LETTER: Sister Adrienne Schneider • January 13th, 2011

hey papi!

ya, time has flown, but it has been wonderful! i can't really differentiate the days, but i know they were great! shaniqau is a cutie and writes me all the time! i have great friends! and family!!! and of course wonderful parents!!! thanks! oh...the af gang all sent me cards...i think megan and lauren, well all fo them were behind it but they all sent it together...it was really a neat experience! it was super thoughtful for them to send it to me too!!!

how awesome for T-$ (taryn) she is great and i miss having her as a roommate and playing soccer, but all is well! thanks so much! oh, i hold the records for baskertball too ;) 1-foul shot, 4- three pointers...haha and the new juggling record...300 somethign.....they had to reset the records so i said i would go for those three...got all of them cuz the record was 0 ;)

ya, i should be able to talk monday, maybe like 5 minutes....will you dear elder me so i know what number to use? i can call yoru cell...801.310.5310 right? haha will you lmk!!!

thanks,

love ya lots!

hermana schneider

LETTER: Elder Colton Nunley • January 11th, 2011

Subject: Si yo tuviera un millón de dólares, yo le compraría un mono

ok so it sounds like i should start off appologyzing to everybody out there jaja lo siento por todos haha but so i have even better news today than last week and i´ll be straight up with you so i dont lose any fans this week like i´m sure i did last time haha so today in 1 hour i am going to go to the travel office here at the MTC from there we will drive up to Salt Lake City and once we are there i will sign my visa we will come back to the MTC and leave either Thursday of Friday depending on when Presidente Angulo wants us there!!!! Isn´t that awesome!!! i can´t find the question mark on this keyboard cuz its in spanish so just go ahead and forgive me for that throughout haha so the next time i partake of the sacrament (la santa cena) i will be in México!! i wish you could see how big the smile is on my face right meow for real!! haha i´m so excited!! but i want to tell you a super spiritual story that happened this week:

ok so we´ve been teaching one of our teachers and he has been acting as someone else and his name has been Jorge. so we´ve been teaching Jorge for a good 2 weeks every day. now Hermano Escobar is so good at becoming Jorge he is completely a different person and it truely feels like we are teaching Jorge not Hermano Escobar. so Jorge is a catholic and he prays everyday and he has such a great amount of faith in Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father and we´ve been teaching him for so long and i truely came to love him like i prayed for Jorge all the time and i would pray that Jorge would follow through on the invitations we gave him and everything. but it´s been really hard for Jorge to accept José Smith. anything about him. which has been so frustrating because i know how much happier Jorge will become once the fullness of the Gospel would take effect in his life. and he has so much faith that he would be such a great member. but Jorge tells us everytime that he feels so good when we are at his house and even though we tell him it´s the spirit he doesn´t think it is. Jorge is completely content with everything in his religion and wont accept anything else. even when we pray he says Sí Señor at everything he agrees with haha(which is actually hilarious and it´s hard for me not to laugh still) but we´ve talked to him so many times and the last couple times we just haven´t been going anywhere with him and we had to put him back in the Lords hands until he is ready to be taught again.....we dropped him and we wont be teaching him for a while anymore. this was honestly so hard for us! like we love Jorge so much and we´re just trying to help him out by finding out how he can receive salvation and he isn´t ready to hear it. when we came back into the classroom and i saw hermano Escobar aka Jorge... i was like so dissappointed in him haha it was so crazy like i will never forget this and it was so cool to see how much these people will mean to me because i was studying so many things throughout the day For Jorge so that we could teach more simple and clear. so that was super sad but spiritual this week i´m so glad he was tough on us and didn´t commit to baptism like everyone else here haha it was really good for us.

oh so yeah kim sent me these six oober rich cupcakes and just eating one made me feel absolutely terrible haha so after i gave two to my companions and a friend we gave the cupcakes to our investigators the next couple days in our lessons haha!!! it was so funny to see the looks on their faces when i whipped that out oh my gosh but yeah it was delicious but i´drather share those puppies than eat them all for my self haha tell her thanks for me.

so i have the picture of the family you gave me over my desk in the room and i looked up at it one day and i saw amoray and i just started thinking about how goofy she is haha and i just busted up giggling haha thanks amoray for all those silly things you do! like throwing a snorkel at my HEAD haha ya little punk! haha and mom i just wanna give you a big hug every month and then come back to the mission field :) but yeah i´m doing great out here i am truely so blessed if you read 2 nefi chapter 9 thats how i feel like all the time. like nefi is writing this chapter right and you know when you are just so excited about something you can´t stop saying how much you love it and you just kinda get lost in the moment and have this huge grin on your face... that´s how i imagine nefi writing this chapter.. there´s like 90 times when he just puts Oh the greatness and the Glory of our Lord!! haha that´s truely how i feel. this gospel is so amazing and can bring so much joy into our lives!! it talks about it all the time in the BoM but yeah i owe so much to Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ i am trying to give more and more of my time to them every day and the more i sacrifice the more blessed i feel. it´s funny how that works out :) so there is a good chance the next email i write will be from méxico but if i dont leave til later in the day thursday i will be able to write you again i love all of you!!

