Fun pictures of Sister Sommers

This week we got to meet with a baptist pastor. he was really nice. (he started to bible bash a little) but we stopped it and told him thats not our purpose of comming. Later in the week we were trying a former and we were praying in the car. and this guy walks up to my window and so i roll it down and he started asking us questions and started bible bashing with us. it was sooo bad. he said he was a minister. we were just trying nicely to share scriptures. but he wasnt going to listen. so we told him we didnt want to argue and that we had to go. it was a crazy experince though we were there prob like 10 min. and he was yelling bible vesus that us and having us look them up then he was sharing not true stuff about joseph smith and the book of mormon. it was just a crazy experince. first time i have had someone walk to our car to bible bash because they see our name tags. 

   This week we did service for the member we live with and we made homemade apple sauce which was a lot of fun. and we canned the apple sauce and also salsa. it was fun. 

   oh we also got exciting news our mission president gave all of us permission to go to the movies on oct 10  to see meet the mormons if we have a inactive or non member come with us. so the members we live with invited there kids to come see it with us because all there kids are non members. and one of the daughters is comming with us and with the members we live with. so that will be a really fun experince. im really excited to be able to see it. we wil be buying our tickets this week :) 

i love you all and hope you all have a great week 

love sister sommers

Service is good!!

Hey this week was good

     Tuesday we went and had our apt with the first pastor. it went really well!!!!! our relief society pres was there and the first thing he said was we could discuss difference all day but thats no why im here. and we told him thats not why we are there either. we stated our purpose and told him we want to serve them. he was so nice we talked for a hour and he said he will be thinking of service that we can do with there church to help make valley a better place. and he also told us that there church feeds everyone in valley free every week on sunday. so he said we could help out with that. so we went and served food and it was so much fun. everyone loved us there and they were all asking us tons of questions it was amazing. and it was so much fun!!!! 

    We went and talked to the other pastor and he wasnt as nice. and wasnt really for it. so he said we  could come on saturday and wash there windows so we said okay and we took some ladies in the ward and we washed there windows really well. they werent there so we wrote a note to them and put it in there door. so that went really well. 

     tonight we have an apt with the baptism pastor. and when we talked to him. he was  like lds serve us??? and we were like ya no catch and he said we could come by tonight so we will see how that goes. :) 

    we had transfers this week and my comp and i stayed the same. :) 

       we have a member next week that wants us to come over for family night and she wants to teach us how to quilt. so that should be a lot of fun!!!! 

     we also had stake confrence this week and they talked about someone who came from the quarm of the 70. i dont know how to spell his name. it was really cool. we talked about the pioneers and how many of the pioneers that died in the winter quarters cemitary had many decidents that are here in nebraska who are not members of the church anymore and he talked about how they are in the spirit world praying that we will find there family to teach them the gospel. it was a really good talk he gave at stake confrence. 

    i will send pics in a diff email i love you all and hope you are safe and doing good!!!!!

Bed Bugs YUCK!!!

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this week was really eventful...

   so at zone conference a few weeks ago they talked about how Nebraska is abouyt the 3 in the nation for bed bugs gross and they talked about how a lot of missionary housing is getting bed bugs. so they told us they declare war on bed bugs and they told all of us when we get home to do a deep bed bug inspection and they gave us a list of things everyone needs to do. so we did it and we found nothing.

   so this week we had a really SCARY EXPERINCE!!!!!!!! So on Tuesday after district meeting a member in the ward asked if us and the elders could do service for him and help him move.  so we went by and after the elders didn't know how to get somewhere so i told them they could use my gps because we didn't need it that day. so on Wednesday my comp and i are getting reading to go see a less active and my comp sister allan starts screaming and finally she calms down and im like what? and she said look at my arm there is a bed bug on my sleeve. and so i grabed a tissue and killed it. so then we called the sister incharge of housing and she said since that was the only sign and we don't have any other signs of them she gave us some steps we need to do to prevent them.

    Then the elders text us and say they are done with the gps and ask were they can meet us to drop it off so we said we were at walmart and so they came and dropped it off and my comp felt prompted to tell them about the bed bug on her sleeve. (which we weren't going to tell anyone) and one of the elders said oh we found a bed bug on the ground in our apartment last night. and so we figured out were it came from and it was from doing service and helping that member move so the sister in charge told us all buy stuff at Wal-Mart to spray our rooms and cars. so we did and we found out that we just had that one bed bug in our car and it was prob from having the members stuff in our car but we didn't have anything else and the elders also have checked and checked and they said that was the only bed bug they found to. so we got lucky and heavenly father blessed us which was good we were so scared. but we are blessed it was just one and that's there are no more at all. both the elders and my comp said they have had bed bugs in there past apartments were they have lived on there missions i have never had bed bugs and im so grateful i haven't i am going to make it my whole mission with out getting them because they are a lot of work and it takes way from your proselyting time. i have been blessed that's forsure.

     Thuesday we went to meet with our investigator that's a johovahs witness and she brought one of her friends from her church and they ended up bible bashing us... it was a really hard lesson. then they ended up dropping us at the end... this week we also have been dropped by a few other investigators to.. its really hard being dropped sometimes. 

     Saturday we had a ward party at a members lake house. oh it was so hard i wanted to go on the boat so bad. and wanted to swim. but it was still a lot of fun. sister allan and i are working on finding new investigators. we have been able to do a lot of service lately which has been fun helping out the members.

    this is from our mission presidents email this week i thought it was cool

Dear Sisters and Elders:

I hope all of you got caught in the flood this past week? Yes, the flood! The Book of Mormon is flooding this mission! Last week alone we had over 265 books loaned out! Many will be busy teaching with those return appointments! What a blessing this book is. Sister Weston made the comment on how many times the Lord is involved on every page just as He is involved in the details of your lives in this great work. Just by having a Book of Mormon in hand and showing forth that faith, the Lord is finding ways for you to find the elect. "And thus we see that the commandments of God must be fulfilled, and if it so be that the children of men keep the commandments of God he doth nourish them, and strengthen them, and provide means whereby they can accomplish the thing which he has commanded them" (1 Nephi 17:3). Thank you for your obedience and your hard work! I know the Lord is mindful of you. Enjoy the flood and have a great week!

Love,

President Weston @35, B of M Page 70

P.S. "May I commend you faithful Saints who are striving to flood the earth and your lives with the Book of Mormon. Not only must we move forward in monumental manner more copies of the Book of Mormon, but we must move forward into our lives and throughout the earth more of its marvelous messages. This sacred volume was written for us-for our day. Its scriptures are to be likened unto ourselves" (1 Nephi 19:23)(President Ezra Taft Benson).

  

its been so grate focusing on the book of Mormon i have enjoyed studying it the book of Mormon is an amazing book i love it. we are on page 70 of the book of Mormon for those who are reading. its only 5 pages a day.

thank you all of your emails and letters i love you!!!!!!

LOVE SISTER SOMMERS

pic of me holding a small garden snake from service

me driving on a dirt road in the rain again trying not to get stuck in the mud again

my warning