HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

so this week has been crazy with teaching opportunities!!

So our 9 year old that we are teaching is so awesome!! He loves every second of it! we just taught him last Tuesday and hes already on chapter 13! he loves it....

    so our other investigator Jim went through something kind of weird...we have been trying to teach him the last 2 weeks but he said hes in a really bad situation and cant see us.. so finally one day he texted us and asked if we could teach him..so when we got there he told us what was going on...so apparently he rented one of rooms out to a lady who was on Crags list..(not sketchy at all right?) so she was crazy and they found out she was schizophrenic...he said he would just sit in his room with a knife because he was pretty sure she would kill him...so the cops were always at his house...but anyways, we taught him the Plan of salvation and he was super confused..he thought we were talking about reincarnation and we were like omggg noooo! haha it was so funny! but he gets it now and he loves it! he said our religion is so fulfilling! its true!!!

     

     okay this is the best and funniest part of the week!!! so the other day we were going to the church to set up for the Halloween party and one of the members said there was some random person in the chapel...so we went in to talk to her, she was just sitting there reading a hymn book...so we introduced ourselves and stuff. and after we kind of talked to her we realized she wasn't all there...but i shared Moroni 10 (Moronis promise) and she was bawling through it! then she wanted to come to church... so before we left we asked if she wanted the lights on or the ac on...and she said well its your church i don't care...so we were like okay! see yah sunday! so we set up a ride for her because she lives far away..then later we got a voicemail from her saying..."hey sisters its me Thressa, so because you asked me if i wanted the lights or ac on, that means you're not a real church...so im not coming anymore..."  we just kind of looked at each other and busted up laughing! it was so funny!!!! so because we were being nice, that means were not a real church!? oh my goshhhhhh people!!!!

     you know what the best thing about being a missionary is? 

1 when members see you at a food place, they buy your food!

2 you get ALLLLLL the drama! people you don't even know will tell you EVERYTHING!.....i find out some real freaky things from people no one should ever know haha! but i dont know why...i guess when you're a missionary people trust you more, so they tell you everything! 

3 watching people grow in the gospel is SO COOL!

     Guys..dinner at some peoples homes are SO FUNNY! we were at one members house and i swear i thought someone was going to get shot! first of all, during dinner they had a hedgehog at the table, second of all their trash can is a dumpster in the middle of their kitchen, third of all they were all yelling at eachother across the table. i couldn't even handle it, it was so funny!!!! and then we tried to share a message with them, and you could tell they were trying to be nice and respectful, but they couldn't handle it and it was CRAZY!

      thanks for all the support and letters from everyone! transfers are coming up in a couple of weeks so my address might be changing!

i love and miss y'all! 

Sister Bischoff

Don't want the Gilbert Gut!!!!!

Soooo i dont know what happened, but this week only felt like 2 days so i dont really have much to talk about!

     NONE of our investigators are progressing! 2 of them were at Disneyland so that's okay, but the rest aren't! its so frustrating because there is nothing else to do but go tracting or contact recent converts or less actives! (RCLA) and NO ONE wants to talk to us haha! our area is super small so we just keep seeing the same people or keep doing the same things everyday and its so boring! but were still trying!!

     BUT when we do get into a less actives house its a miracle! the other day we JUST got done with dinner and we ate A LOT! then a less active member actually let us in but didn't really want us too...she only let us in because we said we needed to use the bathroom lol. then the daughter asked us if we wanted to eat dinner...we said yes of course so we could stay and talk and hopefully share a message or something! so we just pretended we didn't eat dinner and ate ANOTHER DINNER! i seriously almost died.. but it was good because they opened up to us! so 2nd dinners happen a lot...so when i get home, dont expect anything less than me having a Gilbert Gut! (thats a real thing that happens to missionaries down here haha)

     this transfer is going by pretty fast! we get transfer calls in like 20 days! i REALLY want to get transferred because i feel like i'm not doing anything for this area! i just need new change of scenery lol! a lot of people are telling me they think i'm getting transferred... but last time everyone said that and i didn't leave so who knows!?

