Mini Missionary! Miracles! Easter!

Hello family and friends!!!

So I've had like no time to write down in my journal about this week
so let's hope I can remember some stuff! Lol. We had a lot of lessons
fall through this week but also some really good lessons too. We went
on exchanges again. I was with Sister Rash and Sister Jackson. It was
pretty fun. Wednesday night we got a mini missionary!! Her name is
Sister Nelson and she is 16 and lives in Pennsylvania. She is awesome.
Since there was 4 of us, Sister Blake and Nelson were companions and
got to take the car and me and Sister Rash were companions and had to
walk but thankfully we had a member come down from Philly and drive us
all day one day! Thursday we had 3 lessons and they were all awesome.
Martha said she would pray and ask God if the BOM is true. The
Limpruns set a temple date to do baptisms for the dead. Talked to Geri
about her baptism and family history. Blake and Nelson had awesome
lessons too. They set Amanda a baptism date for May 7th! The day
before my birthday which is super cool. Blake and Nelson had a dinner
app at a members house and me, Rash, and Bee got subway. Friday me and
Rash had to walk and my feet were seriously killing me. I hated it
lol. But we showed the Easter video twice and got two return
appointments out of it! This guy came out of his house and was like "I
thought I would come out because I knew you were going to knock on my
door anyways" we were like oh alright haha. We showed him the video
and he liked it and said he might check out our church. Sadly he
wasn't there on Sunday. This other kid was outside his house and we
showed him the video and he said he wanted to start getting closer to
Christ. We had a lesson with him the next day and he is so prepared!
He said he already knows everything is true! And he came to church on
Sunday and really liked it! He said he would be baptized!!
We ate dinner at friendlys one night. I seriously love that place. I
got a turkey bacon cheese melt and birthday cake flavored ice cream.
Delicious!!!
Saturday night we had the women's broadcast and all of the talks were
on service and loving others! It was really good.
Sunday was Easter! Got to sing in the choir in sacrament. We sang two
songs. The relief society lesson was on ponderizing a scripture for a
week and I chose d&c 88:77 so I want you all to read that and pick a
scripture to ponder and think about this week and apply it to your
life.
So Mike didn't come to church :( he went somewhere for the weekend or
something, idk.
I hope everyone had a great Easter weekend.
I love you all!
Love,
Sister Gronning

Wilmington Zone Conference 2016

Wilmington Zone

Pictures!

Smile and Wave!

It's Monday again!

Last Monday we went to the mall with our ward mission leaders wife. It
was so fun! I love her. I used my chick fill a gift card! Haha. That
night one of my companions told us how she's been feeling like she
hasn't been good enough and she's been stressing a lot and she broke
down and cried, of course so did I. I bet you are all tired of hearing
that by now. Mission life is hard though. Tuesday we took our car in
the shop to get the bumper replaced and we walked all day and oh my
gosh, my feet were killing me. I was dying inside. Good thing the
weather was nice. We saw miracles though. So we have the new Easter
video out now so we were showing that to people. Some were not
interested. Some thought we were soliciting and one lady said she was
going to call the police on us.. 😂 we walked and smiled and waved at
everyone driving by. We got to the Pats pizza parking lot and this
delivery guy named Mike comes out and asked if we were the ones waving
at everyone and we said ya and he said we are so happy and was
wondering why we were so happy. We shared the video with him and he
asked where our church was and thanked us for being so happy and
making everyone's day. He was going to come to church but something
came up at work so he couldn't go 😔 but he seems super interested
though!
We got our car back on Thursday and no more slash/dent! We are not
going to get in any more car accidents!
Thursday was st pattys day! We wore green :) a member fed us store
bought sushi! And this home made Chinese thingy that I forget what it
is called. And brownies with green frosting :)
That night we clover attacked someone and we almost got caught but it
was fun lol.
Friday we did a lot of service. We did more yard work for a lady who
has cancer and just had surgery. The elders were there too but they
stayed on the other side of the house lol. And we cleaned someone's
house. Kinda.
Saturday during the day I had another melt down for like an hour and a
half just chilling in the car. It was pretty bad but it felt good to
just let it out.
Sunday was good. No investigators came to church but we did have some
recent converts and less actives though.
I hope everyone is doing great. I love you all! Thanks for the support :)
Love, ❤️
Sister Gronning

Golden Retraining 3/8/16

Service hours!

