Querida Familia
We tried something new this week to contact people: Riding the bus. We got the idea from all the stories I heard while growing up about mom riding the bus on her mission. It was kind of fun and we felt like we were really preaching the gospel. You're not allowed to really proselyte on the bus so we basically had to choose a seat and be wise to choose one next to someone who speaks Spanish. Also, the nice thing about riding the bus is that even when you're talking to one person you can kind of involve a lot of people in the conversation. It was pretty successful and we decided that it is something that would be nice to do at night to contact people because it is pretty safe and well-lit.
This week was the Regional Spanish conference in Bellevue. All of the Spanish units from our mission, the Everrett Mission and the Spanish ward in Tacoma came. There was a tour of the temple, leadership training, dinner, a talent show with cultural dances, and a fireside. I don't know why I didn't expect it, but I was able to see a lot of people from Kent. First of all, in the morning they put the missionaries to work by organizing all of the silverware for the dinner. I heard someone call my name and when I turned around there was Edward with Oscar. I was so surprised! There were both doing very well. Edward told me that he moved out of the place he was living with the bad influences and now lives with a family in a house in the other part of town. He also said that he left his old job and now works as a mechanic. Oscar was baptized in August and is also doing very well. Then we were watching the talent show that night when someone tapped on my shoulder. When I turned around it was the whole Correa family. I was so happy to see them! The boys were so cute. They all looked so happy. I feel so lucky to know them. They gave me this card that was so sweet. I kept it with me all night because it was so special. They took a picture with their cell phone and told me they were going to put it on Facebook so I'm sure you'll all get to see it even though I won't!
We have a new rule in the mission and now we can eat with members any day and it's looking like that is going to mean that we will be eating with members every day. It's good in every way except for my hips. Ni modo! Brother Garcia who is the assistant ward mission leader for Spanish has been assigning our dinners and we are eating with active and less-active members and even with investigators. The people here are so generous and they make excellent Mexican food (and a few make excellent Paraguayan and Columbian food).
Hermana Melton went on exhanges a few weeks ago and told me that a lot of the hermanas in the mission apparently use peanut butter popcorn as an object lesson with less-active members and investigators. I have been teaching all of my companions how to make it because mom told me that she learned it from her companion so I thought I would share the greatness of peanut butter popcorn too. I didn't know that my companions were sharing it with everyone else. I think they make it with the family and use all of the ingredients to show the importance of all of the ingredients in living the gospel (reading the scriptures, praying, going to church, etc).
I love this gospel and I love being a missionary. I know the Church is true!
Con amor,
Hermana Kinghorn
Monday, October 11, 2010
Monday, October 4, 2010
La fe para mover montañas
Querida Familia y amigos,
I love you all so much. Elder Holland's talk reminded me of how thankful I am for my family and all that you are doing to support me. Just as he said that they could not continue forward in the work without our prayers I know that I would not be able to go forward every day without the love and support that I receive from you. Thank you for your prayers.
I think I mentioned in my email when I talked about our visit by Elder Kikuchi that he challenged us to contact 80 people a day. That's been a challenge for all of the language missionaries here because we are looking to find a subpopulation that is spread out over a large area, but we have been able to increase the number of contacts that we make each day significantly. As Hermana Melton likes to say, we are looking under all of the rocks to find people who speak Spanish and to talk to them. For example, at the end of the day when it is dark and we didn't have anything to do, we used to stop by a less-active member's house or make phone calls. Now we are more creative. For example, on Saturday we were in this position and I was sick. I had Tylenol cold medicine at home, but as we all know, NyQuil is the best thing to take when you're just feeling terrible so we decided to go to Walmart to contact people (and buy NyQuil of course). Every time we go to Walmart we see tons of Hispanics that we know and we also meet new ones so we thought it would be a good idea. Sure enough, in the parking lot we were able to talk to some people that Hermana Melton had met a few months ago. They're still not interested, but we contacted 5 people. Then we went to find the medicine, but of course we took the long way to the medicine aisle to see if we could find people to talk to. We saw Saul and Maria that we had met contacting about a month ago and were able to talk to them. Then we grabbed the medicine and intentionally got into line behind some people that spoke Spanish and in a line where the cashier was Hispana. All in all we ended up contacting about 10 people in half an hour at Walmart because of our creativity.
In our weekly planning session we were able to come up with a lot of good ideas. For example, there are some homes here where a lot of Spanish-speakers live. We are thinking about reserving the community room that they have and holding a community Noche de Hogar (Family Home Evening) and inviting all of those who live there in the park. We will probably give out the booklet Three Ways to Have a Happier Family that the church produces and we will do a Halloween activity. There of course will be treats! We are excited because this will help us to build trust with those in the community here in Federal Way and to help them see that we are here to help their families. We plan to do the same thing at other apartment complexes here during the Holidy Season.
