Loving My Mission!

Hello everyone!

This week was crazy!!!!!!! So something extremely awesome happened on Saturday. We were tracting and we weren't finding a lot of potentials and we saw this man working on his car and I love cars so it would be a perfect intro. It turns out he is a jack mormon. That is what he called himself. He kept talking and talking and we finally were able to leave and try some more people. A few blocks away we see a black lady and her little boy walking our way and she is on the phone so we wave and smile and we stop to hopefully start a conversation and as we are past each other her son says, "Mom, stop." The mom turns around, still talking on the phone, points to where she lives and she hands us her drivers license so we can get her name and address. We give her a card and they walk away. We didn't really know what just happened but it was a neat experience. If we didn't talk to that man for that amount of time we would have missed her. The Lord's hand is in all things. SO we are excited to find out what is going to happen with her. 

Korielle got confirmed on Sunday and it was amazing! We saw her and her family later in the evening on Sunday and we asked her how it went. She informed us that she was not expecting to feel different but once she received the gift of the Holy Ghost she felt different in a good way. She felt like she could do anything. Once she said that,  it reminded me of a mormon message where a young man felt the Holy Ghost and it was more powerful than any other drug he had ever taken. Korielle is another source of how powerful the Holy Ghost is. She is doing amazing! She is teaching us things and she is understanding so much. I love her and she is already an amazing member of the church! I am so blessed to have taught her and to see her come unto Christ. During last week we saw Korielle and we read from the intro from the Book of Mormon and it went really well. She understands so much more everyday and it is such a neat opportunity to see her progress! We invited her to read the first chapter of first Nephi and that night she texted us and said,"So I just read the chapters you wanted me to and I felt the warm feeling! :) I've never felt it like this before :D and also what is a pillar of fire?" She is going to be a vital member of the church! 

SO I learned something cool this week. One of our ward mission leaders, Brother Gibson who is over the missionary work in the Sunset ward, told us a cool story. The scripture reference is Malachi 3:2-3. I am focusing on the "refiner and purifier of silver." There were scholars who were dissecting some scriptures in the Bible and this was one of them. They decided to interview a silversmith and ask him questions about the process of making silver. You first have to get the fire to the hottest temperature. You then place the silver in the fire and you have to make sure that you don't take it out too early or too late because it will be worthless and it will have been wasted. The interviewer then asked, "How do you know when it is the right time to take the silver out of the fire?" The silversmith said," That is easy. I know it is done when I can see my reflection on it." Isn't that awesome! We go through trials so that we can become more like our Heavenly Father and to grow and learn. We are in our trials for a certain time and we have to be in them long enough to learn what we need to learn. I just love this analogy of Heavenly Father and us going through hard times.

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I hope you have a great week! You are ALL missed and I love you ALL!  Toodaloo!

Sister Schmidt