Sheboygan is SheBOOMIN'!!

Sister Milligan, Ebony, Me,
& Marsha a recent convert as well...
She always has a pocket full  of butterscotch!!

Hey There! 

George, a boy in the ward, thinks we are called "Sister Elders." hahaha!

The Spanish Elders told us that last week! I hope they cleared it up with him at church yesterday... 

but I thought it was hilarious!  

There are SO many people who think we are called Elders- and this took the cake! 

a peek at my week...

Monday: Labor Day

Tuesday: P-Day!

Every P-day we go to this cute little Laundromat where we have some time to write letters while our laundry is washed and dried! 

Wednesday: We had district meeting and I had an incredible A-HA moment! 

As missionaries, we invite people to make commitments and keep them. 

We promise them blessings for every commitment. 

Then we help them make those changes in their lives by following-up and providing them with the love 

and the encouragement they need! 

We also have certain commitments-- and when we keep them...our Heavenly Father can then grant those blessings to us! 

With every commitment there is a promised blessing. Look for them in the scriptures... you can obtain those blessings as you keep those commitments. 

Those blessings can be yours: "...should you choose to accept them!"

Pretty amazing, huh?! 

Thursday: Planning Day

This week was pretty exhausting- so I was praying to Heavenly Father for some comfort and advice. 

& my prayer was answered Thursday night! 

We went to dinner at Pang's house. She is Hmong and a returned missionary of about a year--- she served in Cambodia.

We were asking her about her mission and then out of the blue she said, "Once I hit my 6th month mark I was so tired. I didn't know how I was going to do it.. but I prayed like I had never prayed before and once I hit 9 months, I was on a roll!"

I really needed to hear that. 

*Pang is moving to Provo for school in a week! (So I gave her our information! She is the sweetest!!) 

She has an amazing conversion story. Her father died and in Hmong culture, they believe you will never see them ever again. 

Pang later found the gospel and has a burning testimony of the Plan of Salvation!! 

Friday: We told our Hmong friend we would visit her at her family's store- just a quick hi and bye. 

She was so grateful that we came to see her that she sent us away with 5 egg rolls and container of purple sticky rice! 

We then went to the pier to contact people by the beach. 

I had an idea: "Sister Milligan... we can't leave until we teach 5 lessons! 1 lesson = 1 egg roll. & if we get 4 before we have to leave, we can't eat the 5th one!"

Saturday: Teach, Teach Teach!! 

Sunday: We taught Jared and Kathryn at the Ponds home! (We teach them every Sunday there). 

Their daughter Ebony was just baptized in July.  

The power of God and The Atonement of Jesus Christ are just SO real. 

I see evidence of it manifested in the lives of these people everyday. 

& the changes they are making in their lives because of it are absolutley incredible. 

Have a GREAT week! 

Steadfast & Immovable in Christ!

Love, 

Sister Osmond

Ps. I forgot to tell you guys! On my way to Sheboygan I sat next to Sister Roylance (from Ogden, UT) in the transfer bus... I had met her at Holy Hill a couple weeks before- we ran into her when we went with the Farrenkopfs!! She goes on to tell me that her friend served his mission in Wales and he was one of the missionaries we took to Frankie and Benny's!!!! WHAT?! crazy! He emailed her and told her I was coming to the Wisconsin Milwaukee mission------ Things happen for a reason!!! Everyone's connected! She was so grateful that we did that for him! (Yup, I have an awesome family!!) 

These signs are everywhere in Sheboygan. Cute!