Aspen Brooke Schultz Alabama Birmingham Mission : February 2019

Sister Tennyson my new Companion!

February 11, 2019

Hello Friends and Family!!!

wow what a crazy amazing week it has been!! We had transferals and I am now in Birmingham!!

New Companionships -- Love this girl

It is so crazy being here in the city and I love it so much!! When we were driving to transfers I kept telling sister Bodily to look at the huge buildings!! I had major culture shock at first haha I was so use to my county dirt roads and cows! I love everything about being here though!!!

So Happy to be with Sister Tennyson

My new companion is sister Tennyson and WOW I LOVE HER!!! She is the cutest!! We are now serving in an area that was just Elders, so we are both new to the area!! We have had a fun time trying to figure everything out and wow how the Lord has helped us!! GOD IS SO GOOD!!! I am so honored to be here!!

We serve over the YSA in Birmingham and also the Hoover family ward! The Assistance to the Presidents. They are such great missionaries and give us so many people to teach! Is literally a miracle!!!

The City is the best and we literally just talk to so many people everyday! We live so close to UAB campus and we made a goal to get ten peoples number in an hour and WE DID!! It was so much fun! All we do all day is talk to people about Jesus Christ!! i don't know how I have had such a blessed mission!! Heavenly Father is so good!!

Love this sign!

Our first day here the AP's set up a teaching appointment with Kareen! She is a sister of a member and she is incredible! The elders came to the first part of the lesson because she wanted a priesthood blessing! She had seen the power it had in her families life and she knew it would help her! She is trying to over come bad habits and she is the best example of putting all her trust in the Lord. The blessing was so powerful and after she was crying!! She said she knew this was the power of God!!

Painting with AP's and our new investigator

The elders left and then Sister Tennyson and I taught her about the Book of Mormon! She was so excited to read!! She has read every day since and will text us at night about her thoughts! She is a miracle and I am so thankful to be apart of her conversion!!!

I LOVE MY MISSION!!! I will never be able to thank my Father in Heaven for all the tender mercies He has shown me! This truly is His work! Faith truly can do anything!! We just have to put our trust in Him and know that the future is sooo bright!!

I LOVE MY SAVIOR AND KNOW THAT HE LIVES!!! There is no way I could be here and figuring all this out on my own. This is His work and I am so honored to play a small part in it! I love Him with all of my heart!! I KNOW HE LOVES Y'ALL!!

HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!!

Love Sister Bodily! I will miss her....

I love Sister Bodily and will miss her sooo much!!

Hello!!!

sooooo yes saddest day ever...i'm leaving Cullman tomorrow!!! Wow my heart will never be able to explain how much this place means to me! I'm so honored that I got to serve here for 7 months of my mission! I love this ward, I love these people and I love this area!!! It will forever hold a special place in my heart!!!

I am so pumped to see where I go! This has to be the true church because we literally get a call Monday saying where we go and then Tuesday we pack everything up and Wednesday we find out where we go and who we go with. Talk about trusting the Lord!! I'll let y'all know where I end up next week!

I had to take my beloved wall down!

Way to much stuff

This Sunday was truly the best, last Sunday in Cullman! The first time I came to the Cullman ward I walked in and saw that the overflow part of the building was closed. I told myself that It was my goal to have that opened before I left! Because that would mean soooo many people would come to church! SO this Sunday we had 15 people come to church!!!!!!! I wish we could say that they were all people we were teaching but sadly I can't. 4 of them were and wow was my heart so happy to have them come!!

The others were actually from Atlanta. They were down here for work and one of their co-workers is in our ward so he invited them to come! Three of them were members and the rest weren't and wow there was such a special spirit when they walked in!! They were incredible and had such a love for the Savior like nothing I've ever seen! We talked to them before and sat with them in Sunday school. After church we talked with them about the Book of Mormon and they graciously accepted them!!! So Atlanta missionaries there are 5 people with copies of the Book of Mormon who have come to church and have co-workers who are members!! GO FIND THEM!!

We also had three babies blessed in our ward! It was so tender!! It just added even more to the crowd of people! So they had to open up the overflow section!!!! My heart was soooo happy!! And instantly I knew my time in Cullman was finished. It was the coolest thing, from my first day to my last, God was so aware of me!

My Last District

It was also testimony meeting and President always likes us to bare our testimonies first. But the Cullman ward is just to amazing everyone runs up haha so I never could be first, until this last Sunday!! It was a powerful meeting and 11 people got to share their testimony!! One of them was Becky! WOW I love her!! We met her at the store and she said she would come to church! She is def in one ear so she talks kinda loud and had no filter! She is literally incredible!! She came to church for the first time on Sunday and right before testimony meeting was going to end she asked if i'd be okay if she bore her testimony! We said of course and so SHE DID!!!! It was incredible, my heart still is so full from all the JOY that came from such a miraculous last Sunday!!!

The Spirit witnessed so strongly to me that day that GOD IS SO AWARE OF US!!! Although I am so sad to leave Cullman, I really can't be because of such a perfect ending here! That truly is the purpose of life, to align our will with His. Every time we do we realize that He has something so much greater. I truly love Him with all my heart! GOD IS SO GOOD!!!

the starks are new ward missionaries and they are the best!

I'm so grateful to be a missionary in the south! I love these people so much and I'm so honored for how they have changed my life! I know that this is Christ church! I know the Book of Mormon is true and wow are we so blessed to have it! I know that God is in the details of our lives and will place tender mercies in our path always! I know that Jesus Christ lives!!! That the Plan of Salvation is REAL, it truly is Gods plan for us! I just makes sense!! I LOVE this Gospel with all of my heart and what a privilege it is to help my family come back together!! Being a missionary is the greatest thing I could have ever done!! I'm so grateful to my Heavenly Father for seeing me fit to serve!