    

     okay sorry this email sucks but honestly i can't even remember anything that happened! i even wrote down stuff to put on this email, but nothing really happened! there was one thing that happened...we were contacting this less active family and they pulled up right wen we got there, and they were like Oh Sisters! we have been wanting to talk to you!! so they told us one of the kids they adopted wanted to take the lessons and get baptized! hes 9 and he's SO excited! and the dad apparently sells on amazon. he made a sewing kit thing called Sir Stitch or something...so he gave us each one! they are pretty nice!

     

     OH we got to go to the Temple on Thursday! it was awesome! it's SO pretty! so that was the highlight of my week lol!

love and miss yall!

 sister Bischoff

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

Special Olympics Rocked!!!!

   first of all i want to start off with the fact that all these members (the moms) are telling me that i have a white girl butt!!! what the heck!? no i dont!!! haha its so funny! one of the ladies sister Judd (which i found out i saw her son in the mtc, i talked to him in the cafeteria bc he heard i was going to Arizona so he said if you see the crazy people named the Judds thats his family!! but hes in Las Vegas!) she was helping me the other day at the good will trying to find skirts, and she kept pulling out smalls, and i said girl! do you see this booty! i aint fitting into anything small! and she was like what! you have a white girtl but! i was like noooo! and she pointed to her but and said do you see this? this is a black girl booty! im like ommmggg what kind of conversation are we having right now! and then sister Smith came over and was like, oh yeah you definitely have a white girl butt! i was like, "well my whole life is a lie then!"

    okay new story.. so there is this family in the santa rita ward and they are the ones who throw things at peoples cars! so we went over to visit with them and they were sitting outside..so they got us a chair and we were talking for a while...they had some people coming over to buy a desk or something from them... so later the dad was like "oh, i should propbably close the garage, i dont know what color these people are who are coming by, and i dont want to offend them with my confederate flag" then i was super confused...either he doesnt know im black, orrrrrr... i dont know! he says A LOT of offensive things and im just like...ummm maybe you shouldnt say those things...haha hes crazy!! 

    so the other day when we woke up in the morning, no one wanted to exercise so sis gasu sid we should just ride our bikes for 30 min...so we were like yeah! so here we are 4 sister missionaries riding our bikes around  the neighborhood at 6:40 in the morning. we felt like some hoodrats about to do something crazy! honestly i think it was because we were in pants and not skirts hahah!! but we thought we were pretty cool!

    okay another story! we were trackting right, and we get to this house and they had some weird stuff... there was a statue of a teddy bear and 2 kids kissing (which honestly thats weird right?) and i see something behind the bear statue...oh its dark outside by the way. and i see something and it seriously looked like a giant piece of dog poop! i was getting scared because i was like oh crap if they answer that huge dog is going to attack me! so i was getting pretty nervous... but then i get a closer look...IT WAS A FLIPPIN SNAKE! literally i was like a foot close to that thing!!! i tried to get a picture of it so yall can see it, because it was dark, in the picture it literally looks like a gnarly piece of dog poop!

    okay something crazy happened at a less actives house...so she talks FOREVER and this time her daughter was there and shes exactly like her mom, so we were there for like 3 hours... and we were just talking and all of a sudden it turned into a roast session on Sister Gasu! it was so bad! they went at her for a solid 10 minutes! it was so bad..i wont go into detail, but one of the things they told her was that if she didnt go to therapy and counseling, so would screw up her whole life.. they even made her cry, like no joke it was so bad..one of the things they were calling her out for was that she is a micromanager.. and sis gasu was like "well not that bad" and the lady was like, well lets just ask your companion then and see what she thinks... so now all eyes were on me.. (okay everyone knows sis gaus is kind of a control freak and likes things her way, and thats okay..so i wasnt going to lie) so i could barely get the word out "kind of" and everyone started freaking out and sis gasu was getting pretty mad, I DIDNT EVEN GET TO FINISH! so now i just worked everyone up again..it was just so bad...so that happened...

