Keeping Busy

Hello Everyone!

So many things are happening back at home. I am so excited for Del Oro to compete for the State Championships!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wish I could be there and cheer them on. But I am here cheering for them. Just don't forget to let me know who wins.

I am not going to lie but I get really lazy when it comes to emailing. I get too excited to email you all and then when the day comes I get lazy and emailing home is super stressful. I didn't think it would be ~ but it is just one of those things that you have to experience as a missionary to understand. So I will do my best to give a full detail report about things that have happened this week. I have about 40 minutes to do this.

OH, before I forget. I have the info about skyping. So I will give you the info of the ladies skype account next week.  Also we only get to skype for 40 minutes since that is what the white handbook says. Just giving you a heads up so have things written down that you want to talk about if you want. We will be going over to her house at 12 and I will be skyping first. I will give you more info next week with specifics. If there is anything else that you want to know just email me.

Something I forgot to share before ~ when I was still in Lewiston and we had exchanges I went to Orofino and we stopped by to check on a lady and once she opened her door a HUMONGOUS dog comes running out and we learned that it is actually 98% wolf. So I was petting a wolf! It was so fluffy and nice and beautiful. So I thought you all would like to know that I have touched a wolf and I have been around so many dogs that you would be impressed. I have not freaked out ~ except once when it was a vicious pitbull. But I have been around other pit bulls and they have all jumped on me. I am still afraid of mean dogs but I am getting better. 

SO this week has been strange. On Monday we had a lesson with Greg Jensen who is about 60-70 years old and his girlfriend is a less active member. Our lesson topic was the Word of Wisdom and the Law of Chastity. The Word of Wisdom went well. He said that he can quit alcohol, coffee, tea, tobacco and drugs because he doesn't even do drugs. He is such a jokster. Then we got to the Law of Chastity and he understood the being loyal before and after marriage but then it threw him off when we said that in order for him to get baptized he cannot live with Joyce. (We found out that he has been living with her when we were giving him this lesson.) Anyway, he was telling us how he can't go back to his apartment because it is depressing because it reminds him of his wife of 42 years who passed away about 2-3 years ago. He asked us, "SO you are telling me that if I want to be baptized I need to rent a motel room?'" We didn't know what to say to him. We felt so bad but these rules are not our rules. They are rules of the church from God. We told them that they can get married or that he can leave for the evenings and sleep at his place and then come and hangout with Joyce. He was thrown back. His countenance changed. But Joyce was being so supportive and telling him that they will figure it out and that this will not be the hardest thing for them to go through together nor will it be the last.  On a happier note we found out that he has been reading from the Book of Mormon and we want him to develop a testimony because if he knows that the Book of Mormon is true then everything else will fall into place. We have yet to have any contact with him this past week. They went out of town this weekend. Greg is an Air Force Veteran and he likes that our ward has villains and Air Forceman in it.

For the AFB we don't really do anything. We can't proselyte ~ we just help out with things like decorating. Nothing really exciting. But it is cool to go on the AFB though. Don't get me wrong. I have a soft spot for people in the military.

SO we had exchanges this week and I went to the Cheney YSA and it was cool to be around young people again. That was on Wednesday and then on Thursday I woke up feeling sick to my stomach and it turns out that I had the flu. I was inside ALL DAY long Thursday- Saturday. I did NOT feel like a missionary. I only threw up twice though. I am starting to feel better now. Being sick is the worst.

! Muddy Felicia !

SO on Monday when we had our lesson with Greg and Joyce I parked our Chevy Cruise, I strongly dislike Chevy, in the mud by accident and Sister Griffith is about to get out of the car and her foot sinks into the mud and so I slowly drive out of the mud and park somewhere else but while I am slowly driving out of the mud, mud gets flung

Specialized Training 12/11/15

over half of our car. I will send you a picture. It was hilarious and disgusting. It looks like monkeys threw poop at us.

On Friday I made myself go to Specialized Training. It was fantastic. I am so glad that I went. I asked my district leader, Elder Gingles and his companion Elder Bingham to give me a blessing and they said that they would love to. Also the zone leaders came into the room for the blessing and they were a part of the circle as well. This priesthood blessing has been my first blessing on the mission. It was a cool experience. Then after specialized training a lot of missionaries left but some stayed to talk to President privately and Sister Dymock because she is a psychiatrist. In between those visits I got to talk to President a lot and it was nice to just talk to him and not be rushed or him being rushed. He asked me how I am doing in a family ward coming from YSA and I told him that I feel like a new missionary. He laughed.

Well nothing really happened this week since I was mostly sick for it!

AWESOME BLOSSOM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!  

Love you all and I wish you a Merry Christmas!!!! Toodaloo

Sister Schmidt