Happy Birthday!!

  Hey Mom was it you who sent the 2 Thomas Monson books? I started reading the pathway to perfection. It is so good. I am in Cork and this place is so incredible. took a lot of pictures, but I forgot my camera chord (of course). Cork has a branch of about 60 members. Funny branch.

         This place is a lot warmer than Scotland, and is not going to rain as much. We are teaching some people from all over the world. Cork is very similar to Galway. I already love this area. My companion is Elder Garrick from Utah. He is so great and is a hard worker. There are two other teams of Elders in Cork. Elder McDaniel is with Elder Smith. Elder Smith is from Australia and is a chiller. The other team is Elder Peacock (from England) and Elder Selander (Utah). I know Elder Peacock really well from Edinburgh. Then there is a sister team in a place called Tralee. There are the other missionaries in our district.

       Today we will going to some wildlife park to see some Animals. I am probably too excited to go. 

Love you! Cant wait for mothers day!

Ps. I dont feel 20.

Elder Scholz

Back to Ireland!!

Hey Mama,

   I am moving again. Going back to Ireland this time, going to the magical land of Cork. I will be training another missionary, but he has been out one transfer already. I am really looking forward to going to Ireland. One of the best parts as well is going to be moving with Elder McDaniel. He is going to Cork as well! It will be nice to be around him still. Cork is in the south of Ireland so it should be warmer there! This could possibly be my final area. I have heard so many great things about cork. We will be moving on Thursday! It will be weird to go over the water again on the ferry. I am hoping for great things. 

I will be missing my Birthday by 2 days. Hopefully we can do something good in Cork!!

Have a great week!!!

Goodbye to friends in Irvine!

Knock Knock...

Hey Mama so sorry for the no email. Rough week that week. My comp is struggling. All is well though.

Moves call is this weekend. Things are flying by. That is so good to hear about Taggert, it is a shame that I will be missing him though. He will do so good! This week was pretty rough as well. Upwards of 38 finding hours. It is like I am talking to the same 10 junkies. The district and zone are doing really well though. I have done 4 baptismal interviews in the past 2 weeks and have 2 more this week. Love meeting the people before they commit themselves to follow the savior. Really get to know people in like 25 minutes. 

   I will miss the opportunity to get to know so many people. I do kinda want to move. This place is just too small. We got a referral from the Ayr Sisters. She is so golden. Knowing my luck I will move before she gets Baptized. Heavenly Father needs to keep me humble.

    I am pretty sure that big Jake Taylor got called to Lisburn Portugal

Love you Mama Hope you have a great week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy...Spring?

Hey Mama 

We are looking forward to general conference as well! Irvine is good. The past days have been sunny and the people are happy(ish). This is a pretty rough area. A lot of drugs and crime. A man came up to me and started a conversation by saying, "you know why I hate the mormons". It was an interesting conversation. We are teachings loads these days but we do have a dinner appointment every evening this week. 

    Last week we got some snow which was crazy!!! But now we are repping the short sleeves even though it is still like 50 degrees. 

    We have some big plans for this area so we are hoping for a great week!!

Love you all and enjoy conference,

A little dusting of Spring snow

Some icy water!!

Glad elders can't swim on their missions...

Spiritual Thought or Cooking?

Hey Mama,

    Had a pretty strange week. Very cold and rainy everyday until Sunday. Sunday was very warm. Didn't wear a jacket, for the first time in like 6 months. Hopefully that is an indication for the coming weeks! The forecast doesn't look like it though.... Crazy to hear that Chase is back! Things are changing a lot. 

    We had an area conference for the northern Europe area. Had some fantastic speakers with some very motivational talks. We were able to use one of the talks in a lesson we had last night. We are teaching some cool people, however not as many people as we would like. Have moves call this weekend, so crazy how fast this transfer went by. Kind of hoping for some change, keeps it fresh.

Funny story time, went to a dinner appointment at Bishop's house. Always a great laugh at "Castle Cunningham" had a great dinner and it was our turn do the spiritual thought. But, the sisters accidentally texted Bishop instead of us saying "Hey you have the spiritual thought this time." 

So bishop was all like... okay, but you have the cooking next time! it was a good laugh.

Hope you all have a great week

Love you 

Elder Scholz

What Makes You Happy?

Hey Mama,

    Had a pretty good week. We spent a lot of the week talking to people on the street. You meet a lot of interesting people when you ask questions like, what makes you happy?

   We had dinner with the Calder family again this week. They have some great music talent. They put on a concert, it was really cool. There are some really good families here, they take good care of us.

      We are teaching a few Muslims and we were able to go and watch a prayer service last week. It was very interesting.

       We are continuing to strengthen the member relationships with the missionaries. 

Love you all and hope you have a great week.  

Elder Kai Scholz

Attack of the Giant Bunnies!

Hey all. Had a pretty fun week!

   Last P-day we looked around the Paisley Abbey There are some interesting gargoyles around the outside. Tuesday we had district meeting and we talked about Baptismal Invitations. It went well and we were able to practice together. Elder Calton is a good friend of the Beestons, he is in our District as well. We talk about that little D-Beest all the time.

      After that I went on exchanges with Elder McDaniel! It was super fun to serve with him again. He is doing very well, he was well trained.

    We were also able to meet with some of our funny friends.

  We were hoping to have a huge day at church, but no one ended up showing up. That was pretty gutting<--- That is what they say here.

We are headed to a funeral later today in the rain. Should be an exciting P-day.

Friendly Neighborhood Gargoyle

Elder Scholz with Elder Calton

What do they feed those things?

Can I keep them?