Sister Monica Schmidt: This Week

Hello Everyone!

It has been raining here!! Thank goodness!! I hope it rains in California! I will pray for that! It is amazing how time goes by so fast! I can't believe that I am on my second transfer. I have been away from home for two months! It feels like I was just saying goodbye to you guys just yesterday. Time goes by fast when you're having fun!!!

Brittany's baptism went well!!!! We gave her the rest of the lessons last week and on Friday we got her baptismal interview done! She was so nervous. But she did it with flying colors! Anywho, we have an appointment with Brittany today and she is going to tell us all about her baptism because she wants to tell us in person. I will get a picture with her this week to send to you for next week. But she told us that she had an amazing experience and that it was memorable! yay!!!

Our investigator, Greg, who is the nursing student has been very busy. He doesn't have much extra time on his hands. We are still trying to get a hold of him though.

We have a new investigator!!!!! His name is Devin Curtis and it is a funny story of how we found him. So we were calling people in the area that are potential investigators and we called this number and on the recorder it says it is Tim's number. So we call it and it is NOT Tim's number. We then talk to the person and we say that we are the sister missionaries and he says that he is already Christian so we say goodbye. Then as we are about to call the next number on the list ~ the number we just dialed pops up and we realize it was the person calling us back. I initially thought that he missed dialed. When we answer he says, "Sorry..." I immediately thought that he meant sorry, I dialed the wrong number but he actually said, "Sorry I changed my mind, what do you have to say." My heart was racing! I am so glad that he called back! We told him that everything we share with people is centered on Jesus Christ and that we are just wanting to add to the truths that he already knows. He wanted to know more and so we set up an appointment with him for yesterday. We called him on Sunday and we set up an appointment for Monday. The lesson went well and he is interested. We shared with him the first point of the restoration ~ that we have a loving Father in Heaven. He has midterms all this week, he is taking 6 classes, so we have a return appointment with him for next Tuesday. We gave him a Book of Mormon and a restoration pamphlet. We committed him to read both and to pray that the Book of Mormon is true and that Joseph Smith is a prophet of God. We read him the promise in the back, Moroni 10:3-5. I know that if we pray to our Heavenly Father with a sincere desire to know if it is true he will answer our prayers through the Holy Ghost.

Pypre is progressing!!! She read a little bit of the Book of Mormon and she came to church!!!! We are meeting with her today and we are excited!!

I love reading the book of Mormon during my hour of personal study. It seems that everything relates to missionary work. The Book of Mormon is for our day! So we should read it!

Oh something funny that happened on Sunday. I accidently locked us out of our apartment because it is one where you have to lock it from the inside. So we called the Elders and they came over. One of the Elders we called used to live in our apartment so he knew what window was open. So he and his companion climbed through a tiny window (elders have no hips!) and ran through our apartment and unlocked the door. It was hilarious because we saw them jump up to the window (it was high in the air) and I was dying of laughter because we saw their legs flailing in the air. That was definitely memorable!!

I am also very excited for Sunday! We get to meet with Dallin H. Oaks before Stake Conference!! I get to meet an apostle!!

Well I have to go!! Toodaloo!!