Hello Family!
Another week come and gone. I can hardly believe it.
So for starters- we found out about transfers this Wednesday. Sister Weaver and I are going to be staying here together another transfer in Wausau! YAY! That is what we thought was probably going to happen. But you can never be sure. So it is nice to know! :) But there was a sister training leader area that did close down so we are going to be picking up a couple of new sets of sisters that we go on exchanges with and stuff so that should be interesting. Gonna get to travel around the state a little more so that should be fun! Exhausting, but fun. :) The next transfer I believe is going to be on May 6.
This week was pretty cool.
Tuesday we got to meet with True. Do you remember her? She is the one that I talked about last week that we pulled over to help her with her car. Well, we set a baptismal date with her this week! We went over and taught her the Restoration and she loved it! There is still a lot that we have to teach her and a long way to go, but she has a day that she is working toward. She is a cute little Hmong lady and she is so kind to us! So hope that all goes well with her as we continue to teach her this week.
Wednesday we met a new investigator named Andrea. The Elders in our ward had been teaching her Dad, but he wasn't that interested. We decided to try stopping by his daughter's (Andrea's) house to see if we might have more luck with her. She let us right in and we were able to teach her the Restoration. Her boyfriend has decided to sit in on the lessons too! They loved the Restoration so much, that they wanted us to come back the very next day on Thursday to teach them the next lesson! So we set a baptismal date with her has well. Her boyfriend, Andres, is a little more hard-hearted and not as willing to work toward baptism. But we know that the Spirit will soften his heart. :)
It was cool though because our zone (like I talked about last week) set the goal for every area in our zone to set a new baptismal date before L. Tom Perry was going to come. OUR ZONE WAS ON FIRE THIS WEEK! We doubled our goal for baptismal dates. It was absolutely incredible. We were all working so hard to prepare to hear from an apostle. And then on Thursday, the day before we were going to be leaving for the conference, we got a call from our zone leaders to tell us that Elder Perry wasn't going to be coming anymore... Yeah... needless to say I was pretty disappointed. Still am a little bit... haha. But holy cow look at all the miracles that came from just the thought of an apostle coming to our mission! The conference still ended up being such a cool experience.
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| Some pictures from our mission conference |
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| Got to see Sister Osmond! |
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| Celebrating Gabby's year mark! |
It was about a 4 hour drive down to Milwaukee because we had to pick up another set of sisters in Gresham on the way. We didn't get to stay with anyone from West Allis. :( But we did get to stay with a family from Sister Weaver's old area in Waukesha! So that was pretty cool. We stayed the night there and then headed to the Milwaukee South Stake center in the morning. This is the church building where the West Allis ward meets! So many memories flooded through my mind as we walked into the building. Such a tender mercy to be able to be in Milwaukee again. I sure do miss that place. And I got to see so many of my missionary friends there. Biggest highlight though- seeing Sister Kelley! Made my whole life. Sure do miss that girl. She told me all about what has been going on back in Madison too so that was pretty cool. Praying that she gets transferred up here to Wausau next transfer... :)
So Elder Perry didn't end up coming.... Yeah that was a bummer. But Craig C. Christensen of the seventy still came. And he is pretty awesome! This is kind of sad though- he told us that the reason that Elder Perry wasn't able to come at the last minute is because President Monson and President Packer are both not doing well. Their health just been declining so much. And he needed to stay last minute to do some things to get ready for general conference coming up because he is the next in seniority.
Even though Elder Perry wasn't able to be there, it was still a very special meeting! Elder Christensen is also a very inspired man. He talked to us a lot about the Atonement and how we can learn about it has we read from the Book of Mormon. I thought that was interesting because that is something that President Cutler has been talking to us about that a lot lately. So I guess they both received the same revelation that that is what we needed to hear! Elder Christensen also talked a lot about humility. I thought that was interesting because the question that I took to this meeting was, "How can I be more humble." I thought this was interesting- he said, "Humility is knowing who you are and at the same time knowing who God is." Kind of makes you think doesn't it. I think sometimes we think that if we are humble that we need to think very low of ourselves. That isn't true! Humility should make us confident! But we just need to make sure that we are equally confident in the Lord as we are in ourselves. It is really hard to find that balance. But then I think about how we have a perfect example to look to- The Savior. Boy was he humble. He did exactly what the Father asked him to do, but he was also confident in his testimony and in the things that he knew.
So this week was a pretty special one! I think that Sister Cutler said she was going to be posting a picture of the whole mission that we took together on the mission blog soon. (There should also be some pictures there from the last zone conference here in Wausau and from my first MLC!)
So grateful for the experiences that I have been having out here. I miss you all everyday. But I cherish every moment that I get to spend here.
Love you all so much! Have an awesome week!
Love,
Sister King
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