tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893602295233369312024-03-18T20:25:01.264-07:00Kindra as a Sister Missionary!Kindrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886554686302851166noreply@blogger.comBlogger138125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389360229523336931.post-22237192874026820082014-11-03T16:43:00.001-08:002014-11-03T16:43:31.109-08:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">
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MISSIONARY!!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I will not have much time next week, if any at
all to email. So this is the last email from Sister Wilson as a missionary for
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. How surreal. </span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">See
you on November 11th in OREGON!</span></b><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So this week was pretty good! Everyone is now
making death jokes and asking if I have started packing yet etc. Which is fine,
when they ask how many days I have left I tell them how many days until my
birthday, or until the Temple instead :) But in all reality I am excited to
come home. I am excited to meet baby Gene and see how big Clara has gotten and
hug everyone! Especially my mom :)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Honestly, I thought this mission would never
end. Sometimes it felt like it was going to go on and on and I was stuck in
this phase of my life. Other times it felt like it was flying by and I couldn't
soak everything in!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But in all reality this year and a half has
been quite the ride! </span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Crazy stories</span></b><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, </span></b><b><span style="color: #00b0f0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">crazy
people, </span></b><b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">people I love,</span></b><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">people
who will be a part of my life for the rest of eternity</span></b><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
I have found friends I would never have found if I had not come, I have learned
so many things I cant even begin to list them. I have had trials and struggles
like everyone, </span></b><b><span style="color: #984806; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">I
have laughed and cried and felt every emotion in between</span></b><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">,
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day.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nothing can prepare you for this experience, but
there is also nothing like it.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is nothing like being able to see
someone's life change completely because they now know who they are as a child
of God. That they have a Heavenly Father who loves them and is so intimately
aware of them, they don't even realize it.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There is nothing like being able to be a part
of a family coming back to the gospel and re-learning the simple truths and to
feel the change in their home as they do so.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There are so many experiences that you don't
understand unless you have been there.
Not always good ones. Sometimes you are out walking around in the rain for
hours and cant find a single person who wants to talk to you. Sometimes people
who you are pouring your heart out to decide they don't want the happiness you
have to give to them, sometimes they struggle and don't make the best choices.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sometimes you have to step back and realize
that we are all human beings having a mortal experience. Everyone has different
trials, strengths, experiences, opinions and they make choices differently than
we would.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And that is the beauty of it all!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Knowing that we are all different, and are all
brought to Earth to have different experiences, but we are all here to learn
the same thing. To remember who we are as children of God and to learn how He
has given us guidance to return to live with Him and our families after we die.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am so grateful that I chose to listen to God
when He told me I should go on a mission. I cant imagine not having these
experiences. And I cant imagine how long it would have taken me to learn the
things I have here.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I know that this experience has transformed me
and helped me to become more of the person that God wants me to be, more of the
person who He needs me to be and I have learned much about how He communicates
that with me.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It has been amazing to realize how much the
spirit is in our life's. How much guidance we are given through the spirit and
how much faster we can learn and understand when we allow Him to be a part of
our daily life.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have learned the importance of going to
church. It all starts with missing one Sunday to go on a drive with the
family, or to do something that is still good. Spending time with family is
exactly what God wants us to do! But there is a time and a place for
everything, and church is a place that God needs us EVERY WEEK. Its a place
where we need to be EVERY week in order to build ourselves up, and to
strengthen others.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then we need to read our scriptures </span></b><b><i><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">daily</span></i></b><b><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">.</span></b><b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> I have learned from
having scripture study planned out into my daily schedule how important that
is. The days that we miss study and I don't get to read out of the Book of
Mormon are days that could have gone more smoothly or could have been better in
some way. It is amazing the difference that is made in your daily life when we
allow the study of scriptures to be in them. That is something that I will
strive to have in my life <i>everyday </i>for the rest of my life. I have
seen the difference in the families and individuals that are reading and
studying and learning together, and those that are not. Its something you
cannot create. It is something that only comes from a study of the scriptures. </span></b><b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And
oh how I have come to love them on my mission!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Also prayer. I cant imagine going through
a day without talking with my Heavenly Father multiple times. I have made it a
goal on my mission to have God be the first person I talk to in the mornings
and the last person I talk to at night. As I have had this focus in my evenings
I have been able to ponder on what I want to talk to Him about. I have been
able to focus on what I really want to tell Father about my day, and what He
would enjoy hearing from me.<br />
I have learned how much He truly is aware of <i>me</i> as His
daughter. I know that He is aware of each of us because I have had experiences
that show me that He is in my everyday. Which is something I have come to love
and appreciate.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lastly, I have learned how much I love the
Temple. Not being able to attend for the past 18 months has helped me to truly
appreciate what it is like to live so close to one. I am so grateful that we
have a Temple so close to home, and that I am able to attend the Temple while I
am in Rexburg. I am excited to being able to attend weekly. To have that added
strength in my life! That is something that I need and something I am SO
excited to have again.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Overall I have learned that life is hard, yes.
But we can make it harder, or we can make it easier. The choice is ours, and it
is not by doing anything big and grand.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have learned that it is in the simple, daily
and constant decisions we make. It is in the little things that we gain some of
the biggest comforts and best guidance. Reading our scriptures, attending
church, praying often, and attending the Temple. These are things that we each
NEED in our life. They are things that we think we can live without, and
honestly, you can.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For a short time.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then things slip, and life gets hard. We don't
have the spirit how we need him in our life and the guidance is lost. It is
when we have separated ourselves from God by not doing the simple things that
life gets <i>harder</i>.<br />
When we give our focus to God, and do the simple things. When we truly turn to
Him in prayer and seek His guidance in reading and church and Temple
attendance, that it is there!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That does not mean life is easy when you do
the small and little things. But that means that we have the spirit to help us,
and we are not trying to carry everything on our own.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We learned from conference this past session
that the command "come unto me" from our Savior. Jesus the Christ is
the most simple command that has been given.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Come unto me. Some of the most powerful words
given to us, and they come with a powerful promise in Matthew chapter
18: 28-30<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"28 ¶Come unto me, all ye that
labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="149777665bacc865_29"> </a>29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn
of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your
souls.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="149777665bacc865_30"> </a>30 For my yoke is easy,
and my burden is light"<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ye shall find rest unto your souls.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Rest, something we all want and need!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My mission has taught me of the importance of
coming unto our Savior! And relying on Him. He is waiting to help us, but we
must let Him in.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I know that this is the gospel of Christ once
again restored to the Earth. I know that God has called Prophets to lead and
guide His church since the beginning of time, and that He has called a Prophet
to lead us today.<br />
I know that Jesus Christ is my Savior and Redeemer. He is my advocate with the
Father, and it is through Him that I have been given the opportunity to live
with my Father again.<br />
I am eternally grateful to my Savior, Jesus Christ, for His example, love,
service and support through my life. I know that He lives. I know that He loves
me, and I know that God loves me. With a perfect and eternal love, no matter
what we do. We cannot change how God feels about us, we can only change how we
feel about Him. And it is through the small and simple ways that we come to
know Him and love Him. I am so grateful for the opportunity that I have had to
teach what I know to my brothers and sisters here in Pennsylvania, Delaware and
Maryland. I know that I have been transformed as I have relied on my Savior and
grown closer to God through these past 18 months.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And my time is short remaining. I
have one week left, and it is going to be a good one. Because I love being a
missionary!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And I will love getting to hug my
mom, sisters and friends in just 8 short days.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I love you all! I pray for you daily!
I can feel your prayers and love, thank you does not begin to cover my feelings
of gratitude, but it will have to do for now.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Love you all!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Much love,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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October 27, 2014 ALMOST HER LAST EMAIL HOME!!!</div>
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Wow! Lots of fun stuff happening back there in Oregon, no rest for the weary I guess!</div>
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I am glad that you got to go to the trunk or treat! How cute Clara looks in her dress :) She looks happy and enjoying the attention and time from Grandma and Keira.</div>
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That's too bad that Janie is not coming, but I am glad that everyone is okay with how things will be working out. Hopefully you and Keira will be able to be there and work wont get in the way for Keira, and I hope you find some place for Clara! Im certain you will. Someone should be around! haha, but like you said NOTHING is simple about bringing a baby into this world.</div>
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And I am okay with new baby Wilson being there when I get there, or if he wants to wait, that's okay too :) Hey, I wouldn't mind sharing my birthday with him either!! My birthdays aren't big deals anyways anymore. Why not have someone else to celebrate too?! Makes it more fun that way :)</div>
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Well sounds like you will have plenty of fire wood this year or maybe for next year if it all so green!!, yeah! And with the weather the way it has been, maybe you wont use a ton either. Winter I think is thinking about coming soon here, and I am okay with it waiting for another week. Hopefully we wont get snow before I leave. Id like to drive to DC and get Temple pictures without snow! but who knows. Apparently President is having to work on getting us all to the Temple, we have the biggest group the mission has sent home! And I was in the biggest group the mission every got! (Thus far in its history). So that is kind of fun.</div>
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Lets see, how was my week this week? Pretty good. I am learning a lot about how often teaching opportunities are put in our path, and the fact that we must be ready for it. Always prepared right?! Its neat.</div>
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So we met a man at the library and were able to teach him about how the Gospel of Jesus Christ was lost after He was resurrected and after His apostles were killed and died. We were able to teach him about how the Gospel was off the Earth for years! But how it was brought back to the Earth through Joseph Smith being called as a prophet.</div>
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It was neat. I think one of my favorite moments on my mission was seeing Ed listen to Elder Jones (the senior couple we were teaching with) tell Ed that Christ knows who HE is and loves him. Ed was listening, and you could tell the very moment he felt the spirit because we grinned ear to ear. It was so neat to see someone soooo happy and to know the spirit was working with him.</div>
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Then Ed came to church yesterday! It was awesome! We weren't expecting him to come because we didn't talk to him after he cancelled the second appointment that week and we were going to set up another one, but we weren't able to yet. He showed up and luckily sister Jones saw him and motioned for him to come and sit with them.</div>
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We were sitting with John and his parents. John was baptized last week and yesterday he was confirmed as a member of the church and given the gift of the Holy Ghost. It was neat to be able to see him and his parents enjoying the service together and knowing that he is officially a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.</div>
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Then after sacrament meeting I stood up and turned around and guess what? I saw Sister Stevenson who drove down from Souderton ward to see me! I love her! SOOO much!</div>
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She was baptized in May, and we had started teaching her the lessons after baptism. she fed us every <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_831917237" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Thursday</span></span> and we love going to see her! So you can imagine my surprise when she showed up and brought a little gift for me. A key chain that says "love you to the moon" I love it.</div>
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And it was AWESOME that she was there, because she was able to talk with Ed after church and between the baptism and things about her experience and helping him want to stay and watch. We were busy helping the Elders because their investigator was baptized yesterday! And they asked us right before the service if we would teach the message of the Restoration during the time that everyone would be changing.</div>
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Sure, give us 10 minutes heads up.... awesome planning! But we did it.</div>
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And it was neat because there were a ton of primary kids there, last week we showed the movie about the Restoration and so we thought that would be a lot to show to the ward twice... so they asked us if we would teach. Well we did it more through questions and answers to keep the kids entertained, in their seats and involved. It was right after church so they were ready to eat and run around, but we somehow got their attention. I have to say, I have never taught like that before, but it was neat. And I was greatful for the opportunity to teach the Restoration at Annabelles baptism, one more time before I leave! I loved it, no notice or nothing, it was great.</div>
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Its neat to have the opportunity to really be in sync with your companion and listening to the spirit to help teach others and helping them learn. We had a hand full of non-members in the audience, but I think most of them spoke Spanish. I hope they could at least feel what we were talking about! I did end with my testimony of the Book of Mormon and how excited we are for Annabelle.</div>
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Man. Life is great!</div>
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In other news, this week Elder Jones and I lost at the infamous marble game he loves to sister Maybury and sister Jones. But that's okay. We might be able to play once more and re-deem ourselves. We shall see.</div>
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Also we got chased away from a house by a dog. Closest encounter on my mission, and it was not even close. Which I am fine with! Ill leave it that way. The dog was just loose in the yard, but it was quite a steep long driveway and the dog definitely had the advantage on us! So we left.</div>
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Also the Relief Society president made us an Apple pie :) Delicious! Even for a not so pie lover like myself!</div>
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Lots of finding, teaching, bingo, facebook, service, dinners <-- love those! The Flygares took us to Olive garden :) Only time Ive been there on my mission! And life is grand!</div>
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And guess what? 10 days until I get to go to the Washington DC Temple :) LOVE that!</div>
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also doing a trial pack today... don't love that. But I need to de-junk and we are going to try and go to Philly next week since sis Maybury has never been. We shall see what happens.</div>
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Anyhow. Life is grand! 9 days until my birthday, 10 days until Temple and 15 until I hug YOU.</div>
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The work is moving along and we are making good progress. Life is great! Missionary work is exhausting, and I am enjoying every minute of it! Well... okay I am enjoying the rest of my time. There are still things that are not enjoyable about missionary work, but it is well worth the sacrifices!</div>
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Love you all!</div>
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Thank you for your letters and love and prayers and all your support! I love and pray for you all.</div>
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Love you tons!</div>
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Sister Kindra Wilson :)</div>
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sending all the books and manuals I have home, since they are heavy and
annoying to pack. We shall see, I think they make us do a trial run soon, so we
shall see what the weight is at, and then I will probably send stuff home from
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beautiful fall colors this year! They were taking their sweet time getting
here, and we got a cold patch, and then an Indian summer so its been quite warm
these past few weeks. But</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Sunday </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">might have been the turn to boots, scarf and jackets. We shall
see if it stays. I would be okay with it staying now! Its about time it felt
like fall! I kept dressing for what it looked like outside, COLD, but then it
would be 75 and I would be in a sweater, stockings and boots. It made for some
warm days! So hopefully it will turn and stay that way!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this week! We were at the library when this guy named Ed asked us if we were
nuns. We explained who we were and he then started talking about how he was
trying to find a church and the truth.... WE CAN HELP! It was awesome! We
invited him to church and he gave us his info, he wasn't able to make it
yesterday but we set up an appointment for tonight, hopefully he gets home in
time for it and he doesn't get called in this evening. So keep Ed in your
prayers! We are going to teach him the gospel for sure!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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exchanges this week with our Sister Training Leaders which was fun! My last
exchange! Sister Sagers came to Broomall with me so it was fun to be out
working again like we had done in Souderton. I am still fairly new with
Broomall area so it almost felt like we had doubled into our sisters area for
the day or something! haha.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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helpful to talk with her about the change of pace from Souderton to Broomall.
Its been kind of a hard change. Going from being a Sister training Leader and
running around never having enough time, to here where we have too much time
and not enough work.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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get to know some of our less active families and who we can strengthen and
trying to find people who we can teach. Its amazing what happens when you just
get out there and talk to people! They find you in the most random places, like
the library! haha. Its been good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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volunteered at the old folks home to help them with Bingo and there was almost
a fight that broke out! Words only of course, they don't move fast enough to
get to each other before help could prevent it... and they know it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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who we have been teaching, moved in with his dad. Which is great! A better
situation than what he was in, but his dad lives in New Jersey... so now he has
to commute 45 minutes to church, and we have to teach him over Skype.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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about the situation and they worked it out so he can still come and be a part
of our ward.... somehow not quite sure how it works. But we just keep teaching
until we are told we cant! So we have been teaching John over Skype and
Facetime, which is quite the adventure! Its been a lot of fun actually. We are
able to go and meet at a members home and teach with them over the devices we
have. Its amazing the blessings that have been given to us to reach out to so
many people!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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room was packed, we did the service right after the block of church meetings,
and lots of people stayed. John bore a beautiful testimony, we showed the
Restoration movie which was really touching to both of his parents, and there
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investigator being baptized next week as well, so its an exciting time in
Broomall!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this week. I had to email some stuff to the office, and I checked my school
stuff, all the holds are gone! YEAH! So now I will just have to ask President
if I can register or if he wants family to do it for us. We shall see.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anyhow, 18 days until
my birthday everyone :) Yeah! And that means 19 days until I get to go to the
D.C. Temple! HUZZAH!!! I am SO excited to go to the Temple again! I miss it
SOOOO much! Its a place that I truly do love!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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self absorbed or something, but PLEASE don't send anything for my birthday that
I will have to turn around and pack to bring home 4 days later. Candy or cards
are perfectly fine! But nothing that I will want to keep please, I have WAY too
much junk that I need to get rid of already and I am hoping to not just leave
everything in my apartment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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presumptuous of me, but yeah. We can just celebrate my birthday with lemon
chicken and scotcheroos upon my return :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">LOVE YOU! More than
you know! I will talk to you again next week, know that I love you and I am
thinking of and praying for you daily!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Oh how this time is
flying. I feel like I was just emailing you. And I probably say that every
week... Sorry. But it's true. This time is flying by! But the end is surreal.
