4th of July

Hey Family!

Sorry I don't got a lot of time to email today... I'll type as fast as I can.  Our pday is actually on Friday this week but we're emailing today because the library will be closed.  With President Hansen coming in yesterday he's doing zone conferences all week to get to know everyone so our pday got switched later in the week. 

Anyways, ooh the exciting news is that Geneva and Johnathan are getting baptized this Saturday!  Chandra's friends from South Carolina is coming down for the baptism too.  It should be real nice.  :)  I'm super excited for them too.  I'll be sure to send y'all some pictures. 

It sounds like y'all are having a pretty great summer.  Be sure to tell Austin I say hey! 

We've been doing real great here too.  :)  ooh here's a cool story for y'all.  So on Saturday we're going to contact this media referral we got and we walk all the way there but she ain't home and her husband is getting ready to leave to work real quick so we just drop off the bible and keep walking. 

Sister Wolf asks, "where we headed to?" 

And I say, "the bus stop on Prescott."

"Why don't we turn around and go the way we came from?"

"Umm I think this way is shorter.."  You have to keep in mind it's burning hot out and we're already dripping in sweat.

So we turn the corner and there's this girl holding this little toddler and trying to carry a giant thing of laundry. 

So Sister Wolf asks, "Can we help you carry it?" cause she kept stopping every couple steps.

"Umm..Yeah!" 

While we're walking we get talking a little.

"What's the little guys name?"

"Aiden"

"Aw he's cute.  Is he your little brother?"

"No.  He's my son."

"Oh..Cool"

"What y'all doing out here?"
"We're missionaries from our church."

"So are y'all out here trying to get people to come to church?"

"Kinda...and teach them about Jesus."

I can't really remember the rest of the details but we gave her a Book of Mormon and she asked if we could come back and teach her.  Her name's Keaina and she's super sweet.  She just lives in a little apartment by herself.  She looks like she's twelve but she's probably seventeen or so.  She's quite but real nice.  I'm real excited to go back.  The experience was sweet because it shows that God wanted us to meet her that day.  If we didn't have plans to go see the referral we'd never be over there.  And if the referral wasn't home we'd never had kept walking which means we wouldn't have turned the corner and seen her right when she needed help.  It was just a sweet little miracle!

Oh and here's one more sweet miracle before I gotta go.  So way back a couple weeks ago we're visiting the Dixon's and teaching them on their porch.  Their house is one of those that's connected to another one so their neighbor is sitting on her porch and listened in on the lesson a little bit.  At the end she asked, "Where's y'all church located?"  We said, "Up on Winbourne across from the golf course."  And she said, "Cool.  I'll have to come sometime soon."  And that was it.  Then fast forward a couple weeks and our district has this challenge to give out lots of copies of the Book of Mormon.  So we're thinking and decided we should give one to her!  We give her one and she said she'd love to read it and we could come back later to talk about it.  Then fast forward to last week and we stop by to see her.  She's busy but says to come back the next day.  So we got back and she read a little of the Book of Mormon.  Had lots of questions.  And we got to teach her the restoration.  She related a lot to Joseph Smith wondering which church to go and knows God will answer her.  Aw man, she's so awesome and I'm so excited for her.  Oh yeah, and her name's Andrea.  We have two investigators named Andrea now but they're both pronounced differently.  :)

Anyways, that was about our whole week right there for ya.  Hope y'all are doing well. 

Hey and a quick scripture before I leave.  "Peace, peace be unto you, because of your faith in my Well Beloved, who was from the foundation of the world." (Helaman 5:47) It's as simple as that.  If you want peace then you got to turn to Christ.  When you learn of him you can receive his peace and rest. 

Love y'all so much!  Have a great week.  

Love Always, Sister Schmutz

p.s. transfers is next week!  What do y'all think will be happening?