Letter dated 17 April 2023

Dear yall, Tuesday We had my last zone conference and it was incredible. We talked about the Spirit and how to help our friends that we start teaching and all around it was inspiring! I also got to bear my final testimony to my mission friends which was sweet and also incredibly sad. I don't want to say goodbye. Sadly I almost passed out afterwards because I didn't eat very much and was dehydrated at a service project so make sure to eat your 3 squares a day. We then met with this one family who only speaks Spanish and it was sweet! We are hoping they can make it back to church soon once they come home from Puerto Rico. Wednesday Everything fell through except for a long discussion we had with a member named Sister Lamberg about the miracles she has seen in her life recently. Her son was going through liver failure and jaundice but once we started coming over to visit with her a couple of weeks back and began praying for him as well as the rest of her family, he began to get better and receive the blessings he needed to survive and he got a new liver. We prayed together and it was so cool to see her recognize God in her life and she actually made it to church yesterday with her son! Thursday We went on exchanges with the Winder Elders who live in our apartment so it was an easy travel distance and it was super fun, I was with Elder Miller again. We have been doing more facebook in our proselytizing and we actually made a video together and you can view it on my timeline! We also had a ton of lessons! The ones that stood out were with our friend John who has been staying in Gainesville recently and he seems to be doing a lot better than before! We also taught the plan of salvation powerfully to a mother who has been going through marital problems and she was greatly touched by it. We were then called to give a blessing just like how The Bible says (James 5:14) and the sister hasn't needed her medication for the pain in her foot since. That night we re-taught Sawyer the restoration and she loved it. She is so excited to go to the temple when she is old enough. Please pray for her family that they can continue in the gospel! Friday We had district Council in the morning but we actually had a special guest speaker from North Carolina who got to visit since he is friends with the senior missionaries in the district. His name is Brother House and he shared some very good insight about the Holy Ghost and it was a great testimony about the Spirit and how to testify of truth. Afterward we had a great visit with our friend Sunny and we explained more of the Bible and set a foundation for her to understand who Jesus Christ is more clearly. She had the perception that God was not all loving by reading the Old Testament so we shared messages from the New Testament and The Book of Mormon and had a good discussion about the nature of God and she really appreciated it. She was not able to make it to church yesterday due to illness but seems to be doing well regardless. Saturday We helped our friend Amy move into her new home which was a blast! It did take a little longer than expected but she was thankful for our willingness to help her when she needed it. We then went on exchanges with my friend Elder Bennett and we saw a ton of miracles. One of them was that we visited this member family and asked if they had had any missionary opportunities and they said yes because one of the friends that we had met two weeks ago on general conference actually talked to them about us since he knew they were members so it was so cool to see all the seeds we are planting are paying off! Sunday At church we had a new friend that we had never met before just showed up out of the blue and we were able to refer her over to the sisters in the other ward since she lives outside of our area. The Lambergs also made it very special to see especially since they got greeted by so many people. After church we visited our friend Kevin who is following all the commandments and wants to continue to come to church! We will most likely put him on baptismal date next week. To finish off the day we waited another 2 hours for our Russian friend who didn't make it even after he confirmed. Hopefully someday he will stop standing us up more consistently. Anyways, it's been a crazy week. Hope everyone else is doing well and that you guys have a good week. God bless! Sincerely, Elder Nicholas Nephi William Schindler