Happy Halloween!

!! Happy Halloween ~ 2016 !!

Hello Family,

Answers to your questions:

1) The visit with Chris went well! We just talked to him and his girlfriend. She didn't really talk much but we talked to him about why he doesn't go to church anymore. We had a good time. We can definitely have missionaries stop by and see them! Do you know what she is expecting or if she just liked our company?

2) As an STL I am over 5 sisters and they are all in Pullman, WA besides my companion obviously!

3) I am still thinking about what I want for Christmas? I have thought about you just giving me a gift card so that I can go out and buy one new outfit that I can wear for when I come home. But depending on where I am sent for my last transfer I might ask you to send me a new outfit. I would like just nicer tops since all I have back at home is regular t-shirts even though I am going to love wearing those again with a sweatshirt and jeans! But strangely enough, I am going to miss wearing a skirt everyday... The mission has changed me!

I am so jealous that you got to see Emilee Lloyd, Danielle, and Julie Jones !!!!!!!!!!!!! I miss all of them and love them so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope you have fun at Uncle Blain's for Halloween! Tell him that I say HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope everything for tennis will turn out okay! I miss playing it! I have not stepped foot on a court since I have been out and I held a racquet for only a few minutes! So I am going to relearn once I get home!

Ryan Osborn is doing SO well !!!!!! We had two lessons with him this week! It is so refreshing to teach Ryan. He is so eager and understands what we are teaching him. Our first lesson we taught him the gospel of Jesus Christ and we  had steps for it and everything and he enjoyed it tremendously! He wants to get baptized and we are going to follow up with him and to see if he has talked to his parents about getting baptized. I love Ryan! Sister Andruski and I both imagined Ryan being baptized at the exact same time so we are assuming that is God telling us that he will get baptized. Then we had a dinner appointment with the Dixon's and we had Ryan come over! We watched the Restoration movie and he had already watched it twice beforehand. The first time he had questions and then he watched it again with subtitles and his questions were answered! We asked him if he will pray and ask God if Joseph Smith was a prophet and he said that he already knows that he was prophet because he asked God! I LOVE RYAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! To top it off he came to church! He can now get baptized tomorrow if he wanted to but first we need to teach him all of the lessons. Do you have any ideas on how to teach the law of chastity to a 13 year old boy?

I then had an all day meeting in Spokane at the Mission home for new missionary leaders! It was awesome! I am so nervous about being a STL! I don't want to mess up and I have so many weaknesses and I need to be an example but it is hard when I struggle with things. I am learning how to be humble and get over that. haha :)

This week in personal study I learned a few cool things. So in 1 Nephi chapter 4 verse 20 it is talking about how Nephi is going to the treasury with Zoram and Zoram thinks that Nephi is Laban. I imagine the treasury to be like National Treasure or the bank account of Harry Potter. Nephi could have taken anything he wanted but all he wanted was the brass plates! He had integrity and he put the Lord's will in front of his. I love it! So at points I struggle to have constant motivation to do missionary work! (It is hard to get rejected a lot.) But I was reading in Alma chapter 8 and it was exactly what I needed to read at the exact moment! I love the Lord's tender mercies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Earlier today we tried a potential investigator and on the door there was a sign that said, "LDS friends" and then a note taped on the door. I immediately thought that it was a drop letter but NOPE! She informed us of when it would be a good time to stop by! Another tender mercy! The Lord loves His children!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I Love you all and miss you!!!!!!! Toodaloo!!!!

Sister Schmidt