Quad Squad is staying together!!

okay yall, sorry im being lazy but this probably wont be a good email because i dont have a lot of time today haha!

     so the #quadsquad is staying together for another transfer! Elder Wilcox is being transferred so we are kind of scared to get a new zone leader..eeeeeek! 

     So Christmas was so horrible that it was amazing...im never going to have this crazy Christmas experience ever again! Dinner was just CRAZY! i dont even know...Then we sang in one of our ward choirs which consisted of probably 12 people, mostly men, and we sounded horrible, so me and Sister Farrer got the giggles up on the stand. Then some sisters asked to switch shifts for the Temple Lights so we had to work there on Christmas, which wasn't bad, but we were just salty because we didn't get to chill with the quad squad at all yesterday! but its all good! Christmas on the mission is super fun!

     oh so on Christmas Eve, as a zone we went to the church and watched the Grinch...honestly, i have no idea how that got approved because that movie is SO inappropriate! i never noticed until i got my missionary brain! hahaha it was so funny! Then Sister Farrers mom made huge coloring pages for us and we colored them as a zone! we were super surprised the Elders even colored with us! it was fun!

     This week the WHOLE mission got to go to the temple! we took a mission pic in front of it so hopefully we get those pics soon so i can send it to yall! then of course, our ratchet zone wanted to go to lunch together...so where did we go? the most apostate place ever...B Dubbs... again, you never would know unless you have a missionary brain! but seriously were idiots, we go from the temple to buffalo wild wings...

     well, thank all of yall who sent me Christmas presents! it was super fun! yall are all homies!

i love and miss yall!

 Sister Bischoff

Matching Mission shirts

My Compsnion

one of my Fav families!!

apples to apples on Pday

We slept under the Christmas tree on Christmas Eve!

mission Party

We set off 400 balloons with glow sticks representing 400 baptisms this year!

LOVE LOVE LOVE these sisters 

MERRY CHRISTMAS Y'ALL!!

this letter will probs be short because I literally cant remember anything that happened this week...it just goes by so fast.. but oh my gosh y'all, Sister Gasu is dead! she went home 2 days ago! (shes not actually dead, but she died from the mission). Its just so weird that shes home! for some reason you just think that missionaries never go home, like ever....

     I cant believe this transfer is almost over..like what the heck! by the end of this next transfer i will be 6 months old! i feel like i just came out here a month ago! We think our house is going to stay the same and no one will be transferred. 

Next transfer Sister Farrer dies so we think Im going to be the one to kill her then the next transfer after that Im going to train. we'll see! we love our zone and we don''t want anyone to get transferred! i have been in this area FOREVER! my whole mission! (4 months lol) Don't you love missionary lingo!  haha

     

Anyways. So Sister Kilsby and I have been sick, so on Thursday after we sung to this old folk home we took meds and we passed out for 5 hours... like we all thought we would just take like a 30 min nap, but nope, 5 hours... but we were so sick.. . then i was hungry so i ate a whole bag of Doritos ( bc why eat real food?) and made myself sick again...so i just laid back in bed and watched the District haha!   so that was a super productive day lol!

     So yeah every once in a while we go this random house with old people in it and sing to them..its actually pretty awkward but its fun. we just bring out little hymn books and just sing haha! The people that take care of them are Filipino and they are so funny and always have cake for us! but we sang all the Christmas songs in the hymn book and then I said any requests? and one of the Filipino dudes said "MARY DID YOU KNOW!!" we were like uhhhh we don't really know the words, so he played it on his phone with the lyrics so he had me hold the phone so we can all see and we just sang this weird version of Mary did you know and he was singing right along with us, and y'all, he was getting into it! He was like dancing and harmonizing and it was the highlight of my week!!

     So our mission choir concert was BOMB!   it was so good!!!
I had someone voice record it for me lol! I did pretty good on my narrating part! i didn't mess it up... both times... so that's good lol! 

I met a lot of missionaries i didn't even know were in our mission lol. This one elder kept talking to me and i honestly have no idea what he was saying to me. I just remember one time seeing him at one of our choir practices standing in front of the projector and staring into it for like 5 min straight, and i just remember thinking "well that Elder just burnt his eyeballs off, sad".

     So we haven't really had lessons because everyone is cancelling because its Christmas time, so hopefully after the holidays we will get going again!

     i love and miss y'all! thanks to all my homies who sent me a Christmas card and stuff!

Sister Bischoff

typical Elders

Missionary fail..2 dinners..1 night...its a rough life! HA!!

This week was pretty good! we have been having so much fun and been doing good work! 
Our zone is super fun. Our zone leaders are a little salty sometimes but other than that its a party! Elder Matua and Holland are just so funny all the time so that's probably why its fun, and of course us sisters are hilarious. I finally went to zone sports this week! we played chair soccer,..my fav... then the dumb elders made us play scatter ball...that game is sooooo dumb! all you do is chuck a ball at everyone...i won 2 out of 3 games though hahaha.

     So missionary fail...so 2 of our wards accidentally overlapped our dinner calendars so some nights we had 2 dinners, so we had to cancel one...well on the 10th we didn't realize we had 2 dinners on that night...so we went to the Santa Rita Christmas dinner, then when we got home i was like OMG! so i hurried and checked our calendars and we had another dinner scheduled for that day! and it was already 9:30...so i text the people and they said "yeah we were wondering if y'all were coming because you didn't show up or call"....we were like wow why didn't they call us?? so now we feel bad..eeeekkkk!

