I am called of God. My authority is above that of kings of the earth. By revelation I have been selected as a personal representative of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is my master and He has chosen me to represent Him--to stand in His place, to say and do what He Himself would say and do if He personally were ministering to the very people to whom He has sent me. My voice is His voice, and my acts are His acts; my doctrine is His doctrine. My Commission is to do what He wants done; To say what He wants said; to be a living modern witness in word and in deed of the divinity of his great and marvelous Latter-day work. How great is my calling! • My Missionary Commission • Elder Bruce R. McConkie •

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

LETTER: Elder Jared Jensen • May 31st, 2011

Dear mom who is way beautiful to me. =)

This week has been a little crazy. Elder Smith and I had to help some other missionary's with there companion ship inventory because of how bad they wanted to kill each other. So we ended up staying up till 1:00 trying to help them out. There is so many things that happen to you on a mission its quit funny. =)

The baptism went great. It was picture perfect the way everything went. There were a ton of families that came to support Suzette from the ward and also Audrey's baptism. I don't know if i told you but we were also teaching an inactive family that is now coming back to church and there daughter got baptized with Suzette. It was so cute how Audrey treated Suzette. She gave her the biggest hug and said to her " We are like sisters now." My experience with confirming her was amazing. Yes it was my second time confirming someone but this one was so much stronger. I got up to confirm her a member of the church and I wasn't really scared at all. But as I was giving the blessing and as i said "Receive the Holy Ghost" My whole body started to shake. It was amazing how everything was going through my mind. It really was blank and I felt like God helped me with every single word to say. I guess I can just say I wish you were there. But by the time I said Amen my whole body completely stopped shaking. It has been by far the strongest time I have ever felt the spirit during a blessing.

The ward has been going so wonderful. It is now actually one of the top teaching lessons in the mission. Also the highest finding. God has been blessing this area tremendously. The wards 1 year anniversary is today so we had the first baptism in this ward which was really amazing to us. I was grateful to be here.

But..... sadly once again..... I will be the one leaving again. I will be leaving to Idaho and going to Lewiston Tuesday morning. I'm going to be baby sitting an Elder so will see how it goes. I really didn't want to leave this area though. I still don't know why I'm always the one leaving. Elder Smith this whole week kept telling everyone that he was leaving and so he started saying good bye to everyone. So it gave me some hope that I might actually be staying. Then I started to joke around with others and saying "watch it will be the complete opposite and I will be the one leaving." A couple days ago Elder Smith asked me "Why don't you ever learn the street names?" I looked at him and said " Oh you will see why" He knew what I meant when I said that when I got the transfer call a couple days later. The whole ward was shocked that I was the one leaving and they put it all over face-book. I started to laugh when I heard that. I guess I'm just an area hopper. =) Things were so wonderful here though. I got a call last night from Suzette and she was just balling on the phone when she heard I was leaving. It was a hard phone call. She will be an amazing member though. Well hopefully one day I will understand why I get moved around so much. But until then I will just keep moving forward with confusion in my eye's. =)

Also I thought I would tell you that the letters that you sent to Suzette not only helped her but also touched her mothers heart when she read them and she is now sitting in on the lessons. So I thought I would just tell you guys that you did some missionary work by just sending those letters. Its astonishing how God works in so many different ways.

Well next time I will be emailing you I will be in Lewiston so I will be sure to tell you how I'm doing. I love you so so so much Mom and your still the very best mom ever made. =)

LETTER: Sister Adrienne Schneider • May 31st, 2011

(NOTE: It sounds like Sister Schneider tried to send pictures but they didn't come through in my email. Sorry!)

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY MOM AND DAD!!! LOVE YOU!!!! AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO TAY TAY THE 19TH...A LITTLE BEHIND THE TIMES! LOVE YOU TOO! AND ANYONE ELSE I FORGET...SORRY!!! LOVE YOU TOO =0)

we kept trying to send pics, but it isn´t working....grrrr...i tried! and so did my comp! so sorry! and you probably wont get any letters...cuz we have to wait forever! and we don´t have time!
OKAY..THE pics worked

the first is of the asado we had with the member for me ¨going away¨and for his ¨birthday¨ . it was great! my companion put the candles in the wrong way....haha it was super funny. i didn´t know their candles were fireworks either!!!

the other pic is of the baptism of teh mother and of her daughter, who was baptized after her 2 weeks later.another pic is of the famous sebastien sires...it was raining after the baptism of Celeste....we are doing the ´copo´signs...we are cool....

