such a good last week!!

Well people. My mission is actually over. SO SAD! But I had the best last week ever! It seriously has been so much fun!

We had like 3 lessons with Sean and Sister Lewis before I had to leave haha! They are SO sweet and got us a super nice gift! Sean seriously is so amazing and has just soaked up this gospel. He loves it so much! Yesterday at church he got the priesthood and it was soooooo awesome! Everyone in the ward loves him SO much! Hes literally golden. Like, he was the type of gator that would set up his own lessons, and set up his own fellowship hahah! it was so funny! Im going to miss them SO MUCH!

The other day we had 2 appointments to take our gators to the mesa visitors center! it was SO FUN! so we taught the restoration and then went into the theater room and watched the 20 min resto video! when we were with Andrew and Nicole, after the video we went outside to show them the temple, and we turned around to go back in the visitors center we see the GREASIEST old couple just making out right in front of the big window wall thing! and it was at night time, and they were the only ones sitting in there...and they were just freaking making out! and yall should have seen Andrew and Nicoles face hahahah!!! we were like uhhhh maybe lets go in the other way it was so funny! but mostly disgusting!

Friday morning all the departing missionaries got to go to the temple for the last time on our missions. it was so awesome though! So we got some pics and went to the temple with President and Sister Wheeler! Then Sister Sperry and I had a skype lesson with Hiro and Sister Ogawa!!! it was the best thing of my life oh my goshhhh!!! its sad they are all the way in Japan, but its all good ): anyways, so we skyped on Saturday, but it was Sunday there for them, so they went to church together and went into another room so we could have a lesson with them! we were over at Gunnars house to skype from his phone, and he made us Japanese food for dinner haha! It was so weird just seeing them in Japan...across the world...idk it was just so weird, because they were here...and now theyr'e there...idk trippy stuff. Anyways. im excited to harass them when i get home so i can talk to them whenever!

So saturday we had a super fun service! our whole zone went, and Sister Sperry and I got the best booth they had! we got to play with these ratchet life size dinosaurs hahah! it was so funny! all the kids were FREAKING out!

Sunday was the best day of my lifeeee! We went to church and it was so sad to say bye to everyone!! I love everyone in this area and ive only been here 6 weeks lol! But then we had dinner with the Brays. They are some of the best humans in the world, and im so glad they were my last dinner appointment! Then someone had a little open house going home party for me and they had me invite peeps from my old areas and stuff and it was so fun!!! This mission seriously has been the best thing for my life! I love all the people and areas and everything that made me a better person!

Tonight we have the departing missionary FHE and dinner with the Wheelers and the Lowders! im soooo excited for that!

This has just been such an amazing (and super hard) journey, but im SO thankful for this opportunity God gave me. I know 100% that God lives and that Christ is our Savoir. Im so thankful that I know that Christ set up His perfect church on the earth, and that it still stands today because we have Prophets, Apostles, the Priesthood and the fullness of His Gospel! I know that the Book of Mormon is a witness of all of that! My life without this gospel would be so sad and so empty! I LOVE this gospel so much and nothing can replace the joy that it brings to everyone who accepts it!

SEE YOU TOMORROW!

Sister Bischoff

Lasts of everything....

Life is still non-stop. Its so crazy...The only real reason why im still alive right now is because Heavenly Father watches over His missionaries. But anyways...SEAN GOT BAPTIZED! oh my gosh!!! i just love him so much! He is such a good human and loves this gospel so much! His and Hiros baptism has probably been the best ive been to!

So we went on exchanges with Sisters Cammon and Conrad! it was super fun! i went with sister Conrad in her area, which was my last area when i was in Temple View, so that was super fun to see everyone! man i was there like 6 months ago! so crazy! and we got to go to house of refuge! my fav!!! they wouldn't let me drive the golf cart anymore bc apparently i was "too fast" last time...whatever that means. haha i just think its funny that they actually remembered me 

This morning we did a zone hike at the Santans! we all woke up at 5:30 and hiked it so we can watch the sunrise! it was super fun! almost biffed it a couple times because of these dang Bilbao ankles . I love this zone so much though! They are so crazy....its a good zone to be dying in!

