Dear family

This week has been so amazingly crazy and awesome, I have grown so much and we have had so many miracles happen. When we left off on Wednesday we had p-day and then were heading off to the MOTAB concert! It was amazing! We had 1 investigator come with us and 6 less active recent converts there as well! It was just amazing! We went in the bauserman's big 17 passenger bus and it was awesome to be able to go with everyone and just have a great time! All of our mini missionaries went with us as well and they loved it! It was a lot like the one I went to in Rexburg, but it was still amazing! the Pres. of OHIO State came out at the end and was the guest conductor for the final encore song! I had no idea who he was but it was still pretty cool! I got to sit by mike smith one of our investigators who is on date for baptism for July 13th and he loved it, it was so fun to see his reaction to the spirit of the concert! It was pretty exciting! :) I loved it so much, but you know me! I love concerts! :) 

There was a tornado watch right over Columbus and all the way there and back brother bauserman kept getting emergency texts that tornado's and stuff were a possibility! we were also supposed to get like 75 mile/hour winds, so that was exciting! the whole way home there was a ton of sheet lightning, it was so cool! :) SO now that I have scared you to death I will tell you of the miracles that happened after Wednesday, 

we taught 2 nine year olds to get them ready for baptism, and we also were able to go and get a new investigator from a referral that bishop sent us to. our mini's had a great week not wanting to go home and I know that because they were here is why these miracles happened! It definitely wasn't anything sis. Pollock and I did. maybe just some planning and lots of praying on our part but mostly them! It was such a growing week for me, it taught me patience and love for every person, and that missions aren't all about the good lessons that you teach,because some lessons just aren't going to go well and you deal with them as they come! both me and sis. Pollock experienced rough lessons! but they just weren't ready to hear it. But one member has been talking to his co worker about the church and we had a lesson with her on Friday and that went well, she asked all the right questions and is pretty much golden! We'll see how that goes! I really felt your prayers this week, I needed every one of them! 

On saturday when the mini missionaries left sis. Pollock and I just collapsed and were so exhausted, we went and I honestly don't remember what we did the rest of the night! we were so tired! 

We did go to the bausermans for dinner though and recorded a fathers day message. did you get it dad? we sent it on saturday night, so I hope you did. it was of sis. Pollock and I saying "happy fathers day dad! You're the only man in my life...for now!" it was so fun! :) I hope that fathers day was so good! we made treats for some of the dads in our ward and took them around last night because we didn't think that finding was going to be very effective, because it was fathers day. so we did some service. Rick hildebrand, the Goggle guy, hes one of the guys that we took it too, and he jumped on facebook and wrote dad a message from me, incase you didn't see it already! he's a pretty awesome dude! :) 

This week has been a week of miracles! We couldn't have taught anyone that we have taught this week without the mini missionaries being here. There have been so many amazing teaching experiences in the last couple of days. 
We taught a recent convert's husband who has never had any religious background, he hadn't prayed in a long time and wasn't very comfortable praying out loud, but I used the training that Elder Beck gave us about prayer at interviews, and guess what? It worked, I pushed and pushed, and all of us said a prayer before he did, and finally he said a very sincere heart felt prayer. The spirit was so strong and he wants to see us again. My Mini missionaries did such a great job of teaching with the spirit as well, and I am just so blessed and so excited to have them here with me. They have taught me how to step up, and how to be a better teacher, and always being engaged in the lessons and a whole bunch of other things. It really has been an amazing learning experience for me.  
I have also found that I have a new appreciation for Sis. Pollock as well, I loved her before but I love her even more now, it is so nice to be able to teach a lesson with someone who already knows how to teach. But I really love teaching with my mini's as well. They are doing a great job. 
I am so excited for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Concert tonight. I love them and can't wait to feel the spirit with the music they sing!
I actually did run in to Elder Hanson at the mini missionary meeting! he seems to be doing great! 

No I am not getting transferred! yay! Pollock and Buhler is still intact for another 6 weeks! Zaneville 2nd ward rejoices much at the news! :) 

So about the mini missions. I shall now explain. What happens is they are youth from 16-18 who want to try out mission life to see if they actually want to go on missions. So they come for a week and do everything we do, keeps our schedual, teaches with us and everything. We got 4 mini's, sis. pollockgot 2 and I was assigned two. Sis. Keller and Sis. Miller are my two, they are pretty awesome! definately still 17 year old highschool girls but they are great! they get along really well, and they are really great at teaching with the spirit. We split up into trios and go out and get to work. there has been a lot of planning go into this week, in setting up appointments and getting great teaching opportunities for these girls, and we have seen so many miracles come from having them here. We wouldn't have gotten these apt's had they not made the choice to some out and serve a mini mission! So we have 6 people in an apt that is supposed to hold 2, but we are managing to do a pretty good job of keeping things clean, and organized, showers are pretty rough sometimes, but it all works out! they are all doing great! :) I love having them, and getting to see them grow and me grow as well! they are awesome! :) 

