#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 :)

Easter!

Hey family!



This week definitely had it's ups and downs, ha the ups were very up and the downs were very down...

Monday was crazy as usual. We met with this new investigator, Karen, and she is the sweetest! She was a referral from our Bishop (yay for member missionary work!) So that was pretty fun. That night for FHE we got to go play soccer and rugby with the YSA people. That was so much fun, yes I did play and yes I was wearing a dress. The weather here has been kinda psycho too... it was ridiculously cold on Monday night. But we endured for the sport.

Tuesday was one of those "down" days. We started the week with 3 investigators on date and for some reason they all wanted to drop us... so sad. We were cleaning our car and our really progressing investigator texted us and said that she was going to go back to her Catholic religion. Never have I ever been so sad! Then our other investigator decided that he couldn't decide between our religion and his E Free one... so he decided to take a break. Another blow... Then our other one on date we actually found out that she isn't in our area... so 3-0 real quick. That was probably one of the hardest things because they all have such strong testimonies and they were all really progressing towards baptism and I was super excited to be able to see them take that step, but I guess that's just the life of a missionary. 

But let me tell you, sometimes when you feel like God is closing doors, He is actually just opening doors that we couldn't even imagine could be opened. We went to our investigator that isn't technically in our area and she told us that she would prefer us to teach her. YAY, so we are in the process of getting that all worked out. Then when we got home we called the other 2 and they had apparently heard some things about our church that were not true whatsoever and it scared them away. Ha someone told our investigator, Kayla, that Mormons can't go to school dances.   Like what?!?  So we cleared up both of their questions and they agreed to continue working with us! So that was exciting.

Wednesday was just fantastic! We had Zone Conference out in Magrath (Sister Blake's old area) HOLY SMOKES! Zone Conferences are the bomb!  The day before we were feeling kinda crumby but we talked about the Atonement and trained on how we can simplify our teaching. IT WAS EXACTLY WHAT I NEEDED TO HERE! THE ATONEMENT IS SO REAL! President and Sister Miles are legitimately the best people on the face of the planet, seriously just love them. And having a testimony meeting with all the missionaries in our area was one of the best experiences of my life. Going to that definitely gave me that fire to just go out and teach everybody!

Thursday was pretty hard because me and Sister Blake have both been battling really bad colds that we're still trying to get over. But the work still goes on. We met with a bunch of less actives and did our first tracting. We tracted this whole apartment complex and that was really fun! I was surprised by how many people were willing to listen to what we have to say (this church must be true or something) but ya that was really fun!

Friday was just a really slow and long day. We had a bunch of appointments set up and they all bailed on us... that's dumb right? So that was really hard because we were both just still stoked from zone conference and we had nobody to teach. We went and just visited with some members and less actives. Later that night the STL's came over and we started our exchanges. I got to go with Sister Larsen out to Taber, it's like 35 minutes from our area.

ha the Andersons always take a "family pic" with any missionary that comes to their home

in action teaching a Mennonite family some primary songs

The sky goes on for miles!!!

Exchanges with Sister Larsen

Saturday was so much fun! We got to teach this super cute Mennonite family, and the cutest little old couple drove us there because it's kinda far from the area. Taber is just fantastic! Everyone is so friendly and it is so refreshing to look off into the distance and see nothing but fields and the sky for miles and miles! I do miss my mountains in Utah, but seeing nothing is pretty cool too. 

We knocked on some doors and met with some less actives there too. There are about 7500 people in Taber and they are all so stinking nice! I felt so welcome even though I was only there for the day. Plus later that night we got to watch Women's Conference! That was just the best thing, it was cool to have a meeting completely themed around service. HENRY B EYRING IS THE CUTEST! I just love that man, who wouldn't believe what he has to say?!? I loved to hear about love too, especially because I have learned to love the people of Lethbridge.  ha I don't know very many of them but I already just love them so much!

EASTER SUNDAY!!

Sunday was really fun! We had to go back and forth from each of our wards but we stayed mainly in our Family ward. I am so grateful for the chance that I had to be a missionary on Easter. I had a completely different mindset. I did understand the importance of the Atonement but it's just different when you're a missionary, I have such a greater appreciation for the Savior and what he did for us. I read a talk by James E Faust and he said something that was really intriguing. He just asked himself "I wonder how many drops of blood were shed for me". I have been focusing on making the Atonement and that just hit me real hard, it's so true. Christ did what he did because He loves every single one of us! 

We took our lunch break in the car and just took a nap...

We got to have Easter dinner with the Francis family. Ha they are the greatest! Sister Francis is like my mom away from my mom. She did a great job of making us feel like her own kids. It was just a fun night with them. We also got to go dye eggs with this cute little girl in our ward. Her name is Abby and she is only 10.   Ha plus I got to dye eggs for the first time in my life. Who knew that I would go clear out to Canada to dye eggs for the first time. But it was really fun!

That was a great way to end Easter Sunday.

I love you all and the church is true. I would challenge you all to read President Faust's talk on the Atonement and try to figure out what you can do to make the Atonement more personal.

Yes, we did indeed get matching pj's from walmart...

Have a fantastic week!

Sister King :)