Elder Nunley

oh yeah the title is ....If i had a million dollars i would buy you a monkey haha it is actually tricky figuring out how to conjugate that so it was practice for my spanish not just a random sentence :) seriously

LETTER: Elder Brayden Schneider • January 10th, 2011

Hey grandpa and grandma thanks for the care package!!! it was quite delightful! so... this week was something else, i am having alot more fun in my mission. So we passed out flyers for english class, and this week was so so cold, i am suprised i didnt die, handing out all those flyiers! ok so good news on friday we had sign ups for english class and we have some of the best people that came and signed up. we got about 35 people to sign up, so we are really hoping we will be able to find people that what to hear about christ thru english!

ok so... i would have to say, if every mission had as much faith and good personality as sister adri schneider, i am pretty sure everyone would already be baptisted! :)

ok so, i went down to Ljubljana for a meeting this week and this mission is changing for the better! this meeting was for the leaders in each city, oh man it was so good, these are some of the best missionaries in the world!!! i am not joking, but our leaders and the attitude and the work ethic is going to be increase so fast! So my district is way good, we are kinda younger but age really doesnt make one difference! my district has so much faith, and they are so conviced about us getting 8 baptisms that nobody could ever tell anyone in my district that we wouldnt get 8 cause its too hard, they are way good.

So the meeting we had was over night, and the leaders from serbia and croatia all came up and stayed 2 nights. So the fun thing was is we went contacting with them.... hahaha i got to go with a croatin, and it was fun trying to understand them, and the best part is they cant understand slovenian at all, but we can understand them a lot better for some reason.

So i am getting pretty excited about the work here, we got a new mission leader and that is a huge step, now we are going to be working together with the branch.

so..... i have something funny to tell you... this week, you guys will think me and my comp are crazy, hahaha but you know it the oldin times, when Brigham Young and those people went on missions, they would just stand on a box, and just testify and talk about the BoM and like a whole group of people would listen........ well you guys are going to laugh, but me and my comp are going that tommorow, you think we are joking but, we figure it cant be any worse then contacting!!! hahahahaha plus how cool of a story is that when we find people that really want to listen!!

me and my comp are doing good, he has a unique personality which is really fun.... really unique! but we get along and work hard.

But now i am going to go on a hike, cause today isnot snowing! so got to go, love you though!!!

LETTER: Sister Adrienne Schneider • January 6th, 2011

hola,

so, many funnny stories, i will try to get them out!

got my travel plans...leave jan. 17!!!! so excited!!!!!

i met someone that matt might know... a japanese lady named 'kyoko johnson' who is really nice and may know matt!!!

thank you for the package, pictures, socks, wow! i miss them! oh and my roommates thank you for the razor ;) dad thanks for your conversion story! i love it!!!! so amazing! thank you for coming to this gospel!!!!

with new elders coming in, the 'deaf' elders (elders signing, who aren't really deaf) have been pretending they are compltely deaf....it is so funny. i guess they were doing a magic trick to the new elders and instead of the elder who had chosen the card 'showing' the people his card', he only said it. so the elder 'heard' what the card was cuz he wasn't really deaf....haha so funny! they are gerat! i love my district too! the elders crack me up! in volleyball we have a peanut gallery that commentates!

i finally got a letter fromn elder schneider...so funny! the white envelope wasn't white at all! it was brown adn black...i think it was lost cuz it has been over a month that it was sent!!!!

we are considered the 'orphans' of the MTC, we have now had over 20 teachers because of the break and our teachrs are engaged...kinda a paing but i am sure it is a blesing as well...we get to hear a lot of different 'spanishes'

funny story: my old bishop (bishop barlow) came into the cafeteria and i went and said 'hi' to him....HE GAVE ME A HUG!!!! IN FRONT OF EVERYONE' and i was just shocked and turned bright red...he didn't even seem to notice. but the mexican elders and some hermanas from our district saw and were laughing and laughing so hard. i didn't know what to do!!!!! so funny though! it was the event that broke the ice with the mexican elders! they are the best and they learn so much englishso fast! i hope i learn spanish as fast as they are learning english! what a blessing in disguise! they always ask me if i have received any more hugs! way funny!

