Week 17...

Hello! Sorry last week was crazy! I got a new companion, it was sad to let Sister Payne go but, Heavenly Father set me up with an amazing companion!  SISTER EREKSON! She is amazing we are so alike, everyone thinks we are actually sisters.

Well quick update on me and my amazing life out here in Zion. 

We have 5 people on date! Yes, so beyond excited, pray they stay on date! 

Sister Erekson and I have been working really hard and it's paying off. 

So a funny moment this week, at the food pantry there was a woman who had to get escorted out by police. She was very very high on something, was climbing into people's cars and was talking crazy stuff.   So we we're not aloud to leave,  the workers were being very protective of us.  It was very sweet to see them treat us like that in that kind of situation.

My testimony has grown so much this week! Mainly in how true the Book of Mormon is. I was studying the war chapters in Alma, I was using the institute manual to help me study.  In the manual it asked the question "why do you think Mormon put these war chapters in?"  It answered by saying, it was for us to learn how to deal with trials and hardships and to follow the righteous people's example. I then looked up in  True and Faith under "war" and it talked about the second coming and how there will be wars and rumors of wars and it hit me! The Book of Mormon is preparing us! It's preparing us for the future! Heavenly Father is so aware and has given us the Book of Mormon to help us prepare for the second coming! The war chapter and teaching us how we should be when the second coming is here.  That's is why the prophets are stressing us to read the Book of Mormon because the time is near!

I love you all so very much and I'm so grateful for all of you! The church is true and I love my Savior. 

3D&G 

SISTER BITTERS

Week 16

This week I'm having issue's with the wi fi so its a quick message I went to the Kansas Temple today for my P-Day with Pam and Nana:)  Transfers happen this week so a special P-Day spent in the Temple with Sister Payne.  I love her so much and she has taught me so much.  The friendship will be there forever:)  Transfers did happen and Sister Bitters stayed in Warrensburg with a new companion Sister Ereckson she is from Tooele, Utah and I LOVE HER SO MUCH.. we are very much alike and people have already said we look like Sisters:) 
ALYSSA'S BAPTISM!  Oh what a day I will never forget!  The spirit was so strong and I just can't describe the feeling.  I am so grateful that I get to be part of this marvelous work.  I get to bring so much happiness into people's lives!  Its just so AMAZING...

Alyssa's Baptism

Mothers Day...

We love our Sister Bitters💗

Week - Fifteen

Tuesday:
Today was amazing! We started out the day at the food pantry and I love going and helping! Barb is one of the head ladies and she loves me😂 which is amazing because she can't stand anyone else! Anyway with the food pantry it sets you back a bit from your normal schedule and sometime throws me off, but it's okay! Totally worth it! 


We then had dinner with the Holdt's, they are amazing! They can speak some Chuukese because they used to live in Guam! So the two oldest girls sang "God be with you till we meet again" in Chuukese! The spirit was strong and it was so cool! They told us about a neighbor that we could go and try contacting, she wasn't home but her cute kids were they wrote a note and put it up to the window, it said "sorry we aren't allowed to answer the door for strangers when are parents aren't home" it was the cutest thing,  so we are going to try again later this week. 


After dinner we look up some potentials in the area and found one that said it was near by, well 30 minute drive later we arrived at this potentials home and she wasn't there, we tried the next door neighbors house and no one. So we got back in the car and Sister Payne said "should we keep knocking? I just feel like Heavenly Father had led us here for someone",  I said of course.  
One house stood out to me but we didn't go to it first, we knocked 2 doors before that one. When we got to the house we met a girl named Harlee she excepted a Book of Mormon and said we could come back Wednesday night!  Well that is amazing! Well, just wait it gets better! 
As we start to say good bye, she said see you tomorrow at the community center! I KNEW SHE LOOKED FAMILIAR! She is at the community center basically every time, we have never talked to her. 
It just shows the Lord's timing and his will! Heavenly Father will lead you to those who are ready! Who knows... maybe if we approached her earlier she would of said no... 