It won't ever actually end... This is my life. And that's fine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our investigator John
is doing wonderfully! His dad came to church with him this week and then they
stayed for the ward potluck. After the potluck John had his baptismal interview
and we got to talk with his father which was awesome! We talked with him about
the Temple, we gave him a Book of Mormon and shared some scriptures with him.
Then I invited him to come and be a part of the reteaching, when after John is
baptized we teach him the lessons again so he can learn more and feel more
comfortable with the doctrine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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opportunity for him to learn and understand the things that John is learning
and experiencing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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have been able to meet some interesting people, and we have had some really
nice people. The people here are pretty receptive and open to the messages we
share which is nice!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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CONFERENCES! It was awesome because we got to view 'meet the mormons' movie
before it was in theaters! Which was sweet. That was requested by the first
presidency so that we can encourage our investigators and members to watch it,
and we aren't allowed to go with them. But it was really good! I am not sure
how many of you got to see it, or how long it will. Be in Oregon, but if you
get the chance to! It was neat to see the members in Costa Rica and in Nepal
and how religion influenced their lives! It was really neat. I enjoyed it. I
hope you get to take ode friends to see it, they will enjoy it I am sure. It
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dying testimony... They have all of the departing missionaries bare their
testimony at the end of Zone Conferences and it was harder than I thought it
would be! But it was neat. I was grateful I was able to share about the change
of heart I have experienced from being on my mission and seeing the Lord work
in my life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I am so grateful for
His hand in this experience of mine! I would not have been able to make it this
far, and I would not make it to the end without my Father in Heaven! But I
have, and I will because I know that God has given me everything that I have,
and the time that I have to dedicate my life to Him wholly is little
remaining. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">We had a lesson with a
man who is </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 19px;">schizophrenic</span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"> and it was a hard lesson. He said that he wants to be
in agreement with himself before he is baptized. It's rather heart breaking and
hard to witness. But it was nice to be able to teach him and help him see how
the gospel will bless his life. He comes to church every week! Which is
commendable and a lot more than others give so he is doing pretty well all this
considered. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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woke up after the alarm was supposed to go off, and we had no power. And we had
a meeting we had to be at, so we showered and did makeup by candle light... It
would have been quite romantic if we hadn't been two sister missionaries trying
to get out the door and praying that the fire truck who showed up in the
parking lot was not going to come and pound our door since the fire alarm likes
to go off from the shower steam... It had gone off three or four times. But
it's always an adventure! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lovely. But the people I was sitting with won several rounds so they were
happy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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less active named Andrew, he was wearing a sword on his back when we showed up.
It was kinda funny, the member asked him why and he said for personal
protection. But we had a great lesson with him about Christ and repentance and
the gospel of Jesus Christ. We talked about how we are each able to return to
live with Heavenly Father because of Jesus Christ but that we are the ones who
must take the action. We are the ones who must accept His sacrifice and then
act on it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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It helps us to live life on a higher plane and to know and become what God
wants us to become.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this week. Not a ton of exciting things, mostly just still living the life! We
are hanging out in the mission office today emails since the libraries are
celebrating Columbus Day like the post offices and no one else. So it's fun :)
we are here with the Jones and the Ballards and the assistants and the service
elders. It's a fun time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to all!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that lives in our parking lot and comes out at night. He's rather large more
like a toad, and we are friends :) he doesn't know it but I help him not get
run over by cars!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Philadelphia Mission<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #002060; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">So I was transferred and I am now in Broomall PA. Which is
where the</span></b><b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">mission
home and mission office are. We drive past Presidents house</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">almost
daily, which is new and I don't know that I will ever be used</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">to
that haha. But Broomall is good thus far.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">We
have an investigator John who is scheduled to be baptized in two</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">weeks.
We are teaching him and his fiancée is a member we are working</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">with
too. They are awesome. I am excited to be working with them, we</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">see
them several times a week. We got to read the Book of Mormon with</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">John
last night and it was neat. He was telling us about some stresses</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">in his
life, and we can't tell anyone what to do, but the member that</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">was
with us said pray. And as we read that was what stood out many</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">times
in chapter. It was awesome! So neat to see that the Book of</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Mormon
answers questions and resolves concerns.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Man
life is good here!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">We
have closets from Heaven in our apt too, which is nice :)</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Oh and
my comp is Sister Mayburry. She is from Utah and she is a hoot.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">We
laugh a lot! And we both have a sweet tooth... So that's unifying</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">:) and
fattening... But all is good! I have a work out video from Sis</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Shaia
that I am doing everyday this transfer.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">I have
lots of dying goals: finish the Book of Mormon once more,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">finish
Preach my Gospel once more, be caught up in my journal before</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">going
home, work out GOOD EVERYDAY - pray for that one for me will</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">you?
Sister Sagers was the first comp to get me to really exercise and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">to
work out good. We ran almost everyday for two transfers so I know</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">it's
possible. Now I just gotta do it!</span><br />
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<br />
</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #002060; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">That's my new motto. Not exercising? Just do it!
Not journaling? Just</span></b><b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">do it!
Not reading..... JUST DO IT EVERYONE! I do not ask, tell,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">invite
or talk about you doing things I have not done or am not doing</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">myself.
I don't know how else I can say it but reading, praying and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">attending
church are vital! </span></span></b><b><i><span style="background: white; color: #002060; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">More so than I ever
realized.</span></i></b><b><i><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br />
</span></i></b><b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">That
is one thing I will change when I get home. I need to be better</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">at
studying my scriptures everyday, not just reading a verse before</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">bed to
get rid of my guilty conscious. Anyhow, that is one thing that</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">will
change for the rest of my life.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">I did
get your box mom, thanks for the taffy :) Glad you got to enjoy</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">your
time at the coast :) sounds like things are going along crazy as</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">normal.
I'm glad your able to be spending time with Karen and Deanna.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">And
that your enjoying some time after being released.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">I was
released as a sister training leader, I had a feeling I would be</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">so I
was semi preparing for it, but you never really know with</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">transfers
what will happen!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">But I
am enjoying it. I didn't realize how much time it really took to</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">hold
such a calling, and I am enjoying having the evenings to talk</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">with
Sis Maybury, journal, or just sit for a few minutes and do</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">absolutely
nothing! I literally haven't had five minutes to sit and do</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">nothing
in 6 months. It's nice to have a little bit of time for myself</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">again.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Well
life is grand here. We are working and living and loving life.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Oh by
the way a random man came to the chapel during conference and he</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">lived
in Beaverton area for a while. He asked if he could get your</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">phone
number to call you and tell you that he saw me... So I gave it</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">to
him, so you will probably be getting a phone call from a random old</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">man if
he has not called yet.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Sorry.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">Hum,
well life is grand. We still have to do laundry so I jump off so</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">we can
head out soon. I love you all! Thanks for your continued love, prayers
and support!</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">Oh and
as for mail, we are at the mission office quite frequently as</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">of lately
so you can send all packages there. Letters you can send</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">either
place to the office or to:</span><br />
my apartment address till Nov 10<sup>th</sup>!!<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">15 Dougherty Blvd N-4</span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">Glen
Mills PA 19342</span><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #002060; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Or the mission office is listed below.</span></b><b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Love
you all! Thanks for your love and prayers, keep em up! I still</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">need them
all :)</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Sister
Kindra Wilson</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">721
Paxon Hollow Road suite B</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Broomall
PA 19008</span></span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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week! I hope I can remember everything, because at the same time I feel like I
was just sitting here at this computer last week...</span></b><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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so fun! We got to see the Liberty Bell because the line was all but
non-existent this week. Which was awesome! Last time it wrapped around the
building almost. So we got to spend some time walking through the hall reading
the history of it, and listening to the 'Liberty Bell March' by Sousa. I love
that song, we played it every year at Mountain View.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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copies of the Declaration of Independence owned by Washington, and we walked
past the house where it was written and man there is a lot of History down town
there. We didn’t go to the Temple because we already saw it just a few days
before, we still haven’t seen the Rocky steps because they are pretty far from
everything else in Philly. But I have gotten to see a lot of the other things
which is cool. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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SO GOOD. We got Amish pretzels at Miller's Twist, a MUST eat when visiting the
market. And we got cheese steaks, I love steaks! They are delicious, so I am
eating them all up :)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c121ae; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But you should all be proud of us! We
correctly boarded two trains and even used the subway to get to one of them! I
am honestly terrible with ANY and ALL public transportation and navigation of
it. But we were given directions and I was the one who remembered them so I was
in charge of getting us on our correct train. And I did it!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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accomplishment. Trust me! :)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then we were on our way to our dinner
appointment when this guy asked us what our tags were all about. So we shared
with him all about what we do as missionaries and he has been trying to start
some inter-faith groups in the area. It’s the elders portion of the ward but it
will be an awesome opportunity for the elders to get involved in the area and
get the name of the church out there! You never know where or when you are
going to meet someone, being a missionary is sooo amazing.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We have been meeting a lot of people as we are
out exercising too. People always ask us what our badges say when we are out
walking around. Its amazing how friendly people are at 6:30am. So I ALWAYS
wear my badge for exercise, some missionaries don’t and I just don’t get that.
You only have 18 months to wear that badge, so DO IT!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We have had some really awesome lessons this
week with the people we are working with, recent converts, less actives and a
fun one with our investigator. We have really been able to connect and enjoy
the time we share together. I am sad to go, but I know that Sister Sagers and
her new companion are going to continue to make changes in the lives of these
amazing people. I am just so lucky to be able to have been a part of their
journey!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sister Hammons came to church again this week
which was SO AWESOME! We felt bad because there were 6 missionaries in the
Doylestown sacrament meeting because the elders brought their investigator
there too... so we are going to have to talk about that and see what we can do.
Its kind of confusing for the ward to have so many missionaries in the
congregation...<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But as we were leaving Sister Hammons asked if
I was going to call her, I told her I could not call her but we could be pin
pals and she was so excited! I am so lucky to have meet so many wonderful
people I love here! There are a lot of letters coming up when I get home :) So
that will be good too.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c121ae; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well the funny story from the week was when
our investigator gave us snacks after the lesson... and I was 100% on the word
of wisdom before my mission...<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c121ae; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So she is 83 years old, and we have not taught
her about the word of wisdom yet (the commandment that talks about why we do
not smoke, drink or use drugs etc.). Just keep that in mind.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c121ae; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So after we taught the plan of Salvation she
offered us some cookies and juice. Harmless right? Until she pulled out a
gallon of apple cider that was quite fermented. Well I did not know that
fermented apple juice became alcohol. I do not know the process of making
anything of the sort right?<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c121ae; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well she pulls it out and we have to shake it
up to get all the sentiment in the bottom redistributed into the juice. kind
gross, and its bulging... like about to burst. Which is kinda gross, so I am
super excited (rolls eyes) at this point and thinking this is going to be
lovely.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c121ae; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So we pour the juice and I just start drinking
mine because I know she is not letting us leave the house without finishing it,
it tasted like apple cider vinegar so it was kind of strong and really not
pleasant any more.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c121ae; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So I am half way done when the relief society
president who is with us makes a comment about it being slightly alcoholic. I
thought she was joking, so I finish mine because its gross.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c121ae; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then she asks if Sister Sagers is driving...
and I thought, wait, was she serious? She was I guess. Come to find out she was
a waiter and she said she knows what alcohol tastes like and it was becoming
alcoholic. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c121ae; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Which explains why it was gross. So then I say
I am taking mine to the sink, and as I pass by sister Sagers I grab her glass
from her and dump it in the sink so she doesn’t have to drink it. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c121ae; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then we said good bye to our investigator
because we had to take our car into the auto shop to get checked out, and as we
were hugging her the Relief society president was able to dump hers down the
sink. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c121ae; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I know it was not actually strong alcohol but
it was becoming more than just juice... so they will be teaching her the word
of wisdom next time to explain why we were trying to explain to her that we
really did not want the juice. And why we didnt let the kids drink it.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So there you go.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The adventures of the missionaries and our
lack of knowledge of worldly things. So now we joke about the alcoholic
missionary I am.... and how ridiculous it all was.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So anyhow. Well I dont know if I actually
spelled it out, but I am being transferred tomorrow. It will be my last area
and my last companion. I am feeling as though I will be released as a Sister
Training Leader, and we shall see where I end up. Maybe in Jersey? Maybe an
area I have been in before? Who knows! I could end up in Broomall at the
mission office! Anything is possible :)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I love you all! Thank you for everything you
have, are and will do for me. I really appreciate it, and I can feel all of the
prayers being sent my way. Love you! And I hope to be able to write back to
some of you soon. Know I think of you often and love you dearly! And hopefully
next week I will be able to write some letters. Today we have to go wash the
car, grocery shop, laundry, clean and pack.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">huzzah! Gotta love missionary prep day! Its
the bestest ever!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Love you! <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sister Wilson<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SEPTEMBER
22, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well I I am glad to hear that everyone is
doing well. Life is moving along for everyone and that's what I like to hear. I'm
glad Stuart was able to be laughing about the harassment from the CO. Hopefully
he keeps that lightheartedness about him. He is such a great example and I hope
he enjoys his experience with the Air Force.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Garret got his slow poke computer, well that's
good to hear! Glad he will have access to more people and things to do. Even if
it came by boat to China! Haha. That's awesome.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Clara is a dancer huh? Well that sounds like
Heaven! How long is the class? I hope I get to see her dance once, that would be
so fun to see! And thanks for the pictures! They are so cute! Little girls
dancing and having fun. Hopefully Clara and Kennedy will become good friends :)
that would be fun for her to have. Friend her age whenever she comes to
grandmas house! <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That's fun that you got to work in the Temple. How
neat! I am excited to be able to go to the Temple when I get home :) that is a
blessing I need in my life! Especially when it is so close to home! I am still
hoping to be able to go to the Temple with Ashley, we shall see when the Temple
prep classes get started... I hope soon! <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well transfer calls come this week. So we will
know who is leaving and who is staying for our last transfer. I am hoping
sister Sagers gets to stay and be with these people we love. She is such a hard
worker and loves these people so purely, it would be nice for her to get to
stay and train someone else to take over the area.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We shall see what happens with me. Maybe I
will die a STL? Maybe I'll become a trainer for a golden, maybe I'll be
companions with someone who is struggling, maybe I'll get sent back to Scranton
and die up there. Anything could happen really! <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c121ae; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Okay my week:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c121ae; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 20.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">MIRACLE!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c121ae; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Last Monday as we were doing our laundry we
talked to a man named Justo, and gave him a pamphlet, invited him to church and
to the Chilli cook off, and swapped information. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c121ae; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pheasant text us on Saturday to say he
couldn't come to the chilli activity but that he could come an hour into
church. We told him it started at 9 but if he couldn't come until 10 that would
be okay too.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c121ae; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well we got through Sacrament meeting with no
sign of him. So we waited for. Few minutes before going to Sunday school, but
after a while we figured they weren't coming and went to class. After all we
hadn't even taught them yet and no one comes to church without at least a
discussion....<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c121ae; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And then THEY CAME! It was a miracle!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c121ae; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A brother came and grabbed us out of English
Sunday school and said here was a Spanish couple looking for us. So we went to
Spanish Sunday school and there they were. Justo and his wife Ana came to
church,<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #c121ae; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 22.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">HUZZAH!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And they stayed for the third hour, even
though she had just met us, and they were in different classes and they don't
speak very good English, they stayed!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We had sister Amaya translate during RS for
her so she could understand what was going on. It was awesome! <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ana said she wants to come and see the women's
meeting on Saturday too, so that's awesome! I am soooo excited for them! <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Bunch of the Spanish members were
starting to fellowship them without us even asking. It was awesome! <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So we are excited for Justo and Ana :) we are
trying to set something up to teach them tomorrow, we shall see what happens.