1. Almost always i eat oatmeal and fruit
2. What principle...probably the atonement and faith! I liked Elder Nunley´s imput how we can never have enough faith and there is always room for improvement....i love missionaries!

haha....and my comp...is really good at english. she knows more english than i know spanish. and so she is speaking to me in english more than my other english/american comps. so now, i am speaking more english. haha...oh well. she is super sweet-hearted.

the ward here is amazing! they are so supportive of the missionaries and missionary work. it has been a change to feel okay that i don´t know spanish completely. it sounds like they have had a lot of missionaries here and the ward is really strong. the members brought like three people to church, which is super great! the bishop wants us to eat both lunch and dinner with members in the ward. there are so many part membered families that we can teach. he thinks if we eat with them, we will always bless their home. so...if i weight a lot when i get back, i hope you still love me even if i am a chunk. the area is a lot smaller too so we don´t walk as much.
ANOTHER PIC IS OF ME AND MY BEST FRIEND MISSIONARY (red head). we have been with each other from the beginning. she jokes that she is really fat and gained 20 pounds...so we had to take a picture of it. she is super funny, you will have to meet her!

sorry this is crazy. we wasted most of the time trying to work the camera. we are working hard to find new investigadors because we don´t really have any. previously, they told me they didn´t contact in this area much. they had baptisms, but didn´t contact many people. so, we had a gazillion contacts the other day, looking for more people to baptize and teach....hopefully more today...with people ready to hear the gospel! haha

love always,
hermana schneider

LETTER: Elder Brayden Schneider • May 31st, 2011

so... good news Ljubo is getting baptised on the 11th of june! he is a super cool guy, we get with him 3 times a week! And a recent convert is going to baptise him!

So maybe you remember the personal english class idea that we had! well it was the first week that we tried it and..... it was AMAZING... i am so excited about it. we taught like 20 lessons!!! really good lessons!!!! oh man it was crazy, we had lesson after lesson after lesson. On wednesday i almost lost my voice!!!!!! we worked so hard and we got 3 soft baptismal dates this week!!!! cool huh? so i am 150% convienced that personal english class is the best finding tool that has ever came to slovenia!!!

Most of this week i was on an exchange with an elder from maribor! (ps.. i stayed here in ljubljana cause i didnt want to go up to maribor and get home sick for maribor again!) hahaha so i went with a younger missionary and he loved it! We had so much fun, ever day we just dominated! We were at the church teaching every day from 12-9:30 and most the time we didnt have time to get food! haha its ok though i am a little fatty anyways! haha

ok so this week we had a leadership training meeting... so, my comp and i had to teach part of the meeting! it was ok, i thought we did pretty good! We invited a couple members to talk about experiences they had with missionaries and other things! And we as did alot of encouraging. And... dad remember your conversion story, well i asked president hill if he would read it as part of our presentation. It was really good we talked about it and paid attention to who was involved with your conversion.... what kind of rule the holy ghost had in your conversion.... and how we always need to be missionaries when we go home... and some other things! it was really good!

things are good! i am thinking i need a vacation though....! haha
well love you guys!

ps... i forgot to tell you we went searching for an investigators cat this week! it was really fun but sad cause we didnt find it! The daughter in the family was crying for like 2 days straight!

pss... some mom and dad learning another language does not helping my dyslexia... its getting way worse! hahaha

psss... Thanks dad for getting that information on becoming a principal! that will be bomb!

pssss.. Oh and i need to go to the dentist??? should i pay with my debt card then you guys can pay me back or what.... its not my fault.... i brush and floss and use floriede daily! you just have bad luck sometimes!

LETTER: Elder Colton Nunley • May 31st, 2011

hey family, im sorry to hear about nathan but something that Elder Nelson said came to my mind when i read about Nate. death is like a homecoming, but a homecoming way better than we can even imagine. Im sure Nathan is doin work right now up there in the spirit world and i hope that he can come here and help me out here too :) but i hope all is well with the williams family.

thank you all though for your experiences that you have been having. who translated the letter for you guys haha.

but yeah im in a branch here and there are about 40 people that normally come but this sunday we only had 28. i think that is about it for the questions haha the members here dont realy provide references but if we are lucky we can have 3 lessons with members a week and the lessons with the members are always way better.