     OHHH my goodness! So Ashton (our 8 year old) just MELTS my heart! the last time we taught him we told him to read some of the Book of Mormon and pray to know if it is true. So yesterday we saw him at church and he was SO excited to tell us that he read and prayed, then he said he had a dream that Heavenly Father said yes its true! i seriously was CRYING! he is so awesome! i just want him to be adopted so he can be baptized! he wants it SO bad!

     Jim is doing so good! seriously I'm so proud of the members in that ward! they love him so much! they invite him for dinners, Christmas, Thanksgiving, and everything! you can just tell how happy he his! So hes x girlfriend that invited him to church a LONG time ago in high school, her son was 14 year old Joseph Smith in the movie The Restoration, so she knows the producers and stuff, and one of them said that they want to make a movie out of Jims crazy life story! hes So excited!

     SO Sister Farrer and I SWORE we witnessed a kidnapping at the Mesa Temple Lights..so we were just chilling minding our own business, then we see this crazy lady come sneak (literally sneak) up on this little boy standing by himself, and she comes up behind him and covers his mouth being SUPER creepy! seriously we were frozen we had no idea what to do or say...and her and her husband left with the kid...so we follow them to see what the heck they are doing and then we talked to them..i don't even know what they were saying, we just felt SO gross about it, so we told one of the hosts and he was not having it..he was like well did they do anything bad? we were like uhhh no? he was like so what do you want me to do? we were like uhhhh i don't know? make sure they didn't just kidnap that kid???? so then he was getting all worked up and stood up and was ohhh yeah i know how to handle these kind of situations! we were like ohhhh boy...he was probably about 70 years old..he was like take me to them! we thought we were going to die because we just tattled on this crazy random couple so we showed him then ran away... then we thought they were out to get us and we kept seeing them so we were running away from these people alllll night! 

     But on the bright side, we have been getting self referrals from the Temple Lights! ( did you know the Mesa Temple is 1 out 5 Temples in the world that are authorized to do Christmas lights?!) Kenny is one of the self referrals. he has taken some of the lessons before but was pretty flaky. but last night they told us that they are really happy we are their missionaries because we are funny lol! they didn't like the last missionaries they had. But they are awesome! we put him on date for January 21st! we hope he will stick with that! we all had a really good bonding time too haha! we found out that the wife Heidi and her sister Ashley both went to the same Elementary school! they are both my age so we had the same friends and stuff! so that was good! now i think they like me even more! But DUDE the lesson we taught them last night sucked! like it was horrible! we forgot to set expectations, and im an IDIOT and forgot to talk about Joseph Smith! hahaha it was SO FUNNY! so we had to somehow bring that back in and it was just a mess! but they didn't even notice because Heavenly Father saw we were doing a horrible job and helped us out and made them feel the spirit haha!

     life has been good! its been fun!

Sister Bischoff

Mission Pride!!

so you know you have mission pride when you cry thinking of being called to a different mission. whenever we see Mesa or other missionaries, I'm like omgosh i would die if I was called to the Mesa mission! i know that sounds bad but you really do think your mission is the best mission in the world! i remember when i got my call to the AZ Gilbert mission and i was NOT happy about it! now i cant even imagine serving in another mission! I have so much Gilbert AZ pride its not even funny.

     Guys, i turned 4 on the 3rd. that is SO crazy! by next transfer ill be 6 because next transfer has 2 months in it...and that means ill have 12 months left...that's so scary haha!

     so basically our whole zone is sick so that's fun. i've been sick for like 5 days now but its all good. Sister Buchholzer was a homie and gave me Tylenol pm and that stuff knocks me out! the first night i took it i didn't hear any of our alarms and Sister Farrer had to wake me up haha!

     Life has been really fun lately! us and the other sisters in our house have separation anxiety haha its so funny! This transfer we have just had a lot of service things and have been together 24/7 so its weird to be away from them! ut yeah we have so much fun! Sister Farrer and i just laugh so much its ridiculous. like sometimes when were contacting, before we get out of the car we are crying because we are laughing at the most dumbest things! or when were on our bikes its scary because im crying from laughing so i cant see, so i almost always fall off my bike...in a skirt...im a mess. but seriously i really am a mess, the other day we were leaving from Ashtons lesson and one of the other sons who's like 20 was outside and i was saying bye to him and i wasn't paying attention and i ran in to the trashcans, and he just kinda looked at me and i was like welp..this is awkward...haha it was so funny!

     we are super excited for Christmas! the week of Christmas will be so fun! on that Monday we have a half p day then the whole mission is going to be together and play games and stuff. then we have Temple lights one of those days. then we get to go to the Gilbert temple as a mission. then for Christmas Eve we get to stay in unless members invite us over and same with Christmas! i'm pumped!

     i LOVE teaching Ashton! I'm just so sad hes not adopted because he wants to be baptized so bad! but he loves everything we teach him! then he wanted us to help with his homework so we did, then he was trying to stall. he was like I'm trying to find more things to do with you guys so you can keep hanging out with me! hes just so cute! its sad because he gets really sad when we leave! in a couple days we are teaching him the Plan of Salvation and i just know hes going to LOVE it! I' excited!

     well that's it for now. its been fun! i love and miss y'all!

Sister Bischoff