Feels Like I Was Just Talking to You Guys.... Oh Wait, I Was!

Well hey there. Feels like I was just talking to you guys... oh wait, I was. Weird.

But really that was like the best thing of my entire life, you guys are so great!

Since I kinda told you what's been up this probably won't be the best email in the world, but we'll give it a shot anyway.

We've seen TONS of miracles lately, like it's pretty ridiculous. So that friend that Qing brought to church last week, we met with him and he's this super sweet, shy, Chinese guy. We talked with him for a bit about how we just want to help him get closer to Christ, we asked him if that's something that he wanted. He paused for like 30 seconds and was just thinking, then he told us that the way that we were talking-- how we could bear our testimony and say that we know that God loves us and that He sent his son, and how we know that Christ loves us-- he just wants to be able to say that for himself. YAY! He wants a testimony so badly and we're hoping that we can help him on his way to do that. He's super excited to meet with us again-- he even texted us later that night and said that he was so happy he met with us and can't wait to meet again. We're seeing him this Wednesday, so I'm thinking that should be a super awesome lesson.

Saying bye to my girl Sister Van Bloem

Nuff said

Stopped by a lemonade stand this week

We also picked up a family this week!!!! So we knocked on their door like 2 weeks ago and they told us to come back, ha obviously we did. Their names are Megan and Daniel, and they are just the best. They kind of opened up to us and told us some of the things that they had been going through and boy oh boy, they've gone through a TON! But they said that the only thing that got them through it was God and Jesus Christ. They are super interested in raising their 4 kids in a good church and they are looking for something different. SUPER AWESOME!!! They asked if we could meet with their whole family this week and teach the kids. So pumped for that. 

We had a super awesome meeting with Tuan this week as well. We had probably one of the best lessons we've ever had with him, ha and it was about tithing and fast offerings. Literally Tuan is like the best person in the world-- he's already been paying tithing for about 5 years. Super solid. He is pumped about his baptism this Saturday. I'm just so excited that he is finally going to be able to see the blessings of baptism... plus he wants to go to the temple super bad. So we're on our way there.

So ya, our people are doing well. Sabrina is killing it and really fitting right into the ward-- she had something with her family happen this week so if you could send some extra prayers her way that would be awesome. Same with Jacob, he's kinda having a tough time. But prayers get answered people.

Love you lots.

Scripture of the week: Alma 56:47-48  Now they never had fought, yet they did not fear death; and they did think more upon the liberty of their fathers than they did upon their lives; yea, they had been taught by their mothers, that if they did not doubt, God would deliver them. And they rehearsed unto me the words of their mothers, saying: We do not doubt our mothers knew it.

Quote of the week: "Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off and move forward." -Pres. Uchtdorf

Have a fabulous week!!

Sister King :)

Alburrrrrta

HELLO!!! Long time no see :)

It was seriously so nice to talk to you all yesterday, you all looked great (even you Bryan). The subject is because it has been so stinking hot here then we woke up this morning and it was freezing!

Anyway, this past week was just full of tender mercies. First of all the fires in the northern part of Alberta have been the talk of the town. Fort Mcmurray is almost completely burned to the ground and everyone has been evacuated. There haven't been any fatalities that I have heard of yet, but yesterday the whole province of Alberta did a fast for the weather to help put the fires out... and we woke up this morning and it was pouring rain. Fasting works!!

Monday was great as usual. We had dinner with a bunch of widows in our ward-- they absolutely love us! They're all adorable! We then went to FHE with this older couple in our ward. He has been in charge of making all these videos for the church so he showed us this interview of the first Sister Missionaries to go into Bulgaria. That was super cool and it made me so grateful that I am here in Canada! 

Tuesday we had ZTM and that was great. Our zone leader, Elder Henry, came up with this cool idea to help get the members more involved in missionary work. So we are trying to have members get less actives and nonmembers to help them fulfill their callings-- cool right! It's so easy to get someone to help, a lot easier than getting them to take the discussions with the missionaries. So that is what you all should try to do! Get people more involved because everyone is willing to serve! We also had a lesson with our investigator, Rachel Li.  She is so cute and so ready to be baptized it's ridiculous! Her mother won't let her be baptized so we have been praying for her mother's heart to be softened so that she can take those steps to baptism and  hopefully, something will happen there! We ended the day by just contacting some people on our ward list.