General Conference was this weekend and to be honest, it was a struggle for me. We ended up having to watch the whole thing in Spanish. I understood everything but I appreciated again why it is so important that people are taught the gospel in their native language. It was hard for me to take notes or really get a lot out of it because I was having to cocentrate so hard in what they were saying. Not to mention the fact that I was sick and a little bit out of it. It's also better to be able to listen to them speak in their own voice. But it is interesting how I could tell some talks were really powerful even though I wasn't getting a lot out of it.
It has been a good week here in Federal Way. Things are always great when we're in the service of God. But I do have to admit that we have been struggling here in Federal Way. There hasn't been a baptism in the Spanish group since December of
2009.
The members here are so stalwart. I have really never seen so much unity among the members of the church. They are all so kind and good. For example, this week two sisters went visiting teaching to a less-active member of the church. One of the sisters is a convert of 6 years and the other of 8 years but she herself just recently returned from inactivity a few months ago. For the one it was her first time visiting teaching someone. They are both very shy by nature but very sweet and loving. Apparently the sister whom they went to visit ended up spending the whole time lecturing them on how she already knew them and how they needed to be better at greeting people at church. They were so sweet and just listened. When we called the sisters to ask them how their first visit went they said so meekly, "Well we went to teach her a lesson, but she ended up teaching us. We need to be more friendly at church. I know we could do a better job. We invited her to come to church, but she said that she wouldn't because people don't greet her there. I guess we'll have to keep trying." That is just one example of the goodness of the members. They teach me so much.
I love serving and learning from our trials every day (or at least I'm trying to love it :D). Thank you again for your prayers.
Con amor,
Hermana Kinghorn
I love you all so much. Elder Holland's talk reminded me of how thankful I am for my family and all that you are doing to support me. Just as he said that they could not continue forward in the work without our prayers I know that I would not be able to go forward every day without the love and support that I receive from you. Thank you for your prayers.
I think I mentioned in my email when I talked about our visit by Elder Kikuchi that he challenged us to contact 80 people a day. That's been a challenge for all of the language missionaries here because we are looking to find a subpopulation that is spread out over a large area, but we have been able to increase the number of contacts that we make each day significantly. As Hermana Melton likes to say, we are looking under all of the rocks to find people who speak Spanish and to talk to them. For example, at the end of the day when it is dark and we didn't have anything to do, we used to stop by a less-active member's house or make phone calls. Now we are more creative. For example, on Saturday we were in this position and I was sick. I had Tylenol cold medicine at home, but as we all know, NyQuil is the best thing to take when you're just feeling terrible so we decided to go to Walmart to contact people (and buy NyQuil of course). Every time we go to Walmart we see tons of Hispanics that we know and we also meet new ones so we thought it would be a good idea. Sure enough, in the parking lot we were able to talk to some people that Hermana Melton had met a few months ago. They're still not interested, but we contacted 5 people. Then we went to find the medicine, but of course we took the long way to the medicine aisle to see if we could find people to talk to. We saw Saul and Maria that we had met contacting about a month ago and were able to talk to them. Then we grabbed the medicine and intentionally got into line behind some people that spoke Spanish and in a line where the cashier was Hispana. All in all we ended up contacting about 10 people in half an hour at Walmart because of our creativity.
In our weekly planning session we were able to come up with a lot of good ideas. For example, there are some homes here where a lot of Spanish-speakers live. We are thinking about reserving the community room that they have and holding a community Noche de Hogar (Family Home Evening) and inviting all of those who live there in the park. We will probably give out the booklet Three Ways to Have a Happier Family that the church produces and we will do a Halloween activity. There of course will be treats! We are excited because this will help us to build trust with those in the community here in Federal Way and to help them see that we are here to help their families. We plan to do the same thing at other apartment complexes here during the Holidy Season.
General Conference was this weekend and to be honest, it was a struggle for me. We ended up having to watch the whole thing in Spanish. I understood everything but I appreciated again why it is so important that people are taught the gospel in their native language. It was hard for me to take notes or really get a lot out of it because I was having to cocentrate so hard in what they were saying. Not to mention the fact that I was sick and a little bit out of it. It's also better to be able to listen to them speak in their own voice. But it is interesting how I could tell some talks were really powerful even though I wasn't getting a lot out of it.
It has been a good week here in Federal Way. Things are always great when we're in the service of God. But I do have to admit that we have been struggling here in Federal Way. There hasn't been a baptism in the Spanish group since December of
2009.
The members here are so stalwart. I have really never seen so much unity among the members of the church. They are all so kind and good. For example, this week two sisters went visiting teaching to a less-active member of the church. One of the sisters is a convert of 6 years and the other of 8 years but she herself just recently returned from inactivity a few months ago. For the one it was her first time visiting teaching someone. They are both very shy by nature but very sweet and loving. Apparently the sister whom they went to visit ended up spending the whole time lecturing them on how she already knew them and how they needed to be better at greeting people at church. They were so sweet and just listened. When we called the sisters to ask them how their first visit went they said so meekly, "Well we went to teach her a lesson, but she ended up teaching us. We need to be more friendly at church. I know we could do a better job. We invited her to come to church, but she said that she wouldn't because people don't greet her there. I guess we'll have to keep trying." That is just one example of the goodness of the members. They teach me so much.
