April 26, 2011 - Good Ol' Mish

Hey everybody!

       Ah... thats so awesome Richell's baby is on the way, Michell is now pregnant! ..Wow our family is gonna be so much bigger when i get back! Well at least when i get back they will all be at the prime age for me to teach them to do funny things! I am skyping on the 8th of may at 9:00 am utah time, let me know if that is going to be ok with everyone cause i know that richelle might be in labor at that moment! that would be awesome! Does Nathaniel remember who i am? I'm nervous to skype on may 8th what if he doesnt remember me! you guys need to tell me whats going on back home! the only one who does a good job writing me is Grandma, who writes me a letter every week. Don't worry grandma, i brag about it all the time!

Mark got baptized on saturday everything went really well and i'm super stoked for him cause he has a son coming any day now! Elizabeth is still ready for her baptism on the 7th of may


the picture are places where Brigham Young and Wilford Woodruff actually walked and taught the gospel and where i walk and teach the gospel! it is so cool one of the pictures is a baptist church where brigham young like converted half the congregation or something!

Alma 29:9
i know that which the Lord hath commanded me, and i glory in it. I do not glory of myself, but i glory in that which the Lord hath commanded me; yea, and this is my glory, that perhaps i may be an instrument in the hands of God to bring some soul to repentance; and this is my joy.

Please write me, love,

                Servant of the Lord

April 19, 2011 - The Wedding & Future Baptisms

Hello family, friends, and people that my dad send this to ( sorry if you dont even know who i am, my dad sometimes gets carried away and forwards my emails to every person on his contact list, I wont be offended if you just immediatly erase this email)

Hey everybody so last saturday was marks Wedding and it went super great. I was a little disappointed because he didnt choose me to be his best man but eh i guess the important thing is that he is now married and is now able to get baptized this saturday! I should be happy though because they did request that they get a picture with the missionaries after the wedding. The weird the is that the next wedding Elder Schmidt attends will probably be his own haha cause he goes home in a couple months

Marks getting baptized this saturday, Elizabeth a 16 year old girl is getting baptized on the 7th of may. Yes she is only 16, flirt to convert really does work haha! just kidding she is getting baptized for the right reasons dont worry guys!

Dad thanks for checking out all the possible women for me to date when i get back by the time i get home i expect my wife already picked out. my address is below tell them to write me it will help me increase my Chick Post. Every missionary loves his chick post. its the only thing we are allowed to brag to the other missionaries about. The other missionaries dont know that i count grandma post as chick post as well!  thanks for the letters every week grams!

England Birmingham Mission

187 Penns Lane

Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands

B76 1JU              - if you mail to this address it will get to me 100% of the time, safely

    I guess i could explain some of the pictures i attached there are a couple pictures of the Worcester (pronounced wooster) Cathedral its right on the Wye River so it lookes pretty cool. then there is a picture of the Best stuff in the world it's even better than Nuttela. It is pretty posh though. I think that last picture is pretty self explanitory "were ya born in a barn!"

This is Elder Weihing Over and Out

p.s dont forget to write me ......do it for the fairies!

April 12, 2011 - Mission Football

Hello family, friends, and significant others,

     Yesterday was the semi-annual mission footbal of the England Birmingham Mission (also known as Earth's Best Mission).Parents, you will be happy to know that you gave birth to a winner! Our team, the Cheltnam Pink team, destroyed all teams that stood in our paths. Sorry i would send pictures but i'm an idiot and i forgot to take my camera with me! we had the football tournament in Cardiff. Basicallyh the whole mission took a p-day and gathered together to play football(soccer). Each zone was assigned a color and then we played a football tournament. We got assigned pink, so yes we had to walk through cardiff wearing pink. Thats ok though cause we still won and thats all that matters.

     Cardiff is gorgeous! it is in the heart of wales! so there are lots of green hills and i even got to see a castle! its called cardiff castle look it up on the internet its pretty sweet.
  
      Mark is going to be baptized not this saturday but the next week and Elizabeth is going to be baptized on the 7 of may! so the work is going very well in Hereford thanks to the Lord, to be honest he does most the work for us, we just obey. the sad part is that i probably will be leaving Hereford at the end of this transfer, which will be a sad day. Maria and her daughter still arent on a baptismal date! i'm a little dissapointed in them but we are teaching them tonight so maybe we'll slap them with the spirit and they'll agree to being baptized! Its frustrating for me sometimes haha people say they want peace and happiness we tell them its possible if you do this and then they dont do it. people sometimes dont make sense.Its ok i'm learning a bit of patience

