Pictures!

Sunday Miracle!

Hello everyone!

Wednesday night, we had a lesson scheduled with an investigator named

Emma but when we knocked, her boyfriend answered the door and said it

was not a good time. We had to drop her because we can't get in

contact with her.

We had a little exchange with our Sister Training Leaders from

Wednesday night to Thursday afternoon. Sister Stubben and I stayed

together and Sister Fuelling came with us 😊

We had correlation that night with our ward mission leader.

Thursday we did weekly planning at the church and then Sister Fuelling

and Sister Tovar left 😕

We went to have a lesson with Everaldo but the people at his house

said he was not home and we called him and he said he was sleeping! He

said Friday would be better.

We went to Berlin and did some finding.

Ate dinner at the Bellante's.

We found Harry Wise. He was a Bible referral. We talked about the Book

of Mormon and we said we would give him one when he comes to church on

Sunday. He was going to come, and we got him a ride and everything but

he was sleeping when the member went to his house..

We stopped by the Medinas and talked to the girls because Sister

Medina was not home.

Friday morning we helped someone move her things into a storage unit.

Her name is Bei Bei and she is friends with a less active.

We had a lesson with Everaldo and Sister Hartman came with us. We read

Alma 40 and talked about the resurrection and the spirit world.

We had lunch with Sister Swanson and her friend and their kids.

We had some lessons fall through but we had some good ones too!

We stopped by Sister Hall's and she told us some good news and that

she would be at church on Sunday!! SHE CAME!!!

We went to Sister Smith's and read 3 Nephi 17.

We had a lesson with Brandon about him knowing for himself and talked

about how he needs to read the Book of Mormon to gain a

witness/testimony that it is true.

We stopped by and talked to Brianna. We shared a video with her. She

came to church too with her cousin!

We had a little lesson with Edwin about church, pray, read. HE

ACTUALLY SAID THE CLOSING PRAYER OUT LOUD! That is a big deal

everyone!!!

We ate dinner at the Trapps. Cute young Peruvian family.

We had a lesson thingy with Roberto and Sister Santiago.

Saturday morning we helped Minwoo move. He is officially gone off to

Utah!! Sad but exciting.

After that, we drove an hour to Crisfield! Our area is huge and we

never have the miles to go over there but this time we did! It was the

first time Sister Stubben has been there since she's been here for 6

months! We visited a ton of less actives. We met a few. They all said

they wish there was a branch out there so they don't have to travel as

far. And everyone wants missionaries over there. It would be really

good if they put missionaries in those areas that we can't really get

to with miles.

Ate dinner at the Wilson's.

Stopped by the Laytons. Pam talked to us for a long time. We shared

"our true identity" with them.

Sunday morning I decided to paint my nails. I haven't had nail polish

on like a whole year!! I decided that the first thing I want to do

when I get home is get a pedicure!! (P.s mom)

Okay, Sunday miracle - we had 8 investigators and 8 less actives at

church!!! It was awesome.

Also, Sister Stubben and I taught Gospel Principles and we did a Book

of Mormon read 3 Nephi 11.

Also, like everyone we visited that day, told us that we both look

nice! It was hilarious. In the car I was like "it's because I painted

my finger nails"😂

We ate dinner at the Johnson's with the Taylors and their friend. It

was a lot of fun and super cute kids!

We had FHE with the Sollars and talked about the "what lack I yet" talk.

Today we are going to Ocean City with the north sisters. It should be

really fun :)

P.S I have the cutest baby nephew in the entire world.

Love,

Sister Gronning

Pictures!

The time I lost my voice 😶🤐😷🤧

Well, hello everyone! I hope everyone is having a great Wednesday

morning! I think it's like 6am or 7am for most of you!  You are all

probably sleeping!

This week our pday changed because we had a mini missionary with us

this weekend!!

Monday the 13th we did some finding in the evening and then I had a

really bad earache and we bought ear drops and Sister Stubben put them

in my ear and it burned so bad that I started crying!! We ended up not

going to the Book of Mormon class and went home.

