10.26.2014
[note: Elder Schroath sent us some pictures yesterday. One of the pictures showed a lot of blood on their apartment floor. I asked him what happened and at the beginning of his email he told us about it. In case you were wondering what he was talking about!]
hahahaha okay first of all it wasn't my hand...it was Elder Fermanis'
and just a glass light shade fell on his arm. But it is fine now. It
was just a lot of blood!
So this week was another week of improving!! We got 12 full lessons
this week compared to last weeks 7. We are doing better and better
being able to plan and make time for lessons.
We are teaching a girl named Mienta, who should be baptized on
Saturday. She is making a lot of progress and the members she lives
with have a really good influence on her.
We also found a couple new investigators this week, one named Mymy,
who was almost baptized a long long time ago and now she really wants
to get back into church. The other is Mito, who actually lives right
across the church. he is quiet, but has never really gone to church
before and doesn't really have a religious background which isn't
normal for Chuuk. So it will be fun teaching him from scratch!
Other than teaching, we did a lot of fixing cars. Elder Plocher and I
probably changed 10+ tires this week...every truck had tire problems.
We are eagerly waiting the "new" trucks.
Oh, the senior couple came in as well! They are awesome!! So eager to
work and even learn the language!! They are super loving too and are
really going to help out the zone with holidays and skyping families
and all that jazz, so they will be a huge help!! They also told us
that the Book of Mormon in Chuukese (full version) will be here in
January. They will have a huge meeting for it. I am so excited. It
will bring that many more miracles to Chuuk!
This next week we go to Guam again, so I am excited to go and learn.
We had a rough October..only 8 baptisms. but we are gearing up for
November and we should have a killer month. So stay tuned. Elder
Plocher and I continue to work hard a motivate the zone to reach our
full potential so we can get a stake here. We got 108 people to church
yesterday!! And Sammy the boat driver and his whole family (and people
at his house) came again! I am so excited for Chuuk! I know this
church is true!! I love you all!
Elder Schroath
[note: I also asked Elder Schroath how many coconuts he ate per day while on Udot]
oh the coconut question...well when I was in Udot it was probably at
least 2 a day. Haha some days like 8. they are the best.
[email to Dad]
so yes, we were able to get in some teaching this week, even though I
still feel like it isn't enough. That is probably the hardest thing
about being a zone leader. It is really good to help out all the other
areas, but I wish I could just take a week and focus on only our area
and it would blow up! We did an exchange in Fono last week which is
cool. It is a new island so there are lots of people investigating in
the church. Do you remember Cooper? The ex-senator from Udot where we
would charge our phone and stuff? Well he moved to Weno and is now
taking coming to church seriously since there is actually a building
and he is going to bring miracles to that branch. He is bringing all
sorts of friends and stuff, he should be baptized on November 8! Well,
that is my miracle! Love you dad!
[Elder Schroath sent us a ton of pictures. Most of them are from February 2014-June 2014. I will upload some to the blog this week, and also add some to facebook.]
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Monday, October 20, 2014
A pretty good week!
10.19.2014
hey!
so this week was pretty good! Way busy. But that is normal. I am just
super happy to be here in Chuuk and not in Guam.
Everything is on the up and up in chuuk. Especially sacrament
attendance which is awesome for trying to become a stake. There are a
couple areas struggling, but most of the areas are doing super good.
It is nice not having to worry about areas just because we have huge
trust in the senior companions. We are looking to have a huge November
for baptisms.
Um enjoying being a Zone Leader? I guess there are some perks. Haha I
get mail right away. We get to go see most of the areas a lot. Take
lots of boat rides. Um we get to work with President and the APs a lot
and they are awesome. And just being able to help out the zone with
whatever is needed makes me feel good. But on the other hand it is a
lot of running around doing this and that. We only got like 7 lessons
in our area this week just cuz we don't have time. But, out of our
little teaching we got 4 less actives at church and 1 investigator at
church. Her name is Mienta and some of her siblings are members and
she has already been to church a ton. Hopefully she will be baptized
next week!
Days are so much different than being in Neao ha just because it is a
lot less teaching. It is hard to get close with people in Mwan because
we never get to go visit them! There are a couple families we visit
now and then though. The family across the street is amazing and our
boat driver, Sammy, fishes for a living so he always gives us a big
fresh tuna if he goes! I love that family. And tons of youth stay over
there because they go to school here in Weno (no high school on their
island of Romalum) so it is cool being able to help them prepare for
missions and stuff.