When you need a translator things get more complicated...<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sorry for the terrible spelling errors. We are
typing from our iPads as we are going to Philly today so we are trying to
double task...<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Also we had the chilli cook off. We had two
not as solid investigators come, but they loved it! And they beat us to the
building so our members were great in helping them find everything they were
needing.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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at the activity which was awesome! A Lutheran woman came with one of the
members, and she does not know much at all about our faith.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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the authority of God and being able one together forever. She loved it and said
that her husband died 3 years ago and her minister or pastor told her they
would not know each other in the next life... Which she said doesn't make
sense. And she is right! Because that doesn't make sense... Why would God give
us families here just to take them away when we die? God makes sense, and that
does not!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #002060; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So then we got to talk about how it is in
Temples and through the Priesthood authority that we are able to be sealed
together for time and all eternity. It was really neat!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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2 for the transfer! And our sisters are awesome. We ended up exchanging back
together in Philly at the Temple sight. It was so fun! On Wednesdays the sister
that is called to be a missionary at the Temple sight (her husband is the over
seer for the Temple construction) bakes and then gives cookies to the Temple
workers as they come off the sight for lunch. <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So we got to help with that which was so much
fun! It was neat to be able to thank them for their service. We got to talk to
one of he workers and ask what he did and thank him. He started asking about
what the building was so we were able to teach him a LOT about the church, it
was awesome, us 4 missionaries were able to answer questions, teach and testify
together.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Man. I am such a spoiled rotten missionary! I
love it :)<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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today, so I'm gotta run. But thank you for your emails and support! I love you
all and am so great flu to be here serving The Lord at this time. Thank you for
your prayers, love and support. I live, miss and pray for you all constantly.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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Kindrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886554686302851166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389360229523336931.post-27580155927915081252014-09-15T15:46:00.001-07:002014-09-15T15:46:10.080-07:00<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #0070c0; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The beach looks Gorgeous! Glad you were able to
enjoy some different</span></b><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">weather
while there. You have to get a good windy stormy day at the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">beach
and then one nice one where you want to be out and about. Glad</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Rissa
was able to come one more time before heading out, she is</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">definitely
in for some warmer weather... Lucky her.... Glad it's not</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">me!
Humidity comes from the devil I swear....</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Anyhow.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">Thanks
for all of the videos! I watched Loris first which is why I</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">responded
to that movie and no other ones, but they did all work! So</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">thanks
:) it was fun to see everyone and hear your voices, thanks for</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">the
messages! I am excited to see everyone soon as well :) and wow, you</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">got
the flight papers?<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj"><span style="z-index: -1;"><span data-term="goog_1487930559" style="z-index: 0;" tabindex="0">12:30</span></span></span>... I knew it was going to be an early</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">morning...
But that's enough trunky talk!</span><br />
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</span></b><b><span style="background: white; color: #7030a0; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We had a TON of meetings this week, with two<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj"><span style="z-index: -1;"><span data-term="goog_1487930560" style="z-index: 0;" tabindex="0">4:30am</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> wakeup
calls to</span></span></b><b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">travel
and be there in time. Let's just say by the time<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj"><span style="z-index: -1;"><span data-term="goog_1487930561" style="z-index: 0;" tabindex="0">Sunday</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> night</span></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">rolled
around yesterday I was exhausted and planning was a little</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">slower
haha. But it was an exciting week. We had Elder Wilford</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Andersen
from the second quorum of the 70 come and speak to us. He did</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">a
mission leadership council and with all of the Zone Leaders and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Sister
Training Leaders which was great! We did an hour of question</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">and
answer session and it was neat to hear what people asked and how</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">he
responded.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">One of
the things that stood out to me was when he said "you choose to</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">serve
a mission eons ago, not a year or so" but eons ago. Knowing that</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">this
is what I wanted to do before I even came here, it was neat to</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">hear
him talk about that and comforting to know, I chose this! And I</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">man so
grateful I did!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">I have
learned and changed so much on my mission, and I can't imagine</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">who I
would be if I had not come. The experiences I have had and the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">people
I have met have changed me. They have helped me to rely more on</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">the
spirit and his guidance and to realize that he really can be with</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">you
always, but we have to want it, and we have to act in a way that</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">allows
him to be with us.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">Another
thing that elder Andersen talked about was the difference</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">between
head, heart and soul knowledge. And I am without notes and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">trying
to explain this through email so forgive me if this does not</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">make sense.
But he talked about how as missionaries we teach a lot of</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">head
knowledge, and so do all teachers. Head knowledge is the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">information
we need to know, the 'cold hard facts' if you will. We</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">learn
the doctrine and then we teach the doctrine to others.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Then
comes the heart knowledge. This is where we rely heavily on the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">spirit
in the lessons to change their hearts. The spirit is what helps</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">them
take that head knowledge and apply it in their lives and know</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">that
it is true. This is gaining our personal testimony, and is</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">something
that everyone needs. We need spiritual experiences which</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">confirm
to us the truth or the falsehood of whatever we are learning</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">and
thinking about. As we ponder and act on the doctrine of Christ,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">our
hearts are touched and our lives are changed. We know who we are</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">and
why we are here and what we need to do. We start to study the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">scriptures,
pray daily, attend church and other meetings etc. All of</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">these
things help to strengthen our conversion to the gospel.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Then
there is the last step, soul knowledge. Elder Andersen said this</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">isn't
what the brethren call it our doctrine but it is the best thing</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">he can
think of to call it. I call it conversion.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">When
the spirit confirms something to us, then we are changed. But</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">what
do we do about it? This is where soul knowledge comes in.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">When
we recognize that we have been changed, and then when we apply</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">that
change in our lives and truly live it, that's conversion. We each</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">have
to make the conscious decision to act in such a way. This is the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">difference
between reading your scriptures every day, and loving your</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">scriptures.
Between praying over your food to communing with you</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Father
openly and honestly. The difference between showing up at</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">church
every week, and coming prepared to be deified.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">I
don't remember who said it, but one of the general authorities were</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">asked
"what do you do when you find yourself in a boring sacrament</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">meeting?"
He pondered for a moment and then replied, "I don't know, I</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">I have
never found myself in one".</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Conversion:
It's living it because you know you need it, it obeying because you</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">have
been advised to. Now being obedient because a leader, or your</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Savior
asked you to is a perfectly good reason to be obedient. I have</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">done
it many times, but once we let it change us, then we become</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">converted
and we want to obey because we know it is what we need for</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Salvation.
We see that not reading our scriptures today DOES hurt us!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">That
missing his<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="aqj"><span style="z-index: -1;"><span data-term="goog_1487930562" style="z-index: 0;" tabindex="0">Sunday</span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> DOES
hurt us, that forgetting to pray about a</span></span><br />
<span style="background: white;">decision
DOES hurt us!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Conversion
helps us to have that long term perspective and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">understanding
of who we are as a child of God, our loving Heavenly</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Father.
And then knowing why that matters. It's great to know you are</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">a
child of God (head knowledge), and it's good to follow what He asks</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">because
We love Him (heart knowledge) but it's best to live it, love</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">it and
share it because we know this is the only way we can truly be</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">with
our families for eternity (soul knowledge) and knowing that</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">everyone
needs this understanding.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Soul
knowledge, or conversion, it changes you! But it is your decision</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">to let
it.</span><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">So that was a tie bit about what we learned from
Elder Andersen this</span></b><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">week!
He is great and it was awesome to have him here in the mission,</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">the
spirit he brought is going to keep us moving onward and upward.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">Also
this week we got to attend district meeting which was good, and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">conduct
two exchanges with two different sets of sisters, and we were</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">asked
to attend Stake correlation which was awesome, we are going to</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">help
the Stake Relief Society train the RS presidencies on how to work</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">with
their sister missionaries more effectively, especially after the</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">changes
from the first presidency. Then we got to go to church, and</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">then
we attended Doylestown ward again his week with sister Hammons</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">because
she came again!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">She is
doing marvelously! She is reading and praying and solving</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">pretty
much all of her concerns. She is ready to come back and receive</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">the
blessings of being an active member of Gods church. It's awesome</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">to see
how the spirit is working with her to help her resolve concerns</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">on her
own.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Man
the gospel just makes so much sense! I love it :)</span><br />
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</span><b><span style="background: white; color: #e917b2; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Well. Life is good, working our tails off and
keeping busy. I got a</span></b><b><span style="color: #e917b2; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">letter
from Marnie this week and I didn't even get to read it for 3</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">days
again, which is a good problem to have! We have been able to</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">focus
a lot on some of the members who are not as active, and it has</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">been a
really neat experience. It's all about helping them gain that</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">heart
knowledge and the hat into soul knowledge.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">So
everyone work on that soul knowledge. That is the most important</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">thing
for you to learn here on Earth and it will take your whole life</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">to
gain it, so start now and get going on it!</span><br />
<br />
<span style="background: white;">Sorry
for the random typos, this one is coming from the Laundromat via iPad.</span><br />
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<span style="background: white;">Love
to all!</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Sister
Wilson :)</span><br />
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</span></b><b><span style="background: white; color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Sister Kindra Wilson</span></b><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
<span style="background: white;">Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Mission</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">721
Paxon Hollow Road suite B</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Broomall
PA 19008</span></span></b><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
Kindrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886554686302851166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389360229523336931.post-71617851766471604892014-09-08T09:47:00.001-07:002014-09-08T09:47:53.346-07:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">September 8, 2014</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Well its another great week here in Souderton. Kinda cool to find out that you and Dad had been to Doylestown before, we still go there since the chapel is there. So itll be fun to think about you being there before! </span><br />
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Well this week was fun. We had Zone Training, which is where all of the missionaries in the zone come together and the Zone Leaders and the Sister Training Leaders train on what we discussed at Mission Leadership Council the week before. Well we did not have MLC last week because of Elder Andersen coming to do a mission tour and wanting to do MLC with us, so we instead got the subject via conference call 2 days before zone training. Which is fine, but the Zone Leaders do the bulk of the training and so we got our subject the day before. </div>
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So that was fun. We were up until 11 planning our portion of the training and then we were up early and on the road to arrive to the meeting early. So it was a lot of sacrifice, but it was so neat because the Lord truly does bless us.</div>
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The training went SO well! We were able to base our portion which was: the motivation behind goal setting- love! Off of a quote Sister Carrigan emailed to me last week that really was powerful and I was thinking about for a few days.</div>
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"Some people I have had the privilege of working with over the years have had a hard time reconciling the fact that healing requires suffering and yet is a gift from our Savior. How is it that a loving God would allow us to suffer? I have come to realize that <b>my Savior cares more about my growth than He does about my comfort.</b> One evidence of His love is that He does not spare me from the suffering I need for my development and progression, even when I get mad at Him. As a client once told me, “I used to feel guilty for getting mad at God. Then I realized He can handle it.” - Jonathan G. Sandberg, <i>Healing<b> </b>= Courage + Action + Grace"</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">I love the line that says: the </span><b>Savior cares more about my growth than He does about my comfort. </b>Because that is what I am called to do as a missionary. I am called to help people grow, to help them get out of their comfort zone and realize that they need to be there in order to achieve all that God has in store for them. But being bold and loving is a great balance, one that every missionary learns.</div>
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But it is one that gets good use. For example, we were visiting a family in the ward we are working with. They are making HUGE progress through baby steps, it has been really neat to watch them. But we found out through our conversation that they were drinking de-cafe coffee.... because the elders told them that caffeine was against the word of wisdom.</div>
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Why are there so many things taught incorrectly? Its ridiculous really.</div>
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There was that awkward time where Sister Sagers and I were trying to figure out if we address it now, or if we plan it out and address it later, but coordinating this without talking of course because we are in the lesson... well the only thing holding us back was the fear of how they would react, and the spirit told me to start talking, so I did.</div>
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So we completely changed our lesson plan and were able to explain that cafeine is not agains the word of wisdom... I had enjoyed a Dr. Pepper that day in fact! But that coffee was, then we were able to talk about the wisdom of God v.s. the wisdom of man. We used the example of smoking cigarettes previously being a perscription from doctors to loose weight, but if we follow Gods commandments we are protected, even before the world understands. </div>
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And committed them to stop drinking coffee, that was the scary part. But she responded with: "sisters dont worry, I can stop drinking coffee, that is the least of my worries right now." </div>
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So listening to the spirit and caring more about peoples growth than about peoples comfort helps us to show them how much we truly love them. Even when its hard.</div>
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This week we also had a cool experience when we were using wifi at the laundry mat to download videos we were wanting to teach with. A woman walked past us a few times before stopping and asking: are you mormons?</div>
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GOLDEN QUESTION!</div>
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We asked her how she knew the mormons and she launched into her story. Turns out she was living in Arizona and meeting with missionaries there, working towards a baptismal date but then ended up moving out here suddenly and has been looking for the mormons for over a month. </div>
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Tender Mercy! It was neat. We exchanged info and decided we would set up a time to meet next week at church. So we text her <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1158928503" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Saturday</span></span> to make sure she is coming, yup! She is. </div>
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Then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1158928504" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span> morning comes, and we get a text that her car battery is dead. DANG YOU SATAN. So we grab the ward mission leader and we both start calling members to see who could pick up her and her daughter, then she text us and says she got it jumped. So we tell her to come to church, we can jump to get her home. So she is running late, we get through sacrament meeting and see we have a missed call from her. We call her and she is only minutes away and asked if it was okay that she brought her friends daughter with her. During sacrament meeting her friend had been checked into the hospital and she was watching her daughter for her. </div>
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So she fought to come to church and got there in time for <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1158928505" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span> School to start. And boy did she need church yesterday! She had awesome questions and you could tell that the things that were shared really had touched her. </div>
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So all in all, she is a miracle! We are so excited. We had a quick lesson with her last night and then we are seeing her again tonight. She is so ready for this gospel! She is in a rough situation though, so we are doing what we can to help her. </div>
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She needs this, and it has just been so cool to see how the Lord works in mysterious ways. Everything is panning out how it needs to for her at the right times. What more could you ask for?!</div>
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Man. Life is good! </div>
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We had a cute little girl come over and draw with us. We were able to talk to her dad, explain a little about who we were, what we were doing out here and what we believed. He ended up taking a Book of Mormon and a Restoration pamphlet. He lives out of our area, but as he was walking away he said "Ive been looking for some enlightenment recently."</div>
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It makes you feel good to know that you are in the right place at the right time, helping people find the truth and deepen their understanding of the Role of their Savior in their lives.</div>
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This is the most rewarding thing I have ever done.</div>
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And well, my iPad is acting up so I need to email everyone from the library today, and we have to run soon. But I Love you all! Thank you for your emails, letters, love and support. I love and appreciate you all! Your prayers are felt all the way over here!</div>
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LOVE YOU!</div>
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Love, Sister Wilson</div>
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<br />Kindrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886554686302851166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389360229523336931.post-50522830931661131592014-09-02T12:04:00.002-07:002014-09-02T12:04:36.931-07:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">September 2, 2014</span><br />
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Lets see, what even happened this week? </div>
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Well <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1392009956" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Tuesday</span></span> we went on exchanges, I went back to Milford and I didnt even get poison ivy this time HUZZAH! We went to dinner at this diner that was kinda fun, and we talked to lots of people. We met a guy who was previously married to a member in a ward I have served in, he gave us botterscotch candies :) And a crazy woman who knew me showed up at the diner, which was odd because its kinda far from her place and not great enough to travel that far.... but it was fun. We also talked to a few ladies as we were in line to pay for our food. The sister I was with tried to give her a pass along card, but the lady was very Catholic and refused to take it. </div>
