Letter Home - Week 34

This week I read some really cool things about the Christlike attribute of love. As I was studying I came across a verse that really stuck out to me. It was in Eph. 4:15 and it says, "But speaking the truth in love...". As I've examined and looked back on my teaching I realized that at times I may be so focused on the truth that I forget to love. Even if it what I'm saying may be the truth it doesn't help if it's not done in the spirit of love. I read other passages like Moroni 7, D&C 121, 1 John 3, and 1 John 4 that were powerful. Developing the attribute of charity is something I'm really striving to do. I've thought about it and it's been something on my mind for a long time. I know it's what I need to do. Knowing is good doing is better. I came across another verse in John 13:17 where it reads, "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them." I was thinking how I can really learn to love and not just studying about love but actually going about loving. I prayed to know how I can develop more love. I was prompted and led to PMG where on the first page in the chapter on christlike attributes it reads in big, bold letters, "How Can I Develop Christlike Attributes?" It was an answer which came immediately after I prayed. It was a cool experience for me. This week I've been feeling a lot more love for those around me. I'm still working on it but it's cool to know that I have a loving Heavenly Father who cares about what I'm going through and is there to help me along my way to greater peace, happiness, and love.

Kevin: We found that he is having a hard time forgiving himself of past experiences. We taught and testified of the Savior and his Atonement and how we can become completely clean though repentance and forgiveness. We are helping him through the repentance process. He is still super faithful and comes to church each week and loves coming out with us teaching. We found him on the day he first came to church. He had stopped other missionaries who were walking in town and they talked to him and told him about church. He came and that's how we met Kevin. Kinda cool that he had the faith and courage to stop the missionaries. I'm glad he did.

Villia: We met at her home. We were walking by and stopped to talk to her as she was sitting outside her home.

Kim: We have only had two lessons so far but already committed her to baptism. She is ready I believe and she really wants to change her life. The only problem is her boyfriend. He doesn't believe in God and doesn't like her to meet with us. She too stopped other missionaries.

Joan: We contacted her house and talked with her mom. After we were about to leave Joan just arrived home from work. We talked with her as well. She has a little girl and a boyfriend who doesn't live with her. Her mom stays with her. We had a good lesson this week on the restoration. We watched the restoration video with her too and she enjoyed it.

I'm running out of time.... ahhh. What I'll do though for you is write down information for you during the week and give it to you all next week. Sorry about not writing as well as I should've. I know I need to do better. I'll work on it for you guys. Thanks for the push to do it. I know it's important and I'll be thankful for it later.

I love you all so much! Thanks for writing and telling me about your week!

Take care!

 

Love,

Elder King

Letter Home - Week 33

The weeks are flying by! This week we did a lot of travel arrangements and immigration stuff. It was fun. Everything worked out pretty well. We also helped another member move. This week we have "moved" since our bedroom has been destroyed. We had to take everything out of our room and live in Elder Hardy and now Elder Merritt's apartment until they fix the tile in our room. It's fun. We love hanging around them. We had a DL training that we were a part of that the AP's taught. It was about counsels. I learned a lot from it. We went over a talk by Elder Ballard about it. I learned about leading with love. I'm trying hard to do that and to really love the people that I serve. There was a baptism up here in Castries for Elder Powell and Elder Wallentine. Elder Powell is the new DL up here in Castries. Her name is Shernice Montlouis. She is 21 and the service was really nice. It was great to see how happy see was. She had a big smile on her face. We've been teaching here lately a young lady named Odellia Amadee around the same age as Shernice who is a recent convert since back in August. She is great. She is going to help friendship Shernice. Some of the people that I mention in an email we end up stop meeting with them for a variety of reasons or it's just hard to get in contact or find a time to meet so there may be some that I talk about and then don't talk about because we haven't seen them in a while. I wish it worked out that we could visit every single person but sometimes it just doesn't work out. I am trying to write about the main investigators that we have but I can do better for you guys. This week we taught Kevin. We've been teaching and helping him with the commandments and also gaining for himself a testimony. We had a great lesson on forgiveness and repentance. He has had a hard time with forgiving himself for past mistakes and so we watched a Mormon message called reclaimed. It's great. It helped him. We are helping him to truly repent so he can feel the spirit more in his life and when he does he will be baptized. He has a strong desire and already considers himself a member. He is great. We also had a great couple of lessons with a lady named Joan. She is prepared to hear the message of the gospel. She wants more peace in her life and has had an experience, after teaching a lesson on charity, of applying that principle of the gospel and it bringing that peace into her life. She wants more of it. We then taught a powerful lesson on the restoration and invited her to be baptized and she said that it's something that she needs to do and accepted that invite. We hope things continue to go well with her. We also had an FHE with a lady who hadn't been to church in a long time. She works on Sundays and it's hard for her to go. She has been taught recently by Sister Maico and Sister Conrad and yesterday she came to Church! After we had the FHE and we had a fun lesson about Lahonti and read in the Book of Mormon. I love you all so much! Have a great week!

 

Love,

Elder King

Letter and Pictures - Week 32

Hey guys!

It's great to hear that Jay found a job! That makes me happy! It's been a great week. We got transfer calls this week and Elder Moli and I will be staying together again! I'm glad to serve with him again :) I'm learning a lot about loving others because of him. He has taught me a lot. With the senior couple we will be teaching them how to do all the immigration stuff with the new missionaries coming in tomorrow. The flight to Barbados is 30 minutes and the planes are smaller to travel from island to island. Elder Martinez talked about goals and planning. The talk was addressed by President and Sister Herrington. It was great. Emily will go to Argentina. You can tell her so she doesn't have to worry about opening her call. It was straight revelation that I had. I have no doubt haha :) He learned himself from cutting his own hair. He is the one from Samoa. He did a good job. Sometimes we go to a barber. In Vieux Fort that's what we did. With interviews for Christina, Johnathan, and Sancha they were all in Elder Moli's old area before he switched and became companions with me. All three were the DL's baptisms. Sorry but I'm out of time. They are kicking me out now... Until next week! Love you guys so much! Hope you enjoy the pictures!

Love,

Elder King

Elder Moli taking on the jungle! haha There was a lot of tall, think grass. We cleared a pretty big area.

We did service this week. We helped Sister Sarah move and we also helped the Branch President cut down some grass around his home.

I made Elder Moli mad..... oops ;) No I'm kidding for some weird reason in our tile floor in our bedroom during our nightly planning started to crack and pop up on its own. I don't know why.

