Goodbye Madison!

Hello Family!

Well, another transfer has come and gone.  Crazy how time flies.  As it sounds like most of you already know, I found out that I am going to be transferred this week.  I have been really sad about it, but I trust that the Lord has good things in store for me.  So I just found out that I am going to be transferred to Wausau.  And I have been called to be a Sister Training Leader.  My new companion is going to be Sister Weaver.  She came out with me so if you look back at some of my MTC pictures then you can see who she is.  She is the absolute cutest so I am way excited to get to be companions with her.  I have heard so many amazing things about the Wausau area.  Sister Kelley just came from that zone and she raves about it.  Sister Newton also served there and that is all she would talk about when we were together.  

Bowling with the district last p-day!

One of my favorite recent converts here in Madison.  He is going to the temple for the first time later this month!

Also, guess what!  The Wausau sisters area has a car!  I am still learning about Wisconsin geography, but I do know that Wausau is North of here.  Which means more snow and more cold!  Yay!  I hear that the work has really been taking off there, so I am really excited to start meeting people and getting going!  So I will leave Wednesday morning to head to Wausau. 

But back to this week...  It was a little sad because I knew that a lot of the people that I was seeing was probably going to be my last time seeing them.  But it has made me realize what an amazing blessing all of these people have been in my life. 

Tuesday we had some more crazy snow storms.  I didn't think that there was even anymore snow in the atmosphere because all of it must have fallen on Sunday when church was cancelled.  But nope, we had even more on Tuesday.  We had district meeting and then when we went to catch the bus afterward, we ended up getting stuck at the bus station for an hour because all of the buses were running way behind because of the crazy amounts of snow.  And then once we got on our bus we were stuck on that bus for another hour because everything was moving so slowly and there were so many car accidents.  It was an adventure to say the least. 

But while we were stuck on the bus for so long, we were able to meet this kid named Darnell.  He is studying to become a pastor for his Unitarian church.  We were able to talk about the differences between our churches and he was very impressed with us for giving up a year and a half of our lives to teach people about Christ.  He wasn't extremely interested, but I know that we were supposed to run into him on the bus that day.

Wednesday we had a couple of appointments fall through.  It was kind of a bummer because they were people that we met on the bus that we thought were super solid.  But that is ok.  What is meant to happen will happen.  We got to have a lesson with Sarah though and we invited her boyfriend Vince to come so that we could teach both of them together!  So that was a fun.

Thursday we had a lesson with a recent convert named Shaun.  He is going to be going to the temple at the end of this month so we had a little temple prep lesson with him.  We also had a huge miracle on the bus!  So last week we ran into this woman named Marlene on the bus.  She had investigated the church back in 1999 and was going to be baptized, but then moved here to Madison and lost contact with the church.  So when we saw her we were able to get a little bit of her contact information.  But I think that maybe she hadn't paid the phone bill or something like that so we were not able to get in contact with her and we were so sad about it.  But on Thursday, we ran into her AGAIN but on a different bus!  It was seriously the biggest miracle.  She recognized us and told us that she was so sad that we hadn't been able to get ahold of her.  She also had been reading from the Book of Mormon that we gave her and she had lots of questions.  It was so incredible to see how the timing worked out perfectly to be able to get back in contact with her.  So now we will be able to start teaching her!

Friday we finally got to see Kendall again.  Her life has been kind of crazy lately and we haven't been able to see her for a long time.  Luckily things are going a lot better with her family.  Things have mellowed out a little bit and Kendall said that she has really been able to feel the companionship of the Holy Ghost is her life.  Also- Kendall got a calling this past Sunday to teach the 10 year old primary class!  So we are super excited about that,

Saturday the transfer text came and my name was on it...  I was super sad.  But it was also nice to know for sure so that I could start saying goodbye to people.  And I am running out of time sorrrrryyy...........

