Well talk about busy week for you guys! Sounds like you are powering through this awesome calling of yours! I love to hear your success stories they make me so proud of you. I have always said that your work that you do is always top notch quality, nothing you do, you do half way! I love that! :) Keep it up! :) I am glad the fun run went well, and that everyone enjoyed it! :) I think it's crazy that school is already starting and fall is beginning, I am so excited to see the fall colors here in Ohio! You are going to be so jealous when I send you pictures because I get to live in it!!! ;) Transfers are next Thursday, I have no idea what is going to happen, the only thing I know for sure is that I will be a sister training leader. It's a bit scary to think that I will have sisters under me.....the mission won't know what to do when I'm done with them! Mwahahah! :) 

Grandpa's letter was perfect for sister Black! She loved it! It was hilarious! :) Tell him thank you for sending it! :)  

To answer your questions.   These are the questions I asked her:

1.  Did you get the package we sent last week?

2.  Do you have limited mileage on your car?

3.  Do you do all the driving?

4.  What do you do to decompress or relax at the end of the day?

 

I did get the package you sent, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!! I needed it, Everything in there was just what I needed! :) 

We have 1200 miles a month, and some things we do we don't count them on our miles. Like when we go on exchanges we don't count the miles to and from where we go, but only the miles in the city we are working. Sometimes it's a stretch to make it, but we usually do! :) 

I do all of the driving, much to sister black's dismay, she doesn't think I am a good driver. I happen to think I am quite a good driver! :) Don't ask her about it...Sometimes I wish I didn't have to drive, but sometimes I like it.

and finally to decompress at the end of the day, we usually get ready for bed and then read some scriptures, and eat something yummy, then if there is time we write in our journals, or just fall into bed exhausted! Or we talk about random stuff, or I don't know, just really whatever we feel like doing, or what we have time for. 

 

 I think the main thing that I have learned this week is that the members love us here so much that they want to help us in any way that they can. 

One example of this is Bro. Hamner, he came to Steve's lesson with us, and the lesson didn't go the way we wanted it to. We struggled through it, and the spirit wasn't very strong except when we ended it with reading a chapter in the book of Mormon with them. After the lesson we felt junky about it, and on the way home we got a call from Bro. Hamner and he expressed the same feelings that we were having. So we set up a time to meet with him the next day to talk about what happened and how we can make the lesson better. He pointed out some things that he observed that we could have done better, and helped us to figure out what we could teach Steve on Thursday. So we decided that we needed to ask him the Baptismal interview questions and figure out where he was at in his testimony. We started the lessons the way the Assistants taught us at Training, setting expectations, using HTBT and then went into the questions with him and from the beginning of that lesson to the end the spirit was so strong and we were able to help him, and Sis. Black had a breakthrough during that lesson as well. She was able to feel the spirit and recognize when she was feeling it. it was amazing! I really have a testimony of how important members are to this work. 

Also this week I was able to go on an exchange to Circleville with Sis. Dycus. I learned so much from her. She is a great missionary, in a hard area, and she is doing well. I learned how important it is to set inspired goals and to work your hardest to reach those goals. They had set a goal to find 5 people in 2 days through tracting and to extend baptism to every one they talked to. I was amazed as I watched Sis. Dycus talk to these people and use the methods she used that it worked. Every person that would listen was extended to. and we were able to find 3 people in the 6 hours that we went tracting together. 

I love going on these exchanges to see what things Sis. Black and I can implement in Zanesville! 

We have 2 people being baptized on saturday. Chase and Isaiah are half brothers and are 9 years old. They are so excited to be baptized! We are meeting with them today to get them suited up in their suits and getting the program set up. We are so excited to finally have a baptism in Zanesville! 

I have missed you a lot this week too, I hope that you are doing well! I love you so much! :) 

Love 

Sis. Buhler