July 20, 2015

Dear Family, 
   Well I guess that I will be in Milford for five transfers. That 
means I will be here for 7 1/2 months. I seriously thought that I was 
going to be transferred because I have been here for 6 months. One  of 
my companions so getting transferred. Saturday morning during our 
companionship studies President Anderson called us and said that we 
will still be in a trio. Then told Sister Hoofman that she will be a 
Sister Training Leader. I will stay in Milford and finish Sister 
Lythgoe's (the missionary I'm training) training. 
   Well we got about three new investigators this week. One of them we 
found a couple of weeks ago and he kept getting more and more 
interested taking the lessons. When we had our first lesson with him 
he had a lot of questions that pertained to the Plan of Salvation. We 
invited him to baptism and he said yes. Which is very exciting! 
   The other two investigators that we just got we taught them on 
Saturday. We found them while we were trying to contact a 
inactive/less active member. We parked in front of their house and one 
of the family members was outside. So we just went up and started 
talking. We shared the restoration with them and it was really 
powerful. Lets just say for only being out for six weeks Sister 
Lythgoe does better at inviting people to be baptized then I do... 
   We are excited to be teaching these three new investigators. A 
couple of days ago we were up in one of the townships in our area 
called Quakertown. Trying to contact another inactive member. She 
wasn't home but her daughter was. We talked to her and asked her if 
there was anyone that she thought might be interested in learning more 
about the church. She told us that one of her neighbors might be 
interested. So we went and contacted the referral. He told us to come 
back on Saturday at five o'clock. We came back yesterday planning to 
teaching him and his family. When we got there he had family over and 
they were getting ready to eat dinner and invited us to join them. We 
got to talk to them and they are from Sedan. We asked them some 
questions about their culture and it sounded pretty interesting. 
   So every transfer the district leader has to double in to sisters 
areas if they have sisters in their district. What doubling in means 
is the Elders come into our area and help out. So we pretty much 
create a list people (on our iPads) that they can go see while they 
are in area and we air drop them the list to their iPads. Then they 
pretty much go contact people in our area. They were originally going 
to be here for around five hours but the time kept getting cut down. 
   Well I think that is all that had happened this week. It was a week 
full of miracles! I hope all of you have a wonderful week and I love 
you! 

Love, 
Sister Paige Bluemel 

July 13, 2015

Dear Family, 
   Well I got to go bowling Monday with two investigators and Lori 
Hinsdale. We split in to two teams of three and made a deal that 
whoever lost had to teach the winning a lesson. When we originally 
started talking about this the deal was the losing team had to feed 
the winning team dinner/lunch! My team was Lori, Keith (one of our 
investigators), and Me. Then the other team was Sister Hoofman, Sister 
Lythgoe, and Jeff (the other investigator). My team dominated and beat 
the other team by 200 hundred points. So the other team has to teach 
us a lesson! I'm feeling like a winner. 
   On Tuesday we had a thing called Golden Retraining. It's were 
trainers and their goldens (the brand new missionaries) met together 
and President and Sister Anderson and the Assistants talk to us for a 
little bit. Then the assistants take the trainers answers any 
questions that we may have. President and Sister Anderson take all the 
goldens and see how they are and how they are liking the mission. Then 
we pretty much switch and President and Sister Anderson talk to the 
trainers and ask us and talk to us what they think that the goldens 
are feeling and stuff like that. The assistants pretty much answer any 
questions that the goldens might have. Then after that we get to do 
some role plays. 
   A missionary served here about a year ago and was visiting. She was 
stoping in my area Tuesday and one of the members was having a bbq for 
her. We were invited and so was a couple of other members that wanted 
to come. We got to talk to the return mission for a while and she 
talked a lot about what she did in this area and asking if we taught 
or were teaching the same people she taught. She asked us for our 
number to because she wanted to send us a list of people that she came 
across in this area that she wanted us to stop by which was really 
cool. 
   It was funny because yesterday when we were on dinner break and 
President Anderson texted asking about a couple of people in our area 
that we are working with. When he sent us the messages I asked Sister 
Hoofman when him and the assistants start figuring out transfer and 
she said usually about two weeks before. I am now convinced that my 
mission president might split my area. There use to be two sets of 
missionaries a couple of transfers before I got to this area. Now I 
think that my mission president might be thinking about putting 
another set it. Which would be a lot of fun. I got my golden to start 
freaking out about it to and I couldn't help but laugh about it! 
   We didn't have as many lessons as the week before but that is ok. 
It was kind of an off week. But we will be teaching a lot more people 
this week. Well have a wonderful week and I love you all! 

Love, 
Sister Paige Bluemel 

P.S. I don't like the humidity at all but on the plus side its really 
green over here. 

14 scoopes and 8 toppings 

The volcano! 