Sunday I actually spoke in church!  Brother Durtschi texted me on Friday night to ask if I would.  It was pretty stressful to be able to find time to put a couple of thoughts together, but we made it work.  I was actually grateful for the opportunity because I was able to tell everyone in the ward just how much I love and appreciate them.  I really have learned so much from this ward.  They are absolutely incredible. 

And pretty much have spent the rest of the time starting to pack and saying goodbye to people!

I love Madison with all my heart and it kills me to have to go.  But I think the thing that I am going to miss the very most is Sister Kelley.  She is one of the most Christlike people I have every met and she is an incredible missionary.  I prayed so hard to be able to have a good companion for the Christmas transfer, and boy was my prayer answered.  I learned a lot from Sister Kelley, but I think the biggest thing I learned from her was selflessness.  She is just so selfless!  She just has a way of making you feel loved and important and I hope that I can be more like her in that way. 

Geez.  I think one of the reasons that missions are so hard is because they are just one huge goodbye.  First to your family, then to all the people you know and love here.  It is so hard.  But it is absolutely incredible.

I miss Madison already!

Sister King

UNBELIEVABLE miracles this week!

Hello!!!

Ok you guys- UNBELIEVABLE miracles this week!

So on Tuesday our investigator Kendall sent us a text in the morning that said something along the lines of "How long until I can get baptized?"  I KNOW, RIGHT???  Sister Kelley and I were freaking out.  A week or two before Thanksgiving Sister Hammatt and I were teaching her and we invited her to be baptized on January 10.  A date that soon absolutely scared her half to death.  And then we weren't really able to meet with her because of all of the craziness with Thanksgiving.  We thought that we had screwed everything up and that she didn't want to be meeting with us anymore.  So when we got this text, we were super excited but also super confused. So she went on to tell us that she was really thinking and praying about it a lot.  

She was thinking a lot about a lesson that we had had with her on Faith and how faith is the opposite of fear.  She ultimately decided that her faith was being overshadowed by fear.  Putting all fear aside, she sincerely prayed to know if this is what she should do.  And she received an answer to her prayer!  She has decided that she wants to get baptized this Saturday!!  So basically this week was spent frantically running around and trying to get everything ready and make sure that we have taught her everything before then.  You guys, this is seriously the biggest miracle.  Our mission has been working so hard and praying so hard to meet our goal of 300 baptisms this year.  This is literally a miracle that the Lord has blessed us with.  Saturday is going to be such a great experience.  We are so excited!  Kendall is so amazing and her testimony is so strong.  

After we got this text, it was time to head to district meeting.  We talked about our experiences with finding and what has been working and what hasn't been.  We talked about having the faith to find.  Sister Kelley and I have been doing a lot of finding lately so it was nice to have a district meeting to help us with that.  Later that night, we were at the bus station and we had about 10 minutes until our bus came.  So Sister Kelley and I said a prayer and then walked up and down the bus station trying to find the one person that we felt that we should talk to before our bus came.  We both felt distinctly impressed to talk to this one woman sitting alone on a bench.  So we approached her and when we got there and tried to start talking to her, discovered that she didn't speak any English.  At first I was a little disappointed because we had both felt impressed that we should talk to her.  So we did our best with the limited Spanish that we both knew to try to talk to her.  It ended up going very well actually!  We testified of Jesus Christ and invited her to our Ward Christmas party and ended up getting her information.  I have no idea how on earth that happened since I don't know any Spanish.  But we gave her information to the Spanish Elders in our ward and she is now a new investigator for them!  We were totally supposed to talk to her that night.  Even though we weren't able to talk to her very much, the Lord allowed us to talk to her enough.  So that was a pretty cool miracle that happened.

On Wednesday we had to rearrange most of our plans to make sure that we had time for Kendall.  We need to be meeting with her just about everyday to make sure that she is taught everything by Saturday.  So we were able to show her the baptismal font and teach her about baptism and the gospel of Jesus Christ.  Kendall really likes the concept of repentance.  Except she hates the word "repentance."  That word does kind of have a negative connotation to it.  So instead of using the word repentance, we use the word "change."  Ultimately, that is what repentance is.  It is changing to become more like our Savior.  So that was a pretty cool lesson that we had. 

