Hey family!
Well it's been fun serving
here in St. Lucia this long time. It really has. The time has now come
for me to leave. We got transfer calls yesterday afternoon from
President and I will be flying out Wednesday to Grenada to be with Elder
Kasteler serving as ZL with him. It's going to be stellar serving with
E. Kasteler haha :) Elder Kuru is staying here as ZL with an Elder who
was serving in VF named Elder Page. It's been really fun serving with
Elder Kuru these past two transfers. He's been a real good friend and
will be a brother for life. We are both excited for a change but it
won't be an easy one. This week has been a good final week here in St.
Lucia. It will be hard to leave but it's time. We were able to have an
investigator named Lucy come to church this week and she loved it. She
already knew some of the members and was glad she came. She has great
desires to be baptized. It was really good on Monday to be able to go
out teaching President. I learned some good things and had a great time
teaching the gospel. We taught Charlene and Joan. Charlene is a new
investigator who is really prepared. She is already on 1 Nephi ch. 9
since last we visited her. She accepted the invitation to be baptized
and was tearing up when we invited her and she said yes. She prayed at
the end of the lesson and it was great. The spirit was really strong
during those lessons we had with President and our investigators were
touched. It was a neat experience. We taught Joan about receiving her
answers. She was really open and honest about what she was going through
and experiencing in seeking the truth. She hasn't received her answer
yet and we talked about how one of the prerequisites to her receiving
her answer is exercising her faith and coming to church. She is
struggling with committing herself. It was a great lesson with her
though we feel like she isn't quite ready as yet. We taught Janelle Sunday
night. She again wasn't able to come because of work. She has had a
real heavy work load the past few weeks. There are a lot of things going
on at work. She had many questions as she was thinking a lot about the
last lesson we had with her. She was wondering more about the Celestial
Kingdom and had questions about the sealing. After answering her
questions we talked to her about forgiveness and found that she in a
month is going to Trinidad to make restitution with her Aunt after a
long time of withholding forgiveness. That was cool to hear about. We
also talked with her about her receiving her answer. She said she feels
like she needs to stay where she is for now which makes sense since she
hasn't been to church in a while and her reading has been struggling. We
let her know that she needs to increase her church attendance and her
scripture study so she can have to best chance of making the right
choice. She said she had really appreciated the time we've spent
teaching her. It's been a big blessing to her. That made me feel good to
hear. Maybe at this time she isn't ready but she said maybe in the
future she will be. I sure hope so. She deserves an Eternal Family. I
would love to she her whole family come into the church. The Elders will
visit her a few more times to see if there's any more progression and
if not then she will be dropped for now. We went on a trade off with
Elder Sandbakken and Elder Cox. I went with Elder Cox and we were able
to have a couple good lessons and also apply some principles of finding
that we learned. We went to a great location near a store in the middle
of our area and contacted as many people as we could. We found a couple
people I think will be great investigators just from the short
interactions that we had. We had a lady named Janella stop us on
Saturday because she was curious about what we were doing and we had a
great lesson on Sunday
where she accepted the invitation to be baptized and to read and pray
about the book of mormon. She was involved at the beginning of the
lesson but by the end she was asking great questions and as we answered
them with the scriptures she was super focused and listening intently.
It was great. Teaching the gospel is fun! It's been a great here in St.
Lucia. The people here will be missed. I love you all so much and I hope
you all have a great week!
With much love,
Elder King
Made some banana bread this week! It was really good! Thanks Kim for the recipe! :)
Yum! It was so yummy that the ants tried to have some.
We also played some dominos while eating dominos pizza at dominos :) It was fun!
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