Letter and Picture - Week 51

Wow this has been a fun week! I feel like I'm starting over a new mission with the change. I love it. On Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday I went by and visited everyone that I could to say goodbye since I probably won't be back in St. Lucia for a long time. Monday we saw Charlene and had a good lesson with her on the book of mormon. She continues her reading. We asked if she felt if the book of mormon is making a difference in her life and she said no. As we talked further we found that has seen a difference in her life recently but didn't connect it to the book of mormon. She has felt more strength lately for her to make changes in her life and we were able to help her see that the book of Mormon helps give her that strength. As she reads her faith increases and as it does it enables her to have the strength to make those life changes and change her views on life. I hope to hear more about how she is doing from Elder Kuru. Tuesday and Wednesday we weren't really able to have any lessons but we were able to make daily contact with a lot of investigators and members to say goodbye. I hope the best for all of them. I love them all. They are wonderful and I've really enjoyed serving them. I got dropped off at the airport and said my goodbyes to Elder Kuru and took some nice pictures. He is such a great guy. Well leaving St. Lucia was hard. After so long I grew attached. As the plane took off I felt how I felt one year ago when I was leaving with all of you all to the MTC. I felt like I was leaving home. Lots of love for the people in St. Lucia. I have many great memories made there and have met so many wonderful people. I won't forget them. So I'm serving with Elder Kasteler here in Grenada. It's been great already. It will be fun serving with him. We are doing well as a companionship. We have found a couple people this week who are friends and family of members and we are really excited to start working with them. The most success I've had on my mission has been working around the members and I'm really excited for this area right now because we've sought some referrals the way shown at MLC and we received some good ones. The branch here is really good and there are a ton of great members. I'm really hoping and working to baptize in this transfer and in the coming ones. One of the people we are beginning to work with is Valicia. She really has strong desires to change and has already begun acting in faith through prayer and scripture study. I've never met someone more ready and determined to change. That strong desire and faith is necessary for true repentance and we think she is really ready. We are going to extend baptism to her next time we see her. She's been to church before too. With transfers we've spent a lot of time running around doing this and that but the time that we've spent proselyting has been good. It's a good area. We met a lady named Kiesha by a member and she is pretty cool. We were teaching the member family at their little bakery shop and then she came and joined in. She too has been to church before. We will see what comes from it in later lessons. Sunday was great. There are young med student families here in Grenada and it adds a lot of strength to the branch. There are a lot of strong members here as well. One of the recent converts named James that we are working with gave a talk in sacrament mtg. It was good for his first talk. He bore his testimony and it was nice. He has some old habits when he prays that we are helping him with but he is so humble and submissive. He is willing to make the little changes. Today we went to a lake here and played a little soccer. It was a nice lake. It made me feel like I was in Utah but then I looked at the landscape around the lake and you could see palm trees instead of a forest. Well I love you all. You are all in my prayers. The church is true. The Gospel is sure. Heavenly Father's plan is perfect. Our part is to adjust ourselves to the standard but we are not alone in the adjustment because Christ suffered the Atonement. We must humbly pray for help and we will receive. We all are in need of this divine help. I love all of you. All the best and take care.

 

Love,

Elder King

Charlene and her kids