Hey so P-day was on Tuesday again this week because of the New Year.

This week was amazing. I have learned so much. As always, the

highlight of my week was the Parque de Retiro. I was paired up with

Hermana Merrill and thankfully she is not scared to go up to people

and start talking. We walked up to one young man who was sitting on a

bench, and he was very friendly and was from Barcelona, but knew

English very well, but he had to go pick up his girlfriend before we

could teach him anything about our church. He gave me his contact

information so that I could look him up when I get to Barcelona

though. I have a contact already! :) The whole time I was talking with

him I could just see him dressed in white. He doesn´t know it yet, but

he is going to be getting baptized. I´m excited to teach him the

Gospel when I get into the field. 

There was a lot of rejection in the park, but Hermana Merrill and I took that knife out of our heart and

pressed forward. We saw an old man sitting on a bench, and decided to

go and talk to him. At first he didn´t seem very interested, but as we

got to know him he started to open up more. I felt impressed to sit

next to him, so I did. That broke the ice, and he seemed a lot more

cheerful, and spoke openly about his feelings on religion. I felt such

a great love for this man whom I had only known for maybe 5 minutes,

and it was easy for me to bare my testimony and to be persistent. He

never took the Book of Mormon I offered him, but I believe that one

day he will be baptized. He´s the German I sent a picture of to you.

Every week I meet a German. The sad thing is that there are no German copies of The

Book of Mormon here. The Austrian gives me a new German word

everyday. So far he has taught me to say ¨shut your trap¨ ënough¨and

¨go away.¨ I think the Germans at the park will really want to listen

to me! 

Sometimes my companion and I just need to take a break and

relax, so we dance in the elavator, and we did the laughing game with

all of my roommates. We are planning on having a dance party with all

the girls one night. We are getting some more missionaries who are

going to Russia.

 More adventures to come! Love you all!

 -Hermana Schmidt