Boy oh boy this week has seriously flown by!
This week has definitely been full of ups and downs... like a lot of both.
Monday was a really good day! We had this really fun Potluck dinner with our YSA ward. So much fun!
On
Tuesday we had Zone training meeting (ZTM) and that was super awesome.
Our zone is fantastic, just wanna be like all of them! We also went to
this really good steak house for lunch to celebrate Elder Wimber's
birthday. That was so much fun! That day we pretty much just went around
contacting this list of less actives that our Bishop gave us. We have
about 350 member in our YSA ward and about 50 of them show up on
Sunday... so that list is pretty dang long. But we get to talk to a
bunch of young adults which is still really fun.
This night was also
super awesome because we had a great lesson with our investigator. He
pretty much knows that the church is true and that it will bless him and
his family but he has a hard time keeping commitments. His daughter
just got her mission call though and I think that since he has seen that
he is getting a little more motivated to keep his commitments. He told
us that he was going to read and pray every day! We meet with him
next week so we'll see how that goes.
We also met with our other
investigator (the one that bore her testimony in church) and she is
progressing so fast! We put her on date for April 16! So that was
probably the spiritual high for this week. She is just so ready to hear
the gospel and has so many questions!
Wednesday is always one
of my favorite days because who doesn't love waffle Wednesday?!? Every
Wednesday we get to make waffles for the institute students and just
talk with them. We get to play them in ping pong and pool and stuff so
that's way fun. It's really awesome because it's so casual so nonmembers
come quite frequently. We met this super awesome guy from Kenya and he
agreed to take the lessons. Our dinner on Wednesday was great. We ate
with this cute family in the ward. They have had such a hard life and
they just told us like their whole story. They had a girl with special
needs that passed away 6 years ago... that hit me really hard because of
the special place in my heart for kids with disabilities. But we left
them with a message that I hope helped them: The new Mormon message that
the church came out with. If you haven't seen it go watch it right now
and put it all over facebook and just share it with everyone. EVERYONE
deserves to know that they can be with their family again! So just go
and share it please!
Thursday was pretty great as well (CELEBRATED MY 1 MONTH MARK) so crazy, I've been out for a month, that went by so fast!!!
We
had a bunch of people to teach, some of them fell through but that's
just the life of a missionary. We did get a few referrals which is
always great. But we got to go to 2 Relief Society parties for the March
17th party. Lots and lots of food, but also I really liked the program.
They talked about how important Relief Society is and it really is so
great! I hear so many stories from mothers that just talked about how
big of an influence their Relief Society was. And it's always just these
little things. So everyone just try to find someone that might need a
high five as you walk by, the little things like that can change
someone's day completely.
Ha Friday was not our best day...
but we survived. We got to go out to lunch with a bunch of high priests
in our family ward. Ha they all have such fun stories to listen to, so
that was pretty fun.
Not so fun fact of the week: Canada has
normal cops AND photo cops. Seriously the worst. So after our lunch we
got a call from the mission office (you never want to receive a call
from the mission office)... Sister Blake got a ticket. She was so sad.
There are also these school zones that are the worst and they always put
photocops there to zing people. Dumb right? Anyway, so I am now the
designated driver. Ha I still have no idea where anything is around here
so this should be pretty interesting.
Saturday was awesome!
We went to church with our friends from the Seventh Day Adventist
church. It was really interesting to see how things were done there. It
was pretty weird, not gonna lie. They like had this karaoke moment during
the service. Ha I don't even know how to describe it. The one thing
that I did notice was that our churches actually teach very similar
things, but the spirit was not there. It made me so grateful that we
have the spirit at our church meetings, you don't understand how strong
the spirit is at church until you go to a church that the spirit just
isn't there. For the rest of the day we just contacted some more people
from our list. The day went by pretty fast.
SUNDAY! Oh man I
was so glad to go to church. Just being able to take the sacrament every
week is the biggest blessing. Don't take that for granted! It is
awesome! Our investigators came to church and that always makes my day.
All
in all this week has been kinda crazy, but the church is still true!!
Hope you all have a fantastic week! Please share that message, it helps
us missionaries out so much because we don't have social media to put it
on.
Love you all,
Sister King
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