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But it was fun to walk around that night, lots of people out and about enjoying the beautiful fall weather we are already getting all August! Before school starts. No one super interested, but a few who were willing to talk with us.</div>
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Then we exchanged back and got to go see Sister Hammons :) We love her! She is such a cute nice little old lady. She is so awesome, she reads a TON every week, and then is able to teach us what she is learning from reading the Book of Mormon again, and how it applies to her, without us even asking many questions! Then she asks us questions, this week her question was "how were spirits created?"... that was a fun conversation. People dont really like to hear the answer 'we dont know' but when its all you have, its all you have!</div>
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We also have had some awesome lessons lately with our recent converts. We talked about how the church was organized and the Priesthood authority etc. Then we were able to talk to both of them about Patriarchal blessings, which is neat to be able to teach someone. Thats not a lesson you teach an investigator...</div>
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I also FINALLY got some letters written to Cheryl and Katherine and some other people from previous areas. The first Presidency of the church has raised the standards and asks us to remain in close contact with those we taught and who were baptized, and I havent been doing a very good job with Katherine or Jennifer :( I get to talk to Ashley and Cheryl on Facebook usually.</div>
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Ashley is doing awesome! She went on the ward Temple trip to do baptisms for the dead, and she really enjoyed it! Then I have been able to talk with her about preparing for the Temple. She can go through the Temple in November! So we are hoping that scheduling works out so that I can go to the Temple with her! So if you could keep that in your prayers everyone, that would be awesome! I would love to be able to go and see her make those covenants and receive those blessings. She is doing so well! I just love her SO much! </div>
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Also one of the recent converts here in Souderton got to take 11 family names to the Temple and have their baptisms and confirmations performed. It was awesome! She is doing FANTASTIC as well :)</div>
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Souderton ward is really on top of helping their recent converts attend the Temple and be able to do baptisms for the dead. We hope that they will all be able to go with the ward in November, so I hope that as we are working together as missionaries and members, we can help them prepare, plan and attend the Temple and receive the blessings of going and to be able to feel the strong spirit that is there in the Temple.</div>
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Man. Life if grand isnt it?</div>
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I love fall. I have realized that this week. I almost love fall more than spring now... its just so happy and beautiful! And I get to wear leggings, tights, scarfs, cardigans and boots. I love layers :) But we have had an unusually cool August, instead of the deathly humidty and heat we have gotten a fall like August. The trees are all sorts of confused, loosing leafs already and changing colors. Its fun, maybe we will get an extra long fall this year? That would be nice! I am praying that winter does not come early... I think we all had enough of that from last years treachery! So I am hoping for a nice long fall :)</div>
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Its just so happy! And so many things are happening :) We have Elder Anderson coming to visit the mission in ... 9 days! After that transfers.... then we will have general conference, then we will have another mission leadership council, then we will have zone training, and another zone conference, then my birthday, and going to the Temple with Ashley (hopefully!) and then going to the Temple with the other departing missionaries. SO many exciting things are happening! </div>
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I am just loving life. It feels like time is speeding up! Which is good and bad. I am excited for everything that is happening but sometimes I feel like I am going to blink and this is going to be over! And I want to enjoy every last minute of it that I can! </div>
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Its been neat to be working with the leadership here in the PPM (Penn Philly Mission). I have been able to see changes happen in the mission based on suggestions that are given. It feels like President hears and cares about the things we discuss with him. And I feel that part of my purpose in being in the leadership is to help them establish how we work together. Sister Training Leaders are a fairly new calling, and it seems as though you do not serve for very long, so about the time that the sisters are comfortable talking to President about the concerns or changes they feel should be made, they are released or go home. So I have decided life is too short to hold concerns in. Its been neat to work closely with the elders and sisters around here and to know that President is focused on moving the mission forward. And that is what we are doing.</div>
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As we come to council together I feel like I can be open with my concerns, and questions, and even if the elders dont agree, understand or care President does, and thats when changes happen.</div>
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I am so blessed to be here in the Philly mission. I am so grateful for the people I have been able to meet and talk to and develop friendships and relationships with. Its been such a great experience and I am so excited to be able to continue to develop such friendships. I am excited to see who else I am here to meet, and who else will impact my life as I am endeavoring to change theirs as well. </div>
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There is truly nothing like this experience. It is something that has changed me for eternity, and for that I am grateful! </div>
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That you for all of your love and support everyone. I can feel the prayers, love and support. The letters are wonderful, thank you for sharing a little bit of home with me. I hope you all have a wonderful week and that you enjoy the experiences you are having.</div>
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Love you to all from Philadelphia!</div>
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Sister Wilson :)</div>
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August 25, 2014</div>
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There is an Elder Menlove serving somewhere in Beaverton OR, and his sister is serving here in Philly! So if you see him say hello from Philly! And be nice to him!</div>
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Also, mom, did you ever serve with an Elder Zowtiak? From Canada? He served in Holland, he wouldnt give me years and assured me I was too young to have a parent who served at the same time as him. But if you remember him, he is in our ward! Kinda fun to have another connection to Holland :)</div>
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And now onto the week. It was a pretty good one. Lots of finding, but it was nice to see some miracles happen as we were seeking to be diligent in our finding efforts and not trying to find anything else to do before knocking doors, like previous companions and I have done.</div>
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This week was the first week I have knocked a whole neighborhood. Usually we dont have enough time to do that, but we set aside a 2 hour block and we did it! We might have talked to 5 or 6 people because no one was home, but we knocked every door in that neighborhood! It was kinda neat.</div>
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Well while we were there we talked to two youth aged people. The first we gave a Book of Momron to and talked about where it came from and how it is a record like the Bible, that doesnt replace the Bible, but is another testament of our Savior Jesus Christ. She seemed like she was interested in reading it so we left one with her, and I hope she does read it! </div>
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The second girl we asked if she had ever heard of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and she said yeah I actually went to that church last week.</div>
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We did not see her! Turns out she is friends with some of the youth in the ward and they invited her to come to the ward after us because thats where some of the YW her age would be, I guess ours were all out of town. But we asked what she thought of the service and she said she really enjoyed it, she liked the Sacrament meeting even though it was really different from her Catholic church ( a lot less up and downs). But anyhow we had an awesome conversation with her, she knew quite a bit and really enjoyed the lesson on Temples and how we can be sealed together for eternity in the Temple by the Priesthood authority. I asked her if she would consider coming to church again and she said she would. We gave her a pass along card and told her we would love to see her come again! She took our card and we found out that she took a picture of it and text the picture to the guys who invited her. </div>
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It was really cool to knock into someone who knew members and had come to church with them.</div>
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Our ward is awesome at talking to people and inviting them and all that jazz. So its nice. Now we are just working on getting introduced to some of these people.</div>
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WELL This week we also had Stake conference down towards Philly. The adult session on saturday was all about missionary work. It was a neat meeting! A wife of a member of the Stake Presidency had written a readers theater called 'if it happened' it was really neat. And she wrote it over 30 years ago, so it was neat to see how well it is still relevant today. It went through an experience of a guy asking his friend at the grocery store why someone had come up to his family and asked where the closest mormon church was (the family was on vacation and trying to find a chapel) only to find the family was not LDS. The vacationers said sorry, they were sure that the family was LDS, they just looked it!</div>
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She he asked his LDS friend what that meant, and what they thought they saw in their family that was similar to the LDS faith. It was neat and went through the experience of both the member and the friend and how they worked together to learn about the church. </div>
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It was pretty cool, unique for a chapel but cool for a Stake Conference meeting.</div>
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Then they put together a slide show showing all of the Elders and Sisters who are serving from the Philly Stake. They have 11 sisters out and I think 23 Elders? Yeah. It was pretty cool. It showed a picture of them before their missions, when they left and then a few from on the mission. It was really neat to see all of them. They had a few videos of people opening their calls which was neat too. And it was funny, because I knew a lot of the missionaries or their families. Its neat to be able to serve within a stake for such a long time. Stake conference was fun because I was able to see a lot of people from the Doylestown ward there :) I love them dearly! IT was weird to see people after leaving the area. But it was so good too.</div>
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Oh also we invited an investigator to come to soccer, or rather a person who we are trying to work with to become an investigator, to come to soccer on saturday. It went really well, he was enjoying it and was a good soccer player, but then he hurt his knee. No bueno. It was sad. He probably wont be coming again... but we will hope that he does after it heals!</div>
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We play soccer in the park on saturday mornings, yes I actually play soccer, not well but they still give me the ball and let me try! Also, I am a terrible goalie when it is raining and the ground is muddy.... probably other times too, but that was rough! But I have come to rather enjoy soccer on saturdays! Its nice to be able to switch up the exercise routine, and to get to play and exercise for more than 30 minutes... even if it is killer.</div>
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Anyhow, soccer saturdays are good. And I am learning that I am not very good at team sports, or kicking a ball with my left foot. Also no Bueno.</div>
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OH Also this week we found Cathy. We were going to reschedule an appointment with a less active sister when we saw this lady walking along with a walker and some bags and we decided to ask if we could help her. She said no at first, then asked us if we were the Jehovah's Witnesses, we told her no, and then she let us help her. </div>
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So we helped her get her things inside, she shared a scripture from the Bible about building our life on Christ as our rock and Redeemer. So I shared Helaman<span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1392009925" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">5:12</span></span> with her: <span style="background: rgb(249, 246, 237); border: 0px; color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px 1px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"12 </span><span style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the </span><span style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">rock</span><span style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"> of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your </span><span style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">foundation</span><span style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty </span><span style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">storm</span><span style="background-color: #f9f6ed; color: #2f393a; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"> shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall."</span> </div>
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She loved it! And then we talked with her about the Book of Mormon again and how it is another testament of Jesus Christ. She was excited to read it and asked when our church started. We told her 9, she said perfect! I can go to yours and then mine, it starts at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1392009926" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">10:15</span></span>. So we told her that ours was 3 hours long, she said she would still like to come some time. So we will invite her to come when we see her this week. </div>
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She told us we can come back on Wednesday so we will call and set up a time. Then a day or two later we saw her at the library which was fun! She was ready for us to come again, so we are going to keep working with her. She is awesome and very open to learning and really just wanting to talk about how she gained her faith and how we gained ours which was cool. So we will go back and talk more about it :)</div>
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Anyways. It was another great week here! </div>
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OH and I forgot to finish the stake conference thing. So after the adult session which was all about missionary work, we had a couple come up and ask us to come over tomorrow so they could introduce us to their neighbor! So we did, it was not a good time but they set up a dinner for tonight. So we are going to go back and talk with her a little bit about how she has gained her faith and any questions she has about the LDS faith. We are excited, and we get dinner! Win-win! </div>
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Well. I shall leave you at that. I love you guys! Hope all is well,I am praying for you daily and individually.</div>
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Love you bunches! </div>
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Love, Sister Kindra Wilson :)</div>
Kindrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886554686302851166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389360229523336931.post-2217432737224797582014-09-02T11:46:00.002-07:002014-09-02T11:46:54.099-07:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">August 18, 2014</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hello all, well it's been a great week here.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">My companion and I came to Souderton about 6 weeks ago, and it's been</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">rough figuring things out. It usually is when you are both new and you</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">feel like you are running in circles. But Finally this week the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">circles ended! It was a great feeling!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We had several times where we were in the right place at the right</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">time and talked to the right people. That is a feeling I love :)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">For instance Ron and his mother.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We were having dinner with a member and it was so fun, we had a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">picnic! We went to Wawa and each got a sandwich and an awesome peach</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">mango smoothie and then she ran next door and got Chick-fil-A</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">chocolate chunk cookies for dessert. It was amazing! And we went to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">eat it at a park close by.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We had a lovely dinner and she told us some amazing stories from her</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">life. Well as we pack up and start walking back to the car we see this</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">man walking along the path with his dog and his rather old mother. He</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">says something about not many people knowing about this park so he is</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">glad to see people enjoying it. The conversation lead to us not being</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">from around here, which lead to why we were here and then to the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">member teaching the restoration right there!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">It was neat to witness. And there was a bench right where we starting</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">talking so grandma got to sit and listen, and Ron was quite engaged.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">It was so cool! Sister Sagers and I both went to pull out a copy of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the Book of Mormon to give to them at the same time. So Sis Sagers</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">gave him her copy. He told us that he was visiting his mom and would</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">be leaving soon, but seemed sincerely interested in reading it. So I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">went to grab my copy so him and his mom could both have one, well mine</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">ended up being in Spanish... Oops! So instead we got their address and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">asked if we could stop by after church and bring him a copy. He gave</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">us all the information we needed and more. He said he was excited to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">read and to talk to his brother about it.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So we called him on Sunday after church to set up a time, but plans</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">came up and they were heading out soon, we were planning on teaching</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">more about it and bringing that same member with us to help us teach.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">But they needed it now or never! So we ran over quick without our</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">member and gave him a copy of the Book of Mormon and a copy of the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Restoration DVD. He was so excited for both! It was awesome! He told</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">us he would be leaving to go back home soon and out schedules aren't</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">allowing us to meet up before he leaves :(</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">But we pointed him to Mormon.org and got his information so we can</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">send missionaries to him if he cannot figure out how to request them.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">It was neat to see someone who was so sincerely interested and wanting</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to learn about what we had to say. On Sunday when we went back he said</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">he was talking to his brother and said he could tell we were</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">passionate about what we were talking about and that there was a light</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">in our eyes. It's neat to hear people describe the spirit when they</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">don't understand it. Helps me realize just how often the spirit is</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">with us and helping us testify of the truth of our message to the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">world.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The. We were able to find another man, Tony. We knocked on his door</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and started a conversation about the Bible and asked of his</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">experiences with it. Well that lead us talking about prophets and then</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we were able to teach him about President Thomas S. Monson, who is the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">prophet on the Earth today. It was neat to be able to talk to someone</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">who was so open for so long about the fact that we have a living</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">prophet. He wanted to look up more information about him, so we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">pointed him to Mormon.org where he could learn much much more about</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">President Monson himself and about prophets being on earth again</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">today, and about our general beliefs. It was probably one of the best</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">door approaches I have ever been apart of. It was awesome!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We also got to go to the Amaya's and meet some of their friends at a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">birthday party which was fun. And there was a lot of young women there</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">so it was good to be able to spend some time with them.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We also got to teach this older couple and do some service for them.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">He has a HUGE train set in their basement which we helped him to fix</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">in a few places that were hard to get to. We got to crawl under things</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and attach different parts. It was fun! And we got to get to know them</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">more. Hey have been married for over 50 years and they were married</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">two weeks after they met. Crazy right?! I asked them what they have</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">done to keep their marriage strong all these years, she said they</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">never go to bed mad at each other, and they have learned to compromise</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and work together. We were able to talk about how marriage, in the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">world today, has become casual. If it isn't perfect people are more</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">willing to walk away than to work to make things happen. Of course</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">there are situations in which people need to walk away. But there are</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">many instances where people walk away because the didn't realize the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">responsibilities of having a family etc. We get to see the results of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">many broken families where dad disappeared or mom walked out.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">How sad, that that is the culture that is accepted in the world.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We should share the Family: a Proclamation to the World with them, I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">ink she would like that. Well their son is a member and has told them</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">about missionaries before and so they are wanting to take us out to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">dinner to their favorite sea food buffet because they know our funds</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">are limited and that people from the congregation feed us. They want</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to help to. So we are going to let them! Haha. They are a sweet old</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">couple, we are excited to get to know them better and help them see</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">how what we have will only add to the faith they have, not detract.