BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE HAPPY BIRTHDAY PUTT!! :) Love you!!!!!!!! <3
This last week has been so much fun, loads has happened! Today we found out at breakfast about Transfers (happening tomorrow). I ... am ..... STAYING! I am staying with Sister Hadden too :) Sister Wagner went home on Sunday, her mission was over! Both of us are getting a new trainer and companion named Sister Lolofie. We are meeting her tomorrow, which is Transfer Day.
Generally this week was actually pretty
tough. Our appointments or rides to appointments or people that were
coming with us just seemed to ALL FALL THROUGH. Which made it hard to
stay like positive and up beat, plus our companion was leaving us!
Loads of things were rescheduled for this week and so far this week has
been much better :) Last week was Finals at USU, so I understand that
things were bound to fall through but yea. It wasn't easy.
We had a REALLY COOL Family Home Evening, where we
learned that since we are missionaries who carry the name of Jesus
Christ on our badges we are special. Because we are sent by him we can
do things in His name, for Him. Way cool because I never thought I
would have a chance like that since I don't have the Priesthood, but
remember Rae? She's the Chinese girl we are teaching, we had a lesson
with her and she told us that she really wants to be baptized here in
the US so we can support her BUT that she won't do it without the
approval of her Grandmother. So I promised her that if she started
reading the Book of Mormon and praying again (because she had stopped)
that when she called her Grandmother, the conversation would go well and
she would approve of her being baptized.
I taught my first real, in Chinese lesson this week
to a man from China named Henry. He brought his family from Beijing and
has been taking the lessons from missionaries forever, he's an
eternigator haha. But that lesson went well, he understands everything
and I think has a testimony in it (?) but he won't keep the Word of
Wisdom around other people. He works so he says he HAS to drink at work
things, and that he HAS to drink tea with his in-laws and HAS to smoke
around people bla bla bla. It's so weird because he believes that
Joseph Smith was a Prophet but doesn't want to keep the Word of Wisdom.
What's up with that?????? It was really embarrassing though, because
mid-lesson my Chinese ability went out the window. Maybe that was the
Holy Ghost stopping my ability to speak, because I got a little
frustrated that he wouldn't connect the two: Prophet, and Commandment.
The work is really fun here! I never thought I
would love Member Visits as much as I do! We have the opprotunity to
meet some of the coolest people. The only thing that is hard for me is
that we have 16 wards of awesome people! I barely can meet everyone
once, let alone remember!!
COOLEST THING ABOUT THIS WEEK: WE HAD A BAPTISM!!
The Sisters had been working with our Investigator Kris before I got to
Logan but it was still awesome seeing someone that I taught make the
decision to be baptized! It really was beautiful, at the end he got up
and bore his testimony and ugh my heart was so touched!! He is the
bomb! What is sad is that after he made the choice to be baptized some
of his friends are "unfriending him", like REALLY? He is the funniest
person ever, and he is such a nice guy!! Kris is the best :) He took
us out to dinner Friday
night before his baptism and it was so fun to be able to spend time
with him! He really is the funniest guy, I wish you all could meet him!
He only shops at Nordstrom. And he's amazing :)
I am really liking teaching members! Oh we ran into
some people after teaching/talking with a less active and they rocked!
Dennis used to be a bishop, and the guy we met first was Lance. Lance
was working on his truck when we were walking by, and we were commenting
to each other how nice the weather was because of the sun and he chimed
in! We stopped and said Hi and asked how his day was going. Sister
Hadden asked if there was anything we could do for him, he said no
thanks though.
JENISE SENT AN AMAZING CHRISTMAS PACKAGE! I love
the tree thanks CAMEO :) It looks so great in our apartment! I was
able to beg for decorations for the rest of our house and this really
nice Mom from our YSA ward brought us a ton of stuff she "wasn't using"
(I'm pretty sure she got it from the Dollar Store .. which makes me love
it even more!!) It is so nice to be able to come home to Christmas in
our home :) It makes the day even better. Jenise sent an advent
package, so after we plan each day I get to open a present and it's so
fun! Sometimes I'm impatient and open it in the morning and hide it so I
get to 'open' it twice haha
Oh so let me explain the Christmas Program :) On Saturday
we were asked by one of the wards a companionship in our Zone covers to
be the choir. They read the story of Christ's birth and in between we
sang songs that went along with what was happening. After the choir
part there was a huge party in the gym. We had tomales and hot
chocolate! Kris came to the fireside and Rae was there too! It was way
fun to have them there and to be together as missionaries!
Keilani is just the cutest! She is someone who went
less active in the Church but realized something was missing so she got
in contact with us! And her lessons are so fun!!! She has such a
strong testimony already and what is so cool is that I can see it
getting stronger in the way she is acting. Last lesson we didn't teach
what we planned but we answered some of her HUGE questions. The Spirit
was so strong in that lesson as we shared like experiences and
scriptures. I loved it!
What is so exciting is that I am in a place where I
have found out which things work well and which don't. Sister Hadden
and I worked REALLY HARD on Saturday
when we did Weekly Planning to prayerfully think about what things we
liked about what we were doign and what thigns we didn't. We set goals
for our new way of getting stuff done, and so far (4 days) IT IS GOING
SO WELL! We are meeting and finding new people we wouldn't have before,
we are looking at the things we do and making them into teaching
experiences, and making it fun!! We went looking at the millions of
referrals we have but all were gone for the break, but we were actually
able to make time for it (which we couldn't before).
Wow this email is pretty broad, but I am loving
being a missionary. My testimony is like gigantic now and it is amazing
how close I feel to the Holy Ghost. Like there are times when we are
doing something that could be better, and I can feel it leave partially
and I know that's when we HAVE TO CHANGE! I really love my companion,
she is making me a much better missionary! The Atonement makes such a
strong impact on people's lives, it is such a blessing to be able to
witness that here on my mission!
Facebook is used only for Missionary work. So
please tell all of our relatives that I can NOT casually hangout and
chat. I'd love to!! Hello I miss my family like crazy, but I really do
need your help to keep that temptation away. I want you to post
pictures though!! No one sends me any :( So I am going through
withdrawals and forgetting your beautiful faces!!
"Remember the season and echo the reason for His miraculous birth" (PLEASE ALL WATCH THIS: http://www.lds.org/
Love for always,
Sister King
Wang Jiemei
Juju jimmy
2 Nephi 33:1
D&C 51:16-17 (thoughts on my reassignment :) )
Wow, look at our Hong Kong girl in all that snow!
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