Hello to my most favorite people in the world!
Did you all know that I love you more than ANYTHING! I am sure glad I get to live with you all forever! I just think I have the coolest family ever. Thanks for your love and support. I truly do feel it everyday and hope you know how much I love you and how grateful I am for you and your examples to me! So this week was A LOT better! :) EVERYTHING is better.
So this week, On Monday my new companion came and I was excited. Her name is Sister Lena Ponomaranko. She is 31 and is a sweetheart. She is so young and full of energy. Although I am pushing her to walk faster and farther than she is used too. she tells me she wants to kill me or that I will kill her by the end of the day. We made it a goal to be better at planning our time so I don't make her run as much and I also had to make it a goal to feed her because I forget to! OOPS! I just get so in to the work I forget to eat or just don't allow myself to because we just don't have enough time. Bad news so We are working on that. Because of this I have lost some weight. but I am going to probably gain it back because I have to remember to feed her and then myself too.
She is pretty fluent in English and really wants to talk in English all the time so I have stomped thinking in Ukrainian. We have made it a goal to speak more to each other in Ukrainian, So I can learn better. My language abilities are still so bad it just funny. I really should be better than I am by now. I really want to be more active in my learning. Lets be honest though you all know me I have never been good at studying or anything like that so I am trying to change bad habits. Maybe when I get home I will be a better student and actually study and get good grades. I sure hope so!
Our investigators..... We don't have a lot which is so sad. And the ones we have aren't as golden as we wish they were. They are silver so they are valuable and worth still working with but I just wish I was a better teacher so that they would just jump at the opportunity to be baptised! I struggle with talking to people on the street because I get nervous and I make excuses like we don't have enough time or it is hard to talk to people on the metro because it's loud, or we are only on the metro for one stop and then off so I don't want to start talking and not have time to finish or get there number. Ha even righting them down I think they are great excuses.... but still I should just OPEN MY MOUTH! I truly love the people here and the ones that DO talk to me are way cool. I am even happier when I talk to more people it makes me laugh an smile.... so why don't I talk to people.... Not sure! LAME. Okay I will talk to more people! We have an investigator named Natalia she is about 50 and is great but thinks highly of herself and it's very humble. I hope she can be a little humbler and be baptised. We have a CUTE couple Youlya and Andre. She is 19 and he is 22 they and SO shy and cute. They are the best we have so far. She has come to church 2 and he 1 time. They keep commitments and like the BoM but have prayed to know if it is true and have not received an answer. I don't know if they have and don't realize it or how to help them get an answer. Then Miroclava she is ADORABLE She is the one that reminds me of Heather. She is prego and smiles and loves live and her husband so much! She is a light! I want her to be baptised. She is reading the BoM and thinks it is from God but won't come to church because the traditions of her family. She thinks if she just "tries" it it is turning her back on her church. So if she comes it is that she will never go back to her own church. Which is good and bad but how do we get her to church? She said if she finished the BoM and knows it's true and feels that she is supposed to come to church or even join or church then of course she will do it, but how do we help her have that happen? There are others but those are the main ones. Pray for them to be ready for baptism! :)
Oh missionary work... It's so great and so hard. I truly love it but I still don't know how to do it. Or at least I don't know how to do it good or do them the bet possible way I can. I am learning and growing a lot but not fast enough. I only have 10 months left! YIKES! How am I supposed to do everything I need to do and Learn everything I need to learn and help everyone I am supposed to with such little time!? Oiii! I am just worried that I am going to get the the end and not have become the person Heavenly Father intended for me to become. I am still a mean person. I love my companion so much but Geez sometimes it is hard. The poor girl I just need to have more patience I get stressed and then I am mean and not as loving as I should be. Its a TERRIBLE characteristic flaw that I have. I just wish it would vanish. I want to be nice and loving but I am not there yet! I want people to know and feel the love I have for them even though I don't show and sometimes choose not to show it. Man I am so LAME!
Just like the mission and everyday... I am out of time wish I could have said more. Well family I sure do love and appriciate you.
Sister Schmidt
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