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