Hello everyone!!! So it's Tuesday,,, I know. weird. But I'm emailing today because I got to go to the temple today, so today is my p day instead of yesterday. Some missionaries do both (p day, and temple day) but me and my companion know that blessings come from obedience, but MIRACLES come from EXACT OBEDIENCE! we believe that totally. So yesterday we worked, and rode bikes in the 90 degree humid weather and it was hard. way hard. especially when we knew that everyone else in the mission was emailing their loved ones. But we kept working. And we saw many miracles yesterday!!!! People we called from our area book actually answered and we set up some appointments that sound really promising! A girl we taught last week who we haven't been able to get a hold of was home, so we taught her again and had an AMAZING experience. We had another investigator commit to baptism next month, and for dinner a member made us cafe rio sweet pork taco salads. mmmmm my favorite. I thought of mama sheri and had to just look up and say thanks. The Lord has been so good to me. I know that He has comforted me through this hard time, and helped me bear powerful testimony of this Gospel that I love so much. Without the Lord, I know I'm really nothing special when I'm talking to these people. But I know the Lord is so involved in this work, it really is hastening and we are finding so many people who are just PREPARED for the Gospel. It is amazing!!!!
So, funny story. We are on bikes (have I mentioned that enough? hahaha) and we were in an unknown neighborhood just cruisin mindin our biz when all of a sudden, this beast of a dog starts barking at us and starts CLIMBING the 6 foot wood fence! It's front legs are over the fence and I swear it was foaming at the mouth! It was seriously like the beast on the sandlot. And I squeal/screamed for 20 straight seconds as I hauled cheeks out of there. And then we laughed for a few minutes straight over how our life is a movie sometimes. People love seeing us sister missionaries riding bikes in skirts. Like we look crazy. But since being on bikes, people have been really humbled by the fact that we must REALLY love what we are sharing to be biking in skirts around just to tell people about it. (And I have to say, they probably are LOVING the helmet hair too. I know I am.) haha.
I can't believe it's almost been a month since I've been gone. Wow!!!!! It's hard being away from everyone that I love, but thinking of you all and my family really pumps me up and makes me want to be the best missionary I can be.
So a really sad/ tragic thing that happened. So in a trailer park on Sunday night we were out trying to get a hold of an investigator and we met some people. We asked the guy what Jesus Christ meant to him and he told us " a waste of time I don't have right now." ouch. that really made me so sad for him. We left and were kinda down. The next day we were in that trailer park teaching a lesson, when we left we found out a little boy had drowned in the park pool. It was so sad. so so sad. as we were leaving that "waste of time" guy saw us and called us over. He told us more about what had happened and asked if we could get our congregation to pray for the mom or something. I asked if all of us could pray right then and there. So I said a prayer, and they changed completely. His girlfriend was bawling cuz she had tried giving the little boy CPR. She was really upset but we were able to just sit with her and comfort her. After she calmed down all of us starting talking about God and sis Burnett and I were able to talk a little bit about the plan of salvation, and just try to comfort them. After that conversation they agreed to talk more with us and so we have 3 new potential investigators from that experience. I still am way sad abut that little boy, and that poor mom. Seriously, my heart was just broken. But the Lord gives us opportunities to try to get to know Him better, and find comfort from Him in hard times like that. I won't say it was a miracle that that little boy died, because that is SO sad. But it was a miracle that in that sad moment, those people were able to find a little peace.
Jesus Christ knows every pain we feel. He has felt it Himself. He faced it alone, but we have the blessing of not EVER having to be alone during those times. He is waiting there for us with his arms outstretched to us. He wants to take that pain from us because "His yoke is easy... His burden is light" because He lifts so much of it. He can lift all of it. I love my Savior, Jesus Christ. There is no way I could be doing this without Him.
I love you all so much, and think about you often (and dream weird vivid dreams about missionary work that involve a lot of you. It's weird.)
Onward Christian Soldiers!
From me to you, Kinzie Lou
So, funny story. We are on bikes (have I mentioned that enough? hahaha) and we were in an unknown neighborhood just cruisin mindin our biz when all of a sudden, this beast of a dog starts barking at us and starts CLIMBING the 6 foot wood fence! It's front legs are over the fence and I swear it was foaming at the mouth! It was seriously like the beast on the sandlot. And I squeal/screamed for 20 straight seconds as I hauled cheeks out of there. And then we laughed for a few minutes straight over how our life is a movie sometimes. People love seeing us sister missionaries riding bikes in skirts. Like we look crazy. But since being on bikes, people have been really humbled by the fact that we must REALLY love what we are sharing to be biking in skirts around just to tell people about it. (And I have to say, they probably are LOVING the helmet hair too. I know I am.) haha.
I can't believe it's almost been a month since I've been gone. Wow!!!!! It's hard being away from everyone that I love, but thinking of you all and my family really pumps me up and makes me want to be the best missionary I can be.
So a really sad/ tragic thing that happened. So in a trailer park on Sunday night we were out trying to get a hold of an investigator and we met some people. We asked the guy what Jesus Christ meant to him and he told us " a waste of time I don't have right now." ouch. that really made me so sad for him. We left and were kinda down. The next day we were in that trailer park teaching a lesson, when we left we found out a little boy had drowned in the park pool. It was so sad. so so sad. as we were leaving that "waste of time" guy saw us and called us over. He told us more about what had happened and asked if we could get our congregation to pray for the mom or something. I asked if all of us could pray right then and there. So I said a prayer, and they changed completely. His girlfriend was bawling cuz she had tried giving the little boy CPR. She was really upset but we were able to just sit with her and comfort her. After she calmed down all of us starting talking about God and sis Burnett and I were able to talk a little bit about the plan of salvation, and just try to comfort them. After that conversation they agreed to talk more with us and so we have 3 new potential investigators from that experience. I still am way sad abut that little boy, and that poor mom. Seriously, my heart was just broken. But the Lord gives us opportunities to try to get to know Him better, and find comfort from Him in hard times like that. I won't say it was a miracle that that little boy died, because that is SO sad. But it was a miracle that in that sad moment, those people were able to find a little peace.
Jesus Christ knows every pain we feel. He has felt it Himself. He faced it alone, but we have the blessing of not EVER having to be alone during those times. He is waiting there for us with his arms outstretched to us. He wants to take that pain from us because "His yoke is easy... His burden is light" because He lifts so much of it. He can lift all of it. I love my Savior, Jesus Christ. There is no way I could be doing this without Him.
I love you all so much, and think about you often (and dream weird vivid dreams about missionary work that involve a lot of you. It's weird.)
Onward Christian Soldiers!
From me to you, Kinzie Lou
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