Milked a cow...NBD

That cow-- I milked it.

Hey!

Okay so I guess not a whole lot happened this week... well actually a ton happened. We were going nonstop the entire week and yet it flew by and I can't entirely remember what we did.

Oh ya, I milked a cow this week. So I can cross that off the ole bucket list. Also, I'm okay with not ever doing it again.

This week we had to drive up to Calgary for MLC. The drive up there was the worst. Sitting in a car for two and half hours is the last thing I want to do as a missionary. But it was fun to be up in Calgary for the day. MLC is always good. We just talked a lot about the changes in the schedule. Afterwards, President and Sister Miles let Sister Sims and I come to the mission home before we headed back to Taber. Then they just invited us to stay for dinner. So that was a blast! I sure do love the Miles. Plus I got to see Sister Taylor-- so that was pretty chill.

My girl Sister Taylor :) ps. she gave a fabulous training at MLC!

 Dinner with P. Miles and S. Miles-- love them to death. 

On Thursday we got to go to the Cardston Temple! It was such a good day, I just love being in the Lord's house. The Cardston temple is pretty unique looking. Both on the outside and in the inside. It was pretty cool. 

On Saturday night, a member put together this dinner out in the small town of Enchant with a bunch of part-member families and invited us to go too. It was at this little Chinese restaurant in the middle of nowhere. Lets just say that it wasn't the best food I've ever had. But we have so many potentials from that night! We are pumped. 

Last night we had a correlation meeting with our ward mission leader during the super bowl. First of all, I had no idea it was super bowl Sunday, weird. But we got there right at the end of the game and were having our meeting right during over time. Well, lets just say that our ward mission leader's son was a pretty big Pats fan. Lots of celebrating and yelling in the living room. Best correlation ever!

Still working with different investigators....

There was no snow two days ago. We woke up this morning to a foot. I can't wait until the next chinook... seriously the chinooks are pretty much the best thing ever.

Yesterday at church I was out in Vauxhall-- we have to do splits like every Sunday cause or Vauxhall ward is at 10 and the Taber ward is at 9... ha some lady got up and bore her testimony about her "Vauxhall experience" and it's so true. That really is the only way to describe Vauxhall, but I love it out there.

Quote of the week: "I'll tell ya. Collectively, as a mission, I think we could eat a few less burritos." -President Miles. Yep. Pres called the mission fat... ha

a more spiritual quote of the week: "The Lord knows who we really are, what we really think, what we really do, and who we really are becoming." -Elder Bednar

Scripture of the week: Moroni 8:3-- I am mindful of you always in my prayers, continually praying unto God the Father in the name of his Holy Child, Jesus, that he, through his infinite goodness and grace, will keep you through the endurance of faith on his name to the end.

Love you all and hope that you have a great week. Oh and special shoutout to Mama and Papa King-- happy anniversary :) (or in the words of dad-- anni-very-sorry)

Sister King

Cardston temple

again

.... had a hard time keeping my eyes open. It was a real struggle.

I too decide to ski to school... cause why not?!

Bro. Anderson made us these cute maple leaves with our name on them

Sister Simsy

I heard this thing that if you lick a gum rapper and put in on your forehead for a while it'll burn...
so we tried it during weekly planning this week. It works.

Face mask from Lacizzle and Lyndizzle

For Christmas Sister Taylor's mom sent me some Korean face masks--
I'm thinking of moving to Korea now. Sister Sims was a monkey and I was a fox.

So Lacy and Lyndie are the cutest and sent me a package this week, it included my favorites...
Peanut butter M&Ms and some face masks.

6 MONTHS.....

Wow, so it's already Monday again and I'm starting to get super worried cause the time is going by wayyyyy too fast!! 

I hit my 6 month mark on Wednesday, so to celebrate we were able to go to the temple. The Parkinsons, serving a couples mission, took us. That was really fun! It had been a while since both me and Sister Burnside had been to the temple so that was a really fun experience!

Temple day!!

I think that Elder and Sister Parkinson beat our jumping picture :)

On Monday we were able to meet with our recent convert. He has been working in Saskatchewan for a while so we hadn't seen him for a bit. It was great to see him and see how well he is! He's gone more than 70 days sober from everything! That is a major accomplishment and he wanted me to share with everyone that he is doing so well!  

Thursday was Sister Burnside's 3 month mark! How neat is that? Ha I feel like she just got here... my baby is growing up! 

Saying bye to Brad-- doing the "brad pose"

The teaching this week was a little slow. Summer is winding down so everyone and their dog is busy... which means we get to be creative with our time and try to find some people to teach! We've been going through our area book a TON lately and we always wish that we were teaching more lessons but I think that we did pretty good with our time. 

We were able to have a meeting with our Stake President, President and Sister Miles and our district. So that was really fun! We talked a lot about what we can be doing with the members to get them more involved and stuff, super great! Plus it's always good to be able to see President and Sister Miles. That night we had a fun relief society activity. It was really fun because I got to talk to a lot of the people that I've really grown close with over the past couple months... I'll probably be leaving Lethbridge in a week and a half so it was good to see all of them.

We were able to go to the Francis's for supper on Friday-- we made chimi-changas. So that was super fun. They really are too good to us.

This is Wendy!

On the way home the Parkinson's took us to this crazy little beach in the middle of nowhere!!!
Don't worry, we didn't touch the water or anything!!

