Putting My Heart in Texas: The "Looking" Sisters are down to clown

*WOOT WOOT.*

I am alive! Man, everyone chilllllllll. Transfers is not the end of the
world. I mean... it can be but not if you have a legit companion like I do!
Sister Loo and I are serving in the Sam Houston 1st Young Single Adult
Ward! So fun! We cover Magnolia (my first area), Spring (where I just was)
and a huge chunk of Houston that almost hits downtown. It is three stakes,
and that is HUGE. We only have 400 miles a week for our car so I hope that
we will be able to balance it out... we are in the same ward as the AP's
and they have unlimited miles... so maybe I can convince President to let
us have more miles?... We will see!

It was really hard to leave Sister Montierth. Like it was a legit breakup.
It was so strange. We had to be in a trio for 2 days and it was like the
weirdest 2 days ever because Sister M was like moving on with this new
companion Sister Hayborne and I was just like a fly on the wall as I tried
to pass on the baton of senior companion and literally take the back seat.
It was really hard.... Plus I was way stressed out about training again,
opening a new area, being in the AP's ward and being Sister Training Leader
for our zone (which I didn't find out about until we went to get our new
companion... President forgot that little detail haha!) Anyway.. it was an
awkward breakup we had to like go through all our stuff and be like, "K do
you want this, or should I take it?" It was an awkward 2 days in a trio
because it was like we knew we were breaking up... but we had to be
together for 2 days and pretend to be companions... it was strange. I
didn't like being in a trio at all. So hopefully that will never happen
again! haha.

*LOOKING*

Sister Loo is awesome. She is from Beverton, Oregon and she is Hawaiian,
Samoan, Chinese and White. Quite the combo. She's awesome! She is waiting
for her Visa to go to Brazil to Sao Paulo Interlagos mission! Who knows
maybe I will learn a little Portugese while I am here with her haha. She is
so funny. We have a good time together. And she loves food just as much as
I do! We have recently discovered the beauty of Tilapia. Because we are in
a singles ward, we don't really get fed much... because everyone is just as
poor as we are haha. But we have a fun time cooking and budgeting. We are
trying to brainstorm ideas how to find new people to teach! Put our names
together and we are the LOO-KING sisters.... get it? We are LOOKING for
people to teach! #punny

*THE WARD*

The ward is amazing though! The past year there have been 12 baptisms!
People this age are just yearning for something more and that is what the
church offers! ALL of these recent converts are SO strong. We have another
baptism on Saturday and we are in the process of working out the details
for another! Sister Loo and I are going to try and get an LDSSA started on
the Lonestar College campus, its kinda like SLCC. But we are going to get
that set up and work with people in the ward to try and teach their
friends. The thing that is interesting about this work, is that is SO
different from the other aspects of missionary work that I have done in my
other ward, the teaching style is so different, it almost feels like you're
just hanging out with friends! I think that a huge part of what we are
going to be doing is organizing activities for the ward and trying to get
people to leave their homeward and make the jump to the YSA. So... if
anyone has ideas hit me up! Once we get the LDSSA set up we are going to be
able to go on campus and set up a booth and hand out fliers and things. We
are thinking about doing a "Why I Believe" fireside and having all the
recent converts share their stories, have some epic musical numbers and
really get people punched by the spirit! We are excited! It will be slow
for a while but once things start picking up, we are going to have so much
to do!

*"CLUB" OF THE WOODLANDS*
So Sister Loo and I talked to a few people who say, "Oh no thank you I am
not interested in the church anymore, I am now a member of Fellowship of
the Woodlands..." I have heard about this church SO much there are a bunch
of people that attend this church and I was like, "Okay... what is the hype
about this place anyway...." So we put it in our GPS and decided to drive
by it... WOW. It was like so awkward, I felt like (brace yourself for a
really geeky and weird analogy) Frodo when he puts on the ring and the eye
of Sauran like turns to him and then evil can sense where he is and attack
him.. that is how we felt! It was so funny! Like we turn to each other and
we were like, "gah, I feel so weird right now, everyone was looking at us,
we slouched in our seats as we drove by and laughed, Sister Loo said, "Dude, the holy
ghost is sayin to us, 'Get outaaa here!' Lets book it!" It was so strange.
It was sad because its man's teachings mingled with scripture that is what
all these churches are. The people were confused! #greatandspaciousbuilding
I mean its a GORGEOUS church. Google it, but man, it was just sad to feel
the spirit zap out of us when we pulled into the huge property. It was more
like a ranch than a church property.

*JESUS PROTECTS*

Well our first morning in the apartment, we head outside to go to district
meeting and we go out to the car and there is like a huge adhesive mark
RIGHT in front of where the driver needs to look out of the windshield. It
looked like someone had glued a flier or a sign on our car and then someone
else had like ripped it off. It was strange. We also had a huge chip in our
windshield. Some nice man had a razor blade and helped us scrap the adhesive off the
car. We get in the car and head to District Meeting but we are not even
like a mile away from the apartment when someone signals to us that we have
a flat tire.... AWESOME. Find out someone slashed out tire. The world loves
missionaries! But what can I say, like a flat tire is going to stop the
lords work? Pish posh. haha. The elders in our zone said that theirs is
the only car that never gets broken into and their secret is to put up
pictures of jesus in all the windows haha. So now we just have pictures of
jesus all over our car to protect it haha.

This church is true, oh so true. I am so excited to be a part of it! I
can't even explain to you how neat it is to open this area. It is cool to
start over with a new companion and then you can like rededicate yourself
to the work and start all over and be a better missionary than you were
before. Changing companions is like repentance in a way... Preach My Gospel
defines repentance as having a fresh view of god, yourself and the world.
That is kinda how I feel this week! Sister Loo is awesome and she is SO
organized which is awesome. She majored in Hospitality Management from SUU.
Shes da bomb. We are gunna rock this! Thanks for your prayers you're all
the best!

So excited to be in the area! It is so much fun and I love it already! My
FHE Co-chair days are coming in handy! But I now know why the missionaries
who are serving in the College Station area on A&M campus call it
"TEMPTATION STATION." It is sometimes difficult to stay focused. But I just
turn to Sister Loo and say, "I'm a missionary, I'm a missionary, I'm a
missionary."

Love you!

Church is true.

xoxoxox

-Sister King

****NEW ADDRESS****
16222 Stuebner Airline Rd. #700
Spring, Texas 77379