Next transfer is in just over two weeks. We go back to Guam a week
from Saturday for another meeting. Oh, other good news, the BoM in
Chuukese (full version) is done!! Just final revisions or something
then they will print it and send it! I am so excited. On Wednesday our
new senior couple (Hardy's) will fly in so it will be great to meet
them! We gotta make a good impression on them so maybe they will feed
us sometimes:)
Thank you for sending conference, I am looking forward to reading
them. I love you guys! Thanks for writing!
Love, Elder Schroath
Hey dad!
It is good to hear from you, General Conference really was awesome. I
think I will be able to watch it again here in Chuuk too haha. The
zone is way good! No obedience problems so it is awesome. Besides
Mienta (baptismal candidate) we have a kid named Detor, he came to
church while we were in Guam I guess. We have some people we have
talked to, but we haven't been able to meet with them quite yet. We
should have more time this week though to teach.
That is too bad for BYU...rough times with so many injuries. They
probably just weren't in it mentally! Or they need more faith to be
healed ha and too bad for Centennial too. So with you guys selling the
burb, are you gonna get another car too?? haha. crazy but I am down to
7 and a half months. That is going by too fast. I know the church is
true! Love you!
Elder Schroath
hey!
so this week was pretty good! Way busy. But that is normal. I am just
super happy to be here in Chuuk and not in Guam.
Everything is on the up and up in chuuk. Especially sacrament
attendance which is awesome for trying to become a stake. There are a
couple areas struggling, but most of the areas are doing super good.
It is nice not having to worry about areas just because we have huge
trust in the senior companions. We are looking to have a huge November
for baptisms.
Um enjoying being a Zone Leader? I guess there are some perks. Haha I
get mail right away. We get to go see most of the areas a lot. Take
lots of boat rides. Um we get to work with President and the APs a lot
and they are awesome. And just being able to help out the zone with
whatever is needed makes me feel good. But on the other hand it is a
lot of running around doing this and that. We only got like 7 lessons
in our area this week just cuz we don't have time. But, out of our
little teaching we got 4 less actives at church and 1 investigator at
church. Her name is Mienta and some of her siblings are members and
she has already been to church a ton. Hopefully she will be baptized
next week!
Days are so much different than being in Neao ha just because it is a
lot less teaching. It is hard to get close with people in Mwan because
we never get to go visit them! There are a couple families we visit
now and then though. The family across the street is amazing and our
boat driver, Sammy, fishes for a living so he always gives us a big
fresh tuna if he goes! I love that family. And tons of youth stay over
there because they go to school here in Weno (no high school on their
island of Romalum) so it is cool being able to help them prepare for
missions and stuff.
Next transfer is in just over two weeks. We go back to Guam a week
from Saturday for another meeting. Oh, other good news, the BoM in
Chuukese (full version) is done!! Just final revisions or something
then they will print it and send it! I am so excited. On Wednesday our
new senior couple (Hardy's) will fly in so it will be great to meet
them! We gotta make a good impression on them so maybe they will feed
us sometimes:)
Thank you for sending conference, I am looking forward to reading
them. I love you guys! Thanks for writing!
Love, Elder Schroath
Hey dad!
It is good to hear from you, General Conference really was awesome. I
think I will be able to watch it again here in Chuuk too haha. The
zone is way good! No obedience problems so it is awesome. Besides
Mienta (baptismal candidate) we have a kid named Detor, he came to
church while we were in Guam I guess. We have some people we have
talked to, but we haven't been able to meet with them quite yet. We
should have more time this week though to teach.
That is too bad for BYU...rough times with so many injuries. They
probably just weren't in it mentally! Or they need more faith to be
healed ha and too bad for Centennial too. So with you guys selling the
burb, are you gonna get another car too?? haha. crazy but I am down to
7 and a half months. That is going by too fast. I know the church is
true! Love you!
Elder Schroath
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Back from Guam
10.14.2014
Hey!
So i apologize because this email will be pretty short.
