CHRISTMAS!!

Holy crap, last week was insane. We had our mission Christmas party, mission temple trip, Anthony and Jacobs baptism, temple lights, Christmas, and our zone party. All in 1 week! I'm so tired haha

     The mission Christmas party was so crazy! We did minute to win it games and I have never seen anything more terrifying. Everyone's competitive side came out and I thought someone was going to die hahah! Then President and Sister Wheeler did a zone conference on Luke 2 and it was sooooooooo good! Then we did the balloon launch! It was so pretty! The whole thing was from 2:30 to 8:30 

     The temple trip was so awesome too! The conductor guy for our session was just crying bc he loved seeing all of us missionaries there...there was like 50 of us in that session, it was awesome! And we also took mission pics in front of the temple so I'm excited to get those! 

     ANTHONY AND JACOB GOT BAPTIZED ON FRIDAY! It was so freaking awesome! Their baptisms we completely different. Anthony didn't have that many people there, but you could feel the spirit so strong! Anthony is one of the few people where I can't really see his emotions, so we were kind of nervous if he was getting baptized for the right reasons or whatever, but after he got baptized, Nate invited Jack and Anthony to come up and bare their testimonies, and Anthony's was short, but so sincere, and you could tell he knew this church is true, and it was amazing. Sis Preston and I both were tearing up lol. Jack's testimony was good too! He just bragged about how good of teachers sis Preston and I are hahaha he's funny.  Jacobs baptism was so awesome too! he had tons of people there and lots of non members that he invited from school, and his family wasn't going to come but they ended up coming at the last minute and it was really awesome for them to see their son get baptized!! Then on Sunday, Christmas Eve they both got confirmed and it was so awesome!!! Everyone loves them and is being their friend and stuff, we have a super good ysa ward! I used to be SO against ysa (young single adult) .. but the Lexington ysa ward is where it's at!

     Christmas Eve we got to work our last shift of the Mesa Temple Lights! It was so awesome! I LOVE that place...we got lucky we are working the lights this year bc for the next 2 years the Mesa temple is going to be shut down bc they are renovating it☹ we met some awesome peeps that night that want to learn more about the gospel! I love when people have open hearts and accept the truth! 

     Christmas was bomb...we Skyped the fam! It was so good to see them and Jay! There all the same crazy family I left, so I'm excited to see them in a few weeks! We had to be in by like 5:30 to 6 so we did zone sports and watch Moana! I LOVE that movie! It came out RIGHT after I left, so I was super pumped to see it! But dude, the crab part, when he's singing, is sketch...scared the crap outa me. But it's so funny bc I have a mission brain and the whole time I was watching it I was relating it to the gospel hahahaha! I was like ohp, there's the apostasy...oh, there's the advisary...oh good, here comes the Atonement! 

  Okay well this email is way too long...if I saw this long of an email I probs wouldn't want to read it, so I'm done hahah

     Sister Bischoff

Proud Mom

Honestly, this week was insane. I don't even remember much about it lol. All I know is somehow we became a trio and there's only 7 days till Christmas.

     Jacob and Anthony are doing awesome! They are both getting baptized on Friday! I seriously just love them both, they are so presh. Honestly I feel like they are my children. Both of them went to church yesterday, but we had to leave early, and y'all, I was stressin! I was trying to make sure peeps in the ysa would sit with them and help them out, I felt like we just dropped them off at school or something for the first time and I was the emotional mom that worries about everything! Literally after we left i made sis preston say a prayer while i was driving so i could feel better lol! I just found out that they were 18 and 19, I swear I thought they were older...maybe it's bc I feel like I'm still 18, and everyone should be older than me in ysa hahaha!

     Yesterday we had our Christmas choir concert! It was so awesome! But it's super sad it's over...no more practices on Thursdays I saw all my homies from my greenie area! I'm super happy I get another Christmas on the mission! Yeah it's sad I'm not with the fam, but duuuuude Christmas here on the mission is sooooooo amazing! Today we have our mission Christmas party! I have no idea what we are even doing, but I will take lots of pics so y'all can see! 

     But anyways, sorry this email is lame..i seriously forgot what happened, I'm sure I wrote something in my journal🤥

     sister bischoff

Boe

This week was so fast and slow at the same time. It was so weird. Sisters Marbery and Johnson went home Tuesday.  It was tripping me out because Sister Marbery and I were in the MTC together, and now she's just home, like what the heck, ill be in her same spot pretty soon. It was really sad though. When you go home you just kind of get kicked out of the mission , so im not really looking forward to that one... But other than that its been a good week! 

     We got to work the Mesa Temple Lights again! I love that place. There's crazy people everywhere over there... This time we actually got a couple people who were interested in learning more about the gospel! We were so excited!! And I saw Jamie Anderson and her fam from my greenie area! They all grew up so much! It's been a year since I've seen them! They were freaking out knowing how long I've been out because she was the one that picked me up my FIRST day in the mission! So crazy!!

