We know about God apparently...

 LONGEST WEEK EVEEEER.

Oh man. What a week. I dont have much time to email but let me just say this. I got a phone call on tuesday night from my zone leader that said, "Sister King, how do you feel about taking over the area?" My stomach dropped and I said, "uhhhh.... I dunno?" and then he said, "Well thats good because you're packing your bags. Oh and you're training." So I am whitewash training. We have opened a new area with sisters. It is pretty nuts! I have no idea what I am doing but life is good. I have to rely on the spirit like 80X more than I did in my other area. That is for sure! It has been a crazyyy week. We got lost getting to our apartment so I said, "THATS IT HERMANA! WE ARE BUYING A GPS." So I flipped the car around and we got directions to walmart to buy one. I didn't even care. It is impossible to get around without one here. Especially with no mountains I have no idea where I am going. I think I have told ya'll that when I was little I thought that North was directly in front of you at all times...? yeah. I haven't gotten much better. Speaking of north.... I heard that Kanye West named his daughter North! How awesome is that... North West! Annnyway. We finally got to our apartment and we open the door and we didn't even have toilet paper. We spend the rest of the day building things, getting to know our neighbors, borrowing tools and we met a really cute family that lives above us! I saw them and all I could think of was all the kids dressed in white getting baptized! They are so cute.

BATMAN COMP

It took me like 4 days to say my companions name right. So sad... she is awesome though she is from Boise and we get along super well. I love her. She is hilarious. She has such a good batman impression and so she always talks to me like batman. She is hilarious and loves to sing in the shower and blast come come ye saints. Which I am more than okay with since its almost the 24th. #HOLLApioneerday. She is so sweet. It is hard though becuase we are so alike! We are trying to find a good dynamic between us and share the load since we are both so talkative. It is hard to be a trainer but I am actually really enjoying it! I can do things my way and really use preach my gospel effectively! I am excited to progress and teach her all that I have learned. And I am learning things from her too!

WE ARE FAMILY I GOT ALL MY SISTAS AND ME

Pretty sure we are the only white people in our whole complex and we kinda live in the ghetto. Like, LEGIT ghetto. Its fine haha. We have a cute little cat that doesn't have a tail and we call him Tayless.(tail-less) get it?  We breakdance with all the kids in our complex and we taught them how to pray the other night. One of them asked us how jesus made us and we talked to him about how jesus and god love him SO much and that they know his name! He was baffled by that thought! It was adorable.

DINNER INVITATION FROM GOD

 Okay so we met with the Fry family and they are going though serious trial. They were sealed in the temple 4 days before brother fry had an anyerysm and he was in the hospital for like 2 months. Then he had ANOTHER one. And they put him on a blood thinner. The same blood thinner that he had been on after the first one. Apparently his body had built up antibodies to the mediciation and instead of thinning his blot it clotted and he had to have all his fingers and toes amputated just after his first knuckle. SO sad. They are in the middle of a huge lawsuit and have no money. We went over there to help them with their yard sale. It was like a billion degrees outside and we helped them as much as we could. I hope that they made some profit off of it. But I am just so glad that they were sealed before all of this happened. It must have been such a comfort to know that they would be together even if something happened! They are such a sweet couple.

 After we visited them, next on our list was sister hale a less active. We went over to her house and we introduced ourselves she was so excited to have sisters. She talked about how she doesn't like to go to church because all they do is bible study and all that kind of stuff... She said, "why dont we like actually go serve people at church or learn how to be prepared for food storage during relief society meeting instead of just reading scriptures about it!" She just went on and on about how RS is just like hypocritical and all the rich ladies in the ward have fancy canning machines and blah blah blah.... I had no idea what to say. I told her about the importance of church and that the reason why you come to church is not because of the social part but it is becuase of the sacrament. She said, "yeah, yeah... I know, I know..."

THEN I had the strongest impression come to my head that said, "Okay, she wants to do service, give her the oppurtunity. Have her bring dinner to the Frys." I was stunned. I didn't even know this woman this was my first day in a new area. She is like a returned soldier from the marines and she could like beat me up in one swat. I was so scared but the thought just kept coming to my head so I said, "Sister Hale, I think that you need to bring the Frys dinner." She just stared at me and Sister Montierth just looked at me like, "uhhh what the heck?!" And I just said "I feel impressed that you need to bring them dinner tonight." At this point its like 4pm! Sister Hale says, "well I was actually just finnishing dinner when ya'll came here so I will put some on a plate and you can take it over." I swallowed hard and the voice came back to me and said, "NO. She needs to take it over there with you." I closed my eyes and said, "Sister Hale I think you need to come with us." She rebuttled by saying, "oh no... I am not dressed." I persisted and we told her about Brother Fry's surgery and her jaw dropped to the floor. She started dishing out even MORE food onto the plates and she agreed to come with us. She even brought her 16 year old grandaughter that isn't a member. 

We ended up taking her over to the Frys house just a street over. They had met before but they didn't know one another super well. Turns out that Sister Fry and Sister Hale were both retired nurses. CRAZY. They talked about lawsuits and all the different medications and sister Hales offered to come over anytime if sister Fry ever needed help giving brother fry new bandages or needed help lifting him into his wheelchair. They exchanged phone numbers and later at ward council when we shared our prompting they said, "Wow. We have been talking about having them meet for a few months now and it just never happened!" I am telling you. The lord can work through all of us. We just have to listen.

FAITH over FEAR.

