Happy Birthday!!!

First and foremost, and most important of all of the thingys that you will hear today from me, It is my Moms birthday!!!!!!! Shes the bomb! She is always there to help me out and give me advice and do whatever she needed to help me out!! Mom you are awesome!!! Thank you so much for putting up with all the annoying and infuriating stuff I did! Cuz we all know that thats what I do haha. Anyway, if you havent sent her a giant present yet then shame on you and get that done quick. And I actually haven't done that either so shame on me, I'll work on it Mom!!

Anyways,

This week was great!

Tuesday we taught Brady and are really just encouraging him right now. We also went to Eliot and Russels house, a less active and an investigator, but they were busy and didn't have time so we made plans to go back later.

Wednesday We went up to Andre's house!! another 3 hour drive!! It was so good!! We taught the Restoration in really simple terms because he doesn't understand a lot of stuff, he is really behind in education, but we are teaching him and he is very interested, one of the hardest parts about being an ASL missionary is seeing people in really tough situations, all the time, its sad. But back to Andre, he is really concerned about the welfare of his soul- and much like Joseph Smith he has a few churches contacting him always, especially Jehovah's Witness, they really target deaf people up here, and they basically anti us the entire time we aren't there, they just tell him that its all made up and all this garbage so we are trying to do weekly appointments now but its hard cuz he lives a long way away

Thursday was tough, we tracted a bunch but didn't find really anyone

Friday I went on exchanges! One of the cool things I get to do as Assistant to the District Leader is go to all the areas in our district, except for those with sisters, but I went to Edmonds with Elder Anderson and he is awesome!! Hes so cool and he knows Bailey Frampton! They went to college at Utah State together, when he found out I went to Lone Peak he immediately asked me if I knew who she was, so that was fun. We tried contacting some potentials, and some investigators and some members but they were all gone. So we knocked a lot of doors. It was super cool though, I am much more comfortable tracting now than I was before. We were tracting during a Seahawks game, that was tough, people here love love LOVE the Seahawks, so that was suuuuuper tough, we knocked a door, and the guy goes "HI, you guys are interrupting a football game, BYE!" and begins to slam the door, but we kinda forced our way in, got the score to the game and gave him a pamplet to read. Then after that we started talking about sports and vented about Gordon Hayward leaving the Jazz, dang it!! Anyway that was fun.

Saturday we got into the Zooks house! and met the wife and taught part of the restoration! We are going to be going back soon but that was a miracle! We had never gotten in or had a religious discussion but we did!! It was so awesome! She invited us back to teach her more, she has a tough time accepting the fact that the Book of Mormon and the Bible are separate things though, we will explain more later, also theres another random deaf lady that lives there, we hope to teach her as well.

Sunday picked up a new investigator!! It was awesome!! Went to her house, taught some of the restoration on the doorstep, gave her a Book of Mormon, committed her to read, and to  have us come back, and to become baptized! But her answer was funny, we arent sure if she said yes or no to baptism because she said Sure! but i've already been baptized, so we explained priesthood authority, but we will explain more. It was super awesome though!!

Anyway, this week we have a whole list of people to contact!! We are hoping to do lots of work this week and just have so many meetings that we barely have time for anything else. Super excited for everything to come!!

Oh, I've started driving at the beginning of this transfer and Seattle traffic is crazy apparantly its like 3rd worst in the country or something like that. But Its been awesome driving again!!

The gospel is true! Miracles come when you study your scriptures and pray to your Heavenly Father, I know thats true!! so please keep reading! a cool talk I read this week was from President Hinckley, who is one of my favorite speakers, it is from October 2003, it is titled
An Ensign to the Nations, A Light to the World and it is awesome, please read it!! anyways Love you all!! You are the BEST!!!!!

Much love!-Elder Schoemig

No pictures this week, I've grown lazy..sorry!!