The other day we had a zone breakfast at the Allens for valentines day (loaded fam in temple view) and after we were done, they wanted us to sing to their yard worker peeps...so we sang I Am a Child of God...and honestly...it was pretty weird... then the zone decided to sing to President and Sister Wheeler because they only lived like 2 houses down...and that was pretty awks too... then we kept seeing landscape workers and we sang AGAIN. i was like OMGoodness what the heckfire is going on!? i swear we sang to like 5-6 different groups of peeps. it was just, weird..idk how to explain it...but that just shows how crazy my zone is...this would be right up Jaymzs isle lol! but then we got a dope pic on this giant rock thing in their backyard!! so that was good!

we had our last lesson with Hiro and Gunnar last Tuesday...it was soooo sad! But Hiro is doing good in Japan! him and sister Ogawa are going to church together on Sunday!! Im so pumped to be able to talk to them whenever once i get home because they are sleeping when we are awake lol!

So we had a lesson with the Dunn fam! they are so awesome! they are pretty interested and their nephew thats living with them is SO interested! hes a sophomore in HS and so presh! He has been reading the Book of Mormon and he says he feels different when he reads it! Hes totally feeling the spirit! So we are excited for our next lesson to see how they are doing!

Im just so thankful that God wanted me to get transferred here my last transfer. Its been pretty hard and SUPER stressful. But its so worth it. The people i have met here literally have completed my mission haha! i couldn't imagine my life or mission without knowing them!

this week is going to be so sad though...this will be my last of everything! the fun ysa FHE's, my last district meeting, weekly planning, my last 9 hour church on Sundays (thank goodness on that one) and everything else!! i need to soak it all up because i will never have this again Its all good though because life goes on i guess haha!

Sister Bischoff

I DON'T WANT TO LEAVE!!

I seriously just LOVE everyone in my mission. I already know it will be so freaking hard for me to leave this place. Its getting a little bit real that i'm actually leaving now that its so close...and it doesn't help that all the ysa bros and elders always roasting me about it haha! Literally ill walk in to district meeting or the ysa ward and they're like "yoooo sister bischoff, how long you got left??" And then they will start counting on their fingers.. "ohhhhh yeah that's right...only 15 days!!! That suckssss!!!" Haha so savage! that's been my life this last couple weeks lol but its all good But really tho, i love everyone here so much! And flippin Hiro leaves back to Japan on Wednesday! I'M SO SAD!!!

So Hiro is doing so good! we had a birthday party for him on sat. and it was so fun! Hes so funny! He is just so good. His testimony of this gospel is so amazing. And Gunnar is so awesome for Hiro! its fun to hear them speak Japanese back and forth during our lessons haha!

Sean...oh my goodness. Sean is AMAZING! i love him so much! yesterday at church we decided to just have a lesson with him so we could get through all the lessons before his baptism, and he just soaks everything up and is so chill with everything! so we asked if he had any questions, and like always he says no, and Sister Huish was like i got a question...and she was like okay Sean...why is this so easy for you? why is it, that when we say you need to pay tithing, and fast, and pay fast offerings, and give up coffee and all of this stuff, that you are so okay with it? and he just said. well, i just know that i was led here. I know that this is where God needs me to be. I know that this is true, so i wont let any of that stuff stop my progression. AHHH HES SO AWESOME!! hes been through A LOT in his life. But that made me think of us as members in our church too... how many things "stop our progression"? like honestly...too many people get offended and leave the church, or they just have things that are set backs for them..which is okay, because we all have those..but we need to understand that this is where God needs us to be, and that we just need to rely on Him when things are hard...and we all have things that we need to give up..it might not be beer or coffee, but it might be pride, or anger, or anything...ya know?? i don't know, just a thought hahah But i'm so excited for him! hes getting baptized on Saturday!!!!

we have been going on a lot of exchanges lately with the sisters in our stewardship! its been fun getting to know them before i go home! They are all so awesome and sweet! man, i know i keep saying it...but i just love everyone here!! the missionaries, members, gators, the crazies...even the mean people that hate us! They are all Gods children and Heavenly Father just knows how precious they are!!! I love you all and cant wait to see you in 15 FREAKING DAYS!!! what the heck????