Tuesday was Valentine's Day! We had District Meeting and our Sister

Training Leaders were there (Sister Fuelling and Sister Tovar) and we

had a potluck afterwards! Sadly we did not take any pictures :( after

DM we went on exchanges. I stayed in Salisbury South with Sister

Garner and Sister Fuelling. We had a lesson set up with Michaels mom

who is not a member but she was not home. She speaks only Spanish.. we

went over to the Laytons and showed them a video called "the sabbath

is a delight" and they really liked it. We had Sister Swanson with us.

We went back to the apartment and did accountability. It was nice

talking to Sister Fuelling again and hearing about Bayview!

We were going to heart attack one of our investigators but when we

pulled up she was sitting right by the window! We were like nope not

doing this! 😂

We had a lesson with this guy we met and we went to the address he

said he lived and he doesn't live there 😂 so we went to the church

and helped set up for the Valentine's relief society dinner.

We had a lesson with Claire that night and taught her the word of wisdom.

Wednesday, I woke up and I had no voice!! Which is awful when you are

a missionary and you need to talk to people!! That morning we were

going to have a lesson with one of our investigators but she had to

cancel. We exchanged back to our companions at about 12:30. We visited

Sister Bray with Sister Cole.

We had a lesson with Michael. Still trying to get him to come to church.

We had dinner with Sister White at KFC/Taco bell.

Had correlation that night.

Also, my nephew was born on Wednesday!!! And I have to say, he is the

cutest baby I've ever seen! Sister Stubben wants to steal him but I

won't let her!!

Thursday I took a sick day and slept all day (Sister Bills, the

mission nurse, told me to do that!) we went out at 6. We visited the

Laytons with Sister Liggett. We talked about being a peacemaker with

Jay.

We had a lesson with Claire and talked about the baptism interview

questions. She is the cutest thing ever. We talked about modesty for

the law of Chastity lol.

Friday, we had a lesson with Sister Kelley and talked about the

families and temples pamphlet. We had a lesson with Sister Hall. We

talked about her conversion story.

We had a lesson with the Hammonds about keeping the sabbath day holy.

We went to the church for Claire's interview with our District Leader!

Elder Fifita loved her haha.

We had a long lesson with Janice and Elvis. Elvis is crazy. I don't

even know what to say about that lesson 😂

We had a lesson with the Bowens. Funny story! I was craving pizza all

day and we get there and they had just ordered pizza and as we were

sitting there, Sister Bowens grandson asked if we are staying for

dinner and Sister Bowen said that it was okay and I got pizza!!!

Our mini missionary came that night! Her name was Sister Smith and she

was so cute and fun!

Saturday was Claire's baptism!!

We had some lessons cancel throughout the day but we also had some good ones.

We actually had a lesson with Roberto who speaks Spanish and Sister

Santiago helped translate haha.

We had a lesson with Sister Kahler. We talked about faith and her past beliefs.

We met this guy named Chris and he is very interesting haha. We had a

long conversation with him.

We had dinner with the Castellanos.

We showed them the drill app and duolingo to help them learn English!

We met Marlene at saintamenes house and she speaks Creole so we used

the drill app and google translate to communicate.

We went to the Laytons again and talked about hope. Eddie was actually

in the kitchen the whole time, listening!

Sunday we had church and we had a ysa lunch afterwards.

We had a lesson with Megan and our mini missionary taught her the

whole restoration! It was awesome.

We met Ketarra and Keirra Clark and shared a verse in the Book of

Mormon with them. They to,d us their step dad and grandpa used to read

from the Book of Mormon all the time!

We ate dinner with Brother Kim, Minwoo, and his brother. At first

there was no women there and it was super awkward and then Brother Kim

invited the Sollars so we could stay haha.

Lessons cancelled.

We had a lesson with Sister Hallyburton. We talked about faith.

Monday we had a lesson with Everaldo and it was kinda all over the place haha.

We had a lesson with Edwin. We talked about praying out loud and we

showed him the mountains to climb video.

We had a lesson with Sister Santiago and talked about praying and church.

We had an awesome visit with the Franco's! Their whole family was

home! Dad is a less active member, mom is not a member, and they have

two girls- 3 and 1. We talked about the temple and we talked about

praying.

Some lessons cancelled.

Ate dinner at the Sollars. Hawaiian haystacks.

Went to the Book of Mormon class and it was all of us missionaries and Minwoo 😂

Our mini missionaries got picked up Monday night :(

Tuesday we had District Meeting.

