Hey family!
Hope y'all are doing well. :) thank you for your letter, Sarah! It made my day! I'm a slacker and haven't written anyone lately but I'm glad someone will still write letters to me. I hope your week has treated ya well.
The Torres got married and baptized this week! It was super sweet. Man, they are so awesome too. I'm so excited for them! Steven and Kayla are both hilarious...I just love it. They'd be at church every sunday but we never really talked to them until this past week. Haha here was our conversation with them last sunday....
"When are y'all getting baptized?"
"We don't know! Do you know?" (terrible planning and communication on the elders part)
"As soon as you're married you can get baptized."
"Could we do it all together the same night?"
"Haha well yeah, but how about we do the baptism later this week?"
"I just wanna get baptized already!"
Bishop Smith married the two of them tuesday night. And then they got baptized friday night. They are so sweet and have such strong testimonies, it was a sweet experience!
Let's see what else happened this past week.. Bishop Smith got released yesterday! Man it's hard, I absolutely loved having him as our bishop. We walked around the corner after church yesterday and he was just sitting in this empty room going through some paperwork and he looked so sad. Haha we told him he needed to go find someone to get a hug but instead he just got up and asked us for hugs. He gave a lot into his service and it really meant a lot to him, we'll miss him so much!
Sister Wolf, Sister Seegrist, Sister Stennett and I all sang in church yesterday. Well, Sister Stennett played the violin, but still. I think it sounded pretty good!
Hmm, there's not really a whole ton to say. Our week was kinda lame, everyone kept cancelling but it's alright.
Chandra's doing well. We had an appointment with her on friday but she wasn't there which is very unusual because she'll always let us know if she has to cancel. And then her phone just went straight to voicemail and we didn't know what was going on. We invited her to the baptism but she said she might not be able to make it. And she was definitely planning on coming to church but she didn't show up sunday morning. So yesterday we decided to just stop by and see if she's alright. The timing was perfect because they just got home. Turns out they were planning on surprising us at the baptism friday night but then Geneva started acting up and they couldn't come. And the same thing happened sunday morning before church. The devil is working real hard on her but we're gonna go over today and bring someone to give her a blessing. She's amazing! I think the sweetest thing about Chandra is how in tune she already is with the spirit. She was saying yesterday how they need to make it to church becaue she don't want to get baptized in a church she's hardly been to. It's awesome because she always brings up what we need to tell her, but she thinks of it herself. We're super excited for her! I love how she has a real desire to know the truth for herself. :)
Lately we've been going through the elders old area book and it's so crazy! Back in 2007 there were tons and tons of people that got baptized. It's interesting because mostly all those people are less active now. The records for those people are terrible too. I don't know, maybe the elders just didn't write down when they taught them. But for the most part they didn't even teach them everything before they got baptized. It made me start thinking about the people we teach now. Although their baptismal number was higher back then I realized that the goal we have now is not just to have people get baptized, but have an enduring conversion process. It's sweet because that's what a mission is all about. I mean yes, we serve a mission to help bring others unto Christ. But the biggest part of that is bringing yourself unto Christ and becoming more converted yerself. It's just like this scriptures, "When thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren" (Luke 22:32) I think it's not only needed in todays world, but it's also the only way to make it though...that is by our testimony. So the question I have for y'all is, how are you becoming more converted everyday?
Just wanted to let y'all know that I love you. I love the gospel and I know that Heavenly Father has a perfect plan for us, and for that I am so grateful.
Love Always, Sister Schmutz
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