Hiking in the jungle with Elder Hardy and Elder Johnson! Most of the zone went on the hike including the new senior couple that came in this week on Thursday. Their names are the Leavitts and they are so nice.

It started in one place and then spread through the rest of the room.  Evil spirits are coming up from the ground... ahhh

We hiked the pitons yesterday for p day. It took longer than expected yesterday to get back to Castries so that's why we are emailing today. It was an awesome hike. Way worth it. The view was absolutely incredible from up there. It was super steep and long. It took 2 hours up and 2 down. It was way fun.

This is the view from the other side of the pitons. The picture doesn't show as good as it was. It was amazing.

Elder Moli and I with Elder and Sister Martinez at the mission home. They are awesome :)

Lion power! Reunited again :)

Us and the Sister Training Leaders in St. Lucia at the mission home for MLC. Sister Maico and Sister Conrad.

It was late at night waiting around for interviews with President Herrington to be done. They were tired.

Elder Kuru from Austrailia who came out with me and Elder Odhiambo from Africa who was my trainer here in the mission home for MLC. We are so spiritual we just radiate light! ;) haha

Letter Home - Week 31

This week was crazy busy with MLC and Zone Conference. We only taught like six or seven lessons this week when we usually have around 15. It was a great week though. It was full of learning and good times. I enjoyed it. No senior couple yet. They come this week on Thursday. This is the last week of the transfer so we find out at the end of this week where we go. Kevin we are working towards his date of March 5th but he will be pushed back a little bit because we need to teach the rest of the lessons to him and he needs to gain a testimony.

Monday: We went in the morning to go get a haircut by Elder Ropati (one of the Samoan Elders) before the activity. We then went to play some football and basketball at one of their playing fields. I think because of my shoes or something I kept slipping and falling while playing football. It made it difficult. We taught a guy named Josh about praying about the Book of Mormon. We also had a lesson with Kevin. He was struggling with prayer but after helping him understand more about it, why it is important, and inviting him to pray to receive an answer and then following up with him he has began praying to receive a confirmation from the spirit.

 

Tuesday: Today we had to run around in the morning to print off and get everyone in the zone conference talks to study from for zone conference before leaving to Barbados in addition to a lot of other errands. So we weren't able to see anybody before we left for MLC. We got in to Barbados and were picked up by the AP's(Elder Pape and Elder Stewart-Johnson). They are awesome missionaries! It was still early so we went on splits with Elder Odhiambo and Elder Kuru. I haven't seen Elder Odhiambo for four months. It was great to see him. We grabbed some KFC for dinner and then went back to their apartment to wait to be picked back up by the AP's to take us to the hotel. They had a lot of missionaries to transport and they came in at different times so they were running all over the place. 

 

Wednesday: We had some breakfast at the Mission Home provided by the Herrinton's. After we had MLC. Elder Martinez of the Seventy was present at the mtg. with his wife. They are really cool people. The mtg. was great. We were asked to study a talk by Elder Bednar about the enabling power of the Atonement. It was something I had never really understood before. It talked about instead of asking for our trials to be removed to pray for the strength to face our trials. It was really good. We lunch during the mtg. and then came back to the mtg. We were at the mission home for the whole day. After the mtg. there were interviews going on and so there was a lot of waiting around talking with the other leaders in the mission. It was fun. Elder Kuru and I watched some Mormon messages while waiting. We had dinner and the a little devotional by Elder and Sister Martinez. It was such a spiritually uplifting day. Went back to the hotel.

 

Thursday: We flew back in the morning but our flight was delayed for several hours. We got some breakfast and hung out until the time to leave. We got back late. We had a branch council mtg and then I had a baptismal interview to perform for Christina's daughter Sancha. It was a great experience for me.

 

Friday: We were supposed to have zone conference at 11:30 but because the Herrington's flight got cancelled we didn't have it until 4:30. We had lunch and went proselyting for a couple hours. We taught Kevin about his pathway to baptism. (The things he needs to do before he gets baptized to prepare himself) We then went back to have the mtg. It was good. It's always great to hear from President and Sister Herrington. They are such a delight and teach me so much each time I hear them. Elder Moli and I taught a section in the mtg. about the importance of making the baptismal pathways for our investigators. It's something new that has been brought up in the mission. I like it. I believe it really helps our investigators understand not only the end goal but the path to get their. We then had our interviews by President and took everyone home. We didn't get home until way late. We got home around 1:30am.

 

Saturday: We then had to take President and his wife to the airport at by 6:00 and wake up at 5:30. We then got to pick up my luggage that was lost for a time at the airport but I got it back. President said we could go back and sleep for a couple hours to make up for lost time. That was nice. We cleaned the church after. We then went back to our apartment and got ready and studied. We had Sancha's baptism today that went really well. She was really happy. We taught this new investigator named Kerry John at the end of the night with Kevin. We contacted her and gave her a book of Mormon and invited her to read. We went back for the first time today and she read the introduction and up to the middle of chapter 3. We had a good first lesson with her. I'm excited to continue to teach her. We were led to her by the Lord. I'll tell you more next time on how we met her.

Sunday: Kevin came to church but no one else. We are trying to get the others to come. We just keep doing what we can. We gave the sacrament to an older lady named Sister Alene. We also had a lesson with a recent convert named Odellia who is 20 or 21. She is the only member in her family. It was a really cool lesson as we were able to give her hope and help her with a challenge of depression that she has been facing for a couple years. She is a really great person and has a strong testimony. We also had a lesson with Shana and Stephanie and a few of their friends and family. We talked about the book of Mormon and helped them to understand what it is and where it came from.

I had fun this week :) Lots of good times! I love you guys! Hope you have a great week!

 

Love,

Elder King

Letter and Pictures - Week 30

Hey guys!

