Letter dated 4Mar2013

Dear family and friends, I am going to include a letter from Daniel along with Weston's letter. This will help explain everything that is in Weston's letter! We are so excited about Daniel's mission! If you have a message for either Daniel and/or Weston - just reply to this note. I hope all is well with everyone. Stay warm and stay safe!! Weston's editor - BWS Dear family: I am assigned to labor in the Sweden Stockholm mission! I'll speak Swedish and go to the Provo MTC on July 10 (4 days after George W. Bush's and someone of insane importance's birthday It will be Weston's birthday!). I'm so excited! Yesterday, I went to Moab to mountain bike a trail with most of my topology class (my professor and two other students). Turns out, I am not fit for mountain biking, but am very good at falling. I fell a bunch of times, and two of them were pretty epic. From those two, I have what is probably a sprained left wrist, a scratched up upper lip (I am still trying to figure out how the ground got right under my nose without getting my nose...), and a nice gash on the bottom of my chin. Both my knees, my left shoulder, and my left thigh are also bearers of wounds. It was really fun, but I do not think I will go again. I got to announce my mission call in church today, and I did that with a bloody upper lip and 3 bandaids on my chin. It was pretty epic :D Unfortunately, my favorite t-shirt (the tennis one) got ripped up. Fortunately, my favorite shorts (the scout / swimsuit ones) I was wearing were perfectly tough. I had a Book of Mormon mid-term last week, which I got a 100 on (mayhaps higher with a curve). I also had a band concert. And I went on a date to another band's concert and the creamery. This coming week I have two mid-terms and loads of great stuff (like visa application and mission prep stuff) to do. It should be good. Have a great week! Lots of Love, Daniel Dear Family! I got an explosion of crazy things to hear from you this week! I don´t think I've had a week quite like this where I've gotten so much news! I´m gonna start talking to Daniel, if that´s alright with the rest of you. Stockholm! Where you seeing that mission coming at all?! I knew that it would be Europe, but I didn't think of Sweden really. That´s so tight! How long are you going to be studying Swedish in the MTC? Will it be for 9 weeks or 12? I wish I could have announced my mission call at church with the same cuts you had yesterday! That made me laugh so much! Since you, like Broseph, (combination of "brother" and "Joseph") got blessed with a crazy hard language, I suggest that you study a ton and get super prepped while you´re at BYU! It will help you get that initial start to get talking to people and get in the door, which helps a ton! Dang, now I´m still the only person in the family who speaks Spanish... now way I´m going to be learning Czech or Swedish... or Qatarian for that matter! Kidding! I think it´s awesome and I would love to have you pick me up and tour my mission when I´m done! That would be the sickest thing ever (I think . . . hope . . . that this is the positive kind of "sick?" ) and I would also love to see other parts of Europe! So.. this week we had it pretty chill and we've been working and working, but not much is new or happened that was as amazing as Sweden. It´s like comparing Batman and Frodo to Biduf or something, but I´ll be sure to have some new amazing stories for the future weeks. We´re coming up to transfers in two weeks and Elder Wiggins and I feel that he is going to be leaving. What happens after that, who knows! I´ll be ready for anything that comes my way and I´m hoping that I´ll get another great companion! Thanks for keeping me in your prayers and just being the greatest family on the earth! I love you all more than anything else I have in this world and I just want to thank you for being so amazing! Élder Xander Weston Schindler P.S. We have to go back, Kate... we have to go BACK! P.P.S. I´ll hope to have more photos next weeks. Stay tuned! TTFN!