Thursday we had a really cool lesson with our new investigator named Ishmael.  He is the one that we met on the bus that showed up to church last week!  We taught him the Restoration and when we invited him to be baptized, he said that he really wants to be able to get to that point.  So that was really exciting.  We are excited to get to start working with him some more.  We also had another lesson with...  You guessed it!  Kendall!  We taught her about both the Word of Wisdom and Tithing.  She has already been living these commandments and she said that she has been able to tell a difference.  It is really cool to see people when they just start living the commandments and they start to see differences in their lives because of it.  Just another testament to me that the Lord will bless us to "prosper in the land" when we keep the commandments.  We also were able to have a lesson with Rachel about the Book of Mormon.  Rachel is still doing so well and her testimony is growing every day :)

Friday was pretty simple.  Volunteered at the local food pantry and then had a lesson with Kendall.  We taught her pretty much the rest of the commandments.

Saturday was St. Nick's Day!  I had never heard of it before, but people celebrate it here in Wisconsin.  Apparently December 6 is St. NIck's Day.  I don't know the reasoning or meaning behind it, but pretty much it means that you get a present from Santa on December 6.  Sister Hammatt sent me a St. Nick's Day package to open.  So that was really sweet of her.  
By the way, she e-mailed me today and all is going well back at the MTC!  :)  Saturday was also our Ward Christmas party  It ended up being a huge success!  We had a couple of different people that we met on the bus show up which was super cool.  And Ishmeal came.

Sunday was Kendall's baptismal interview and she passed with flying colors!  We got to have dinner at the Senior's house with all 8 of the missionaries in the ward and then stayed after to watch the Christmas devotional.  I LOVED the devotional.  How cool that we get to start off the Christmas season with that.  I loved that Sister Oscarson talked about how Christmas spirit is really just Christlike love.  That is why everyone is so happy at this time of year.

Us and the Allred's with their brand new baby.

I hope that you have all enjoyed starting to read the Book of Mormon.  Man, that's a good book.  I think my favorite thing from the reading this week was in 1 Nephi chapter 6.  I think it is verse 6 where Nephi talks about how there isn't anything on the plates that isn't of great worth.  That means that every little thing that we read in the Book of Mormon was put there for a reason and it is of great worth to us.  Book of Mormon reading should not be taken lightly! 

So overall, pretty crazy but awesome week.  We are going to be having a baptism this Saturday!!!  Please keep our investigators in your prayers.  Anyways, running out of time but I love you all!  Have a great week!

Love,

Sister King

Spring is Here!

The weather is finally warmer!  And by warmer, I mean about 40 degrees.  But it feels like summer to me so I am grateful for that! I seriously thought that warmer weather would never come and I would just feel cold for the rest of my life.  But it seems like we have almost made it!  Sometimes thinking about how I am going to have to survive another whole entire winter really scares me, but I try not to think about it and then I am fine!  :)

Tuesday- That was a fun day!  There is a cool family in our ward and they are apartment managers a few blocks away from us.  So we went over there to do service and help her clean some of the apartments.  It was way fun.  But the funnest part was that afterward, she took us to lunch at the restaurant that they own!  It was way yummy food and if I ever come back to Wisconsin I will have to go there!  Then we had district meeting. 

After district meeting, Sarah called us and was pretty upset.  A close friend had e-mailed her and told her that if she was baptized then they couldn't be friends anymore.  That absolutely broke my heart, and I think it broke hers too.  However, you would not even believe how strong she is.  She told us, "I have felt the Spirit and I can't deny it.  I know this church is true and I know that I need to be baptized."  What an amazing example of faith she is to me.  She has completely changed her life and left so many things behind to embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ and become a member of His church.  I think we all take for granted the fact that we are members of this church and that all (or most) of our friends and family support us.  At least I know I do.  Every single day we should be grateful for this gospel and how it blesses our lives.  We need to reach out to others and be a support for them.  Never forget how blessed you are to be a member of this church with a family that loves you and supports you in it.