This week has been good. We went on a trade off with the DL in Vieux Fort and his companion on Friday(Elder Alldredge and Elder Tye). On Tuesday we went on trade off with Elder Wallentine and Elder Powell. I went down to Vieux Fort with Elder Tye. It was fun to go back down there. I've been down there a couple times since being up here in Castries and have been able to see some of the people down there. I've seen Earl and Ambrose. They are doing well. It was a fun time going with Elder Tye. We did some good work and we found a few people who I believe are prepared by the Lord to be taught by the missionaries. I went with Elder Powell in our area. He is a great missionary and he has great desires to do the work. When I went on trade off last week with Elder Platt we contacted into this lady named Joan and she is really cool. She's looking for the truth. We gave her a book of Mormon when we met her and she's already reading. We had a good first lesson this week and hope things continue to go well. We met with Shenelle a couple times this week. She started reading as well. Sadly she and Villia didn't come to church.  Both said they would come. We don't know why they didn't but we will follow up on that when we meet with them. This week we have MLC and Zone Conference. We leave to Barbados right after we finish emailing for MLC and then after we get back we have Zone Conference. It will be fun. I'm excited for it. It also means though that we will be out of our area a lot this week. Hopefully we can make it productive and still do some good work during the little time we have. I love you guys! Hope you all have a great week!

 

Love,

Elder King

 

FHE at Sister Sarah's! Kevin came along with us. She made us some really good fish cakes. I'm not sure what they are called but they were really good. After we had the lesson we ate and played a fun game. It was a good time.

 

 

Visiting Ambrose with Elder Tye this week.

 

 

Letter and Pictures - Week 29

Hey Family!

It's good to hear you all had a good week. Though I hope those who are sick get better. I enjoyed participating in the fast for Jay. I had to make a sacrifice and pass up a good meal(they had cake and ice cream too) with all the missionaries at a members house but it was worth it for Jay :) I'm glad to hear he joined in on the fast as well. It means a lot to hear all the good progress and changes that are occurring in his life. I too feel that he will be a blessing to others with his exemplary acts of faith and trust in the Lord. He is already a good example to me. This week we had zone mtg. It was amazing. Elder Moli and I taught along with the Sister Training Leaders (Sister Maico and Sister Conrad) It was a powerful lesson on the Atonement of Christ and repentance. The Spirit was so strong there and it was moving. It caused me to reflect more into my life as a missionary and realize where I'm at and where I need to go. The Spirit prompted me to reach for higher and do more as it often pleads for us to do. It caused me to think of the Savior and his love for us. His selfless act was motivated by his perfect love for us and Heavenly Father. Learning of it makes me want show my love back to him by using the atonement more in my life. I want to develop greater love for others and for my Heavenly Father and I know that that change is possible through Christ and his gospel. I gave a talk in sacrament mtg this sunday. With the busy week I soon found that sunday morning was here and I had yet to prepare. Oops. I had a little over an hour to prepare. It went way better than expected. The Spirt helped me along in preparation and in giving the talk. I thought it was really good. It was on our duties in life like our duty to God, to our families, and to others. I learned about how we have the obligation to first learn out duty and then to act and fulfill our duties. It was a powerful reminder to me that I can't become complacent and I constantly have to learn and remind myself of my duties and then go forward with faith and do them. Our main duty in life is to be obedient to God and his commandments. How we learn our duty is to prayerfully ask God to know, and the to seek an answer through studying in the scriptures, attending church/temple, and other classes and mtgs. It's been a great week. Hope you all have a great one!

Love,

Elder King

Kevin: Doesn't work but is looking for a job. He lives with his parents and has a small room where he sleeps and studies under his parents home. He comes out with us teaching most days since we have to have a male present at each lesson we teach to women. He enjoys it and is learning a lot. It's amazing to see his understanding improve day by day. He is still learning but it's great to see things coming along. He puts in a lot of hard work to learn and grow. He has a strong desire to follow Christ. He is working towards March 5th.

Villia: She does housekeeping. She loves animals. She has a lot of little puppies and cats. She also has some bigger farm animals. She too wants to change and follow Christ. She wants to be baptized and she is working towards March 12th. We taught the plan of salvation last night to her. She enjoyed it. She is always so welcoming to us.

We've met some other cool people the past couple weeks. Ariana's(the one we baptized) mother, Sister Sarah, has a friend who has been taught before by the missionaries named Kim. She actually referred the missionaries over to Sister Sarah and she got baptized a year ago but Kim never got baptized. She is now seeking help and wants the same change that Sister Sarah had occur in her life. We had a finding lesson with her and she just opened up to us. She talked a lot but when there was a pause we bore powerful testimony that the gospel will help her. We gave her a book of Mormon and invited her to read. She said she will. She's friends with Sister Sarah and talks with her. Sister Sarah wants to get involved and help out too. Hopefully things work out well and we will be able to help Kim build in faith and repent to lead her to baptism. I taught a guy named Tyson actually on an exchange with the DL (Elder Platt) and it was a great lesson on the restoration. He is so prepared. We invited him to be baptized and gave him a date to work towards (March 19). He readily accepted and is willing to do the things to prepare. He has realized in his life that the world has nothing to offer and he wants to turn his life to God.

Things are going well and I'm enjoying life here in the Caribbean! Love you guys!

The Zone :) from left to right

Top: Elder Nixon, Elder Platt, Elder Powell, Elder Wallentine, Elder Alldredge, Elder Miller, Elder Tye, Elder Hardy

Middle: Elder Mikesell, Sister Layton, Sister Campbell, Sister Maico, Sister Conrad, Sister Benn, Sister Nelson

Bottom: Elder King, Elder Ropati, Elder Moli, Elder Lameta, Elder Johnson

 

 

Letter and Pictures - Week 28

Hey guys!

Sounds like you all had a fun week! Full of good things. :) Last week at church there were a lot of tourists there on vacation. The ladies you talked with mom were there and we started talking and they asked where I was from and I obviously I told them Africa and they were like no way that's so cool! Then they said they were from Orem and I was like no way I know people from there! They are really awesome people! With all my enthusiasm she was like I definitely need to meet them and so she then got in contact with ya :) There are like 50-70 at church each week just like in Vieux Fort. The money each money is plenty but it's only used for certain things like food and travel. It's not used for souvenirs. Gas is normal but food is a little more expensive. Our apartment is nice and yes it has a shower in it. The missionaries are well taken care of. There are people here who's homes are very poor and then those that are really nice. Yes it's nice that we've found a good family to work with and progress to baptism. We teach them at different times though. Shatal is 3 months along with her baby and she had to go to the hospital for surgery. The baby and the mom is fine thankfully. I don't know exactly what it was. I think she had a thyroid or something. We went and visited her there in the hospital. She enjoyed that. She's been reading. We haven't been able to visit with her unfortunately. We will though once she's out of the hospital. She's ready to get out of there. I don't blame her though. It's kinda a sketchy place. I hope I don't have to go there for any reason. She's doing well though. She has friends and family that have been there for her. So there are two kevin's that we have been teaching. One is progressing the other, the one with the girlfriend and attends a 7th day church, said he doesn't want to waste our time and visit with him anymore because he's fine where he's at. We talked with him and let him know we are always there for him if he changes his mind. He wasn't really progressing. I think he was more curious than anything and when we tried to visit him it was hard. He may be ready later on but not now. He has a copy of the book of Mormon that he can read and he has our number if he changes his mind. He was nice and we left with our testimonies. Hopefully one day he will put in the effort to seek, knock, and ask. It was sad for us. The other kevin is progressing really well. We just had a great lesson on the plan of salvation and he loved understanding his purpose in life and knowing where he came from. He wants to be in the Celestial Kingdom with God and Jesus Christ and understands what he needs to do to get there. He was struggling to pray on his own about the book of Mormon but he overcame his fear and had faith and said his prayer one night after he read. He will continue to read and pray to gain his answer. This week we had MLC and it was amazing. I learned a great deal about the Atonement and repentance. We will then take what we learned and share it with the zone tomorrow in Zone Mtg. We have a great lesson planned for it. I'm excited. The mission life is great! Not struggle free but it's good :) Love you all so much! Have a fantastic week!

