Hello! I hope everyone is having a wonderful week!! We had a good week here in pittsboro! It has been real cold, but no snow so I'll take it!!!
This week we had a 4 day exchange!! Crazy I know but it keeps it interesting always having a bag packed and ready to go. Last week after we went bowling I got to stay in cary with Sister Denning for 2 days of our exchange! We got to teach the coolest people that I wish I could continue to teach! Their names are Seth and Alexis and I'm pretty sure he will be a bishop one day!! I was so happy that I got to be apart of visiting with them!! Also got to go volunteer at this place called dorcas and it is like a thrift shoppers dream! Like the Costco of DIs! Just a humungous Christian thrift store!! We also helped a member put some Christmas stuff in her attic and I was so grateful for the fact that I got to wear pants haah! I feel so wrong wearing pants but it's kinda awesome!! Haha while I was in cary we also got to go visit a blind man the sisters are teaching named George! We brought him his walker from his house and he was so happy to have us there:,)
Mid week we got to exchange back, but not companions yet, just areas Haha. So Sister Denning and I came to pittsboro:) we had a good time teaching and visiting people in the ward trying to find some solid people to teach! Something I learned this week is the importance of member work! As a member it is your responsibility to find people in your life that are ready for the gospel of Jesus Christ, the missionaries job is to teach those people. Their is a huge stigma that it is the missionaries job to find, and at times it needs to be, but the primary role as a missionary is to teach so being able to use members to connect us to those people who are ready for the gospel is huge!
Later in the week we got in volunteer Cora food bank and it was so crazy! A neighborhood did a food drive and brought in 5,000 lbs of food!!! What! That's insane!!!! I was the end of an assembly line which meant alot of standing up and bending down with heavy bags of food and I tell ya my legs and back felt that the next day!! Hah but it was so fun to be apart of helping them fill the shelves with food for people who need it!
We also got asked to talk at the relief society enrichment on temples and we wanted to be extra and make little temple cookies. One of my sweet ward members at home sent me some temple cookie cutters and had a perfect reason to use them. :) they turned out so cute and so yummy Haha.
So kinda funny story, a few weeks ago we set up an apt to go teach this family from the area book that we had never met before, but the day we went over we got a call from the hermanas only an hour before that they had just been over teaching them. They were in both of our area books. So they had 2 lessons in one day the first day they met the missionaries. Haha they are part Spanish part English family and we decided the hermanas should teach them but they wanted us to come for one last lesson! The hermanas took the lead on the lesson and it was so awesome how they were talking in Spanish almost the whole lesson and I felt like I knew what they were saying and could feel the spirit as they talked, even though I had no clue what they were saying. The spirit is the language that everyone of us can speak! And that was so so neat to experience that first hand.
Saturday we also decided that it would be awesome If we could sing in sacrament to invite all our people to come to church! So us and the Hermanas whipped together "I know that my Redeemer lives" and sang that on Sunday! We had 2 people come David, who we have been teaching for a while. And Jacci, one of our good good friends in the community!! We love her to death and are planning to start teaching her this week! She loved church and totally felt the spirit it was awesome!! Some awesome members also invited David to their house for dinner with us last night! It was so awesome to see how welcoming and accepting our ward was to everyone that was visiting!
Last night we heard there was a lunar eclipse so we set an alarm for 11:30 so we could go see it! It was sooo cold but so cool! I'm sure you all saw it!! But that was neat
This last week marked month 3 of my mission! So crazy I cant believe it's been 3 months! I love every second I have here to be surrounded by so many amazing people and opportunities to share the message of the restored gospel!
This week I also was studying the 12 tribes and what there roles are in these latter days! I found some really cool things in my studies but would love to learn more If any of you have any cool insights or references I would love to hear some from yall!!
Love you all so much have a blessed week
Love Sister Kinne :)
This week we had a 4 day exchange!! Crazy I know but it keeps it interesting always having a bag packed and ready to go. Last week after we went bowling I got to stay in cary with Sister Denning for 2 days of our exchange! We got to teach the coolest people that I wish I could continue to teach! Their names are Seth and Alexis and I'm pretty sure he will be a bishop one day!! I was so happy that I got to be apart of visiting with them!! Also got to go volunteer at this place called dorcas and it is like a thrift shoppers dream! Like the Costco of DIs! Just a humungous Christian thrift store!! We also helped a member put some Christmas stuff in her attic and I was so grateful for the fact that I got to wear pants haah! I feel so wrong wearing pants but it's kinda awesome!! Haha while I was in cary we also got to go visit a blind man the sisters are teaching named George! We brought him his walker from his house and he was so happy to have us there:,)
Mid week we got to exchange back, but not companions yet, just areas Haha. So Sister Denning and I came to pittsboro:) we had a good time teaching and visiting people in the ward trying to find some solid people to teach! Something I learned this week is the importance of member work! As a member it is your responsibility to find people in your life that are ready for the gospel of Jesus Christ, the missionaries job is to teach those people. Their is a huge stigma that it is the missionaries job to find, and at times it needs to be, but the primary role as a missionary is to teach so being able to use members to connect us to those people who are ready for the gospel is huge!
Later in the week we got in volunteer Cora food bank and it was so crazy! A neighborhood did a food drive and brought in 5,000 lbs of food!!! What! That's insane!!!! I was the end of an assembly line which meant alot of standing up and bending down with heavy bags of food and I tell ya my legs and back felt that the next day!! Hah but it was so fun to be apart of helping them fill the shelves with food for people who need it!
We also got asked to talk at the relief society enrichment on temples and we wanted to be extra and make little temple cookies. One of my sweet ward members at home sent me some temple cookie cutters and had a perfect reason to use them. :) they turned out so cute and so yummy Haha.
So kinda funny story, a few weeks ago we set up an apt to go teach this family from the area book that we had never met before, but the day we went over we got a call from the hermanas only an hour before that they had just been over teaching them. They were in both of our area books. So they had 2 lessons in one day the first day they met the missionaries. Haha they are part Spanish part English family and we decided the hermanas should teach them but they wanted us to come for one last lesson! The hermanas took the lead on the lesson and it was so awesome how they were talking in Spanish almost the whole lesson and I felt like I knew what they were saying and could feel the spirit as they talked, even though I had no clue what they were saying. The spirit is the language that everyone of us can speak! And that was so so neat to experience that first hand.
Saturday we also decided that it would be awesome If we could sing in sacrament to invite all our people to come to church! So us and the Hermanas whipped together "I know that my Redeemer lives" and sang that on Sunday! We had 2 people come David, who we have been teaching for a while. And Jacci, one of our good good friends in the community!! We love her to death and are planning to start teaching her this week! She loved church and totally felt the spirit it was awesome!! Some awesome members also invited David to their house for dinner with us last night! It was so awesome to see how welcoming and accepting our ward was to everyone that was visiting!
Last night we heard there was a lunar eclipse so we set an alarm for 11:30 so we could go see it! It was sooo cold but so cool! I'm sure you all saw it!! But that was neat
This last week marked month 3 of my mission! So crazy I cant believe it's been 3 months! I love every second I have here to be surrounded by so many amazing people and opportunities to share the message of the restored gospel!
This week I also was studying the 12 tribes and what there roles are in these latter days! I found some really cool things in my studies but would love to learn more If any of you have any cool insights or references I would love to hear some from yall!!
Love you all so much have a blessed week
Love Sister Kinne :)
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| Thanks Boisjolie's for the cookie cutter! |
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