This week has been a great growing week for me. Losing sister Pollock was hard, I am going to miss her a lot but I know that Sis. Black is awesome too! :) 

I'll be honest with you. I have felt very inadequate this week as I have been training for my first time. It has been a struggle to get my mind wrapped around the whole idea of me being the one who knows what is going on in Zanesville, and remembering the important things and helping sister black get involved. Sis. Black has stepped up to the plate and has been awesome! She really knows how to bring the spirit and how to talk to people. We taught Mike Smith right after we got home from transfers and she connected with him right away! They have some of the same things that they are going through spiritually, with trying to understand how the spirit works through them. It has been so cool to see! she already loves the people and wants their salvation. She catches on really fast and remembers names like a champion! :) I love her! Thank you for sending her to me! :) 

We have been able to find a family to teach, the Gomez family, they just moved in to Zanesville last week and are looking for a church to go to, she has a lot of questions, and is curious about prophets, the priesthood and all sorts of other things! ! It was a great day to end our Sunday! Things are looking up, and we are getting work done, bringing souls into the waters of baptism! we have an investigator who is in date for Sept. 21st and he is progressing so well that we think he is going to be ready sooner! I hope that will happen! He's so awesome !:) 

To answer your questions from the email 1. I sure did get the GPS!! Lil' man is doing a great job getting us around good old Z ville! 2. Pres. Neilsen is getting his spunk back, he had an episode where he had a blood clot and internal bleeding and he almost died, so they took him back to the hospital and got him all fixed up. he's resting and getting better! 3. A sister training leader is like a sister zone leader basically. She goes around to the sisters that need training and stuff and helps them. everything a zone leader does a sister training leader does. minus the priesthood. She is in a little town called Delaware, she is training 2 new sisters. and is opening a new area. She is such a studly sister! she can do anything! :) 

So my new companion is sister black. she's from Pleasent Grove Utah! and she's 19. she's brand new and so awesome! We like a ton of the same things and it's been a blast getting to work with her. We have a new set of elders in our ward as well and they are awesome! elder Baird has been out the same time as I have, and elder Tate is brand new! they are so great! and the first ward got new elders as well. SO the only ones that stayed from our district was elde rDonaldson and me! It's pretty great having different people to give this area a boost! I love this work, it's the hardest work I have ever done and sometimes all we have is the savior to rely on, but he is our savior for a reason and he went through all of this so that we didn't have to go through it alone! he is with us every step of the way! I know that he lives and loves us so much! 

I love you guys! it sounds like you had a great week! I wish I would have been able to go to granite it sounded like fun! :) Tenting it up! I love tents! :) 

Love 

Sis. Buhler

Pics:

1. Sis. Black and me

2. The Gill Family (our last night with Sis. Pollock)

We have an investigator Mike Smith, he's been investigating for about a year, and he is trying to quit smoking, he's on date for the 13th of July. The day after everything happened we had a lesson with him, and he was frustrated and down on himself, and he had just bought nicorette to try to help him stop smoking, we talked to him about faith and tithing and how that maybe if he starts to pay his tithing he might have an easier time smoking, he had everything written out on paper where all of his money was going and there was no money to go anywhere else because he had bought the nicorette, So me, Sis. Pollock and the member we had with us shared our experiences with him about tithing and it working in our lives, and I asked him "Mike, why don't you think that it can work for us but not for you?" he said "it's always been this way, it's always going to be this way. I have had no luck financially keeping my money together,and that's just how it will always be." I looked at Sis. Pollock and she looked at me and I shared my experience from the day before. "It's always going to be this way" was a lie that I believed that Satan was telling me, I had it written on my paper that was in my scriptures, so I pulled it out and we talked about everything I went through the day before. The Spirit was so strong and so amazing. We helped him to understand that it is through the savior that we can do all things and that nothing is too hard for the Lord. He's doing better and we are hoping for baptism in July still. Not the 13th but the 21st or the week after. Tomorrow's lesson is going to be setting a plan to get him to the waters of baptism!

