A Challenging Week!

Pullman, WA

Exchanges with Sister Paget

Hello Everyone!

This week was a very challenging week. But I learned a lot. So out of all of the lessons that we had planned this week, we only had 2 happen. It was really frustrating and depressing. But we need to experience these kind of weeks to appreciate those really good ones! 

I definitely don't take those good weeks for granted! HAHA  :) 

I have to discover that life is difficult. I already knew that, but on my mission I have developed a new set of eyes. Before my mission I had various ways to deal with difficulty.  I had my family, movies, music, my room, not talking. Unfortunately, I did not talk to my Heavenly Father like I should have. Now being on my mission, I don't have those things anymore ~ I only have my companion and my relationship with Heavenly Father. I have strengthened my relationship with  Heavenly Father so much! :) I am still working on it ~ don't get me wrong but now I have a thriving relationship and I turn to Him and confide in Him more than I ever have in my entire life. I am grateful for hard times because my Heavenly Father has helped me develop a bond with Him. That is just awesome! He has put me in hard situations so that I can learn to rely on Him and to be blessed. So we go through hard things to be blessed! I love this gospel! I have a confession.... I have rough knees. Before my mission, my knees were smooth and not rough. Now they are worn and sometimes they get caught on my skirts... haha :) I love prayer and the ability that we have to call on our loving Father anytime we want to talk to Him and He is always there and listening and wanting to help us and bless us!

So the info on my new companion Sister Gibson ~ she was an ice skater, she is 19, she is from Tri-Cities, Washington, she has 2 full blood related siblings and 4 half brothers but she only talks to 2 brothers. I don't know what else to say. She is awesome!

Another thing that I learned this week or that stood out to me was that Christ was the perfect example for how we should all live our lives.  I was doing more thinking on this and His sacrifice and the thought process that I had was along the lines of: Christ asked if He didn't have to do it because He knew that it was going to be hard. So His will did not align with Heavenly Father's will ~ like how our will does not always align with God's as well. But, Christ still obeyed. Just like missions are hard, we need to follow Christ's example and let our will dissolve and accept Heavenly Father's plan. We can all do hard things.

Love you and miss you! Toodaloo!

Sister Schmidt