Wednesday was exchanges!  I was nervous.  Not NEARLY as nervous as last time, but still nervous.  This time Sister Milligan came to West Allis with me.  She had served in West Allis before so that made me feel better.  She is from Sacramento, California and actually knew Sister Tanner before they came out here.  She is an amazing missionary and I learned a lot from her.  We had a lesson with our investigator.  The entire time we have been teaching him, we haven't been able to get him to pray.  But he finally prayed with us on Wednesday!  It was amazing and the Spirit was so strong!  Praying with our investigators is important because if they are praying with us, then we know that they are praying on their own too.  Plus prayer really invites the spirit and it helps them to have a spiritual experience.  So that was awesome.  Later that night our ward had their annual YW Pancake dinner!  The YW have this dinner every year to raise money for them to go to girls camp.  It was way cool.  I participated in the pancake eating contest and held my own for a while.  But I ended up losing to the second counselor in the bishopric.  Haha I love the West Allis ward!  It was such a fun night.  Afterward, we switched back from exchanges and it was so nice to have Sis Tanner back again.

Thursday- I really focused my studies on the Book of Mormon and  I read this talk from Elder Holland and you should stop what you are doing right now and listen to it.  https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2009/10/safety-for-the-soul?lang=eng

If there is one area of my testimony that has been strengthened since I have been on my mission, it is that the Book of Mormon is true.  I know that it is.  I have seen such a difference since I have been studying it so much!  I also have seen it make such a difference in people's lives here as they have started to read it.  It is such a blessing.  Heavenly Father loves us so much that He gave us this amazing book to help us strengthen our faith in Jesus Christ.  The Book of Mormon truly is the word of God.  If you haven't been good about reading it everyday, make the change now and become better!  Start reading it every single day and watch your life change.  Do it.  I know that the Book of Mormon is true!

Thursday was the birthday of a woman we are teaching!  We celebrated by going to Organ Pyper's Pizza with her and the Dominguez family.  It was so fun!  That is definitely another place that I want to go back and visit someday.  She celebrated her birthday on this day, and on April 11 she will get to celebrate being spiritually reborn!  YAY!!!!

Friday-  It was definitely a miracle day.  The night before we had planned for over an hour to try to make everything work out that we wanted to do the next day.  We had a lot that we wanted to get done and a lot that we felt we should do, but we had no idea how on earth it was going to all work out.  We had to plan out the bus schedules to be able to get everywhere we needed to go and it seemed nearly impossible.  But guess what.  We ended up getting everything done that we needed to and going everywhere that we needed to and seeing everyone that we needed to!  I have absolutely no idea how it all ended up working out- WAIT yes I do!  It was Heavenly Father.  He needed us to be in all of those places.  It was crazy because looking at the bus maps there was absolutely no way it would work out, but it did.  Friday was another day that I really felt like I was an instrument in the hands of the Lord.  And let me tell you, it was a great feeling.  We met this lady that day  and we started teaching her about the Book of Mormon.  The following words actually came out of her mouth:  "I would love to learn more about this!" 

I could hardly believe my ears!  I never thought that would ever happen!  So we are teaching her this week.  I am so stoked. 

The Stallis Palace   Haha!

Saturday we were at the church all day helping for the Women's Conference.  Our stake did this way cool thing.  Starting at 3 there were a bunch of workshops that you could go to and then they fed us dinner and then we all watched the broadcast together.  It was awesome.  Spiritually, I was feeling on top of the world!  It was great!  And wasn't the women's broadcast amazing??  I learned so much.  And it made me so excited for general conference next week!!!  I can hardly wait! 

It truly was another amazing and miracle filled week. I am starting to feel that this is exactly where I am supposed to be at this point in my life.  I feel it more and more everday.  I know that this church is true.

I love you all so much!  Have an amazing conference weekend!  I can't wait to hear all of your thoughts!

