That time that Elder Camillo Gois and I went tracting in Seattle

Sister Jarvis, (My cousin, not the MTC one thats in LA, sorry) is going to New York New York South ASL!! Holy cow I am so excited for you! A mission is one of the best things for people to do!! I am so excited for you to enter the MTC!! The MTC is one of my favorite places on earth! The only place that beats it in terms of spirit levels is the temple! So amazing to be trained there! Love you!!

But I'm sorry you got sent to the wrong side of America...West Coast is the Best Coast. JK haha New York is going to be sweet!!

Anywho, this week was eventful, we tracted a ton...probably knocked like 70 doors, that might not seem like a lot but in ASL thats quite a few. We met 2 men, seperately that were ridiculously anti Joseph Smith and anti Mormon. both on the same day, Thursday, so that was very interesting, trying to testify to them and invite them to read the Book of Mormon but they refused. This one guy kept telling us that this persons going to hell and this one is too, he kept condemning people! Elder Camillo Gois was like, hold up, do you believe that God loves all of us? the man said yes of course! Then said but they still go to hell! At that point I got a little mad I'll be honest, I told him off for judging and putting himself in Gods place to judge where we will end up and then he kinda stopped, looked confused, realized that I was right, then switched on some other anti tangent thing, ugh. but really we both felt awful, we did our best to invite the spirit and invite them to learn for themselves of the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon but they both refused so we ended with testimonies and left, feeling bad that these men won't accept the true gospel, sad for my brothers.

But this week was good! I feel good because we worked hard, if we go out every day in faith and try our best to find and do the Lords work we will see blessings!

Oh yeah, Elder Camillo Gois has been teaching me how to actually play soccer, and I can now beat a 8 year old mexican kid that we play with so thats good! 

I got a blessing this week, the Lord knows what His children need! Always be sure to access the Lords priesthood if you need it! He will help us understand how we can improve every day and how we are doing good! He knows our hearts and he wants to help us do our best!

I love you ALL!!! Have a great week! And pray for someone in your life who may be struggling! Try to be grateful in your prayers and not ask for everything, do a prayer of just gratitude and praying for other people and you'll see a change in your life!

Alma 34:17-27, try not to be on the first two levels of praying i.e. calling out to the Lord (Level 1) or crying out to the Lord (Level 2) but try to reach the third level of pouring out your souls unto Him in each prayer! 

-Elder Schoemig