WHITEWASHED IN BIRMINGHAM!!! I

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....

TRANSFERS--I'M LEAVING CULLMAN! BEST 7 MONTHS

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! 

Love Sister Bodily

I LOVE Y'ALL SO MUCH!!!  HAVE THE BEST WEEK EVER!!! GOD LOVES YOU!

Trying to find less active that did not want to be found 

I love cows! and farms so much! grandma would be so proud!

I love the hydes they had us over for my last supper lol

I love Sister Bodly, going to miss her

My last District

I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!

January 28, 2019

Alabama is freezing but you better believe we still bike! because miracles happen!!

Hello all y'all lovely people!!! 

This week has been incredible!! So many miracles my heart just can't take it!! I love being a missionary!!! 

Yesterday was truly one of the best days of my mission!! For the past few weeks people haven't been coming  to church and I was so sad because I literally live for church! especially the Sacrament! Can't survive without it!! So I was so sad that no one was coming!! But yesterday while we were singing the opening Hymn, THREE PEOPLE CAME!!!! 

I don't think my heart has ever felt so much joy before!! The greatest thing is seeing someone come closer to the Lord for the first time. Whether it is reading the Book of Mormon, praying or coming to church! It is so incredible to see God's Children coming to Him. It is the best thing about being a missionary and wow was my heart full to see them come!! 

Alabama is so beautiful! 

One was named Joanna! She is amazing!! We met her on monday tracting. I love to knock doors its my favorite thing and I felt so strongly that we needed to go tracking in Hanceville which is like 20 minutes away. So we drove out there and It kinds sounds funny to drive somewhere just to knock doors but I knew we needed to. Sure enough the last house we knocked on was Joanns! She is stinkin adorable and we were able to make an appointment. We came on Thursday, taught the restoration and invited her to read the Book of Mormon and come to church! AND SHE CAME ON SUNDAY!!! It was a miracle! Literally Golden!! We talked with her forever in the parking lot and answered all her questions! She had done research but went to lds.org to do it!! literally I can't get over how amazing she is and how God truly is in the details of our lives! 

Heather came back from her mission in Cali on Wednesday and so she just hangs out with us all day! She is amazing and it made me realized how fast missions go!! 

We helped our neighbor move and she gave us a bunch of things!! we gave them to so many people we are teaching haha and we were able to give her a Book of Mormon! Miracles!! 

The other one that came was Josh! He has had some pretty hard trials in his life! We talked to him after church and he was so happy! Said it was the first time he has felt the spirit in years!! He wants to come every week and already made friends with so many members! We told him about mutual and he wants his girls to come!! We gave him a Book of Mormon and he apologized because he said its going to take him a few weeks to read it because he sometimes stutters! At this point I literally couldn't contain my joy and was smiling SO BIG!! I was like "Josh that will be amazing if you read it in a few weeks!! please do that!" We are going over tomorrow to teach the restoration!! I'm so pumped he is so prepared!!! 

Love Sister Bodily!!!

During the Sacrament I was just looking at these amazing people, members and our new friends that came, and I was thinking back to all the hard times the past few weeks. I was so grateful for every single hardship and trail! In that moment I realized my Savior delivered me, brought me so much more JOY! It was so worth the pain and struggle because the JOY that came after over powered it all! 

I was thinking about Almas conversion story, from the Book of Mormon, and then I opened up mine right to it! It says 

18 Now, as my mind caught hold upon this thought, I cried within my heart: O Jesus, thou Son of God, have mercy on me, who am in the gall of bitterness, and am encircled about by the everlasting chains of death.

19 And now, behold, when I thought this, I could remember my pains no more; yea, I was harrowed up by the memory of my sins no more.

20 And oh, what joy, and what marvelous light I did behold; yea, my soul was filled with joy as exceeding as was my pain!

21 Yea, I say unto you, my son, that there could be nothing so exquisite and so bitter as were my pains. Yea, and again I say unto you, my son, that on the other hand, there can be nothing so exquisite and sweet as was my joy.

Sis bodily and I are getting soooo good at cooking haha

That is what Jesus Christ gives us! This PROMISED HOPE, that no matter what you're going through, the trials at hand, HE WILL DELIVER YOU! And you will realize that the JOY that is coming is so much greater than any pain you've faced! It might take days, weeks, months or even years and with Christ you will be able to make it!! 

Then me and sis bodily because I love her so stinkin much!!

I love my Savior!! He means everything to me!! I love being a missionary!! I love the south so much, i'm highly considering moving here forever (sorry mom haha) I just love these people more than I ever thought possible! I was writing to my mission president today and just started crying in the library! I never not want to be a missionary!! I'm so honored to serve my Savior!! I love all of y'all so much!!! Keep moving forward and know that Christ is there.

have a blessed week! 

-Sister Schultz!!

I Now Have the Faith to FAIL because that is when you learn!!

January 23, 2019

Just a donkey in Alabama!

Hello!!! Wow today has been incredible!!!!

We had a car training this morning so we had to be here at 11 and then we went to the 1pm session in the temple!!! WOW I LOVE THE TEMPLE!!!! Y'ALL NEED TO GO TOMORROW!!!!!

Then after we were sitting in the Celestial room! WOW IM SO GRATEFUL TO BE SERVING NOW!! God is so aware of me and truly knows my heart! Being a missionary right now is the biggest blessing!!! 