Wednesday: 
Last district meeting! I can't believe transfers are here again! It makes me super sad but also super excited! We find out Tuesday :).  (by the time your reading this I will know if I'm staying or leaving) 
We were out contacting today and we went to go see a potential, they weren't home, We have this thing in the mission that's called principle of proximity (D&C 61:3). Which it's basically your there for a reason. You had a feeling to go contact a potential, but they weren't home well there must be a reason your there! Go find out why? :)

So after we knocked the door of the potential and they didn't answer, we started knocking on the doors in that complex and some people answered and some didn't. The ones that did weren't interested, until our last door we knocked. We found Donald and Jahan! They are brothers that just moved here and have been wanting to get back to church. We gave them both a Book of Mormon and they want us to come back and teaching them more. They want to know when we have church and are interested in coming! After we left, Donald started texting us and asking us questions, it was amazing to be able to teach him and answer some of his questions:) we meet with them on Friday for our first lesson and I'm so excited! 


We had our lesson with Harlee! Heavenly Father truly prepares the people. These last couple of weeks, I've been praying for guidance to those who are ready to receive the gospel and I feel like I'm finally finding them! Heavenly Father is truly so aware of all of us! Harlee is definitely one that Heavenly Father has been preparing. She had been wanting to get back into a church but she didn't know where to go. We taught her the restoration and the spirit was speaking through Sister Payne and me! She said she wants to start coming to church not this week because it's Mothers Day and she doesn't want to make a commitment and then fall through, but she said next week for sure she'll be there. I seriously love being a missionary so much! I feel so honored and grateful that I've been called to this holy calling, to spread this joyful message and bring others unto Christ❤ 

Thursday: 
Miracle for the day! So do you remember Tim. The one I felt prompted to go back and Sister Payne asked to use his restroom? YES, him! So we have been trying to get back in touch with him and he hasn't really been responding which normally people would just blow off and forget about him and move on, but not us missionaries! We decided to go stop by his apartment yesterday, he wasn't home but I felt impressed to leave a Book of Mormon and to write a note to him. Well not thinking much about it we left. Today at lunch we got a text from Tim saying that he has been going through a ton of hard stuff right now and finding this book with the message in it. He said it meant a lot to him and he invited us to come over tomorrow morning to teach him! CAN YOU SAY MIRACLE! 
We also got to Skype Alyssa today and go over BAPTISMAL INTERVIEW QUESTIONS! So exciting! She is so ready and has been so prepared by the lord❤

Friday:
Well we had a lesson with Tim! And it was amazing! He wants us to continue coming back and teaching him and he is going to try and make it to church. He didn't want to promise because he has 4 kids on the weekends and he said it's nearly impossible to get them up, but he did say he would try:) 
After that we drove up the street to Donald apartment and an hour and a half later he is committed to baptism! We taught him so much and it truly was so incredible! He had so many questions and it was just amazing that the spirit was answering the questions through us. We have a baptism tomorrow and he's going to come and also come to church! 
Today has been so amazing! 
I can't believe I get to be apart of this amazing work! 

Sunday: 

What an amazing day full of handing out flowers to the people I have come to love so much out here, then to turn around and be face timing my mom and family! It was so amazing to see them and be able to talk with them😊 I love them so much, one of the hardest things was hanging up :(  I love my mom so much, she is part of the reason why I'm out here. She's my best friend and has given up so much for me, I just can't express how much I love her and appreciate her. 

Monday:

Back to work after an amazing, emotional day yesterday. It was a day full of service at the food pantry. Then we had a lesson with Harlee and committed her to be baptised on June 16th,v  she accepted! So exciting and I just love her so much! 