Sister Bischoff

NON STOP!

This has been the fastest transfer by far. I totally thought my last transfer would take forever, but nahhh its crazy! we just have so much going on, which is awesome! And this area...oh my goooooshhhhh! i have made some of my favorite friends here! im so thankful that I got transferred my last transfer. like honestly, if i didn't know the peeps i met here my life would be so sad!

     Oh my gosh y'all. we had the weirdest anti lesson with this guy from China. so we start the lesson and he was being so nice...and he had tons of questions about the Book of Mormon and he had a question about a part in Alma where is says be ye therefor perfect...and we talked about the same verse that's in Matthew...and he was asking how we can be perfect...and eventually we find out that homeboy thinks hes perfect. Literally we were like so no one is perfect right? and he was like...well I am...and we were like uhhhh okay? are we perfect? and he was like nope...and it was kind of awkward haha and then he told us that hes perfect because he accepts Christ as his Savior. and then he told us that God doesn't love all of his children! SO SAD! but its just funny because he has good intentions and hes trying to convert us and bring us to his church lol!

     okay i know i say this all the time but i just LOVE all our gators and people we are teaching! Sean and sister Lewis, Hiro and Gunnar, Andrew and Nicole, and just everyone! i did not know i could even have this much love for people! I just know that God and Jesus love them so much and are so happy and proud of them! Flippin Hiro leaves back to Japan on the 14th ): so sad! we had Hiro and Gunnar came to zone sports with us Monday morning and it was SOOO funny! Hrio is a baller and can do really cool flips and stuff, and he was doing that while we were playing scatter ball. legendary.

     We got to go to the temple with some ysa bros and the Zone Leaders the other day! it was so fun! so we share the ysa ward with the ZLs and we both have RC (recent converts) in that ward, so we brought them to the temple the same day to do baptisms! it was so awesome! Steve is elder adams and Elder tolmans convert and hes so awesome...he works at panda and hooks us up 

Nothing too crazy to share with you this week haha sorry...

 sister Bischoff 

Be 100% responsible

So we had zone conference last week and it was SO good! There is a talk called be 100 percent responsible by Lynn G Robbins, and that's what zone conference was based on. So basically they taught us that we have to be responsible for EVERYTHING in missionary work and just in normal life...even if you're right. So for example... if you are struggling in an area where the members won't help, or the area is dead, or the bishop or ward mission leaders are lame and won't help, or your companion is lazy and doesn't want to go out and work....yeah you're right...it would be better if they did their job, but you are responsible for yourself and you can make a difference. He talks about the anti-responsibility list and it's so awesome! In his talk he has a bunch in the list but we talked about 4. Blame... rationalizing... excuses... and minimizing/trivializing mistakes. He says God does not allow any degree of sin, be 100% responsible for your actions. Eliminate the the anti-responsibility list from your life, even if you are right. You will begin to move forward in the light way more faster. I could go on and on about this zone conference buy I don't want to bore y'all haha but seriously you guys should read that talk! Then sister Sperry and I had to give a training 4 times at zone conference bc they split in groups and we did workshops...so every 10 min they would switch and we would get a new group of missionaries. So our training was on HTBT and setting expectations with investigators and how they need to be 100% responsible for being time efficient and leaving commitments. It was super fun! Also, I forgot that all the departing missionaries have to bare their testimony at the end of zone conferences...and I remember my VERY FIRST zone conference and thinking that would never be me up there baring my testimony bc I wouldn't be going home in forever...and now here I am...at my last zone conference...it was so unreal and I think that was the moment I actually realized that I'm going home soon. Yall it was so trippy. And sad. And accomplishing. 