umm so this week we found an investigator of pure gold haha we were touching doors (in spanish they use the verb to touch for knock haha) and this muchacha came out and we started talking and when we began to talk about the book of mormon she told us she has read part of it before and that she really liked what she read. she read it in her grandmas house and then when her grandma died Ester(the muchacha) had a really special experience with the spirit and prayer and so when we taught her the doctrine of Christ..... la fe, el arrepentimiento, el bautismo, la recepición del Espíritu Santo, y el perseverar hasta el fin... she loved it and then when we put a baptismal date she said actually i have a question first before i say yes or no, and then she asked us, How can i know which of all the churches is His church? hahaha oh my gosh a missionaries dream come true. so then we taught her the Restauration (sp?) and she was like wow ok im gonna pray like right after you leave haha. but she had to go to chihuahua for work this week and couldnt come to church but she is way cool and i cant wait to teach her tuesday again.

oh my gosh it is so dang hot here haha dayton you have no idea. they tell us that it has been like 40 degrees the whole week haha 40 degrees celcius is a little bit more than 100 Farenheit haha every stinking day!!!!!!! haha its alright though the work is going good.

the Lord is testing my faith right now with like no success but with me giving all i´ve got everyday. but thats how it is right. the real blessings come after this life and thats where and when i´ll know that it was worth it haha. right now i know its worth it too haha i just straight up love the mission. but i love all of you guys so much and thanks for writing every week... oh in the next package you send if you could put a USB in there that would be awesome haha oh yeah i also need the name of the new ward that you are in and the stake i think its just Bismarck North Dakota Stake right? but yeah i gotta go love yal so much
Elder Nunley (Nuñez) all of the members here call me Elder Nuñez because that have such a hard time saying Nunley haha

Monday, May 23, 2011

LETTER: Sister Adrienne Schneider • May 23rd, 2011

1. What is your favorite thing to drink?
i like water. haha if it is cold and doesn´t taste weird. haha kinda boring i know

2. How safe do you feel as you proselyte?
i feel pretty safe prosleyting... we will see in my new area though. haha, the Lord keeps his promises. i am not sure how i would safe if i wasn´t a missionary. probably at least one person everyday tells us how dangerous an area is or where we are going.

so, we had transfers, and everything has changed like crazy!!!! it is pretty insane. the name of my new area is aldo bonzi. my companion is super sweet-hearted from Costa Rica named Hermana Alvarado. i am excited. i am in a different area. my comp from the MTC was here before me. it is so fun to have the district from the MTC here. when the missionaries reunite from the mtc, it is the best ever! it is fun to see how everyone has progressed in the language and their experiences. we are really good friends.

the last day in my last area was really good, and really really hard. i didn´t want to leave. it is hard for me to think that mostlikely i won´t see these people again. all these people that i have visited, spent time thinking and praying for, and the numerous and infinite amount of people that have helped me in some way, some form, i will never be able to repay.

the ward in Hurlingham is stepping it up. the last lunch we had with members, the couple (the man is the first counselor in the bishopric) told us how pleased he was with our hard work. he also said the bishop is super pleased too. in the meetings with the leaders and the missionaries (us) they are really starting to invite us to do stuff and to work as one with the ward and to have activities to help us with investigadores. It feels good to have more support from the ward. the first counselor has helped us a ton!!!! he is great and helped this lady in a wheel chair every sunday come to church. there are some really great members in Hurlingham!

Also, another member did a huge asado...kinda like a huge bbq for me leaving, and for his birthday. an asoda is where they cook all this meet and food. kinda like that place where they serve you hot meat on a stick....all you can eat, can´t think of the name of it...where Kevin, from teh colony, worked. he did that to say good-bye and also we had a cake for his birthday. it was really really nice.

we also had a baptism on sunday. the bishop changed the baptism from saturday to sunday because he wanted the ward to support the missionaries and the girl (named Celeste) to have the support of the ward. it was super neat to see! it was really hard to leave too. when we visited Celeste and Elvira, the two baptisms we´ve had, i cried a little bit in the prayer. they have changed so much and i hope they stay faithful in the church. they both love to learn and love the book of mormon. Elvira also cooked a pizza for us and ALWAYS thanks us for us visiting. a different change from before. i couldn´t tell them that i was leaving the next day. i don´t like good-byes. i hope they arent offended that i didn´t tell anyone or let my comp say anything about me leaving, i knew i would start crying if anyone said anything. it isn´t about me anyways, but the Lord. it was also hard to leave my comp. we had a really good last day together. probably the most perfect day in the mission! it is going to be hard without her.

