Hello family & friends!

I love the work. Wow, I can not explain to you how much I love the work.

We had a few dinner appointments this week, the Seaman's, the Sagers,

the Hemmingers & Sister Hein! They are all amazing families and so

welcoming of us into the ward and the mission!

The Seamans have a son out on a mission right now in Brazil! Brother

Seaman is a convert and knows deep, deep doctrine. He asked Sister

Nutting and I some tough questions, but they kept inviting us back! We

had dinner with them on Monday night, they invited us over for the

morning session of conference on Saturday, invited us on Saturday to

stay for the second session & then invited us over again for the

second session on Sunday & for dinner Sunday night. I just hope we

aren't wearing out our welcome! They are extremely nice people though,

just amazing and strong in the Gospel and totally make Sister Nutting

and I think!

The Sagers are way cool! They are both Returned Missionaries from the

Atlanta Georgia mission! Their kids are super cute & their oldest

(Josi) is putting in her papers in December!

The Hemmingers are the people whose garage we cleaned out, they are a

less active couple but they both still do everything we do. Just not

church. They are super nice and have traveled all over! They are in

Vietnam for the next month visiting some exchange students that they

had had! We are trying to figure out ways to get them back to church

but they are just not interested in going to church.

Sister Hein is the mother-in-law of our Ward Mission Leader, she's a

funny older lady and she took us to Cracker Barrel for dinner and it

was pretty good! She is so excited to have sisters back in Downingtown

because she is single so she can start feeding missionaries again!

So that's an update on how I am being fed, so now I'm sure you're all

dying to know how the rest of my week went, what I thought of

conference and so much more!

Darren is progressing so fast! He has not accepted a date yet but we

are hoping that we get him a date this next week. He watched

conference and the priesthood session this week and found them

interesting. When we taught him about what conference is he was very

excited and amazed that our prophet speaks to us and addresses our

needs as a church!

Oscar is so awesome! He watched part of conference as well and really

enjoyed it! He is so pumped to be baptized, he has a date for December

and just can't wait for it! He tells us all the time about how he is

so ready to become a Mormon!

So we went tracting this week, like we always do! Most were

unsuccessful but we did find Hector and Jay. We knocked on Hectors

door, because we were walking around and didn't know where to go until

we saw a bright yellow door, we both said yellow door and ran over! He

invited us to come back another day! He was super cool and one of the

way nicer ones we had met! Jay was a street contact, we were driving

home one night and he was walking his dog in the park and I just said,

we should go talk to him. Sister Nutting pulled into the parking lot

and away we went! He was so cool and open to our message! He gave us

his number to call him and set a day for a lesson! The spirit will

lead us to people! The spirit will also lead us to less actives, who

want to stay less active! The most memorable experience we had with

that this week was we knocked on a door and this older lady opened it.

She saw our tags and said "Mormons?" We barley had time to respond

before the door was shut in our face! We also had a lady tell us that

she was not a member and didn't understand why the missionaries kept

coming by (uh, cuz you are a member? You're in our area book?)

needless to say we probably won't see her again.

So our cute Indian couple, the Samuels. They are both Christian and

are super open to our message! They are brand new to PA and very

welcoming! Anu (the wife) is so sweet, she always makes sure we don't

need food or water and then settles in to hear our message! They are

an interesting couple because they were an arranged marriage in India!

They are super sweet though, some of the nicest people we have met! We

are hoping to get them to church and then set with a date soon!!

So the weather here is getting colder! It rained for about three days

and then had a fog/mist everywhere on Sunday, the leaves are just

starting to change and I'm pumped!

Conference. Oh man where do I even start? Prayer, sacrament,

missionary work, repentance & Book of Mormon. What more could you

want? Nothing? Correct. Eyring was so good, plus he gave Philly a

shout out! #coolest Bednar & Robins were my favorite talks though. How

many of us follow and serve Christ, but don't believe Him? Sure you

believe in Christ, but do you BELIEVE Him? Do you believe He can take

you and make you better, make you celestial material? How many of us

are judgemental? How many of us focus on the faults of others instead

of fixing ourselves? I loved it. What a great and inspired conference.

Plus I saw my homie Elder Arnold belting it out in the MTC Choir on

Saturday Afternoon. So proud!

We went to valley forge today for P-Day and it was awesome! There is

such a reverence on the grounds for the things that happened all those

years ago. The trees were beautiful and the buildings were way cool.

Sister Goodsell, a lady in our ward who has a son in Ghana currently,

took us and showed us around! She's awesome and super cute!

I love you all, I love the Savior & I know the Savior love you all too!

Love,

Your fav missionary

Sent from Downingtown ❤️

Josie and the Hobbit hole (root cellar)

Josie and Sister Nutting - Valley Forge

Valley Forge

Josie and Sister Nutting

Sister Jackson in Downingtown