I was feeling kinda "crappy"

Hello everyone👋🏻

Monday we were going to have a lesson at 4:00 but we couldn't find a

woman to come with us so we had to reschedule but we haven't been able

to yet. We ate dinner at the Hulse's house.

Tuesday we had District Meeting and I had to do the Book of Mormon

read from Ether 12.

We went to wawa for lunch.

We went the the Cassels house and practiced teaching the restoration

to Sister Cassel, her sister was the member present haha.

We did a lot of finding and stop bys.

We ate dinner at Hennings market. It's an all you can eat buffet type

thing. We ate with the Ackermans.

We talked to George about our missionary work and he told us stuff

about Pennsylvania. Guess what?! I caught a firefly or a lightning

bug, whatever you want to call it!!!! Best.day.ever.👊🏻

Wednesday we had a lesson thing with Marjorie. Sister Robinson and I

found her at the library doing genealogy and Sister Summers and I

finally got in contact with her. She talked mostly about genealogy

work and her family and we tried to teach a brief restoration lesson

to her. Interesting lady.

Did more stop bys after that. Had a lesson with Steven. Sister Harward

came with us. We read Helaman 5 and gave him a gospel principles book

and a calendar to read a verse in the Bible or Book of Mormon every

day.

Ate dinner with the Sister Lazarowitz and her grandson (Asa) and his

friend. His friend is in our ward. He's 9 and his name is Tommy. I

asked how old him and Asa were and they said 9 and tommy says "I don't

look like I'm 9" I said "how old do you look?" And he said "I look

like I'm 4"😂 #shortprobs

We talked to Marjorie Blythe and her husband. She is a member and her

husband is not.

We talked to Estela Naranjo and her kids and they were super cute!

Thursday we had a lesson with Brother Santos. The lesson was all over

the place but we talked about keeping the sabbath day holy and temples

and family history.

We had a lesson with Ian. Hannah came with us. We talked mostly about prophets.

We were knocking on doors before dinner at the Jones and all of a

sudden something landed on my head and I went to wipe it off and

looked and my finger and it was POOP! A bird pooped on me!! Nasty. So

that is where my subject line comes from. We walk to dinner and I ask

if we could wash our hands and I get the poop of my head 😂

We had a Skype correlation with Brother Cassel.

The STLs came and we exchanged companions. I stayed here in Souderton

with Sister Nielson.

Friday we volunteered at mitzvah and they ordered pizza for someone's

birthday and we got to eat some :)

We had a lesson with Ashish and Sister Biermann came with us. He

talked the whole time and I couldn't understand like any of it.

We did a lot of finding and walking and talked with everyone we saw.

We were late to our dinner appointment with the Amaya's and we parked

our car and it started dumping rain and so we get out and started

running to their house and we got SOAKED. It was literally like we

jumped into a pool. We were drenched from head to toe. We get into the

house and Sister Amaya gives us clothes to change into and puts our

clothes in the dryer for us hahaha.

We exchanged back that night.

Saturday we did a lot of finding and stop bys.

We had a lesson with George with Sister Nelson and he asked a lot of

questions about our church and faith. He said everything makes sense.

He's great.

We met with Greg and Karol. We went through the baptismal interview

questions with Greg and he set himself with a date for August 26th and

I'm sad I won't be here.

We ate dinner with the Rollins.

Sunday, Greg and Karol came to church! Brother Amaya came to church!!

He always just stays in the parking lot!! It was a great Sunday.

We ate dinner with the Browns. They have a 4 year old daughter and she

said a joke to us "why did the cookie go to the doctor? It was feeling

crummy" 😂

We came home for Stake reports and emailed President.

Today Sister Collier called us and wants us to help her put groceries

away and we are going to paint and eat lunch with her. Sister Summers

is getting her hair cut today as well!

I am grateful for the opportunity that I get o be a missionary here in

Pennsylvania. I am grateful for the things I have learned and how I

have seen me grow this past almost 17 months. I know that this Gospel

is true and that it can bring joy to everyone's lives.

Love you all!

199 W Vine St Apt 22

Hatfield, PA 19440

Sister Gronning

Got a little wet!

With Sister Nielson yay!

Jehovah Witnesses came by!

Raining today!

You are a hot mess, honey

Happy Father's Day to all of the dad's out there and future dad's!!

