8.08.2016

The inception of Brooke: Brooke in Brookville

Well, I'm officially in Brookville now! Some missionaries get the cool

picture of themselves by a street sign of their name, but heck, I've

got a town named after me! Not too many people can say they are so

famous that a place is named after them. I guess I'm just super cool

or something ;) one cool thing about my area is that we cover

Punxsutawney: home of Punxsutawney Phil, the Ground Hog Day celebrity!

Sadly, I don't think I'll be here to celebrate that glorious day when

February rolls around, but the town is really cool. They have

groundhog statues everywhere! It makes me laugh a lot, but at least

they've got something to brag about!

I've also upgraded from a branch to a small Ward, and I seriously

wanted to throw a party when I walked in the chapel and saw actual

pews versus folding chairs. Who would've thought that would make me

that happy? There are also a bunch of less actives that we get to work

with which is exciting. I haven't worked with legit less actives in a

while, so it should be fun.

My companion is Sister Maya, from Phoenix, Arizona. She seriously is

amazing. She is a convert of about two years now, and her family

doesn't really support her decision to go on a mission. In fact, she

had to sell everything she owned so she could afford to be here. She

literally has nothing back at home. Crazy! She loves it though, and I

admire her faith to leave everything behind to serve the Lord. She

loves her mission a bunch, and works hard each day. I admire her a

lot.

We were able to meet with an investigator named D who has the

cutest little kids. As we taught her the Plan of salvation she loved

it, and at the end of the lesson we committed her to be baptized and

she said yes! That was exciting, and our next challenge is getting her

to church. I think it's so funny how people are so willing to get

baptized into a church they have never been to. For Pete's sake, we

would be funky vu doo Satan worshippers and they would have no idea!

Good think we aren't though :)

We have another investigator with a baptismal date named D. His

family is learning from the missionaries in a different area and that

is how we found him. He's awesome, but I don't know him too well yet. 

So I have to give a shout out to N, V, and L from

Franklin, PA. I didn't know them until Monday but they are the

kindest, nicest, most awesome people ever! They knew Sister Thompson

and wanted to spend the day with her, so they drove out to us, then

took us to Knoebles where we also met up with Sister Birch and Farnes.

Not many people would drive across the state to spend a few hours with

someone, so it meant a lot to us. They rock and made our Pday Rock as

well!

Sister Morrison

Some sketchy rusted, shaky stairs we climbed up. After a certain point

I couldn't go higher so I made sister Maya go and knock on the door.

Transfer Day!

Pday gang minus L!

Me and Birch! Don't mind the wet hair, we just got

off a water ride.