 

Love,

Elder King

 

This is Kevin in his little room under his mother's home where we teach him :) He is great! 

 

 

So Christina is the one in white and the lady on the right is Sancha who is Christina's daughter. There's not anther guy in the photo.

 

 

Letter and Pictures - Week 27

It's great to hear about all the good things that are happening! Trek sounds fun for Kaylee. It's good to hear that school and work is going well. I love hearing about Jay and the missionaries. I'll be joining in on the special family fast. I wish I could've gone to the temple with you guys. We had transfer calls last week on Saturday and then this past week on Wednesday is when all the changing around took place. Elder Moli and I took those that were leaving to the airport and then later picked up those coming in. They were 5 coming and 5 going and at several different times. It was fun. Then on Thursday morning we did all the paperwork for each of the new missionaries so they can be legal here in St. Lucia. Everything worked out well for the most part. Elder Nixon coming in from St. Maartin got stuck in Barbados for the night. He was taken care of though. We picked him up in the morning. We also had the baptism of Christina who I interviewed. She was first taught by Elder Moli and Elder Clement and then Elder Hardy and Elder Platt finished the teaching. She is a wonderful lady and loves to feed us missionaries. We've had several times of going over to her humble home and her providing for us. There home is like the ones you've heard about where it's very small and the showers are outside. She doesn't have much in the eyes of the world but she has a wonderful family and friends who love her. She was so happy when she went through on her righteous decision to follow Christ and be baptized and receive the Holy Ghost. She had the biggest smile on her face and felt good about what she did. Despite the time taken away we still had some good lessons this week. We extended a few baptismal invitations and set some dates. Alma accepted a date and Villia as well for March 12. Villia and Alma are sisters who live close to each other. We teach them separately. We teach Villia and a lady named Shenellle together. Both of them came to church this week and they loved it. We will set a date with Shenelle just now. They've started their reading in the book of Mormon. We hope to see them continue to progress. Kevin has been doing everything we ask him to do and he is feeling the joy of doing so. He comes out with us to our teaching appointments and comes to church and also to baptisms. He reads and prays. His prayers are getting better each time we visit. He is a bit slower in his understanding so we are going through the lessons slowly but he is diligent and tries his best. I've been studying a lot about the plan of salvation lately and I read a talk by Elder Hales on it that I really liked. In the talk he said that as we seek to understand more about God's plan of happiness for us, His children, and couple that effort with prayer that it will change the way we see life. There is another quote from somewhere else that I liked that said that life makes more sense from the creator's perspective. I know that God's plan is perfect because of Christ and his atoning sacrifice and that this is the way to true lasting happiness. I love you all!

 

Love,

Elder King 

Christina Didier's baptism. This is her family. Elder Hardy on the left and Elder Platt on the right.

Letter and Pictures - Week 26

Hey!

So with this week being transfer week we all got our calls from President Herrington and Elder Moli and I will be staying in the same place. There are a lot of changes though with the other missionaries so we will have to deal with all of that. It will be fun. That's cool that Mom and Dad were able to go to visit the Hornes. All the missionaries love them. Miguel is the son of Sister Sarah and he is about 11. Ariana is doing well and has already found and started attending the ward out in Columbia. Alma is the mother of David. We have only taught a few times but she has started to read in the Book of Mormon. She hasn't come to church yet but hopefully next week she will come. She lives next to a strong member named Odellia who is around 20. Hopefully things work out well with Alma. We haven't been able to visit with David and Shatal unfortunately. We were out of our area a lot this week.  Elder Moli and I flew to Barbados to on Thursday evening and came back Saturday morning. We went to do an exchange with the Assistants to the President. I went with Elder Pape and Elder Moli went with Elder Stewart-Johnson. Both are exemplary missionaries. I learned a lot from them. They are so loving and selfless. We had a worldwide broadcast on Wednesday for all missionaries which was awesome. It was some really great training. I learned about the importance of the Spirit in teaching. Us as missionaries are vessels for the Spirit. The Spirit carries the message UNTO the heart of the people and not INTO the heart. God respects agency so much that he will not force anyone to have faith and repent but He is constantly inviting us to make the change and provides a way for to do so. My job as a missionary is to be worthy of the Spirit. We have been teaching a guy named Kevin recently who is really progressing. He is reading, praying, coming to church, has a date for baptism, and he even comes out teaching with us. He loves learning and has been progressing really well. Hope you all are doing well! I love you guys a ton!

Love,
Elder King

P.S. - Yep the McFarlane family were originally contacted by the Horne's and a lot came from it. I was blessed to be around them but yeah we had to walk a lot to get to them and teach them. Lots of hills but it's a pretty road to get there. I enjoyed going up there.  There are public places to wash clothes and shower.

BAPTISM OF JOHNATHAN!

 

Elder Moli taught him with his companion Elder Hardy and then was transferred so Elder Hardy and Elder Platt (the other two in the photo) continued to teach him and he was able to be baptized on Saturday. Elder Platt is the DL and since Elder Moli taught him before I performed the interview for him on Friday and it was a really spiritual experience. Johnathan was well prepared and he has a strong testimony and a desire to be baptized. Others tried to put doubts in his mind and question his judgment but he pushed forward determined. He was really happy and also nervous but it was a great experience for him and for me. He later that day came out teaching with Elder Moli and I and he really helped our investigators understand the Spirit which was way cool. We just sat back as they talked together. He is a great guy and loves the gospel.

