A tough week so we got creative

This week was a really tough week in all honesty. But its a good week cuz there was a lot i needed to learn and i did! So thats good! But this week was filled with canceled appointments and slammed doors! Its okay though it led to really funny convos! We decided we had enough of the door slamming so we hot chalk and drew on park side walks! So that was really cool! We decided we'd draw near the High School here too and when we did we met 2 girls who were super awesome and really wanted to learn who lived in our area! It was GNARLY!

We went out to that really small town again to eat at that place but this time we went as a district and we had a member come with us! And it was FIRE as usual! But when we were going home the member was driving (hes 72 but has the energy of a 12 year old) and i realized we had missed our exit so i look down to pull it up on the GPS and in the 3 seconds i look down hes already half way up a "DO NOT ENTER" EXIT RAMP! There was this GIANT truck making its way to mess us up lol! It was so scary! Luckily he pulled over right in time and we were safe! Talk about energy drink wow that'll get your adrenaline pumpin!! 

We got to do a LOT of service which i LOVE so that was a blast! We helped with a move, mowed a lawn, loaded a truck up with garbage to take to the dump, and built a sidewalk all in 2 days!  it was so much fun on the side walk one we did it with bricks and i got to lay the bricks down and while doing so i realized why we were there that day. It was so i can realized you cant just set out saying i'm gonna have a perfect life, get into someones house, get someone to listen, have the spirit, (fill in your goal) until you lay each individual brick down right that whole side walk was not 1 three hour project but thousands of 1 second projects to make sure each brick was laid to the best ability! It was really cool! 

Sunday was a tough day I hated the world the moment church was over and was just being a cry baby honestly! But no one listened to us,  no one kept their appointment and lastly we were getting stuff thrown at us and y'all know how short my fuse is a lot of the time and in the moment i wanted to rip someones head off but i just stopped and thought about how much the Savior had to endure and it was just shocking how he didn't ever retaliate! But the reason I tell this is because after we endured all the crap we did that day we got home and "buzz buzz" we get a text and the text is from a former investigator we met my first 2 days here in Hutch and we never got to have a real sit down lesson with her. But she said i'm ready and want to try out your church! it was so cool! 

I am so sorry this is so long i didn't even realize i knew this many words but hey i love you all! Have a BALLER week! 

Nothing we do is normal....... even when we try!

This week was really solid! We have got a lot of work done and had a whole bunch of fun! So  Tuesday night is where ill kinda start hahaha so we play bball every Tues night here and this week we got 5 investigators there and it was super solid to help them with fellowship and getting to know people! Then Wednesday we went out to a tiny place called Arlington with a member for lunch and yoooooo..... their food was FIRE I had a roast beef sandwich smothered in gravy and then a thing of peach pie  sorry im drooling again.... 

we were out knocking doors and we knocked into these people and one of them is an ex lds member who's now a minister (id be lying if i said this is the first guy I met like that).... so one thing leads to the next and were just laying everything we can on this dude to help him feel the spirit again but hes not having it but his Girlfriend really likes what we're saying! But then all of a sudden you could see something in his head just switch and he started pleading the case of the trinity less and less and I'm pretty sure hes confused with what he believes now and wants to come back! That's was gnarly! 
Then another day we were out in the who knows where of our area and we just start knocking doors that are about a quarter mile apart and we ran into this GIANT Amish community! It was Gnarly! They lived in GIANT houses yo! Like good guac they have too much room! #lifegoals We met our friend Roman again and he said he wanted a church tour and so we had a member pick him up and we went over there and had that. But its hard cuz he speaks only spanish so i have to remember everything ive been taught which helps a good bit but then conversation mode on Google Translate saves lives! He loved the church! He ended up coming to church with us Sunday and we had a lady translate for him for Sacrament meeting and then we just had our own 2nd and 3rd hour with a member who speaks pretty much only spanish hahahahaa it was so awesome!!!!!  When we were done we invited him to be baptized cuz the spirit was crazy strong! And he said i already have..... so we asked in what church and he said THIS ONE! Our jaw dropped hahaah it was crazy so we got his Bday and Full name and asked the clerk to check and yep he was haha! Crazy! He was baptized 50 years ago in Mexico! Him, his wife and daughter so that was an adventure and a half! Yah that pretty much sums up this week. Oh yah we were driving to a dinner and we saw these zebras and stuff on the side of the road hahaha so we went and took pics with them! #onlyinKS  okay I love you all! Sorry this ones so long 

-Elder B

Really..... snow in april...... 🌨❄

This week was wack.... it felt so long for some reason! Well anyways we started the week out with having Zone Conference! We had a General Authority come to the mission!  Elder Brent H Nielsen he is the Head of the missionary Department! So that was legendary! We did a lot of talking about finding through members! He said members are FULL TIME FINDERS and MISSIONARIES ARE FULL TIME TEACHERS! That's crazy hahaha how legendary would that be?? It was a really really good meeting! We are getting Instagram here soon so that's lit!
 But we were having a tough week we had to drop a couple more investigators because they became very comfortable in what they were doing and didn't want to strive for more so we had to drop them it was sad! So we felt like trash and prayed and asked God for a miracle and you know what we hadn't even finished the prayer and i felt the phone buzz in my pocket so when we get up i checked it and a member said "Hey there will be some non members at church tonight for mutual" so we were like heck yah lets see who! And it was actually this family where the husband is a member who just moved back from Phoenix and his wife and 4 kids ages 16-10 all were learning about the church there and want to continue here!!!!! What a MIRACLE! So dope! 

