Merry Christmas!

Hello Everyone,

On Monday we had a lesson with an older couple and their names are Dell and Claudette. When he was in the Air Force his general, who is a Bishop in this area, talked to him about the gospel and he wanted to join but didn't. So we are teaching them and he has read about 50 pages in the Book of Mormon.  He is doing well!!!

Ayla got baptized and it went well! About 60 people came to it! The best turn out I have ever seen ever for a baptism! When she was getting dressed, after she got baptized, we passed out sheets of paper to everyone and asked them to write down their testimony. We are going to put them into a book for her. After the baptism ~ while we were having refreshments ~ a lady who is pregnant passed out! The fire department came in and apparently she does not drink water so she was dehydrated! So that was very eventful. But she is doing better!

We had a district meeting and during lunch we talked about what super powers we would want and I want to fly and my super hero name is Sky Searcher! It was so much fun! We then had dinner with President McCombie and his family!

Friday we had specialized training with President Dymock and Sister Dymock. We were trained on councils and some major deep doctrine was shared!!!!! I will share with you later! We then had a Christmas activity of ginger bread house making. We did district against district. My district is the only district that has sisters in it and we won..... haha :) 

Specialized Training
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Gingerbread Houses!

On Friday we went on exchanges and I went to Ritzville with Sister Madsen. It was so cold there! When we were walking outside we asked someone how cold it was and they said it was -12 degrees outside! HOLY MOLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We tracted into a young mom who is interested in learning more!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ritzville, WA

Sister Madsen and Schmidt on exchanges!

Something extremely awesome happened on Saturday!!! We were driving to our ward Christmas Party and while we were on the road we saw someone walking on the side of road and it was 6 degrees outside!!!!!!!!! We remembered that we had hand warmers in the back and so we pulled over and gave them to him. His name is Tyleek and he is 17 ~ but he looks like he is in his 20s. He had to walk about 3 miles home and we couldn't give him a ride.  So we drove to the party and the stake president and his daughter came with us and we picked him up.  He agreed to come to the party! He enjoyed it a lot! He had never seen anything like it before! The McCombie's then took him home and they got his number and they are going to invite him to go sledding with their family! We had hand warmers in the car because of the Christmas initiative. If it wasn't for the advent calendar then we wouldn't have had those hand warmers to give to Tyleek and he then wouldn't have come to the party or been invited to go sledding!!!!!!!! Miracles happen all over!!!!!!!!!!

Ayla got confirmed on Sunday and it was wonderful! We got picked on a lot yesterday! But it went well! We had a lesson at the stake president's home with a recent convert and it was pretty intimidating. There was a lot of return missionaries there ~ and the way that we were all sitting ~ it was scary! Sister McCombie came up to us after and apologized for the situation and said that we did good! YAY!!!!!!!!!!! This week was crazy but fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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

Sister Schmidt