After Sister Bodily and I got to help do the laundry in the temple!!! It was SOOO FUN and we got to be the last people to be there besides the temple president and wife!! Sooooo cool!!!! 

During the time we were at the Temple we had interviews with President Sainsbury!!! How many missionaries get to say they've had an interview, in the temple, in all white with their President....ME! 

And it helped sooo much!! The past week has been very hard! People I love are deciding not to learn about the gospel and it has really broken my heart.   One day they will come, it just isn't time for them.   I thought I was failing because everything was falling apart!! But I now have the faith to fail because that is when you learn!! 

I love President Sainsbury!! They leave in July and we get new mission presidents and guess where they are from?!?!  Erda Utah!!!!!!! Do you know Chad and Melanie Allred? Anyways that's who is coming to be our new Mission President.  

Today has been jammed packed, but it has been one of the best days of my life honestly!!!! I love the temple and being a missionary in Alabama is the best!!!   Also we only have to wait five days now instead of a whole week. Yahoo!!! 

I also hit my 7 month mark on Sunday!! Time is going so fast!

The Hospital where one of our members had a new baby!  

I love the Temple...such a beautiful building

Someone named their baby after me....haha

Our members baby's door.  They decorate the doors here, so cute!

I love you and hope y'all are being the best you can be!  

Love,

Sister Schultz

Have a Great week y'all💜

Sister Bodily and Sister Schultz

Hello!!

What an amazing week!!! 

On Tuesday we went to the temple with Connie!! But funny Sister Schultz thought that the temple opened at 6am. So we drove their that afternoon and pulled into the most empty parking lot I have ever seen! Turns out the temple opens at 6PM!!!! I felt soooo bad!! This is not Utah, temples aren't opened all the time and all day long!! Huge lesson learned in triple checking and made me appreciate temples even more!! But it all worked out! We had an early dinner and thank goodness for technology we were still able to do some missionary work!

It was truly an incredible experience to walk into the temple baptistery with Connie! The spirit was so strong!! It hit my like ton of bricks. The was the most incredible sight to see. I have never felt or understood Gods love like that before! TRULY A MIRACLE!! We were the only ones there and let me tell you, it was like Heaven on Earth! We were able to go over things from the restoration and the Plan of Salvation. We had like a mini scripture study right then and there. Best day ever!! I love the temple! I love the scriptures! I love the Gospel of Jesus Christ! Another cool experience that happened there was as we were walking out there was a picture of The First Vision. I recited it as we all looked at the picture...wow! This Gospel is so TRUE!

Connie and Sister Schultz 

I cooked a HAM! 

WE MET MARY THIS WEEK!!!!! That lesson was literally one of the greatest experiences of my life. She was a Bible referral. Which means she ordered a Bible online. We got to her house and just talked to her, got to know her. We were planning on teaching her the Restoration. The more we talked with her the more I kept anything we need to teach the Plan of Salvation! At the same time Sister Bodily was thinking it was better to leave than to teach the Restoration right then. So we didn't and then I started teaching the Plan of Salvation! And so did Sister Bodily! And then we just kept going, pulling all of these scriptures out! It was crazy!! Like I was teaching but IT WASN'T ME!! and what made it so special was Mary's reaction. She was like WOW!!! This is so amazing!! She told us that we taught her more in a half hour than she has ever learned in her entire life. She kept saying, "I need to go to y'alls church. I need to go to y'alls church." Yes, Mary. Come to Jesus Christ's church, He wants you there. When we were walking out the door, she said, "wait." very concerned like. We were like uhhh. She told us that she doesn't have anything to wear to church. Mary! Friend! Daughter of God! Where whatever you have! The Lord will accept you in His church. With whatever you are able to wear. I love her, she is amazing. That was truly the most amazing lesson I've had on my mission! 

President Sainsbury told us that we need to write our miracles down to show God we truly are grateful for them. So during dinner we just wrote all about the experience and wow it took four pages and almost the whole hour!! Granted I write a lot in my journal anyways but still this was so special! I love journals! 

Arials little girl loves to pose for pictures! 

Grace and her cute talk!

Yesterday Sister Fallows asked us to come in and help the young women know how to better explain the God Head to people if they were to be asked about it. We shared some things and scriptures with them but the COOLEST thing was I recited the first vision to them. What makes this so special was when I was 14 a sister missionary recited it to our class. That was the first time I truly remember feeling the Spirit abundantly! That is also when I decided I was g

oing on a mission!! Now five years later I was able to be the missionary in the story! It was amazing!! After cutie Grace came up to us and told us she wants to go on a mission!!! She wrote a talk on patience and wanted to share it with us! TENDER MERCY!!! 

This truly is the best thing in the world! Missions are hard but they are suppose to be because that's what makes your need for a Savior increase! I truly could not do this without my Him. I love Him! I love being a missionary! 

i invite y'all this week to go to the temple!! Write miracles down!! Read and PONDER the First Vision! Look for the way the Lord is apart of your life! He is there, He is ALWAYS there! He loves you so much!! I love y'all so much!! 

have a great week y'all

We are branching out and really learning how to cook! We were pretty pumped we were able to cook a whole ham!!!

Hamburger Heaven is the YUMMIEST burger place right by the temple

We bought Llama stuffed animals at Walmart today because they were so cute and make us so happen when life is hard haha

We had exchanges with Athens!