We found 5 new investigators that day!!

3 were the petersons and they were former investigators that we

stopped by and had a little lesson with. The 7 year old said that he

has to wait till June to get baptized!

We had a lesson with Sister Kahler and we watched Mountains to climb

and talked about a bunch of things.

Had a lesson with Michael. Started off by teaching the restoration and

then it went all over the place but still good haha.

2 new investigators were shaunna and her son makai. Talked about our

church and they are interested!

Ate dinner at Moes. It is now Sister Stubbens favorite place!

Had a lesson with Claire about service and teaching and learning and

missionary work.

It has been a long week and I hope this cold sickness thing goes away!

This email seemed really long and I didn't even put a lot of detailed

stuff in it lol.

I hope you all have a great day! Love you all!

Love,

Sister Gronning

"It says that Sister Stubben is the designated driver"

Hello family, friends, missionaries!

Happy Valentine's Day tomorrow ❤️💖

Monday night we ate dinner with the Wilsons. The wife is a member and

the husband is not. He is hilarious!! And then we had the Book of

Mormon class!

Tuesday we drove to Newark, Delaware (my first area) for Zone

Conference. We had to get there at like 7:45 to get our cars

inspected. One of our Zone Leaders was looking at the paper to check

our car and he said "oh that's weird" and I kept saying over and over

"what's weird? What does it say? Tell us!" And then finally I just

took it from him and it said "designated driver: Sister Stubben"

whaaaaaat 😂😂🤔🤔 I was driving this entire time hahahaha. So we

asked the Assistants and they told us to take to the vehicle

coordinator, Elder Sessions. He said to email him and he'll check when

he gets back to the office. Well, Sister Stubben is now driving lol!

Zone Conference was great as usual! It was my Zone plus Wilmington

zone and Cherry Hill Zone! I got to see my old companions - Sister

Nielson and Sister Fuelling :)

Oh and out of those three zones there are three missionaries going

home at the end of this transfer and they are all from my zone! Kinda

funny, but sad.

Side note, the Assistants just called to check if Sister Stubben is

driving now .. 😂

That night we had a lesson with Claire about tithing and fasting,

obedience, and obeying and honoring the Law.

Wednesday we taught Julia the Plan of Salvation. She wants to be

baptized but doesn't want to set a date until she knows our message is

true.

We met Nate when we were looking for someone else. We showed him the

Because of Him video. We gave him a restoration pamphlet.

We were going to have a lesson with Yves (Eve) but she didn't answer the door.

We had a lesson with Paulette. She speaks Creole and a little bit of

English. We used google translate and an app called Drill that has all

of the lessons in different languages! It was way cool. We had Sister

Slusher with us and she was awesome :)

We stopped by and had a lesson with Michael. We read Alma 32 with him

and talked about faith. He knows he needs to come to church, he just

won't come :(

We went to Lambardis for dinner.

We went to the church and helped Megan get started on her family history.

And then we had our correlation meeting!

Thursday, weekly planned.

We had a lesson with Everaldo and it went so long!! We taught the

restoration and the Plan of Salvation a little bit. I had him read the

first vision instead of me reciting it and it was super cool. I want

to do that more often :) we invited him to read Moroni 7. He was going

to come to church on Sunday but he didn't come.

We contacted a referral from a member and shared a video with her

because she was getting ready to leave.

We met with Linda and taught her the restoration. We gave her a

restoration pamphlet and a Book of Mormon.

Ate dinner at the Bellantes.

Had a lesson with Claire and taught her the Ten Commandments and

keeping the sabbath day holy! She's the cutest.

Friday we had Zone Training and interviews! It was great! Sister

Stubben and I did a training on "Why Become Converted?" And talked

about the blessings of conversion.

We did some finding after that.

We met the Purnells, now new investigators, and talked about the

Sacrament and read 3 Nephi 18th. We gave them a restoration pamphlet.

We talked to someone who met with missionaries in the past and had a

Book of Mormon but she skimmed through it and said it didn't feel

right and put it down.. she talked a lot of religion and Satan and the

second coming...

We ate dinner with Minwoo and Megan at a really good Korean place!

Saturday was a busy day! We first met with our new bishop with our

ward mission leader and the North Sisters! I'm really excited about

Bishop Petersen, he is great! His baby girl is due date is today! (My

Sister in laws is tomorrow!!!)

