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)