#teamjacob

HELLOOOOOOO!!!!!

Hope that you are had a super Easter. I know that I did-- just full of fun things and remembering the Savior and the Resurrection, so what could be better? Plus I finished the Book of Mormon yesterday-- that was probably one of the coolest things I've done so far. Started it on Christmas and finished on Easter. SUPER  COOL. And guess what... it's still true!!

 Some Easter presents from our YSA

Hey look. It's a big pig... 

 Found this street while out tracting. pretty cool hey?

Snow. It's supposed to be spring, but there's snow.

 Ha so our gate to get into our apartment is super ghetto and it takes us about 5 minutes to open it.

 Ceri Edwards in our ward gave us this HUGE easter basket.

It's ma buddy Zeus-- the people that live above us own him and he's the cutest thing in the world!

Ha our members gave us organic chocolate.... solid.

Marshall's "man getting eaten by a shark" drawing

FINISHED THE BOM!!!!!

Anywayyyyy, this week was awesome! We were so busy! Met with a TON  of members this week and were sharing with them the #princeofpeace video. That's been so fun! Seen it like maybe 90 times and it still gets me every time. I just love that title for the Savior... Prince of Peace. And it's so true. He is the only source of true and lasting peace.

We had some bomb lessons with some of our investigators this week. Jacob is doing really well... we just have to take it real slow with him cause he loves all the super deep things but still has a hard time understanding the basics. Like that God loves him. And it's been super humbling for me to watch this cause I know that God and the Savior love me and that no matter what I do, no matter how many mistakes I make they are still going to love me regardless, and I have just known that my whole life. It hurts my heart to seem him struggle with that, cause there's so much peace that comes from just knowing that our Heavenly Father loves us. But the lessons that we had this past week were awesome. If you haven't seen the Mormon message-- Hope of God's Light, then go watch it ASAP. Literally my favorite. So we're definitely on #teamjacob

We also had a really good lesson with Sabrina. We taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ and that went really well! We talked lots about baptism and she is totally on board... we just have to pray about a date and get her to come out to church. Plus she's moving to Australia in May for 5 months... so that's another stumbling block. But I'm sure that the Lord will shed some light and we'll be able to know what we should do. I just love talking about baptism, cause literally you can just say "why was Jesus Christ baptized?"... "to show the example for us".... ha "will you follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized?" Literally it's so easy. It just makes sense!

Ha so me and Sister Ho Ching did the relief society lesson yesterday and we literally had .3 seconds to prepare.... so we just talked about Easter and the #PrinceofPeace. Easiest lesson I've ever given, could talk about the Savior and the Atonement for ages. Also, during sacrament we sat with this cute family and their little boy Marshall sat next to me and holy smokes... It's never been so hard to keep from laughing in my entire life.... here's just a few quotes that I remember.

"Are you from India? Cause you look like an Indian."

"Gummy bears are a choking hazard" .... I should mention that he's 5

"Here I drew you a picture... it's a man getting eaten by a shark."

So that was just really fun.

Then in the YSA ward one of the speakers didn't show up so the Bishop was calling people from the audience to bear their testimony. He looked at Sister Ho Ching for a solid 10 seconds then called on me.... ha we think he forgot her name. But that's a-okay! I love getting called on the spot #perksofbeingamissionary

Our Easter was super awesome! The members are so good to us and it was just the best.

Also, I just found out that my investigator Na from Taber is on date for baptism!!! So that is pretty much the best thing of my entire life!!!

Ha sorry this email is all over the place.... but I'm just happy. 

The church is true. The book is blue. 

Scripture of the week: Moroni 7:48-- Wherefore, my beloved brethren, pray unto the Father with all the energy of heart, that ye may be filled with this love, which he hath bestowed upon all who are true followers of his son, Jesus Christ; that ye may become the sons of God; that when he shall appear we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is; that we may have this hope; that we may be purified even as he is pure.

and another one cause the scriptures are just so good. John 14:27-- Peace I leave with you; my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Quote of the week: "We must anchor ourselves to eternal principles and testify of them. No matter the world's response" --Neil F. Marriott

Love you all! Hope that you have a stellar week

-your home skillet biscuit... aka Sister King :)

2K17

Hello friends,

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Am I the only one that feels like 2016 just flew by? So weird! So happy for this upcoming year though, so many things to look forward to. I love that I get to start out the new year with just being a missionary. Best thing of my life.

Anywayyy, this week has been really good. I have loved the holidays but honestly ready to just get back into the normal swing of things. On Monday we were supposed to just hang out with members cause #boxingday so that was super fun. We went over to the Andersons. They are honestly just some of the best people in the entire world. Then we went and hung out with Don and Shawna Tanner. Ha we went to the church and played dodgeball. That was a party!

On Tuesday we found ourselves in Brooks with some of our sisters. We talked a lot about seeing miracles and then we challenged them and ourselves to pray for a miracle and then to text it to each other by the end of the day. So we were driving home from Brooks-- like a little more than an hour drive, and we decided that we should stop in Vauxhall. So we did. We drove around and were stopping by a couple potentials houses and a few less actives and while we were driving around we saw this lady like 3 times... and I have this little personal rule where if I see the same person twice I have to go and talk to them. I told Sister Taylor that and she pulls the car over and rolls down the window.... ha so that was cool. I started talking to this girl and said that we had seen her a couple times and that we felt like we should give her a Book of Mormon. She went on to say that she actually already had one and that when she is going through something hard she reads the Book of Mormon and finds a lot of comfort... WHAT?!?! So we got to talk about the Book of Mormon with her and she completely opened up to us and told us some hard things that she is going through, then she gave us her address and said that we could stop by. #MIRACLE!!! Seriously it was so cool! So we texted that to our sisters and they texted us with a miracle as well. They were out by their mailbox and a guy came up to them and said that he wanted them to teach him... #SERIOUSMIRACLES!!!! So that was pretty cool.

We did exchanges with some other sisters this week and that was super fun! Seriously there are just some amazing missionaries out here. I went with Sister Rumbolt, who is finishing up her training and I was just amazed by her. Seriously just learning so much from going on exchanges!

On Saturday we did some service and met with a couple old ladies and just talked with them. Again, President told us to spend Saturday and Sunday with members... so that's what we did.

It's been a really good couple of days for us. Lots of our investigators and people we are working with are coming back from holiday this week, so we're pretty pumped for that. Also, transfers are coming up this Thursday and we're just hoping that Sister Taylor can stay for another one, but we'll see what happens!

Anyway, love you lots and HAPPY NEW YEAR! About to make 2017 the best year of my life :)

Quote of the week: "It is the doctrine of Christ that allows us to access the spiritual power that will lift us from our current spiritual state to a state where we can become perfected like the Savior." -- Pres. Uchtdorf

So our mission started reading the Book of Mormon on Christmas and we're reading roughly 4.6 pages a day so that we can finish on Easter. We're going through and highlighting anything that refers to the doctrine of Christ: faith, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the holy ghost and enduring to the end. It's amazing how much is packed in there!!

Scripture of the week: John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

Love you all and have a great week!!

Sister King