Another week in Paradise 🌴

Welllllllll this weeek was......... EvEnTfUl to say the least. This week was a really great week! And even if it wasnt i totally would still say it was! Let me prove to you why it was! So Monday Elder Peterson gave a FIRE lesson and then we played UNO for FHE. Then we came home and had Elder Saari and a couple other Elders at the apartment to sleep over for Zone Conference the next day and wellllll that night was lit! Tuesday we were up bright and early and played bball with the APs (assistants to the president) then we came home and got ready for Zone Conference! That took all day long for that! Then right after Zone Conference we had a really solid lesson with Bryan! That was freaking gnarley! We talked to him about what it means to be baptized! Then we had exchanges with the APs that was alotta fun! I went out with AP Crane and he served here in JC so I got to see all of the people he taught and get our foot in the door! Then Wednesday we got this whole Meet the Mormons event happening! So what it is, is a Q&A with the mission President and his wife coming up from Wichita for that! Its going to be absolutely frickin fantastic!!!! Thursday we woke up and got a phone call from Milly and she invited us over for Lunch and she fed us Beef Liver!!!!! Yo it was FIRE!!!! 
Then after we got a spiritual prompting to go visit this family and we got to sit and talk with them and it was really awesome to do that! Friday is the day we got all the Flyers made for the Meet the Mormons thing!!!!!! It was really awesome to get that all squared away and get the ball Rollin!  Saturday was a very packed day! We woke up to a text asking if we could bury a Guinea pig......  i felt like i was a criminal and like trying to hide a crime or something hahaha im wack! But yah that was cool! Then I got to Skype Ms. Kay! Elder LaMont and I taught her back in Bel Aire and she just got baptized!!!! Shes so amazing! It was awesome then we went and did service in Chapman again! It was gnarly as usual! Then we got taken to Famous Daves for dinner that night and yo it was fuego!!!!!! So good! Then we had a bunch of investigators at ball that night too!! 
Then Sunday we had a good bit of investigators at church and that was awesome as usual! One of them taught the Gospel Principles class and it was awesome!!!! This week was really fun and we got a lot of stuff rolling!!!!!! I love yall so much!!!
Elder B

Miracles on Miracles

Hello y'all whats cracka lackin?!?!?! This week was stupendous  sorry thats just not a word I use.... its almost like im just saying words i dont know the meaning to just to make me look smarter  sorry enough being wack. 

So this week started out with FHE playing catchphrase and that was super dope! I love that game hahahahah! Then Tuesday and Wednesday we did a lot of Finding and walking around it was a blast! We found and talked to a ton of amazing people. But Wednesday we taught Anya and D about the Restoration! They loved it and it was so awesome to see them and how they reacted towards it! They both said the spirit was there and they knew it. It was AWESOME! Then Thursday we had a lesson with Bryan again and it was good to get back into meeting with him again! Hes so awesome! He had so many awesome questions! Then Thursday we also had our Book of Mormon study group!!!! We had a lot of fun its going fairly good we are going to be getting more investigators there! Its gonna be awesome! Friday was awesome too we had a lesson with Odeal again and shes so funny she said she used our Plan of salvation pamphlet to teach her sunday school class last week and her "boss" told her she needs to teach the adults that lesson too cuz its so true! Lolol its great! We also met up with some people who stopped talking to us and they said we could come stop by again!!!! Its so awesome! Then Saturday we got to clean the church and then go do more service for that family! Then we had basketball and one guy who always comes invited his whole platoon out for it! It was so dope! We had close to 10 investigators actually show! It was so much fun!!!! Half way through we stepped out and taught and Investigator and he was telling us he knows the Book of Mormon is true and he loves it! It was so awesome!!!! So freaking cool! Then Sunday we had a ton of investigators show up for church it was awesome! We had the biggest miracle happen so we had this referral that we gave to the senior missionaries to go see cuz shes a single lady and she really liked what they said but wouldn't come to church! Then turns our D and Anya are her health care taker and brought her to church Sunday it was so awesome they loved it and said i cant wait for next week! It was so cool! So later Sunday  afternoon we got a referral after church to go see this guy named Ralph who is looking for a church and when we were out driving looking for places to knock we ended up right by his house and so we went and found it and he was outside and it was the perfect opportunity to ask if he needed any service or anything and introduce us. We asked him and he said. "STOP! DONT COME ANY CLOSER I DONT WANT TO BE CAUGHT ON FIRE!!!!" So we were like uuhhhhhhhhhhh well okay......... and awkwardly left hahaha. This week was awesome y'all i love y'all so much! 
Elder Bischoff