     SPECIAL OLYMPICS WAS SO FUN! we were over aquatics and giving the awards and stuff! so i was sitting at one of the tables and i remember seeing one of the special needs kids, like we made eye contact for maybe 2 seconds then he was gone... then like 30 min later i hear FRIEND!!! FRIEND!!! so i look over and there he was waving his hands around at me, standing behind the fence! he was like COME HERE!!! haha so i went over and then he kind of got shy...(hes Hispanic so he was like speaking half English half Spanish and he was probably 20) so i walk over there and he didnt know what to say so i was like hey how are you!? then he patted me on the head and said "you're very beautiful!" i was like awhh thanks! then he showd me his muscles hahah it was so funny! then he showed me his scar his cat gave him like 20 times! then he kind of followed me around haha!

   a lot of the contestants were adults from the age 20 to like 50 lol! were not allowed to hug, but they are huggers! i was walking towards one group and one of the guys saw me and said "HEY YOU!!" and just gave me a HUGE 30 secong hug and all the missionaries were like eeeek! but its okay haha he was kije 45 lol

    OMG guess what i found out!!!!! if Jodie Aries wasnt in jail right now she would be in one of the wards im over!!! we pass the house she killed her x boyfriend in all the time!!! its so creepy!!!!!!

oh and soda rush give missionaries 44 oz for 1 dollar! 

    i love and miss yall! than you to everyone who has been sending me packages and mail!! yall are so awesome! getting mail is fun and helps a lot!

Sister Bischoff

My go to hairdo these days :)

Gladys knight rubbed my back..and we got the cops called on us..What a week!!!

okay i want to start this email out with Gladys Knight! OH MY GOSH! Im pretty sure i cried the whole time!

   so we get to the building at 12:30 and start off by putting pens under every chair. we are super sore from doing that by the way...sad huh? but then we chilled for a while until homeboy came and gave us instructions on how to usher. so then at around 4 or 5 something people started getting into line, so we were in charge of giving them water and pamphlets. so we were talking to everyone in line and it was SO fun! they had to wait in line for like an hour so we were there to keep them company! i dont know why but i was on a roll that day(probably because i was so excited) but i was making EVERYONE laugh! it was the funniest thing! im sure i was looking so dumb but it was funny! you had to entertain them so they dont complain to you about the heat and the long line lol!

     So, then finally we get in and it was pretty packed in there!  The only seats left were in the back row. it was in the church building so some people were sitting on chairs on the stage. (the choir sat where the pulpit is) so i sad on the last row on the first seat where the walk way was. so we were sitting there and they announced the choir and they all came out the back and walked up to the front and that was cool, BUT they announced Gladys and she came out from the back and i turned around and she was RIGHT THERE i could touch her! and as she walked she kind of bumped into my chair and looked at me and rubbed my back and i was FREAKING OUT! we made eye contact for like 7 seconds solid! then she walked up to the front and i turned around to the people behind me on the stage and my mouth was just open and i said GLADYS KNIGHT JUST TOUCHED ME!!!! and they all laughed at me! i was dying hahaha! then one lady came up and said yeah she just about sat with yah too!

   But then we watched the concert and it was SO good! i cried because they were all SO happy! one of the first performances was a super old white guy playing the guitar and belting out this song and he was so happy living his dream! so i cried because he was so happy! im a little baby! then we helped with the second show and got to watch it all over again! but Gladys' hubby got up and talked and he is SO FUNNY! everyone was DYING!  but he bore his testimony and it was so good. i swear the whole building was floating in heaven, it felt like we werent even on earth anymore haha! it was soooo good! im so blessed i got to go! But then this one dude after the show came up and talked to me but it was weird because everyone left. he was the only one there with all the missionaries trying to clean. but he was talking to me and stuff and kind of just lingering and being awkward, but then he left and came back with his son and introduced us and it was suuuuper awkward becuse it felt like he was trying to hook us up and all the missionaries thought that too... so that was awkward. i remember that guy tho bc he came to the front and said uhhh i dont have a ticket, can i just go in? we were like uhhh sure i guess...