     The other day President Allen had our whole zone over for breakfast! They are so awesome! We did a service project with them to help this family that is going through a lot, the mom just adopted a BUNCH of special needs kids (she has 10 kids) and after she just found out that she has cancer ): so it's been pretty rough for them, so we wrapped a bunch of Christmas gifts for them! The elders were getting into it man, literally they did a better wrapping job than I did. Like honestly, it took elder Tolman maybe 15 min to wrap one present bc he needed it to be perfect, I was loling

     We picked up a new investigator!!! They just moved in and have studied a lot about religion and hasn't learned a ton about Mormons and the Book of Mormon so she really wants to learn! We are sooooooooo excited to teach her! 

     Yall, I'm literally the happiest person right now because Sister Ogawa is in my zone and she's comps with Sister Sperry!!!! It's the best thing ever. Every time we see each other we flip out. You know when 2 little girls are best friends, and they haven't seen each other in a quick sec, and when they finally see each other, they just hold each others hands and jump around and scream? Yeah that's us...every time we see each other hahah it's so funny! We're pretty excited we will be together for Christmas! 

     The other day this lady in our ward fed us and sisters Sperry and ogawa and it was the best thing ever. Her kids were insane, it was SO funny! Her youngest, Boe is the best thing ever. Hes like 5. He HAD to sit in between sis Preston and I  but one of her son's was saying the prayer over the food and it was a funny prayer so i was kind of laughing to myself, and Boe saw me laughing so he just busted up laughing, so I look over at him and he's just dying, and after the prayer they were like what were you laughing at!? And he was like me and sister B were staring at eachother!!! And I was like omg, I'm the missionary  and I'm over here setting a bad example lolol it's all good tho, it was a super chill family. This kid literally thought sister Ogawa was 53! I was cryingggg it was SO funny! Then yesterday at church he comes over trying to be reverent with his arms folded and everything (so cute) because he REALLY wanted to sit with us haha it was precious today we are going to their house to play freeze tag, bc we couldn't the night we had dinner with them bc we had to go to work the temple lights, so I'll get pics of him!

sister Bischoff 

TRANSFERS

Holy crap transfer calls happened. I was so curious to see what the heck president was going to do, because I have one more transfer left after this one. And I have already been here for 2. But I'm staying and hopefully I'll stay next transfer so I can die in this area! But will I have sister Preston for a third transfer, or get a new comp my last transfer? I don't even know, but it's all good! I'm soooooooo happy I'm staying with sis Preston and staying in this area! 

     So at the YSA stake conference yesterday there were TONS of peeps there and I saw all my homies from the last YSA ward I served in and it was SO fun! But after it was over someone was like hey sisters, do you know a sister....and he saw my nametag and he was like Oh! You're sister Bischoff! He was like duuuude I just got home from my mission on Thursday and I served with your brother and went on splits and exchanges with him all the time!! Y'all I was freeeeaking out! So we took pics to send to Jay! I was SO happy haha! 

     So we had do to a training on Tuesday for the zone on the last how to begin teaching point for like 15 min, and right when it was about to be our time to go up, the freaking ap's walk in. Literally I was going to die, like what the heck. But it's all good, thank goodness I don't have anxiety anymore and I didn't really care they were there, I just knew they were straight judging us hahaha jk we actually did pretty good. We made them rollplay most of the time lol.

     We taught the plan of salvation to the Quintannas! The kids lovvveed it! The mom even cried at one point when we were talking about families, you could feel the spirit so strong and I knew they could feel it! I just want them to get baptized so bad!

     Temple lights was so fun! For some reason everyone was asking what my ethnicity was that night...it was so weird. One of them was this guy who had mental disabilities, he's like maybe 20 something, but he was freaking out because he totally remembered me from last year working the temple lights! He's sooo sweet! And he was hilarious! We were like do you like your church? And he would have a discusted look and shake his head no, and he did that to everything we asked him about, it was so funny, like he didn't like anything. But then another guy asked me who was helping with the temple lights, he was like, so excited that I was half black half white bc he has little grandkids who are mixed too. Every one is always surprised when I tell them what I am, bc they ALWAYS think I'm Polynesian, which I'm okay with. But anyways he found out that I want to go into dental hygiene and he was so excited about that too, so he gave me his number and wants me to contact him bc he works in that field. And he's hecka loaded, and wants us to call him if we need anything financially, haha he was crack up.

     Nothing else this week that I can remember, az goes crazy with Christmas, so we took some pics and vids, so it's been fun seeing all that! 21 DAYS TILL SKYPING/CHRISTMAS

Sister Bischoff