Letter and Pictures - Week 75

Dear Family!

This week has been a good week. We had a lesson with Sister Meridith again and we taught the word of wisdom. She said earlier that she struggled with drinking tea but when we invited her to live the word of wisdom she was so willing and ready to give it up right then and throw out the tea she had left in the home. She was happy to do it. It was just like when we taught Thelma and Fred. It was a miracle. The bigger one was that in another lesson with her where we brought Thelma and Fred was that she fully committed herself to come to church and this week she came! She loved it too. She is also coming to the baptism on Saturday and has been progressing really well.

Everything is all set for the baptism on Saturday and we are so excited for it and for them! They are doing great and are so ready. They love their Savior and have been following Him so fully in their lives. They are exceptional. I can't wait for in a years time when they are sealed together for time and all eternity in the Holy Temple.

We have also been working a lot with Khalil who is a less active becoming fully active. We have been applying the training we've been learning in the mission with him. We visit him most days, we teach using tons of scriptures, and we cover a single point or two in the lesson for the whole lesson. I like doing it a lot and it's really helped me improve my teaching skills in applying the counsel. Our lessons are way better. We also been applying it with others and it's good.

We've been able to see Jenikka a couple times too and she is very smart for her age. She is understanding the things we are teaching and beleives them too. Her prayers are beautiful. She has a pure and sweet spirit too. She loves everybody and loves when we come over. It's a joy to teach her.

We've been able to visit Patrick lately. He commited to come to church but something came up and he didn't come. He also hasn't been reading. We talked to him about it and connected it really well with what we had taught and he understood more of the importance of reading and he committed to read more. As far as baptism he has been baptized before and he is kinda stuck there with that. He is praying though for answers and he said he would be baptized if he knew it were true. He is still willing to meet so we will keep working with him and teaching him.

This week we contacted a sweet family. I know we were led to them. For some reason a while back I had been feeling we should contact down Eversely Rd (The road that Thelma and Fred lives on). So Elder Tye and I did. Nothing really came from it the first or the second time contacting down that street. It's a long street with many homes. We kept feeling we should contact that street. That's when we came across LaShawna. It was great to contact into her but still we felt we should contact it more. So Thursday night we had an appointment fall through at 8:00pm which was close by Eversley Rd. We started making calls but nothing was working. We felt we should just contact for the last hour (which is called miracle hour) so we did. We dicided to start at the other end of the road near Thelma and Fred. As we were walking down at the beginning of the street I was about to pass the first house but as I looked at it I stopped and we went and knocked on the door. Going up to the home I noticed a car sticker on the back that said Live, Laugh, Love or something like that. I leaned over to Elder Tye and said this is going to be a prepared home. He was confused at how I knew that but I felt it would be. Well we contacted into a family. They've been married for 10 years and have 5 children all between 10-16. The mother's name is Juanita. We haven't really met the husband yet. We have our appointment with them tomorrow. She was interested in the book of mormon and excited to read it. She has been looking for a church to go to. She is very family oriented and wants to come with her family. She has Sunday's off and she has a car to take everyone. She also lives right next to Thelma and Fred and knows them. It was like the perfect situation and we left the contact feeling so good. We knew we had been led and we knew that's where we needed to have been to share the gospel with them.

I love doing missionary work. I know it's the Lord's work. I love this gospel. I know it's true. I love you all with all of my heart!

Love,
Elder King

This is Sister Meridith! She is such a delight.

We went bowling last P-Day and it was a blast! Everyone loved it. It isn't usually open on mondays but this week we had our P-Day on Wednesday so we were able to make it work. I stated off terrible but I fixed how I was throwing the ball and I got into a good grove. I was able to get a couple spares and then a turkey with three strikes in a row. It was great fun.