    we didnt get home till around 12:30...being a missionary and not going to bed at 10:30 is so bad lol. all the missionaries were SO tired and everyone else was super lit! but its okay...actually it wasn't because we still had to wake up at 6:30 the next morning haha! it was worth it tho!

   im kind of glad i didn't get transferred form the forgotten promised land...Desert Ridge is a black hole and all the other missionaries forget we even exist. I didnt know that the Gilbert AZ mission is only 3 years old!!

   so the other day we were in a neighborhood contacting. we only knocked on 2 doors. they were both less active members but neither of them answer...so we were about to leave and we were on our bikes and the cops pull us over. He told us someone called the police on us because we were too persistent... she thought we were in her house? idk. we were pretty salty that a member called the cops on the missionaries. even the cop laughed and said no one has ever called the cops on missionaries, especially the sisters lol! so that was fun. then a member from that same ward told us she called us out on Facebook! what the heck! it said something like "when you call the police on the missionaries when you thought there was a murderer in your house,oops you should have called first and you were too persistent, they were knocking on my door for ever!) 

   okay that's so dumb! we literally knocked, no answer, rang the door bell then left. we weren't even there 2 minuets!! so annoying hahah!     it was funny tho!

   

I forgot to tell yall when i had to teach the law of chastity for the first time to Payton! SO it came to my turn to talk and i basically had to tell him all the things you cant do...and there are 3 things you have to say and its super awkward. BUT i said "you cant do this, this, and this, that's no bueno to Heavenly Father"....my exact words...it just kind of came out of my mouth lol...he was horrified hahaah it was so funny but Im not gonna lie i killed it!

    so im not going to lie. Fast Sundays are a STUGGLE when you have 3 wards! we fast from 6:30 to 4:30. so then when we finally get home from church at 4:30 we eat a bunch knowing we have dinner in 30 minutes at a members house...but apparently we dont care. so then we are super full and have to go and eat another full meal! we do this EVERY time and its SO dumb! 

  

 so on Tuesday i guess life was tough for me that day. we had to do roll playing and omg i was dying. roll playing is hard for me i dont know why! but i roll played with elder wilcox and it was okay, but then i had to roll play with elder hogge and i had to explain what the Book of Mormon was and what its about and why i love it. yall, for some reason its SO hard for me to explain the Book of Mormon! i know what its is and what its about, but i dont know i just couldn't get my words out and explain it to him, so what do i do instead, cry. noooo! omg why do i cry! so im crying and trying to get my words out and it was so bad! i was over it! i could tell he felt bad, but hes not a man of many words so he just kinda stared at me with a worried look...so that was great hahah! but whatever, that day is over i think im better now haha! its all part of the process i guess!

   but later after that Sister Gasu told me she basically had personal revelation that i will LOVE teaching by this transfer if i sacrifice and covenant. I was like oh snap, Heavenly Father had to go to my companion so i can get my answer...i didn't say that tho haha!      So i made some sacrifices and its SO hard! One of them is NO TREATS! how do i like? i dont know! SO NO SENDING CANDY THIS TRANSFER lol!!! but guess what? i kind of love teaching right now! IT WORKS! hahaha

 its awesome!

   if anyone has pictures send them to me so i can hang them up! any pictures! family or funny things or quotes or whatever!!! my wall is so plain!!

sorry i only have 1 pic this week. this week was CRAZY! and we always look bad haha!

i love and miss yall!

 Sister Bischoff

this is our last zone picture before some people got transferred!

Missionary Brains are so fun to have.. AND GLADYS KNIGHT IS THIS WEEK!!!!!

okay so this week was like half a lot of work and half no work lol!

so last monday was awesome! after pday we went tracting in the Mountain Ranch area and it was my turn to talk, so we go up to this door, knock...wait forever, ring the doorbell...wait forever, knock one last time and this guy answers and i said hey were the LDS missionaries and we wanted to go and offer service or a message about Jesus Christ! and he said oh i guess you can do service, so we were like cool we can help clean yard or if you need any help with your house or whatever you need, and he said oh, i thought when you said service you meant like praying or something! and we were like oh snap we can do that too! hahah so we were talking and gave him a Book of Mormon and told him what its about and we asked him to read a scripture and he couldn't see so he was like oh i cant see i need my glasses, so he could have easily just sai nah i dont want to read it but he was like wait let me try and find some glasses! he really wanted to read it! so then we asked if we can come back and teach him more and he said yes, just not on the day the football game is on! so we are going to see him tomorrow!

