Putting My Heart in Texas: KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON A CONVERSATION

WHY I BELIEVE

So Sister Loo and I had the idea to have a huge fireside targeted JUST for non-members that have questions about what we believe as Latter-Day Saints. So we have been working on that for a while now, it is going to be a huge success. We are really excited about it! Frank is excited about it too and he's not even a member yet! We are trying to convince him to bear his testimony at it. We are having all our recent converts speak about what drew them to the church and how they found their testimony. Frank came to our planning meeting yesterday after church, "becuase he had nothing else to do" So we just invited him to stay and he actually had some really great input from someone who isn't a member. We are going to not only have a fireside devotional but we are going to have an open house that has booths about different topics of the gospel like one both on the book of mormon, one booth on modern day prophets and joseph smith, and Franks idea was to have a booth titled, "High Standards and Happiness!" So great that we are getting Frank involved

FUNNY QUOTE:

Brother Larsen was announcing the fireside over the pulpit yesterday and he said, "Bring you friends that are not members it is going to be really great because we are going to be having boothz-" (but he totally pronounced it BOOZE)" It was SO funny. Yeah everyone bring your non-member friends to a mormon fireside and there will be an open bar! It will be a blast! haha. Oh man it was funny. I don't think I have ever heard so much laughter in a chapel before. I almost had to walk out it was hilarious. His face was SO red.

Anyway.... so remember family how I am considered the "technologically gifted" one in the family? WOW. Let me just tell you that I don't know how to do ANYTHING. Luckily the lord has blessed me with companions that are super gifted when it comes to using computers and photoshop etc. We made an AWESOME flier kinda mocking amormon.org card. I will have to send you the picture next week. I don't have the file right now but it looks GOOD. Sister Shell killed it and everyone was super impressed. We are going to make A-frames and go to all the college campus' and pass out fliers. It will be really cool! We are hoping its a HUGE event. Bishop wants like lefgit refreshments like a wedding reception. He just kept saying, "GO BIG!" so... we are going to try!

LAMONI

So for those of you that are familiar with the Book of Mormon... there is man named Lamoni and he is so overcome with the spirit that he falls to the ground and cant move. SO... Sister Shell coined this term... I laugh so hard whenever she says it. It's just so odd but funny at the same time.... So... I shall define it for you..

LAMONI (verb)- to be so overcome and exhausted by the spirit that one collapses to the ground, unconscious.

EX. When Sister Shell comes home after a really long day and says, "I just need to Lamoni for a few minutes. Leave me be." And then proceeds to lay sprawled lifelessly face down on the carpet until she sees fit. I had to snap a picture of her Lamoning. It was too funny.

QUESO

So my mom send me this little black notebook that says "Keep Calm and Carry On" Sister Loo and I started using it to write down ridiculously awkward and stupid things that we would say to people in order to start a conversation with them. I will give you an example... We are standing in Big Lots and Sister Shell and I felt like we needed to talk to this guy... so we are just looking at each other jutting our heads in his direction with our teeth gritted, KNOWING that we needed to talk to him but not knowing how... out of no where I hear Sister Shell say to the guy,

"Do you like queso?"

"What?"

"Queso. We're having a debate... I like queso, and she doesn't. Do you?"

That's right, Sister Shell will fit in perfectly in this area. You have to be able to master awkward conversation starters...

So we decided to add a little piece of paper to the bottom of the notebook so now it says,

"KEEP CALM

and

Carry On

...a conversation"

HA!

MIRACLE

Saturday morning we had to drive like 80 miles to a baptism for someone that Sister Shell taught... (quick cool story.. his name is Sean and he was watching the history channel one day and they were saying that the Native Americans are descended from Jews. He thought to himself, "wait.. uhhh pretty sure that my mormon friends already believe that...." So he went to Mormon.org and referred himself, Sister Shell showed up on his porch and now he is a member of the church! Anyway... back to the miracle. We went outside to get in our car and leave, and Sheldon (our car) refused to unlock. We pressed the button again, and again and he didn't unlock... this has happened before because I dropped the clicker in the toilet a while back... (dont ask me how. It was an accident...) But that is beside the point... We stuck the key in the door, and it just kept perpetually turning and never catching or unlocking. SO weird.. We worked on it for about 20 minutes and then decided to pray. I said it and just said, "Heavenly Father! WE know you can make this key work! We have to get to this baptism!" After that, Sister Shell stuck the key in the lock again and began to perpetually turn it. And I don't know why, but she pressed the unlock button while I was turning it. And just like that, the door unlocked! Sister Shell and I threw the door open, embraced each other, thanked Heavenly Father audibly SEVERAL times and hopped in and drove off.

The baptism was great! I just love the spirits at baptisms!

Anyway... I think that is pretty much all I have to say... Except... I can't believe that I hit my 9 month mark! That is just crazy. I am half way done with my mission... wow.

THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND LOVE!

Love this church. I know its true.

xoxox

-Sister King

Frank proving to Sister Shell that she is NOT latino.