Love,

Sister King

PS I have so much faith that they are going to announce a temple in Madison, Wisconsin this conference!  Just you wait and see!

Utah Avenue

Utah Avenue

Can you believe it is P-day again already?  Me neither.

Also, didn't March just start yesterday?  And now it is practically over!  Weird!  I guess time flies when you are having fun/serving the Lord!

Sister Tanner and I wearing green for St. Patrick's Day!

 Here is a rundown of the week:

Tuesday-  We received 2 headquarter referrals.  One from some guy named Bryan but the address didn't exist... weird ;).  The other was for a lady and when we got there we saw that it was an assisted living center so we knew we would be in for a treat.  Turns out she was schizophrenic.  So that was an interesting visit.  Later that night we had a lesson with Sarah that went amazingly well!  We talked about the 10 commandments.  She has lived a really hard life and been through so much, but she is so willing to leave it all behind and follow Jesus Christ!  It is amazing!  The lesson could not have gone any better.  And now she is one step closer to the waters of baptism!

Wednesday- Something really cool happened.  I placed a Book of Mormon all by myself for the first time!!!  I have placed Book of Mormons before, but it has always been me and Sister Tanner tag-teaming it.  (which is the way it is supposed to be I guess).  But this time we were waiting at a bus stop and a less active that we have been working with for a long time called us.  Sister Tanner answered the phone and started talking to her for a while.  I looked over and saw a guy walking down the street and knew this was my chance.  I said a quick prayer, gave myself a mini pep talk, and walked over to him leaving Sister Tanner behind.  I started talking to him.  His name was Randy and he was a really nice guy!  We had been talking a while and I knew the bus should have been there by that point.  So I prayed really hard to Heavenly Father that the bus wouldn't come until I have given this guy a Book of Mormon.  I introduced the Book of Mormon to him and showed him the picture in the front of when Christ came to visit the America's and bore my testimony of Jesus Christ and the Book of Mormon.  I asked if I could say a prayer with him before I left and he agreed.  As soon as I said amen, there was our bus coming down the street.  What a tender mercy from Heavenly Father!  I felt the spirit so strong and I think Randy did too.  I know Heavenly Father was proud of me and I know that it wasn't a coincidence that the bus didn't come until Randy had heard my testimony of the restored gospel. 

Thursday-  Not much happened.  We were able to visit with some less-actives and then we had weekly planning which takes forever.  But something really cool happened that night though.  We were texting a set of Elders in our ward about them coming to a lesson.  The text that we sent was 2 pages long and they got the first page, but then the second page was some random person's name and address and phone number!  WHAT???  CRAZY!!!  We are thinking it must be a referral from heaven.  They are going to go visit her and I will let you know what happens. haha

One of my favorite members in our ward!  She died her hair blonde so now we match! :)

Love my new scarf from my favorite older sister!

Friday was a miracle day!  We tracted the nicest street in the United State of America!  Not a single person was interested in what we had to say at all, but none of them yelled at us or swore at us and only a couple slammed the door in our faces.  I was thinking about it, and I am grateful for all of the miserable experiences that I have had tracting.  I am especially grateful that the very first time I went was the worst time I have ever gone.  I really think that was a blessing in disguise because now I can compare every tracting experience to my first time and it never seems that bad anymore!  haha

Saturday not much happened.  Except I witnessed a drug deal in front of my very own eyes on the bus!  It was crazy.  They were sitting right in front of us and I will tell you this much... the Spirit was NOT there.  Geez... Saturday nights on the bus never disappoint.  But I know that Heavenly Father is looking out for us and keeping us safe!

I was studying 3 Nephi this week when Christ comes to the Americas.  I LOVE IT.  In 3 Nephi 9 it says, "Will ye not now return unto me, and repent of your sins, and be converted, that I may heal you?"

Christ wants to heal us!  He wants to make us whole.  He is just sitting there waiting for us and all we have to do is come unto him.  And we will give us the help that we need. 

Then 3 Nephi 9:14 says this:

(one of my ALL TIME favorite scriptures!)

