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 •

Monday, May 23, 2011

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!

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