Oh man! So the rest of the week went so well! Friday was the best day we have had in a long time! we went to teach these 9 year old boys, chase and Isaiah about prayer, they love to pray and get so excited to pray, they are on date for baptism on Aug. 31st! they are so cute, then later that day we went to see Cheryl one of our investigators who we tracted into last week, we taught her the restoration and extended baptism for aug. 17th and she accepted! we love it when this happens! :) then we went to see Steve, one of our investigators who's wife is a recent convert and he about dropped us that night, we finally understood how he was feeling and helped him to understand that if he reads and prays he will not feel that way anymore and so he agreed to keep meeting with us and we have an other lesson with him this week! We then got out of there and got a referral from the mission pres. of Columbia south carolina mission. his nephew used to be FLDS and got kicked out for fooling around with his girlfriend, they got caught on friday, got married on monday and they got kicked out with 500$ on tuesday. they've been on their own ever since. It's so cool to teach them because they already know alot about the basics becasue they teach alot of the same things! they leave out some of the truth but it's still the Book of Mormon and Joseph smith and stuff! It is awesome! they want to be baptized so bad! I love them! that was so cool! 

Sunday we had 5 out of the 7 people at church that we invited! it was the bomb! and even some less actives that we didn't invite showed up! It is so awesome! :) 

Life is great here in the great Ohio! :) OH MAN!!!

I will leave you with my new favorite scripture 1 Cor. 15:10 By the grace of God I am who I am... look the whole thing up and read it, it got me through a lot this week! :) 

I'm so glad grandpa loved his purse! It made me laugh so hard to think about his reaction! I can't wait to get his letter! :) 

Love you! :) 

SIs. Buhler

July 1st Email

Man, well what to say about all that has happened to you guys in the last couple of days! that is amazing! I am excited to hear what will happen in the weeks to come! :) I sure hope girls camp goes well! Tell all of the girls hi for me, and make sure you do two things that are essential to the ultimate girls camp experience. 1. Maryia must get into a whipped cream fight with someone on the late night food raid. and 2. Someone has to dump water on Brad, just to see what he will do! Do these things and girls camp will be an instant success! :) 

Now for the real stuff! So this week really has been a great week! we have had so much stuff going on. We saw so many less actives, and most of them were actually home when we went to see them, which never happens. we committed almost all fo them to come to church within the next two weeks and we actually got invited back to have dinner with 2 of them! that was a miracle, we didn't even ask! It was all them! what a blessing! :) Our district meeting was so awesome this week, it was on chapel tours and we had a great time learning about them and how to commit someone to be baptized right after one. being motivated to get a chapel tour this week, the apt. after District meeting we actually got our investigator to agree to come to one! :) It didn't go exactly as we had hoped, but we felt the spirit! it was great!:) We have really been trying to be as effective and obedient as we can possibly be, and because the Lord knows we are trying he is blessing us with many miracles this week! we have gotten 2 new investigators and have taught so many lessons and helped a bunch of people come loser to their savior this week because of that! I am so blessed to be out here right now! I love this work and everything about it! :) 

One sweet experience we had this week, we were in the ER with one of our investigators who's mom has just had a stroke and we were waiting for her to get to the hospital. we had just been at his house for dinner and were going to start the lesson when we got the call that his mom was being taken to the ER. So sis. Pollock and I were just waiting and looking around and sis. Pollock notices this guy covered with tattoos and has a cane, and his leg is all nasty and infected. So she's like, I need to go talk to this guy, so while I'm back talking to Steve's mom and saying a prayer with her so she feels better, Sis. Pollock is talking to this guy, Adam. He has been to jail twice, he used to be a drug dealer, he lives on the worst street in South Zanesville, but he read the book of Mormon while he was in jail and he is so interested in changing his life around. So right before he got called back to get checked out for his leg, we exchanged info and we are hoping to get an apt. set up for him this week! 

Maybe we should hang out in the er more often! :) "The whole needeth no physician, but they that are sick" right! :) It really had been a great week!  :) I hope that things are going great at home! We are having zone fun day today in Newark and we are spraypaint tyedying shirts as a zone, and then playing some games! It's going to be great!:) 

Can you send me a list of family birthdays so I know when everyone's are? that would be great! :) 

I'm trying to think if there is anything else I need to tell you.....nope I think that is it! except that pres. nilsen is going in for surgery on wednesday, so please keep him in your prayers. he's going to need every single one of them! :) 

Oh yea, THE MISSION SPLIT TODAY! I am thankfully still in the Great Ohio Columbus Mission! Under the direction of Pres. Nilsen! :) thank goodness that I got to stay! I would have cried if I would have had to leave! :) 

have a great day everyone! :) 

Love you! :)