Letter from 4/12/2010

HEY!!!!!!! Well tonight is transfer calls so we will see there is a great chance I will be heading out to a diff land. But it's all in the Lords hands.

So for my whole time I have been in Nogales i have had a feeling like there was someone or something I needed to do or find. Well the feeling has finally gone away. And My comp felt the same way. There was a couple called Lourdes and Roberto who we have been teaching english for about 6 weeks the rules for the class is that we are to teach english and that is all but if they ask a question then we can teach. So we set up a appointment to see them last night at their house. !!

We went there and charlado for awhile, then Roberto asked so what do you guys do at church. And that was all we needed we had been praying for something like this to happen and finally. We had the best week I have had in my whole mission. It felt like the Lord was blessing us for our patience. We taught for 2 hours in spanish and oh man. It was the strongest I have felt the spirit in a lesson. And it was for 2 hours they brought up tons of problems and we helped them resolve. And they said we never would allow andy one from a religion to teach us. We asked them why us. And they really did not know. I know !!!!!!! hahah. It was amazing. They are ready they have a date and they want to learn more. It was awesome. And I felt the gift of Interpretation the most I have ever felt it. I do not under stand every word but I knew exactly what there true problems were it was amazing. !!!!

Then we were biking and we stopped and talked to a lady on her porch a real old lady. And we taught her and she told us that she already believes and that she knows its true and there is no way we could lie. She recognized us as reps of the Lord. !!!!!1 Amazing. She has a date and will do great. She keeps talking about a mission that she has but she is not sure what it is. !!!!!!! She prays to God all day I swear. In our second lesson with her she would just break out into prayer about if something was true. IT was AWEsome!!!!!

The week was awesome. We felt our Lords hand so much this week and i saw really why I was supposed to be in Nogales. If i move all is well if not All is well. !!!!!

I love our Savior, he lives and he is real. HE is going before our face and he is guiding us. When we seek for his help and his spirit. He will direct our paths. If we are obedient we have his promise!!!!!!! God the Father lives he loves us so much and as we strive to love others he helps us feel more intensely the love he has for us. !!!! THis church is true and I have no Doubt in my mind any more that Jesus Christ DID suffer for us. The Atonement is real and working. Use it and be made clean. !!!! So we can have never ending happiness!!!! I love you all and my prayers are with you all always.

Elder SchenK

Letter from 4/5/2010

Wow well, some updates my health is doing ok, not sure what is going on but I have really had troubles for most of my mission, so maybe a bit too authentic mexican food.!!! All is going well other wise.

So this week went pretty good we rounded up some old junk bikes and got out and were just loving it talking with everyone. The truck is a blessing and a curse, so all is going great. I have not figured out why we are having such a tough time finding people who are ready everyone we find just is duds or and all the good ones we had go down to Mexico for several weeks at a time. i don't understand but like Uchtdorf said just wait, wait just a bit longer I am learning so much but just waiting. The Lord is very mindful of us and all of the questions we had were answered in conference. So I am so thankful for that he hears our petitions and pleas at night and gives us what we need.

on wed we had a bit of time before our meeting to go see a referral down town in a bit of a weird spot. As we turned onto the road both of us felt a horrendous feeling like I have never felt before we found the house and something about the house was really wrong. We recognized it as a warning. I have never had a impression so strong telling me not to do something. We turned around and left and a border patrol came driving by with his lights off. The next day I asked a member that works in that area at night and he said they were chasing a big group of smugglers right in that area. !!! Wow the promptings of the spirit. !!!

All is going great and we are being patient and waiting. We are working like crazy and talking with all the members and everyone we see!!!!

This work is awesome. And like our prophet said. " Be ye clean" there is no choice with sin. It is too dangerous to even poke at. We all heard it in conference. Don't go near it. Satan is after everyone and it is getting worse. We have to be in earlier at night now cause of some of the stuff that happened here. BE Clean and know that the Lord is there. He is there and he lives he rose on the third day and broke death. spiritual and physical.

Have a great week.

Elder SchenK

Letter form 3/29/2010

Well all is going just amazing here!!!! To start out the week ol’ Pickup and I went on exchanges and it was just a total ball. I love that Elder haha. But then on wednesday I Got some kind of weird stomach thing and I have been in pain for the whole week, and lots of bad side effects but wow last night we were teaching a lesson and my whole abdomen felt like it was inflating like a balloon. And I could not speak spanish at all cause it hurt so bad so I pray that I could just make it though the lesson cause it was in a member home and all.

And as soon as it was time to invite her to be baptized, my Spanish flowed like the best I have ever had, and she accepted the date and it was awesome. And then we got done and boom I was in pain, hahaha THe Lord hears prays and everything I am finding out more and more hhahaha.

All is well, we had a lesson with a great kid and he told us about the santos and all that give and about how as long as you believe in God your own way your good. !! Oh so we have been working on spirit driven boldness, And boy did I set him straight. People don't understand There is only one way. Through Jesus Christ This is his church!!!! Wow it was a very spiritual lesson. But he rejected it all. Very sad.

The lady that we found a few weeks ago that has not been to church for 6 months we walked down and picked her up and she was all ready to go. She felt the spirit so strong. And she knows she needs to change stuff in her life. Like the boy friend she lives with and the temptation of everything bad. And then she wonders why her house is a total spook house. So we got to teach her about how satan works.!! So that was good and we really want to walk in that house and grab the lazy boy friend and throw him out and clean the whole place out.

