Gish On A Mish: Week Five: Sister Gish Hit Her One Month Mark and Has Already Eaten Moose!

Hello friends and family,

Can you believe that I have been on my mission a month?! Time is flying!

I am absolutely loving Dubois! It is so beautiful and our branch is absolutely wonderful!
Also I ate moose this week! It tasted like cow... but even better!

Last Monday we had dinner with a member in our branch. Her name is Sister Stamper. About a year ago her husband passed away while flying his plane. She has three kids! She has handled this adversity with tremendous grace and I admire her so much. Sister Stamper invited her husband's cousin, Cousin Pat (yes that is what we call her), over for dinner. She told us that she might be interested in taking the discussions. We invited her to do so during our dinner message and she said yes! So on Thursday we taught her the Restoration. I stumbled over my words and was a little frazzled the rest of the lesson. By the end we had told her that we would be teaching her about the Plan of Salvation next week. She told us that she already knew a little bit about it because of Sister Stamper. Sister Stamper shared her witness that she knows she will see her husband again. They were both crying. You could feel the spirit so strong, and it made me realize that even though I thought I messed up the lesson that Heavenly Father never let's us ruin someone's chance at salvation. So be bold and share the gospel because in the end the Spirit is always going to be the ultimate teacher.

We had a training meeting in Laramie on wednesday, which was so awesome! We learned that in missionary work, success isn't found in the number of baptisms you have, but rather how many invitations you extend. Also President McMurray told one of the Elders that he has the coolest first name in the mission besides Anzie Gish. haha that was really sweet of him to say! On Thursday it poured rain which made the dirt roads super muddy! Our car would swerve back and forth on the mud. The tires would spin mud up on our car so it got a little dirty. So much for the car wash we got on Wednesday ;) Saturday was my one month mark and it snowed! It was pretty cold and the wind was brutal! Makes me really glad we have a car!

On Sunday I spoke in sacrament meeting. I spoke on the talk called "And Jesus Beholding Him Loved Him" It was given by Elder Palmer of the Seventy last general conference. I want to invite you all to read it this week! It is all about what Christ sees in us and helps us understand how we can reach our full potential!

So we were trying to visit members on the branch list and there was someone named Pete Petera. He is like 93 or something and our Ward mission leader said that he was against the church and it wouldn't be worth visiting him. On Sunday we were near his house and Sister Warren felt like we should pay him a visit. His daughter answered and we told her we were missionaries for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. she was like "Do you believe in God?" we said yes. Then she was like "Awesome! I have been looking for a church to go to! I wanted to go with my neighbor, but she is sick, so I won't have anyone to sit with." We said that we would sit with her. Then she was like "Do we have to sit in the front row?" we told her no. She then asked us if Sister Warren was my biological sister and if we were nuns. She said that she would check out our church, so hopefully she would be there Sunday. Needless to say we walked away pleasantly surprised.

I love you all so much! Thanks for the encouragement and prayers!

~Sister Anzie Mae Gish