July 6, 2015

Dear Family,
  Well first things first... on Thursday I got bitten by a dog. But
it's all good it isn't to serious though. Dad you don't need to freak
out about it! I think it's awesome because I can tell people that when
I was on my mission a dog bit me. I'm proud of my battle wound marks.
  On the Fourth of July my President Anderson (my mission president)
gave us permission to stay out until 10:15. As long as we were with an
investigator or a member. We have an investigator that is a Jew and
him and some other people that are apart of his religion were having
fireworks at his church. He invited us and Lori to come. But we
decided not to because all of us were pretty tired and it was out of
our area.
  We got a new investigator this past week. One of the people in the
ward council asked us to stop by a family that recently moved into the
area. It's a mom and she has three daughters one of them is ten and
hasn't been baptized yet and she really wants to get baptized soon.
She knows a lot about the gospel. We are planning on having her
baptized in the next couple of weeks.
  We had a lesson with our investigator that is Jewish last night. We
invited him to be baptized band he said that he eventually would like
to be baptized. After we left from the lesson he texted us telling
that he wanted to stop smoking and wanted to try the church's stop
smoking program the next time we have a lesson.
  A couple of weeks ago one of the members in the branch made a bet
with two of our investigators this week. The bet was that if they read
the Book of Mormon together everyday for a week her and her husband
would take all of us to this ice cream shop called "The Inside Scoop"
and get this thing called "The Volcano". The volcano contains about 14
scoops of ice cream and 8 toppings. The challenge was to work as a
group to eat the whole thing and if we ate the whole thing we got our
picture taken and put up on the wall.
  We are the volcano and we got a picture taken. Just so you know a
picture of me will be on the wall here in Pennsylvania. I hope that
you all are jealous. Just so you know I am going bowling later with
two of our investigators and Lori Hinsdale. I am going to kick butt
and take some names. Well that is all for this week. I hope that you
have a wonderful week and I love you!

Love,
Sister Paige Bluemel

P.S. KASH IS FOUR MONTHS OLD!!

June 29, 2015

Selfies by the train tracks close to her apartment! 

Out working in a beautiful area! 

Dear Family, 
   Well this week was a great week! On Friday we had sports night and 
we played softball! Let's just say I was kicking butt and taking 
names. When it was my turn to bat some of the people that were playing 
out field thought I wasn't going to be able to hit it that far. But I 
knocked it out of the park! 
   We went on exchanges with our Sister Training Leaders this weekend 
to. Sister Lythgoe and I stay in Milford and Sister Hoofman went up to 
Reading. We had three lessons on Saturday when we were on exchanges. 
It was raining all day Saturday (which was really awesome) and I got a 
little wet and it started to get a little cold. We pretty much spent 
the whole Saturday with Lori. It was a lot of fun and there was a lot 
of funny stuff said. 
   We had to drop someone that we had only taught a couple of times. 
She talked a lot about how "if it's not in the bible then it isn't 
true." So a couple of weeks ago we gave her a Book of Mormon and 
committed her to read some of it. We decided that if said made that 
comment that the Book of Mormon and that our church wasn't true that 
we were going to drop her because we weren't fulfilling our purpose if 
kept saying that every time we came over. So it got to the point where 
we needed to drop her because she was being really stubborn. 
   Well I feel like not a lot happened this week. So this letter was 
probably a little boring for you guys. Have a wonderful week and I 
love all of you! 

Love, 
Sister Paige Bluemel 

June 15, 2015

Dear Family, 
   Well I am in a trio again and I'm training to. We originally didn't 
know that we were getting a third person. So Tuesday night the 
assistants called us and asked if we were called as trainers. We told 
them no and they told us that they were going to call us back. Well a 
couple of minutes later President Anderson called us and told us that 
we are going to be trainers and that we had to be at the mission 
office at 7:45. When he told us this I literally screamed. We were 
very excited and couldn't sleep that night and we got up at 4:30 to 
clean our apartment. 
   On Wednesday we went down to Broomall and got our new missionary. 
Her name is Sister Lythgoe and she is from Canbrillo, California. She 
is the second oldest of four kids. She has two brothers and a sister. 
Her sister has Down syndrome and her dad is the stake president in her 
home stake. She is such a got missionary. Sometimes it feels like I 
should be the one getting trained not the one training. 
   I got to teach someone the restoration all by myself which I am 
pretty proud of. We were at our bible study yesterday and there is a 
lady that comes every week. Well by the way she was acting it seemed 
like she wanted to do bible study but not with the group of people 
that had come. So I took her in another area. So we read some of the 
story from the bible then she stopped and just started asking 
questions about what we believe. So I pretty much taught her the 
restoration. 
   We now have two people that have a baptismal date! The two brothers 
that are investigations the church both have a date to be baptized. We 
extended the Baptismal invitation to Jeff on Saturday for May 22, 2016 
(he doesn't get off of parole till May 15 of next year). Sister 
Lythgoe was the one that extended it to him! The assistants committed 
us to have the Goldens extend the invitation to someone by Sunday. 
   It's awesome because a couple of weeks ago Sister Hoofman and I had 
found this couple that has lived in our for said months and they have 
been praying for us to find them for that long. The wife is a less 
active and the husband isn't a member. He was about six days away from 
baptism but they had some problems and moved to where they are living 
now. So we had her extend the invitation and he said yes but he said 
that he didn't want to set up a date yet. When we followed up with the 
assistants they were really excited that sister Lythgoe had two 
invitation in one day. 
   We didn't have as many lessons as we usually have. Wednesday
through Friday were pretty slow but we are confident that we will be 
doing well this up coming week. Well I think that is all for this 
week. Hope you have a wonderful week. 

