This week!

Hello Everyone,

Something hilarious that was on a billboard down here said, "The fact that jellyfish have survived 650 million years without a brain gives hope to many people." I just about died at the steering wheel. That is a knee slapper! 

If I remember correctly, dad asked me if the paper mill is still here and it is. The air down here smells.... 

Sorry my emails are all over the place. random things just pop in my mind. 

So yesterday I was asked to give a talk in sacrament meeting about my favorite chapter in the Preach My Gospel and I have yet to have one, but I decided to talk about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It went well apparently... 

Oh and another thing I want to tell you is 2 weeks ago for P-Day the whole zone got together and we played ultimate Frisbee but it was extremely windy and the Frisbee kept being blown away so we decided to play with a rugby ball instead and that was fun! We played for 2 hours. I was glad to get outside and workout and run. It even started raining on us which made it even better! 

My district leader left yesterday to go home 2 weeks early for school. His name is Elder Moh and he is hilarious. The picture that I will send you is Elder Moh (right) and Elder Joseph (left). Last week on Tuesday we had MLC (Missionary Leadership Counsel) and my companion is the Sister Training Leader so I had to go to another area and be with a few other sisters for 3/4 of Tuesday. 

Apparently there is going to be a blood moon soon ~ so can you find out when it is going to happen and tell me please? I really want to know. 

This week was a little bit more difficult but I made it. I can't believe that I have been out for over a month. I have 2 weeks left of this transfer. Now that is weird. Time flies by fast when you are having fun. With Pypre ~ she canceled on us Tuesday but it was good because we got back home late because of MLC (MLC happens in Spokane). It was the Lord's hand that made her cancel because it is better for her to cancel than us. But she is out of town bringing her sister from Utah to Lewiston for a doctors appointment and then back to Utah. She told us that she will text us and reschedule.

Tyson who was at Cedar's Inn did move and is now living with his parents which is a much better environment. Everyone who lives in Lewiston tells me that anyone who lives at Cedar's Inn does everything bad that you can imagine. 

We were supposed to meet with Isaac on Saturday but he didn't' show up and then he called to reschedule and we planned to see him Sunday but he didn't show up again. I don't know what to do.  At times it is very frustrating. But everyone has agency. Another person we are teaching is Shilo Johnson.  We taught her the Restoration and she kept making jokes to chase the spirit away and she kept eating candy. I didn't know what to do. I felt that I was doing a horrible job at teaching the Restoration. So it was a very difficult lesson for me and it didn't really help with my insecurities about being a new missionary. But I hope this Thursday when we teach her again that it will be way better. 

Did you know that Disney started in Lewiston.........? WOW!  Something actually happened in Lewiston. 

Something cool that happened was with Zone training.  I was with Elder Fallon (who is like Bryan Baker) and we were role playing street contacting with pamphlets.  He was the missionary and I was the investigator. At the end we said good-bye and he said "Bye Penny."  I told him after, that my mom's name is Penny and he said, "I was inspired." I thought it was hilarious. 

Enjoy the photos!  Toodaloo!

Sister Schmidt

And some pictures…I don't know what they are about exactly, but still fun!