Yea, verily I say unto you, if ye will come unto me ye shall have eternal life.  Behold, mine arm of mercy is extended towards you, and whosoever will come, him will I receive; and blessed are those who come unto me.

I love you so much!!!  The church is true!

Remember who you are and whose you are!!

Love,

Sister King

Our countdown to S's baptism!  We are so excited!

Miracles in West Allis

Miracles are happening here in West Allis!  It is amazing!  I am just going to dive right into the week.

Monday-  Best P-day yet!  We got to go to the Milwaukee County Zoo. The Dominguez family invited us to go with them.  They are an awesome family in our ward and they take such good care of us.  I love them so much!  They are also AMAZING member missionaries!  I want to be like them when I get home!  Anyways, so we got to hang out with them all day at the zoo and it was the funnest thing ever.  Milwaukee has a pretty cool zoo!

Preaching the gospel to every creature!

Milwaukee County Zoo

 I thought of you Mom the ENTIRE time I was in the aviary.  Seriously.  And thought of Dad when we saw the moose.  I thought of all of my sisters when I saw the turtles... Do you remember last time we went to the zoo???  Haha anyways it was super fun.  We had dinner with them at their house that night too and they had Sarah over.  Sarah is AMAZING.  I don't remember what I already told you about her, but I am just going to have to tell you again if I already did.  Sarah has so much faith.  Her story is amazing.  It all started because Sister Dominguez was prompted to leave a Book of Mormon in Sarah's mailbox.  They barely knew each other!  So Sarah started coming to church with Sister Dominguez.  We'd been meeting with her a little bit and on Monday night at dinner we set a baptism date with her!!!! April 12!!!!  THIS IS SUCH A BIG DEAL. 

 I will have to ask her to write down her story so that I can send it to you or something because you won't even believe how amazing she is and all the spiritual experiences she is having.  I love Sarah so much and she is totally one of my best friends now too.  Helping her to strengthen her faith is helping to strenghten my faith.  I feel like that is what missionary work is all about. 

Tuesday-  Sister Tanner woke up sick so that was a bummer.  We were able to stop by Lake Michigan with our district.  It was absolutely breath-taking.  It is still really cold so a lot of it was frozen.  The pictures simply don't do it justice.  Looking at all of the different animals and then at the beautiful lake was such a testimony to me that there has to be a higher power. 

Lake Michigan!

My District at Lake Michigan

The Earth that Jesus Christ created is absolutely beautiful.  And amazing.  We visited some less-actives and then had dinner with another amazing family in our ward.  When we got home there were sisters from Stephen's point there waiting for us...  It was the night before transfers and we are the sisters that live closest to the stake center so they came to stay with us because they live 3 hours away.  But no one told us... so that was weird.  Haha anyways Tuesday was great!

#boredatthebusstop

Wednesday- TRANSFERS!!!  But it didn't really affect us at all since we are staying together in West Allis.  We tried to make it over the the stake center to see everyone and so that I could see Sister Osmond.  But it didn't end up working out... :(  I was so sad.  We called some people that were at the Stake Center so I got to talk to her for a little while so that was fun.  I was super sad that I wasn't going to be able to see her.  Anyways, we headed to the mission office because I needed to go pick up the package from Mom,  which I LOVED by the way!!   Thanks so much Mom!  It was so crazy that you were so close to me yet so far away!  Haha I loved the package and I love you!!!  So we headed to the mission office to grab the package and some other supplies and you will never guess who I saw when I walked in the doors... SISTER SOPHIA OSMOND!  What a tender mercy!  It was seriously the coolest thing.  So good to get to talk to her.  She is just as beautiful and kind as ever.  She is going to be a stellar missionary.

Got to see the one and only Sister Sophia Osmond!!!

