Merry Christmas Everyone!
I am glad that you love the card and the nativity. I made it with love. I made it on the AFB at a FHE with the whole ward.
So this week was really well. On Tuesday we stopped by a potential investigator and we talked to her and she is now an investigator!! The sisters before I got here tried her house, which used to be where some less active members lived, instead they found Eva Dixon and her family. Her husband is not interested but she is. We found out that she used to meet with missionaries a long time ago and she was going to get baptized but her husband didn't want to join so she stopped meeting with them. We talked to her for awhile getting to know her and developing a relationship. We gave her a Book of Mormon because she asked if we had one. (Of course we did!) She thought the Book of Mormon was written by Joseph Smith's best friend and she thought the writer was trying to be convincing and she didn't think that was necessary. WE explained that Joseph Smith's best friend did NOT write the Book of Mormon but that prophets did and it starts out in 600 BC and then she was interested and she asked for one. Glad we could clear up some confusion. We are meeting with her after the holidays on January 15th. We are excited.
I went on exchanges this week with Sister Huang. She is from China and is going home on the 28th of December. She is awesome. I first met her when I was serving in Lewiston. She is the STL (sister trainer leader) here and she is fantastic. I just didn't get to teach with her because we did Chinese work all day. Their language sounds awesome and very difficult to pronounce. Sister Huang was trying to help me say a few simple things and I was stuck on the first word. I just couldn't pronounce it. ??? We taught one of her recent converts the last lesson in temple prep because she was going to get her endowment on Saturday. It was so cool.
On Thursday we went to a dinner appointment to the Stanfields. They have 5 little kids and the oldest is 9. They are so cute and adorable. I will send a picture of them. They love the sister missionaries. They always give us a hug whenever they see us. One of the girls gave me a big hug and said, "You are nice and very pretty." I got all mushy inside.
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| The Stanfield's The little girl on the right is wearing Monica's missionary tag! |
We met with a less active member and his family. He went to Japan and he gave us a pickled plum. It was firm when he gave it to us and when we got home to eat it, it was shriveled up. It tasted like vinegar. We have a video of it. I about died in the sink. It was gruesome.
We also got one of our investigators on date this week. Her name is Elena Olsen and this is the second time that I have taught her. As we were talking with her the idea to ask her to be baptized came to mind and I asked and she said yes. So she is on date for the 30th of January. Sister Griffith was very surprised that she agreed to be baptized because she has been taught since 2013. The Lord knows His children and He knows when they are ready.
SO yesterday it was snowing pretty heavily. It has been snowing like crazy here for a few days and it is supposed to keep snowing for 4 more days. I will get my white Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY :-) SO we got 5 referrals from the Spanish Elders in one night and we could only contact two of them because the other 3 were going to be out of town for the holidays but we can come back after the holidays. On Sunday we tried the two we could visit ~ and we have no idea where it is ~ and we found it eventually ~ but first we got stuck in the snow in a creepy trailer park. But two really nice guys helped get us out. (I told them that I am from California and they laughed and said that makes sense.) So I was extremely embarrassed. But one of the referrals we contacted and he is a new investigator and the other one told us to come back after the holidays.
I love you all and I miss you all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Watch christmas.mormon.org.
(You all should, it will make you feel warm and fuzzy inside.)
Toodaloo!
Sister Schmidt
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