Marine Corps Kick the Door In!

How are all of you doing? This week was kind of crazy and a little rough. Here's a quick update!

-For starters, we left for a dinner appointment and realized that we locked our keys AND our phone in the apartment. ...great. Luckily, we had Facebook and we were able to contact Sister and Brother Murphy. Brother Murphy is in the marines and we kept telling him to just kick the door down! Luckily, he managed to get in with a tire iron and a pair of scissors.

-We had 3 lessons with Jeffrey this week and he came to church!! During one of our lessons he expressed his desire to receive a priesthood blessing because he's going through some hard struggles right now. After church a member of the Ward was able to give him one. It was so powerful and Jeffrey's whole countenance seemed changed after. The priesthood is real!

-Sister Sakers went to the temple for the first time ever this week! She loved it and told us that she can't wait to go back and do family names! Hooray!

Until next week! Love you all. 💜

Sister B

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O Savior, Thou Who Wearest A Crown

Halloween Pics!

Widener Halloween Party 2016

Happy Halloween!

Meet Frank!

We made signs because
no one could figure
out what we were. :P 

Halloween treats!

We are set!

Happy Hauntings!

Spook factor... visiting an old
cemetery on Halloween.

Enter if you dare!
Coolest cemetery ever!

Widener ward Halloween party. 

Shakes with the Sisters!

This house in Crum Lyn!
It has werewolves all over
the roof and climbing
in the windows!

Let Your Light Shine

Hello! We are taking Lois and Francess to the temple so I have no time today. So real quick, here are some highlights from this awesome week! :)

-We taught the lesson at our ward FHE this week and wow. It was about the 10 virgins and keeping our lamps lit and guess what? The church had no power... Ironic. I know. We gave the lesson in the dark. Not sure if it added emphasis or not.

-We had two lessons with Shena and Stephanie this week. They are awesome! They are so excited to come to church next week!

-We received two referrals this week that are GOLDEN! Ones name is Mamie and she has the cutest little kids I've ever seen. She is excited to read the Book of Mormon and really felt the spirit when we testified to her. And the other is Michael. He is a referral from the visitors center in Winter Quarters. He learned about the restored gospel there and wants to be baptized. He is perplexed as to how not everybody knows about the gospel! We are so excited to teach him.

-We had a mission conference where Elder Robbins of the Seventy came and spoke to us. Every missionary in the PPM came and it was SO MUCH FUN! I got to see and visit with all of my old companions and leaders! I got to see all the sisters that I haven't seen since the temple! And the trainings that were given were SO GOOD. I mean wow.

-And last but not least, Jeffrey! We invited Jeffrey to church this week and he sent us a text that said he was going to his other church because he isn't sure if he believes it all yet. But he also told us that he really feels in his heart that God wants him to keep meeting with us because he knows we are teaching him out of love. So the spirit is working with him and he is still reading and loving the Book of Mormon.

I love you all! Have a great week!

Soft serve kind of day!

FALL COLORS!!

Sister Fueling, Sister Counts, and I.

When your comp is your best friend! :) 

La Cucaracha

Hey everyone!

I don't have a lot of time. Here are some highlights from this week!

-Tuesday we went on exchanges. I went with Sister Ashcraft back to P1! My old stomping grounds! It was so fun but also a super crazy day! We went to visit a member and when we walked in there were cockroaches EVERYWHERE. They were climbing in her sandwich, on the table, on the couch, on the floor. So naturally, when we sat down, they were crawling all over our legs and our skirts. Yikes!

- We had a Plan of Salvation lesson with our new investigators Stephanie and Shena. They really loved it and committed to be baptized on October 30!! They are so excited about the gospel!

- Thursday we had Zone Conference. It was AWESOME! I love getting to see all the missionaries. Especially the sisters. I am missing getting to see them all every day at the temple. But the conference was so good. We were trained on how to have more focused studies and I have definitely seen miracles from implementing the things that were taught.

- Saturday we hit the streets and saw SO MANY MIRACLES. We talked to everyone and met so many young adults who were so willing to listen to our message and open to feeling the spirit. It's cool to see this generation be so open to finding truth.

- On Sunday JEFFREY CAME TO CHURCH! And he loved it! The Widener Ward is so good at fellowshipping and the members really just took him under their wing. As he's been studying the Book of Mormon we've been able to see such a big change in him. He is still intense and slightly intimidating but he has become happier. I love the gospel!

Well, I hope you all have a great week! The church is true! The book is blue!

Love, Sister B

The leaves are changing! :)

Halloween Chocolates!!

Me and Sherreese! I love her so much!

...Really?!

Salutations! This week was cuh-RAZY! So much happened and I don't actually want to type it all out so you're going to have to deal with the slimmed down version. Sorry not sorry.

