Hellooooooo!

Don't have tons of time today, but I'll try to update you on the highlights of this week

OH!  First, HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAR-SCHMIG!!!! I'm so sorry I didn't say anything last week, I was so out of it, but I feel terrible!  I'm sending you a letter today.  Second, HAPPY BIRTHDAY ZAKKY-SCHMERG!!!! I have also written you a letter that I will be sending today!

I love the pics and everything about Jared's birthday! :)  I think that's awesome what you all did.  How's he look in the boat?  Oh!  I found my mission song this week.  It's called, "All Times, All Things, All Places."  It's on lds.org/youth and it's the BEST!  Oh, mom, there are a handful of Kenneth Cope songs on lds.org/youth as well, just fyi.  Anyway, good song.

Lino passed his baptismal interview this week!!!  He's so prepared and we just love him so much! :)  He's getting baptized this Sunday!  When he heard that we knock on doors to find people, he let us know that he'd find prepared people for us. :)  The three Thanksgiving dinners were crazy and awesome and delicious.  Um...I'm not sure what really happened this week.  I'm kinda running out of time.  But we're teaching some great people.  OH!  Hermana Tominobu's husband came to church yesterday!  He's been inactive for 20 years!! Super exciting! 

Oh, and we got to clean the roof of the temple!  My companion got bleach all over her pants.  I got almost no bleach on me.  Um, I honestly don't really know what to say.  I'm tired and I'm writing you all letters, so I'm kind of tired on the letter/email writing front.  But, this week was good!  Oh, and the new initiative for Christmas came out.  Watch it and SHARE IT with your friends. :D

Anyway, I know this Church is true.  I've been thinking a lot about the Atonement and love this week.  I know that no one will ever be too far for the Atonement to reach.  I just want everyone to know that our Heavenly Father loves them!  You are loved!  You have more worth than you know!  Wherever you are, whatever you're doing, you can always turn to your Heavenly Father and rely on the sacrifice that your brother, Jesus Christ, made for you.  You, individually.  I love you all!  LOVE YOU!!!!

Love,
Hermana Gneiting

FAMILYYYYYYYY!!!!

This week was packed!  So many things happened.  But first off, I've
been thinking about you all a lot and I love you all tons.  I love the
pictures and seeing how you all are doing.  Glad that things are good
on the home front. :)

Okay.  So, last Monday.  First off, my comp and I got Jeremiah's.
Jeremiah's is this place where you get ice cream and/or italian ice.
It's basically happiness in a cup.  I got pumpkin pie and vanilla.  I
don't remember which was the ice cream and which was the italian ice.
But regardless, it was delicious!  We also ended up dropping another
investigator Monday night, so at that point, we had almost no one to
teach. Only one person that we were hopeful about.

Tuesday was temple service, and that's always fun.  And then, we saw a
couple less active members.  I met Bill!!  I talked about him last
week.  We really want to get him on a mission.  He's so cool.  His
parents are members of our ward and they are super nice!  And he has
two (or three?) younger brothers, too.  Such a nice family and we
brought Carlos to that lesson and they really seemed to hit it off.
Because they both work at Universal, too.  And then there's a couple
in our ward.  The Dengs.   Anyway, they're also really nice, and they definitely
still have belief in the church, we just gotta get them back!

Wednesday was Zone Conference.  Zone Conference is always fun.  Anyways, so Zone Conference was pretty boss.  Learned a TON.  An Elder here, Elder Johnson gave a crazy good training about prayer.  One part I loved is that he said just by getting
on our knees, we're acknowledging that we need our Heavenly Father's
help.  So, if we don't really know what to say, just hit our knees and
wait until the words come.  I could spend a whole lot of time talking
about Zone Conference, but that was the highlight.

Thursday we dropped another couple people.  But we got to see Carlos
Melo that night!  He's not the Carlos that calls us his angels.
That's Carlos Cruz.  Carlos Melo fed us brazilian bbq last time we
visited.  Basically, any time we want to go over and teach a lesson,
he prepares a full on meal for us!  This time was salmon and some
veggies and stuff.  SO GOOD!  He said next time, he'll make the steak
again.  I preferred the steak, but Sister Shelley likes the Salmon
better.

Friday was weekly planning. And that night, we met with LINO!!!!  The Elders contacted
us and said they had an investigator that was in our area and he
really wanted to be taught and had already been to church once or
twice.  So, we visit him and he's awesome!!  He's so solid. This is
what happens when you trust in the Lord. You drop all the people who
aren't super prepared, and amazing people just fall in our laps. :)
 Maria has already read True to the Faith. So, we wanted to give her
something really solid to read. So, we tell her about Jesus the
Christ. By the next day, she was on chapter 30...she's so cool!

Sunday, we had a concert!!! Marvin Goldstein and Vanessa Joy came and
performed. Brother Goldstein can play piano like a BOSS!! And the
whole mission was there.  So, I got to see Hermana Jones and Hermana
Webb. Hermana Ferreyra (the RS President of Windy Ridge) sat next to
me and I love her. And Maria came and brought her husband! They got
married a couple weeks ago. We really think he felt the Spirit. It was
amazing. They performed For Good from Wicked. I loved it.

Anyway, overall, really good week! Lots of miracles. AMAZING concert!!
Great comp talk!  LOVE YOU ALL!!!!! Miss
you like crazy!

Love,
Hermana Gneiting

New Blog for Kyrie

Ok.  Since I'm pretty much the world's worst at forwarding emails, I set up this blog for Kyrie so you can read all about her mission experiences in Florida.   Hopefully this way it will reach everyone who wants to read about what she's doing.  She loves you all!

Gaylene