 

This is Sister Sarah's and Sister Tessa's family. Both are members who live next to each other. Sometimes we go and have a combined family home evening with them. It's fun. Sister Tessa isn't in the pic. But in there is Ariana, Miguel, and the little girl in Sister Sarah's arms and these three and her kids. Then there is Nelida and Nile who are Sister Tessa's kids. In the back in Zidanne who you all saw on Skype. :)

Today, for P-day we went to Pigeon Island which is an old fort on top of these hills on the coast. You can look up more about it but it was pretty cool. It had a great view. 

Pirate ship sailing in the ocean

THIS IS GORDON HUMOR ALL THE WAY!

Enemy ships ahoy!! Fire the cannons! Boom Boom....oh no they're firing back at us! ahhh look out!

Letter and Pictures - Week 25

Another week down! Next week I'll hit my 6th month mark and will be 1/4 of the way complete with my mission! As I think about it I think of how nice it will be to be finished and then I also think of how much I will miss the work here. It is such a blessing to be a missionary and to have an impact on people's lives. There is a lot of joy that comes from missionary service. It's often called the Labor of Love and we all need at one point a helping hand from someone who reached out of love. Then I think of the Savior and his hands how they are always extended out to each of us. He extends them out of love for us. I know our Savior lives and loves each one of us. I know we have a loving Heavenly Father. I know they both, out of love, want each of us to return to our Father's Heavenly home. All we have to do is reach to the Savior and believe in him and his loving words. But the end of my mission is a ways away which is cool because there is a lot more goodness and love to spread around. This week was good. Unfortunately we weren't able to visit with Alma and Shatal and David. They were busy but hopefully we will catch them a couple times next week. Shatel and Joseph we saw once. They are looking for a way to get to church. We talked with them about the book of mormon and read with them to help them with understanding what they read. No real progress with those other three. It was also hard to visit them. We spent a good deal of time with Ariana and preparing her for her baptism which went very well on Saturday. She was so excited to be baptized and confirmed a member and receive the Holy Ghost. She took everything in that we taught and started applying it to her life. She absolutely loves the gospel and I've never seen anyone progress so quickly. She was so happy before and after her baptism and confirmation. She felt so good and I don't think it will be a day she will every forget. She will be a good influence on her friends and family back in Columbia as she has already been such a good influence on her mother and brother (Sister Sarah and Miguel). She wants to share the gospel with all those around her. It's been so great to see the impact of the gospel on her life. Yeah I just interviewed Johnathan but it was such a great experience for me to do so. I felt the Spirit really strong. Elder Moli and his companion, Elder Hardy, found and started teaching Johnathan. He actually just gave his first talk on Sunday and it was really good. The ship was changed after the movie. It's now like a tourist ship where people can pay a bit to take a ride and sail around. The beginning of the first movie was filmed here in St. Lucia. Yeah Sister Stewart, who was in my mtc district, and Sister Nelson, who I served with down in Vieux Fort, both got there purses stolen with a lot of there stuff in them. It wasn't cool and Sister Nelson was shaken up a bit about it. They are okay though. I'm glad they didn't get physically hurt. It would be scary to have that happen. We started teaching a few new people this week. There are three that have a lot of potential. They are Ron, Maverick, and Tyson. All three are searching for the truth. Hopefully we can give them the direction they need to find it in a way that they will exercise their faith and find it. I know this Church contains the fullness of truth that will heal us and set us free if we let it. I love you all and I hope that you all have a great week!

 

Love, 

Elder King

 

Elder Wallentine, Elder Moli, Ariana, and Elder King. I baptized and the other two witnessed.

 

Today, we all as a zone played soccer! Though there was a bit of mud from the rain yesterday! Super fun with everyone slipping and sliding around :)

 

Letter and Pictures - Week 24

Man this transfer is flying by! I feel like I just started it but it's already the start of week 5! This week was great. Monday - Volleyball! And we had FHE with a family in the branch who were baptized about a year ago. Tuesday - We taught an older guy named Alfred who wants to be baptized. We are trying our best to help him understand more about baptism and the gospel because he believes all he has to do is be baptized to be saved. We are trying to help him develop faith. We also taught a family the restoration and it went over pretty well. The names are Kevin(Father), Velma (girlfriend to the father), Craig (Father's son), and Princia (Sisters to either Kevin or Velma and then there are lots of little kids. We are trying to continue to teach them. Wednesday - we contacted a cool young couple with 3 kids who love learning about the gospel. Names Shatel and Joseph. They were taught before a couple times by other missionaries but they have a hard time getting transport to church otherwise they would be golden. We started teaching a 14 year old girl of a member who is leaving to Columbia this next week and she will be baptized on Saturday. Her name is Ariana and her Mom is Sister Sarah. We teach everyday and she loves it and has a strong testimony. She has been coming to church for a while now. Fastest baptism ever! haha It's been way fun to teach her. Thursday - More teaching and finding. Friday - Interview for Johnathan. Saturday - Baptism of Johnathan. Sunday - Confirmation of Johnathan. I'm running out of time but it was a great week. Love you all lots! Thanks for writing! Have a great week!

 

Love,

Elder King

 

Today for P-Day we went down to the Marina and saw the Black Pearl from Pirates of the Caribbean and got to go on the boat and take some pics! It was awesome! There were two boats there. The first was used in the movie in the background. It was filmed here in St. Lucia to start and then the rest was filmed on the island of St. Vincent. The original actually sank during filming and the second was built after the movies and is used to take people on tours. Both were cool to see.

 

 

 

 

 

Elder Moli and I. And in case you forgot cause it's been a while Elder Moli is on the left and I'm on the right ;) It's been great serving with him. I look up to him a lot!

 

 

The two Samoan's who sang. Elder Lameta on the left who came out the same time as me and then Elder Ropati on the right who's been out for over a year. They are companions right now. They are fun :)

 

 

 

Letter Home - Week 23

Hey guys!