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Well those were some of the hi- lights of the week! We got transfer</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">calls this week and we survived! We are both staying in Souderton for</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">another 6 weeks. I am guessing that after that I will be transferred</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">since that will be our last transfer and they aren't going to have two</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">sister training leaders die and double in two brand new STL... But</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">they could. Anything could happen! But for the next 6 weeks here I am</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">in Souderton :) we are excited to get another one together.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Life is grand! Life is hard, but worth the fight. So keep you head up</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and keep going, God loves you, and so do I!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Love,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Sister Kindra Wilson</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Pennsylvania Philadelphia Mission</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">721 Paxon Hollow Road suite B</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Broomall PA 19008</span>Kindrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886554686302851166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389360229523336931.post-15156679778569812622014-08-14T11:07:00.000-07:002014-08-14T11:07:26.108-07:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">August 11, 2014</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Well I don't know what happened to everyone, but I got only emails</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">from you mom thanks for forwarding Tyson's email and that pours,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">hilarious! I am glad that he has been able to find the joy in the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">journey, sometimes it's harder than others, and well. No it's pretty</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">much always hard, but it can still be fun.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">My companion, sister Sagers and I were talking about how we laugh so</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">much, we both said something about how if we laugh at a time when it's</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">not funny to the other one to let us know. Because is work is hard!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">There were several nights spent in long fervent prayer is week before</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">crawling into bed and asking God to give me the energy and motivation</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to get out of bed so we can get exercising and all that jazz. And I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">was very blessed. Each night I went to bed expecting to wake up and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">just be dragging because we didn't get to bed at </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_621030497" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">10:30</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> and we had to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">get up at </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_621030498" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">4:45</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> or </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_621030499" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">5:30</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> to get to some meetings multiple days in a row,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and we didn't get the exercise time because we needed to travel or</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">what ever it was that I thought would make the day hard, I woke up and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">had the energy needed to get out of bed and moving. (I think we all</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">know how much I love my bed, and how much I dislike getting up early)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">but I woke up and was blessed to have the mental attitude and energy</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to get up and going.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A small tender mercy that has had far reaching effects.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Well it sounds like you had a busy week with the apartments and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">everything going on, so I a, so glad that you were able to go with the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">sisters and get with connect her a little bit. I have learned how</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">truly important it is for people to feel as though they have a friend</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">at church, to know they are welcome and that works MIRACLES so thank</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">you mom for going out with her and being willing to talk and to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">minister to those people in our ward. I find myself wondering at times</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">how the missionary work is going at home, are people involved? Are</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">they finding people to teach? Are they being a blessing to our ward?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Have they been able to strengthen our members?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Our mission vision is to teach to convert, strengthen the members, and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">get them on the road to the Temple.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I am so grateful for this and knowing that we are here to bring</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">peoples the Temple where they can make the covenants necessary and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">gain the strength and the blessings they need.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We had a busy week here too. We had our Zone conference which was held</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">down in Cherry Hill New Jersey woot woot! I have now been in all of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the states of the mission! I have served in PA, MD, DE and visited NY</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and NJ. How cool is that? We shall see what happens. Transfers are in</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">two weeks so we will find out </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_621030500" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Friday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> what is happening. I think</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">sister Sagers and I will stay together and get two and then I will be</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">transferred out for my last transfer and go somewhere else. Maybe I'll</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">go to Jersey and serve in all the states? Or maybe I'll go down to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">center city? Who knows! I'm guessing it'll be one of those two, mostly</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">because the idea of either was my fear up until this week. Jersey</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">people are harsh, and cities scare me half to death! So God could send</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">me to the City to get me over that, who knows! Or President could call</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">me as a trainer for a new missionary, or I could be released as a STL,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I don't see that being very likely but who knows! There are 5 of us</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">who came out together all serving as STL, anything could happen.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">But back to this week and less speculation station.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We had our Zone Conference down in Jersey, so we drove through Camden</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">twice and survived! Aren't you glad :) and we got to drive over the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Ben Franklin Bridge which is cool. Sister Sagers took some pictures,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">which is good because drivers out here are crazy so I I didn't really</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">get to see a whole lot of the city. But it's all good. We are actually</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">going to Philly today :) so it works out well that I don't have a tone</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">of emails to respond to.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We also had some cool miracles this week. After zone conference we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">went to a buffet with a member, and as we were walking down the stairs</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">a woman made eye contact so Sister Sagers close to where we were</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">sitting and she knew we had to go back and talk to them. But how do</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">you make that situation un-awkward? We would have to walk back up the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">stairs and march over to them and strike up conversation? That's</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">terrible. So we went to the restroom, said thank you to our member and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">then sister Sagers told me we needed to go talk to them. And I was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">like alright, who was it? I didn't even notice a family up there...</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">And then we weren't sure if they were still up there even. Once she</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">said that she said, now it doesn't feel right... So we went out to the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">car to figure out the best ways spend our last hour.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">But I remembered that my iPad was acting up and we needed wifi to be</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">able to reset a password on sis Sagers iPad so I could then fix mine.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Long complicated not important the details, but we needed wifi. I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">remembered a sign inside that said free wifi, so we went back inside</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and upstairs to try and use the wifi.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Well it wouldn't connect so after only a few minutes we decided we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">needed a different location. As we were walking back down stairs we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">passed the woman and sister Sagers simply said "you have such a cute</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">family" they were having a family outing and dad and their son were</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">down stairs getting ice cream.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Well that launched into a 20 minute minimum conversation with her</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">about why we were here, the area, where we were from, Mormons, Utah,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and missionaries. We were able to give her a Book of Mormon and a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Philadelphia Temple pass along card. We were able to get her phone</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">number and the city she lived, and we know which elders are serving</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">there and we can now forward her information to them. She took the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Book of Mormon and said she was excited to read it. She doesn't know</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">much about them but her mom always tells her 'they are the nicest</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">people!' So that's a good start!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Miracles happen, and The Lord work in mysterious ways. He knew we were</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">not going to figure out a way to un-awkwardly approach her on our own,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">so he inspired us to realize we needed to go up for wifi, which gave</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">us direction and purpose and put us right back in their path.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Miracles are every where!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">And this week we had an awesome lesson with our young woman. We taught</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the restoration of the gospel and it was like re-teaching a newly</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">baptized member because she is so familiar with everything. It was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">awesome! She is so ready for this. We talked to her about using a</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">study journal, a journal used specifically to write down what she is</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">learning, reading, if things stick out to her, any spiritual</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">experiences she had, etc. She told us she thought about doing that but</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">she thought it was probably weird and no one else does that so we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">would think she was weird if she did. It was so cute because she was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">excited after that to start a study journal! She is spectacular! She</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">told us that she wants to do all the lessons with the two of us, so we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">are hoping no one gets transferred and we are able to be here for the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">whole teaching experience and that we both get to see her be baptized!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Man. Life is good! Life is HARD and some days are long, other days are</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">way too short. We are working on getting our faces out in the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">community and finding people to teach. We spend some time just walking</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the streets and talking to people who are outside.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This week as we were walking around Telford we found a man who attends</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the Baptist church here. Calvary, they have a huge congregation, I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">think we have someone new tell us they attend there every day. But it</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">was a neat conversation because we were able to tell him we are the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">LDS missionaries, he told us he has worked with many Mormons and that</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">they are great people but there are some main differences in our</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">church, for instance we believe Jesus was a great Prophet but not the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Son of God, and I don't remember the others but many doctrines as</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">such.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I was shocked.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We both were, he talked of having many conversations with these guys</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">he worked with and he has been terribly misinformed.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We were able to talk with him and testify of the fact that we know</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that Christ is the Son of God, that He came down, suffered, died and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">rose again for us. We know that it is only in and through the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">atonement of our Savior, Jesus the Christ that we are able to repent</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and return to live with good again.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">He told us that we could come back anytime and talk more. He was</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">telling us that there are people who have left the Mormon church and</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">are truly 'in the know' of our beliefs and that he has read everything</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">these people have to say on their websites. It was very apparent that</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">he got online and read negative and anti-Mormon literature, which</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">makes me sad.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Every time that happens I just think of how ridiculous that sounds. I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">know your beliefs because I read online information from someone who</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">was mad, or felt wronged and has let your church, I know what you</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">really believe.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Do you? Do you really understand what I believe? How? How do you know</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">what I believe? Did you ask me? Nope. You sure didn't. In fact you are</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">telling me things that I completely disagree with and I can disprove</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">in the scriptures myself, that is not what I believe.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">And so we ask them if they have read the Book of Mormon, and then we</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">point them to Mormon.org and ask them to visit the website and read</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">what we truly believe. What the people have experienced, to read the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">words of faithful and diligent members from around the world. To hear</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">personal experiences and testimonies and to see how the Book of Mormon</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">has done nothing but strengthen their faith in their Savior, Jesus</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Christ. Whether they were born into it or later found the church, the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">experience is the same. Those who read and want to find the truth,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">truly and sincerely read and pray about the Book of Mormon find their</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">answer. They come to know that it is the word of God, that Jesus is</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">our redeemer and Savior and that Joseph Smith truly is a prophet who</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">was called of God to restore Christ's church to the Earth in our day.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">It's amazing to see the changes that people make as we come to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">understand who they are as a loved daughter or Son of God. I have</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">realized that that knowledge is one of the most precious things I</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">possess. I know I am a daughter of God, that Jesus Christ was sent to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Earth to show us e way, to organize His church how God wanted it to</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">be, and then to Atone for the sins of the very people who crucified</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Him. I know with every fiber of my being that this is Christ's church,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">once again established on the earth through His Priesthood power. That</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">is what makes our church different than any other church on he face of</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the Earth. That is a big difference.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I am so grateful that I have been blessed to have found the truth so</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">early in my life. It's truly amazing, and has shaped the person I have</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">become and continue to strive to be.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">God loves you, and so do I.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Thank you for everything! Sorry for any terrible typos, we are on the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">iPads today to try to cut down time and get to Philly :)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">LOVES!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Sister Kindra Wilson</span>Kindrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886554686302851166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389360229523336931.post-36457308611108610082014-08-14T11:04:00.000-07:002014-08-14T11:04:39.458-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
Thanks mom, another tear jerker in the library! But It was so good and what I needed to hear this week. Thank you mom! You are amazing and always know just what to say. And thank you for telling me the names of our missionaries, Elder Johnson and Elder Critchfield. I want to write them a letter when I get home and thank them for their service so they know how far reaching their missions were. Its amazing the blessings that we have in our lives! How did we get so lucky?<br />Also I wanted to ask, I am familiar with the story of how your family found the church but not as familiar with how dads family found the church. Do you know? And do you happen to know the names of those missionaries? Or I guess I could ask Lori, not sure how old she was when they found the church and if she would know or not. But I thought I would ask you first and see what you knew. Dont know why I havent asked more sooner, I guess I just always tell the story of how Grandpa told the missionaries they had to finish the football game first and then he would listen. <div>
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I am so glad that Garret was able to come home and see so many people and that he really does have some great friends. I love that boy so much, I dont think he even knows how much I respect and admire him and the choices that he is making. He is a great example to me, and I agree with you. I am excited to know that the next time he comes home I will be able to see him! And I wont have to just hear about it through email haha. But I am glad that they were able to enjoy so much time together. That he was able to go to the wedding and hang out with the guys, and TP people haha. And that he was able to spend some time with David and Deanna. Weird to think that they are empty nesters now! I didnt even connect that until now... WEIRD! </div>
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Well thank you for telling me that you got the letter, and yes flying home to PDX :) It will be weird, coming out with 30 missionaries and then flying home MAYBE with my MTC companion, I think she is flying home to Alaska through PDX, it all depends on how the office staff books it. But it would be really neat to be able to at least fly home with the two of us since everyone else will be going to Utah. Hopefully we can all fly the first leg together. Who knows. Did they give you the date? And the beach sounds wonderful, and we shall leave it at that :) Excpet of course salt water taffy and cannon beach gotta be in there. Okay requests over.</div>
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And yes, PLEASE keep me updated on Stuart and Lindy, thats kinda a big deal! </div>
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Anyhow. Well the life of Sister Wilson this week. It was honestly kind of a rough one. But we got through it and the miracles make it all worth it!</div>
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We were BUSY! And lots of travel. We went on two exchanges this week with sisters, one of which was our farthest sisters, about an hour and a half one way down to Westchester. But it was good because we linked the exchange back to our Zone Training meeting, so we only drove to the chapel and not all the way back down to their apartment. Then we did a portion of the training at the zone training meeting. It was a zone filled with sisters! 5 sets of sisters and 3 sets of elders. The Zone Leaders did most of the trianing but they asked us to do a portion since we are the sister training leaders for 4/5 of their sisters. It was fun, we talked about how to work better with members and how to build relationships with them while still being representatives of our Savior Jesus Christ. It was good to get the input from all the missionaries we were there with, but they were not super participative. </div>
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This week was the first week that I got a little taste of kick back for being a sister trianing leader. It was interesting, since Ive been serving for 4 months now and not had a negative reaction from anyone. But this zone was a little bit older and some of the sisters that we came out with. And I think because this calling is so new missionaries still dont know how to react to us, use us and work with us, so we get a little bit of kick back some times. But I think it also helped that I served in the zone where I was first called to be a STL, so I knew and had worked with and been around many of the sisters that we covered. And now I am over no one I have worked with before, so there is more awkwardness working here. Anyhow, it was an interesting experience to have some of the sisters I came out with kinda avoid us at the training because we were STL and apparently we cant be friends any more. I tried to be friendly and kind and reach out but I still gave them some space so it wasnt over whelming. That experience was probably the time on my mission that I have felt the most inadequate for my calling as a missionary, and then on top of that as a STL. I was grateful for Sister Sagers since we came out together we were treated similarly and had similar frustrations. So we talked together and I read a talk about leadership and the sacrifices that others have made that are greater than the rebuff that I received and decided my life is still pretty great all things considered. So I let that one go.</div>