Hope you had an amazing week and this week coming up is just as amazing! Love you all so much

SISTER BITTERS 

Week - Fourteen

Monday: 
Amazing day with amazing people! Today was a crazy P-day! We spent most of the morning out shopping with Annie ❤ it was so much fun we went to downtown Warrensburg and went thrift shopping and to some really other cute stores:) I told Annie that she had to control me or else I would buy everything haha. Then after hanging out with Annie. We went to a BBQ at Sherrie's the person that is against the missionary program but we helped her move and she opened her door back open to us! She's amazing! She put together a BBQ for everyone that helped move aka my district😂 it was so fun. Oh my you should see her cookie jar collection!
She has 150 she thinks, maybe more but seriously I have never seen so many cookie jars in my life they are everywhere! I wish I would have gotten a picture. NEXT TIME
We had an amazing lesson with Stacey. You can see her faith growing more and more and she is noticing it too. She told us, sense she has been seeing us she feels like a ton of weight has been lifted off her shoulders! She told us, I believe that's Christ ❤, I just love her so much and am so grateful to be apart of this amazing work and see how people grow and come unto Christ. 

Tuesday: 
Interviews! I love interview day because I get to see the most Christ like people I know ❤ President and Sister love without a doubt are the best Mission President and wife to ever exist. I love them! It was 90 days ago when we had our last interview with Sister Love, she had challenged us to memorize 5 book of Mormon scriptures. Well Sister Payne and I had planned on finding and memorizing our scriptures. We found our scriptures, but how time flies by here and we both forgot to memorize them, AKA procrastination ! She gave us until Monday to memorize them and we would then have to recite them to Sister Love Tuesday morning. Well haha I repented and asked Heavenly Father to help me😂 and he did! Sister love was so impressed with my memorization😂 but now I get to memorize the living Christ in 90 days, thats till my next zone conference and interviews.  I learned my lesson and am going to start working on that one now. 

We had an amazing lesson with Martha and Fas❤ about the plan of salvation and they are so amazing, she's still working toward May 19th. Fas bared testimony to us about how he know Jesus Christ lives and how he is grateful for us for helping him come unto Christ ❤ the spirit was so strong, I just love! Heavenly Father truly prepares the hearts of those you are teaching and of those that I haven't even met yet! 

Wednesday:
What a day:) we finally get to run outside! No more running in circles at the community center.
It is getting hot and humid here and we had another tornado watch today:) so exciting! 
We had a lesson with Alyssa and she's solid for May 19th ❤ she also told me I can be a brides maid at her wedding so 😂😊 I made it!
We then made contact with a potential and some less actives, we are going to go and visit them sometime next week which is exciting. 
We had dinner with the amazing Sister Homestead! I love her so much, she is so strong! She has been through so much and she's just amazing! 
We had a lesson with Stacey and Melanie, those lessons are just amazing! Stacey is really opening up and Melanie is still going strong. I'm gaining a really great relationship with them, we can have fun and have an amazing lesson all at the same time. I had the prompting this morning while working out to invite Stacey to pray to Heavenly Father and decide a date to be baptized. In the past the missionaries had picked dates for them. So today Sister Payne and I invited her to pray to her Heavenly Father. I told her that we know that it is a personal decision and it's between them and Heavenly Father. So if 5 months down the road is what her answer is or if it's in a month, she will know and we are here to help. 
I honestly felt like she would progress better if she had a date in mind and a date we were working towards. So I'm praying that she follows through and truly takes that invitation. 

We went to institute tonight with Alyssa and everyone there just loved her. Alyssa invited everyone to her baptism and I'm glad because I have been wanting the YSA to get involved and take her in and love her.
Kelstin is moving and I'm not to happy about that:( but she's cancer free and that makes me so happy! She's so amazing and just everything she has gone through, just truly amazes me. 

