I'd also like to start including a TL;DR (Too long; didn't read) at the beginning of each of my emails. For anyone who doesn't want to read the whole thing, or would like a sneak peek into knowing if my email is even worth reading, here you go!
TL;DR - We had transfers. We keep finding new people so we have time to work on Facebook like we're asked. We put a friend on date for less than a month away. Quarantine missionary work is amazing!
We had transfers this week, so everything got changed around. Our new district leader is Elder Larsen, who was our old District Leader's companion. We also got the Sister Training Leader's in our district for this transfer, and because we lost so many Missionaries and haven't gotten any new ones yet, the Dayton Elders are no longer a thing! We'll officially be having transfers every two weeks now for the rest of the summer due to a large influx of missionaries coming in who were reassigned.
So, we as a mission have been working a lot to use Facebook for finding. However, Sister Coleman HATES Facebook and has been trying to find every reason to avoid it. The way she tell it is: "Sister Bliss and I like to butt heads because she says we need to actually use Facebook and I say we should just call people on Area book". This isn't even the first miracle we saw, in fact we got two member referrals this week, but we had one specific time this week when we saw a musical in which Sister Coleman tried getting us to make some calls instead of Facebook because we had a goal to find one new person that day and Facebook is more long term than making calls. Then suddenly a member from another ward called us and told us that he met someone who wants to meet with us and is super ready to hear the gospel. I turned to Sister Coleman and smiled and said "Well, looks like we have time for Facebook!" 
She keeps joking that this is God's way of telling her she needs to learn to use Facebook. We have a plan now and are going to use it more like we've been asked to!
We got permission to teach this cute 13 year old girl named Maddy who's a member referral, and we had our first two lessons with her this week! In addition, we felt strongly prompted to put her on date for baptism...for June 13th! Sister Coleman felt very strongly about that date and I was a bit weary of it because of how close it is. However, as we prayed to know what date we should extend, June 13th felt like the perfect day. It wasn't until after we put her on date that we suddenly realized just how many lessons we have to teach her, how little she knows currently, how strong the members want her testimony to be before she gets baptized, and how many problems we have to resolve considering we found out she lives in another ward. As we think of all these things that have to happen, we can't figure out why we even thought June 13th was plausible in this situation, other than it was the date that the Lord wanted us to extent. We've decided to put our faith in the Lord and make this happen!
Come Follow Me is so wonderful, in case any of you didn't know that! We had two seperate people this week who had strong beliefs that Jesus Christ and God are the same person. We happened to open Come Follow Me the other day to check on the sunday school lesson plans (I say "happened to" because we don't normal do Come Follow Me as Missionaries because we don't have the time as we focus on studying for people we teach). In the lesson from last week we happened to see a section titled "How is Jesus Christ both the Father and the Son?" and it so perfectly answered the questions one of our friends had!
Overall, things have been amazing! I'm loving being a missionary during this time. I feel so blessed with how comforted I've been through all of this. I remember the start of quarantine being rough and I soon worried if I'd be quarantined for the remainder of my mission. Now, even if I were to work like this for the rest of my mission I'd be accepting of that because the Lord's work doesn't stop, and right now may very well be the busiest time of my mission so far! I spent a lot of my mission trying to figure out why I was called where I was or when I was and it's been very special for me to feel just how much this is the time that I was meant to serve my mission. I love serving the Lord and helping his children here in Ohio, even from inside. I hope each of you are doing well and staying safe. I'll be praying for you! If any of you need any specific prayers, please let me know 
Have a great week!
Hasta luego!
Sister Bliss
PICTURES!
*We made a large breakfast for dinner this week but then realized all our dishes were in the dishwasher, so we ate our food from plastic containers and lids. (Throwback to the time when my district ate on pot lids around Christmas time)
*The sunset with Dayton in the background!
*It's spring again. Your know what that means? TIME TO GET DRENCHED IN THE RAIN WHILE WALKING
*I took a picture of this pretty flower in a cemetary. Sister Coleman only made the picture better.
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