Mission Problems

Yep, those are my suit pants!

Another Great Week!

This week we had the opportunity to travel to Hamburg and participate in a mission tour. We were visited by Elder Johnson of the first quorum of the seventy, he taught us about teaching with the Spirit and making sure we are focusing on the spiritual growth of our investigators and not just going through the motions. The mission tour was also great because i got to see Elder Bretzing (my trainer) and a couple of other past companions.

Hildesheim is going great and so am I!

Here is a cool scripture I found in my studies this week.

Romans 8:16-17The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are children of God:
And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified together.

I actually was reminded of this scripture by an old man that I talked to on the streets a few months back, and it has been running through my head ever since.
I just want to share my short testimony that we are all children of God and that He loves us so much. So much that He sent His Son, even Jesus Christ to the earth for us, and it is through Him that we can return to our Father in Heaven. Right now it is my privilege as a missionary to get to share this message with everyone I see, and I know that it is true! All people can know that it is true, and all people can be reminded of it's truthfulness if we do our part.

Love Elder Schmalz

Doing our missionary thing...

Some of the sights out and about...

The Hildesheim Branch is Fantastic!

Well Hildesheim is doing great, and Elder Fitch is slowly getting better, so

we are starting to get some real work done here and it feels good.

 

Our Mexican Family!

This last week we were able to teach our friends from Mexico City and that is going great! It is cool to see that the Spirit can still work with us with our small amount of Spanish capability and that we are still able to teach and testify with power:)

 

The Hildesheim Branch is fantastic! They love to do misisonary work, and we love to do it with them! This Sunday was fun. Do to half of the branch being on vacation, we had the awesome oppurtunity to teach the youth Sunday school class. Sweet!

 

District Selfies

I don't know why, but writing has been super hard for me the last two months as you can probably tell. I don't have any drive to write anything...

But something that has really struck me again in the last few months is how important attitude is!

We cannot choose our circumstances, but we can always choose our attitude towards our circumstances.

I am having a great time, and everything is going great! 

Thank you for the emails and the prayers, as always,

Elder Schmalz

Fabulous Hair, P-Day Picture

 

Today we climbed to the top of the Bismarck Tower with the sister missionaries and two of their investigators from Italy and Denmark. As you can tell, my hair did not disappoint... I know, I know, I need a haircut!

 

The Bismarck Tower

 

LEARNING SPANISH!

So this week we received a member referral and it is a family form Mexico City and Elder Fitch and I have been cleared to learn how to teach in Spanish, so that will be interesting!

 

On a sad note, this week Elder Fitch's pneumonia came back so we spent a lot of time inside learning Spanish.

 

We did manage to get outside on one of the days this week and we were talking to people out on the streets and we talked to this one guy who was interested and he invited us inside, but it wasn't into his house, it was into a Muslim Mosque.... so that was pretty interesting. 

All in all we had a great week! 

Thank you for your prayers and emails!

Love Elder Schmalz

 

Standing in front of the statue of the King of Hannover

 Two soaking wet missionaries after the storm of the century! No wonder Elder Fitch's pneumonia keeps coming back!

 

P-Day Adventures Visiting Marienburg Castle

Selfie with the past me who had a beard...

 

 

Hildesheim

So this week we did A LOT of street contacting, and we had a lot of fun just talking to people and getting know the city.

 

That's me off in the distance talking to a guy with a dog. Thanks to the sisters for the stalker photo!

We actually were walking around and we found a basketball game going on, so we asked them if we could join..... Germans are not very good at basketball... It quickly turned into everyone against  the two american guys... we still won!

I'm having a great time. Elder Fitch and I get along fantastic! He is a farmer from Idaho, which makes sense as to why we get along so well. His dad trains rodeo horses and travels the world doing cowboy stuff.

 

In my travels I found this book in a book store called "The Man From Utah". Can you believe it, all the way in Germany?!

My new area is absolutely amazing. I can proudly say that I love Germany because of this city. This ward is like what I dreamed a cool ward would be like on my mission. I love it!

Here are a few shots from around Hildesheim. We will be visiting a castle later on today so I will be able to take some more pictures of this beautiful city. The symbol for Hildesheim is a rose so there are roses planted everywhere you look. It smells amazing here!

Thank you for the emails and the prayers!

Love Elder Schmalz!