 

Training in Junction City

I know you are going to want a Bio of my new comp so ill give that first for yall. His name is Elder Peterson and he is from Henderson, Nevada and graduated from Foothill HS. He has been in the mission for 6 weeks before being with me. He likes the gym. He can take my sarcasm and sassiness most the time🏼..... but lastly He is awesome!
So this week..... wack! We were sooooooo all over the place and were so freaking busy and everything so please bare with me! 
So Monday we had FHE and we played spoons it was lit..... until I freaking lost i hated it hahaha I hate losing!!!! It was Elder Saaris last FHE in JC! Sad but it was good it was a lot of fun like usually! Tuesday was wack cuz we had to do a lot of last minute packing and goodbyes so Saari could be good for the morning. Then Wed morning we had to be out the house by 6AM so we could be in Wichita for a Training meeting. So i was in a meeting from 8:45-3!  It was BrUtAl!!!! All good I'll live! Then I drove back hahahha it was so fun to drive again!!!! But we had to drive 30 min past JC to give other elders some stuff then drive all the way back............ Talk about CRAZINESS!!!!! Then we had to make our 7PM correlation meeting hahaha needless to say Wed was very hectic!!! Then Thursday we got back to the daily routine and got a lot of stuff done! Same for Friday!   Saturday was fun we did service again for the Johnson family! I just love that family!!!!!!  Then Sunday  we had church and more appointments! We had almost 0 time to go knock doors or just go finding in general and knew we needed to so from 6:30-9  We went out and about knocking doors trying to find people. We worked our tails off and ended up finding 8 investigators it was so freaking awesome! God definitely will bless if we put forth the effort! 🤜🤛

So heres some miracles I saw from last transfer! 
Mildred (Milly): So we got a text one day from SLC and it was a referral for Mildered and she wanted a Finding Faith In Christ movie and until this point of my mission this was the 1st time I had seen those cards be used for its purpose. So we head over there and go knock on her door and give her the DVD along with the restoration movie. We then go ahead and gwt talking about who we are and what we represent and she cuts us off and says "I know who you are. I used to study with missionaries and take the lessons and go to church. I was learning so much I was going to be baptized." She then goes on to tell us about how 3 years ago she was meeting with missionaries and was gonna be baptized but was kicked out of her house because she was studying with the "Mormons" so she was forced to move in with her family in Indiana. She felt God needed her back in Kansas so she moved back! As she was moving here she couldnt remember the name of the Book or of our church so she couldnt come back but as she was moving she saw a Finding Faith In Christ card fall out of her stuff and called it! 

Odeal: One day we get a text from SLC and it was a referral for this lady named Odeal who had a copy of the Book of Mormon. She had called SLC and they mailed her a copy of the Book of Mormon instead of having missionaries get it to her. But she was reading it and wanted to know more so she got on Mormon.org and started talking about Adam and Eve with a rep and we got a text to go over there. So we go over there and get to teach her the restoration and what the Book of Mormon is. She tells us she knows 100% it is the "breath of God Himself" and teaches primary aged kids at her local church and lately has been using the Book of Mormon because it makes more sense! 

Sorry this is so freaking long..... no body wants to stare at my email for fiveever so ill be shorter next week for yah! I love you all! 