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Then we had more exchanges, lots of travel and it felt like we were a giant circus act juggling our area, the ward members, the investigators, the less actives we are working with, the recent converts we are working with, the sisters we are over, the goals we had together, the planning that needed to happen and all of the travel in between that can feel like a waste of time while being our saving grace allowing us a few minutes of down time. And guess what? A few of those balls got thrown up in the air and a few of them fell on the ground this week. And I learned a lot. </div>
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I realized that there are many aspects to the calling of a missionary, and there are many more aspects added upon when you are called as a sister training leader, and then realizing just how stressful it was to be opening an area on top of that. There are a lot of things required. And I felt like we were trying to keep them all afloat, and I realized this week that I am not called to keep them all afloat. I am called to do my best and to learn what I need to hand over to the Lord and have Him watch over for it until I am able to swap with Him. It was a very stretching week for me! But it was so good!</div>
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We kinda failed at our zone focus, we were tracking the number of new people we talked to each day, and because we had SO much travel time our numbers were quite low and making us realize how bad our finding has been, which is why we do not have investigators which is adding to our stress. But we decided Saturday night as we were going to bed feeling pretty miserable about the week in general, that we would try our best tomorrow and see what happens. </div>
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Oh it started out as an adventure, we had a woman show up to church, told us her crazy life story, was trying to give us money and begging us to baptize her. We told her we didnt want her money and got her information so we could set up an appointment to teach her after the church services. Well it was kind of a shocker just because, I guessI have learned many times that I should not expect everyone to have people skills.... but I still do. So lets just say there was a lot of talking during the Sacrament meeting, a lot of pointing, a lot of body language to communicate sincere listening and a lot of explaining this is quiet time. Then she left and decided to come back for the ward after us... I think she lives in that ward anyways so yeah.. that was an adventure. </div>
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Then after church we went to choir, its tiny! We make up a third of the women in the choir my companion and I so they are very grateful that we come and participate. Then we decided to go walk around and just talk to people. And this was the miracle part! It was a Sunday afternoon/evening and EVERYONE was out with a dog or a lawn mower so we talked to triple the people we had been able to all week. It was awesome! So we were feeling a lot better about our week. </div>
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Then we had dinner with a part member family and one of their daughters who has been coming to church for a few months and who just got back from girls camp asked us if we could start the baptism lessons for her like her step siblings did. She told us that she wants to be baptized and was asking us questions about how school and missions and everything worked. It was a tender mercy for us to know that the Lord works in mysterious ways. </div>
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The ward has been asking us to go over and get to know them and try to teach this daughter, but with summer and everything it was just not working out. Well this past week was girls camp and she had some great experiences that helped her realize how much she does want this. We are so excited to teach her! And so excited for her and her family. They are pretty amazing people! And all three of the women are going to do personal progress together! They are fantastic. </div>
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Anyhow. A mission? Its a blast. Its hard, and makes you work. Stretches you in ways you didnt think you could be stretched and then builds you in ways you didnt know you needed. Its such a blessing, and after the miracles I see what I have learned or was supposed to learn, I know that this is where I need to be and what I need to be doing. </div>
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Man. Life is good. Hard, long, stressful and man there is a lot of juggling out here, but I am grateful to learn that the Savior is helping me keep all the balls in the air. What a blesisng that is! (I cant single handedly ruin something!)</div>
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Well that is all for this week. Miracles, abound! And blessings make it worth it. The gospel is true! And we know all about it :) How lucky are we!</div>
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Love you all! Thank you for your love and support, and thanks for the boxes mom, I didnt realize I asked for that much stuff... and candy is good :) SO thank you, we definitely did a hi-five in the library after reading that :) haha. </div>
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<br />Kindrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886554686302851166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389360229523336931.post-71992193127582075282014-07-28T16:36:00.001-07:002014-07-28T16:36:32.877-07:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">July 28, 2014</span><br />
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We were on exchanges <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_979130928" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Tuesday</span></span> in Broomall where the mission office is, so we met there. It was fun to be in the office at a time other than transfers and Mission Leadership Council. The building feels quite empty! But its good. It was fun to be in there with the office staff and get to know them better. I got to spend some time with the senior missionaries in the office. We went apartment hunting with Elder and Sister Jones, and he is so fun. I give him a hard time like I do Brother Bleak, only probably more! When you dont see them as often you really have to be quick on your feet! He was so fun to be with because he gives you a hard time right back. Hes almost quicker than I... almost. He asked when I was going home and that was sad.</div>
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Also I was in the mission office when they printed up and sent out the departing missionary information... and I was on the list. So if you havent received the letter yet, be looking. Itll come soon! Which is depressing.... but you know what? I still have 3 months to kill it out here and thats just what Ill do!</div>
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But while we were in the office the box you sent arrived, which was fun. You NEVER get those packages quickly and you are never in the office when it comes! Unless if you are the Broomall sisters, and for the day I was :) Which was fun. And while I was there I got 3 or 4 letters from people which was really nice. The sad part? The week was so busy I literally did not have 5 minutes to read any of them until <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_979130929" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Saturday</span></span>. So I had 4 letters with me for a few days waiting for a spare moment, never came until <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_979130930" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Saturday</span></span> night when my poison ivy flared up, we were both therribly exhausted and we decided we would finish our nightly phone calls the next week. So I got ready for bed, washed off the poison ivy and laid on my bed with the air blowing on me and at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_979130931" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">10:25pm</span></span> was able to read the first one part way through. </div>
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Lets see what else? Oh I mentioned my posion ivy. Yup, got that doing yard work on exchanges in Milford last week I think. But it waited to flare up until this week. And each day it just gets worse. The bad part is that it needs to be uncovered to heal, but if your out and about talking with people you cannot have a large pussing open wound on your arm, so I have been having to cover it up. Well band aid adhesive is not in agreement with the poison ivy (me neither). So it was good to have this morning. We didnt go out running like we have been, instead I uncovered my rashes, put on this stuff the ward told me to use and it seems to be helping. Thank goodness for P-day! </div>
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Then we had our weekly district meeting and planning sessions. We still have people we are trying to meet and get to know and work with, who knows when it will happen though! Exchanges are crazy, and we have zone training next week, and then we have zone conference the week after that. Oh they told us that we have Elder Anderson coming to tour the mission in September which will be exciting. He is a member of the quorum of the 70. We are all excited for him to come. Elder Bowen came last year and it was neat to be able to see him. And Elder Bednar came, that was awesome! </div>
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We had another lesson with Sister Hammons who has been less active for a few years. She is so ready to come to back! We gave her a Book of Mormon last week and she had read it all the way up to 2 Nephi 5. Thats more than I've ever read in a week! Shes awesome. And she had written down questions, and we got to talk about some of the things that stuck out to her. It was awesome. She is a sweet old lady and we are excited that we have been able to find her since the ward had no idea who she was. Which is so sad to me, but I know it happens a lot.</div>
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Good news is only 15 hours later the swelling went down and thumb is good as new. The ivy? still pussing ... its gross. Hopefully it will leave soon and not be shared with my companion. We decided that we do not need both of us to get it, we are unified even without that! haha. </div>
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And you know it was hard to not want to be with family this weekend, knowing everyone was home and what not. But I think that was why Heavenly Father blessed me with a busy week! So that I did not have time to think about it! Instead I was able to realize even more how blessed I am to have the gospel, and to have the opportunity to be here serving in such a capacity. I am so grateful that I am able to interact with so many elders and sisters. Its amazing the strength that comes from going on exchanges with all of them. Talking with them, getting to know them, helping them in their missionary work, receiving answers on how to better my missionary work, and being able to see miracles for sacrificing the travel time to be with all of them. Its amazing how much God loves us, and it is something that I am reminded of every day! Its truly a blessing and exactly where I need to be right now, to show my gratitude to God for everything He has given me.</div>
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And its amazing how He prepares us for whats up ahead. I have been able to give advise and council to many sisters while on exchanges who are having the same experiences I have had in the past. Its a blessing to have struggled, and to be able to look back and see what I have learned and what helped me to get through it. Man alive, this is awesome!</div>
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ALSO: Update on Ashley! She was baptized while I was in Bethlehem, and I asked her if she was planning on going through the Temple, her year mark is coming up and I wanted her to know that I could go with her if she goes through before I go home. We were able to talk about what she needs to do to prepare, who she needs to talk to etc. She talked to the ward and is going to take the Temple prep classes that start in September. That makes everything worth it, to know that Ashley is going to be able to go to the Temple and receive all of the blessings that I have had. She is doing so well! I love her dearly! </div>
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And I love all of you! Im glad that you were able to enjoy your week together, and that Garret was able to come and be at the wedding. Thank you for sending all of the pictures :) I love pictures :) I love you all, thank you for your love and support! I love you guys. The gospel is on the Earth, the priesthood power is real, and that is what allows us to be a family for eternity. How grateful I am for that knowledge and to know that I am here bringing that happiness to others. Its amazing :) </div>
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P.S. just because it takes a few days does not mean I dont still love letters :) They are still VERY needed and appreciated! :) :) :)...and so are treats...</div>
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<br />Kindrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886554686302851166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389360229523336931.post-3553678184829497432014-07-14T14:12:00.000-07:002014-07-14T14:12:32.639-07:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Dont worry about the short email mom, I understand. We have been talking a lot about journaling lately and how yeah I want to remember life, but you have to live it in order to remember it! And you sent enough pictures to make up for lost words :)</span><br />
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THANK YOU for sending those to me. Seriously, pictures are the best thing to get on the mission. As much as I wished I could have been there with all of the cousins too, Im glad that you were able to get down and see so many people! I am glad that we are able to get to see each other more often now. As much as I would have loved to know everyone growing up, now that we are old enough to really form relationships and get to know each other, Im glad that we are able to spend time with each other. </div>
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And how neat that everyone was able to be there for Josh's wedding! That would have been so neat to see everyone in the Temple together!!! That will be us, one day! For someones wedding, even if it is Keiras haha. She will get everyone at her wedding and that will make up for mission graduation and all that jazz that she now has no siblings to force to sit through those ceremonies haha.</div>
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Sounds like you had a great week and like you are in for another week of adventure and fun. I am SO EXCITED for Garret to be able to come home and spend some time with everyone there. How long does he get? I home enough time to really enjoy some of the things about home! </div>
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You know what I miss about home? The BEACH. We are going to go to the beach in November when I get home okay? Even if we are in the car feeding birds in sweatshirts, we gotta go! </div>
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Well a new area mean new adventures! I didnt end up going very far, in fact I have church in the same building and saw some of the Doylestown ward yesterday which is fun. And as it turns out here in Souderton we have a set of english elders too! Which is GOOD. We need two sets of missionaries here still. The elders have a golden and then one elder that came out just before Sister Sagers and I did. </div>
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Yup, my new companion is Sister Sagers, we were in the same MTC district so its way fun to be able to see her in the field. Although its surprising since we only have 3 left and we doubled into Souderton as Sister Training Leaders. So I am guessing we will get two here together and then my last I will get transferred somewhere else and she will die here and train the new sister training leader. </div>
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Oh joy! With no direction because neither of us knew the area or anything. But its all worked out. We found that we have the area of the ward that neither of the previous elders worked. So its like opening an area, no investigators (they ALL live in the elders area) which is nice for us because its a clean slate, and nice for them because Elder Yates (the golden) will get lots of practice teaching different people and lessons. I hope that they can handle everything, they can with the Lords help, but I hope they dont get over whelmed. Teaching is a good thing, but they also got all of the spanish elders investigators and guess what? NOT a lick of Spanish! We will be relying heavily on the ward members to teach and translate the people the elders were working with so that they dont just drop off the face of the Earth. Or I should say <i>they</i> will be relying heavily on the ward for translators. </div>
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What else to tell you? OH the elders apartment we took over, GLORIOUS! The previous elders are angels and cleaned everything! It was clean, not like 'clean for elders' but it was clean! Which is such a treat! We didnt even have to spend the first 48 hours cleaning and being scared of what to find next. They cleaned out the fridge even! Every closet, everything spotless. </div>
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It pays to have friends in your district! I will have to thank elder Butler and Elder Paulsen the next time I see them. I was in the same district as them and we knew I was taking over their apartment so I think they made sure to actually clean it knowing the sisters were coming in. ANGELS! Someone should tell their mothers, they would be so proud. </div>
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anyhow. We got all settled in, we found out that we are covering all new sets of sisters! Which is exciting, I only know one set that we previously worked with, and I have met maybe 2 of the other sisters, but its a whole new set of sisters so I am excited to get to work with them and get to know each of them.</div>
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OH EXCITING NEWS! We now have 2 sets of Spanish Sisters in the mission! We cover one of them, I love Sister Sturgess, shes fantastic. She is finishing training a spanish sister and we are working with them. And I am not sure where the other set ended up. But its way exciting to know we are going to get spanish sisters too! I dont know how many more we will get, but we shall see! And I am glad that President did not call me to learn spanish for the last 3 transfers of my mission, can you imagine? But we are trying to learn some spanish because there is such a big population of spanish speakers here. Its gonna be awesome. </div>
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Dont they know I tried spanish already? It was a bad idea! Luckily sister Sagers knows some basic vocab... okay not very much at all. We have had a few people call us, attempted to communicate and they havent called us back :( We got the spanish elders phone... and their car! Which is nice because I dont have to worry about walking for the few days while it gets fixed :) But sad for the elders in Doylestown because they do have to worry about walking for those few days... sorry elders! </div>
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We live close to the road so I would suggest sending boxes to the mission office. I will be down at the mission office on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_13348811" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">July 25th</span></span> so if you get it there by next week I should be able to get it from them. We go down the last friday of every month for Leadership Council, which I am already excited for! Its always so uplifting and just what I need that week!</div>
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Anyhow. Well, thats my week in an email. And I dont think we get as much time to email here so emails might be a little shorter than they have been lately.</div>
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So Julie is not home, but a few of her neighbors are in the courtyard talking loudly about the door to door salesmen that came through the day before or something. We look at each other and ask: "do you think thats for our benefit?" ... and it totally was. Then we ask, do we go and talk to them? and in a moment of bold sauce we decide yes and I start walking over to them before I chicken out. </div>
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I ask them if they know their neighbor and if Julie still lives there, they say yeah but it doesnt look like she is home. So we explain who we are and why we are looking for her, and most of them try to look busy (which doesnt work when you are sitting out on lawn chairs on a <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_13348812" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span> evening shooting the breeze by the way). But one of them was semi interested. So we show them all Philadelphia Temple pass along cards (my FAVORITE ones to use) and talk about how we are sealed for time and all eternity in Temples, and not just married for time like we are in other places. 3 tell us they arent interested, but the 4th one seems semi interested. So we talk to her and tell her about what we do, ask if we can come back and talk to her and she says well you can talk to me for 10 minutes but then Im going inside. </div>
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We then tell her some of the main points of the restoration of the gospel and give her a pamphlet, which lead to questions and discussion and giving her a Book of Mormon and a card that sister Sagers has which guides the reader to find the answers to 23 hard questions that can be found in the Book of Mormon. Then she voluntarily gives us her phone number, address and we set up an tentative appointment to check back with her in two weeks and see what she has been able to read and think about the Book of Mormon.</div>
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It was pretty neat! And all because her rude neighbors decided to talk loudly about salesmen and I wanted them to know that we werent sales men! Plus they were sitting close enough that they all heard what we were talking about. It was great!</div>
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Then as we walked back to our car we stopped and talked to these two Vietnamese ladies and gave them a Temple card and asked if we could bring them a book in Vietnamese, and they said yes, voluntarily gave us their phone number and address. Oh we also talked to an older Vietnamese man who didnt speak much english at all who said he wanted to come to church next week. I would be surprised if he came, but miracles are happening so who knows! He was watering his flowers and pretended to water me with his watering can, luckily he didnt get me wet but he tried! Stinker! </div>
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Anyhow. Opening an area is awesome, lots of walking, being lost, and talking to everyone. (by the way how did missionaries survive without GPS? I would DIE! But that goes for real life too, I get lost finding things at home, but I think my skills have increased since being here. Anyhow.)</div>
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Love you LOTS! Thanks for all of the pictures! we are loving life and working hard. Exchanges will start this week and then we are doing two a week on average, which is hard with opening an area but I hope the sisters are willing to help us talk to everyone! Pray for us to be guided to find those who are ready and those who may be looking already. This is gonna be awesome! </div>
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Love, Sister Kindra Wilson </div>
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many good things are happening at home! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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there are still so many missionaries going out for home, and I am sad to hear
of all the struggles, but I am glad that you let me know so I can include them
in my prayers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have been learning
in the last few weeks that missions are </span><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WAY HARDER</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> than I expected them to be. My Doylestown
experience can be wrapped up as such: growing pains.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Its been a time of
much learning, lessons that aren’t learned easily, but that will last for a
life time. Mostly learning that we strive to run at full capacity, but the fact
that our capacity changes at times has been a hard reality for me. Guess Im
just too stubborn! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But it is difficult to
admit to yourself you cant do something, especially when you could do it
before. We have talked a lot about it and the talk that keeps coming up from
conference is the one about 'lifting burdens' I think its called by Elder
Bednar, who talks about how our trials give us traction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anyhow, you have been
hearing all about this and guess what? The Funk over!! Lesson learned (or at
least determined what I am learning from this) and that seems to make a huge
difference, so if that sounded super pessimistic it wasn’t supposed to because
guess what? I feel better than I did before all these feelings came! Its
amazing to see how much one lesson can change your life. And it has.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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all of our missionaries, sounds like we could all use some as of late! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Our 4th of July was magical :)</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> We woke up and were pretty bummed to begin
our day because we had no plans. </span><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But President allowed us to stay out late too!</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> But we had to be home by</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> 10pm </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So we were trying to figure out where to go
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We spent the morning
helping a member pack who is moving and it was really good.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then we had dinner at
a members house and it was great to be at their home. They had burgers and good
American food :) Then we went to another members house for dessert and as
we were talking they were telling us about this beautiful lake we needed to
see. So they took us to the lake, but the grounds closed at dusk so the rangers
kicked us out before the fireworks started.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So we drove around and
found a </span><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">BEAUTIFUL </span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">location, just off the river where a family
was doing a private show, and they had spent some money on it, so it was good.
Then we looked around and could see several different shows down the river and
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the whole world!</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> It is something that
you cannot describe! </span><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">twinkle lights everywhere</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. In the fields, in the trees, by the lake.