     Our investigators are doing so good! Andrew and Nicole are awesome and trying so hard to learn the gospel, Sean is praying about a baptism date right now, Jessica is solid and all 7 of her kids want to get baptized, and everyone else is doing SO awesome right now too! Everyday is so crazy...we have so many appointments and meetings...its just crazy, but keeping us busy! 

     Oh my gosh. The funniest thing happened again at someone's door. I seriously couldn't control myself...it was just so funny! Okay so we are stopping by this family's house who we think is less active...and we get there and like slow R&B music is BLASTING and I was like dude...i bet the parents aren't home and some kid is here with his friends being greasy. And so we still ring the door bell anyways, and some ysa bro from the ysa ward that I used to be in answered the door with his shirt off, hanging on his shoulder, and he was kinda dancing to the music, and when he sees it's us he FLIPS out and was like OH MY GOSH I'M SO SORRY! HOLD ON LET ME WASH MY HANDS! So he shuts the door and runs away, and Sister Sperry and I just start dyinggggg it was SO funny!!! He came back in like 3 min and I was still laughing so hard...good thing sister Sperry can get her crap together...bc we all know that i cant. And he was like omgosh guys, this is so awkward! Sorry! And then we were talking to him and it was just so funny. The funniest things happen on missions yall. 

     Okay this email is wayyyy to long...my b. 

Sister Bischoff

SPERRY!

okay. first of all i have to tell yall about Hiro. he is my favorite person that exists. oh my goshhhhhhh hes just so precious!! okay. so. Hiro is from Japan...and hes living at a YSA bros house....his name is Gunnar, and he served his mission in Japan and he met Hiro there...but Hiro was only like 15 so his parents wouldn't let him get baptized, so a couple of months ago he decided he wanted to come to America before he turns 20, and he ended up living with Gunnar! and good ol Sister Ogawa was here the transfer before me...perfect timing... and was able to teach him in Japanese!!! But she went home and I came in and we got to teach him one more time before he got baptized!!! yall. hands down, the best baptism ever. we got permission to let Sister Ogawa skype in on the baptism!!! i got to hold the phone and ohhhh my gosh i was just crying!!! first of all...i miss sister ogawa SOOO much! when she left last Tuesday i was just crying soooo much! i did NOT want her to leave all the way to Japan! so when she was skyping in i was just a mess bc i knew she wanted to be here SOOO bad, and i just miss her so much and ughhhhhh. And Hiro is soooo sweet! all he cares about is going back home to Japan and sharing how happy he is with his family and friends! and he told us we are his best friends because we helped him! honestly..we didn't do anything..hes just GOLDEN. so is Gunnar! i just love them both! its crazy bc there's kind of a language barrier, but we all can still feel the spirit, and we are just homies bc it doesn't matter where we are from bc we are all Gods children!! i know that was a super basic thing for me to say...but its true hahah!!! then a homie member took us to YC's after!!!!! But anyways..i LOVE HIRO...ive only known him 5 days and he literally changed my life. and Damon..you would LOVE him!!! he is super good at flips and crazy stuff like that!! ill have to send some vids of him! its literally so crazy.

     sooooooo many funny moments y'all...like seriously...when we are around each other we get sooo crazy! its been so fun tho! we cover 3 family wards and a ysa ward! i have been in a flippin ysa ward for a whole year of my mission...its been crazy. ysa bros are crazzzyyy we share this one with the ZLs so its even more crazy. Honestly i dont even know what to put in this email...the 1st week of transfers are always such a blur lol! but we are teaching a family with 7 kids...WHO ALL WANT TO BE BAPTIZED!! so we are super pumped!!! 

     also...just a shout out to Jaymz because hes baller and 100% a french elder now. I literally brag about him to everyone i meet. literally. and now everyone thinks you're amazing...because you are..so you're welcome. love you dude 

sorry this wasn't a huge update on my life...but ill make sure next weeks is better haha! love yall!!!

       Sister Bischoff

Transfers!!!