So, this week we went back to teach a man for the first time that we had met on the street. We had shown him a video about Jesus Christ and had stopped by once before to give him a Book of Mormon. This time, we brought a member with us so we could have an actual lesson with him! We pull up and it's like the sketchiest house on the street. Straight out of a horror movie. It's foggy and rainy and he walks out from behind the house and says we can have the lesson right there in front of the house. So, we went along as normal: singing a song, saying a prayer, and sharing the points of the Restoration. He was super nervous and fidgety, looking around like someone was coming for him. And the spirit was not there. We couldn't even remember Joseph Smith's First Vision. It was that bad. We tried to teach it quickly so that we could just go because it did not feel good. We got to the end of the lesson and Sister Counts committed him to be baptized which he said yes to. And Sister Counts says: "...really?!" Because she was so shocked. He was like "yeah" and we were like, "...oh that'll bless your life". Then we got in the car and the member who is with us, Sister Murphy, said: "That was terrifying." We came back to our apartment for dinner and were feeling nauseous and slightly freaked out but we didn't really know why...  then we get a call from Sister Murphy. She did some research and informed us that the guy we just taught had recently been in jail for stalking and harassing to cause fear. What? This guy now has our phone number and the address to the church. We called our district leader and told him everything that had happened and he told us to not go back there. We were like, "OK no problem!" But then we realized he had a baptismal date?!  Long story short, if he shows up to church, the Elders will teach him.

Other highlights:

Chris was at church this Sunday!

Sister Sakers bore her testimony for the first time ever in Fast and Testimony Meeting! She said she knew the Lord was watching over her because he sent the missionaries at the perfect time. I love her!

We had an awesome Zone Training AND interviews with President Randall. We have the best Mission President ever! We talked a lot about faith and relying on the Holy Ghost. We've seen it work miracles this week in finding people to teach!

The other sisters moved out of our apartment so now it's just the two of us and it's clean!!

And that pretty much sums up the week! It's been great! I love being a missionary!

I hope you all have a wonderful week! The church is true, the book is blue!

Love, Sister B

It feels like FALL!

Matchy matchy

We tracted these houses that looked
 like they were straight out of Divergent.

And we have tracted this terrifying
apartment building multiple times.
It gets creepier each visit. 

Two White Preacher Girls

Bonjour friends and family! How are all of you? Wasn't conference amazing?? I loved it! How can you not love it though...

This week was a little rough in terms of missionary work. We had nine lessons fall through! And we had members with us. So, that was a major bummer. It's always sad when people use their agency to keep themselves from progressing. Despite the let downs we had one amazing miracle that happened yesterday!

We went to teach our new investigator Stephanie that we had contacted in a parking lot last week. When we went over we invited her mom and her sister to sit in on the lesson with us. It was a quick lesson on the Restoration but it was one of the most spiritually powerful lessons I've ever taught. When we introduced the Book of Mormon, Sister Counts promised them that questions they've had their entire lives could be answered in it. Stephanie was so excited and just looked hungry for more. At the end of the lesson we testified that through the restored gospel we could be with our families after this life and they all looked around at each other. They told us that the mom's brother had just passed away. They are so excited to learn more!

We watched General Conference with Lois and Francess. They absolutely loved it! It was so incredible to see, not only my questions, but their questions answered too! We are so blessed to have a prophet and apostles on the earth today that tell us the words that the Lord wants us to hear.

I love you all! I hope you have a wonderful week! :) God bless.

Pumpkin Cheesecake Gelatis!
 Best fall treat ever! 

I love being a missionary!

Conference with Lois and Francess!

Sketch stairwell

Service on a rainy fall day?
Time to break out the sweaters!

Cheesin'

Faith Over Fear

Hello everyone! I don't have a lot of time to write this week, so I'll just send some highlights!

-We had dinner with Sister Sakers and her son came! He has been inactive since he was 11. He was a little hesitant to come sit with us but eventually did and we were able to get to know him and lighten the mood. We shared a video message with Sister Sakers and testified of Jesus Christ. He watched the whole video and told Sister Sakers that he had asked about the church was really touched by the testimonies. Whoo!

-Lois had an awesome job interview and we got to fast for her! We will find out this week if she got the job! We are trusting in a miracle.

-This week we really applied "faith over fear" and talked to everyone who the Lord put in our path and saw so many miracles. We had one of the most powerful Restoration lessons with a woman who just invited us in for a bible study when we started talking to her. We found 4 solid investigators and are excited to find more!

-We went to a wedding reception for one of the members in our ward. She sat us at a table with her and her husband, her parents, and the area 70 Elder Kunz and his wife! The theme was "A Little Bit Country, A Little Bit Rock'N'Roll." It was super interesting and pretty fun.

-The General Women's Broadcast! FOURTH FLOOR, LAST DOOR!! That meeting was so good! If you didn't watch it, go do it right now!

I love you all and hope you have a wonderful week!

Love, Sister B

That one day we looked super cute....

and took a thousand pictures!

Fell asleep the second my head hit the pillow.

That time we ran over a plastic
bag and it got stuck in our car...

When you're at the Delaware river!

Widener East!

Widener East! Brunsdale & Counts!

We have too much fun!

Grabbing a moment to play the piano. :)

Count your blessings! :)

I have the best companion!