Dec 3, 2018

Hello Everyone! I guess I probably should apologize once again for promising that I am going to improve at emailing and then of course not doing so...but unfortunately you are all probably used to it at this point! Anyway, here is what the past couple weeks have looked like.

A few weeks back we had the awesome opportunity to go to the temple and all I can say was it was amazing! I really miss the temple and I really regret not taking advantage of it when I was home but I'm making a promise to myself that after my mission I will make sure to go to the temple as much as I can!

We have been able to have a couple great lessons with Gerardo these last couple weeks. He has some great questions that are always fun to answer. He's progressing for sure, not as quickly as we would hope he would but we are hoping that we will be able to help him out this next lesson with progessing a bit quicker.

Two Mondays ago we had the incredible opportunity to have Elder Weatherford Clayton of the Seventy come and tour our mission and conduct our Zone Conference! He and Sister Clayton gave us some incredible Council that I know will really help our mission to take it to the next level! Such an amazing Spiritual experience for sure. The day after that we had an awesome Zone Preparation Day activity at Golfland Sunsplash (Basically the equivalent of Boondocks)

Thanksgiving here in Rocklin was truly stuffed full of good stuff. We had 4 appointments that day so I can definitely say that I put on some weight haha! We also had the chance to share the #LightTheWorld initiative with most of those families so that also made it a really awesome day.

Last Monday we spent a majority of our Preparation Day helping set up a Stake Nativity Exhibit in Granite Bay which was still tons of fun! And the finished Product was even greater! We had the chance for 2 of the 3 days the Exhibit was going on to be hosts and to invite people to church on the 23rd Of December! Also I saw many people from Roseville 1st ward so that was also so so amazing!

Tuesday was transfers and both Elder Nettleton and I are staying together. I can't say I was too thrilled about that happening since I struggled a bit with Elder Nettleton but I know there is a reason for it. I just hope we can continue to see growth and progression in the area. But on the bright side, Elder Johnson, who took me out tracting on my 1st day in the mission field, is in my district so I was really excited about that!

Wednesday the Young Men in the Rocklin 1st ward had a really cool missionary activity where the leaders invited non member friends and neighbors to come be taught the missionary lessons by the young men. It was a really awesome activity and many of the non members who were a part of it really enjoyed it and some even were interested in meeting with us! It was so sweet and to top it all off, Elder Molipeli was on an exchange with us and he shared his conversion story and it was so so incredible!

Anyways, even though Thanksgiving has passed, I just want to let you all know how grateful I am for each of you. I'm grateful for you all supporting me over these last 13 months. I love you all and I'd really love to hear from you! Hopefully I'll be able to improve at emailing in the near future! Have a great week and I'll talk to you next week!💙

Elder Riley Schneiter

California Roseville Mission
8583 Watt Avenue
Antelope, CA 95843

 

Nov 14, 2018

Hey everyone! I just want you all to know that I love you and miss you so much! Thank you for all your support and I'm especially grateful for all the birthday wishes from a couple weeks back! It really has meant a lot! Anyways, here's a summary of the past few weeks.

The members here in Rocklin are so amazing and they seriously helped so much in making my birthday just an amazing day! We also met this awesome lady named Becca who was interested in us coming back but not for another month until her new puppy is done with its training! The following day was both the ward Trunk-R-Treats and they were so successful in getting a ton of non members there! And then the day after that we were in a Trio with Elder Comans (One of our Zone Leaders) and we helped out Gerardo with a fundraiser event for his Humanitarian Project he leads so that was so much fun and we were able to meet so many awesome people and introduce them to the church!

Halloween we had to be in early so we stayed in and watched some classic church movies such as Johnny Lingo and The Phone Call. If you haven't seen either of those movies, they are definitely recommend!

Last Wednesday we had interviews with President Ward and it was just what was needed. I seriously love President Ward so much and I really couldn't have asked for a better mission President! He really just wants us as missionaries to be the very best we can and to give the Lord our best and have all we do focused on his work! Thursday we had exchanges and I went with our District Leader, Elder Schreiner! We had such a great time and we were blessed to find 2 new people to teach in our area! One of them is named Alex Schneider so it was a pretty interested conversation between the 3 of us who all have similar last names😂 That was also the day we learned about the devastating fire up in Paradise which really hurt Elder Schreiner because he served up there for 3 transfers! Please please please pray for all those who lost everything in the fire, they really need the help!

This weekend it was Rocklin's Stake Conference and it was so great! All the speakers did such a fabulous job and really brought the Spirit to all who had the opportunity to listen!

So that's basically it folks! I love you all and I really will try my best to be better at emailing! I'd love to be able to receive a personal email from y'all so please if you get the chance, it would mean so much! And I promise I'll do my best to reply!😂 Love y'all have a great rest of your week and tune in next week to learn more!