 

This week we got to spend a little more time in our area but there was still a bit of other matters that we had to tend to. We are blanking the area so we don't have a big teaching pool as of now but we have a few who we have high hopes for. We contacted into a younger couple named Shatal and David who are expecting soon and really want to start their family with Christ in their lives. They are really searching. We have taught only once but it was a good finding lesson to see what they want out of life and what they are looking for. We have really been working around the members to find people to teach and also been talking to as many people as we can. There's another lady named Louise who is in her 20's that we contacted into and taught a lesson who has a lot of questions and seems really interested. We had an MLC or mission leadership council meeting this week. It was kinda intimidating to me to be around so much experience as there were the mission president and his wife, the AP's to the president, and all the other zone and sister training leaders in the mission present. It is so great to learn from their experience. The meeting went about 4 hours and was inspiring. We will be having a zone mtg. tomorrow where Elder Moli and I will take the things from the mtg. and teach it to the zone. It's great to hear about all the fun you guys are having. It's such a wonderful time of the year. I love that precious time with family. I'm so jealous of what Jay gets to experience! That tour sounds absolutely incredible! At the request of Kim my new years resolution is to study more about Christ and his character and to strive to become like him. I hope also to dive more into the book of Mormon and be able to use this amazing gift and tool to bless the lives of those I teach. I love you guys so much! Hope you all have a great week and please write! I love hearing from you all! Thank you for the efforts of those who do write me. I really appreciate it :)

 

Love,

Elder King

Letter Home - Week 22

A note about this letter:  I asked Gordon to give us more detail on the people he's worked with in Vieux Fort.  I'm compiling a list of his contacts and baptisms with information about each.

 

Hey Family,

 

It was great to see and actually talk with you guys! I loved it so much. I spent time writing about the different people that I taught this week. Shantel's mother's name is Shaunta. Shaunta is a member and is dating a member named Dannus. Earl is a carpenter. Rodrique works at a warehouse and is dating Mamma Sherba's daughter named Veena and they have a daughter named Skii(sky). Ambrose is a mechanic but did not work with Earl. They are friends at church but live in different areas. Ambrose lives in the main part of Vieux Fort while Earl lives up in the hills of Vigier. Sherline and Shequan kept being taught by the missionaries. She is a really strong Catholic though and so it was hard for her to get away from the ties she had there. I will need to follow up to see if she is still being taught. Christian stopped working with Ambrose and started work elsewhere. He stopped coming to church and the impression I felt from him was that he didn't really want us meeting with him and for quite a time lost contact with him. It was really sad to see. Max didn't want to give up drinking and smoking. He too was kinda running away from us and lost contact with him. Lenelle(Patrick's father) is cousin's with the McFarlane boys. I think the relation is on Pauline's side. Patrick does security at a local school and other things as well. Both Patrick and Lenelle are progressing towards baptism but the hard part is finding transportation to church. James Daniel became really hard to find home and teach. He never came to church and wasn't reading in the book of Mormon. He has health problems and one day we heard he was in the hospital so we went to visit him. He didn't look to good. He couldn't really communicate but the impression we got from him was that he didn't want us there so we left. That was the last I saw him. The strange thing was that we were told that he wanted us there by another person. Patrice comes to church a lot and she loves it. She has a daughter around 10 years of age. Patrice has a hard time understanding but has a good heart. Hopefully she will continue in her faithfulness and one day when the understanding comes become a baptized member of the church. Nash is an older guy about 63 I think. He lives with his brother named Stephen that he takes care of. Stephen has been in and out of the hospital for his blood pressure. Nash is a good guy but struggles with applying his faith in God. He came to church once but not since and because of his eyesight has a hard time reading the book of Mormon.  Urania is Megan's mother. Her grandma is named Sis. Baptist and she is a faithful member with a strong testimony. Megan I think will get baptized soon but the mother is struggling with her faith. She is letting other things keep her from going forward. It is really sad to see when people give up and quit pursuing answers from Heavenly Father. One thing I've learned about when we seem to hit a road block or when the road we are traveling gets rocky is that if we SEEK(a verb which mean action is required) help from the Lord. Just like Joseph Smith we need to turn to God in prayer and scripture/gospel study to FIND answers to our problems. Matt 7:7-8 It requires patience and faith but to those who are really seeking and really desire it answers do come. If we read Moroni's promise in the back of the book of Mormon(Moroni 10:3-5) it tells us that in order to gain answers and receive revelation from God we need to do something first. We have to pay the price to receive the reward. It won't just be given to us but the promise is there. If we do our part answers do come. I love you guys so much and I hope you all have a fabulous New Years!

 

Love,

Elder King

Letter Home - Week 21

Hey Everybody!

 

This week has been crazy busy. Unfortunately, not much proselyting was done though. With transfers missionaries were leaving and new ones coming in so Elder Moli and I had to make sure everything worked out with that. We were basically a taxi service picking up and taking people to the airport and a lot of other miscellaneous things. And yes that means we have a car and no Elder Moli cannot drive. So before all of this I had to get a driving permit for here in St. Lucia and immediately after start driving on the left side of the road. It's been fun. It's different but not as bad as I thought. I've been here for almost 5 months so I'm used to being on the left side. If I were to start immediately driving from when I first arrived here in St. Lucia it would be harder to transition. We had a Branch Christmas Luau Party on Friday and it was awesome! It felt like a ward party back home. I like the Branch up here in Castries. There's a lot more kids and youth and it feels like a family. I'm blanking our area which means that neither Elder Moli or I were working in it so we are doing our best to find people to teach and build up our teaching pool. We are doing what we can to work closely with the members and teach their friends and family. I find that that works best and a lot of success can be found in doing so. Elder Moli is from Tonga and is one of the hardest working missionaries I know. I will learn a lot from him during my time serving with him as I have already learned a lot just this past week. He has been out 10 months. He is super obedient, he gets things done, and he really loves the people. I saw this love when we went to visit a family he had been teaching for the last time. Saying goodbye he broke down in tears. It was really hard for him to leave them. I heard Patrick and Lenelle both accepted to work towards a baptismal date this past week and Patrick came to church. He only came once a while ago and hadn't been back for many weeks. Junior is also doing really well. He as an investigator has already started going out with the missionaries teaching. He is on ch. 20 in the book of Mormon and came not only to church the past two weeks but also an activity today and the baptism for Earl. He is awesome. I love to see it when people are changing their lives. I love to see the light and happiness that follows making the right choices. Choose the right let the consequence follow. Hope you all have a great time this Christmas Season and I'll see you all on Friday!!