    GLADYS KNIGHT IS ON THURSDAY! im so excited!!! but we have to be there super early and we wont leave until around 12 or 1 AM! thats crazy! so this concert/fireside is basically for non members or less actives, but members can only come if they bring one of the two...BUT there will be a stand by line for people who didnt get tickets and usually they ALWAYS get in, but how? we have to go in and kick out the members so the non members or less actives can come in! that's so jacked up! so im kind of nervous to kick people out haha! honestly im just glad i get to even go! only like 12 out of the whole mission missionaries get to go and for some reason they chose me to be one of those missionaries lol! basically what i do is greet and usher people to help them find a seat! i wont be able to take pictures or anything because Gladys wants it to be about the people and not her!

  okay, quick concern i have right now. i just remembered it because im eating skittles right now, but i seriously can barely taste things when im eating! its so annoying because y'all know i like eating, but whats the point if i cant taste it! but im not trying to go to the Dr. so if anyone might know why let me know lol!

  okay so there is a cute little Hispanic lady who is less active and we visit her all the time! but a couple days a go we found out a lot about her! its really sad actually. so we were talking about her husband and found out that she had been married twice and both weren't good situations. so her first husband was when they were living in mexico and i think he was abusive, but one day she got a call that her husband died. he was drunk and was walking home super late at night and he got in a fight and was stabbed to death. then she met someone who visited mexico a lot with his friends and they got married and moved to america. then he was super abusive and threatened and hurt her daughters and told them not to tell or he would kill their mom. so then one day he almost killed her at a really choppy river but the police randomly came. then one day they ran away from him when he was at work and he was super mad and started breaking things. but he never found them. and one day one of her friends called and said he had a heart attack and died. its so sad and she said shes glad both of them are dead. she is so nice ans sweet and she never deserved that! but when she ran away she found the Mormon missionaries and got baptized! 

   I LOVED conference! i wish we could have it everyday! but i was thinking that we didnt get to take the sacrament this Sunday and i was kind of bummed. i guess being a missionary and taking the sacrament like 3 times makes you appreciate it more. its crazy how easy it is to take the sacrament for granted. i realized that the sacrament is a blessing. to even have the opportunity to take the sacrament every week should make us feel so lucky that Heavenly Father loves us that much to let us start over and have a clean slate for that week. every week He lets us try again to be better. before my mission i never even really thought of Jesus Christ and his atonement when i took the sacrament. everything is just a blessing.

  i dont know if yall can tell, but i sure can, that its crazy how i have changed and its only been 1 transfer! i dont know i just think differently and stuff now! i think of how i was before my mission and i just want to die! i just think how much i took for granted! and when you're on a mission you're on a spiritual high so you see things different! everyone i see i see that they are a child of God and they chose the right plan already and chose to come down to earth. They already chose God, now i just need to help them remember that! it was funny because when i was in someones house they had the tv on and there was a lady on the screen and i was like WOE! shes a child of God!! and it was soooo weird! and someone else was watching americas got talent, and tape face was on there and i was loke OMGGG i probably knew him in heaven!! idk missionary brians are super fun to have! my missionary brain thinks everyone is Elder or Sister, so when i think of my highschool teachers im like oh yeah Elder Feldman was my favorite math teacher! the stuggle.

  oh last night we got transfer calls! im still comps with Sister Gasu and still in the same area! im glad she gets to 2nd hand train me! im so glad i only have one more transfer of training left! i hope im a trainer next! i dont know why but i love training people! 

 i love and miss yal!

 - Sister Bischoff