We were in Guam all week...it was a good experience I guess haha. The
first few days they literally had us knocking doors. Well, there is a
better way to do missionary work. Thursday we went with some Elders
that had a lot of Chuukese investigators and recent converts. The ward
mission leader in that ward is Brother Tuitu'u, the one from the
district videos so he went teaching with us a couple times. He is way
cool!
We also got to watch General Conference! They showed it on Saturday
and Sunday and we didn't leave to Chuuk until Sunday night so it was
awesome! My favorite quote was by Elder Jorg something ha but he said
"Choosing bad over worse is still choosing wrong" which is so true.
Doesn't matter if I get up at 10 am or 6:10 am, it is still breaking
the rule.
Came back to Chuuk and got up yesterday morning and did a zone
conference, not a lot of time to prepare but it was awesome! I love
Pres Zarbock. So it was a good week, learned a lot!
For Christmas, not a whole lot I need. Maybe just a shirt or something
and for the hard drive if it could be a real hard drive it would be
cool but if not just a big thumb drive would be fine! Did you get my
request for batteries, razors, and pens? That would help!
I love you guys!
Elder Schroath
[note from Angela: We checked Elder Schroath's bank account while he was in Guam and noticed that he was able to take a little trip to Subway and Taco Bell--his favorite! ha ha Love that kid!]
Hey!
So i apologize because this email will be pretty short.
We were in Guam all week...it was a good experience I guess haha. The
first few days they literally had us knocking doors. Well, there is a
better way to do missionary work. Thursday we went with some Elders
that had a lot of Chuukese investigators and recent converts. The ward
mission leader in that ward is Brother Tuitu'u, the one from the
district videos so he went teaching with us a couple times. He is way
cool!
We also got to watch General Conference! They showed it on Saturday
and Sunday and we didn't leave to Chuuk until Sunday night so it was
awesome! My favorite quote was by Elder Jorg something ha but he said
"Choosing bad over worse is still choosing wrong" which is so true.
Doesn't matter if I get up at 10 am or 6:10 am, it is still breaking
the rule.
Came back to Chuuk and got up yesterday morning and did a zone
conference, not a lot of time to prepare but it was awesome! I love
Pres Zarbock. So it was a good week, learned a lot!
For Christmas, not a whole lot I need. Maybe just a shirt or something
and for the hard drive if it could be a real hard drive it would be
cool but if not just a big thumb drive would be fine! Did you get my
request for batteries, razors, and pens? That would help!
I love you guys!
Elder Schroath
[note from Angela: We checked Elder Schroath's bank account while he was in Guam and noticed that he was able to take a little trip to Subway and Taco Bell--his favorite! ha ha Love that kid!]
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Pictures from Leader Training
Elder Schroath's mission president posted some pictures on facebook from the training he went to while in Guam. I wanted to share them with you all so here they are!
 |
| front row, far right with blue tie |
.jpg) |
| 2nd row of chairs 2nd from the left |
 |
| I was somewhat shocked when I saw this picture. He has lost so much weight I hardly recognized him! |
Sunday, October 5, 2014
Guam Visit
10.5.2014
Hey!
So yeah I am in Guam right now. We had a miracle and were all able to get into Guam for the training. No one had flights from Chuuk, Pohnpei, or Kosrae until the Thursday. So we almost didn't go. Not to mention there was a typhoon coming to hit Guam on Sunday night haha. The week was good, we finally got all the 14 missionaries (7 new trainees) to Chuuk on Wednesday and got them all out [to their areas] by Thursday morning. The new guys are all awesome! 4 are from Utah, one from Rexburg, one from England, and one from Wisconson. Elder Garae is training the Elder Joseph Smith from England, he has a strong English accent. Pretty cool. They are all super hard workers! And obedient. Which is just what our zone needs. Elder Robinson is going to Udot and I am super excited for him. He should learn Chuukese really fast since his trainer is Chuukese and he is the only white person on Udot. I am so excited for our zone, you guys have no idea. We are going to blow it up! It is a young zone, but that is exactly what it needs to be for the young ones to gain experience.
Elder Plocher is awesome, probably my favorite companion so far just because we bring the best out in each other and talk about a ton of things and we are just on the same page regarding the work. Companionship study is like my favorite thing now when I used to not like it at all haha. You pronounce his name Ploker. Like poker with an l in it. He is from Riverside California and will be going to UVU after his mission so I am stoked to continue our friendship after. He is two transfers older than me so we could be companions for a few transfers.