The world has a grasp on these people so strong. And breaking it is very tough but the Lord is always right there if people will open there heart and try a little the world looses all of it's power. People wonder why their lives are wrecks wow it''s not hard to see. They are living in complete filth and sin and satan is running there lives.

Everything is going great here. The border is really getting worse everyday. And shots are going over the fence and all kinds of good stuff. But I know that I am protected I don't worry about it for one second. It is awesome. This church is true and it is rolling. We will hear from our Prophet and find out what else we needed to be warned of . He is a watchman on the tower. He receives revelation for everyone in the World. Heed the voice of warning and go on with faith with nothing lacking. Follow him. And as Christ says " Venid a Mi"

I love you all and keep strong in Christ. He has overcome death and made our ways possible to return with our Heavenly FAther Otra vez!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pray REad and Go to church and you will be protected!!!!

Elder WhipSchenK

Letter form 3/22/2010

Hey everyone, well so after our wild deal last week. We went right to the Lord and really searched for inspiration. !! And it came like a flood. It was amazing, direct revelation at its most pure form for us. hahaha. several times through out the day we would both just received a new thing we needed to try. It was amazing.

So we prayed about where we needed to go contact people, and we decided to walk a ways to a members house and back, talking to everyone we see. So we were going along, about 30 min in a Lady comes running up to us yelling, and she says” I have been looking for the church for 6 months I am a member and I did not know there was a church here” Crazy wow, hahaa so we got her all set up and we are going to move all her records over and get her coming to church. We visited her and she is living in a real rough situation, so we are going to get her back. Terrible what can happen with just a few months of not going to church or reading the scrips.!!

Then we had some real amazing lessons with some o f the less actives here, amazing and we are going to work to bring them back to the fold. I am pumped we had one of the best weeks we have ever had!!!

We had zone conference and all the revelation we had received was confirmed there, they talked about everything that we had received. !!!! Crazy it has been real good. !!!! They showed us a really sweet motivational speaker at the conference and he has no arms or legs and he talked about how many times we get pushed over or something happens and we are on the ground, but we get up. The Lord is there to lift us up when we ask, he will always help us, I have felt this very real in the mission. I have felt just destroyed by the work and by everything. And then when we ask he lifts us and we grow even more. And a other thing the guy said was it is all about how we finish.!!! You can run a race as hard as you can until the finish you will be tired. But if you run kinda slow and then go all out at the end you are still tired. So like we always said “Go Big Or Go HOme” !!! Very real. I thought it was only for snowboarders to say that hahaahha.

I was reading in Jesus the Christ and a spot really stuck out to me. it was about our pre-mortal existence. When our father in heaven said, that we could have a Body and be tested, it says in Job 38:7 we shouted for Joy and sang. Think about how amazing it really was for us. we were that much closer to being like our father in heaven. !!!! God has said he will give us all that he hath nothing being held back. When we follow all the commandments and all !!!!! He has promised us all.!!!! Wow
What a blessing and we know what we need to do to achieve it. !!! How awesome!!

I love you all and pray for your success in all things!!

Elder SchenK

Letter from 3/15/2010

Well, there was a real awesome thing that happened this week. So there was this lady named Carla that we me and a other elder found while on splits and she was the worker for the good cologne hook up. Well after a bit she started to take the lessons with the other elders. So they would invite all the elder over for diff stuff it was great. Then her sister lily came from cali and visited for their moms b day. Well we got to know them real good and they loved learning about the gospel more and more. It is awesome. We got to teach her many times. Well after a bit she prayed about a bap date. and it was for this week end. She went up for a bit to visit her sis and they both came back to be baptized and Lily asked me to baptize her, cause she will be going back to cali. But it was my first time doing the baptism and it was so awesome.!!!!! Way awesome and they are going to be great members of the Ward. !@!!!!!! it was so amazing to see them change and they both talked about how happy they are and they can’t even stand it. !!!!WAy cool they will be friends for life and they invited us out to cali after our missions to visit with all the elders.!!!

ANd also it was missionary week in sac meeting. And all of us elders sang Bring the world his truth . !! Wow it was amazing.!!!!

Well so, this week started out great and all was going great. And then, me and my comp had a little talk about how we can rely on the Lord more and learn more what he wants from us. And then, wow he heard that prayer!!!! and he decided to humble us tons. We had every date fall and every one of our investigators fell off the face of the earth. Wow this was a tough week and when the Lord wants you to learn something he will teach it. And when you pray and ask for things he always hears !!!!! This has been a real testimony builder and a real test, I love this work and the Lord is really in control more then I thought. We have done everything we can and now it really comes down to more trust and reliance on the Lord!!!!!! I am glad I am learning these lessons all quick and in such a short amount of time but it is amazing, the Lord is blessing us all so much, our mission is flying, and When we all put our full trust in him and obey him perfectly this mission will double and triple it’s baptisms, like Elder Kikuchi said 3 weeks before I came into the mission.!!!

I have no doubt that it will and can happen. But just like 2 Nephi 4 says at the last 10 verses, my joy is in the Service of the Lord, this is the real joy to be able to be serving him everyday, the baptisms will in his time. This is a real testimony to me now.

Family I am so pumped to see the blessings in all of your lives. My life has been changed and blessed I am loving this so much, MAy the Lord always bless you and keep you safe is my prayer, rely on him and yoke your self with him completely !!!!!!! This church is the Only and True church of Jesus Christ. In a few weeks we will here revelation from his servants!!! I can’t wait for this. Pray always that you may come off conquerer and that you can be protected and kept and saved as the chosen and Elect.!!! I love you all and have a great week!!

Love

Elder SchenK