Thursday, January 31, 2019
That time we were a man down
So big news this week, Elder Camillo Gois is now home... err.. kind of.... He's going to be on a plane, actually 4 different plans for the next 2 days. So good luck. But he is the Elder that I served with my whole mission so far. Everyone else has left at one time or another. Elder Camillo Gois and I have gone to every single sacrament meeting together for a year and a half, it's been such a great privilege to serve with him! I love him and am sad to see him go but his time is up! So now there's only 5 elders to fill 6 spots and I'm getting transferred so probably going to go back to south with Elder Lund but not sure yet, possibly going English!
Otherwise we got dropped by a friend she wasn't ready yet so we are going to try again at another time. Waiting for next year!
We had awesome lessons with the Young family and it was so powerful to be able to teach and testify and answer questions!
Other news is got to go do baptisms for the dead with Letitia! And the rest of the branch, it was so great!
I love the work of the Lord. He has called us and we receive His Spirit in abundance to guide us.
Love you!
That time my pants ripped and my heart broke
So this week big news is that my pants ripped, like pretty huge rip, but it was in the apartment so we were safe, but they were my favorite pants so that's a bummer 
Other than that it was a great week! We found a new friend to teach and tonight we should find another and then we are just going to keep the ball rolling! This area has seen a lot of growth since we started and I just love seeing out hard work and desire to follow the Spirit being answered with miracles!
Just some highlights
- Exchanges with Elder Winget, he's a baller, that's where we found a new friend!
- Lesson with a friend and a returning member who both just said "we want to go to church just to take the sacrament!"
- One night we felt inspired to pray for someone to be interested in family history and the next day we found someone, then we kept praying for it and we found someone for every night that we prayed for it!
- We are teaching a Marshallese deaf lady who is a member but never learned the gospel in sign language so she is just so excited to actually learn it now! It is so fun to teach her!
- Met a deaf couple who at first was kind of not willing to talk but we were able to be persuasive teachers and will be going back this week!
- Taught the Young family yesterday with just a bunch of members and the mom, who is the least willing to learn asked us a question at the end of the lesson and it was a great sign that her heart is changing!
So I don't know if you could say there were miracles this week but.... There totally were some miracles this week. The Spirit is a master guide and a master teacher, so great!
Funny story
- Elder Luckau is still learning sign language and so makes mistakes a gets a little flustered and just says sorry a lot so the Strattons officially gave him a new name sign its sorry with an "L". But the way they gave it to him was so funny, he said sorry for like the fourth time in a minute and a half and Sister Stratton just says "Alright! That's it! New name sign! Elder "L"sorry!" and I just couldn't hold it in I started laughing so hard it was a good time
- Second funny story we were trying to meet these deaf people in the middle of Sultan - middle of nowhere Washington - and they have this bell on their porch so the only thing we could think was to ring it, so we ring it twice when their neighbor from down the road walks all the way down to us and says (in a lot more colorful language) "they're deaf! It's not going to work!", which kind of shocked Elder Luckau so I said "oh really? Then how do we meet them?" the neighbor replied "wave your arms (the blinds were all closed, they couldn't see us even if we did do that) or just leave!" I just said "ok thank you! God bless you!" when he finally left, still swearing profusely. We rang the bell for the second time and they totally answered it! He got all mad at us but it worked! I thought that was funny. Maybe I'm just weird haha.
Anyways, I just love being out here, the opportunity to be a full time servant of my God and the privilege to hold His priesthood and to receive His Spirit is the greatest! I'm so grateful for repentance that I can try every day to dust myself off and try to be better and to be a more worthy servant. I love repenting!
Elder Schoemig
Right after this picture is when my pants ripped 
Tuesday, January 15, 2019
That time it was a good week!
First things first, one of the people I helped way back in the day, like December of 2017 received the Melchizedek priesthood and was just set apart to be the second counselor in our branch presidency! And he's deaf blind! I love Joel, he is so great! That was nice for Elder Camillo Gois and I to see someone I helped who has progressed so much!
Then we found 3 new friends this week! It was a great relief because since transfers almost nothing has happened in this area but we found a whole family that we will meet with! It was great! Shout out to our branch president for helping out a ton!
This week we had many meetings, we had 2 zone conferences to go to because they split Lynnwood and Shoreline stakes, and Elder Lund and I are over both, as well as meetings with stake presidents and stuff so lots of meetings but they were good. We focused in our zone conferences about becoming more like Jesus Christ and making him the center of our lives. It was fantastic! I love serving with such superb missionaries in this area!
Nother highlight from this week was a car fast, yup you heard it, we didn't drive our car! It was actually a really great day! We didn't find any new deaf people but it feels good to just hit the streets and talk to people. But we did learn more about the area we do a lot of work in, Lynnwood and I feel more prepared to receive revelation on where Heavenly Father's deaf children live in this part of Washington.
I love being a missionary, this is truly the work of the Almighty God and He guides us every day to help his children. There is no doubt in my ind that the Book of Mormon is the word of God. I've learned a lot recently about the Atonement of Jesus Christ. It is real and it cleanses us. Keep working and trying, it is worth it to work.
Love ya!
Elder Schoemig
That time we had a pretty normal week
On New Years the 6 ASL Elders went to the Harris family for dinner and dinner was huge! It was really fun! We were all joking around and having a good time, we love being with the Harris'
Then we went to work the rest of this week, we have been grinding and just trying to find a new friend, still working on it but we taught one more lesson this week than we taught last week! And we are really working on getting in the members homes, it should be really great!
Highlight of the week! Stake conference with Elder Brent Nielson of the 70 was great! For the Saturday adult session there was a huge focus on ministering and missionary work and we deaf blind interpreted for that. Then Sunday I showed up and they told me I had to normal interpret because a lot of interpreters that said they would show up didn't so that was fun! My hands were all cold so I couldn't keep up fingerspelling for the sustaining of church officers... That was rough but then I did ok the rest of the time I think... Idk ask the deaf people if they understood. But it was really inspirational and great! The 70s bring such power when they speak and testify!
I love this work! I love my companion, Elder Luckau is a great missionary!
Love you all!
Elder Schoemig
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