Actually, the only person i could tell that i was leaving was Seba. we dont know who is going or staying until late saturday night. He baptized Celeste and i really wanted a picture with him cuz i didn´t have one with him. he has a lucky hat and doesn´t let anyone touch it...but he let me wear it! haha. i really hope he is able to leave on his mission soon. it is only because of him we found elvira and celeste. we also have two more baptismal dates for lucila and her brother ensol because of seba in a few weeks. they are going to have a ton of baptisms in the area soon!

so crazy! the one thing i dont like at all in the mission is having to leave.

wow, i wrote a lot!

love you!
hermana schneider

LETTER: Elder Colton Nunley • May 23rd, 2011

hello family. so i found out im a terrible father haha mi hijo already went home :( it was super rough he told me about how his parents forced him to come out here and then he got sick out here too so we couldnt leave the house for a couple days and yeah it was a real mess haha but im really actually proud of him because he had a whole lot going on that i cant really explain but im sure he is gonna come back out in the field if they let him.

but yeah so now i have another mexican companion... FINALLY!!!!! haha oh my gosh my spanish has been struggling with only americans haha cuz i cant ask questions about the grammar and what not. but yeah his name is Elder Zuvire. he is way cool and is really excited about the work. he is a newbie too he{s only got about 2 months in the mission.

but yeah i dont know why i havent told you guys about the Loya family but i just remembered and you guys gotta hear about them. so with Elder Hurtado here in Saucillo we went to get food from the street....cuz that is where the best stuff is at.. and we bought these burritos from this shack and Elder Hurtado got sick haha real bad like he went to the bathroom like 4 times that night and then another 3 in the morning haha but yeah so we were teaching a lesson and then he told me "we have got to go right now" haha so we booked it to the gas station and he went to the bathroom and while i was waiting outside one of the workers came over and threw something in the trash where i was at. and so i started talkin to him and stuff and then i put a date for when we could pass by his house haha. so we went over and his wife loves it all!! and the family lived in arizona for a while too so all the kids know english, the parents understand it but cant speak it, but yeah the kids are 19 17 14 and 10 years old and all of them have felt the spirit and everything. and one of the friends of one of the sons asked us (cuz he listens to the chats too) if he could serve a mission if he gets baptized haha how sweet!? this family is way cool and actually tomorrow we are gonna go and try to put a baptismal date for them, we already had one but they didnt go to church :( but yeah im super excited for them and the son is way cool thats my age i would totally hang out with him haha actually one of our pdays they invited us over for a bbq but there is not enough time during the day haha but yeah Mario is doing so good he is reading a ton and studying a bunch too. he is totally gonna be the next branch pres haha.

OHHH rachel and todd congratulations,, rachel if you keep the baby in just a little bit longer (about a year) i would really appreciate it haha i wanna see it the first day haha

actually the first full day me and Elder zuvire had together we were contacting in the street and i saw this lady carrying a ton of stuff so we went over and helped her and when we got to her house she invited us in to see her first grandchild haha so we went in and this kid was brand spankin new like i think 3 days out of the oven haha but what was super cool was to feel the spirit in that room just with all the love the mom and dad and grandma had for that baby and when we talked about the plan of salvation. for real we could have invited them to be baptized with out even teaching them anything haha and they would have accepted that is how strong the spirit was.. way cool!!!

but yeah the work here is great right now i am focusing on having more faith. that is what i love about the gospel, there is always room for improvement. we can never say ahhh ive got enough faith haha but we can increase our faith until we have enough that Jesus Christ Himself cant help but show himself to us like with the brother of Jared!! can you imagine?

well i love you guys all so much and thank you for all that you do. you should have someone translate the letter from the president and then follow what it says. it would help me out alot.

Thanks family, I Love you

LETTER: Elder Brayden Schneider • May 23rd, 2011

hey i have a question... dad what do you know about being a principle of a high school. what kind of eduacation would i need? what do you know about principles in general? if you could help me out that would be great! cause i was thinking that maybe i would really like to be a principle!

ok so this week was really crazy... i dont think i have been so tired in my whole life! every time we road a bus i fell asleep! haha not even joking, oh man but wow time goes by fast.
ok so some really really really good stuff is going on... first off, we made a goal to double our baptisms in the mission and we need 20 by july.... in the last 10 days we heard about 13 people with baptismal dates!!! how cool is that! the mission is doing so well. SO we are super stoked about everything. You wannna know what the secret is--- its when we have success we tell everyone, and so then everyone gets super excited and wants to help out even more (and i spread the word that the mission is changing... and then i really does )! And we had a meeting with President Majc (branch president) and in the past we have had big problems with him not really liking missionaries. But at our meeting he said... "ok something is different, what are you zone leaders doing." So i am super excited about that, that is probably the best question to hear! He is getting excited!