We went to Denny's with Sister Kelley and Sister Hedges. Sister

Stubben and I got the Reese's  peanut butter and chocolate pancakes 😍

We had a lesson set up with Paulette but when she opened the door she

was almost in tears and said her husband does not want her meeting

with us anymore and does not like Mormons. It was so sad.

We stopped by the Franco's and Brother Franco let us in and we ended

up talking about the Plan of Salvation. He has some concerns that is

keeping him from coming back to church. He wants us to start having

like FHE lessons with his 3 year old though 😊

We had a lesson set up with Salif and we knocked and his sister

answered and said he was not home so we left and came back and his

nephew said he wasn't home and then Salif came to the door and he was

home the entire time!! He said he would be at church on Sunday but he

wasn't.

We had a lesson with Brandon and talked to him about some things and

talked about tithing. He went to the youth valentines dance that

night!

A few lessons cancelled.

We had a lesson with the Hammonds about the blessings of conversion.

We went to the Laytons and showed them a Plan of Salvation video. We

were mostly trying to get Jay to listen and pay attention. Ryan was

excited to pass the Sacrament the next day!!

Sunday, Ryan passed the Sacrament!! He was so happy and we were too!

We met a less active and she said she will be at church next Sunday!

We stopped by the Kreugers and they let us in and we taught them the

restoration.

We shared a message from a ensign article to Sister Smith.

Stopped by the Castellanos and I sat there as Sister Stubben talked in

Spanish haha.

We had FHE at the Sollars with ysas and we read a article in the ensign.

Today we are going to eat dinner at Texas Roadhouse with the North Sisters! :)

1. When it is super cold outside!!

2. Zone Training. I'm so awkward in this photo. I hate it hahaha.

3. Emoji!

4. Ignore my face lol

5.

6. When you are sick and you just want to sleep.

7. Sister Stubben did both of our buns today :)

That time we got attacked by a dog 🐶

Hello everyone!!

Monday we ate lunch at Fratellis with the North Sisters. We ate dinner

with the Bates. Super cute family.

We had the Book of Mormon class.

And that's about it! haha

Tuesday we had District Meeting. I love District Meeting. Our district

leader does a great job. He's awesome.

We had a lesson with the Hammonds. Brother Hammond said that he had

Sunday off but we didn't see them at church yesterday! He is going to

ask his boss for Sundays off. We showed them the temples are a beacon

video and talked about preparing to go to the temple. We talked about

the importance of prayer and building a relationship with Heavenly

Father and praying as a family.

We met with an investigator named Shirley. We told her a little bit of

what we do as missionaries. We told her about the Book of Mormon and

invited her to read it. We also invited her to come to church.

We tried to do some finding/stop bys and couldn't find any of the

houses! The struggle is real haha.

We ate dinner at the Castellanos house and tried to teach Hermana

Castellanos English. I sat there as my companion taught her 😂

We taught Claire the Plan of Salvation. Her mom said she would be

baking and listening at the same time but ended up just listening the

whole time! It was way cool. We invited them to pray as a family.

We had a lesson with the Medinas. We read 3 Nephi 27 and talked about

the gospel of Jesus Christ. Maritza wants to be baptized on her

birthday, April 27th. Esmeralda wants to be baptized on May 6th to

have time to think about it and prepare. Their dad said they should

get baptized on the same day.

Wednesday we had a lesson with Julia. We read 3 Nephi 11. I really

love that chapter. She wants to read the Book of Mormon and come to

church. She said she would probably be baptized when she comes to know

our message is true :)

We talked to Sister Kahler about the importance of prayer and read

some scriptures about praying with faith. We read Ether 12:27 and my

amazing companion said that the things Heavenly Father sees as

strengths might not be what she sees as strengths and it made Sister

Kahler tear up!

We had an awesome lesson with Yves (Eve)! Sister Slusher came with us.

We gave her a creole Book of Mormon. We read 3 Nephi 11 and she loved

it. She liked how at the end of the chapter it talked about sharing

the gospel with others. Yves asked if she needed to take classes to be

baptized!! We told her that we teach lessons and that's kinda like the

classes haha. As we were leaving she asked what chapter we wanted her

to read before our next visit! She is so awesome!!

