Hello Everyone,
So this week was a blur! I am so grateful for planners and for journals or else I would not remember what happened this week!
One of the ward's investigators, Nancy, is on date to be baptized for the 29th of October! We are so excited for her! We had a lesson with her on Wednesday and we were talking about baptism and how that we in order to get to a position in life need to make goals. We expressed to her that the main goal in life is to find and have joy and that is only through the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The first step is by being baptized and receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost. We invited her to be baptized by someone holding the priesthood authority of God and she said "when" and we told her to choose and she said "any day". SO we suggested October 29th and she agreed! She is still fighting the addictions that she is overcoming and I know that if she continues to come closer to Christ she will have the strength to beat her addictions and to have her agency back that belongs rightfully to her! We asked her if she knows what the Book of Mormon is about from the previous sisters teaching her and she said no. I am so happy that she was honest with us because understanding the Book of Mormon is vital for our conversion. Before the mission I never read the introduction or the testimonies. I encourage everyone to read those because they are so good with helping us understand the story of the Book of Mormon and the ability it has to increase our spirituality.
The Leonard family is doing so well! Brother James Leonard is the non-member and he is amazing! I love this family! I just want to be around them all the time! We had a lesson with them this week about temples and how Heavenly Father wants them to go to the temple to be sealed for time and all eternity. In weddings outside of the temple the individual performing the wedding usually says "Till death do you part" or "for as long as you both shall live". In the temple we are married forever! It doesn't just end once we die, it continues even after this life! At the end of the lesson we let them choose a picture of the temple that they would like to put in a place where they would always see it. (The temple pics you gave me mom are the one's that they chose from). They also came to General Conference and it was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love general conference even if I get rebuked by God. It is always with love. I don't have my notes with me so I can't exactly tell you what I liked but I did absolutely love the topic of trials. We go through trials for a reason. We can receive strength from the Savior to get through our trials. I have learned that sometimes the strength I receive is patience to endure my trials. An important thing to remember is that there is a reason why we are going through trials. We are learning and growing! Another topic that I loved was JOY!!!!!!!!!!!! We are here to experience joy and we can choose to be happy or choose to be unhappy. IT IS OUR CHOICE! I love it! God does not force anything on us. As a missionary I don't force this wonderful, joyful message on others. I only invite. (Even though I would really like to force this on people because I know it will make them happier and give them more purpose in life!) But I have to remember they get to choose. I will talk about general conference more next time when I have my notes!
I love you all and miss you tons!!!!!!!! TOODALOO!!!!!!!!!
Sister Schmidt
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