New Area ~ Moscow, ID

"The field is white, already to harvest!"

My new address here in Moscow ~

Sister Monica Schmidt

317 E D St #3

Moscow, Idaho 83843

I think Moscow is okay.  I miss Bonners Ferry so much! It is just super dense! The members here are awesome but they are struggling to get into the missionary spirit. But that is why we missionaries are here to help them! :) We have a few investigators and I will go into depth with them next week since this emailing session is going by so fast. I promise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But something I forgot to tell you. Our mission is doing a Book of Mormon Challenge. We are challenged to read the Book of Mormon for 40 days (a whole transfer) and in return from the Lord we as a mission will get 40 baptisms for the month of September. I am so excited and the reading is going good so far. :) YAY! I for sure don't want to get behind on my reading.  Sister Gibson and I are already seeing the blessings from this challenge. We found 3 new investigators this week! We are hoping that they are solid.

We also had a mini missionary this whole week as well! Her name is Sister Clarissa Richards and she is from Spokane. It was an adventure, let me tell you! I am glad that I had the opportunity to have a mini missionary on my mission. The good news is she still wants to go on a mission after dealing with me.. haha :) JOKE!

Sister Gibson, Sister Richards, Sister Schmidt

All the missionaries in our zone who have mini-missionaries!

My apartment is really nice and there are no bugs compared to the one in Bonners Ferry! haha:) I am learning the area very fast and I am grateful for the gift of learning fast. The ward that I am serving in is the Quail Run ward. It is a family ward. All the wards in Moscow are now family. They combined both the student and family wards here. 

So one of our investigators is a 16 year old girl name Izzy! She is a stubborn girl who has had a rough life! Can you pray for her to soften her heart? Thank you! I will tell you more about her next week!

I almost forgot! So I almost died this week! (I didn't feel like sugar coating it.) So we were going to a members house for dinner and our little car starts rolling backwards on their steep driveway and I immediately put the brake on and then the emergency brake and I put it in park and we had to get the member to pull us out. We first broke their tie downs and then they had to go to their neighbors house and get a metal chain to attach to their truck and then to our car. It worked. But the scary part is that my left back wheel was on rocks and was on the edge of a cliff that goes into a ditch...... I am grateful for diesel engines!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The church is so true!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love it and I am grateful to be a member and to be a missionary and to meet such wonderful people who are my spirit brother and sisters. Heavenly Father is such a loving father and I am so happy to know that He loves me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't remember if I already told you this but an elder came up with this cool quote, "Disobedience is easy to get into but hard to go through. Obedience is hard to get into but easy to get through." Obedience is key. In Doctrine and Covenants 82:10 it says, "I the Lord am bound when ye do what I say, but when ye do not what I say ye have no promise." Heavenly father wants to be bound to us. He wants to give us blessings but we have to do what He has asked of us. We are holding Heavenly Father from blessing us and providing miracles to happen in our lives. I am learning a lot more about the importance of obedience and I love it! 

I love you all and I miss you!!!!!!!!!!!! Toodaloo!!

Sister Schmidt