Letter and Pictures - Week 80

Dear Family,

It's been an awesome week!

Monday - We went with Juanita and her family for an FHE to go play ping pong at this nice facility. It was a treat. Everyone had a lot of fun. The kids were really good. They play so much road tennis that it just came natural. Abby who is the father is a professional. He almost went to the olympics. He is so good. We came back to their home for a lesson. Everyone joined and we sang, prayed, and read from the book of mormon about the story of Nephi. It was special. Everyone received their own copy of the BoM and they've been reading. The kids love it. The spirit was strong and Abby took interest in it. Hopefully he continues joining in. It was a miracle.

Tuesday - We saw Sister Meredith several times this week and she finally opened up to us today and told us the one thing that has been holding her back from baptism and committed to give it up. We set a date for baptism with her. 

Wednesday - We've been working a lot with a great lady named Marcia Jones. She came to church again this week and is coming again next week. She is set on baptism and is looking forward for her day in a couple weeks. We are visiting with her as often as we can like everyday to get her ready by then. 

Thursday - We came by Meredith and we found that she told her son that she was going to be baptized and he was really upset about it. He doesn't want her to be baptized and doesn't like the church. He said he would leave if she got baptized. She doesn't want her and her son to separate and have their relationship torn apart. She told us she wasn't going to be baptized. It felt like the lesson from the District when Jynx said she received her answer and wasn't going to be taking the lessons anymore. My heart dropped when I heard and I prayed hard for help to know what to say to help her. It ended up being a good lesson as we talked about eternal families and how God wants her to be with Him and her son and that can only happen through her accepting the gospel. She accepted to continue to meet with us, to be baptized when she's ready, and to talk to Andre about it. It was an intense experience and I'm glad we were guided by the Holy Ghost to know what to say. 

Friday - We finally saw Chedrian for the first time in a while and we had a good lesson on the plan of salvation. She had a lot of good questions. She had stuff again this week but is planning on next week. 

Saturday - We saw Renee with a member named Elvis and talked about the word of wisdom. He is working on quitting so we set a plan with him on overcoming his addictions. He is set on quitting. He said he was tempted to drink coffee this week a couple times but he exercised self control and didn't do it. That was a great success. 

Sunday - We had Sister Jones and Jalisa Gibson come to church! It was Jalisa's first time in a while. She overcame her fears and came and loved it. Everyone welcomed her back with loving arms and the fellowship was awesome. She's coming again next week. Both actually are planning on coming again next week. Thania came again too. Junika was confirmed this week. It made her and Sister Cadet very happy. We got our transfer calls. Elder Tye is leaving to St. Vincent to be a district leader over there. I'm staying here and I will be with Elder Anderson and he will be the district leader. I'm really grateful for these 3 transfers I got to spend with Elder Tye. It was a great time in my mission and I've been truly blessed by it. It's sad to say goodbye. I don't know Elder Anderson but I'm excited to serve with him. I believe he is from Utah. He too was trained by Elder Odhiambo so I get to serve with my mission brother. Elder Tye is also my mission brother since we were both trained by our Father Elder Odhiambo :) The Grant family had a busy schedule this week and we weren't able to see them. Hopefully this week we can. 

I love you all! 

With much love,

Elder King

 

Jalisa Gibson with us and Jelani who is a member that comes out with us teaching. (I think he likes her so we are doing him a favor by bringing him with us haha I think they'll get married one day and it's all because of us ;) You can call us the match making missionaries haha Don't they look great together? They would make a great couple :) )

 

 

We had an awesome time with Juanita and her family! We went and played some ping pong! It was a blast!

 

 

I turned on the oven and then came back to it and I found there was a little fire in there haha :) I wished I had some marshmallows or starbursts to roast but I just warmed my hands by the fire :)

 

 

Meatballs and Elder Tye roasted some good chicken. Yummy :)

 

 

This is Renee with Elvis a recent convert. Elvis is in the buttoned up shirt. Because of the sun it made us all look like we are from star trek or something haha I thought it looked cool.

 

 

Oh I forgot to mention that on Saturday night we locked up our bikes to a pole and went out with a member teaching to a couple of appointments and then came back to this.... Someone ransacked our bikes and stole everything off of them and left the frames. It was a sad sight to come back to. Now our area will be a walking area. No more bikes :(