This week has been such a good week!
So we had a lesson with Vern (our cute old neighbor) at Wendy's and he ended up seeing a friend of his there and invited her to come to our ward Christmas Party! And then when they got there the next day, we had to go do something for a minute and we found him giving her a tour of the chapel and inviting her to church! He hasn't even really been taught much because he's hard to teach, but he's been awesome at being a missionary!
A few days later we went to visit a young man who I'd met a few months ago and who seemed interested but was always busy. When we stopped by we tried to actually talk to his mom since she always answers the door and we've never had a conversation with her. As soon as we asked how she was and what her name was she invited us inside and told us her whole life story. By the time we left we'd given her a Book of Mormon, set up a new lesson, and invited her to church! She was absolutely amazing!
On Saturday we decided to go to a couple of events we'd found on Facebook, in hopes we'd be able to talk to a lot of people at them. We went to a craft bizarre that morning and met so many neat people! We didn't find anyone new, but we had some really neat conversations and one woman gave us free christmas decorations that she was selling because she has ancestors who were members and she has great respect for missionaries.
Later that same day, we went to a pet adoption (because animals + people to talk to = the best plan ever). We ended up meeting a woman who was super nice and didn't live in the area but said we could send Missionaries her way. By the end of the next day they were officially teaching her. 😊
Apart from all the crazy cool people we met this week, the coolest thing that happened came in the form of a nice tender mercy that happened today. And I actually want to invite you all to look for little tender mercies in your life this week, because this is one that I didn't recognize as one until I was specifically thinking of things that have happened to me this week:
I've been kinda down recently wondering if I've really made any impact as a missionary. I just haven't had tons of success in the form of people I've taught, but I also know there's been other things that the Lord has needed from me as a missionary, so I haven't been too hard on myself. But today I got an email from my cousin who told me that he's been friends with one of my past zone leaders for an entire semester without realizing that they both knew me. I'd only known this elder for 6 weeks and I got to seem him a decent amount but we never got to really be friends or anything, though he made a big impact on my mission as one of my leaders. But dispite only knowing me briefly, he had a bunch of nice things to say to my cousin about me. Even though it was such a small thing, it was a great testimony builder to me of the fact that God really knows us and can reassure us when we need it. Even if it's in the weird form of getting an email from your cousin about a missionary you briefly knew who had something nice to say about you.
I hope you all have an amazing week and are enjoying all the holiday cheer! We have no snow here in Ohio at the moment, but there are Christmas lights everywhere and our apartment looks like Christmas threw up in it because we keep being given decorations 💚
Love you all!
-Sister Bliss
PICTURES!
*Sister Hines won a penguin in one of those crane machines in one go. Then she turned to me and asked if I wanted her to win one for me. I hesitated for a second, so she turned to the machine and won a second one in a row! So it was the craziest thing ever.
*The Bishop's kids came to us yesterday in church and gave us pictures they drew of us! The craziest part was that the girl, Jane, even drew my blue dress and put glasses on me! And I don't even normally wear my glasses! (So of course I had to match the drawing for the picture)
*The last two pictures are from today. We are putting together a skit for Christmas Conference with our mission, so we went shopping at a thrift store and got the cool Hawaiian shirts for it
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