> This week was phenomenal it was really great
> One of the first things that we did is that we went to Tigard Oregon,
> we had an appointment and it is about 45 minutes away. We had to have
> a member of the ward drive us, so sister Eva Olsen drove us in her
> Tesla, which is a purely electric car. Sister Eva Olsen is one of my
> favorite people on this earth! We got to Tigard a little bit early, so
> we went to McDonald's to get breakfast. After we pulled out of the
> drive through, Sister Herpich tells us, "I think I'm going to throw
> up..." So we hurried and pulled over and she threw up in the parking
> lot :) then she felt fine! Hee hee. While we were in Tigard we went to
> Deseret Book to buy our investigator Mitchell his own quad. We got his
> name engraved on the front. Sister Herpich and I have wanted to do
> something like this for an investigator on our mission so we were
> really excited that we had this opportunity. We gave them to him that
> night, and he was very grateful. He read through the whole book of
> Moroni in one night! He is loving church, he's loving the lessons, and
> he went to the temple last night with our ward mission leader. We have
> an appointment with him tonight We are really excited to see what his
> thoughts and feelings were about the temple.
> A couple of weeks ago, we were tracting an apartment complex. We
> weren't getting any results until we knocked on the door of Lucy. Lucy
> is really good friends with member in our ward. They've been friends
> for about 35 years. Lucy has a lot of health problems that she is
> strong and she is amazing! Lucy asked us if we could go on walks with
> her. We absolutely love her! So on Saturday we spent quite a bit of
> time at her house with her. We went on walks, we went and got her
> Mail, and we had a wonderful discussion about the Savior. She is very
> active in another faith but her home is Christ centered. I LOVE that
> no matter what faith we all have, we all can and should love one
> another :) even if we belong to other religions, we are all brothers
> and sisters and we can accept our different beliefs! We are going to
> visit her a couple times a week.
> Another great thing that happened this week is that we got a new
> investigator named Jim. He was a referral from a former investigator,
> and he's active another faith as well. We had a really good discussion
> with him at his door and he had a lot of questions about Joseph Smith,
> the book of Mormon, and the way how we live our lives. We have another
> appointment with him this weekend, and he is really excited to read
> from the book of Mormon and to have his questions answered. We are
> really excited as well because he is a Bible scholar! He knows his
> scriptures!
> We had two in active members of our ward come to church! We love both
> of these ladies :-) both of them are making huge strides in the
> Gospel! The one hasn't come to church in about four years but wants to
> get her temple recommend back. The other has never been to the temple
> has a lot of questions in regard to the atonement so she is making
> huge strides by first off coming to sacrament meeting and secondly by
> preparing to go to the temple.
> The highlight of my week was skyping my family on Sunday night :-) it
> was great to see everybody's faces and it was an amazing opportunity
> for me to bare my testimony about Heavenly Father. It worked out
> perfect because they were celebrating my dad's birthday so I got to
> bare my testimony about fathers and Heavenly Father; it fit in perfect
> with the theme of the party. I love my daddy! :-) he's an amazing
> example of a worthy priesthood holder, a Christ centered man, and a
> father of a Christ centered home. He's an amazing role model for
> Hunter, and his work ethic is phenomenal! I look up to my dad with his
> work ethic. I know that whenever my dad is asked to do a job he will
> get it done right, and he will get it done quick :-) thanks daddy for
> everything that you've done for me!
> Jeff blessed the water for the sacrament for the first time this
> week!! I felt like a proud mom ha ha it was amazing to see him up
> there exercising the priesthood. He is already an amazing member and
> doing a ton of missionary work.
> There's a lot more that happen this week but I can't remember much of
> it so I will probably end the email here.
> Hope everybody will have a great week! I hope everybody had a
> wonderful Memorial day :-)
> Love always, Sister Sierra Birch :-)
>
> P. S. I am speaking into my iPad and it types out my email for me :-)
> how awesome right?!! That's probably why it's so long ;-) hee hee
> Sent from my iPad