What the heck guys. I'm getting transferred MY LAST TRANSFER! my life is so crazy hahaha. BUT.... I already know where I'm going and who I'm getting! We had interviews with president and he just told me everything lol! He's so funny! It might not happen, but this is 99.9% going to happen! So I will still be in the same zone, and I will literally be in the next stake over.....with SISTER SPERRY!!!!!! AHHHH I'M SO EXCITED! And that would mean I would be in the Ferguson's ward!!! Im actually pretty stoked because a couple transfers ago, I was having the roughest time and I was deciding if I would go home early in the January transfer or my normal  February transfer...i was literally done with life so I was leaning towards January (I would be home tomorrow if I decided January.. scary!) But one day I was praying about it to see if that's what I really needed to do and y'all, the way I receive answers to prayers is so funny! I swear it's ALWAYS through music! Literally Stay by Rihanna was stuck in my head right after I prayed....the part where she's like "I want you to sttttttaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyy" so I was like uggggghhhhh no why??? And Heavenly Father let me know he wanted me to stay my whole time because my last transfer would be the best transfer I have had and that I would be SO happy and have so much fun! And now i know i will be with sister Sperry and it will be so awesome! The only thing I'm stressing about is that she's an STL, and usually STLs are in companionships...so I'm praying for somehow I won't have to be an STL my last transfer, bc honestly that's too much work for a last transfer!! There's already so much you have to do your last transfer anyways...but God knows what He's doing so I trust him!!!

     Also, shout out to my uncle Greg for taking me and my comp out for dinner! Thank you soooooo much! You're freaking hilarious and we still talk about how fun that was! Greg has literally seen me in the very beginning of my mission, the middle, and the very end of my mission! And he saved my butt and probably took 2 suitcases and a carryon worth of crap back to Vegas so I didn't have to figure out a way to get it there myself hahahaha!!! But seriously thanks for everything Greg!!!

     I swear the funniest things happen to Sister Preston...we were at dinner with a cute fam in our ward...and the girls were kind of crazy, and one of them is getting potty trained right? So shes just running around half naked, but anyways we sit down on the couch and half way through our dinner message I feel sis Preston keep moving around and she's like scooting closer to me and I'm like dude what's going on with ya?? Lol and finally we are done and leave their house and sis Preston is freaking out and is like omgosh dude literally we have to go home right now and I'm like uhhh why? HOMEGIRL SAT IN A HUGE PUDDLE OF PEE ON THE COUCH!!! Hahahahaha I was so weak!!! Her dress was SOAKING wet! And it smelled soooo bad!! 

     Oh. My. Gosh. Saturday was the best day ever. So Jacob our recent covert just kills me. He invited us to go to the temple with him for his first time! It was soooooo awesome! He's just so sweet and he was SO excited!! He's so presh. Then he took us to Hen House Cafe and it was SO fun!!! OH. Then Sunday, we walk into our ysa ward and I see Jacob and Anthony sitting in the front with the peeps that pass the sacrament and I FREAKED out and ran over to them and basically harassed them jk jk but I was so excited for them to pass the sacrament! So they start passing the sacrament and Jacob goes up and passes it to Bishop Lake and Bishop just looks over at me and we both just start crying hahaha! It was so awesome tho, we are just so proud of these boys! And Anthony got his temple recommend so now he's super excited to go too! But I was having a moment at church, watching them pass the sacrament... i was just so flipping emotional. I was thinking of all the crazy hard times of my mission, and not even caring about that because just seeing the happiness of Anthony and Jacob with the Priesthood, and them going to the temple was enough for me. One happy moment like that on a mission makes up for 17 hard months of my mission. That's why you got to just keep going even when things are hard, because something seriously awesome will make up for it. 