Love, 
Sister Paige Bluemel 

June 23, 2015

Dear Family, 
   Well I can say that it has been an interesting week! One of the 
tires on our car got flat on Sunday and we didn't get the spare tire 
on till yesterday afternoon. We had a general authority come to our 
mission. He is doing a mission tour which is where he and his wife 
goes around the mission and we pretty much have a zone conference and 
the general authority talked to us. We did want to take the car up to 
the meeting because it takes and 1 hr and 15 minutes to get there. So 
we pretty much talked to our zone leaders about getting a ride there 
and they talked to another set of zone leaders that go through our 
area to get to this building about giving us a ride up to the meeting. 
Then after the meeting we got our spare tire on and took the car to a 
place called pepboys and got the tire(s) fixed up! 
   As I said earlier in the letter we went to zone conference. The 
general authority that came was Elder Larry S. Keacher and her talked 
a lot about having the right mindset for the different areas in the 
mission and how we should be working with the ward leaders. We also 
got a ride with a set of zone leaders. It's interesting because you 
could tell that all the mission were tired because had had to get up 
at around 4am because we all had to be at the meeting at 7:30 am. 
   When we were at pepboys waiting for our car there was a women that 
got there around 10 minutes after we did. We started talking to her we 
eventually led into teaching her a lesson. We talked about a lot of 
things and we jumped around to different things. We then have her a 
Book of Mormon and she said she would read it. It was funny because 
there was a couple of people that sat down around while we were 
teaching her. They probably thought we were weird but that's ok with 
me because I know that I am weird! 
   On Friday we had a sports night at our church. We played volleyball 
and I was kicking butt and taking names. It's funny because I forgot 
my tennis shoes so I pretty much was playing with no shoes. Lori 
Hinsdale also got me a minion shirt a couple of weeks ago because I 
have been having an obsession with minions lately and I wore that 
shirt to sports night. I got a lot of comments on it! They have a 
volleyball net that is set up outside (they also have a fire pit at 
the church building to) and that is where we played.
   So every Sunday we go to this assisted living care place and do a 
bible study (I don't know if I told you guys about this last week). 
There is a women named Dolly that comes every week and this previous 
Sunday and the Sunday before that she has been showing and asking a 
lot of questions. When she first started asking questions I pretty 
much taught her the restoration all by myself! I felt pretty good 
about myself! 
   We found a new family that lives up in Emmaus (a township in my 
area) that we are going to start teaching soon. It's interesting 
because we found them while we were trying to find a new move in that 
our missionary leader asked us to go contact. One of them was 
apparently already baptismed in our church when she was 8 years old 
and her sister was there (she was baptized at 12 years old). They said 
that they loved the coming to our church when they were little kids. 
   Well I think that is it for this week. Pday next week will go back 
to Monday. Have a wonderful week and I love you 

Love, 
Sister Paige Bluemel 

June 8, 2015

Dear Family,
  Well it has been another busy week here in the PPM (Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Mission). First off... I am staying in my area for
another six more weeks! Then second off... we taught a total of 18
lessons this week! My companion said that she got a letter my mission
president saying that he felt like we needed to stay together for
another transfer. So we ether still need to learn from each other or
we are doing something right for the work in this area.
  Another one of the less actives that we have worked with a little
bit went into the hospital last week. Throughout the last couple of
weeks she has been getting sick off and on and she didn't want to go
to the doctors because they were thinking about amputating her right
leg from the shine down (because she has bad circulation in her
leg(s)). It got to the point where she had to go to the hospital and a
day or two after she to the hospital the doctors decided that they
were going to amputate her leg. Yesterday we got permission from our
Zone Leaders to go to the hospital with the relief society president
and see how she was doing. It was obvious that she was out of it and
she and it seemed like she was hurting a lot to.
  So on Friday our ten year old investigator went over to Lori
Hinsdale's (member that helps us out a lot) and asked her mom when
we're we going to have another lesson. So they texted telling us that
she came over saying that. Well we just so happen to be in the area so
we decided to stop by and set up a time. We set up the lesson for
Saturday (the next day) and we came back Saturday and stopped by her
house before we went over to Lori's house. Well when we came over she
was outside playing with water balloons and we went and asked if she
was ready. She told us that she didn't want to have a lesson and that
she didn't want to continue meeting with us. I told her that we would
be over at Lori's for a little if she ever changed her mind.
  Well she never came over and we even made some stuff for people we
are working with. Then later that day Lori went over to her house and
gave her a picture of the three of us. Lori said that she seemed happy
to get the picture. We were going to play the Rolo game with her (we
even had the Rolo's) and I was excited to teach them how to play it.
  Our car was in the shop for a day and we had to go on foot for a
day. I was excited about it because we would be able to meet more
people. But when we got our car back I was even more excited because
we were able to go to the other towns in our area!! Well I believe
that is all for this week. Have a wonderful week and I love all of
you!

Love,
Sister Paige Bluemel