Guam has been good, the most favorite part of the weekend was definitely the meeting. Learned a ton of stuff. Just to help with the zone and all. We are on the up and up!! Big things will be happening in Chuuk. So since there was a typhoon warning, they cancelled all flights for today so we should be in Chuuk right now but they rescheduled our flight and we might not go back to Chuuk till Sunday...and it is shopping pday for missionaries in Chuuk so we might jump it to tomorrow and I am not sure how we will get gas for everyone to come in from islands...hopefully that works out! Well, I know this church is true, and I am so happy to be able to serve this zone. I know we can all apply the atonement and work as hard as we possibly can to be like Jesus Christ so we don't waste the amazing act he performed for us. I love this gospel. Thanks for all you do for me! The love keeps me going. I just want you to all know my life has changed...more than I ever thought it could. I wish I could live in Chuuk forever! But it is just a short time left to perform my labors so I am going to get after it. I love you all!
Elder Schroath
Angela's note: the typhoon has moved north of Guam so all is well! The Zone Leaders usually drive a truck and pick up all of the outer island missionaries when they get to the main island for Pday. The ZL then take the missionaries to the bank, and store to buy food for the month. Hopefully the Elders worked something out to get where they needed to go! The life of a Chuuk Elder!
oops..just got an email from Elder S!: actually to get the elders into the main island they have to take boats, we just have to send out the boats to get there. inner island have their own trucks!
Hey!
So yeah I am in Guam right now. We had a miracle and were all able to get into Guam for the training. No one had flights from Chuuk, Pohnpei, or Kosrae until the Thursday. So we almost didn't go. Not to mention there was a typhoon coming to hit Guam on Sunday night haha. The week was good, we finally got all the 14 missionaries (7 new trainees) to Chuuk on Wednesday and got them all out [to their areas] by Thursday morning. The new guys are all awesome! 4 are from Utah, one from Rexburg, one from England, and one from Wisconson. Elder Garae is training the Elder Joseph Smith from England, he has a strong English accent. Pretty cool. They are all super hard workers! And obedient. Which is just what our zone needs. Elder Robinson is going to Udot and I am super excited for him. He should learn Chuukese really fast since his trainer is Chuukese and he is the only white person on Udot. I am so excited for our zone, you guys have no idea. We are going to blow it up! It is a young zone, but that is exactly what it needs to be for the young ones to gain experience.
Elder Plocher is awesome, probably my favorite companion so far just because we bring the best out in each other and talk about a ton of things and we are just on the same page regarding the work. Companionship study is like my favorite thing now when I used to not like it at all haha. You pronounce his name Ploker. Like poker with an l in it. He is from Riverside California and will be going to UVU after his mission so I am stoked to continue our friendship after. He is two transfers older than me so we could be companions for a few transfers.
Guam has been good, the most favorite part of the weekend was definitely the meeting. Learned a ton of stuff. Just to help with the zone and all. We are on the up and up!! Big things will be happening in Chuuk. So since there was a typhoon warning, they cancelled all flights for today so we should be in Chuuk right now but they rescheduled our flight and we might not go back to Chuuk till Sunday...and it is shopping pday for missionaries in Chuuk so we might jump it to tomorrow and I am not sure how we will get gas for everyone to come in from islands...hopefully that works out! Well, I know this church is true, and I am so happy to be able to serve this zone. I know we can all apply the atonement and work as hard as we possibly can to be like Jesus Christ so we don't waste the amazing act he performed for us. I love this gospel. Thanks for all you do for me! The love keeps me going. I just want you to all know my life has changed...more than I ever thought it could. I wish I could live in Chuuk forever! But it is just a short time left to perform my labors so I am going to get after it. I love you all!
Elder Schroath
Angela's note: the typhoon has moved north of Guam so all is well! The Zone Leaders usually drive a truck and pick up all of the outer island missionaries when they get to the main island for Pday. The ZL then take the missionaries to the bank, and store to buy food for the month. Hopefully the Elders worked something out to get where they needed to go! The life of a Chuuk Elder!
oops..just got an email from Elder S!: actually to get the elders into the main island they have to take boats, we just have to send out the boats to get there. inner island have their own trucks!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)