What a great week!!
Hello Everyone!!!
So we are now all
settled in and ready for the rest of the transfer in our new place at the
Shaw's. I am very grateful that Heavenly Father has helped me to adjust well to
my new area as well as to all of the changes that are taking place. Did I tell
you last week about everything that is going to happen in this mission soon??
So this transfer is only a 5 week transfer. Usually they are 6 weeks, but
because of the mission president switch, we will be transferring a week early
so that president can get everything settled before the new mission president
arrives. President Nicholas goes home of July 1st (Canada Day, the Canadian 4th
of July) and our new mission President comes out on the 3rd. This transfer 25
new missionaries will be coming out to this mission. Then we will have a 7 week
transfer and the next transfer 50 missionaries go home and 50 new missionaries
come out.... CRAZY. That means about 25% of our mission (including mission
president) will be changing within the next 3 months. I am excited to see how
this changes the mission.
Highlights of this
week!!
Exchanges: Exchanges
in the south are very strange... I am used to exchanging at around 8:30 at
night and then back right before or after dinner the next day. However, our
Sister Training Leaders live about an hour and a half away from us in Taber, so
we exchanged at 10 in the morning to about 10 in the morning the next day so
that we could all be at home on time. I stayed in Medicine Hat this time with
Sister Hernandez-Alfaro. It is kind of cool because she actually started her
mission in Medicine Hat 5th ward and is now over the sisters in the 5th ward
for her last 3 months of her mission. We had a good exchange but the best part
was really understanding how we needed to help our investigator Lori. I have a
huge testimony that the Lord places His missionaries exactly where they are
needed. Now that I have been about for a little over 9 months now, I can see
and have seen many correlations between things that happened in the beginning
of my mission and things that have happened now. People that I have worked with
have been easier to help because I have an understanding of their trails, or I
have seen how an experience helped me to change through the Atonement to
prepare me for the things that I experience here.
The best part about it
is that Sister Allard and I were able to help Lori and for the first time since
we started teaching her she finally came to church!!!
Sister Allard and I
have been talking a lot lately about how we can help our area and our
investigators. The people that we are teaching are progressing nicely towards
their goals, however we are looking to increase our teaching pool that we might
be able to continue to find those that have been prepared. We are working and
finding ideas that will help not only us but the ward as well to increase their
missionary mindedness so that the work will continue as the missionaries leave.
I don't really have
much else to report for the week. Sometimes Heavenly Father really places in
front of you the person that He wants you to become. It is scary and amazing to
think that the Creator of the Universe knows exactly who we are, who we can
become and what we are capable of if we just accept His Son and trust that He
knows us better. I am grateful for this knowledge as I have grown an overcome
through my Savior. I love you all and hope that you are enjoying your week!!!
We are going to a butterfly farm today for P-Day so I will send more pictures
next week.
Sister Kelliann
Hi Dad;
It is in the moments when you are
home alone that Mom and I know that you really do like O'Malley!! That is a
really cool impression. I am excited to see what happens with it!! You really
have been the choir director for too long (and you do an amazing job at it, but
maybe Heavenly Father wants you so become something even better). Did I ever
tell you about the time that I was studying and I thought "President will
be at District Mtg" and I got there and he was there. He has never been to
another one since... I have been getting the impression lately that Heavenly
Father really needs me to step it up and be a true disciple and leader for
Christ. It can be scary to think about but I really do know that He knows us
better.
Remember when I told you that I
don't want to be a leader and that I don't like it. And then you told me that I
needed to except and do the things that the Lord has asked of us. Well... I see
now that that is true. I just need to trust in the Lord and do the things that
He prompts me to do. I might not like it, but I know that He will help me to
except it. I love you!! Thank you for being an amazing example to me. By the
way. Mom has been reading the Book of Mormon lately... how is she doing on
that? I know that she updated me last week, but I hope that she has continued
to do so. Also the Stake President in my ward has extended a monthly goal that
I was to extend to you as well. Pray about and seek for an opportunity in which
you can serve someone this month. I love you!!!
SIster Kelliann
Hi Mom!!!
Yes I did get the email about how
Medicine Hat got its name!! That is kind of cool, and I hope that I get to City
Hall so that I can get a picture of that wall. Dad also sent me a story that
was a little different ha ha, it is kind of cool to hear those Legends and I
will have to see what else I can hear while I am here. Being in Medicine Hat is
kind of cool. We live at the bottom of Medicine Hat, and our Zone goes all the
way to a place called Elk Water Park which is basically the boarder of
Saskatchewan. It also goes out to basically the work mill call Brooks which is
a place where many people go for work that are immigrating into the country. We
have a lot of members in the small part of town that we live in. The ward
boundaries are tiny, and we often find ourselves walking a lot, but we really
enjoy it and it is certainly different from the last areas that I have worked
in. We will be doing a lot more working with the members so that we can
increase the work that we have here. We are not sure how long we will be living
with the members that we are now. It will probably be for the summer, but
really as soon as Bishop Fleming has his basement free we will be moving in
there. The Shaw’s are really big on being healthy. She went to a school in
Thailand for teaching yoga, and she does a free yoga class every Tuesday at our
church. Your wreaths look really good!! I really like the one that you did for
Grandma and of course Tammy's is orange!! I am very grateful for the power of
prayer. Grandma is amazing and I hope that she will continue to recover
quickly, but it really does sound like she is. I wish that they had done the
surgery sooner, but better late than never. I will be sending you one of my SD
cards for my camera. It accidentally made is so that I couldn't look at things of
the camera but you can still look at things on the computer. I have another SD
card that I brought so I just switched it out for the other half of my mission.
I love you so much!! Things are going to get pretty crazy here for a little while.
So many new missionaries!!! I love you lots!!! Tell everyone that I say Hi!
Sister Kelliann
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