Sister Dakota Bartsch: Lady at the store: "Girl, what? I never woulda guessed you were from the North! You have such an accent!"

Sister Fonua and Sister Pitt 💕

Yall, that really happened and I looked at the lady like 😶
What has happened to me.

Anyways! I hope yall have had a great week! Everyone here seems so stressed about Thanksgiving coming up, I hope we can all take a deep breath and enjoy it. Don't let the hustle of company coming, fixing the perfect turkey, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Grey Thursday, or whatever else the world does comes up with dull your happiness :) Alma says it best:
"Now my brethren, we see that God is mindful of every people, whatsoever land they may be in; yea, he numbereth his people, and his bowels of mercy are over all the earth. Now this is my joy, and my great thanksgiving; yea, and I will give thanks unto my God forever. Amen." (Alma 26:37)

Two of my daughters at mini zone conference!

So for the passed few weeks we have been working with the Elders to get a Stop Smoking Workshop going. (Missionaries teach a 15 step workshop to help people quit smoking in 7 days. It's guaranteed, you should tell your friends) We prepared a really short presentation to show people what it was all about, then they could sign up and we would come to their home and teach them the 15 steps! We solicited this thing everywhere. Between the four of us, we met with most of the families in the ward and left them with flyers to hand out. We even walked up to smokers and invited them to come. One of them said "wow, this is my first pack in a month and a half." (gotcha) And guess what? No one came. Not a single smoker!
BUT WAIT. Earlier that day a supermom in the ward called us and said that she had left messages with the two smoker friends she had. And one of them called her back so excited and said "I about fell out of my chair when I got your message! I have been praying for something like this for three years!" She couldn't come to the workshop that evening, but we are thrilled to help her out. Miracle.

Things are going great here, I am so happy! I thank you all for supporting me as I finish these last weeks strong!

Have a blessed week! Sister Bartsch loves you!