 

Much Love,

Elder King

Letter and Pictures - Week 20

Well it's been a fun time serving in the Vieux Fort Branch but it has come to a close. Now I will be up in the Castries Branch which is on the other side of the island in St. Lucia. I've finished my time with Elder Whipple and how great those 12 weeks were. I loved serving with him. He is a great missionary. He is hardworking and obedient while still being able to have fun. I will now be serving as Zone Leader with Elder Moli who has been the Zone Leader for St. Lucia. Both of us will be ZL's as he will be training me to be one. All I can say is....crazy.... but I'm happy to do it and to serve and help out in the Zone where I can. Earl's baptism was amazing. It went super well. I was privileged to be the one to perform it and Elder Horne confirmed him a member and gave him the Holy Ghost. I can probably get you guys there contact info so you can meet them. As for Skype, unfortunately because of location and inaccessibility I was sadly informed that it will not be happening....not on Christmas or any other day...only email as usual. Maybe it will work out for mother's day but we will see. Love you guys tons and I hope you don't hate me for nearly giving you a heart attack for making a funny joke ;) sorry but I had to haha. Of course there will be Skype on Christmas and I can't wait!! I will make note of mike's schedule to make sure that we Skype after 12:00 your time or 3:00 our time. Definitely send me your Skype name. There was this guy named Junior that is 21 that Elder Whipple and I started teaching and he is progressing really fast. He is awesome and I am sure he will be baptized soon. I'm sad I don't get to see it through. This past week was fun but hard. I hate goodbyes. It was hard to leave the people in Vieux Fort as I've loved serving them so much. It was so amazing and I am grateful for the time I had to spend there and the people I was able to meet. I love you guys tons! 10 days!!! Hope you all have a great week!

 

Love,

Elder King

 

Earl at his baptism!

 

 

 

Elder Whipple and Elder Tye witnessed and I performed the baptism. I asked Earl how he felt after and he said that he felt great! He was a happy guy. He was saddened when I told him that I was leaving. I will miss their family but I'm glad to see them all get baptized before I left.  

 

 

Ambrose and Gaius were baptized together. I'm happy that I was able to see them get baptized as well before I left. I was able to interview Gaius and he is an awesome guy. 

 

 

 

I witnessed along with Unan(member who is turning in his papers to be a missionary) the baptism of Ambrose and then I gave Ambrose the Holy Ghost. It basically was a blessing of strength against temptation. Then Unan baptized Gaius(who was taught by the sister missionaries) and Elder Whipple and I witnessed. Unan helped a lot in the teaching of Gaius.

 

 

 

Hiked to a cool waterfall two p-day's ago. The hike lasted about 30 seconds...hahah  Last p-day we went on a bus tour around the island which was cool and then this p-day we had a zone activity at a beach and played some volleyball. 

 

 

 

After the 30 second hike we went on a real hike that went almost straight up this mountain. It was a sweet hike. Those peaks that you see are called the Pitons. There are two of them and they are incredible.

 

 

 

Bamboo Bunch! Saw this on the hike

 

 

 

Another pic from the hike and you can see one of the pitons

 

 

 

Pic from the tour around the island. It was a gorgeous view.

 

 

 

 

Letter Home - Week 19

Good afternoon!
 

This week has been a good week. My understanding about faith grew a lot this week. I've been thinking a lot about improving myself and my missionary efforts. The spirit is really an amazing teacher if we listen. I found many things that I can do. I wanted to change what I was doing right then but unless I did something and applied my faith nothing would change. It was something the spirit really helped me to see and it was a great blessing to me this week. The Christmas Devotional was exceptional and so inspiring. I hope you guys got the chance to see it last night. I've personally been working on faith this week for my Christlike attribute. I've set goals and tried different ways to make sure I achieve them. Earl's baptism got pushed back a week so we could finish all the lessons but we are excited for this Saturday. We had a really special lesson with him on Saturday night where the spirit was so strong. We watche the restoration video and shared testimonies after. Dad I'll work on compiling info for each person for you guys this week. I hope you all are having a wonderful christmas time! It truly is a wonderful time of year to reflect on the Savior. Love you all! Have a great week!

 

Love,

Elder King

Letter Home - Week 18

Hey guys!

 

This week was jam packed with things to do! On Monday we had a thanksgiving dinner that was provided by Elder and Sister Horne. It was amazing! Reminded me of home. We had all the missionaries on the island there at the church and had a great time. Tuesday was district mtg where I taught about our purpose as missionaries. They all really enjoyed the mtg. One of the zone leaders and his companion came down for it and then after we went on a trade off. So I was with the zone leader and Elder Whipple went up to Castries for 24 hours. It was a good experience. I learned some good things as Elder Malyon (from London and yes he has a cool accent) and I taught a few people from my area. Friday we had zone conference with President and Sister Herrington. It took up the whole day but it was worth it. I loved the spiritual boost that came from it. It helped me think about and focus on some areas where I could improve and some areas where Elder Whipple and I could improve as comps. Saturday was the baptism of Ambrose and Gaius. Gaius is Sister Maughan's and Sister Nelson's investigator and he is really cool. I had the opportunity this week to interview him. The gospel has blessed both of their lives. We taught Dorothy on Saturday with her mom and brother. She read what we gave her last time and she is understanding what we teach. She had questions and we were able to answer them. She was really accepting and believing. We invited her to start reading from the book of mormon to gain her testimony and to really find out for herself the truth. We also went up to Earl's home and taught him. We've been teaching him about the different commandments and he has been really receptive to what we teach. He has changed a lot. His prayers when we invite him to pray at the end are really heartfelt and you can see the love that he has for God and his family. He is a good man. We hope all goes well this week and that he will be baptized this Saturday. On Sunday we gave Ambrose and Gaius the Holy Ghost. Since Elder Whipple baptized Ambrose I gave him the Holy Ghost and Elder Horne gave Gaius the Holy Ghost. After teaching some good lessons there was an area seventies broadcast for the carribean. We were able to teach a less active named Ange and bring him with us to teach Natalie who is very accepting and really understands and also to the broadcast. Then today as a district we went on a hike that was absolutely gorgeous! It was an adventure! Thanksgiving for you all sounded like fun! I bet the Elders were absolutely stuffed by the end of the day! Hope you all have a fantastic week!