Friday: 
EXCHANGES!!! I love exchanges:) I was with Sister Bingham she seriously so cute and I learned so much from her ❤ She goes home in June.  We had an amazing day. 
We started it out with district meet! So fun❤ I got spot lighted and everyone in my district was super nice and really complimented me:) I learned a lot in district meeting today and apparently according to President Love, that our area Warrensburg Zone has the highest numbers in all the key indicators! Which is just amazing because it's been a died zone for a while! Numbers shouldn't matter, it is what some people say but what they don't realize is every number has a name to it! They are people that we love and care so much about. The last  few weeks or so they have been really hitting hard on studying out of Preach my Gospel. Well this morning I decide to study out of it and prepare for the lesson with Martha and Fas. In district meeting we did a role play, it was companionship team vs. another companionship team,  we were to commit them to baptism by teaching one of the commandments. Well Sister Bingham(STL) look at me and said you take the lead. So I did (haha) which was amazing to me!  The amazing thing is - wait for it!..... Preach my Gospel, yes, of course it helped me so much! It gave me so much more confidence. Let's just say from that experience my testimony for preach my gospel grew so much! That role play was amazing, me and Sister Bingham just clicked. 
Afterwards, we went and saw Sister Stevens!  We committed her to come to church this Sunday! She hasn't been in so long and we just told her boldly but lovingly that her Heavenly Father wanted her back and she committed! It was amazing
We didn't have a dinner appointment and there's the cutest cafe on main street Warrensburg, I told sister Bingham that she needs to try it because they have amazing food! So I texted Sister Bryson to ask her how late they were open because there hours are strange! So she told us they were open until 8 and joked and asked if we were taking her to dinner:) I invited her to come and she said yes! Haha but first she needed us to come to her work which is right next to the cafe to help her move her really heavy desk. So we went and helped her and then went to dinner. After an amazing dinner Sister Bingham and I headed back out. Unfortunately we didn't have any luck. It was around 6:30 and we had 30 minutes till our lesson with Martha and Fas. Sister Bingham asked me of there was anywhere she thought we should go. I thought for a sec and the thought Megan Tucker. Megan is there first house in Warrensburg to ever contact. She's amazing and super welcoming, but she has a crazy schedule. So I said let's go see Megan. Well we get there and when we knock on the door a man answers the door and I can see Megan in the kitchen and I asked of Megan was home. He said yes is there anything I can help you with she's kinda got her hands full, and I started to tell him that we have met Megan before and as soon as I said we are missionaries for the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints he invited us right in and sat us down. Well we only had at that point 10-15 minutes so we got to know William, which was the man that answered the door. We got to know him and he's so cool! He grew up in Amsterdam and speaks fluent Dutch! Yes, I instantly thought of my brother and I told William about how my bother served a mission in Belgium/Netherlands and he thought that was so cool! And it made a pretty cool connection. We got talking with him and he told us about how he loves the story about the Good Samaritan! We introduced him to the Book of Mormon, he said he would read it! He told us that we could come back and teach him more! 

Okay also what's so cool about that story is that Sister Payne had a dream a couple weeks ago about how we started teaching a Dutch family!! I found him! William! Well him and Megan they are a family so I'm going to count it:)

Satruday:
5K temple run! So much fun! The entire mission was there and it was just so much fun! Yes I ran the whole time! I switched companions about 2 times because one would get tired and would switch with someone to run with 😂 the last sister that ran with me had me stop twice so she could walk. I honestly don't know why I wasn't dying😂 but I was impressed with my self:) Sister Hartzog in our ward took us! She is amazing. She took us and the Sedilea Sisters and a new convert! It was so much fun, we got to stop at Chick-fil-la on the way home❤ but that ride home was tough haha everyone passed out, we were so tried,  I was riding shot gun and I felt like I couldn't fall a sleep on Sister Hartzog, so I just chatted with her!  I'm super exhausted but hey I won't have any troubles sleeping tonight:) we had dinner with Sister Hutsell, Sherrie and Ruth! Oh man I want to be them when I'm older! They are hilarious! We had a BBQ with them and going to go over sometime before transfers and having dinner again with them:)  I got to feed a family of foxes! They are adorable! And I want one and train it to be a dog:)