We get to go to the MOTAB concert tonight, we are so exited!!!!! we are taking the bauserman bus down to columbus and back! We also because of the mini missionaries got another car to transport everyone around, so I have been driving the malibu that is just like ours and sis pollock gets the brand new ford fusion! we only have it for a week but still! :) it was quite the thing not driving for 6 weeks and then having to drive a nice car in a town that you don't know where you are going! it's great fun! :) Oh and if you feel like buying a garmin GPS and sending it to me....that would be great because once sis. Pollock leaves me I don't have any way of getting around anywhere! ;) I would be able to use it for my whole mission! :) I would love you forever! :) 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LYNETTE!!! :)  

anyways that's a lot of what is going on this week, there is so much more but I don't have time to tell you all of it! I get another P-day on monday so I'll write again! 

I love you guys so much! Miss you

Sis. Buhler

P.S. I can't find my camera cord so I'll send pics Monday!

Dear family

First off mom I got your package! Thank you so much for sending that, I love everything you sent! You sure know me well! one thing about the cd's the first two cd's are the same cd, but it's good because now sis. Pollock can have one! :) I sure love getting letters from you so much! and the 20 billion post cards that I got from dad! that was fun too! :) 

So last wednesday was a pretty cool day, we had district meeting and we got to roleplay infront of everybody, it was a bit scary but I learned so much and I really took it seriously and I felt the spirit super strong. After DM we got to have sis. young (senior couple) come with us while her husband went with the elders to do service on a farm, it was so great to have her with us! She's the best! We had dinner at the Bauserman's that night, he's the ward mission leader. it is awesome going over there. We love it so much! This next section is the letter to Pres. that describes all of our successes this week so I don't have to write it all again I pasted it here! 

We have had a great week. It has been very successful, though we have had a lot of no's (56 to be exact) we have had 2 people say yes to our message, which makes all of those no's so worth it. We made a lot of headway with one of our investigators named Ron, we have been trying to get him to come to church since before I even came out in the field and he was at church yesterday! we were so excited! We asked him how he felt and he said he felt really good! He wants to get baptized so bad, but he has to get married first because he's living with his fiance. Things will work out for them! I am really excited for them! 

Another one we are working with is Mike Smith, we had a baptism that we invited him to, he came and he said that he felt the spirit, we have been helping him recognize how he feels the spirit and that is helping him develop his faith and confidence in himself. He is on date for baptism for July 13th, he just needs to quit smoking and drinking coffee,  we prayed with him at his appointment and that was the date that stuck out to him, so there you go! The spirit is amazing! I love it so much! :) We have a solid investigator Megan who we just started teaching last night, her fiance is in our ward and has been wanting her to talk to the missionaries for a long time. We taught her the 1st lesson last night and it went great! :) We are excited to keep teaching her.

ok letter over! We have had a lot of tracting opportunities this week, we tracted into a hippie and he and his wife invited us in and told us all about their life and he sang us some songs on his guitar and filled us full of political tree hugging views, it was awesome! his name is sunny Klimczyk he's got a website if you want to go and listen to some of his songs, they are pretty hippietastic! :) www.unsigned.com/sonnyklimczyk really though go listen to him, he's good!:) 

we just love meeting all of these people with crazy stories and talking religion with them! it's so great! :) life here in the field is great! My allergies have been super bad this week though, I finally got me some clairitin because I couldn't talk to people because I would sneeze every time I would try to say something. So we have been working with this less active guy David Penny for about 3 weeks, trying to get him back to church, we went to visit him last week and he was drunk as a skunk! It was pretty rediculous, he wasn't making any sense, he told us he was reading the pearl of great price and it was saying that moses created the earth and not Jesus, and a bunch of stuff like that. You could smell it on him, wheew! so we left thinking that there was pretty much nothing  else we as Sister missionaries could do for this guy...well he came to church on sunday sober (the last sunday he came he was drunk) and got up and bore his testimony about how since we have been coming to see him he feels like he has a purpose again. So that gave us hope and we are definately going to keep seeing him. 

Some crazy exciting news....!!! We are getting mini missionaries this saturday! here's the crazy news....THERE ARE GOING TO BE 4 OF THEM!!! WHAT THE!!!!
We heard this news and we were baffled as to what we were going to do and how we were going to make things work, but thanks to our amazing ward and inspiration from the Lord we were able to think of things and figure out teaching appointments and dinners and transportation for us all. The Lord is in this work for sure! it's crazy! IF we go to transfers we could either lose sis. Pollock, and get me a new trainer, or get another sister. so potentially we could have 7 sisters in our house until next saturday! It's going to be insane! Please have lots of prayers because we are going to need it! :) 

I love you guys so much and miss you lots! I hope things are going well at home, and everywhere else! 

have a great week! sorry no pictures this week! but lots next week. 

Oh and P-day next week will be on Wednesday just so ya know! 

PS. Dad What do you want for fathers day??? Or should I just surprise you? 

Love

Sis. Buhler