Surprise I got emergency transferred again!!!!!!............... ha ha I am kidding! But I really am in Kiev cool huh. So this week has been great. It started with a sisters exchange on Tuesday and Wednesday. It was really fun to have a day with sister carpenter and see what a great missionary she has become. Then it was cool to spend the day with her little greenie. Yes she is training. cool huh. I had a great way to learn from both sides of the spectrum, experienced missionary trainer then Greenie with loads of faith. It was a great two days and we worked really hard. Then now we are in Kiev with sister Whitney and sister paliha, who is also training. So yes both my old companions are trainings (and yes that means that a younger Ukrainian speaking missionary trained before me. Was I a little bummed yes, did i want to train no. am I sad about it now, NOT AN OUNCE. Training is too hard and a think that all trainees never really like their trainer and I don't want to not be liked by my companion. So I am okay with it , but yes my pride was a little hurt because I am not ready to train.. eh :) Now I just get to work hard and give it all we got.
So yes we are in Kiev and It has been amazing. We left Sunday night ( as well as ALL missionaries in our mission) got in Monday morning and cleaned up and went to the office and all changed into P-day/ sport clothes and played football and soccer and lots of fun stuff. We then went back and watched the best two years, so so so funny watching it as a missionary and truly understanding the humor of it. Ha ha I loved it I laughed out loud at so many things it was awkward because others wouldn't be laughing and I did alone ha ha what can ya do? So then we had dinner all together and then had FHE with the stiengal family. It was sad it was all about change because in 3 weeks we get our new mission president and things will be changing a lot. I am so excited but nervous. It was sad Sister Robinson cried because she goes home in a week and a half! weird!!! so yeah It was so neat to have FHE with them and here their testimonies of the work and their lives here in Ukraine. They are a great family. It was cool because they involved us in their FHE. They had family council and talked about things as a family. I liked it it reminded me of ours at home. It also gave a good example for us in the future with our own families.
Now today we are meeting at 2 and we will be hearing from President Clayton from the Presidency of the quorum of the seventy and then President Lawrence from the Seventy as well as in the area presidency of Easteren Ukraine. We will only be with them for 2 hours. I wish we could hear from them all day long. But then after they will be doing a fireside for all members and investigators at 7. I hope we will be able to be there for that too if there is room. We then will get back on a train at 10:30 and head to L'viv and get there at 6:30 in the morning and pound it again there. I am really hoping to get answers to prayers and fasting while I am in their presence. There are so many things that I want to work and improve on. I am just struggling to really help these people come unto Christ through baptism. I feel like i am "planting seeds" A lot of them but I want to help with reaping the rewards. It's difficult to truly know how to help each individual person. I enjoy it all so much. There is not a part of missionary work that I don't enjoy. That seems weird but I love it all I just want to be extraordinary at it all. I know how important it is to thrust in my sickly with all my might. I want to give my all to this work. I want to give my heart most of all, my heart and my will. That's where my Heavenly Father will bless me as I work to bring His children into the fold.
This morning I was talking to the sister's about being clay in the hands of our Savior. That is we let Him He will mold and shape us into the people He knows we can become. The way it happens is our choice. He gives us situations through out our missions (and our lives) to help us learn and grow and become who He intends us to become. As a potter does,he can fight and work as hard as he can to mold the clay into a beautiful vase but if the clay won't budge then the vase will not be as beautiful as it could if it would have been soft and prepared to be shaped. It is our choice to be humble and ready for the Lord to work wonders on our hearts. The only thing holding us back from becoming the beautiful vase is ourselves. We have to make a choice. We have to chose to accept the situations Heavenly Father has given us and choose to be humble and ready to be molded. as well give our hearts, our will, our wants and our desires to the Lord, He will make us more. and in due time we WILL become that beautiful vase, but only as we and humble and submissive to the Lord and accept every experience and circumstance the Lord blesses us with and know that is is to help us learn and grow to become what the Lord knows we can become. He know our potently, we do not. Give your life the the Lord and he will make more out of it than you ever could.
I love you all so much. I am praying for you and I am feeling your prayers for me. I know this church is true I know that the Savior is the Redeemer of the World, he is the potter and knows each and everyone of us. He knows who we are and who we can become. As we accept His atonement and try to open our eyes to His will, we will see ourselves with the potential of heaven. Have an incredible week and open your eyes to the miracles of heaven that lay in your path.
Sister Schmidt
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