HOLY HECK we went to some po-dunk tiny towns this week hahaha i thought huh this is what I expected Kansas to actually be like! I'm so happy I was wrong lol! We had a lesson with this lady Tina and she is so freaking awesome!!!! She is so solid her and her boys are gonna keep meeting with us so that was super awesome! We have been doing a lot of work with members who haven't cane in a while and things like that! So yah that's been so awesome! Lol we met this dude who was saying his church has been around longer than ours and i was like oh yah when did it start? He said well when Christ got here and i was like oh that's it! Well we've been around since Adam so next point hahahaha it was so funny! Then he starts quoting scriptures wrong and says scriptures are here for our own interpretation hahahahaha bro it literally says NO PRIVATE INTERPRETATION! We also had a scheduled "discussion" more like bash so we went to this guys house again and he actually had his mind changed about the trinity lol! It shocked us completely hahaha usually they know their wrong but wont change and he totally did! 

But can y'all tell me why one day it was 89° and literally  the next day its 27° and snowing?!?!?!?!?!?!! What the actually heck? Well i love you all and I promise my next email will make you laugh a lot!
~Elder Bischoff

I can't believe I hit 9 months!!

Heyyy y'all! So this week was really wacky cuz its been weird not having to adjust to a new companionship haha i went 4 comps back to back to back to back! But Elder Thompson has to deal with me for another 6 weeks hahaha bless his heart ! Nah jk we have a lot of fun and we get a lot done too! This week it freaking snowed how and what and why!!!!!!!!!!!! But we decided we would clean out our area book (our old, new, and potential people missionaries in the past were teaching) and also see some members in the ward we hadn't met yet! And it was so awesome! We had a lotta fun and met and talked to a lot of people! A member asked us to bring Dawn and her kids along with us to dinner and it was so awesome! So cool to be able to help build relationships! Oh yah we also had breakfast with our investigator John (the youth pastor). It was so awesome we had such a good discussion straight from the Bible! So that was so cool! He is slowly but surely coming along. We had one change in the district with transfers! We have a new sister in the district and shes from Hawaii and her comp is from Samoa! Its so funny to see them together! But it was sad to have the other one leave cuz she was such a good missionary and a homie but she completed her mission so good for her! We actually had a funeral for her too haha it was pretty sad actually! We did a little bit of tracting this week too and we found 2 super solid people! We met Todd hes a good guy and he's really excited to read the Book of Mormon! And the second one was a huge miracle cuz we knocked the door and this 20 y.o. man answers and says okay fasho come on in before we could even say anything so we go in and he goes in the back and starts arguing with his mom and finally says no mom you need this go listen to what they are gonna say! And then he walked out! And so we start talking with and answering questions of this half Interested person! But by the end she was ask excited her kid told her to talk with us. It turns out her son is meeting with missionaries in Wichita and is learning and loving it a lot! CrAzY!!!! Well that's my week! I love you all! Keep being legends! Oh yah real quick so tomorrow we have a meeting with Elder Brent H Nielsen and he is the HEAD of the missionary department so this will be dope so ill keep y'all informed with what he says and the awesome council we get! Well again i love y'all!!

-Elder Bischoff

Transfer Week!!

This week was soooooo good! I just love conference week! So rad! But this week FLEW by good guac! Here's just a couple things about the week! So we did lots of finding and found it pretty successful actually! (The pics below show some cool peeps we met!) We also met a lot of crazys too this week hahahahahahahahahaha it was so funny! We also had interviews! That was awesome!!!!! I learned so much during it! Holy cow! Then we had a good bit of lessons so that's always a blast! We taught a lot of awesome people this week! But its been sad cuz a lot of our solid people we had to drop! It was really sad cuz you could tell they knew what they were going to be missing but they couldn't recognize it!  I just love these people so much and just want them to be happy and their literally denying the ONLY source for never ending JOY! But its okay I've come to terms with the fact God has a plan in play! But this week was really good over all! 
These really cool friends we met invited us over for dinner and that was awesome we ate then had a really awesome spirit felt conversation! It was so good! We have so many cool people to discuss with here in Hutch I love it! Oh yah lol we went to lunch at this retirement center one day cuz why not  that was so funny  we were literally the only ones under 65 hahahahahaha it was great! And we also got to help set up for a wedding reception and that was dope! Sorry this letter is wack Im just trying to fully remember what all happened this week hahaha so this next transfer i will still be here in Hutch and be with E. Thompson again!!!! So stoked! 
~Elder Bischoff