That time we laughed so hard we had to stop tracting

Funny story, last night we were tracting and we knocked on this apartment that was just completely dark, the door opens and the lady goes "I'm in the middle of dinner" and so we did our thing invited her to learn and asked for deaf people she said no and then closed the door. And I turned to Elder Bird and say "That's a Dark Dinner..." and then we knock the next door and I say "Do you want to know how I got these potatoes?" (Thats a Dark Knight reference in case some of you don't know) And we just busted up so hard, we had to leave the apartment complex for a little bit, I have really bad timing with my jokes. But we quickly got back to work!

So this week was a little crazy, from investigator lessons with members teaching false doctrine, to arguing with a recent convert over which version of the Bible he should read and other stuff, but it was so fun! We tracted a bunch! It was great! We found a crazy amount of referrals for other missionaries! And then yesterday one of our members, is just a baller and he set an appointment for this Wednesday with his friend to meet us! We are so pumped!

You are all awesome! 1 Nephi 1:20 is a pretty good scripture, the Lord is so merciful to us! Have a great week!

Elder Schoemig

Mom's note;  I have decided that I was going to sent him few questions at a time to get more out of him.  Lol....

Here is what I asked and got responses on these.  :)

1. When was the last time you laughed with your companion and why? What makes you laugh in your area? How do you stay light hearted?

--- I sent one story in the big email, but we laugh a lot about random things that we say, we are both really quick witted and sometimes we are too quick haha. in my area what makes me laugh? Members a lot of time, they just have little quirks that are way funny, we were late to dinner one night with a member and he always tells us we are excommunicated, so when I texted him we were going to be late I said, I bet he tells us we are going to be excommunicated and sure enough about 1 minute later we get a text and it says "You are excommunicated for being late to sacred dinner!" It was pretty funny.

2. What has your mission president been doing to inspire the mission? What do you love about your mission president?

--- My Mission president is the BEST!!!! He has a really distinct voice that Elder Bird and I will copy a lot of times haha, its a sign of respect, we really love him, lately he has been really pushing obedience and working hard and the mission has been changing lately!  Mission culture has really been improving! It has been awesome!

3. Tell us in person about the last miracle you witnessed…When was the last time you saw an answer to prayer?

--- That miracle with the member setting an appointment was really awesome!!! another one is probably that everyday we see ourselves being led by the spirit to find people who are elect, the other day we called the mission office with 7 referrals in a single complex and 2 more in another! It was crazy!

We are rearranging our apartment today, we live in Tukwila, area is just sketchy, yes ASL South is even bigger than ASL North. yes only one branch in Washington, both sets of missionaries go to same branch.

Love you mom! have a great week!!!!