Crazy moment of the week. We got a referral from this guy in Cardston to go and visit one of his friends who has been struggling a lot lately and is trying to find meaning in her life-- SCORE (that's every missionary's dream) so we go and see her and she happens to live in like THE sketchiest place I have ever seen! Smelled like drugs, beer and anything else that you can think of. So we were super scared to go in, but the girl came to the door and she is just adorable! She had gotten into a lot of bad things but she was super cute and loved meeting with us. We're meeting with her again next week-- this time probably somewhere else. But we made it out alive and it was a neat experience!

The Thompsons are doing great! Their health is going down hill a little bit so if you could keep them in your prayers that would be great! But they are just loving everything church related! It's great! Alex is doing wonderful as well! All my peeps here in Lethbridge are doing great!

We're teaching a little girl and she is so close to committing! So that is exciting!

Anyway, the work is going great and I'm just very grateful for the time that I have had in Lethbridge. Hoping that I can stay just one more transfer here but I think my time is coming to a close... but it's just that much more exciting to see where the Lord needs me next!

quote of the week: "being distinct and different from the world will draw some criticism, but we must anchor ourselves to eternal principles and testify of them, no matter the world's response." -Neil F. Marriott

Scripture of the week: Hebrews 12:1- Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us.

Love you all!

peace out (kip voice)

Sista King

Al-birth-a (Sister Blake's birthday)

Family!! Hello how are you! It feels like forever since I've been able to talk to you, this week has gone by so fast but has been jam packed!

Monday was just it's usual fun day- the weather is very similar to Provo in the sense that it is hecka bipolar! So Monday the weather was icky at the beginning of the day, got really nice then ended icky again. But for FHE we went out to Raymond and got to play 3 legged soccer with the ward. Okay that was super intense and hilarious! I was partnered with Sister Palmer and the first play of the game a member of the bishopric and his wife and then me and Sister Palmer all went after the ball... ha they completely took us out and we were tied together so none of us could get up. Ha so funny! We were just laying there on the ground for like 15 seconds waiting for them to get off of us So ya, that was hilarious!

Tuesday was great! We had an awesome district meeting. I just love training meetings! The sad part of the day was that we got another bike and so we went on our bikes for the day... and lets just say we were going up a curb and Sister Blake couldn't quite handle it. Total face plant on the bike! Luckily she didn't brake anything and she just has a gnarly bruise on her knee. Ha so far our bike experience hasn't really gone as planned. First a bike gets stolen then Sister Blake turfs it...

 

Wednesday was great! We stopped by a few former investigators and some Elder's in our zone gave us this great referral for a lady named Holly. She is in the hospital with failing kidneys and her roommate in the hospital went to say his prayers before he went to bed and that just started a whole conversation about why he did that and it sparked an interest for her. So we've gone and met with her twice this week and she loves everything! She literally just absorbs everything we've told her so far! It's so fun to introduce people to truths about our gospel because there is so much hope in the message that we share and it makes her so excited! 

THURSDAY WAS THE BEST DAY OF MY ENTIRE LIFE!! We got to go to the Cardston temple for zone conference. The whole southern part of our mission (like 100 missionaries) all met at the temple and we went through and did a session together. To have that many missionaries in the temple at once was a once in a lifetime opportunity. The spirit was the strongest that I have ever felt in my life! When we were all in the Celestial Room together... words can't even describe how happy I was. Such a special spirit. 

When we walked out of the temple it was a complete blizzard outside!! What?!? That was funny, it had snowed the entire time we were in the temple and everything was covered in snow. We went to the church across from the temple and had lunch then we had a discussion on the Atonement. For the past couple weeks our mission has been reading and studying conference talks about the Atonement, that was fun and there was as special spirit there too. Then we had testimony meeting. I wish that we could have been there the entire day! 

Friday was same ol same ol. Weekly planning and stuff. We did meet with this less active house of returned missionaries. That is so sad to listen to these returned missionaries who knew that the gospel was true and have now turned Atheist. So so sad! But we had dinner with the cutest couple in our ward, so that helped us feel a little better.

Saturday was awesome! We met with our investigator Alex-- who is doing fabulous by the way. He told this super cute story. So he went to breakfast with his mom and he told her that he had been taking the lessons from us and that he wanted to be baptized, all of a sudden she just started bawling. She said that she hadn't prayed in years and this past week she was overwhelmed with a feeling that she should pray for her son and that he would find God. Boom, spirit! Isn't that so fun?! He's doing great and is still on date for June 4 :)

Ha so Saturday night was crazy! Sister Francis planned this surprise party for Sister Blake. So I was in charge of getting her there without giving anything away. Which is probably one of the hardest job in the entire world! Sister Blake loves to know everything and anything... so I was really proud of myself for getting her to the Francis's house without her suspecting anything. The party was like 30 minutes but it was way fun. The Francis's are literally too nice to us, I promise we don't deserve everything the do for us!

Sunday (Sister Blake's 20th bday)

This was a fun day! She got to open her birthday package in the morning then after our studies we ran over to this rest home and sang I feel my Savior's love in their sacrament meeting. The rest of the day was great! We taught gospel principles and got to have dinner at the Francis's (they really are too good to us). Then we got to end the day by going to this Syrian Refugee fireside. That was really cool! Canada brought in like 26,000 refugees and some of them are here in Lethbridge. It was very humbling to hear from them and the journey that they have had to go through. Anyway, Sunday was a great day and Sister Blake had a wonderful birthday! This week was great! Also, thanks to everyone that sent me a letter this week. Totally made my day :)

Lethbridge's version of Cafe Rio (Cafe Verde)... not as good

BLIZZARD AT THE CARDSTON TEMPLE!

Skyping!

Celebrating the birthday girl!

Party!

Dinner with the Francis'

3 legged soccer

Driving to Cardston 

Driving back from Cardston

Love you all so much!

Sister King :)