Elder Bischoff

Transfer 5, Comp 4

This week was really cool! First we started out with Apples to Apples at FHE and that was good! We didn't have A LOT of people there but we still had an okay turnout! It was good! Then Tuesday we walked around and talked to a ton of people it was a lot of fun! Elder Saari finally was starting to feel better. But his voice sounded like Batman and he talked with an Australian accent cuz it hurt less lol so we walked around and talked to  people with the australian version of batman as my comp how legendary is that?!?!?!??! 

Then Wednesday.... y'all Wednesday was dope....... so we get a text from this sister serving in another mission about a referral for this lady who wants a Finding Faith In Christ movie. And any missionary will tell you the Pics of Jesus Christ we hand out never work but some how this one did....... so we go meet Mildred who moved here from Massachusetts. She used to live in Junction City 3 years ago and when she lived here she was meeting with missionaries and loves everything about the church. She knows 100% with out a doubt the Book of Mormon is true! She was gonna get baptized but had to move! So crazy how she still had the pic of Jesus Christ that she remembered about to get a hold of the church 3 years later! So freaking awesome! Then Thursday we did a lot of finding and teaching! We also had our first Book of Mormon study class! A member brought it up and it reminded me of Ensley when we were in Alabama and the missionaries did that and thought we should totally do it! So we have had the process of this for 3 weeks now and it finally started and we had an awesome turnout! We had 4 investigators there! 1 Less Active there and 6 members there. Plus 6 missionaries! It was so good! We are going to do it every Thursday so that'll be so freaking dope y'all! 

Then Friday we had exchanges and I was with Elder Hall he is a Visa Waiter he is called to Ecuador hes so freaking awesome! He is brand new! So we had a blast we worked a freak ton! Then Saturday we helped with a move and had a couple appointments!  Sunday we had church and then went and tried some people I used to work with to see how they were doing!!! And then  Sunday night i got a call from the AP's and they told me they want me to follow up train! His name is Elder Peterson! I know nothing about him and will let y'all know next week! 
I love you all! Have a good week! 
Elder Bischoff

this week....wack

This week was the slowest freaking week of my life...... But some how it flew by.... look yall i promise im sober! But im serious hahahaha!!!!!!! Weeks feel like months and months feel like weeks I promise hahahahah!! But anyways this week was weird cuz right as I started feeling better because of my sickness I was super excited to get to work and stuff and then the next day my companion got sicker than the Space Jam 11's (a pair of shoes!)! He was dying I felt so freaking bad! Home boy had a fever of 101.8° and man i was just complaining on my headaches hahaha I felt like a total wuss! So we just stayed inside and let him die on the couch. As hes hacking up his organs left and right I was studying French, cutting my own hair, and also calling people from our phone and got a TON of appointments! It was freaking gnarly! So the rest of the week from like Wed night until Sunday I was going on a different companion exchange every like 2 hours so I could get to an appointment! It was really awesome to get to meet all these awesome people and get to know them and get to teach them! I love teaching people and love getting to know people and who they are its so fascinating! We were walking to an appointment and were walking out on the main road and this lady come out of this shop and she yells at whoever I was with and I to come get into her shop so we go over and talk to her and she said "Look. It is way to cold out for you to be walking in just a sweater and a long sleeved shirt......" and grabs my arm and pulls me to this section of the store and shows me all this thermal stuff and she runs to the back and while shes gone I was thinking like well how do I get out of having to buy something..... and she runs back with a bag and starts stuffing it with all this nice military thermal jackets and pants and says here take these and it'll keep ya warm! It was so nice of her! She gave me $80 worth of stuff for free because she really respects missionaries! It was such a blessing! Also this week we have been working with this kid Cedric and hes 14 Y.O. and he committed to be baptized on Jan 20th  im so freaking stoked for this kid!!!! Hes such a good guy!!!!!! That will be such a good day for him. We also met a French Family that I got to teach and it was so awesome! I love the French people here their amazing! They all just have a real deep love for the Savior! Its so awesome!!!!!! So I will be def need to tune up my French! That's this week for ya hahaha see I was really busy but also had to spend a lot of time in doors cuz the sickness and the negative degree weather! Its crazy how cold it is here! But I love you all so much! 

P.S. Next P-Day I will know transfer news for y'all!