Elder Fox, Elder Bishara and Elder Smith, he's
our district leader, they are all going to Fort Worth, Elder Hepner,
Sister Cahoon, and Sister Jarvis, all going to LA, Sister Robinson and
Sister Crowther are going to Washington DC South I think. Elder
Gallagher is going to Riverside California, Elder Downs is going to
New York New York South, Sister Ames is going to Salt Lake City West,
so I think she'll be in Micah's and Sarah's area.. not sure tho. and
Elder Vallalba is going to Anaheim. Now Elder Villalba is from Bolivia
so he is trying to learn English and American Sign Language at the
same time, its amazing! Oh and he's completely deaf as well. But the
MTC has been great! It has been so uplifting and spiritually
enlightening as well! Our teachers are Brother and Sister Peck and
Sister Rice, they're really awesome!

Oh and I'm sorry I don't have pictures on this email, I promise I've
been taking some, I've taken at least 12 so we're getting there, but
right now I don't have a computer to send them on. Speaking of that! I
have a tablet haha, but I will leave it here when I go to Washington
because there is no technology in that mission but at the MTC I have
an iPad! My branch/zone is awesome! We're in a zone with about 35
German missionaries, 26 sisters and about 9  Elders and they are
awesome! But they get kinda rowdy during four square haha.
I've had a blessing for my ankle and I went to the doctor at the
advice of my branch president, it's not broken I just have to wear a
brace and do some stretches and exercises but it looks a lot better!
Umm we also did a blessing for one of the German elders, and it was
awesome! Super spiritual. And then I anointed for Sister Ames to have
a blessing as well and assisted in the blessing with that and then me
and Elder Smith gave Sister Cahoon a blessing as well last night, all
were amazing and priesthood power is real!

Sunday night we watched a video of a talk Elder Bednar gave to the MTC
a few years back and I'll just share what I wrote in my journal haha
"there is nothing in this world that can make you feel worse an an
apostle of the Lord berating you for what feels like hours" it was
crazy, he was talking about being selfish and it was so powerful, our
whole district realized we needed to change how we approach service to
the Lord, because if you look at Christ's life, He never did anything
for himself, he always turned outward so that's what we've been trying
to do. Elder Gallacher is kind of interesting, but it has been nice
getting to know him, he is very science-y which is a very stark
contrast to my Englishness haha, but anyway it's been a little tough
getting him to open up and to talk, especially in sign language but i
think he's starting now. It can be a little tough here because every
day feels like about a week so I feel like I've been here for like a
few months now, but when I look at the German elders I realize how
much I still need to improve.

The mission presidents are coming in today as well as a ton of new
elders and sisters, so we're prepping for that, they warned us that a
ton of apostles will be coming this week but I'm yet to see any yet.
Umm yeah, we are the first district to be in the new building so
that's pretty cool.

But yeah I'm doing pretty good! Everyone write me! Tell me how home is
I would love to hear from anyone! I love you all! Have a good week!
And ask me any questions you want!

Love Elder Schoemig!!

Oh and I need my brown pants, acne stuff, couple extra shirts, and
maybe some candy or something! Haha anyway love you lots!