Lots of sparkly little lights. It was fantastic! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I would tell you more, we got to see more fireflies the next night with the
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week because <b><i>we are BOTH being transferred out of Doylestown</i></b>! I am pretty
much packed with my stuff, compa is not and then we have to deep clean the
apartment on top of packing up all the sisters apt type things because elders
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<b><span style="color: #f83ed5; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And weirdly enough,
I do know where I am going this time. I am going to take over the elder’s area
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we share a chapel. SO next week will be weird going to church at the same
place, but not knowing the people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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where Sister Shaia will be going. Needless to say this is pretty stressful. We’ve
got lots of things like mirrors, soap dishes, decorations, crafty supplies, cup
cake pans etc. That sisters want and use that elders do not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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be taking over 2 sets of elders areas. They had spanish and english elders in <b>Souderton</b> and they are both being
doubled out as well. So added stress of taking over 2 elders teaching pools,
doubling into an area so neither I nor my companion will know anyone or where
anything is etc. and I will most likely be getting a new sister who is called
to be a Sister Training Leader, so it will be training her to be a STL on top
of doubling in, taking over two sets of teaching pools and adjusting the ward to
sisters needs instead of Elders. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Thank you for the pictures of Garrets ceremony, I love them! I am so proud of
him , he is such a great guy. He’s awesome. But he is a Wilson so that is
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<b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Keira</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, keep working hard and enjoy having your
friends around this summer! They will leave for school sooner than you think
and then you will want them all back, so enjoy them while they are
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for Stuart and Lindy! I hope they hear about the AF SOON! I want to know when
he will be around! And if he will be home when I get home! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f83ed5; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">LOVE YOU! More than you know, <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #f83ed5; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sister Kinda Wilson<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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the Doylestown apartment, I will try to send my new address asap. Thanks for
everything! LOVE YOU GUYS!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I am so glad that Grandpa was able to be there for Keiras graduation! I feel bad that she sat through all of ours and none of us could go to hers, but ... now Im over not sitting through another graduation haha. Sorry kid! But it sounds like you got to see the Wights a lot this weekend too! Man I love them and miss them! Casey is at VF now? Im glad. They are pretty great. Congrats to Casey on Valedictorian! Thats a lot of work and time spent, good job! </div>
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Sounds like Keira is liking the Mango Tango place still? Thats good! Especially since she practically just started... but Im glad that she is able to be getting lots of hours and work in. Thats awesome. And it sounds like she is friends with a few of her co-workers, so thats good. By the way KEIRA HOW THE HECK ARE YOU? I always knew she didnt really love me... just kidding, but I havent heard from you in a while... you know graduation, dance festival, finishing school, work all of that, you have had so much time to email me... so I understand. But no more excuses little missy! whats going on with YOU?</div>
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Anyhow. Im glad that the dance festival went well! Sounds like it was a lot of fun to watch! I hope Keira enjoyed the swing dancing! Thats the one I wanted to do, but I am glad now that I was in the African, it was pretty cool, And the Celtic, that one was fun to dance as well. Man that seems so long ago now! </div>
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Im glad that Stuart and Lindy were able to come down and bring Clara and that Grandpa was there too. Sounds like it was a fun time! And how fun that you were all able to facetime with Garret, could grandpa really see him? Thats cool! I guess its a big enough screen for him to see Garret easily, so thats good. How long is Grandpa in OR for? I cant remember. </div>
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And oh my goodness, Im so glad that Grandpa called and alerted the world that he was locked in the Jeep and forgotten! haha. Poor guy... NOT. Well okay 45 minutes is more than a few, but come on you big baby! There are worse places to be stuck grandpa.... oh Love you grandpa! Miss you too! Hope you are enjoying 'cold' Oregon! </div>
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I was walking though target or something last week and saw a display of little cars and I thought of last summer when Grandpa was here and we were teasing Grandpa about buying me a car and how he offered me to take my pick! And showed me the toy car selection at Albertson's, I still get a kick out of that. Not sure if any of you remember it, but I sure do! </div>
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Im glad that Hazeldale ward is still as grand as ever! and that people remember Lindy and her name and love her! It so fun to get to watch the ward grow as people go off and get married and then we get to meet the spouses. I know there are a few who seemed to visit a lot that I alsways seemed to sit by in Relief Society, I think it was Cody Smiths wife, we seemed to sit together a few times while she was here. </div>
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I pretty much just love Hazeldale ward with all my heart! I love everyone and I think often about my experiences growing up as we are discussing the ward and their needs here. I am so grateful that I am a part of the Hazeldale ward! Its a great support and love to know that they are still back home, I got cards from the Achievement day girls at Chsirtmas time, and I think I wrote them all back! I hope I did.... I know I sent post cards to several girls groups, not sure how many there are any more.</div>
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And the stake changed lots of boundries for the Bethlehem ward here, and it made me sad to think that Hazeldale will probably be split one day! But I am so glad that it isnt yet! And I know that it is a good thing, a sign that the work is moving forward and that the work is being done, but it is still hard to lose people you love. I am just grateful the splits happened after I was transferred out of Bethlehem. </div>
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Oh mom, did I ever tell you that we got to teach early morning seminary twice? Yup. We did. A few weeks ago, they have been done for a while now. But we did get to get up early, teach and them come home and journal for that extra hour we gained, it wasnt worth going to bed to get up so soon after getting home. It made for a few long days, and lunch time quick naps for a while! But nothing terribly big. One thing about missionary work is that it never stops! So we did catch back up, eventually! haha. But it was fun, and challenging to get the kids to talk about ANYTHING that early in the morning! It was kinda funny to watch them all though. And think to myself, man I am spoiled rotten and SO glad that we had release time!!! But I will take my spoiled rotten-ness, I rather enjoy my blessings thank you very much :)</div>
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Lets see, what happened this week? Well we started teaching a guy in Russia! He found sister Shaia on Facebook somehow and added her, so we have started teaching him via Skype, which is neat. He has really great english and had studied the religion a little bit, but enough to understand the basic concepts rather well. Which is nice. Its interesting to see the differences in beliefs and culture. The ends of lessons are rather abrupt with him. Which is very different from lessons here, it seems like people here just like to talk so much more! Its ridiculous, you need to plan the last 10 minutes of just good-bye chat to get out the door! But that is fine. Its just interesting to see how abrupt a goodbye could be! Also when we do skype with him its almost <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_241371866" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">11pm</span></span> his time, so he is probably going to bed right after, so that might have a little bit to do with it, but from the sounds of it that is how Russians are. Abrupt. So that is a new cool experience! </div>
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We also got to go and double into Nazareth this week which was fun, its something I havent done before. Normally when we do exchanges we swap companions and then one set goes back to Doylestown and one sat stays in the other area. Well when we went into Nazareth we swapped companions but then we both stayed in Nazareth and worked. Which is nice because you can teach a lot more appointments having more missionaries. And funnily enough Nazareth has elders and sisters in their ward, so we doubled in making it 2 sets of sisters and 1 set of elders, but then the Assistants doubled into the Elders area so the ward of Nazareth had 4 sets of missionaries for a day last week, and no one even knows what hit them! It was a funny realization. And a neat experience. It was interesting because the other sisters appointments all held and they talked to a ton of people! Whereas our appointments fell through because our members all cancelled.</div>
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As we were meeting up to swap companions a big flash flooding storm came through and it was a turrential down pour outside! Complete with lightening and everything which was fun. Expect for the fact that the members all got scared and the girl that was supposed to come out with us called and said her mom wanted her home now. </div>
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I guess some lightening hit a tree and a telephone pole, so she went home. We were able to stay inside the church for a few minutes and sync the iPads and do some of the paper-worky type stuff. Figure out who needed which phone and car etc. and then we headed out, luckily the storm died off really quickly and we werent stuck in the rain for much of the day at all. But anyways, the whole point was that our appointments fell through so we ended up doing a lot of stop bys and literally only 3 people were home all night. We even walked main street to try and find a few of the homes and no one was out! Even though it was a <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_241371867" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">friday</span></span> night. It was weird, and the weirdest part was just that the other sisters talked to SO many people, and we werent able to talk to hardly any at all.</div>
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BUT we did have a cool experience, like I said we walked main street for a little bit and we had to park (obviously) and we both got out of the car and felt like we needed to knock on the house right there, but it was completely dark, no movement, no cars outside nothing. So we walked to find our home we were looking for, and then realized that we had another one way up at the top of main street, so we could either walk back to the car and drive up, or we could just walk up and back. We were so sick of being in the car and driving around (it feels like such a waste as a missionary! You cant talk to anyone when your driving!) so we decided to walk. It was nice out by now and we figured we would get to talk to someone along the way.</div>
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Anyhow, so no one wants to talk to us all night. We get back to the car and the house that we wanted to knock earlier now has lights on and the door open! So we went and knocked and we talked to this woman. My companion at the time said something about how we are missionaries for our church and we share a message about how the Atoning sacrifice of our Savior has given us the opportunity to be a forever family and asked if it was a message she would be interested in hearing. And she said YES! But she didnt want us to come in because we were strangers and she had two little girls, which I understand. So she said we could come back when the kids werent home, she wasnt sure when that would be now that it is summer, so she asked for our card. So we pulled out a card and started writing the phone number and info and we got to talk to her a little bit.</div>
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Now any of you who have served missions are now thinking 'come on sister Wilson, she is just blowing you off by not setting up a time and asking for your number...' and I was trying to figure it out as well. But then we were able to show her the picture on the card of the Philly temple that is being built, we talked a little bit about how beautiful it was and she said it was impressive, and then we got to talk about what happens inside the Temple. We shared with her that this is a sacred building, which she can see before it is dedicated, but after it is dedicated it is a place where families go to be sealed together for not just time, as marriages here on Earth bind us, but for eternity. </div>
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She was really excited to learn more, told us that we could stop by and knock on the front or the side door and she would answer and sincerley wanted to hear of our message.</div>
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Which was awesome! On my mission I really havent been able to see many positive things come from tracting out doors like that, but it was neat to be able to see someone who sincerly wanted to learn more about how she could strengthen her family, and how strongly the spirit was able to be there just by seeing the picture of a Temple, that isnt even finished being built yet, and knowing that she wanted something from it.</div>
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The gospel is true! The Spirit testifies to all of the truth, the light, the way. The spirit is what helps us to learn and grow and develop our faith, because we are all constantly growing our faith.</div>
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It is amazing to see how the Lord's work is going forth to all nations through the resources we use everyday! The internet is allowing us to teach more often and to more people. Its truly a blessing to be able to use and see the benefits from it. </div>
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And we are inviting many people to join the efforts of spreading the gospel though the internet and facebook and other social media sources especially. I am going to invite Mom and Stuart to be a part of this group that is on Facebook that is working to spread the Book of Mormon, they have asked us to help the members become a bigger part of the missionary work, then can you two invite other people from home? Im not sure if your missioanries have facebook yet, I know there are only 28 of them in the world thus far, but there are things that each of us can do to help this word be spread far and wide. If you dont want to post the pictures as they have instructed you can just share your experiences and then use the hashtags.<br /><br />Hash tags description--<br />This is what the hash tags look like: #xxxxx (dont use any spaces between the words) </div>
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I hope that helps to explain the hash tagging thing to the older generation reading this.... its really not as scary as that may sound to link everything together, people who are not your friends cannot get to your profile if your privacy settings are set to protect you. And it doesnt give out any of your personal information.</div>
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But what this does do is flood facebook with uplifting experiences that others are sharing, it helps to get the face of the Book of Mormon out there, and it helps others learn more of what missionaries do! </div>
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This is an invitation that is coming from our mission President, and probably even Salt Lake, as they are working to use social media to spread the gospel. If you can all invite others to be a part of the group and then post either the picture they describe, your experiences, or just the hash tag, it is all helping to hasten the work and to flood the internet with good, uplifting and encouraging stories. I hope you can all find a way to take part in the hastening of the work online. </div>
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It is an amazing tool that we are learning together church wide. We are the internet pioneers! haha. That was cheesy... but really we are.</div>
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ANYHOW, thats just an invitation to others to be a part of this work. Here is the link to the facebook page that is doing this:<br /><br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/774654132574908/" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/<wbr></wbr>groups/774654132574908/</a></div>
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All of the 28 Facebook missions have been invited to participate as we flood facebook with the Book of Mormon. There are instructions on the group for EVENT #2 that is happening soon. So I just wanted to invite the ward and people back home to be a part of this great experience as well.</div>
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I love you all! Thank you for your love, support and prayers. I truly do appreciate all of them!</div>
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Sister Kindra Wilson</div>
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P.S. Thank you for sending that box mom! I do appreciate it! And just fyi while I am here in Doylestown you can send packages here to my apartment, we have parcel lockers and they can leave them on our doorstep as well. Just a touch quicker, but we will have Leadership Council next week so I will get the box soon! THANK YOU! </div>
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with you that nothing much is going on! It sounds like EVERYTHING is going on
now! haha. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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were able to go to Texas and spend time with everyone there, and I am jealous,
but not enough to switch places :) It just sounds like it was a PACKED house! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Im glad that the
wedding went well and that so many people were able to come for it! And wow,
sounds like Monica and Brittany and family are having a grand old time together
haha, packed full! And sounds kinda like us at Christmas time with everyone,
which its full of family time anyways so its all good. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well I will include
Devon and Monica in my prayers as they are searching to find their family, I
cant even imagine going through that. But I am glad that they have the gospel
and have that testimony of our Savior, Jesus Christ and know where they can
lean to find that comfort and support and strength to get through this. They
are pretty great! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sounds like Amanda is
having the time of her life with all those pups! Im glad that she is doing so
well with the training and her job, sounds like they found something that will
work well for their family, what more could you want?! Im happy for them. And I
didnt realize they were getting ready to move back to Texas! Hope Isaac likes the heat! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Grandpa is back in OR,
and cold? Man. Its getting hot here, not as hot as it has been in the past I
hear (ALLELUIA!) but it is still warming up, in already high 80's and 90's and
its the beginning of June! But I guess it was high 90's & 100's last year,
so Ill take it! It would be alright if there wasnt so much humidity! Its
annoying, not as bad as people make it out to be.... YET! so for that I am
grateful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">OH and we saw a few fireflies coming
out last night</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> :) </span><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I love fireflies,</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> I wish they were in OR, but I am not willing to take the heat
to bring them, so I will enjoy them while I have them. They are fun! And SO
slow, you can catch them quite easily. Im glad they are back out now :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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girl now! Done with school? Man. Its just really not okay any more, alright
Keira? Enough is enough! Just kidding. I am excited for you, but still,
your the baby sister, you cant be out of High School! That makes me feel old...
by the way today marks 5 years since I graduated... YUCK.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But anyhow, life is
grand :) I love it! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lets see what happened
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We had an intriguing
discussion yesterday at dinner with a member and he was telling us the
significance of the use of the word 'hasten'. He is a project manager by trader
and talked about when you want to hasten something that does not mean to speed
it up, that does not mean to rush to get things done, (thats how things get
sloppy and forgotten). But he said, hastening something means </span><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">adding
more resources to pull the finish line closer. </span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He talked about adding more resources to the
mix to do the same thing but more of it, not faster or different, but simply
more. Or taking things that were done serially and doing them simultaneously
instead. </span><b><u><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Adding more resources allows you to
move up the deadline</span></u></b><b><span style="color: #0070c0; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> without getting sloppy, or rushing,</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> it allows you to get the job done well and
accomplish it sooner than originally planned.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It got me thinking,
you know the Lord has a deadline on us. He knows when He is coming again, and
He has that deadline, but it can be affected and put into place sooner if we
are ready sooner. </span><b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We are being called to hasten the
work,</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> to allow Him to come
sooner, if we are willing to work with all our might and with an eye single to
the glory of God, we will be able to accomplish all that He has set for us to
do</span><b><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Kristen ITC"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, but now He is giving us more resources</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, to allow us the opportunity to use our
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Its amazing to think
about and to see in action. We had a wonderful sacrament meeting this week. We
had a lot of people come that we weren't expecting to see. Some less actives,
some spouses, some investigators and man it just kept getting better and
better! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And we basically had a
party in Relief society, they pulled the couches in from the foyers and we
talked about the talk from conference in the womens meeting about 'Help needed,
true disciples of Christ'. It was our visiting teaching conference and we
started out with food :) Croissant sandwiches, fruit, cheese and crackers and
chocolate cake :) It was delicious! They gave us a paper and asked about how we
have seen people be rescuers, mentors, helpers, and disciples of Christ either
through our visiting teachers or family, friends, etc. It was a very uplifting
meeting, and very filling :) And nothing like I have ever seen done in RS or
church before, but it was a fun 'conference' and I think it did a better job at
helping people desire to be the best visiting teacher they can be, and not
something that made it sound rebuking and needing us to do better and improve,
it was very encouraging and well done. I like it, and the food :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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thrift shop called NOVA (Network of Victims Assistance) its part of a larger
corporation and the shop just helps to fund the great programs that they have.
BUT it was so much fun. We got to go to a volunteer appreciation dinner. The
sister started volunteering at NOVA just a few months ago, so we are still
pretty new to everything, but they are SO grateful for our work that we do each
week. We get to go in twice a week and help out there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So they had a dinner
of appreciation for the volunteers and we were debating about whether or not to
go knowing it would be dinner, the event would probably be longer than an hour,
and they were talking about having wine etc served. But we felt like we should
go, so we did. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We got to meet people
that worked in all aspects of NOVA in the head quarters, in the learning aids,
in the support groups etc. And they were all talking about us, the table behind
us was talking about our life style... but they thought we were nuns. AND WERE
NOT! Trust me, I will be married to a man one day and have my own family and
finish my schooling and go back to life, I am not a nun. But lots of people
think we are... its okay. My life goes on.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But we were able to
tell a lot of people and answer some questions and we were able to talk to a
girl who is searching for the truth, and has a rough family life. But sister
Shaia sat by her, and it was a good thing, because she was able to talk
to her the whole time, next to me were some ladies who were retired and
just liked to chat, but not religiously. So that was fine. But it was such a
cool place too! The dinner was in the loft of this old barn that has been
renovated for events and things, and below you, guess what? Its live stock.
