Week of August 31

Hi There,

The move was an experience I guess you could say. We live right next to the college campus which is nice since that is our main fish pool.  We talked with Greg Petersen yesterday and he has just been extremely busy with work and school. He is an EMT and then he is also going to nursing school. He is taking 20 CREDITS!!!! He is crazy but yet I am excited because that will be me in the future!!!! :) We have yet to get ahold of Amanda so we don't know what the problem is.... We still call her. 

But something really exciting happened. On Sunday during Branch Counsel, President Roberts informed us that an investigator named Brittany Harrison emailed him to find out when church started on Sunday. We met with her before sacrament meeting and we made an appointment with her for Tuesday. But before I get to Tuesday I cannot forget about MONDAY! Since I am in the YSA I get the blessing of having FHE on Mondays and last Monday we played extreme spoons! Our goal is to double the baptisms, so in every prayer before companionship study we pray for 2x baptisms, unity, and charity.  

Back to Tuesday! We met with Brittany and she is from Kuna, Idaho.  She moved up here last week for school. Her family are less active members and they don't want her to be baptized, so while she was down there she was never able to meet with the missionaries. But her best friend is LDS and he is on his mission in Paraguay.  But anyways his family is basically her family and she has been going to church for a long time and she is reading the Book of Mormon and she has the gospel principles to go with it as well.  She is golden. She just absorbed the Restoration message. We invited her to be baptized and she said yes!!! YAY! We asked her when we could meet with her again and she said can we meet tomorrow (Wednesday) and we were ecstatic. So we met with her on Wednesday and we taught her the Plan of Salvation and she absorbed it all up as well. She is a sponge for the gospel. I love it! We invited her again to be baptized and she said yes and we set a date!!! Guess when?!? You will never guess so I will just tell you! Her baptismal date is September 5th!!!!!! This week!!!! And she is wanting to be baptized in her home town since she just moved up here and she knows no one and all her friends and family are down in southern Idaho.  So we were thrown back on what to do... So we called the assistant's and they had no idea.... so they told us to call President Dymock and we did and he had to call Salt Lake to figure out the proper procedure.  She is able to be baptized down there and confirmed. We are going to call the bishop down there to set up the program for her baptism!! This is so exciting.!!!!  Man I can't keep my legs still!!!! they keep bouncing up and down!!! Anyway, we have met with her everyday and we having been teaching her the lessons and she has never questioned if the Book of Mormon is true, she just knows! I know the feeling because I was the same way! On Saturday, the Lewiston 1st Elders had a baptism and we invited Brittany to come and she was excited because she has never been to a baptism before. Now she has a better idea of what to expect. I am sad that I will not be able to go to her baptism but I am glad and over joyed that she has made the decision to be baptized. She is a golden investigator and she already has been living the standards of the church. 

Also on Tuesday we met with Pypre Nakano. We shared with her the Restoration and she loved it. We gave her a Restoration pamphlet and we gave her a Book of Mormon. We invited her to come to church and she was able to until early Sunday morning when she was called early to work. I despise work.... 

But this week has been AMAZING!!!!!!! The air quality has improved a tremendous amount. We can actually see the blue sky now. It has rained a little. But we are glad to have had it and we are praying for more! 

Oh I have big news!!! On September 12th-13th we have stake conference, and guess who is coming. Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve is coming. On Sunday morning at 8am he will be meeting with all the missionaries! I am so excited to meet him and to hear his counsel and to receive guidance.  

Our apartment was messy when we came to it. I am excited to clean it today. I am just like Mom. I want a clean space. My apartment is on the corner of 7th st. and 11th ave. It is green.  Something interesting is that 7 out of the 18 missionaries in our zone are doing their 12 week  ~  meaning that they are either in their first or second transfer.  

Oh ya something crazy happened on Saturday!!!! A MASSIVE and I mean a MASSVIE wind storm came through Lewiston and Clarkston. Humongous trees were falling down everywhere. We were in a lesson when it first hit and the apartment shook. I was sitting down on the ground and I moved. I almost fell over. It was strong. I joked around with Sister Winsor that hopefully our car is where we parked it! haha. There were tree limbs everywhere, roads were blocked because tress fell over. Hot August nights was happening and a tree fell on a car.... so sad. But also trees fell on people but thankfully no one died. I think the only thing that happened was someone broke their nose. I just imagine someone coming up to the person with a broken nose and asking what happened. They would expect something like someone hit me while playing a sport or I ran into a wall. Instead they will get the response as, "A tree fell on me." I couldn't help but laugh.  Everything it seems is happening here in Lewiston. It has been a productive week as well as a hectic and crazy week.  

Love to you all and miss you bunches! Toodaloo!!!!

Sister Schmidt