Sunday:
Well I hope everyone had an amazing Sunday! Because I did:) Sundays are definitely one of my favorite days here! The Fitzwater family, who we have been working with came to church today and I was so beyond happy to see them, I think they were happy to see us too:) Mike the dad got baptized in November just accepted a calling and that was big for him! I'm so proud of him. After church we went to ward choir and that is just fun because what people don't realize is I fake it 90% of the time 😂😂 Sister Payne is great at singing and always wants to go, so I go and just try and blend in.  I act like I know how to read music and it makes me laugh. We then headed to Shelley and Johns house:)  that was a really cool lesson, you can see them changing, trying and desiring to learn more. ❤
We got invited to join the YSA devotional at the church, it was like a dinner and a movie, we watch the worldwide devotional. I hope everyone saw that devotional, if not go look it up! It was amazing and answered so many questions and doubts that I have been having this last week. Heavenly Father truly loves each and every one of us! Your worth is infinite and so is his love for you. Heavenly Father loves you just the way you are, but he loves you so much that he's going to change you into something more then you ever thought you could or would be.

I love my Heavenly Father and my loving brother Jesus Christ so much!  I know they love every single one of you! I would do anything for my Heavenly Father and brother Jesus Christ. I feel so honored to have the opportunity to serve and devote myself to the work of salvation. I feel so lucky and blessed that I was called to serve, if you ever get the prompting please don't ignore it! Answer it and go! This is the best decision I have ever made!  I've only been out... what going on 4 months. The Church is true and Christ lives. We are all children of God he loves and knows each of us personally. We are all Brothers and Sister! We all need each other, this is what our savior has asks us to do.
 1. Love God with all your heart.
 2. Love thy neighbor
It's that simple. So forget about yourself, go and serve someone:)

Love you all and hope you all have an amazing week❤
SISTER BITTERS 

Splits with Sister Bingham

Thumbs Up for 5K at Kansas Temple

Week - Thirteen

Hey Hey Hey it's me again! Wow the weeks are just flying by and I'm still in love with Missouri and the amazing people! Here's a little run down of my week :) 

Monday: 
We definitely needed today to just chill and relax (P-Day), and it was great, but at 6 o-clock we  are right back to missionary work :).  We had dinner at the Bryson's and they made healthy chicken nuggets, they were amazing and they were Keto friendly, so win win for me! Riglee is the youngest of the Bryson's and she calls me her bestie ❤ I love her and her family so much! 


We then had a lesson with Stacey and Melanie :) it was an amazing lesson and the spirit was definitely present and strong, which made it so much better!  Stacey started opening up to us and she wants us to start coming twice a week instead of once.  You definitely can see her starting to grow. I asked her and Melanie what's one thing right now that you can do to draw nearer to your Heavenly Father ?  Stacey with no hesitation said, "I need to start praying and reading the Book of Mormon!" Oh my, I was so happy and I knew the spirit was getting to her ❤❤❤❤ Melanie said "that she wants to become more like the Savior and do as he does"!  They are both growing and I get to be a part of it!  Missionary work is amazing and I feel so blessed and honored to be here !!

Tuesday: 
So today was a service day :) But first we started our morning by running at the community center, it was there we met this guy named Bob,  he told us that we are more then welcome to come over to his house as long as we weren't like the Jehovah witnesses. He didn't like them but he likes us :) We are just trying to find out more details on him and where exactly he lives. 

