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Well everyone, it is literally freezing down here on the east coast.

This morning the weather app said 1 degrees and a windchill of -15

degrees!!! Ya so, if I don't ever come home, that means I froze to

death. This Nevada girl is doing to dieee. Helppp meeee😫

Monday evening we had a lesson with Salif (investigator) and we had

Sister Cole with us (a member in our ward). We reviewed the

Restoration and he remembered everything. We talked about the Plan of

Salvation. We talked a lot about Adam and Eve and the Fall. He was

going to come to church last Sunday but his ride fell through.. Salif

is awesome. And we learned that he is moving and his new house will be

in the North Sisters area😭

    Oh, side note, apparently we live 3 miles out of our area #what #why🤔

    We went to our Book of Mormon class at the church that we have

every Monday night. Ryan (recent convert) and Brandon (investigator)

came!! And 3 other members from our ward came as well.

Tuesday we had District Meeting. I had to role play with the tallest

elder in our mission (one of our Zone Leaders) and one that was

shorter than him but still 6 foot something! It was hilarious. I was

looking up at them the whole time🙄😂. A member from the Seaford ward

brought us pizza 🍕 which he usually does😋

    We did some finding and found Nikki and we showed her the Because

of Him video and she did it was exactly what she learned in church on

Sunday. She wanted us to send her the video so she could share it and

show her "elder"😂

    We met this guy who he said his name is spelt Bamy Gams but is

pronounced nothing like that! We showed him the Hallelujah video and

he told us he meets with Missionaries from our church every week?!

#huh?!

    We met a guy named Allen and he was interesting. He doesn't know

if God is a person, white, black, male, female, etc. He thinks the

people should be punished for their sins. We shared some of Alma 42

with him.

    We had a lesson with Michael (less active) and Sister Johnson came

with us (a member in our ward). We talked about church and the

Sacrament and the gift of the Holy Ghost. We read John 14:26-27. We

also read "why the Book of Mormon" from the New Era.

    We were going to have a lesson with Dilan (investigator) but we

were late to his lesson and his mom was busy at the time.

    We were going to have a lesson with Yasmin but she had gone to the store.

    We had a lesson with Everaldo (investigator) on Facebook with

Sister Slusher (member in our ward). We talked about his religious

background. We talked about repentance.

Wednesday we went to visit a less active and found out that he had

passed away a long time ago. It was sad.

    We went to the church and opened the door for Sister Slusher and

cleaned out the refrigerators. Yuck.

    We met with Robert (referral) and got to know his religious

background. He was interested and he needed to ask his wife and then

we got a text yesterday that said his wife isn't interested😕

    We visited Sister Kahler (less active). She was fixing herself

breakfast and gave some to us! We talked more about the word of wisdom

and she let us take her coffee! We talked about President Hinkley and

the importance of following the Prophet.

    We stopped by a less actives house and he was super nice but said

he is working on getting his name removed from the records..

    We had a lesson with Edwin (investigator) and Sister Williams

(member in our ward) came with us. We talked about the importance of

reading the Book of Mormon. We talked about how we want to help him

live the commandments and prepare him for baptism.

    We visited Sister Santiago and she said she wants to start paying

her tithing and that she would be at church again his Sunday!

    We stopped by the Medinas and they were home! We talked to them

about repentance. We invited them to read Alma 34.

    We ate dinner at the Naumanns.

    We went over to the Layton household and went over the baptismal

interview questions with Eddie. We need to teach him more about

repentance and the law of Chastity😬 and then Ryan hasn't been reading

the Book of Mormon because he gets frustrated when he doesn't

understand it☹️

    We had a correlation meeting with the sisters, the ward mission

leader, and the new ward missionary couples.

Thursday we had a conference call and weekly planned.

    We visited Sister Bray and talked to her for awhile. She told us

again how she feels that the ward has given up on her☹️. We read in

D&C 121 and 122.

    We had a lesson with Janice (investigator) and Sister Rambo

(member in our ward) came. We taught the Plan of Salvation. She loved

it. We introduced the Book of Mormon and invited her to be baptized

but she said she has already been baptized.

    We visited the Williams. The husband is active, the wife is not

due to health reasons. Brother Williams is hilarious! He has an accent

and I love it haha. We talked about President Hinkley and teaching by

the spirit. We also showed them the New Years video.

Friday I had a doctors appointment for my feet.

    We had a lesson and lunch with Tulsi (investigator). We taught her

the restoration. She said she would read the Book of Mormon for 5-10

min everyday! She is awesome!! She made us Indian food!

    We visited Sister Kelley and talked about a repentance talk and

talked about forgiveness. She said she would be at church on Sunday.

    We stopped by Sister Halls house (less active) and showed her and

her boyfriend (not a member) the New Years video. We asked Sister Hall

why she stopped coming to church and she just said "personal reasons".

    We were going to have a lesson with Bamy but he wasn't home. And

our member cancelled.

    We were walking down the street and we see an old lady walking

outside with just a bathrobe on, in like 20 degrees outside and a mail

man (about a lil older than us) was helping her home and making sure

she was okay. We stopped to see if she was okay and she was breathing

heavy. The mail man called the police and they came over. The lady

couldn't remember if that was her house (it was). Her breathing went

normal. She couldn't remember a whole lot and kept repeating herself a

lot. She had dementia. She was 87 years old. The police men were so

nice and they called one of her sons and when he was on his way over

there, her neighbor came over and we sat with her until her son came.

The police left when the neighbor came by. The lady was named Janette

and she was so grateful. It made me realize how grateful I am for kind

people! It was a neat experience but kinda scary too! And side note.

We saw one of the police men that night when we were eating dinner at

a Chinese place haha.

    We were going to have a lesson with Edwin but we didn't have a

women with us and he wanted to go eat lol.

    We helped carry a mans groceries and walked a little kid home.

    We showed the Santiagos the New Years video.

    Had a lesson at the Layton household. Eddie wouldn't come

downstairs. We talked to Pam and Ryan about fasting.

Saturday it snowed all day about a foot and we were snowed in all day

and so we were bored and had some Facebook lessons!

Sunday church got cancelled!! Pretty mouth did what we did on Saturday.

We had a phone lesson with Eddie and Ryan. That was interesting haha.

Today we are going to attempt to go to Walmart and get food!

Love you allll,

Sister Gronning