ok then for english class we are doing it a little different... we are doing personal english class! we had 50 people show us for it and all of which are really really good! We are going to teach english and then just start teaching them as if they were an investigator! we have about 10 lessons a week becasue of that, and we are going to see some HUGE changes happen because of this! (ps.. i was the creater of the idea) hahaha so the mission is doing good!

ok so... we had a lesson with the most gangster kid i have ever met! He is black and from africa and is super cool, he owns a hip hop clothing store and is super funny! Previous missionaries got with him a couple times, and when we knocked on his door i am so suprised. (cause in slovenia you never see black people) and his shorts were PAST his ankles and his shirt was HUGE! It was really different teaching him.... hahahaha he just says so many gangster comments during the lesson. It is just way funny when he reads cause he reads like a gangster too! hahaha so i am super excited, he really liked me! (hopefully i can get some sweeet hip hop clothes before i go home!) haha jk Oh and he made us a rap about missionary work!!! hahahaha how cool is that!
Things are going good! you guys are the best!
ps.. the black guy said he is coming to church but he isnt going to wear some dumb white shirt! hahaha so i am excited to see him there!

ok wait... i have a really really really good exsperiance that i wanted to share this week! we got to teach president Juhart and his daughters (who are 8 and 10), and we talked about baptism... and about their mom. They really want to be baptisted but their mom wont allow it! So we asked the daughters if they would act on their faith and ask their mom, and if they would then i would call all the missionaries in slovenia and ask if they would pray for them and we would see miracles if its gods will! they were so so so so excited. Matijaž was also very excited! So we had an amazing lesson and prayed alot! I was so convinced that it was going to happen.... everyone was. But we recently heard that the mom wont allow it and that the mom wont talk to the missionaries either! I was so sad... it was really really not cool! But the lesson that we had was amazing! After the lesson the girls wouldnt let us leave.... they just held onto us and wouldnt let us move... hahaha it was really funny, so then i decieded to role play what they would say when they asked their mom.... it was so funny!!! oh good times! but i still think something big will happen in that family so that the daughters can be baptisted!!!!

love you guys!

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

PICTURES: Elder Nunley

(me and mario and Elder Evans)

LETTER: Elder Colton Nunley • May 17th, 2011

hey family!! haha so President Angulo wanted us to send you the letter that he wrote for us. luckily you have brother pitcher there and sister milller so they can help you translate it haha i still havent read what it says yet but i thought that was pretty cool that he would write you all a letter.

so yeah i recieved my son this week. haha thats what they say if you train someone. he is my son and i am his father. haha but yeah he is from centerville utah and he is way cool actually funny story when we were in the airport leaving the mtc and while we were in line his mom asked us where we were going and we told her chihuahua and so she went running and grabbed elder evans and intruduced us to him haha pretty crazy huh haha but yeah we had a baptism on saturday.. his name is Mario Guardiola. he is like a perfect convert he is so great like he absolutely changed his life around for the gospel and he is sticking to it too. haha it is so great.

sorry but today there really isnt a whole bunch of time to write so if it seems like im rushing through thats why haha. but that is so crazy that you all are going to be finishing school here so dang soon haha RIDICULOUS.

but way cool i cant believe how fast time goes by here on the mission. and i will be with elder evans for a the least 3 months and so when that three monthsis up i will have already had 9 months out on the mission... absolutely crazy. thats great that you got my letter finally haha HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM AND DAD haha still not mom but dad yes haha.... but what sort of crazy plans do you all have for the summer and vacations that im gonna be missin out on or what.

Saucillo is great the people here are excellent and the branch is nice. it is starting to get pretty dang hot here haha im still not ready for it haha but its all good. it was so good to talk to you all again last week i loved it. elder evans said that saturday night i woke him up because i was teaching about prayer haha so im still going strong with teaching in my sleep haha

so yeah the picture im sending is of me and mario and Elder Evans. Man i absolutely love the mission. i absolutely love how the Lord teaches us lessons. He always knows what is best for us and we just have to be humble enough to accept it. it blows my mind how much the mission has changed my life in just the past couple months.

WOW haha i love you guys so much. Keep on keepin on haha

Elder Nunley

Monday, May 16, 2011

LETTER: Elder Brayden Schneider • May 16th, 2011

So this week was crazy... i say that ever week but we never have enough time.

