Family and Friends!
This mission thing is so great. If anyone tells you their
mission was boring or not the best two years of their life then they weren't
actually serving the lord by bringing others to truth. I love reading your guys
emails and honestly hate emailing back because it stresses me out a little so I
am doing my best!!! (Don't think I am saying I don't want to email you guys
though because that isn't the case) This past week was faster than the last and
I don't know how it works. My best guess is that it is because as we continue
to be on the Lord's errand doing his will and not ours we begin to operate in
his timing too. Not doctrine just a funny thought.
Just got done with a game of 21 and I love that game so
much! These high tops are coming in clutch for all that dunking! (JK)
Elder Katoa is continuing to be one great trainer! He
helps council me on what I need to fix and thankfully is very kind about it. He
lets me realize things myself but sometimes points things out when I don't
seem to realize I'm doing the same wrong thing over and over. So honestly he is
a great trainer. Together we are realizing what it means to truly be a
harvester and how to accomplish that effectively. We just need to bear testimony and see who responds to an
invitation to follow Christ. I love serving with him.
We are going to start a new trend.
So since elder Katoa is a District leader and he has to
go on exchanges every week I do to! And this week it was me and Elder Smith
(also a brand new missionary) who were together. Well neither of us have taken
the mission driving test so guess what we did..... RODE BIKES! Honestly I felt
like a lost dog. We were both new and I had never done a biking day so I didn't
really know how to effectively go through the day without back tracking over
and over. Honestly probably one of the longest days of the mission because out
here there aren't mountains just really big hills. Also if you want to
sufficiently feel really dorky... Wear Sunday clothes with a helmet and ride a
bike that has really bad gears that don't want to shift. I felt like a naked
man or something. Oh and it was in the
30s with some nice wind. Oh and I was wearing those behind the head ear muff
things under my helmet straps. I need to take that test.
Last night we ate with the Horrocks family and I felt
like I was at home! :) Their family just kind of reminded me of that feeling of
being home. Oh and the food was BOMB. They made fondue pots (a valentine
tradition for them I guess) and there was some Spinach one and a cheddar one
and then just a plethora of stuff to dip in it. I pigged out! Then we had
dessert fondue as well and pigged out again.
Me and elder Katoa were so full.
I am really beginning to love exercising in the morning.
I'll have to send progress pics one day ;). Getting mad gains out here with a
total of 5 pounds. (Full of sarcasm)
We just started teaching a woman by the name of Jeanie
Biaer. Her husband, Chris, is already a member but he is inactive. Both have
expressed desires to be sealed in the temple for time and eternity in the
Kansas City temple. They also have made it very easy to teach them by asking if
we could come as frequently as possible in the evening after they put their
kids to bed. Hopefully we can have daily contact with them one way or another
and help them work hard to become ready for a baptismal date. Chris has a
desire to baptize his wife so hopefully this will really strengthen them as a
couple and family. This is the family that we were looking for and instead found
Raymond and Nathaniel. (By the way we had to drop Nathaniel)
Elder Katoa and I got to speak in church yesterday on the
plan of salvation and it was so much fun! I loved it! Spoke for about 15 min
each.
I know this is the Lord's work and in turn God's work. Do
not fear! It is breaking your baptismal covenant.
-Love Elder Kelly
This is Jeremy Guthrie. If you don't know who that is, he
pitches for the Royals and was a major pitcher last year in the World Series.
He is a beast when it comes to missionary work. And has found us two solid
investigators (Bobbie and Israel. I'll tell you about them next week) He goes
on team ups with us all the time too. So I am basically famous now!
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