Hello Everyone!!
Greetings from I'm-walkin-on-sunshine Colorado....
That's right! It's a beautiful crisp fall day here and I'm
loving life.
Transfer day: I'm staying in Aurora (man I love this ward,
and love these people!) and I'm now companions with THE sister
Carpenter! She was in my MTC district so a "batch mate"
like a batch of cookies you could say. I always just laugh my head
off when I'm with her, and you all know how much I love to laugh. I can't
keep any laughter inside my head.... so I'm the girl always giggling under her
breath... or more like laughing out loud... ok I'll be real.
And Sister Meteer got transferred to the neighboring ward, so I
still will see her at district meetings and p days! the best of both
worlds... so we said goodbye today... but more like "check ya later"
Life is Good.
But the post office is not.... scam time... So I had
to mail a package home for sister brown (I know it has been 6 weeks guys...
it's been crazy alright? Anyways... had to buy a box... didn't have tape... had
to buy tape for 6 DOLLARS! I KID YOU
NOT.... WHAT A SCAM.... then had to pay for shipping.... missionary budget is
tight so I was dying. hahah.... (she had left me with some money to send
it home so no worries... just that dang tape... killed me!) this is coming from
the girl who took the ACT math portion by hand because I didn't want to pay 12
dollars for a cheapo calculator in a vending machine... coulda saved thousands
of dollars in a full ride scholarship that I could've got.... whatevs... not
bitter at all.... hahah... my cheapskate-ness / binge shopping sprees are
such a contradiction... it's hard being me sometimes... :)
So some miracles that happened this week... We got a
headquarters referral and we were so excited. You get it and it's
like a mission.. you have to visit within the next 24 hours... like james
bond status... but we get there and they welcomed us right in... weird... but
he signed to us that he was deaf. I get looking around the house and
there are all sorts of pictures and statues of joseph smith, and the Savior...
getting even weirder... oh ok.. they are members and they didn't know the name
of the referral... so it was a totally wrong address... but actually it was THE
RIGHT one... She is also deaf, but is battling cancer. We were able
to pass notes back and forth to her and her husband and we shared a spiritual
thought through having them read the hymn #227 "There is Sunshine in My
Soul Today" I had them read the 3rd verse... "... and Jesus
listening can hear the songs I cannot sing...." Isn't that so
true... the songs we cannot sing He still hears.
My Spiritual thought comes from Jeffrey R. Holland's talk
"Laborers in the Vineyard"... I love it... The quote I love says
"Surely the thing God loves about being God is the thrill of being
merciful. Especially when they don't feel that they deserve
it."
I have seen that with me being paired with Sister Carpenter.
I wasn't as good of a companion as I should've been to sweet Sister Meteer, and
so I don't feel I deserve to be blessed to serve with one of my greatest
friends out here... but God loves to be merciful. He is SO good to
us. Sister Meteer will still be way close to me so that is also such a
tender mercy.
The past transfer was hard and I had to learn a lot about
HOPE. I felt at times very distanced from Heavenly Father, and I didn't
feel the Spirit guiding me every step of the way... but now I see that that was
Heavenly Father REALLY loving me.. by letting me realize how much I NEED Him
and the Spirit. I TRULY desire to have the Spirit in my life, all
day. And I kinda had to wrestle myself before the Lord again... just like
Enos... As I always say and am still trying to tell myself...
"There is no growth in the comfort zone. And it's not very
comfortable in the growth zone." Heavenly Father loved me enough to
let me have a growing period, and trusted me enough to know that even when it
was hard, I would try to stay faithful to Him. Sometimes I don't know why
I deserve the love He has shown me. He is sooooo good.
My invitation to all of you is to take a moment of
reflection. Think back on a period that was a growing period for you...
in hindsight try to see how the Lord's hand was there, leading you along.
Always in the Book of Mormon, it councils us to Remember the captivity of our
Fathers and how the Lord delivered them... so remember your own captivity at
some point, and reflect on how the Lord delivered you.
I love you all sooo much. I miss you, but I LOVE THIS
WORK! I love being a missionary!!! I can't believe that it's been 4
1/2 months... phew!!! hahah...
If you want to know how many days I have left, ask my mom... she
has an app for that. ;)
Onward Christian Soldiers!!!
From Me to you, Kinzie Lou
ps pic of a fitting beautiful sunset the
last night of mine and sister meteers
companionship...
and me and sister carpenter... companions!!!
eek. isn't she too cute.?
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