February 9, 2015

Dear Family,

I am now serving in Milford, Pennsylvania. I'm in a branch and its
small but they area (or boundaries) are pretty big. My new companion
is Sister Udall and she is from Utah. The area looks like an nice but
oldish town which is really cool and fun to be in.

We have two investigators but they are both slow learners. They
aren't ready for baptism but they know that they one day want to get
baptized and become members of the church. We also have someone that
just got baptized February 1st and was confirmed yesterday at church.
Which is pretty awesome! We have also been teaching a recent convert
of a couple of months. We committed him to set s date to get a
patriarchal blessing and to get a temple recommend so he can do
baptisms for the dead. We also taught an eternal investigator my
second day in this area. She has a daughter that was distracting
during the lesson. But the lesson wasn't that bad and hopefully what
we taught her helped.

We have been trying to get in contact with less active members! A
couple of days we got in contact with a less active that hasn't been
to church for a couple of years now. She stopped coming to church
because a year or two after she moved her a member of the branch
offended her (probably without knowing). So she stopped coming to
church but she still occasionally reads her scriptures. She told us
that she doesn't want to come back to church again. But we did set up
an appointment with her so we can come over and read the scriptures
with her and to talk for a little bit. We also challenged her to read
a verse of the scriptures a day. I hope that she changes her mind and
comes back to church again but only Heavenly Father can help her
there.

Every Wednesday we go over to the community Thrift Shop and help
serve. We put a lot of clothe on hangers and hung them up. It is
interesting what kind of stuff is donated. But we spent about an hour
over at the thrift shop and it was pretty fun. We also go to the
church on Wednesday nights and do Book of Mormon Studies with some of
the members in the branch.

On Sunday's we go over to this assistant living place and do bible
studies with some people that live there. They are really entertaining
and they have a good time doing the bible studies. What we do is read
a story from the bible with them and then discuss it. So it is a lot
of fun to do!

Well I think that is all for this week! I hope that you all have a
great week and I love you!

Love,
Sister Paige Bluemel