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!

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

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!

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?

PICTURES: Sister Schneider

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!