     Also, I have still been doing the Jesus Christ topical guide challenge! I'm on the Atonement right now...i have learned so much. Seriously, just feeling the love Christ had for us as he bore our sins is amazing. Jesus Christ is this all powerful God, that has power over earth and the heavens and everything plus more. And he submitted Himself to trials of mortality, temptation, hunger, thirst, pain of body, and fatigue even more than man can suffer. He didnt have to go through that because of who He is...but He did, because of who He is. Because He loves us so much, and wanted us to have a way to repent and live with Him and God again, He went through everything no one could imagine. I am just so eternally grateful for the Atonement of Christ. And I'm SO thankful that Christ loved me enough to suffer a moment there for me. So seriously, everyone that reads this should do the Jesus Christ topical guide challenge because I can promise that you will learn how to draw the power of Christ more into your life!!! 

     Sister Bischoff

 

My favorite peeps

Hey y'all! Life is so good. I have been learning a lot about obedience lol...for all of you that know me...im not much of a strict rule follower, I kinda just do my thing. I obviously know what's wrong and right..but I'm learning that at least in the mission field, there are rules and guidelines for a reason. Sister Preston and I have been trying to be more exactly obedient, because we know that obedience brings blessings, but EXACT obedience brings miracles. So just little things like starting studies at exactly 9 and get out the house at 10 and all the other little things like that. So the day we decided to be better, we saw straight miracles. I'll share a few with ya! So we were out biking around talking to everyone, and we felt prompted to go to this potentials house, so we go and we were like hey uhh, is this a good time to share a message with you? And he was like Yeah! And we were like oh!....awesome...uhhh... lol it was SO funny, we had no idea what to do when someone actually says yes hahaha so we go in and sit down and talk with him, finds out he's RLDS and knows all of the lds history and is super chill and nice and he turned into our new investigator and wants to learn more! Then like 5 min after his lesson we get a text saying there is a lady who wants to be baptized that has 9 yr old twin boys who want to be baptized too! And so many other miracles happened that day! It was awesome! So that was a testimony builder for me about obedience!! 

     Okay. So the other day we were on exchanges and Sister Sperry came with me in my area, and we met this guy Branden! He's 21 so he's a ysa bro, but he's super chill and has SO MANY QUESTIONS! It's pretty awesome. But he said we could come back, so sister Preston and I went last night and we caught him at the perfect timing, and ended up talking to him for like 2 hours I feel like! He's a funny one, and he's pretty good looking so that made it more fun...but ANYWAYS...he wouldn't take a Book of Mormon the first time I met him, but after a while of talking with him, we asked again...and he was like okay, on one condition...you have to pick a number between 1 and 10...and if you pick the right number, I'll take it... So we were like oh sweet mercy, you're one of those people!? And he was like yep! It's fate for me to take this book if you get the number right! So im praying (literally) to get this right and im thinking 7 and Sister Preston is thinking 8, so we decided 7 and IT WAS RIGHT! We were so scared but Heavenly Father had our backs haha I always pick 7..its my lucky number Ü  but he said he would read and pray about it and we are SO excited!

     GUYS! Anthony is doing SO good! I swear I love that kid! Yesterday he recieved the Priesthood! And everyone in this ysa is so good and nice to him and he's making good friends and I'm just so happy for him! And he just looks so good too! If y'all could see a before and after picture of him you would die!!! The gospel really does help people and uplift them. It's so amazing. And seriously, Anthony is one of those people that I know 100% that I needed to meet him on my mission and teach him. I just have so much love for that kid AND this kid has sleeping issues...he would maybe get 7 hours of sleep a week...like. that's terrible. So we had Elder Hatch give him a blessing and yesterday we asked him if he got any sleep, and he said the other day he got 12 HOURS OF SLEEP! That is soooo good for Anthony Hahaha! So that was good for him to see the power of the Priesthood! 

     So yesterday in our Lakeview ward, Bo (our fav little kid ever) is sitting behind us, and I see him kind of walk up like he's going to bare his testimony and he looks at me with big eyes and I'm like yeah you can do it!! And he's so loud btw, and he's like but I'm so scared!!! And I'm like you got this! And he's like I need you to go up with me!! And everyone is just lookin at us so I'm awh crap I have to go up there lol so he grabs my hand and we walk on up there and he biffs it like 3 times on the way up there, then I had to play the mom roll and whisper everything in his ear, haha it was actually super cute, but then bc I was up there I kinda had to bare my testimony, but its all good! As I'm up there talking I see him biff it again hahaha so funny! Then I sit back down in my seat and he comes out of no where and faceplants right by my chair and I'm like dude Bo, and he gets up with the biggest smile and gives me the loudest highfive and sits back down hahaha what even is my life? Idk.. but it's hilarious. Btw, Bo is the kid i sent the videos of! 