Monday - we didn't end up going to Sister Colliers house to paint

because she wasn't feeling well. We were planning on doing our laundry

there so we had to quickly put our whites in the washer and we didn't

have time to dry them. Also, we found out that we were getting a new

car and so we had to wash our old one so we were running all over the

place hahaha.

We were going to have dinner with the Gillis's and Sister Gillis

forgot when we got there and she was trying to get her car fixed so we

went to perkasie pizza and pasta and got pizza and it was delicious!

Tuesday - District Meeting. Our Sister Training Leaders came because

they were going on exchanges with a set of sisters in our District.

Our District Leader called me out during the meeting for not doing his

commitments. I didn't really appreciate it that much lol. He

apologized the next day 😂

After district meeting we drove to the Cassels and picked up Sister

Cassel and went to a park and had a lesson with Ian. He enjoyed coming

to church.

We went to a former investigators house and she wasn't home but we

talked to her mom and dad. They spoke Arabic. She was telling us about

her church and invited us to come to her church sometime lol. She

spoke some English but we had to do google translate sometimes haha.

We ate dinner with the Becksteads. We played gospel of Jesus Christ

jenga with the kids. They enjoyed it.

We came home that evening and had our personal and companionship studies.

Wednesday - we had a mission tour conference with Elder Kopischke from

the seventy and it was awesome! He is a really funny guy and I learned

a lot from him and the spirit. He broke down the Plan of Salvation,

talked about our purpose as missionaries is to teach+invite+help and

how we are good at the teaching and inviting but not so good on the

helping part.

Also!! We got our new car!!! It is a 2017 Toyota Corolla! It is so

nice inside!! I love it haha.

We ate dinner with Brother and Sister Webster. We decided to call

Steven and he texted us and said he would call us the next day.

Thursday - weekly planning. We were going to deliver a bible and Book

of Mormon to a referral but he wasn't home even though we had set it

up. We stopped by some people.

Ate dinner with the Brother and Sister Oliver. They were telling us

how he proposed and he said he asked her three questions "do you

support your stake president? Do you support your bishop? Do you

support me as the father of your children?" I laughed so hard!! That

is the greatest proposal ever!! 😂😂

We finally met with Greg and Karol!! We told him what President

Randall said and they are so excited! I want to see Greg be baptized

so bad! They are awesome. Karol is from Brazil and was telling us a

lot of things about it :)

Friday - we volunteered at mitzvah. We did a lot of tracting and

knocking on doors.

Saturday - Steven said we could come over so we did and we had Sister

Webster come with us. He said he loves everything about our church

except for the Sacrament meeting part. I asked if he ever has gone to

all three hours and he said no. We invited him to come to the second

hour and he said he would love to and he will be able to on July 2nd!

He said he would still want to be baptized and set a date as a goal

again! We are giving him a gospel principles book next week.

We met with Ashish and gave him a large print triple combination. He

told us a lot about his religion.

Sunday - Father's Day! The primary kids sang a song and Brother and

Sister Cassel did a musical number :)

We ate dinner with the Brenemans. They are hilarious. There youngest

son just got him from his mission in Arizona.

This week we were knocking on a door and all of the sudden someone was

knocking really hard on the other side and it freaked sister Summers

and I out so we left a card and walked away. As we were getting in our

car he came outside and just stared at us. We get a call and the says

"2 missionaries just knocked on my door. Send 2 male missionaries next

time and don't insult me with women" or something like that. We were

so scared! He said his name was Whitney.

This week we were talking to our next door neighbor, Karen and I was

telling her about how I don't like this weather and the humidity and

stuff and she said "you are a hot mess, honey" and it was so funny.

Yep. Everyday. 😂

I love you all!

Sister Gronning

Happy Father's Day! #bestdadever

Interviews. Exchanges. Pep boys

Hello everyone! Well, lets see if I remember what happened this week.

It felt 20 years long.

Btw, let me know if you all get this.. send a quick email saying got

it so I know. Thankssss

We tried to take in our car to pep boys for an inspection on Monday

and we get there and they are looking at our paper work and tell us

that our registration was expired ... so they wouldn't take our car

in.

We ate dinner at the Harwards with Sister Harward and some of her kids.

We came in early because I was not feeling too hot so I slept from

like 7pm to like 7am (our alarm didn't go off.... whoops.) Our

District Leader called for announcements on Monday night and I was

like what is going on hahaha and then afterwards I crashed again.