the language is coming, i lvoe teaching and i love the spirit! i love this gospel! it is so great... i am so excited to go teach the people of ARgentina!!!! 1 week baby!!!! can't wait!!!! the church is true and helps us to be happy! i am so happy! i love learning about the savior and the atonement....it is infinite and eternal and we need to be worthy! he will come again!!!!!

love you!!!

hermana schneider

LETTER: Elder Colton Nunley • January 6th, 2011

Subject: ARIZONA WOOT WOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh my heck haha so we went to the travel office yesterday and i told the lady that we are going to mexico but we should have our temp assignments in and she looked at me with an excited face and said ok hold on. so she went into the back and then came back and was like what mission in mexico are you going to and i told her chihuahua and so she said ok wait just a minute and came back again... ok so the suspense was killing me like for real i was so scared i was gonna go to utah haha. but then she said.. Elder Nunley? and i said Si. then she said i'm sorry but your temp assingment was canceled!!!!!!! Can you believe it?!?! but then like after an eternity of silence she said the mexican concelate called us and told us to cancle your temp assingment and they are going to be processing your visa this week! haha oh my heck i was so stoked i just started jumpin around and giving hugs to all the elders in the room haha so i will be in chihuahua in less than two weeks! she said that they'll call me down to the office when they get called and then i will travel up to salt lake and sign some papers and the boom the next day i'm off to mexico!!! haha oh my gosh you have no idea how awesome it was to hear that! cuz now we only have teachers every once in a while cuz we aren't supposed to be here and so i have a ton of personal study time which is SO effective i love it. but yeah i'm so pumped. but it must have just been for chihuahua that the visas are going through this week cuz like 25 other elders got temporary assignments to like ogden and salt lake south so i am so blessed!! oh my heck family you have no idea!! oh yeah so you've probably figured out by now that the arizona title is to throw you off :) but yeah i will get to call home again once i get my travel itinerary (or however you spell that) oh i forgot to anounce in my last email that i have finally hit one hundred poops in the MTC right now i'm sitting at a strong 110 and 111 is well on the way! oh my heck you have no idea how good this news is i will be in Chihuahua Mexico in less than two weeks! so Stoked!! i'd so much rather wait in the MTC for another 2 weeks than get a new call for like 2 months or something. :) so how is everything at home? i love getting your weekly letter its so nice getting mail thank you. lets see i always wanna tell you about the fun stuff that happens here but everything seems like one huge day and i never remember anything specificly. i'll try to start writing in my planner some of the things you may want to hear about :) oh yeah the reading the book of mormon and highlighting all the scriptures that mention Christ. i've found that when i do that i'm focusing a lot more on what each individual scripture is talking about cuz sometimes it refers to Jesus as him or he or sometimes other things that you have to think about. especially in the isiah chapters in nephi. oh yeah crazy story so when we went to go get my wart taken off i was highlighting the scriptures that talk about Christ in my pocket size book of mormon ( which is so awesome by the way!!) so yeah we got out of the shuttle and i put the BoM in my chest pocket and we had to walk down this like little alley thing which was way weird and creepy cuz we are in provo not downtown new york haha but this short latino man comes out from around the corner and says he is going to shoot me if we dont give him our money. so i threw my wallet to him and elder cluff just took off running. so i saw him pull out his gun and shoot at elder cluff. so me being the completely selfless person i am ;) jumped in the way of the bullet to take one for elder cluff and i could tell i got hit cuz my chest hurt but i wasnt bleeding or anything so i stood up and the latino was gone and elder cluff came back and i took out my book of mormon and it had taken the hit for me!! and guess where it stopped... right at the Isiah Chapters!!!!!!!!! haha ok so yeah i didn't get shot or anything that was all a joke sorry mom :) but i guess elder oaks tells that joke a lot of the time which is pretty funny cuz he always seems so dang serious all the time :)

que le vaya bien,

Elder Nunley

ps my all time favorite word in spanish is ojalá (ok so you put emphasis on the last ¨a¨) but it means like i hope, you hope, we hope, all that. and you use it like if someone asked me Hey elder nunley does your visa come this week i would say Ojalá que sí! which means like i hope that yes!! but yeah it just feels good rolling off the tounge so try it out lemme know what you think :)

