2013-12-24 ... The Most Wonderful Time of the Year ... to be a Missionary!

I have to keep this week pretty short because we are getting picked up for a lunch meet thing with a member and her nonmember friend!  AND I GET TO CALL YOU TOMORROW!!

There are 4 USU Campus missionaries and 1 set of us Sisters.  All the other missionaries have "slowed down some" because "all their people left" but we have been as busy as ever!  Most of our investigators and less-actives have stayed in town AND we have been adding planning for the coming semester!  We are meeting with all of our Bishops this week (16) so they can know who we are and feel more comfortable talking with us about what they need :)

Wednesdays we have a Sister Missionary Scripture Study at the church building, and the last few weeks have not been successful but we texted the people we wanted to come.  Most of them didn't but people we didn't even ask came!!  We also set up appointments with some of those that did to visit them later this week.

One of the people we are visiting with, LIKE A MIRACLE TURN AROUND.  We will discuss this in our phone call but he felt the Spirit for the first time and is loving meeting with us!!

Yesterday we had a District Meeting about how to contact and find people.  Then yesterday we were walking home from a great lesson and Sister Hadden  (Sister Lolofie went on exchanges .. OH YEA I GOT A NEW COMPANION HAHA) said we should go talk to them.  I didn't want to cause how weird is that?  They were still getting out of the car, and we had passed them!  Anyway good thing we turned around.  It was a guy apartment so we couldn't go in without another sister with us, but he had read the Book of Mormon aand .......... WAS CHINESE!!  He's from Shanghai and we talked in Chinese!  We tried to visit him later because we were going to find a girl to come with us, but no one was available!  So we still walked to his house but he magically was gone. He left a note for us that he went to the hospital with his friend.  But to come back next week once he's back from New York.

SO EXCITING!

I lost my nametag :(  I still have 1 in English and I'm ordering another but that was the major trauma of this week.

We had transfers this last Wednesday and we adopted Sister Lolofie.  She's from Oklahoma!  I have already learned so much from her!!  We have a new set up for lessons, and we started looking at how we can be most effecitve to ALL OF OUR WARDS

Ugh im so sorry this week's email is so short.  But like I said it's busy time for us!!  :)

This week I have really learned that my mission is about doing all that I CAN to serve the people I'm here for.  I have had to like kind of not think about it being Christmas in the sense that I will be with my family, cause I can't.  If I think about how it's a time for everyone to be together then I'm not focusing on the Savior as much as I could be.  So instead I have been reading my scriptures so much about His birth, and why He came, and what He did for me and all of us!  It's made it really special.

And the fact that I have been able to open presents EVERY DAY THIS MONTH (!!!!!) way fun :)

I LOVE YOU ALL SO SO SO MUCH

Love for always and eternity,

Sister King

Juju Jimmie

Wang JM

Mosiah 4, Jacob 4