Letter Home - Week 6

Hey family! I wanna say that I thank each of you for your love, prayers, and support! I pray for each of you and love you all very much! This mission experience has already been so incredibly wonderful and I am so grateful for it. It has blessed my life already in so many ways and I am becoming a better and better person every day. My testimony has grown immensely and I am becoming more and more converted to the gospel every day. This is where I'm supposed to be. I'm very happy here doing the Lord's work. I do miss you all very much. I love hearing from each of you each week and hearing about what is going on in your lives. This week has been great! The baptism of Petrus went very well and it was a great day for him. I'm excited to keep working with him and continue to help him grow. He has a girl friend in New York who is a member who has been a big help to him. They already have the temple in their sights which is so cool! To go to the temple from here costs a lot which many people don't have. I was privileged to confirm him a member of the church on Sunday. That was a first for me and was a neat experience. We missionaries help out a lot with the church out here because the numbers are small and most of the members haven't been in the church too long. We help them along. There are usually about 50 people at church each week. It is a branch. They have two branches on St. Lucia. One here in Vieux Fort and one in Castries which is on the other side of the island an hour drive away. On the Vieux Fort side there is a couple missionary, Elder and Sister Horne, who are from Orem, Utah. They are a big help. He is the branch president. There is a strong family in the branch and the father is the first counselor and my companion is the second counselor. We only have us, the sister missionaries, and the couple in vieux fort and then there are three elder missionary companionships in castries. All of us combined make up the district and zone so we travel back and forth a lot. Shantel is the daughter of a recent convert and is 11 years old. We will continue to teach her as well to keep her strong. There is the Mcfarlane family that we are teaching right now. The mom recently became a member and we are teaching the dad and their three kids. They want to be baptized but we have to make sure they are ready first. Hopefully they will get baptized soon. I love the work! I love the people here! I love my Savior! I love my Heavenly Father! And I love each of you! Hope you all have a great week!

Love,

Elder King