LETTER: Elder Colton Nunley • January 4th, 2011

Subject: Buenos Cuerpos

i might find out tomorrow!!!! woot woot!! oh man we finally got to go to the temple again today it felt so good! they were closed for christmas and every thing so it's been 2 weeks maybe even three since last time we went but it feels like forever!! it felt so so good to go back i love it! dayton i hope everything went well in court for you. i hope that you remembered to let the judge know that you were the boss in the court room and if he/she wanted to say anything he/she would have to ask permission from you first haha that's sweet you saw munson!! there is actually an elder here who reminds me so much of munson he even looks a lot like him i will have to get a picture with him and send it home to you all. lets see so something crazy happened this week! an elder in our zone just straight up left the mtc! haha he told his companion he had to go to the bathroom and he told his companion just to wait in the room (this was in our residence halls so you can be away from you companion if you're both on the same side of the building) but yeah so elder neilson was waiting in his room for like 20 minutes and finally decided it had been long enough so he went in to check on him and he was gone we looked for him like all night but couldn't find him and then the police called and said they found him at his aunts house here in provo. pretty cooky if you ask me. but he's been like planning it for a while i guess. we know this because he is back here at the mtc haha and it is extremely awkward around him no lie. but he's going home though for good now. but man i am so excited to find out where i am going i feel like i am so much more prepared to get a calling this time than i was last time haha i'm so pumped!! oh so i went and got the wart removed and dad that lady you talked to was like the least patient person i've met in my life. like i'm grateful for her help but it was so funny to me and elder cluff the whole time we were there!! and when i could here you probably asking to talk to me or whatever you were doing we could tell she was using all of her strenght not to hang up on you haha it was pretty funny. but yeah everything here is going superbien i love it. can't wait to get out there!! its awesome because like i've gained a love for learning the gospel. OH that reminds me! i challenge as a family to get a book of mormon and read it together and highlight everysingle verse that talks about Christ or where it is Christ speaking.... so i started doing this and i noticed Jesus is referred to as Lord a lot so i asked my branch president how to know which is which and he said most of the time it will be Christ they are referring to. and then he showed me Mosiah 15. just like the first 8 verses are perfect for this. ok so we know that God and Christ are seperate but they have the same purpose. those first 8 verses talk about how when Christ was on earth EVERY SINGLE THING He did was the will of the Father so... He was basically acting as the Father. it says that His will was swallowed up in the will of the Father and how it was the Father that performed the atonement or something like that. but yeah i love learning new stuff like that its just so much fun. cuz now it just makes so much more sense how they are seperate but the same. and now that it is more simple for me to understand it will be easier to teach it.

LOVE YA'LL

Elder Nunley

Buenos Cuerpos

LETTER: Elder Brayden Schneider • January 3rd, 2011

haha dad so for your question, yes, we had to come in early on new years eve, and the next day i dont think we saw 1 person cause they all decided to stay in as a result of their hangovers! haha

So being DL isnt too bad, cause we only have 5 people in our district!

ok so, yoga.... it wont work out, we talked to president and he said that some Slovenian people think that yoga is a faith, so we wouldnt want to teach a different faith in our church. haha which makes sense but it was still a good idea! so me and my comp have thought of some pretty crazy sweet ideas for how to interduce the gospel to people, not only thru contacting. We made a list of about 20 different ideas that i would be willing to bet no missionaries have tried! hahaha but they are good! We already tried one, well we got book of mormons (and we are trying to flood maribor with them) and so we asked a hotel if we could put them in thier waiting room, they agreed, also we tried in hair cutting places, they also agreed. So we have a whole book that we wanted to place them in stores where people would read them. And most bosses are really nice to us!

So new years was crazy, the city was light up with fireworks! haha and president aloud us to stay up till 12, but i almost didnt make it, hahaha i felt like an old man! haha but then at 12, i was wide awake.

So me and my comp do some really cool things, every day we have a holiday or an event that we have to do. Like one day we fast, and one day we have a do something nice for the sisters, one day we have a culture lunch (visit somewhere cool during our lunch time) and one day we clean the appartment for lunch! haha fun huh? haha but it gives a little spice in the day so we dont fall into a habbit of doing the same thing.

but you wanna hear a cool goal we have, we are planning for 8 baptisms in Maribor, (you probable think its crazy) but we figure if we want some pretty crazy good numbers then we have to do some pretty crazy things. I will keep you updated on the ideas of how we are going to find and teach 8 people this transfer!!!!

well love you, and hope all is good!!!

starešina schneider

ps.... hahaha i was laughing so hard when i read adris letter, hahaha she said some elders are almost fluent in spanish! hahaha oh my, i have been here in slovenia for 1 year and i am not fluent! hahaha spanish is definaly for girls!!! hahahaha jk adri you could probably beat me up with your langauge skills! :) good work!!

pss... pray for colton nunley, i heard he might be serving in utah! :)