MICROWAVEABLE SHOES
So remember how I have genie toes? If you don’t know what I am
talking about ask Brittany or Dan or one of my sisters to explain it to you.
But it is VERY hard for me to find shoes that fit my toes. Like way hard. So
before coming out I bought some Crocs... NOW NOW... calm down. Don't get your
undies in a bunch. They were not like the ugly crocs with holes in them like
Swiss cheese. These were cute crocs (oxi-moron, I know). But anyway so I had
these crocs and I would wear them occasionally. Then... when transfers happened
I put all my shoes in a bag, threw them in the back of the big red truck and
then drove to my new area. Good thing its 105 degrees outside and my shoes are
like rubber.... yeah my crocs like shrunk thanks to the heat... They are like a
size 6 now instead of a size 8. I wanted to wear them the other day and Sister
M was like, "dude just put them in the microwave for a minute." So I
did. She was laughing so hard. She was like, "I wasn't being serious!!"
Well... it worked didn't it? Now they are a size 7... I will have to wait for a
few days before I try again... I don’t want them to like turn to goo
haha.
THE SIGN
Well.... apparently Sister M was fed up with my sleep talking. I
gave another lesson in my sleep the other night and woke both of us up haha.
Soooo. She made me a sign to help my sub-conscious to remember that it’s not
polite to sleep talk. The sign says, "PLEASE refrain from speaking while
sleeping!" I was laughing SO hard. We hung it right above my bed. We are going
to try and buy a dream catcher too haha hopefully that will help! :)
LIGHT FROM GOD
We had a name and an address that the elders had randomly given
us. We weren't sure if it was a less active, or a former investigator or
what... so we knocked on the door and it was super stormy and dark. It was only
like 7:30 but it was so dark out because of the rain clouds. We said a prayer
and then we went up to the door the mom answered and she was in her bathrobe.
We were like "Sorry if you're busy but we were just wondering if Braydon
Berry lives here?" She said, "Yes that’s my husband." "Oh
okay, well we would love to come back and share a message with you and your
family." I was totally expecting to have her say, "you know now isn't
a good time and we aren't interested.... But we were so shocked when she smiled
and said, "YES! We are actually really interested in having you come teach
us!" WHAT?! Just at that moment this gorgeous peach colored light casted
itself all over the porch. Sister M and I both turned around confused and the
clouds had broken through the storm and I promise you I almost heard angels
singing it was such cool timing. I will keep you updated on them! They seem
like a really cool family :)
McDONALDS
MISCOMMUNICATION
We met Rod. We had an excuse to talk to him because he was
playing with some random cat. God knows that he can use cats to guide us to
people. We should probably just start following cats and they will lead us to
people to teach. Yeah? I think that sounds like a good plan. Anyway.... we met
Rod and he said he was interested. Got his phone number and then texted him
later that night. No response. Figures. THEN we went out with some members to
McDonalds to get smoothies and we see him come in to McDonalds! What are the
chances? He left before we had the chance to talk to him! He texted us and
said, "Hey just saw y’all at McDonalds haha," and the number we had
written down was one number off from the number he texted us from. God knew
that we had written the number down wrong and so he was giving us a second
chance to get his phone number! How crazy is that? Otherwise we would have
never been able to find him again. Little miracles happen like this all the
time. It is amazing.
CLEANING HOUSE
We are teaching Angelica and mannnn her life has been rough. We
haven't even been able to teach her a lesson because the spirit can't be in her
home at all. It is so so sad. She has this huge house inspection tomorrow so we
went over to help her get started to clean. She was so overwhelmed she just didn't
know where to start. We spent 3 hours in her house and cleaned 2 rooms. She is
so so sweet. I love her and really can feel her changing and wanting to be a
better mother. Her room looked SO good after we were finished and I put my arm
around her and said, "Look how good this looks! Don't you just feel peace
here? Just breathhhhheee. Inhale, exhale! Don't you feel better? Now you can
start clearing out all the bad." It was exactly what she needed. She just
needed to know that it was possible. We cleaned her room and her daughter’s
room. I hope that they pass the inspection so they can still get help for their
rent payments! She came to church yesterday and just bawled through the entire
thing. I left my conference edition of the ensign at her house the other day
and I don't think that it was an accident. She LOVED it and wants her daughter
to take early morning seminary. Keep her in your prayers. She is so special but
she needs the spirit in her home so so badly. There have been times when sister
m and I have felt uneasy going into her home but we know that she is slowly
changing and there is a light at the end of the tunnel :)
TEMPLE
Ohhhh the temple. How I love it there. I love events and seeing
all the other missionaries and catching up. It's just a riot really....
Especially this time because there is a new endowment film and man oh man.. It
was exciting. It felt like a midnight movie premiere! We were all giddy. Is
that pathetic? Maybe a little bit... haha. But it was fun. There is such an
amazing spirit with all the missionaries inside the temple and you can feel
that the temple workers feel it just as much as we do, if not more.
5 FUTURE MISSIONARIES
We found this awesome family tracting. We were walking by a
driveway and we saw one of those lame stick figure family stickers that Mormon
families put on their car. I said to Sister M, "hmm these people have a
million kids and a Mormony sticker. They'd fit right in. Lets meet 'em."
We taught the mom and all the kids the restoration. There are 5 boys! The 11
and 12 year old boys stayed for the whole lesson. They loved it. We showed them
the Restoration DVD and they were like sponges! Soaking up every little drop of
the spirit. Afterwards we talked about it and I said, "Well I know that I
felt the spirit, did ya'll feel that, it’s like a good, cozy feeling?" The
two boys were like, "Yeah! We felt it!" It was really cool. I hope
that things go well with them. We are going to have the deacons go over and
meet them and invite them to scouts and stuff. So cool. I could see them all
passing the sacrament. It was really cool.
Oh man... this week has been crazy. I am so so tired! I laid
down to take a 30 minute nap yesterday after church and I told Sister M to wake
me up.... but she DIDN'T! I slept for like 2 hours! Haha she was like,
"I couldn't wake you up I felt too bad!" She’s too nice to me.... Oh
man. But it has been a good week! One of our investigators has a goal baptismal
date for August 31! We are praying that her husband will let her! She has a
daughter named Jocelyn it throws me off when she talks about her or calls after
her because I always turn around haha. It's funny.
I love the Book of Mormon!
xoxoxox
church is true.
-sister king
my tongue matched my outfit while tracting after we had snow
cones.
peace and quiet after cleaning Angie’s daughter’s room.
Temple Day!
The lovely sign that Sister M made for my subconscious.
Our
photoshoot at a ward activity. Dress-ups included.