It was then time to go to the food pantry, today we helped unload the delivery truck for about 2-3 hours, which is always fun! There's a volunteer there named Barb and she's like the head person and everyone is kinda scared of her because she is sorta mean to people, but she loves me so bonus: ) 


Then Dennis (the guy that had us over for easter...potential) invited us to the salad lunch fundraiser at his church,  we went but we were kinda scared, because we were expecting it to be his church and us being LDS missionaries😂🤙 but it wasn't! It turns out that it's the annual community fundraiser put on every year for a cancer foundation. So it was really cool,  it was actually really fun!  It was themed "Beauty and the Beast" they had dressed up characters walking around.  We are going to have dinner with Dennis on Saturday!  So we are super pumped about that :) His wife Patricia and him, are the sweetest people you will ever meet and were hoping and praying they open their hearts to the spirit and our message. 


We then went to help Pam (Sister Bryson), she hasn't been feeling good and it was Annie's 16 birthday.  We went over and made a birthday lunch board for Pam, it was a lot of fun and it turned out to be such a cute idea! I'm going to keep it in mind for future little ones :) haha 

Wednesday: 
A day of craziness and blessings! We started our morning like everyday at the community center and then come home and planned out our day.  Well we were supposed to have dinner with some of my favorite people ❤ aka the Harlans, but she had to cancel because something came up last minute, she insisted that we come out and get money from her for dinner and you don't say no to Sister Harlan.  We asked what time she wanted us to come out and she said right now.... So we went and hopped back in our car and drove out to there cute country home and ended up spending 2 hours with her. She was telling us story after story about some really neat experiences. I found out today that when you get her talking, there is no stopping her :) It was great and making time for the members when they need it is important. at this time she needed us to go run an errand for her, it was important and she couldn't do it.  we were happy to help,  as we were leaving to run the errand, we got a phone call from Alyssa, she needed to change her lesson too today, we already had a lot planned, but hey it feels good to be busy.  We shuffled things around to make it work for her 😂😂 let's just say we had to do companionship study in the car while we were running around doing service for Sister Harlan before our lessons.  Well everything went perfectly and timing just fell into place.  We went over to Alyssa to teach her it went well, gave her a Book of Mormon, and invited her to go to Institue we us that evening.  We then went and had another amazing lesson with Stacey and Melanie.  We are starting to meet with them twice a week, one day we will read 2 chapters of the Book of Mormon and the other day we will read a chapter from gospel principles. Today we read out of the Book of Mormon. It was an amazing lesson and Stacey just continues to open up, I can see her growing in faith every time we meet. Keep her in your prayers that she will start to feel ready for baptism. 


We were planing on going to institute with Alyssa, but she forgot so we had nothing scheduled for the night. So Sister Payne and I, had a feeling to go and try to contact this referral that we have been trying to contact. Well we could not find her and she wasn't answering her phone. We were in the complex where we thought she lived, so we just felt like we should stay and do some door knocking. Well after a few doors we found Kylee she's awesome and we gave her a Book of Mormon and we are going back Sunday!  Yay 

Alyssa has said earlier that it was funny that she has never seen us tracking over in her neighborhood. So after we had met Kylee we decide to go over to Alyssa's area.  When we got there, we come to a 4 way stop, there were no cars around so we parked and I said a prayer for guidance. Right after the prayer Payne said "what was the first thing that came to your mind" I said go right. So she went right, we had passed this complex before, but had not tracked here. So we pulled in and parked, it felt right. We walked in and had another decision, up or down. Well we stopped, I heard kids, it was coming from the apartment down stairs. I pointed to go down, we then heard the Disney movie Pocahontas and Payne and I looked at each other, smiled and knocked on the door. The movie stopped and they said who is it,  we said we were Sister Missionaries 😂 and they said COME IN!  Well, we will now be seeing Cody and Dominique on Saturday! The spirit will truly lead and guide you❤ 

