July 1, 2019

Hello, everyone! Happy 4th of July!Well we have had another crazy week here in Beavercreek, Ohio! We have been struggling with our teaching pool this transfer and this week we didn't find anyone new to teach, but we aren't giving up because we know the people who are ready to receive the gospel are out there. Our district leader was trained in Beavercreek and he told us that while it may be hard to find people to teach here, when you do find those who are interested they are really committed to learning more and developing their relationship with Christ. 

As of now we are no longer a trio A sister in the mission went home so Sister Blaser got transferred to Springfield to finish training a new missionary. Now it's just Sister Archibald and I. We're still having fun though and working hard to get to know the ward better. This ward is huuuge compared to the Wilmington and Xenia wards, but everyone we have met so far have been super nice and welcoming. A family in the ward invited us over for dinner this week and we had some of the best homemade breadsticks I've ever had. The family has 4 autistic children, and the parents handle everything that doesn't go quite according to plan in such a Christ-like way. It was seriously so cute and heartwarming to see how sweetly they helped each of their children learn in their own unique ways. But anyways, here is a funny story about what happened at dinner. One of the boys was trying to learn how to say our names. He got Sister Priest down pretty fast but he was really struggling saying Sister Archibald. He ended up saying Sister A** and then clapping because he felt like he finally said it right. The parents and Sister Archibald and I all laughed super hard. I'm bummed I can't quote that because it was one of the funniest things I've heard in a while. 

We went on exchanges this week. Sister Archibald went to Fairborn with Sister Visser and Sister Walters came to Beavercreek with me. This is my third exchange with her, and we've had a lot of fun. We did a lot of service together with some other sisters in the area helping people affected by the tornado. It's pretty insane how long it's taking to clean up all the tornado mess. A lot of people are more open to talking with us about missionary work and the church when we are there to help them, so it's been a great way to have really meaningful conversations about the gospel with people even if they aren't interested in being taught. 

Besides that nothing too insane happened, we're just staying busy talking to everyone we see! I'm seriously so grateful for this opportunity to be serving a mission, I wouldn't trade it for the world!

Well, that's it until next week, but email ke and  let me know what is going on in your beautiful lives! Sure love ya

Sister Priest 

 

A member in our ward has the sweetest, hugest Great
Perinese(idk of I spelled that right). If you can't tell I
was very excited to pet her. She sat on my feet
during the whole lesson with the members

Sad to leave each other going on exchanges

(btw Sister Archibald has been giving me fashion tips

and dressing me in her clothes, I feel like a movie star haha)

 We found baby bunnies when we were cleaning up a yard.

 

  Exchanges

 

 Sister Archibald and Sister Priest

 Sister Archibald and Sister Priest

Our sad goodbye picture when we dropped
of Sister Blaser in Springfield.

We didn't realize these would be our last trio companionship pictures together

 Springfield is where John Legend grew up, so
we stopped by the theater named after him
on our way through Springfield