As we were out and about on Wednesday, we decided to stop at our investigator's house, Cliff and Aretha.  They had been investigating for a while and have come to church before and they seem so promising!  But we haven't been able to get ahold of them at all pretty much the whole time I have been here.  We decided that we would stop by and leave them the Restoration DVD and then we would have to drop them.  As we were walking home, we were really sad about it.  We felt prompted to just leave them the DVD and we knew that we were going to have to drop them.  And right as we were talking about dropping them, you'll never guess who texted us!!! ARETHA!!!  It was so cool.  I know that that was a tender mercy from Heavenly Father.

Thursday-  We had dinner and a lesson with Sarah.  It was so fun!  We taught the Plan of Salvation.  It was amazing because even though the plan of salvation can be a little complicated, Sarah completely understood everything and agreed with everything too.  To her, the gospel just makes sense.  She talked about how she knew that going back to live with Heavenly Father would be like returning home.  I love that.  It really made me think.  I miss my family so much, but I love what I am doing here.  It is really hard sometimes.  I feel joy and I feel sadness.  And even though I love it here, I can't wait for the day that I get to return home to Provo to be with my family again.  That is what it is going to be like when we return home to our Father in heaven.  Obviously it will be a little different, but I feel like being on a mission is giving me a little sneak peek into eternity.  I can't wait to return to my heavenly home!  And my home in Provo too for that matter.

Friday-  I woke up sick.  It was inevitable.  Oh the joys of having a companion.  I knew when Sister Tanner got sick that I was going to have to be next.  I totally remember the day that she woke up sick and saying to her, "Wow.  You look like death."  But then I woke up on Friday and thought to myself, "Wow.  I feel like death."  But being sick wasn't going to stop us from doing missionary work!  Friday morning we had interviews with President.  They went really well.  I love President Cutler.  He talked about having a broken heart and a contrite spirit.  Having those qualities is so important as a missionary.  One interesting thing that he told me as I was leaving is that I shouldn't be afraid and that the Lord will protect me. 

 I thought that was interesting because I am often scared for my life...haha.  Going from Provo, Utah to Milwaukee, Wisconsin was a pretty big change for me. We do have to go pretty deep into the ghetto sometimes.  It may sound silly but it actually is pretty scary sometimes.  So I thought it was interesting that President told me that.  On Friday night one of my absolute favorite people in the ward, Sister Lundberg, took us to dinner.  She took us to a Friday Fish Fry at the Polish Community Center in Milwaukee.  It was so awesome!!!!!  During lent Catholics don't eat meat on Friday so they have these huge parties where they eat a bunch of fish.  It was way fun and because it was at the polish community center it was all cultural and stuff too.  I loved it.  Before we left, we went to check out the polish library that they had.  They had a bunch of polish artifacts and cool things like that.  Sister Tanner and I thought that people probably come in there a lot asking about their family history.  So we decided that we would ask one of the ladies working there if we could leave some family search cards there with the churches information for her to hand out to people.  So we went up to the lady working there and asked, "Hey, do people come in here a lot asking about their family history?"  Before we could even give her cards or tell her that we were missionaries she replied,"Oh yes all the time!  But we don't usually have the answers so we just send them to that Mormon Church down on 96th and Grange.  They have a great family history library."  HAHAHAHAHAHAAH!  They already had been sending people to our family history center.  We left the cards with her anyway and left. 

The Polish Community Center in Milwaukee

Saturday-  My two month mark!!!  Can you believe I have been gone two whole months??  Crazy.  The Oak Creek ward had a baptism and we brought our investigator Lenier.  I really think he enjoyed it. The spirit there was amazing.  It was cool to see other missionaries get a baptism because it makes me want to work harder.  And it also made me so stoked for Sarah's baptism! 

Overall, things are going pretty well!  It seems like the best weeks are usually some of the hardest too.  But it's ok!  I came across this quote from President Monson.

"So much in life depends on our attitude.  The way we choose to see things and respond to others makes all the difference.  To do the best we can and then to choose to be happy about our circumstances, whatever they may be, can bring peace and contentment."

Isn't that great!  Our attitude really makes a difference.

I love this gospel! 

Love,

Sister King