11 Months Out!

Kootenai Falls ~ Troy, Montana

Hello to Everyone!

 

So this last week we found out that Pelar, one of our investigators, is actually a member of the church! So reactivation is in process.

 

We taught one of our investigators, Crystal Chapmen, on Monday and we shared the Restoration and it went so well! The spirit was so strong and she is on date to get baptized for the 18th of June! We are so excited and so is she! She told us that she already believes it. Her mom is a member and so is her extended family and her grandpa who is really close to her. Crystal is 25 and she has 2 girls. One is almost 8 and the other one is 5 I think. Crystal has been through a hard life and she said it was because of her stupid decisions. She has been humbled and she is at rock bottom with her life. She is confused and does not know where to turn. But, Heavenly Father, who is amazing and who loves her very much is building her back up one piece at a time. So pray for her and her family!

 

We are also teaching another girl named Crystal but her last name in not Chapmen, it is Anton, thankfully. She is really religious and she has three kids and she is the sister to Amie Anderson (the one who sends the pics of me to you). The boys are also being taught by us and they love us coming over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! These exclamation marks are NOT an exaggeration!  Apparently, before I came to Bonners Ferry, Crystal did not want anything to do with the missionaries. But now she wants us over and she invited us for dinner which was last night! She is amazing and she is truly seeking for truth. Her husband was a loyal Seventh Day Adventist but he no longer practices it because Crystal proved everything he believed wrong ~ and right from the Bible. She has an Interlinear Bible that has direct translation from both Hebrew and Greek. Some lessons have gotten pretty intense. (And no Dad and Scott, we did not teach the lesson in a tent!) She just wants Bible proof and she needs to understand if there was proof for everything then it would be too easy and we didn't come down to earth to have an easy peasy life. She needs to exercise faith! But she is slowly warming up. It is just huge that she loves us and has us willingly in her home and teaching her boys. Harley and Aiden are hilarious and they love God. Having God in your life does not mean that your life is easy, it is just easier to make it through.

 

Interviews with President and Sister Dymock happened this past week and it was awesome! I seriously believe that I have the best Mission President and Mission President Wife. He knows so much and all he tells us is "Institute Manuals." SO, when I come home I am getting my nose in those books. I had exchanges and as some of you know, I saw the Strocks! Sister Rich told me that we were going to go and see the Christenson's and that was going to be our last lesson for the evening and I am not going to lie, I was really sad that we were not going to see the Strocks. But I told myself that if I was going to see them it was meant to happen. Then we walk up the steps and knock on the door and a VERY familiar face pops out with her arms wide open and it takes me a second to recognize who I am looking at ~ once I do ~ my jaw drops and I am in shock. The whole entire time I was there I couldn't believe who I was seeing with my own two eyes. My jaw hit the ground. It was a nice surprise and I love surprises!!

The Strock's!

 

Yesterday I finally met another one of our investigators named Missy Sanders.  She asked me where I am from and once I said Loomis, CA she is like are you kidding me? It turns out she grew up in Newcastle and she went to Del Oro as well and graduated in 2000! 

IT"S A SMALL WORLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  And I love this world! 

P-Day Planting!
Monica And Sister McFaul helped to plant 2 apple trees for an investigator!

I love this area and I love all of you! I love this Gospel. I love Jesus Christ. I love my Heavenly Father! I know it is true and I know that it is for all of you! 

Toodaloo!

 

Sister Schmidt