Sunday Sister Smores

Hello Everyone,

On Friday we had zone training and we talked a lot about faith. To be specific, we had a zone discussion on Elder Bednar's talk "Seek Learning by Faith" and it is SO good! Then we talked about the different ways people learn and how we can best help our investigators come unto Christ if we know how they learn. That goes for us as well. If we know if we learn better visually, or by reading, or by hands on things, etc. then we can better understand the Gospel of Jesus Christ and become MORE converted to the Gospel. After zone training was done we had lunch together as a zone and then we had exchanges and Sister LeBow came to Bonners Ferry with me and Sister Lake stayed in Sandpoint with the STL (sister trainer leader), Sister Rich.

 

None of the Relief Society ladies from the ward came because they were out of town or they had prior commitments. This past weekend Sister LeBow and I helped our investigator, Skyler, pack to move.  (None of the Relief Society ladies from the ward came because they were out of town or they had prior commitments.)  She has SO much stuff and she didn't realize it until she saw how many boxes we filled and that we were still filling up boxes. Thankfully Sister LeBow has moved a lot and is very quick at it. When we showed up ~ nothing was packed and we were moving her on Saturday with the men in the ward. Sister LeBow and I worked on the kitchen Friday and then we had to go. We decided to come over Saturday morning at 7:30 to help pack more so when the men came there were boxes ready to be put into trucks and trailers to be hauled to her new home. She has so much stuff. But understand, she used to live in a 5 bedroom 3 bath house before she moved into her apartment.  The men then showed up at 9:30 and we got stuff going. About 40 people came and we cleared that place out in 3 hours. During it, Sister LeBow and I asked Sister Lake and Sister Rich to come down because we needed help packing up boxes. They did and we got it done. We then went to Skyler's new home and we, as us sister missionaries, moved big pieces of furniture to the upstairs and we moved Skyler's washer and dryer to her basement. It was fun and quite a workout!   We helped her move from 7:30 am to 3 pm. I was wiped out. The Lord was keeping me awake!

 

Skyler grew up Mennonite and she told us that they only help their own and she thought it was amazing that SO many people came to help her out! She cried when we left her with a prayer! :) I love the spirit and Christ like service! We are going to see her again this week! :)

 

Kymm Mann, one of our investigators, was going to come to church on Sunday, but the adversary used one of her teammates to prevent her from coming. One of her friends, who is a member and who referred us to Kymm, called Kymm Sunday morning and said that she and others would be coming over to pick cherries at 12:30. That is when our ward starts. That did not make me happy but it just shows that the adversary does not want Kymm to come to church because it is the right thing to do. We will win! :) But the upside is that Kymm LOVES the institute manual!

 

Also, another investigator, Missy, she read the testimonies in the Book of Mormon and she liked them! We invited her to read the first chapter of the Book of Mormon and we are going to visit her this week and talk about it and explain it to her and answer her questions!

 

You all should go to fairmormon.org and look at it. It is a cite that answers all of the concerns or things that people argue against the church. It is awesome! Our Mission President told us about it.

 

So on Wednesday we were going back to the church from having a lesson at Kymm's and a member was driving us back. I was in the passenger side and Sister Lake was sitting behind me. I got out of the vehicle and I shut the door with my left hand and my ring finger in is the slot wear the two doors meet and Sister Lake, not knowing my finger was there, SLAMS her door shut on my finger. I start freaking out once I felt the pain. Sister Lake froze and I told her multiple times to open her door and she eventually did. Sister Yount, the member with us, has medical background and she immediately took me to the bathroom to wash my wound out and I was in a 90 degree angle because of the pain. She then took me to sit on a couch and she got the first aid kit. While I was sitting I was breathing like I was about to give birth and a random young man comes up and asks if I am okay. Sister Lake later on told me that during this whole thing he had a look of concern on his face. I examined my finger and I have a deep cut on one side a  nice dent on the other side. My finger (where it was jammed) was the size of the tip of my pinky! The young man, who I came to know is Kyle. While I was in pain and tears were running down my face, I introduced myself and he as well and we just laughed. He then went and got some ice and came back and I had to move. So I got up and started walking in circles. Sister Yount then called our mission nurse and informed her about what happened. I over heard that I need to keep it elevated and I put my hand up while I was still walking.  They all laughed. I kept telling myself out loud to stop crying and it helped a little. Kyle then went to his car and got Tylenol for me to take. We then went home and Sister Yount addressed my wound and cleaned it out and it stung so much. She put on band aids in a creative way and I was sent to bed. It still hurts and it seems like EVERYTHING in the world is out to get my finger and hurt it!

Sunday Sister Smores

Love you all and miss you! Toodaloo!

 

Sister Schmidt