 

Love,

Elder King 

Letter Home - Week 17

Hola mi familio,
 

Thanksgiving is this week! Hope you guys have fun! Today us Elders went to a field  for p  day and played a little touch football :) It was fun. We are going having our Thanksgiving feast today! I'm excited. Last week I was just a few days of feeling discouraged and because of the gospel I've bounced back and feeling really good! I'm happy :) I love the work and it just puts a smile on my face being a missionary. It also makes me happy to see how well things are going with you guys at home. I love you guys and can't wait until Christmas to skype you all :) One month! Next week will be my four month mark and it feels like time is just flying. It's really great weather down here right now by the way ;) Haha hope you guys stay warm! It feels like it's still the summer for me. The families we are teaching are doing really well. Ambrose if all goes well will be baptized this Saturday! He has made some great changes in his life. He loves God and wants to serve him to the end. I'm happy for him and the decisions he is making and has made. Earl will follow Ambrose the following week to join his family as a member of the church. :) Earl has made some big changes as well. He has really come a good way since I first met him. He has really been able to humble himself before God and gain a testimony of the Gospel. He has a strong testimony now of the Church. Megan who is one of the members grand daughter has been really faithful. She reads prays and comes to church each week. She is 16 and has a testimony. We were finally able to start teaching her mom together with her and we had a couple really good lessons with them. Hopefully the mom comes around so they can be baptized together and that their relationship together blossoms. There are a couple ladies that we started teaching that I feel really good about. I believe they are prepared for the Gospel. Their names are Natalie and Andrina. We've only taught one lesson to each so we will see what comes of it. There is also this guy named Gregory that I feel good about as well. He is looking for the truth and has started going through the book of mormon. He has great questions. He really wants to change his life. Rodrique is doing awesome! He loves the gospel and is so faithful. He will be a great blessing to the branch down here. He seems like a leader. The McFarlane boys are doing really well. Their family has been greatly blessed by the light of the gospel and they are seeing that. The mom Pauline is seeing her prayers answered of her whole family being part of the gospel. The Gospel just makes life sweet! There is good in everything. We just have to look for it. Love you all so much! Have a great week and take care!

 

Love,

Elder King

 

P.S. - The district mtgs are going really well. I'm learning a lot about how to be a better teacher and leader. It's cool. I've done two and tomorrow I'll do my third one. The first time I went through a Enos 1 verse 12 about desires and faith to help motivate the missionaries to take the good desires they have and nurture them with their faith. To have the faith to find ways to help their desires of being great missionaries come true. The missionaries in my district are already amazing and are really obedient. They inspire me to be a better missionary and I learn a lot from them. Last district mtg I talked about Christ like attributes to help build us missionaries up to them in turn help build our investigators up. Both I felt like went really well. I do attend ward council mtgs along with all the other missionaries. No pec. I take part with Elder Horne(branch president who is from Orem and is returning home in January. He also owns Talons Cove golf course. I thought Mike might like that. He and his wife are absolutely amazing and are a big help to us missionaries.) and Bro. Hippolyte(First Counselor from St. Lucia) in the weekly mtg before church where we discuss things about the branch. I sit on the stand and I assume one week I will conduct the Sacrament Mtg. Elder Odhiambo did when he was Second Counselor. I think they rotate between the three of us each month. So maybe next month it's my turn. I teach quite a bit as well in priesthood and gospel principles. Lots of work but I love it! Love you guys!

 

Love,

Elder King

Letter Home - Week 16

Hello!

 

Love you guys! Thanks for the emails and pictures! Dad to answer your question I don't do interviews for the branch but I do do the interviews for baptism. This week was hard for me but in the end turned into a beautiful one. I just felt really down. I was beating myself up for things that I later realized were out of my control. I was looking at all the negative and it made it really hard. I was looking at all the areas where I wasn't doing well and putting unnecessary stress on myself to improve all at once instead of taking things one thing at a time and like it says in the scriptures how we learn and grow line upon line and precept upon precept. We also need a plan for improvement or else we have no hope. I'm so grateful for our Heavenly Father's plan for us and how this Gospel gives us the hope we need. To get over my troubles I turned to our only source of hope. I turned to my Heavenly Father. I turned to the Gospel. It is our ray of hope in a dark world. Through Jesus Christ we have access to the power of the Atonement. Through him we can change. I focused on what I could do instead of what I couldn't. I prayed. I read in my scriptures. I read conference talks. I found answers to help me along and as I applied my faith to apply the gospel into my everyday life I started to feel a joy. I started to feel happy. I saw things in a different light. I felt better about myself. I was able to escape my head and my negative thoughts. My week finished off awesome! It was beautiful. The Gospel is true. I know it is. It fills my life with joy. I love you guys so much. Have a great week!

 

Love,

Elder King

Letter Home - Week 15

Good morning from St. Lucia!

 

It's been an exciting week with all the new missionaries coming and old ones leaving. I miss them but I like the spirit and attitudes of the new ones. As district leader  I am in charge of overseeing the district and relaying information from the mission president, ap's, and zone leaders to the district. I carry out the teaching in district meetings which are basically reports and training within the district on how to be better and more effective missionaries. I take the nightly calls and make sure things run smoothly. With Elder Odhiambo gone I'm also now the Second Counselor in the branch. Mom, I do know Elder Taylor but the other one is new and I haven't met him yet but I will shortly. They are in my zone but not my district. There are now two districts up in castries with the flood of new missionaries and one still in vieux fort. Our investigators are doing very well. We had 8 of our investigators come to church this sunday which included christian and ambrose, earl, patrick and lenelle, patrice, nash, and megan. Nash is an older guy who we started teaching and he loves sitting down with us. He has a few things to try to overcome but he has a willing heart. Megan is 16 and we are going to start teaching her mom. She has some friends in the church and has been coming faithfully to church often. She is really cool. Patrice keeps reading in the book of mormon and is doing well. Patrick has been taking the lessons with Lenelle and we are preparing both to be baptized together. That will be a great day. We continue to see progress with christian and ambrose. The highlight for my week though would be yesterday when we were finally able to sit down with earl after church. I guess after the baptism of his kids it brought a lot of questions and some inner reflection for him. We had the one lesson after the baptism with him that was really good and then from there it's been between him and the Lord. Sitting down with him I noticed a change in him. We had a great lesson and during it he was talking and basically shared his testimony of the church which has been the things holding him back. We were able to point that out to him and it was really cool. We gave him a date to work towards and helped him understand that he needs to go into the book of mormon now to further his testimony. He is willing and I'm so excited for him. I think he will be ready to enter into the waters of baptism by that date and will be able to join his family as a member of the church. I was so happy during that lesson and Earl himself in the closing prayer mentioned that he loved it too and prayed that the next time will be even better. The church is true. I love it! Have a stellar week!

 

Love,

Elder King