Hello!
(Fun fact: every time I type hello I first type "hellow" and have to correct it. And I have no idea why I do that 🤷♀️)
We had an AMAZING week this week! We were visited by a couple members of the 70, Elder Johnson and Elder Haynie. Elder Haynie gave the most amazing training on finding, which later this week helped us so much! And Elder Johnson was the one who talked in Conference about the three D's of the adversary, so it was really neat to meet him and learn from him. As we were leaving, Sister Hines and I thanked him for everything he taught us and he gave us the advice it look over our notes and pick 2 or 3 things to focus on being better at.
We had a really powerful lesson this week with a man we recently started teaching. He has so many questions (as you can read about in my last email and the end of this one) that can all be answered by understanding The Plan of Salvation, so we started teaching him about that. Later that day Sister Hines turned to me and said "I just wanted to let you know that I was really impressed with you during the lesson. You did really well and didn't even stutter." As I'm sure many of you know, I have a rough time getting my point across a lot of the time as I stutter or talk too fast. (I once made a comment in a mission conference, and afterwards my companion and district leader both told me they couldn't understand me because I was talking too fast...) Obviously it's not bad enough that I can't, like, talk to people, but it's just really frustrating during missionary work when it's especially important that people understand me. It's a good thing I didn't have to learn a new language because I'm still learning how to speak english 
But I've been told by a couple people now and have noticed myself different times when I've had the spirit really strong and was able to talk fluently without stumbling in my speech for as long as I needed to get my point across. Later that week, during the mission conference with Elder Johnson and Haynie, one of them discussed the prophet Enoch and how he
1. Was slow of speech
2. Wasn't popular, and
3. Wasn't smart
Then he talked about how God made him into the servant he needed to be. I loved comparing myself to him after this recent experience because I may not be slow of speech but I'm really fast of speech and that's not much better 
But I know and I've seen how God can make us into so much more despite our challenges.
This week we found 4 solid new people, which is a pretty big deal for Milford! Elder Haynie's training on finding new people was so helpful because it helped us have a new mindset. Milford has kinda had a bad rap because it hasn't been very successful, so everyone comes in thinking it's a bad place to serve. But all that does is make us not have the faith we need to see miracles, which is what leads to it being not a great place to serve. But as soon as we changed our mindset this week we started seeing changes in the area.
The neatest person we met this week was Michelle, the daughter of an older woman who moved here a few months ago but hasn't come to the ward yet. We actually met her when we visited their house thinking it was someone the Elders had previously taugh. But that person had apparently moved out and this family moved in! We've visited Michelle's mom a few times, but this was the first time we actually got to talk to Michelle for awhile, and by the end of our visit we'd briefly taught her the restoration and she set up a time for us to come next week and teach her, her husband, and her two boys!
So that was my week!
That's all folks!
Love ya!
Sister Bliss 
*Scriptures about Premortal life
2 Nephi 2:17
Helaman 14:17
Proverbs 8:22-31
Jeremiah 1:5
John 1:2,14
Roman's 8:28-29
2 Timothy 1:9
Titus 1:2
Jude 1:6
Revelations 12:7-9
*Who is the Savior and how can I know him?
2 Nephi 25:29
2 Nephi 31:20
Mosiah 3:17
Alma 5:48
Alma 7:11-13
Alma 32:27-28
Helaman 5:12
Ether 12:6-7
Proverbs 3:5-6
Matthew 18:1-5
Acts 10:38
Ephesians 2:20
1 Peter 2:21,25
*Why does God allow evil and suffering?
2 Nephi 2:2
Mosiah 24:14
Alma 14:9-11
Alma 26:27
Alma 36:27
Alma 58:10-11
Alma 60:13
3 Nephi 22:7
Genesis 3:22
Job 2: 9-10
John 16:33
Romans 8:18
2 Corinthians 12:10
*Scriptures about The Spirit World
Alma 34:34
Alma 40:11-14
Isaiah 61:1
Luke 23:42-43
1 Peter 3:18-19; 4:6
*Why are there so many different churches?
1 Nephi 13:26-27
2 Nephi 26:20-21
2 Nephi 28: 3-4
4 Nephi 1:27,34
Amos 8:11-12
Matthew 24:9-11
Acts 20:28-30
2 Timothy 4:3-5
PICTURES!
*We went service tracting and met some nice people who told us to come back next week. The only person who let us serve them right them was someone who needed to get rid of her soggy pumpkins and asked if we'd throw them away for her.
*IT SNOWED! It's nice and warm(ish) again now, but it was sure fun for the two days it lasted! Not looking forward to Ohio winter though 
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