My goodness, so much happened this week and I thought of so many things I could put as my subject so I thought I would split up my email into Lots of different emails and then maybe you all will read parts of it instead of just looking at my pictures if I even have any.
Oops I did it again.
I think as missionaries they should have those invisible fences around your area and then give us bracelets that shock us in case we accidentally drive out of our area. Yes, you guessed it. I left the area again. They need to spot planting trees in front of street signs. Also why can't we have straight roads? Oh yes because we have to drive around all the trees. Maybe when the trees look pretty with leaves on them I will appericitate them more. I just feel like Arizona is greener than Pennsylvania. Okay maybe not but you all understand what I'm saying right?
Soft cookies softens hearts
So the Milford Branch has so many wonderful people. It also has people that are a bit grumpy and don't answer the phone or the door when the missionaries come to visit. So the past couple weeks Sister Crane and I (Sister Cragun and i did this a few times as well) have decided to start softening hearts. We started by texting people scriptures or quotes a few times a week. Then BOOM! Sister Coull says maybe we can come by after they come back from vacation. Then we were like okay it's time to step it up a notch. Let's make cookies. We dropped cookies off at a few homes and later that afternoon we get a phone call. Sister Pagatto thanked us for the cookies and said we could come by next week. (Thank you for the recipie father) So pretty much they are less grumpy with us.
Wait am I in Pennsylvania or South America?
So many much miracles this week. First on Tuesday we stopped by a lady that ordered a Bible and Book of Mormon online like 6 months ago. We decided to stop by and see if she would like us to teach her. She really would but the people in her home don't like religion but for herself she has been going back to church and reading the Bible. We invited her to read from the Book of Mormon and she said she would and then we told her about General Conference and she was so excited! She was like oh yes definitly that sounds so cool. She said she would call us and tell us what she thought so we are crossing our fingers that she calls us. Then we stopped by the Roos family. Sister Roos joined the church in high school in CA. She told us she snuck out of her house for a year to go to seminary! What?! But she has not been active for a very long time. They came to church on Sunday though and her kids loved it. We taught them about the sacrament and what it means and then we asked if we could come back the next week and she said yes!
Wednesday we met Maureen. So we had gone to drop off some cookies to a lady but she wasn't home so we just left them on the front porch. Across the street is where another member lives/lived. She may or may not be dead. But we saw a woman outside and we were like is that her? So we go over and start talking to her and it's not her so we still don't know own what happened to her. But we asked this lady if we could share a message with her about Jesus Christ. First she says no I'm good I have my own faith. But then she's like we'll actually maybe I need to change religions. We were like what... Anyway we end up talking to her for like an hour. The funny part is she told us like the same 5 things over and over again. But her husband came out and he was really funny. He only has one leg and one time he was like, "I'm 5' 11 on one side and 4' 6 on the other." But we went back yesterday and taught the Restoration and Steven asked what he had to do to get into heaven and we said well you have to be baptized, would you like to be baptized? He was like yeah that sounds good. Steven just kept telling us as we were leaving how much better he felt after talking to us. Maureen is so funny because she just loves to talk. We were there for almost 2 hours and we barely made it in time for conference. But that's how we found 4 new investigators in a week and set one with a baptismal date.
Well that's all the exciting stuff. I hope you all enjoyed conference! I loved what President Monson said about the Book of Mormon. "If you do not have a firm testimony of these things, do that which is necissary to obtain one." Then Elder Cook talked about how we need to not just have a superficial understanding of the Book of Mormon but we need to actually study and ponder what it says. I know the Book of Mormon can bring peace into our lives as well as help build the foundation we need in Jesus Christ.
Lots of Love!
Sister Van Buskirk
This is Sister Prince and Sister Adhikari. They had a meeting the next day so they slept at our house so they wouldn't have to get up so early. Sister Prince was Sister Cragun's companion before me and she was Sister Cranes companion once. Sister Adhikari's dad is in Meet the Mormons.
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