One of our less actives texted us saying he wants all the lessons again, so we started teaching him those, and we are going to get his home teacher there to fellowship him back into the ward that was way cool, it is a man named Darryl and he is going to be moving to Utah in like the next year or so so thats way cool!
We had a lesson with George and we put him on date for October 14th!! But he still hasn't come to church so we need to be bold and just tell him what he needs to do for baptism. But something suuuper cool about the lesson with George is that we invited him to be baptized and he said yes and that he would try to prepare for that and then he was like "You know, I just remembered a dream I had a long time ago where someone told me that these two guys would come up to me and teach me about a book and teach me something important in this room." He had had a dream in the very room we were teaching him!! It was crazy the miracles that the Lord gives us! But it was so cool, we are just trying to get him to actually come to church!!
I went on exchanges with the Edmonds elders on Friday, it is a biking area, and Edmonds is famous for its hills.....it was super fun haha I loved being on a bike!! The seat was very uncomfortable though. But we went street contacting a lot in Edmonds Community College and Downtown Edmonds which is a cool place. Met a former investigator who we invited to read the Book of Mormon again and that was cool. Then this lady stops us in downtown edmonds and shes like hey youre mormon right? yes ma'am we are mormon. And then she tells us about her neighbor (the Elders quorum president in the Edmonds ward) and we taught her a ton about the church and everything right there on the street and she said she would read the book of Mormon!! twas very cool.
Saturday we had another miracle! We went back to Eliots house and right as we pulled up Russel and Eliots girlfriends were both leaving! theyre the ones that are not really open to talk with us, but we went and it was just Eliot and Russel, we knocked, no answer, we knocked again, no answer, and Russel is a hearing dude btw. but we were like oh no what should we do? This is perfect for us to talk to these two, we both said prayers and felt like we needed to stay and talk with them tonight, so Elder Hess walks to the door grabs the doorknob and pounds the door...shook the house. and finally they both came to the door!! It was perfect! They were even glad to see us! It was awesome! Russel doesn't know ASL so I talked with him while Elder Hess talked with Eliot and it turns out we both talked about similar things, the temple, the Book of Mormon, eternal families. Stuff like that it was so awesome!! but Russel said he is scared to read the Book of Mormon because he knows that if he does he will have to change his whole life..but I just testified to him and Elder Hess testified to Eliot that they needed to read the Book of Mormon and about the power that is in it. And they both said they would read it right when we left! It was super cool!
Sunday there was a fireside, it was cool
The Lord is real! He lives and He loves us! Always strive to go back to Him and he will welcome you always! In the MTC my teachers showed us some passages in 2nd Nephi and there is a common theme in them that is just awesome and this has been reinforced to me as I have been out here in Washington, that no matter what we do, whatever wickedness or terrible things we do. The people we hurt or the people that hurt us. Everything that we have ever done that is bad qualifies us to not go to heaven, but if we strive to return to our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ then "His arm is outstretched still" I know that this is true. His arm is forever outstretched to support and sustain us. I love you all!!
-Elder Schoemig
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