1) Congratulations on the huge attendance at church last week!!! How did things go today?
2) That is wonderful that you have so many baptism dates scheduled!!! How are they all doing?
3) I loved hearing about your solution to the mean barking dog problem! That made me laugh out loud! Does the Force and/or Harry Potter spells still seem to be effective?
4) I remember that the Shiprock Ward had a pretty good Halloween party last year. Any party plans for either of your branches this year?
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Mom,
1/2) Things were pretty good today! Cody was able to make it with his grandma again to church and a member we have been working with to get the Aaronic Priesthood, Leroy, made it also! And a recent convert who had missed church for about two months made it yesterday for the first time, so that was good. Tiffany unfortunately didn't make it because her son got sick and they took him to the Shiprock hospital on Sunday morning. We are looking at organizing a marriage for her and her husband to make it official so she can get baptized and she's pretty excited to get baptized on the 29th! We haven't been able to see Rose yet since we set the date so hopefully we'll catch her soon!
3) Yes, it is highly effective! Usually dogs are "rock trained" so if you bend down like you're going to pick up a rock to throw at them they run away but they always come back. When we cast spells at them they seem to be super confused and they leave us alone after that haha.
4) Not yet, there was a Halloween party at the preschool in Toda (the same building church is at) but it was a family thing not church sponsored.
That's pretty crazy, the church building is going to be an exclusively YSA building? That's awesome that Lauren and Jaymee were in the Primary presidency with everything! How long ago did each of them get baptized? Is the pink chapel going to be a stake center for a YSA stake or anything or is the YSA ward still under the jurisdiction of our stake?
Sounds like there will be a lot of family for me to meet when I get back home! I'll be excited to get to know them all. That's good to hear that the Civic is still in the family. Do Nate and Natalie still have the maroon Civic that I drove?
This past week we had a zone training meeting where Elder Vicnesky and myself gave a training on "Being the Message of Jesus Christ" and about how important it is that we as members and missionaries are the message of Jesus Christ so that it might be able to shine forth unto the world. I feel like that is the theme behind the Meet the Mormons movie that came out, that it's less about the doctrine that we have that will attract others to us, but about the people we are. As Elder Robbins said to us when he visited our mission "Between 'being' and 'doing', 'being' is the weightier of the two verbs." Also, in his phenomenal conference talk delivered this past conference he talked about how to know Christ was to know the Father, and that they were in perfect unity as Father and Son. Our objective as disciples of Christ should be to know us is to know Christ himself. "Therefore I would that ye should be perfect even as I, or your Father who is in heaven is perfect." 3 Nephi 12:48 Also, I love a passage that I came across recently in regards to this. 2 Corinthians 4:3-6. I do know that as we strive to be like Christ the power of the Atonement comes into our lives. Go forth and be the message of Jesus Christ!
Love,
Elder Schaelling
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