Sister Van Buskirk: Building snowmen is service

Things are pretty slow here in Milford. We were only able to meet with Shayne once this week because she has been really busy. We moved her date to March but it's okay because at first she suggested April but then she decided on March 26 which was exciting. Sister Cragun and I didn't even say anything. She didnt come to church though which was really disappointing. We got a text from her last minute saying goes she was really busy with her business and such. Hopefully we will see her tomorrow and maybe again later this week. We have lost contact with a couple of our investigators. They seemed interested in our last lesson but we haven't been able to reach them at all. We are going to go stop by this week if we can. It's just hard to do that because they work during the day. We gave a bible and a Book of Mormon to a lady this week though. She doesn't really believe in God but she hasn't had much exposure to religion so that's understandable. But she said she would read the Bible and the Book of Mormon and we can come back in a month.

Friday was the branch Valentine's Day activity and so we went. It was fun. Not a lot of people showed up which is okay since it was announced last minute and the building we are in is super far for the members to drive to.

It snowed Wednesday night so Thursday morning we weren't allowed to use our cars but it was fine because we had to do our weekly planning anyway. We decided to go to the Cubbage's and see if we could shovel their driveway on Friday because I have never shoveled snow before and I wanted to try it out. Sister Cubbage said no because they don't care and if they did they have 2 boys to shovel for them. She said you girls go out and build me a nice snowman. So we did. Her daughter Marissa came with us. Marissa is like 20 and she's in collage. We met her when she was home for Christmas and we love her a lot. She was home this weekend for stuff I guess and so she taught us how to build a cute snowman!

We also had zone conference on Wednesday and to prepare we had to write a 3 minute talk on baptism for our investigators and ourselves. Well guess who was asked to give theirs? Yeah you're right, Sister Van Buskirk... Why do they think I need to do stuff like that? Ugh, oh well I'll get used to it. It probably won't be the last time I do something like that.

Well not a super inspiring week but that happens sometimes. We just have to remember it's all in the Lord's timing and according to His will. Hopefully this week will be better. This is still the best mission in the world!

Lots of Love!

Sister Van Buskirk

I shined my shoes Mom! Aren't you so Proud!

The fog is real in PA

I LOVE SISTER SUMMERS

Wawa is this sandwich place that all the missionaries are obsessed with but there isn't anywhere it eat it in the place because it's a gas station. And we can't eat in our cars so we ate it in the freezing, windy, cold and it was delicious.