Letter #87- "and i swear that you don´t have to go..‏"

Well, my family! 


Can you believe in less than a week it will be Christmas!? I cannot. It is crazy. This week was fun. It was challenging and it is getting hotter and hotter. Which is bitter sweet or may I say bitter sweat? hahahaha. The problem is that it is really hot and then I get red, but it´s awesome because I like to sweat, it´s great. 

This past week was amazing. We had the temple trip and conference, so the just of it was that on Sunday, we were missing a lot of lessons and contacts. It´s not that we focus on numbers, but the numbers represent souls that are important to Heavenly Father and the Lord has promised us that if we fulfill these key-indicators, that we will be blessed. 


It is important to teach new missionaries that, while being trained, for if you don´t, they pass by the whole mission thinking "I can't teach a lot of people or talk to a lot of people or even baptize a lot of people because I would just be focusing on numbers and that´s bad." When they really miss that the Lord wants us to teach A LOT OF PEOPLE. 


So I told you that so that I could tell you this:
On Sunday we were missing a lot of lessons (like 6) and a lot of contacts (like a lot) we had to come home and study after lunch because we missed Tuesday and Wednesday because of temple and conference. So we left the house at like 4. We said a prayer and asked Heavenly Father to bless us that we could fulfill these key indicators and then we were walking out and I said, "Take note Elder Schmidt, you are about to see a huge miracle and the Lord will help us." And so we left, and on our street passed like 100 families and we contacted everyone. We passed by all of our investigators houses and they were all home. It was amazing. We came home at nine with all the things we asked for. 

So Monday afternoon, a priest went out with us. It was awesome. He will be such a great missionary. We made plans but, they fell through, so we started contacting houses. First house, it was a pastor´s house. We taught the first lesson- it went well. Second house was a seventh-day adventist. She was super nice. We were chatting and she showed us some of the doctrine of her church. Wow, they have their own plan of salvation. We were searching for something we could teach that would stick out in her mind and the Holy Ghost could use to impress her and then she explained about how her son had died 3 years ago. So we taught her the plan of salvation. She loved it and got really into it. She asked us to come by on Thursday for her to ask more questions. Let´s pray that she gets baptized. 

Everything is going good. I am excited to talk to you all on Sunday. I love you all so much!
Don´t stop believing!!!!!
com amor!
Elder Askins