Missionary Cookies

Sounds like an Incredible week. Weeks are just flying by like crazy. Next transfer I will be hitting the year mark! 

We have had a great week. It was crap weather but we found some really great people. We are hoping to have a baptism in a couple of weeks. We had a miracle find. Mainly because we found a Filipino lady in Derry?! Luckly there are a few Filipinos in the ward. We are so excited for the success we are seeing. But, moves call is sneaking up on us. We should be staying but no one knows for sure what is going to happen. We are really setting this area on fire even the downpour of rain cant stop us. We got to teach young mens yesterday in church and it was pretty fun. I remember when the missionaries used to sit in on our class when we wouldnt have a teacher. That was a reminder that I am one of those people that wear a name badge and are from some foreign place. 

   Pray for us and those that we are teaching.

Oh and we made cookies for our neighbors and they were absolutely awful.

Have a great week, 

Love you all

Elder Scholz

Missionary Cookies...Yummy!

A new perspective

"Cuz I'm proud to be an American..."

A mural in Derry

Pigeon Whisperer

Mama,

   Hey thank you for the Talk you sent me I have heard it and wanted to read it again. I used it when I spoke in sacrament meeting. Elder McDaniel and I are working harder and harder now that we know our area pretty well. We are teaching everybody and are looking for those who are prepared. On Saturday we went and bought an ice cream cone from this nice lady in an Ice Cream truck. We had a good chat with her and she said she was pretty interested. She told us to come back and see her. So yesterday we went back to the van and taught her through the window and she loved it. We are definitely seeing the miracles especially when we talk to and teach everyone. 

   Elder McDaniel is like a weird animal whisperer, it must be an Idaho thing. He was able to telepathically control the pigeons in the city center. Everyone loved it and were taking pictures. Haha  Good times.

I hope everyone is doing good at home.

Love you and have a great week.

Elder McDaniel...Pigeon Whisperer

They wear their ties short there in Ireland...

Back To Ireland!

Mama

I am so proud of all of the boyz. There is a common theme that all missionaries that come from Southern California are automatically beasts. 

I AM MOVING AGAIN!?

I am on a new assignment. I will be whitewash training into a closed area.  

I am a little nervous, but I am very excited. I leave tonight for Edinburgh, pick up the baby and I am going to LondonDerry. It is a pretty big city in Northern Ireland. I am going to the third country of my mission. 

I was not expecting the move however I am totally excited to train a new missionary. 

We will be figuring out a new area and that should be fun.

I am excited and I will let you know how it is

Elder Scholz

The District I am leaving...

Featuring the Burning Bush

Missionary Family

Hey mama,

  Glasgow is going great! This transfer flew by! This Sunday is our moves call! It feels like i have been here 5 days not 5 weeks! We are pretty busy so that is why it went quickly. We have had a busy week. We had a conference in Edinburgh with all the missionaries in Scotland, it was fun to see all my past companions and friends. Got  to see all my previous companions (except for Elder Blosil he is home). We heard from a native Scotsman, Elder Herbertson of the Seventy. He shared some funny mission stories and we learned a lot about missionary work.

   Sunday we had a great day at church. We had a few of our friends there and it was testimony meeting. One of the people we brought to church bore his testimony. It was a cool experience. He then invited everyone in the ward to his baptism on the 27th and asked for advice. 

   Sunday evening we went back to Edinburgh for a fireside in the mission home. The previous mission president spoke a lot about the Book of Mormon. We had a couple recent converts and some investigators there as well.

We had a pretty exciting week and I am anxious about moves, but whatever happens, happens.

Have a great week!

Elder $cholz   

Old missionary companions/flatmates

My trainer, Elder Williams

The Salinas Missionary Family

Gift of Tongues

Hello Mama

Is the world still on fire? 

I am doing well, but I would be doing a lot better if I spoke fluent Chinese. There are so many Chinese students that are curious and want to learn about God. It can sometimes be hard to teach them the concept of a loving Heavenly Father when they have no concept of God. They are good though. They love to come to play ping pong at the church on our P day. It is a good way to teach to there interests.

Crazy that everyone is Leaving on there missions! I am so excited for Braden and I will be emailing him pretty soon while he is out in the field.

Funny Story:

On Friday we were teaching lesson at the church building and we had to leave quickly and I left the keys in the room we were using. We came back 2 hours later to get them and they were gone. The building was all clean so we assumed that someone picked it up while they were cleaning.

We called the bishop and asked him and he said that he found them and locked them in his drawer. Those keys had the apartment keys and a church key. So we then stayed the night at the zone leaders and we were just going to get a member of the bishopric to open the drawer at the baptism we had on Saturday. Then went to the baptism and the 1st Counselor did not have the keys... so we stayed the night again at the zone leaders. We then went to church the next day with no suit and got the keys from the bishop. 

Good times.

Hope you have a good week!

Elder Scholz


July  25 2016

Mama,

That fire looks intense. Is it way worse than the fires we get every year? Are you going to be evacuated? 

We just finished a great week this week. We found new people to teach and we had a couple of our friends come to church with us. We have a few good chinese friends, that we are teaching and they took us around the Glasgow university. It looks like the Harry Potter school. Our friend took us to a hidden computer lab that was completely empty, and as we walked in he said in his hilarious broken engrish. "This is my Kingdom." It was funny.

However he will be going to Germany for a few weeks. 

The weather has been quite crazy. It has been warm and rainy so there has been a few thunderstorms. 

One of the shortcuts we use to get around in the Botanic Gardens near our flat. It is a pretty big garden area with a few walking trails. It is quite cool to go from a concrete jungle to an actual jungle just to walk home.

Have a great week!

Elder Scholz 

Tourists Galore

Hiya,

   Spencer is gonzo, that is soo crazy. He will have a great time! We are doing good work here in Glasgow. It is fun trying to navigate around on buses and walking. I am trying to learn my way around this place. It has been an adventure so far. 

    We cover a massive portion of the city, and we have the city center and all 3 major universities. We speak to a lot of tourists though so that can sometimes be hard. We meet all sorts of interesting people. 

I am in a ward of about 80. It is a pretty big change for me to have 8 missionaries in a ward with me. It is fun to see each other. We get to meet the people they are teaching as well. 

   Today for P-day we are going to play ping pong with a bunch of people so it should be fun!

Hope you all have a great week.

Elder Scholz

Public transportation in Glasgow...?

The bustling metropolis

Birds eye view of Glasgow

Glasgow...The Melting Pot!

Hello Everyone!

     This has been one of the most eventful weeks for a while. Moved into a big city that has 14 missionaries running around here. There are 6 missionaries in our ward. We bus everywhere and there are so many diverse people here. We are teaching Chinese, Indian, African, Brazilian, English, and Scottish. Yesterday we baptized a man named S who actually lives in the zone that I just came from. However, there are no missionaries in his area so we were teaching him. He is really great and was excited to be baptized.

   We went to church with him so I have not even been to the ward I am serving in (Springboig Ward). 

We are teaching a lot of great people and are excited to find many more new people.

I hope you all have a great week, love you

Elder Scholz

Elder Parson, S, and Elder Scholz