Tuesday we had District Meeting. Pennypack S is not in our District

anymore for some odd reason, I have no idea. But now it is just our DL

and his companion and 3 sets of sisters. Awkward.

We actually found the right registration in our glove department in

our car, which was there the whole time.. we took our car back to pep

boys and went to the Biermanns and it took foreverrrr.

Sister Biermann had a fidget spinner and I decided I want one when I get home..

We went to a relief society activity and played a get to know you game.

Wednesday we had interviews with President Randall. Before our

interview we had to role play the restoration to our Zone Leaders and

then role play a BOM read to our Sister Training Leaders. We had to

cancel our lesson with Ian.

We had dinner with the Cassels.

Thursday we had a lesson with Ian and Sister Jones came with us last

minute and it was awesome! Sister jones asked inspired questions and

we were able to get Ian's concerns out.

We ate dinner with Sister Flandro and her son izaack. I got sushi!!

After dinner we helped Sister Flandro clean and get ready for girls camp.

Thursday night the STLs came to our apartment and we switched companions!

Friday I got to be with Sister Walton for the day in Logan, PA and it

was awesome! We were in the same mtc district :) we did service for

one of their investigators who is moving. We had a lesson with one of

their investigators named David. We saw a dead cat on the road and

watched it get ran over again and it was horrifying. Also, their was a

huge bug in their apartment that Sister Walton caught in a cup and we

kept it there all day and it eventually died.

We exchanged back with our companions that night.

Saturday was a bunch of tracting. We stopped by and did some service

with Sister Collier. We are going over there today to do our laundry

and paint.

Sunday IAN CAME TO CHURCH. It was a great Sunday for him to come!!

Sacrament topic was on the Book of Mormon and why it is so important

and gaining a testimony of it and gospel principles was about the gift

of the Holy Ghost. It was great!

I think that is it.. I will send pictures in a different email :)

Oh! Elder Erich Kopishcke is coming to our mission this week on

Wednesday and Thursday and I get to hear from him on Wednesday and I

am so excited!

Oh and Happy Fathers Day next week dad!!!

Love,

Sister Gronning

It is all fun and games until someone throws the keys 🔑

Hello friends, family, missionaries!

I am going to do things different this week! Here are some funny moments that happened during the week :

Okay, the first one isn't funny but we were going to a less actives house to see if he moved or anything and it was in the same complex as Sam and guess who we run into! Sam! It was super cool.

Thursday we were having a lesson with Brother Santos outside and there is an umbrella in the center of the table we were sitting in and he says "hold on to your umbrella, if it blows away we might see Heidi" sister Summers asks who Heidi is and he says "you know, the girl with the umbrella and the big purse?" Sister Summers "you mean Mary poppins?" 😂😂

Also on Thursday we were in a neighborhood and it stunk really bad and this guy starts talking to us and asks if we live around here and we said no and he said "well what you're smelling is a rabid skunk that was just shot and it had two other little baby skunks and they're cute as heaven so don't touch them because they probably have rabies." 😳

This week I was wearing my sunglasses in the car and all of a sudden a lense pops out and it scared me so bad! 

Saturday we had District Meeting and car inspections after wards. Sister Summers and I were inspecting the Zone Leaders car. We were all done and an Elder throws the keys to the ZLs and they come flying towards me and I scream and dunk my head and they hit the ZLs window and crack it!!! One of the ZLs was cracking up and the other one was super mad and the Elder that threw them goes red as a tomatoe. All the sisters mouths are wide open. Lesson learned that day, don't throw keys!!! It was pretty funny though afterwards. The elder that threw them had to call our vehicle coordinator guy and tell him. Poor elder 😂 there is never a dull moment in our District hahaha.

But now on a spiritual side. We found George this week. He was sitting on his steps in front of his house and we started talking to him. He doesn't have a very strong belief in God. We gave him a Book of Mormon and he said he would read it and if he had any questions he would call us.

This Sunday our gospel principles class was on baptism and the Biermanns taught it and it went really well!

We have to take our car into pep boys today. Super fun.

Also, I hit my 16 month mark on Saturday.....

I am so grateful for this mission and the opportunity that I get to serve here. I love it so much.

I love and miss you all!

Love,

Sister Gronning

Sunglass lens popped out!