I dont know what else to write so i will tell you guys of a funny experience me and Elder Jenkins had that i never told you guys about. SO one day our bishop told us " Hey last summer we did a service project,and a documentry camera crew filmed us.They are doing a documentary on hereford culture and how we need to work together as a community. They interviewed me and i cant go you two should go because there will be a lot of people there and you can meet them and talk about the church with people!" Me and Elder Jenkins thought it was a good idea because it would give us a chance to talk about religion in the community and stuff..... well boy were we in for a shocker! Turns out Bishop didnt exactly get the whold story on what the documentary was about. Me and Elder Jenkins turn up and it ends up being like a Gay/lesbian/Tranvestite convention thingy Hahaha. me and Elder Jenkins were like on the third row and the whole documentary was basically interviews with gays and transvestites. At the end people were given the opportunity to talk and it was pretty weird! people were giving us some weird looks. after there was like a much and mingle thing where everyone gets to meet everyone that was interviewed . Most missionaries probably would of just went home after that but hey me and Elder Jenkins werent going to leave without getting some free food! It was a pretty funny experience but now i have to go so see ya later and dont forget to write me!

                                                                                  Elder Weihing

April 5, 2011 - I Miss Home........ NOT!!

               hey guys,
    I Miss Home.......................NOT!!!!!!!!!!! HAHA Sorry this will probably be a small letter but My new companion Elder Schmidt is great! i forgot to get a picture of him so i just decided to take a picture of him this morning when he was brushing his teeth. He knows English really well probably as good as me. He is a pretty cool guy we are working well together. Marks baptism is in two weeks and we are talking to Maria and Rebecca about baptism tonight and they have been thinking about it. We are teaching our first lesson to a 17 year old girl on wednesday. Her name is Elizabeth, she is friends with a girl in the ward and she has come to church twice now. Apparently she really likes it and has already asked her friends dad to baptize her! so maybe next time i write to you i will have news of four baptisms!!! thats super awesome! We have been super blessed to be honest the lord just prepares these people and teaches them. Sometimes i wonder if he even needs me haha!
   Conference was super duper! except i didnt get to see the last session on sunday cause it was on at like 10 o clock at night here in England! So i didnt get to hear President Eyrings talk! i was pretty disapointed cause he is probably my favorite speaker so you guys will have to tell me how it was.
    Hey people good job writing me letters! If you keep this up i will now be the most popular missionary in the England Birmingham Mission! They keep telling me it can only last so long though and one day it will all stop! Lets show them they are wrong. And to those who dont write me! all i can say is that every day i dont get post a fairy loses its wings! so if you wont do it for me then atleast do it for the faries!

p.s i discovered a new kind of Nuttella its chocolate hazelnut swirled with skim milk, It taste like christmas! i'll have to take a picture of it for you

March 31, 2011

Hello family, friends, and other people my dad decide to send this to,

    A very busy eventful week! Elder Jenkins got Transferred to Derby pronounced Darby.  It was sad to see him leave, very sad. Me and him were like to Peas in a Pod and yes in those pictures we are wearing the same tie. But before i get to that let me tell you a pretty awesome experience me and him had before he left! So gather your ears/eyes!


         So there we were on a dark and dreary night. actually it was about mid-day and it was actually pretty sunny and warm! Me and Elder Jenkins were just walking into town when a man approached us. I recognized the man, i couldn't remember if we talked to him before but we walk around so much i figured we had seen him at least once before. Oh and he was a bum...... meaning he doesn't really have a home he just walks around town center and doesn't have a Job. His accent was super thick as well it was like something off of my fair lady! .....He started talking to us and basically just explained that he was a member of the church and that he hasn't gone for about 22 years. He was really nice and he walked with us and talked with us for a little while mostly cause he smokes and drinks and doesn't feel worthy. He kept telling us that he has gone to other churches and stuff but he just knows that our church is true and that we were men of God. He then said that he was in a church a couple nights ago and the priest was basically going around giving people blessings and the bum refused a blessing from the priest and so the priest just kept giving him an evil stare or something. HE then asked us if we could give him a blessing right there on the street Hahaha! so Me and Elder Jenkins took him around the corner to the Black Friar Monk Monastery ruins( that's the last two pictures of that giant cross with some old ruin monastery in the back ground). We sat down with him on a park bench across from the Monastery and taught him.....we taught him about Jesus Christ and his Atonement. Then me and Elder Jenkins gave him a blessing on a park bench. It was the first blessing i have ever given to someone on my mission. It was a pretty special experience, the spirit was powerful. I never felt the spirit work through me like it did in the middle of that blessing, I heard myself say stuff i didn't even think about.


My new companions name is Elder Schmidt! He is from Eastern Germany! He belongs to a communist country. So yes, I have a communist for a companion!!  His accent is pretty strong but he speaks good English, he has taken English for 10 years. He has got a very German personality hahah! Its gonna be weird switching up companions like this cause elder Jenkins was a major dork and so am i so it worked out but Elder Schmidt is like the opposite! I'm a little nervous so if you want to write me a letter this week it may help. I got to go sorry! write me! hope everything is going good!

Elder Weihing