Wednesday was fun because we had cleaning inspections. Ha we have new people that do it and they are so nice so it was fun to get to know them. They even had me install the new detector and they said that they were super impressed with me and Sister Blake because we were doing things that not even the Elders could do! So funny! We tried to have a lesson with Vanessa but she hasn't been feeling too good so we had to reschedule. I also got a blessing and it was one of the neatest experiences of my life. I had like 4 things that I had on my mind and boom.boom.boom.boom Elder Henry just hit all 4 of them right in a row. Yay for the priesthood and for the spirit! 

Thursday was great- we spent lots of the day with our weekly planning (ps I forgot how fair of skin I have and my legs turned into tomatoes... but only the front of them so I have a pretty funny looking tan line now). We started exchanges this day and so Sister Brown came with me here and Sister Blake went to Taber with Sister Larsen.

Friday was so much fun! It was fun yet also stressful to be in charge of the area. But we ended up having a pretty solid day. We met with Fred Tam, a less active, and read with him some of the Book of Mormon. He's so funny! We stopped by a few former investigators and even picked up a potential investigator. Her name is Margaret and she is from Hungary! So cool! We met her just out and about and we saw her gardening and went to her. That's how lots of the "street contacting" goes here. We also had a lesson with Vanessa and that went over really well! She is starting to really progress-- hopefully her health gets better so that we can pick a date for her to be baptized. We ended the day by meeting with a less active in our ward. Okay she is the funniest and most positive person I have ever met! Like the cutest! She gets happy for literally everything. I remember her saying "God loves us so he gave us bubbles!" Ha as weird as that sounds it is so true! If we look for little things like that we will see that literally everything that we have cones from God! 

Saturday was probs my favorite day! We made some scotcheroos for the cool moms that are here and we had a lesson with our investigator Alex and his less active roommate, Jordan. That lesson went so well! Alex is now on date for June 4! So we're really excited about that! It's crazy how someone bearing a sincere and simple testimony can bring the spirit to fill the entire room. That's how the lesson was... I can't even describe it, it was so cool! Later that day we picked up 2 new investigators! They are both from Nigeria!  We're going to meet with them next week so hopefully that will be good!

Sunday was the best!! Our sacrament meeting was so  good! Emily Wallace and her husband spoke in our home ward-- they are the cutest couple and we love them!  They spoke about their mothers and it was such a sweet meeting. It made me very anxious to skype the fam! Then we ran over to YSA and ha no one was there that could play the piano so I had to (which was why I was late to the Skype call) but anyway, MAN I HAVE THE BEST FAMILY IN THE WORLD!!! I really lucked out! It was so good to be able to talk to you guys and hopefully you have seen a difference in me. 

It's hard to convey over skype but I really am becoming a better version of myself-- all through the Atonement! The Atonement is so cool! We had dinner yesterday with the Nickels. Ha for some reason they had us over and it was right during their skype call with their son in Costa Rica... we felt kinda like we were imposing but Sister Nickel loved having us there and we all talked to him. We then went to see this old lady in a rest home.  I'll have to send a picture of her sometime because she is adorable! We come sing her songs and yesterday this guy came in and said that his dad wanted us to sing to him too, so we did! Songs are such a great way to bring the spirit. We decided that we were going to go back and sing to a bunch of the residents there sometime.

Overall the week was fantastic!! Hopefully this week will be just as good! I love you all and I pray for you every day! I definitely feel all your prayers as well. Things are really happening here in Lethbridge!

Love,

Sister King

Mother's day skype!

We got to spend about an hour skyping with our Ashley!  It was great!  We had a wonderful visit and we feel so good about the work she is doing!  She has a great attitude and giving it her all!

Ashley skyped us from the Francis family's home.  Jan Francis sent these pictures to us!

We got to "meet" Sister Blake!