So i have a couple of funny things to say.... so first off, sydney pace sent me an email of all the new stuff going on in American Fork, utah and she named off a huge list of friends that i had before the mission how are now all married!!!! hahahaha so remember collins girlfriend, well she got married to someone else. Hahahaha its really sad but really really funny also!

ok so we have someone with a baptismal date.... his name is Ljubo! he is a super cool guy. He is getting baptised on the 18th of June.

But on friday the branch had a picnic and it was the most fun i have had in a long long time! hahaha so we got to play volleyball and everyone was pretty good so it was super fun. Well we were playing for about an hour and the missionaries all played with there church clothes on. And.... i wriped my pants (the seam on the butt of my pants)... hahaha i know it stinks huh? ... it was like a three inch whole.... so i kept playing anyways cause it was too fun. But then they wriped really badly until i couldnt play anymore and i just had to sit down. hahaha it was super fun. good times.

more good news... so we got a new investigator this week and he is a way nice kid. And so we invited him to family night and he came. When we were walking to family night he asked if he could smoke, i said i didnt but he could if he wanted. Then we said hey guess what we have a program the helps people stop smoking! hahaha and he said cool lets do it tomorrow. SO we taught him the program and he has been a non smoker for 4 days so far! HE is really really good, he said in family night he wants to have a more meaningful life. So tonight we are going to talk about that with him!

Well thanks for everything! love you guys.

ps... congratulations rachel!

Monday, May 9, 2011

LETTER: Elder Brayden Schneider • May 9th, 2011

It was super good to hear from you guys yesterday!

So i have some super super super good news.... well after i got off the phone i asked the president if i could have 5 minutes to call Sean, he thought about it and decieded it would be a good thing! (i am super lucky cause its not really allowed) hahaha so i was super excited and called but nobody answered so i called again and Seans mom answered! hahaha she was so happy to hear from me but she said he was at work and probably wouldnt be able to answer his phone! but i got his number and called him anyways... i called 4 times and nobody answered so i was kinda bumbed out. And right before we were about the leave the mission home Sean called back! hahaha it was so good to hear from him! oh man it was the best. But he said he is doing better, he just doesnt have much goin on, but he is going to church and i told him we have to baptise all of our friends when we get back and he was super excited! Oh mothers day is the best!

well we talked yesterday so there isnt much to say.

The zone meeting we had on thursday was super good, as zone leaders all the missionaries get together and we have a meeting and my comp and I had to teach.... I was pretty nervous for the first min that after that it went really well!

Well things are good!
love you guys!
ps... how is adri doing? was it super fun to talk to her?

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

LETTER: Elder Brayden Schneider • May 3rd, 2011

so... i am really confused now.... mom, how did you know i was zone leader already?
ok so i guess you already heard but i am not in maribor anymore.... sad huh? i really really really wanted to stay.

Well now i am zone leader. Yeah when i heard i was being transfered i almost said no. hahaha i really didnt want to go. We were totally dominating and now i am in the worst area in the worst appartment! oh well. When i heard i was being transfered for a whole day i was just as sad as they get! but then i figured i could go and be a bomb zone leader or i could just be a little baby about it! so i decieded to just be a bomb zone leader.

well some good news is i got some gifts from a black guy!!!! we were walking down the street and black people dont live in slovenia so of course we had to talk to him! well he said he was from some place in Africa and kept saying, "i love yur peple" and then i kept giving us stuff! hahaha it was super cool. He was a super funny guy!
Ok besides that this week was crazy they put a new set of elders in maribor and it was a sad day leaving that place. I gave away like all my ties and books too. (ps mom maybe you remember a book with a bunch of paintings of Jesus.... well it is Andrejs now! hahaha)

But we had to end our english classes this week and a student went to the store and bought me a 75 dollar book so that i can keep up my slovene! its really nice, it had pictures of all the churches in slovenia!
So yeah i got alot of gifts when i left. :) but yeah things are going to be good here!
love you guys!

ps... cause today is tuesday i didnt have time to take that test mom. But i will sometime! :)

pss.... good thing i didnt forget to tell you how to get a hold of me for sunday! i have 1 hour and you guys can call me at 6 oclock pm. (my time 6 o clock) so i dont know what time you guys call but if you could just figure out what the time zones are that would be great. So you guys will be calling me thru skyp! do you guys know what that is? i hope so... because we can video chat! neat huh? well that is the good news. The bad news is i am not really sure how skyp works but my comp says that i will be calling you! so i am hoping everything will work out! :) Wait do you guys have skyp???? if so send me your address! :) ok can wait to hear you guys!