Goats and sheep etc. running around. It was not like anything Ive been at
before! but it was really fun. The food was fine, and they had some good lemonade,
so we were glad that we went and were able to talk to lots of people and get to
know the higher ups in the corporation so they understand who we are when they
talk about the sisters that come in to volunteer. Its great! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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volunteering at NOVA this week we got a few pairs of these atrocious wrap
around pants... so I tried them on. And then Priscilla wanted pictures! So we
had a mini photo shoot... Maria found a cheetah costume that she put on,
complete with the footie PJS, tail, gloves, hat and mask. It was so funny! We
love NOVA and those ladies there. On Saaturday when we were in they treated us
to lunch from Tabora which is a GREAT place to eat. We love it, so we let them
treat us! It was delicious and much needed by that time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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study the</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> sunday </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">school lesson with this little old lady in our ward, Sister
Zander. I love her. She showed us pictures of her wedding because we saw her
family pictures all over the house and asked where she was. They were cute, and
she had a few funny pictures, but we loved seeing the dresses and her sisters
who look just like her! Then as we were studying there was this great big
spider that crawled across her ceiling and Sister Shaia pointed it out, well
Sister Zander shrieked! And then yelled at it "come down here so I can
kill you!"... well it didnt listen and we went on with our lesson, but
sister Shaia kept looking at it and sister Zander would shriek every time she
remembered it was there... so funny! So before we left we chased it down and I
killed it with my shoe. We are such good spider killers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with the Morrisville sisters this week which was fun. We had a lesson with a
guy in a music store, that was interesting. We had brought a member with us and
he was the only one running the store, so when the few customers would come in
he would stop and help them. Then he would ask, okay what did you want to talk
about? each time he came back. Not my favorite way to teach a lesson, but you
know, whatever works. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Training this past week which was good. Sister Shaia and I trained on how to
work closely with the members and how to help gain their trust and keep it.
Being out here has taught me how important it really is to have members and
missionaries working together. I didnt realize how vital the members were to missionary
work until I have come out here and seen the differences. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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members are asking us about what is going on, its on their minds more and they
are looking for those opportunities more. in the wards where we have to ask
them and its like pulling teeth to talk to some of them, the work doesnt move.
Because yes, the Lord must trust the missionaries to teach the investigators,
but the Lord also has to trust the ward to take care of the recent converts. So
look around when you are at church and notice who is new, reach out to them,
get to know your ward and the investigators the missionaries are working with.
Pray for them by name, do what you can to reach out and welcome people who look
uncomfortable. Do your part to help the Lord trust your ward to have new
members come into it. It makes a world of difference with the missionary work
to have the members involved, and there are so many miracles that happen for
the members who are involved and the wards that are involved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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lesson with our investigators from Iraq. I learned that while there are many
similarities, there are also many differences with their beliefs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">They believe that God
loved Christ so much that God did not let him suffer and actually feel all the
pains of the world. But that when Judas, who is named Joshua, betrayed Christ,
he did so at the last supper, but when Joshua went to open the doors to let the
guards in to capture Christ, God took Christ up to Heaven with him and that
Joshua's appearance was changed to look like Christ so the guards actually took
Joshua and crucified him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So major differences
there, that belief completely cuts out the Garden of Eden experience, which is
HUGE. We know that Christ suffered every weakness, affliction, hurt, trial,
despair and pain that has ever been experienced here on Earth by everyone who
has come, is here now and has yet to be born. We know that Christ did feel
those pains because someone has to make that restitution for our mistakes and
down falls. Without Christ feeling those pains and burdens, how could we rely
on Him? Sure he was a perfect leader so we could try to emulate him, but that
places Him so far away from us to know that He never suffered? How could he
ever relate to us? How could he ever truly comfort us if He didnt know what it
was like?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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whole new meaning to me to know that He suffered and felt EVERY pain that we
have felt. Its amazing to know that He is truly our advocate with the Father,
and that He can be because He has felt what we have felt and He truly
understands each of us. I am so grateful for my Redeemer and my Father in
Heaven and everything that has been given to us and for us. How much our Father
loves us! We cannot even comprehend. I am so grateful to know what little I do
know, because that perspective affects my life, every day. That perspective
shifts my focus from immediate gratification, to looking at eternity and what
the future holds and what I need to do now to prepare for the future. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Isn’t life wonderful? I sure do love it :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anyhow, those are some
hi-lights from the week and a few insights that have come along the way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I love you all! Thank
you for the letters, prayers, thoughts, everything! I truly do appreciate each
and every one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">p.s. mom, I still
haven't sent your birthday box... hopefully this week! Im packing some clothes
around the gifts to protect them in transit. Hopefully Ill get it out this
week! I love you and I think of you every day that I walk past that box!!! (and
every other day too)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Your in my daily
prayers! Love you lots! Love, Sister
Kindra Wilson :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">June 2, 2014<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
dont know why but I am feeling on top of the world right now! I read everyone
emails and responded and it was all just so uplifting to hear and to read and
to know that God is watching out for us, and that so many good things are
happening. Lots of changes and lessons learned and people loved and man. It is
so good to be alive! </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I was talking with
Lindy and Stuart a little bit about how happy I am to be a missionary. Which
was not always the case. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Honestly, when I came
out on my mission it was not because I had this burning desire to serve a
mission, in fact it was the last thing I wanted to do! I wanted to go back to
school, I had finally figured out my life! After 3 years of praying to try and
figure out what I should study, what I wanted to do and who I wanted to become
I had</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">finally</span></i><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">received my answers and things were lining up. I could see the
stars pointing me where I needed to be and I was so excited to finally have
some direction in my life after everything that I was praying about and after
losing dad and trying to figure out my life. I had answers and I was ready to
act on them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But then God said,
yes, this is your answer, but put that on hold and go serve a mission first.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Are you kidding me?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Seriously?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Right now?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Right in the middle of
finding my degree, finding something that was such a stress relief, something
so encouraging, something I wanted to do, something that brought me more
direction than I had ever had! And I wanted to start! I was part way through
and I still dont know what the program will look like when I get back to it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But God told me to put
that on hold and come on a mission.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So I did.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But only because I
knew I would be unhappy if I didnt follow Gods will. And that was the attitude
I have had for a good portion of my mission. I am here and I am happy because
this is where I needed to be. This is where God wanted me to be and therefore
it is where I wanted to be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Which was fine, but I
am so glad that that has changed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The longer I have been
out on my mission the more I realize how it will impact all of my life in the
future. This time is going to give me everything I need to be able to continue
to serve, follow and focus on my Heavenly Fathers plan for me and for my future
and for my family and everyone I come in contact with. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is going to be such
a blessing in my life, and it helps me to realize how blessed I have
been. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have truly had a
blessed life, not a easy one, but the one I needed to live and one that was
carefully planned for me. And through finding that individual plan for me, I
have found the greatest happiness I could. By following the call to me to serve
a mission I have been able to understand what happiness truly is, and to see
first hand how obedience brings blessings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We have been teaching
a man named Emilio, and he is so prepared to hear and find this gospel. He is
reading, praying about, studying and truly searching for the answers we all
want in life. What is my calling? What is my path? What do I need to do? Why am</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I here?</span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Watching him learn
about and then acting on the answers he receives and the happiness that he is
gaining, is truly inspiring. Emilio has many road blocks that keep being put
into his path! He is being pushed back time and time again, but he is not
letting it stop him. He is continuing to act in faith on the answers he
receives and is seeing blessings in his life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I finished the Book of
Mormon a few weeks ago and I wanted to start it over, but I needed a new
subject to study. I was looking for names, titles and the words that Christ
spoke scattered through out the Book of Mormon, it was neat to see how much He
is truly testified of within that Book. It truly is a testament of Him. But I
needed a new topi to study for, so I chose obedience brings blessings. As I am
studying and looking for instances of people being obedient to the call of God
and then receiving blessings, its amazing to recognize all the instances and
ways that the Lord truly blesses us, simply for obeying his commands, whether
or not we understand them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This has been the
greatest blessing of my mission. I have been able to see the transformation in
myself as I have followed the promptings and feelings of needing to serve a
mission, and coming for that reason. I am the happiest I have ever been in my
life! Because I know I am where God wants me to be. Because I am able to bring
the truth to people and answer their questions and help them come to find the
truth for themselves, whether they feel it is in the Book of Mormon or not! I
am able to help them learn to hear the promptings of the spirit and to find
answers they are searching for themselves. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is truly a blessing
to see people light up as they understand who they are as a daughter of God, or
to see someone light up as he understand the scriptures on his own for the
first time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">These are spiritual
things that cannot be replicated by any one or anything, and it is something
that brings lasting happiness to people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Maybe that is why I
enjoy being a missionary so much, because I am able to bring people</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">lasting</span></i><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">happiness. Something so much more than the year of your life
spent at school, or being on the winning team for years in a row, or graduating
from high school. Something more than watching your family grow together,
because we know that as our families grow together and are sealed together by
the power of the Priesthood which has been restored to the Earth, we know that
this happiness will last forever. Into eternity! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We know why we are
growing together, why it matters that we put effort into our relationships and
what we need to do to have that happiness last eternally. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We know that we dont
die, go to heaven and automatically get to live with God and our families, but
that as we progress and learn and understand the things that God does want us
to do, we can start now to build our eternal families.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">That has brought a lot
of comfort and peace and strength to me and to many who we teach. I think the
saddest moment on my mission was when a member of the church realized that her
marriage was not sealed through the power of the priesthood and that right now,
they are not eternally married. It was so sad to see her realize that, but it
was so rewarding to know that she was working on learning and progressing to be
able to go to the Temple so that she could be sealed to her husband for not
just time as we are married on Earth, but for all eternity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We have lasting
happiness, and there is nothing that can replicate that joy and peace. I am
grateful for it, and I have truly come to love my mission as I have been able
to prepare people to make and keep the sacred covenants of the Temple. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is the time we
have to prepare to meet God, but we need help to know how to prepare! I have
not done anything so fulfilling as teaching people how they can prepare to meet
God. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Sounds corny but its
true. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And that is part of
how I realized that I am not just here because God wants me here, but I am here
because I want to be here! I want to be a missionary and to bring this to
people! And I want to live every minute to the fullest because I will not be a
missionary forever.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">President gave me
permission to fill out my housing contract for school, so I did that today and
I am so excited to be able to go home and go back to school and to know that I
do get to go back and continue on that path that I finally found. But I dont
have to start back on that path today, I still have 6 months to find those whom
I am supposed to find, to help answer their questions and to show that I truly
am here to work. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Man, isnt it good to
be alive? Life is grand! And we are so blessed! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I love you all, thank
you for your updates, letters, notes, prayers, love and encouragement. It truly
does mean a lot to me, and I can feel your support all the way over here! Keep
it coming, I've still got 6 months over here!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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This is Sister Wilson's District until the next transfer in 6 weeks. She gets to stay in Doylestown, PA<br />Kindrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14886554686302851166noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-389360229523336931.post-70477865143871226982014-05-28T10:22:00.000-07:002014-05-28T10:22:00.751-07:00<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
May 26, 2014<o:p></o:p></div>
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So I guess we don’t change our Pdays for holidays
anymore. Oh well! It was a fun pday. <o:p></o:p></div>
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We came and did a little bit of emailing and then we
headed to a ward picnic thing for Memorial Day which was fun. A lot of member
brought their neighbors and we were able to meet them. We met a couple who is
from Iraq who seems pretty interested. They saw our badges and asked their
friends what that meant. We got to talk to them, set up an appointment and then
after we left they asked their friends when they could go to church, when they
said on Sunday she said 'no that is too far away!' so we are excited to get to
meet them and teach them a little bit more, okay a lot a bit more about Jesus
Christ and why our church is different from other churches.<o:p></o:p></div>
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You know, it amazes me to hear people say that all
churches are the same, to me that just tells me that you are not really
interested in learning the differences, because there are many. Yes the
underlining values carry over, Christ as the Son of God and Redeemer of the
world, and the way you treat people tend to be what people characterize as
'Christian' beliefs. And while yes they are believes and actions that most
Christians live by or at least strive for, that is not the entire church and
there are so many other things that can be different about each one. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Churches and religions are very different, it may be the
same God but if they were all the same than we wouldn’t have different
churches. The very fact that we say there are so many different churches should
say something about the beliefs being different. <o:p></o:p></div>
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So that’s my rant for the day I guess. If you think they
are all the same than you just don’t know enough about them to tell them apart.
Churches are different, with a few fundamental beliefs that tend to be
generally accepted, but that is so broad you have to learn more than that! <o:p></o:p></div>
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I guess I have just been thinking about the things that
people tell us, and where I would be if I had not grown up in the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Where would I be? What would be important
for me in a church? Often times we will ask people 'what do you look for in a
church?' a lot of people will say the pastor/minister is really nice, or I like
the Sunday sermons, its close to me, that’s where my friends go, that’s where I
feel close to God, its where I was raised. And then when we ask why they go to
that church still, it is surprising the fact that so many of them don’t say
because I believe it is true.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I am shocked with some of the answers.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And I am so grateful that I attend a church that I
believe in the Doctrine. Its something that I would defend wholeheartedly
because I truly believe that the doctrine is from God, not from man. Not from a
clergy, not from anyone of this world. But I believe with my whole heart that
it is directly from God and this is the fullness of the Gospel. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I know it, I live it, I love it. Through and Through.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And I’m not even offended when people disagree with me,
in fact I am happy when I see people who are strong in their faith and who
believe with their whole heart what they are doing is of God, because if you didn’t
think that I hope you would not continue doing it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Bishop here was invited to come and speak to another
congregation about our beliefs, and at the end was a question and answer
session with the congregation. Someone asked him why we send out so many missionaries;
why not let people believe what they want? And he told them that we make the
claim that we are the one true church of the Earth today, wouldn’t it be
hypocritical of us to not send missionaries out into the world to share the
truth?<o:p></o:p></div>
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And that got me thinking about why I am here. Because I
know with ever fiber of my being that this is the truth, the way, the Gospel of
Jesus Christ as He established it Himself while He was on the Earth. Why would
I not give this to everyone I know? <o:p></o:p></div>
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It made me think about what I want out of a church and I
came to the conclusion that what I want from a church is truth. I don’t want to
attend a service that I dis-agree with and then have to go home and work with
my kids to un-learn what they were taught at church. Not that people think of
it like that, but I truly expect the truth.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And as we talk to people and they tell us that they
believe their church is the one true church I think to myself, GOOD! I hope you
do believe with every fiber of your being that the church you attend is true,
because if you don’t, then why are you going? If you don’t believe it’s true,
go find it. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I am glad that I know and feel that this is the truth. I
am grateful that I did take the time to study it out, to ask questions, to
search for answers and then to kneel down and ask God if this is the one true
church, and even more I am grateful that I was able to get my answer and know
it is. That is what makes the hardest days bearable. Because without the
knowledge I have that this is truth, why on Earth would I still be here? Why on
Earth would I keep knocking on doors till its quarter to nine? Why on Earth
would I be attending meetings and preparing for training on how to be a better
teacher, leader and disciple of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ? Without
knowing that this is truth, I would have given up and come home a LONG time
ago. Because this is hard. This is trying, this is difficult. But because it is
the truth when you get to teach a lesson to someone like Emilio that you can
just feel is searching for the answers and is ready, listening, pondering,
praying about and truly seeking for the truth. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Thats what makes it worth it.<o:p></o:p></div>
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To be able to bring the truth to someone and have them
say things like 'You are bringing me the truth', 'I feel like I need to do
this' (referring to bringing the truth to others) and to see the immediate
change in someones countenance as they connect the dots and understand what you
are telling them. And then to have them decide for themselves that they want to
be baptized by someone holding the proper Priesthood authority and to truly
want to follow the Savior in every way! That is what keeps you going as a
missionary. Knowing that you are making an eternally significant change in
someones life. Its amazing! There is truly nothing like this. I am so stinking
lucky! <o:p></o:p></div>
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And I really should be going. DANG IT! Sorry. Im not sure
how you guys feel about my emails. I have been contemplating what I can do to
make them better. I don’t feel like I am telling you much about my day to day experiences,
but I think I am portraying the big picture changes I am learning,
understanding and making. So if you want me to talk about something different
or if you would like to hear more about something let me know and I will do
what I can to improve my emails.<o:p></o:p></div>
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I love you, I hope you are enjoying Texas! We got a 89
degree day today so it was nice to get to play a little baseball at the park
with the ward in some blue jeans and a tee shirt today! Some sun was greatly
needed! <o:p></o:p></div>
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I hope the wedding goes well and everyone is able to
travel safely and enjoy each other down there. Love you all dearly! Talk to you
soon.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Love always, Sister
Kindra Wilson<o:p></o:p></div>
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