She sadly did not come to church though :( but hopefully next Sunday!

We met with Salif and we read some of Moroni 7 and he seemed to really

like it. He told us he has a daughter and a fiancé in Togo!

We met with Sister Hallyburton and showed her the After The Storm

video and talked about how Heavenly Father helps us through our

storms. We talked about the importance of prayer.

We ate dinner with Minwoo and Megan. We went to chipotle and Minwoo

got really mad when we paid for ourselves. I wasn't thinking and just

went for it 😂 he then made us go next door and get ice cream so that

he can pay for it 😂 oh and Megan is a recent convert who goes to

school here in Salisbury. She got baptized in her home ward.

We then ended the night at missionary correlation meeting.

I think on Wednesday I started getting a sinus headache cold thingy. Not good.

Thursday, the usual stuff in the morning - conference call and weekly planning.

We went to Princess Anne.

It was this day that we knocked on a door and a little tiny dog came

running out at us! It was kinda terrifying 😂😂

We stopped by Sister Maybury and talked to her and her boyfriend. They

are both members but super less active. It was an interesting visit

lol.

We met with the Puseys. They are investigators that met with

missionaries in the past. We mostly just got to know them. We gave

them a Book of Mormon and invited them to read it.

We ate dinner at the Taylors. They are seriously goals. The cutest

family everrr.

We stopped by Sister Hankersons and talked about her conversion story.

We invited her to come to church but she didn't come.

Friday morning I had to get more rest so I slept in. We were going to

go to lunch with Sister Kelley and we were almost to her house and she

texted us and said she forgot and that she wasn't home... so we

decided to go to lunch anyways and we found this awesome place called

route 12 and I got a chicken bacon ranch quesadilla and oh my gosh!!

It was the best thing I ever ate!! And a Reese's peanut butter cup

brownie sundae for my year mark! I'll send a picture but I look gross

because I was sick so just be aware haha.

We met with Sister Hall and Chris. Their puppy is getting big!

We met a new investigator! Her name is paulette and we showed her the

hallelujah video in French. We gave her a Book of Mormon and a

pamphlet in creole to read.

We had a lesson with Sister Russell. She is less active. Mostly just

got to know her. She asked me what is the one thing I love about the

church and I said I love how it is so family oriented and their is

something for everyone and she said she loves that too! We invited her

to read the Book of Mormon.

We read 3 Nephi 11 with Jane and then had dinner with her and her husband.

We taught Claire the gospel of Jesus Christ and used the pepper, soap,

and water object lesson and she loved it. We invited her family to

church and her dad said he will not be there because he is working

nights and her mom said she would drop off Claire and McKenna.

Saturday we had a lot of lessons cancel.

We did meet with Sister Santiago and Megan was with us.

Saturday night the North Sisters had a baptism for Diana :) it was

awesome! She was so happy!

We stopped by the Layton household that night and talked about family

relationships.

Sunday we got a new bishopric! Bishop Hoppes and one of his counselors

got released :(

The new bishop is young with like 4 young kids and a new baby on the

way, due any day now!! He will do great!

Ryan got the priesthood!! He was so happy!!!

We stopped by to say hi to Tiffany and she let us in and she was

asking about our missionary service. We asked her why she thinks there

are so many different religions and she didn't know and she asked us

why we thought so and we started talking about the restoration and

when we got the the apostasy part she asked us if we thought that Gods

authority was back on the earth today and then we went and talked

about Joseph Smith and the priesthood! It was way cool. We gave her a

Book of Mormon and a restoration pamphlet.

We stopped by the spruills and talked to the dad and he has some

interesting beliefs. Their kids are adorable though and Jacob loves me

hahaha.

We had dinner with Sister Rodriquez.

Did some finding and had some short lessons and it was a really long day! Haha.

Today we are going to Dairy Queen !!

Tomorrow we have Zone Conference up in Newark which is like 2 hours

away and in my first area!! 😃

I love you all!!!

Sister Gronning

1. Diana's baptism. She is in the back, wearing blue.

2. Picture from a couple weeks ago.

3. Edwin!

4. Me laughing at something

5. 12 monthssss

6. My hair looks super dark. I did not dye it lol

7. My companion handed me this! How cute!