Talofa family!!
Thank you so much for all
the emails and love and support and prayers. I do feel them!
I got my package mom and
dad :) I loved it! It made me SO happy getting something in the mail
especially from home! I love your letters and the words of
encouragement and support. I do need them a lot. And mom the skirt
fits wonderfully! All the sisters I live with are very jealous, and
the lady I live with was very impressed! :) I love it! Thank you so
much. If you have time it would be great in every color! ;)
This week has been a bit
better. Some cool news: me and sister M are leading our District...I
guess we are doing pretty well. But, I am not letting that go to my
head. We have a lot to learn still, especially me...our sister
training leader was over for exchanges, and we role played with her
and she is exactly who I wanna be in a few months. She has the spirit
and does awesome talking about the gospel!
We've been teaching a lot.
The past couple days we have been on the go go go and have taught a
lot of lessons. Some have been difficult...well mainly one. For the
most part the people we are teaching are inactive. They are all very
kind! But, on Saturday night we taught an inactive and his gf and
they have two little boys. He just kinda told us he hasn't been
reading the Book of Mormon because he doesn't believe it's true and
feels like it's all made up mainly because he hasn't gotten an answer
about it yet. That was the first time I've gotten something like that
so that was kind of hard for me to help him, but I tried my best. We
challenged him to keep reading the Book of Mormon and to truly pray
with a sincere heart and promised him he would get an answer.
The other day we were
teaching another inactive sister. She's 19 and so sweet! Her dad
comes to church, but she doesn't often. They lost her records so she
will probably have to get re baptized. We taught her about the
commandments and the main part we wanted to focus on was prayer. So,
we did that and talked about it and showed a Mormon Message and she
told us that everything we said to her was an answer to her prayers
and just what she needed, so that was way cool! It makes me feel like
I really am getting it, kind of.
It's been hard. Sometimes
I just don't know what to say. I'm still trying to adjust to clearing
my mind and letting the spirit guide me. I think I'm getting there.
Sister M sweetly reminds
me to read the Book of Mormon again, because I'm really not as smart
as she is when it comes to the Book of Mormon..oops. hah.
Tuesday we took a very
sweet family to Temple Square! They are recently reactivated and
their son just got baptized and now they are working on getting to
the temple to be sealed...When they do Sister M and I will be able to
be there :) They have three boys and one girl: beautiful, beautiful
kids! They are a family from the Martial Islands! It was a good
experience. We watched the video about the Plan of Salvation that
they have in the DC visitors' center, and it made me cry. It made me
miss my family! But, I was able to bear my testimony to them, so that
was good! We taught with the sister missionaries on Temple Square!
One sister was one of my MTC teacher's sisters! haha That was cool!
So, we are hoping that they will get to the temple soon~ we sat with
them at church on Sunday!
This weekend was Stake
Conference. It was really great! It was all on hastening the work!
Our Stake President is a sweet emotional older man! We have 48
missionaries in our stake out right now. He read some of their
testimonies since they've been on their mission. I'm loving the
people more and more here. The members are really great. Stake
Conference really pushed members to get into the work!! Members are a
huge strength, and I can testify to that!! The Samoan people are
wonderful, so sweet and hilarious! The ladies always pull me into
them and give me enormous hugs and kisses on the cheek!! They are
very loving. It's hard when I don't understand, but I do love the
people!! We taught a lesson all in Samoan the other night -.- that
stunk. haha But, I said the closing prayer. We are thinking of going
on splits now since Sister M thinks I'm ready for that, so we
will see! There is a missionary devotional this Sunday! Our whole
mission is going to be there, and everyone here is invited: members,
non member, and inactives, so it should be really great! I'm excited
and can't wait to see the people from my MTC district! haha. and it
should be very spiritual! I still love being a missionary for my
Heavenly Father. In fact I think that love is just growing. It's a
blessing to be in the Army of Helaman and to bring people closer to
Christ!
This Friday (Valentines Day) I am going on splits and going to the Hunter area with one of
my sister training leaders-sister lala (that's a nickname can't
remember her whole name hah) She is from New Zealand! So hopefully
that will go well! It goes from 4 PM Friday to 4Pm Saturday!
We have an elderly
missionary couple in every stake in our mission and ours is the
sweetest! They are Elder and Sister N! I love them! They are just
like our grandparents. They take good care of us and always tell us
how much they love us!! Very grateful for them and for the wonderful
people I am meeting here. We had dinner with the 6th Ward this past
week and they were nothing but incredible strong members. I was very
blown away by some of them! They are sweet, strong, humble people!!
I went to Golden Corral
after District Meeting on Friday. It made me think of you daddy. haha
It was so good! I ate way too much though! lol
One thing that's been hard
for me here is worrying about you guys. I know I shouldn't, but I do!
It's just me! I've been praying hard for you since I've been here and
expressing my concerns and worries, and the other night I turned to
Doctrine and Covenants 100:1 It's an awesome verse that helped me a
lot! Go read it.
Sammy, I found a little
turtle in my scriptures that you drew me forever ago. It was so cute!
I love it!
Pdays are actually rather
stressful with too much to do in one day. That was my week basically.
Stake conference talked so
much about hastening the work as I said. I just wanna challenge each
of you to make missionary work a part of your every day life!! Pres.
K challenged us to take 1% of our time each day to do service for
others: just a phone call or something. We were also challenged to be
in the scriptures every single day and to make sacrifices to do so!
It will bless your live tremendously, and you will see huge changes!
Well family, I can't think
of anything else I was gonna say haha. I hate that. But I love you
all so much and pray for your protection and guidance always! You are
in my thoughts and my heart. I miss you all every single day and hope
every one is doing great! Know I am in the Lord's hands and doing
his work! He is taking care of me and there is nothing more
exhausting than missionary work! It is the greatest calling on the
earth and I am humbled and blessed to be a part of it!
I love you all forever and
hope to hear from you soon.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
Sister Knight
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