Three More Weeks!

Hello Family!

Christmas happened and that meant I was able to see you guys! It was awesome to see you! I remember when I skyped you on Mother's Day 6 months ago. I thought that it would be forever until I got to Skype home again. But here it is, a day after Christmas. Time goes by so fast! I am going to embrace these last 3 weeks that I have as a full-time missionary. Miracles have been happening here in the Silver Lake ward. We have been teaching a man named Daren Geller for three weeks now ~ so ever since I got here. I feel that I am here for him. He has come to church 3 times and he has accepted to be baptized. We invited him to be baptized on the 28th of January and he asked if he could change it to the 27th because his birthday is the 27th of February and he wants to remember when he gets baptized. When we checked on the date we found out that the 28th was full of youth activities and stake conference so the 27th was divine intervention. He is so genuine and humble and PREPARED!!!!!  When he comes to church he feels loved and accepted and he wants to continue to come. He has attended a lot of different churches throughout the years and he feels something good that he hasn't felt in those other churches! We are excited to continue to work with him. Pray for him that he will have the strength to overcome his Word of Wisdom addictions. He wants to quit and he has before.

Another investigator that we have been working with is Liz Osburn and she is awesome! She was first throwing Anti ~ Mormon information at the sisters and she is now thinking about joining church! Liz loves to read the Book of Mormon and she enjoys it. At first she was reading it like it was a piece of Literature but I am not sure what she thinks of it now?  Hopefully she thinks that it is the word of God. I know that the Book of Mormon is from God and that it benefits us tremendously!! She came to the Christmas party and she enjoyed herself. Even her daughter who is anti-religion came and she had a blast! Liz is excited that church is now going to be at 11 because it was hard for her to come to church at 9 with her health.  We are just working on getting members to her appointments.  Please pray for her and her daughter Chloe. 

Christmas was fantastic! We went caroling Christmas Eve as a zone! It was so much fun! After we had a snowball fight and there was no mercy! I was the main target for some reason ~ because I was holding a hymn book and I couldn't throw one. 

The Ritzville sisters came and spent the night with us and we enjoyed Christmas morning together opening up presents! This ward loves us! And I love them!!!!!!!!!!!!!! On Christmas Day we went to church and we had a wonderful Christmas program. We then went to the Flink's and we skyped home which was awesome!! I love the Flink home!!!!! After, we went caroling with a family in our ward in a nursing home and it was so much fun! A lady got up and she started to lead us in our singing. They enjoyed it very much! Christmas should be a day of service! I want to continue to do so for the rest of my life. Later in the day we had dinner with Bishop Harshberger and his family and it was a delicious meal!

Christmas Package 2016!

I love all of you and I hope all is well! Love you and miss you!! Toodaloo!!!!!!!

Sister Schmidt