Thursday: 
What a day! We had this referral for a women named Martha, she had requested a Book of Mormon and for missionaries to come over and share more about it.  We had been trying to get a hold of her for a couple of days now, with out any luck.   After our dinner appointment we were heading home to do some weekly planning.  On our way home Sister Payne said should we try calling Martha again, I said yes, good idea, but hey even better doesn't she live just back down the road a bit. Sister Payne agreed, let's just go try her at home, well when we got there Martha was outside, we told her who we were and that we had got her request for a Book of Mormon.  She invited us into her house where her adorable two little girls and her husband. We taught them the restoration and they are amazing.  Sister Payne had a prompting to schedule another appointment with them for tomorrow night and they are planning on coming to church on Sunday and want to continue meeting with us and learn more.  Also do you guys remember Slaton? We had him on date for a time in April but then he totally fell off the face of the earth and we could never get a hold of him.  Well he's back! He texted us tonight and told us that he has been going through some really hard times lately and started to turn back to the gospel and started reading the Book of Mormon, he wants to be part of the church!  So we are going to start working with him again and will set up a new baptismal date with him:) I truly believe that Slaton had to go through what he has been, to gain a testimony of his savior and desire for the gospel, he has that now and he is truly ready! 

Friday: 
ZONE CONFERENCE! - Was amazing as usual and I definitely came out with a lot. I want to apply and continue to develop and grow. This zone conference was extremely powerful and bold.  They gave us a challenge today to go and commit someone to be baptized. Sister Payne and I look at each other and both knew exactly who we were going to ask.  After zone conference we drove home and had an amazing lesson with Alyssa!  I love her so much and she is so solid!  She pushed her baptism date back to the 19th of May because some family members will be out of town on the 12th. So we're still really excited about that and to see her faith grow. Then we had our lesson with Martha and her husband, Fas!  Sister Payne and I invited them both to be baptized and they said yes !!!!!! Oh my, I truly love them so much! They are preparing to be baptized on May 19❤ another really cool experience with them is that they are Micronesian, we asked Fas to say the closing prayer and he did it in Chuukese! his native tongue So cool, we gave them a Chuukese Book of Mormon's as well to understand more. They understand English but it's harder for them to read it,  I'm so grateful we had some Chuukese Book of Mormon in the trunk! Heavenly Father truly prepares the hearts of the people.  I'm going to try and learn Chuukese... So wish me luck😂😂

Saturday:
Today had some great moments but with sad turns. We started the morning off with a community walk which is called the "crop walk" it's to raise awareness and money for the food pantry and the women shelter. It was way fun and a lot of the crowd was from our church! The people are amazing and Sister Payne and I placed two Book of Mormons and talked to many others, super fun and I got a work out in :) Then we had a lesson with Cody and Dominique but when we showed up we heard them behind the door telling their daughter to tell us that her parents weren't there even when she already told us they were home. So that hurt :( I wish people would just be straight up with us but, hey it's part of the mission:) We then had dinner with Dennis and his wife Patricia! I love them both and they love us. They are the ones that we went over too for Easter and they are potentials... Well they were. We spent the rest of the evening with them just growing closer and creating a good relationship and to make it more comfortable to bring up the gospel. We went fishing and fed there horses and ate dinner. You could kinda tell they were trying to keep us busy so we wouldn't share a message. So on our way out Sister Payne said is it okay if we leave something with you and asked them if they had ever heard of the Book of Mormon.  Without much hesitation they looked at each other and said yes we have and we aren't interested.  It felt like a knife to the heart :( people that I loved so much turn down something that I love so much. But it's okay we can't force anything and we all have our agency and it's better for us to know and to move on. I think we might spend a P-day with them or something and just show love and be an example. 

Sunday: 

Amazing Sabbath❤ we had Alyssa at church and some less actives which is amazing and I love seeing them! 

I love you all so much and love hearing about life back home❤ remember that you're all amazing and Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love you so much!  As a mission we are having the 90 days to come unto Christ challenge! 90 days till our next Zone Conference and we are going to memorize the living Christ! I'm excited and this zone conference is going to be a little different. We are going to have a half zone conference day and then we As a zone with president are going to go to the temple! I'm so excited and can't wait to grow even closer with my Savior! I love him so much and can feel his love for all of you! Stay strong❤