Hello my dear friends and family!

This week has been an interesting one. Monday after we emailed & went

to Valley Forge, we hit the streets! To no avail but we did it! We

worked hard and tried to find all that we could and we just loved it!

Tuesday became a little more interesting. We were trying to find a

less active mom & her son, when we knock on the door he stuck his head

out the window and asked what we were doing, so we asked if his mom

was home and he said "yeah" and then not so nicely told us to leave.

We had the chance to teach Oscar again twice this week! Tuesday and

Saturday! He's just awesome, I wish you all could meet him and see

this mans faith. He has the most incredible faith and knows how much

the Savior loves him. Every time we go over there  he tells us how he

knows that Christ has saved him from so much and that Christ continues

to save him. I love Oscar!

We also got to continue teaching Vinobh & Anu Samuels, also twice this

week! They're awesome. They are an Indian couple who are here for

Vinobh's work at Comcast, they were also Christian in India so a lot

of the things we talk to them about they already know! We've invited

them to be baptized twice but they are having a hard time with that

because they've already been baptized. They also don't know if they

want to come to our church because they've got friends at their

church. They tell us every time we leave that they love having us over

though! They love to talk about Christ during the week instead of just

on Sunday. Anu has been reading the Book of Mormon and told us that

she gets the same feeling from reading it as she does from reading the

Bible so she knows that it's true, but we don't think she's actually

prayed about it yet. I adore them though, they are just so cute!

So Darren. Oh man. Darren. We're pretty sure he found some Anti stuff.

So consequently we were dropped like a hot potato. He didn't like some

of the deeper doctrine that we have & know to be true. Satan is a punk

though. Especially because Darren was so close! It killed me to have

him drop us but the moment I sat down in total defeat, the Savior

picked me up, brushed me off and pushed me out the door. He's awesome

and He loves us all so much! He knows that eventually Darren will hear

and accept the Gospel, he's just using his agency, and because the

Savior knows this. I know it too.

We also met with a former named Rocio Perez. She is a seventh day

aventus, but loved to talk about Christ. It was super cool because she

let us right in & we taught the plan of salvation, which was inspired

because her Pastor had just died and that day she had been at his

funeral. She was very open to our message and we tried to set up a

return appointment but she said she was really busy. I brought up the

fact that we can do Facebook lessons and she seemed more open to that

idea! The work is moving forward in ways we never would've known!

We had a lot of different meetings and things today that caused us to

be so busy that we didn't really find anyone else.

We had Golden Re-training on Wednesday & it was so spiritually

uplifting! We talked about patterns in our lives. Specifically

patterns of the Savior, patterns in our companionship & patterns in

our individual lives. In the last one we set a vision for our mission,

basically what do we want to say at the end of our mission? It's hard

to think that my mission is ever going to end and it's hard to believe

I've only got about 16ish months left. I really don't ever want this

to end, but sadly all good things do. So my end goal for the best 18

months of my life is to "be perfectly honest and upright in all

things; and be firm in the faith of Christ, even unto the end." (Alma

27:27)

Zone training, this was awesome as well! We talked about making sure

we had faith and no fear when tracting/street contacting. It was so

awesome to just have those faith building experiences!

We had interviews this week too! Crazy right? So many meetings so

little time. President is seriously and inspired man, I can say with

whole heart that part of the reason I am here is to know him. He's

incredible! He asks the most inspired questions and always gives the

best advice! He's honestly someone I will look up to for the rest of

my life & cry like a baby when he's ordained an Area Seventy & speaks

at general conference or something!

We also had exchanges! Sister Ashcraft from Springville, Utah was my

companion for about 24 hours! It was super weird to be without sister

Nutting but I learned a lot! Sister Ashcraft is so unafraid to talk to

people, there was a lady just sitting in her car and she walked right

up and talked to her through the car! This lady was so awesome! She

goes to some Christian church in Coatesville but wanted to talk about

Christ and had a few questions about the Kingdoms of Glory & Joseph

Smith! She'd met with missionaries before and was always open to

hearing and talking about Christ because He's the only way we can get

back to God! She asked where we were from and when we said Utah, man

you should've seen her face! She was so curious as to why two little

white Mormon girls from Utah were all the way in Pennsylvania! So we

explained the mission call process and why we are called where we are

called and all that! We also went to find a less active and we ended

up getting in contact with her neighbor who invited us back!!

We went to the city today and it's incredible!!! Independence Hall is

beautiful & Jim's Steaks has a bomb cheesesteak! With the whiz! I love

it here, I really hope I get to serve in the city. It's beautiful. One

of the most beautiful places I've ever been, I just love it. I promise

to send pics!!

I love the work! I love our Savior & I love Philadelphia!

Love you all!!

Love,

Sister J

Sent from Downingtown ❤️

Sister Nutting and Josie - Philadelphia Temple

Jim's cheesesteak

Sister Nutting and Josie

Love Josie