Teach the Gospel to everyone and their cat's cousin

Hey everyone!! How are you all doing?! I'm doing great.
So, we had golden retraining this week and I got to see my mtc
sisters!! It was great. Also, they fed us wawas! They did a really
good training. It was mostly President and Sister Anderson and the
AP's. We talked about faith, finding people to teach, overcoming our
fears, recognizing the spirit, how to use our iPads effectively, role
playing. All good things! 😊
The weather has been awesome this week except for yesterday and today,
it has been raining. Ew. But earlier in the week it was so warm. Short
sleeve shirt, no tights. Awesome! Lol.
We did some yard work for the Hughes in our ward. Got to wear pants so
that was nice. We pulled weeds out of her little garden. I have came
to the conclusion that I hate worms and bugs. But if you know me, that
is nothing new 😂 .
We met with Tanya this week and set her with a baptism date for April
23rd! She is awesome.
We also met with Amanda, her husband is a member but less active. We
set her with a date for April 23rd and she said she would pray about
it.
We met with Craig, he is crazy..... He was totally drunk and being
weird. Sister Blake almost got in a argument with him... Lol. He was
being really pushy and rude. But we hope we planted a seed in his
heart lol. We might give him to the elders 😂
We have been talking to people on the streets and knocking on doors.
We've been giving out lots of Book of Mormons and pass along cards.
Every Thursday we have district meeting. It is always good. I have a
good district. I really like my district leaders. Friday we had zone
conference with 4 zones and it was amazing. I got to see a sister who
was in my mtc district and some elders who came out with me as well.
We talked a lot about desires. Desire = action and works. We talked
about how to work with the members and how to gain their trust. Talked
about sacrament and church. They fed us lunch. We have a mission song,
which I love, we sang it twice. There was missionaries who were going
home this transfer and they bore their testimonies at the end. I
almost started crying. I did cry that night though.
This weekend we helped with a garage giveaway our stake put on at the
church. People donate stuff and people come to the church and grab
anything they like. Everything was free. There was tons of stuff. We
helped set up a little bit on Friday night then helped clean up on
Saturday. Also on Saturday we helped someone move in. This week has
been filled with meetings and service.
We met with Tanya again and her daughter Amora was there. They are
awesome. We are trying to start to teach Amora. Tanya was telling her
about church and temples. They said they would come to church on
Sunday. But they didn't make it 😔
We taught Martha, we brought a member with us and she is amazing. She
basically taught the whole lesson and taught Martha about the word of
wisdom. Martha's family was there and we showed them the Easter
initiative. And they all wanted Book of Mormons! We gave out 7 BOM's
Sunday night in one teaching appointment!! It was amazing.
Our ward is good at feeding us. We've gotten lots of yummy food and
desserts lol.
My subject line is a quote one of my companions said this week and I
just died laughing 😂😂
Today we wanted to go to the college town which is where they have
shops and food places but it's super wet outside so we might just go
to the mall. Which will be fun too. We are taking a member with us.
Tuesday we have to take our car into the shop to get a new bumper so
we'll be walking everywhere and asking for rides. We have been using a
bunch of miles so this is a good thing.. Lol.
I hope everyone is doing well. Love you all!!

Sister G

The Sister Trio and their mission leaders wife and daughter

One Month, 8 Months, 1 Year

Hello :)
So, I've thought about so many different subject titles for this
email. I'll tell you what they were -
"I have two mothers"
"Car damage again? Check"
"ONE MONTH: CHECK"
Alright so, I'll talk about each one. The one I chose is this week I
hit my one month mark, the day after, sister rash hit her one year
mark, and sister Blake hits her 8 month mark tomorrow. One day for
dinner we ate at the missionary ward leaders house and they baked a
cake for us for hitting our milestones or whatever haha :) I ate 3
pieces.... I have eaten so much junk food, it's so bad. And it doesn't
help that my parents sent me a huge box of junk food in it..... Lol.
But also in that box was cleaning supplies, which we needed, shampoo
and conditioner and toothpaste. So, thanks mom!
The two mothers part, they have like a family line thing in this
mission and my trainers are my moms and so I have two moms lol. One of
the district leaders is my dad. The zone leaders are my grandpa and my
uncle. It's all weird. I don't understand lol. I want one of my
companions to write my family down for me because I can't keep track
of it all haha.
I'll get to the car damage part later....
The weeks are flying by. Last Monday we had to take our car into pep
boys for a oil change. We were there for almost an hour. Tuesday we
had exchanges. I was with Sister Blake and Sister Winters, she's the
sister training leader. We stopped by a few people's homes but not a
lot of people were home. We had a thing called accountability, where
sister winters met with us one on one to see how we were doing. I
cried twice. She had some really good advice though.
Wednesday we had zone training and president and sister Anderson were
there. We talked about listening and how to simplify the plan of
salvation. We role played a ton.
Thursday is where the car damage comes in.. So we had another zone
training and we were getting in the car and we were still in the
parking lot and sister Blake had her scriptures on the console thingy
and they slid forward and so she looked down to move them and the car
went forward and ran into a cable cord wire thingy and it
sliced/dented up the left front bumper.... So we will have no car
again for a couple weeks.... Yay. The second zone training we talked
about how to introduce the Book of Mormon. And did more role playing
lol.
We've done a lot of tracking and knocking on doors and some people are
really friendly but will sadly decline us. We've given out a lot of
temple pass a long cards though.
Jumping to Sunday. Martha and her aunt, and Tanya came to church!!
Martha and her aunt didn't stay the hole time but Tanya did!! In
gospel principles we talked about the priesthood and the different
types and she was super confused.. And in relief society we talked
about temples... Again, she was super confused. We felt so bad. She
felt overwhelmed. It was sad. But hopefully she comes again next
Sunday.
Oh so with tom, we had to hand him off to the elders because he
started getting a little creepy... lol.
Tomorrow is golden retraining!! I GET TO SEE MY MTC DISTRICT SISTERS!!
If you can't tell, I am so excited!!!!
I've used up my wawas gift card.. Sad. I love there ice cream milk
shake thingys. We are going to try and go to philly one pday and I
want a Philly cheesesteak really bad!
I hope everyone is doing well, I can't think of anything else to write
about lol.
I love you all!
I love missionary work!
Sister Gronning