Ughhhh I just love mission life...im so sad it's ending soon it's allllllll good tho, life might be decent when I get home????

sister Bischoff

I have problems...

So we aren't in this random trio anymore! Sister Cordon got an new comp on Friday so it's been a little bit easier now that we aren't covering 6 wards lol...that was too much for me to handle.

     K yall, honestly...i just have problems, idk what's wrong with me. When something is funny, it's funny and I just gotta laugh. My fam knows what I'm talking about, it's ridiculous. So sis Preston and I were tracting because we were trying to find peeps to teach, and we were just tired and I'm super sick right now, so I'm just not in my right mind right? So we knock on this door, and this tall Asian dude answered and were doing our basic oym (open your mouth) approach or whatever and the dude barely speaks English okay? So his go to communication is just to mumble and maybe throw in a couple English words, and y'all, it was the funniest thing ever, like we were having full on convos with him of just mumbling, and finally I just couldn't handle it...i tried to ask him a question as I'm trying not to laugh, but half way through I just lose it. I just started laughing SO hard. I was literally cryingggg, he was just being so funny!!! And if y'all know sis Preston...shes the same as me when it comes to funny stuff, so she starts laughing! Literally both of us are just at this random dudes front door, just laughing at him! What the heck we are so dumb! So sister Preston is a baller, and got her crap together and she just keeps on sharing the gospel with him while I'm hunched over laughing so hard I could barely breath...so finally I just turn around while she talks to him Hahaha! I struggle y'all, but omgosh it was the funniest thing of my life. But at the end, sis Preston asks if he's interested and in the clearest voice with no mumbling,  he says nope, and that was even funnier bc that was the clearest thing he said that whole 5 min, so I just die again!!! I was trying so hard to control myself, but that just didn't happen. But that's the story of my life...not really surprised that happened. He was a really nice dude tho, just a funny one. Good ol Sister Preston and I are always laughing during the wronnnnnng time. We are so bad that way hahah. All we have to do is just look at each other and we know exactly what we are thinking and just can't control ourselves. Like throw back to dev dogg when we were laughing throughout his whole lesson lololol he's so funny and doesn't even know it! Like one time we taught him the plan of salvation and at the end we had him pray to know if it's true and homeboy kept saying the planet of salvation hahaha so funny! We just think stupid crap like that is funny. No bueno.

     So we had to give talks in our ysa ward. Ysa wards seriously give the most random topics...literally I gave a talk on the topical guide....what the heck. But anyways, Jacob our recent covert was there, and at the end of sacrament meeting, people from different committees go up and say announcements, and someone from the welcome crew has the new or visiting peeps stand up and introduce themselves, and she had them also share what their fav Christmas gift was, so Jacob stands up and says he just got baptized and the best Christmas gift he could have asked for was the gift of the Holy Ghost and everyone's heart was just melting!!! Everyone was like AWHHHHHHHH!!!! hahaha it was SO cute! Sister Preston and I are proud mommas. Literally tho we think we are his mom's lolol after the 1st hour he had to go to the bathroom,  so we showed him where it was and we were like okay we have to go to, so when you're done just stay right here and we will meet you right here, then we can go to class together okay? And he said "it's like y'all are my mom's or something!" Hahaha so funny! We just love him so much!!!! 

     I just love everyone we are teaching, they are just funny and I know that I was sent to Gilbert AZ so that I could be blessed enough to know them. Like honestly, I have met so many people here that I know I'm supposed to know, it's so awesome! I'm sad I have to leave them soon but good thing I'll only be like 5 hours away lol

     Sister Bischoff