Church is true. Love this work.

xoxoxo

-sister king

ps I have a new address

3030 Hirshfield Road

Spring Tx 77373

all my peeps from my favorite first area everrrrr

Nick is getting baptized I KNOW IT. This is him and his gf kenzi who is a member

LOOK what we built! SO PROUD. #ikeamissionaries

#p90xpday YOGA with the district! gah. SO SORE.

we got a legit mini bible at the dollar store for our keychain.

#christanlife

Our newest investigator named ben took this picture RIGHT before we have him a BoM and taught him the restoration. He told us we were sent to him. #angelsintexas

look what sister g gave me!

I love BRO GIESEKE!

Matthewwww! He is reading the BOM again!! sister F keeps me updated!

I am going to miss my mexican bisos from kristell!!

LOOK AT WHAT A STUD ELDER GONZALEZ IS! unreal! #YOGAMASTER

PRAY FOR MATTHEW

PRAY FOR MATTHEW

Our golden investigator Matthew who I was raving about and is amazing KNOWS the book of Mormon is true, and just the other day told us that he couldn't stop smiling since we came to him and that we are his angels and all this stuff, he is so so sweet. Matthew has been a smoker for 12 years and he always smokes. So we taught him the word of wisdom the other day and he just flat out accepted it.   Before we went up and knocked on his door we were like sick to our stomach with nervousness but brother Gieseke just kept saying, "why are you nervous? It doesn't matter if you're scared. This is the LORDS investigator NOT yours. If the lord thinks he needs to hear about the word of wisdom, then tell him about the word of wisdom!" So we did even though we were terrified and it went so well! He only had a problem with tea! We prayed with him before we left and he said, " dear god, we are going to have to have a big conversation about this whole tea issue..." we went back the next day and HE HAD QUIT SMOKING COLD TURKEY. Talk about faith.... he knows it is true. So cool. We were so proud of him we just wanted to give him a huge hug. So that night we taught him about prophets and he was really interested in "this munsen guy" so we told him about Thomas S. Monson and showed him clips of general conference and everything and we asked him to pray about if what we had told him was true.

GAH.....

The next day we were planning on extending a baptismal date. We show up at Matthews house and I was like so confident going in.... Sister F was nervous but I was like "Whatever we got this!" WRONG. We were so blindsided.... gah. He was a totally different person... I think he was on edge from not smoking but gosh... it was like a total change of heart. He had looked up all this anti-Mormon stuff and was really defensive about it. The questions he was asking were so terrible and untrue. The people who make this anti-Mormon stuff are going to have a hard time with god later down the road that is all I gotta say....

As we sat outside on his porch (the same porch where less than 48 hours ago he had told us that he couldn't stop smiling about what he felt inside) a huge thunder and lightening storm that rolled in. There was a lull in his questions and we could see the gears in his mind ticking as the stared down at his bible for answers. Sister F and I exchanged a heartbroken look to one another, and believe me it wasn't the first one we had swapped throughout this terrible discussion... I said, "Matthew... how are you feeling right now?" He looked up to the dark clouds and the clapping thunder clouds pointed to the sky and said, "THIS is going on in side my chest right now." So hard... I just looked down at my scriptures and I have never prayed so hard in my life to know what to say or what scripture to share. It was really hard and it made me feel so insecure as a missionary and really humbled me because there are so many things that I don't know.. and every single thing we said to matthew, I can testify was from the spirit. Sister F and I didn't really even remember half the stuff we said to Matthew after the lesson.

Oh man we feel like we have just gone through a breakup... I really think that Satan was breaking Matthew in half!  It was heartbreaking. We found out a lot of stuff about his past and about his relationship with god and how he was angry with god for a long time. But now he is trying to get back on the right pathway. We said goodbye to Matthew and I just started bawling. It probably didn't help that we were listening to the Guardian soundtrack and it was like super sad music but we just talked about Matthew and how he will eventually come around.  It was heartbreaking because he is so so close and Satan knows that he is SO close to being happier than he has ever been before. 

We called and invited him to come to the temple grounds with us and we could talk but he said that he didn't want to. He didn't come to church and just texted us all sorts of stupid messed up anti questions all day yesterday. It has been a hard week. But living with the Giesekes makes it all better. Last night Brother Gieseke made us popcorn and talked to us about his crazy dreams that he has. He is the best. We just love him. He is going golfing in Ireland this week and we are so so sad. We will miss him!

NICK

Nick is being disowned by his mom for wanting to gospel in his life and we just pray that he will be able to come back to church. I text him everyday different chapters in the Book of Mormon to read and so hopefully we will be able to maintain that spirit and then when he goes away to school he can get baptized. Satan is working hard in texas! But that just means that we will have to work harder!

CHICKEN WRANGLING

In the midst of our phone call with Matthew we were sitting in our little log cabin sweating bullets while discussing what to do with matthew and we get a knock at our door. It was Brother G and he needed our help wrangling and hearding all the new baby chickens into the new chicken coop! So we got a kick out of that. It was pretty funny. We needed a good laugh. Sister F and I both stepped in a huge fire ant nest and so now our feet and legs are itching like crazy. But just to have to wrangle chickens and heard them across the pasture was worth it. It was so funny.

Anway... I am pretty sure that Folsey and I are staying here. I hope so anyway! Love you alllllll! I love Texas! There was the most beautiful sunset the other night and gosh we had some gewwwwwd Mexican food.

church is true.

xoxoxo

-sister king

Oh the Baptists..

 I forgot my camera last pday so here I am on the fourth of July!