I love serving and learning from our trials every day (or at least I'm trying to love it :D). Thank you again for your prayers.
Con amor,
Hermana Kinghorn
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Aferrándome a mi fe
Querida Familia y Amigos,
We had a very sister-missionary experience this week. One of the members of our ward got married this week to someone who speaks Spanish as his first language and is one of our investigators. For our service hours for the week they asked if we would go and set-up the decorations for the wedding (iron tablecloths, arrange flowers, tie bows to chairs). We happily did it but laughed because I don't think elders would ever be asked to do something like that.
Elder Kikuchi challenged us to contact 80 people a day. We really struggled this week because we're trying to find 80 people who speak Spanish in one day in a big city where they are all spread out. But we love the challenge and we are having to be more and more creative. On Saturday one English-speaking member told us about some elementary schools that have high Spanish-speaking populations so we know what neighborhoods have Spanish-speakers. We had a dinner appointment on Sunday and the couple told us about some other places we might consider going. It is nice to see all the members pulling together to help us out in the work!
The Relief Society broadcast was great, wasn't it? We were on exchanges that day so Hermana Probst and I went to the stake center and watched it in the Spanish rooms with four other sisters. We don't have a lot of active Spanish-speaking members here in Federal Way but we love working with them. There is a really good feeling in the group.
We were blessed with a miracle on Sunday! Another one of our members, from Peru, just got married two weeks ago to someone who is not a member. She has not been interested in the church and didn't attend with him for the last few weeks. This week he gave a talk and she came to support him! He also brought his younger brother that had been going to church with him, but when he got married and moved out, his brother stopped coming. We had been so disappointed on Saturday because it looked like all of our investigators weren't going to come to church and this happened. We were so thankful.
I know that Jesus Christ is our Savior and that we are all privileged to be a part of His work on the earth today!
Con amor,
Hermana Kinghorn
We had a very sister-missionary experience this week. One of the members of our ward got married this week to someone who speaks Spanish as his first language and is one of our investigators. For our service hours for the week they asked if we would go and set-up the decorations for the wedding (iron tablecloths, arrange flowers, tie bows to chairs). We happily did it but laughed because I don't think elders would ever be asked to do something like that.
Elder Kikuchi challenged us to contact 80 people a day. We really struggled this week because we're trying to find 80 people who speak Spanish in one day in a big city where they are all spread out. But we love the challenge and we are having to be more and more creative. On Saturday one English-speaking member told us about some elementary schools that have high Spanish-speaking populations so we know what neighborhoods have Spanish-speakers. We had a dinner appointment on Sunday and the couple told us about some other places we might consider going. It is nice to see all the members pulling together to help us out in the work!
The Relief Society broadcast was great, wasn't it? We were on exchanges that day so Hermana Probst and I went to the stake center and watched it in the Spanish rooms with four other sisters. We don't have a lot of active Spanish-speaking members here in Federal Way but we love working with them. There is a really good feeling in the group.
We were blessed with a miracle on Sunday! Another one of our members, from Peru, just got married two weeks ago to someone who is not a member. She has not been interested in the church and didn't attend with him for the last few weeks. This week he gave a talk and she came to support him! He also brought his younger brother that had been going to church with him, but when he got married and moved out, his brother stopped coming. We had been so disappointed on Saturday because it looked like all of our investigators weren't going to come to church and this happened. We were so thankful.
I know that Jesus Christ is our Savior and that we are all privileged to be a part of His work on the earth today!
Con amor,
Hermana Kinghorn
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
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1) All of the missionaries at a Spanish meeting
2)A beautiful sunset over the Puget Sound
3) Sanchez girls (they were baptized last year)
Me quedo en Federal Way -- Parte 2
Querida Familia y Amigos,
Last night Hermana Melton and I were able to have a Noche de Hogar (Family Home Evening) in the bishop's house with a few of our investigators. I love this investigator family. The mom is so sweet and a little bit shy. She has twin daughters who are twelve and then an almost-two-year-old. The girls have been going to Young Women's and they really enjoy it. We were able to watch "Finding Faith in Christ" and talk about the importance of following Jesus Christ and we are trying to motivate the family to really do their reading because some read and others don't.
I also wanted to share a story that Sister Larkin shared at the meeting yesterday. She talked about when she was Young Women's President and she had a neighbor who lived across the street named Jody who was young woman age but not a member of the church. One day they were having an activity at her house and she saw Jody standing out side in her front yard. She felt like they should invite her but decided to wait until the young women showed up and to ask them to do it. The young women arrived and told Sister Larkin that it was a bad idea and that Jody was not the type of girl that would like young women's and she would probably say no so they shouldn't invite her. They convinced Sister Larkin so no one invited her. Then two years later, Jody knocked on her door and said that she was graduating from high school and that she had always seen the Larkins and that she loved the way their family was and the respect that they had for each other and that she had always seen the activities they had there and that they were so clean and fun and that she always wished she could go. She asked how she could be like them and ended up being taught in their home and joining the church. This was a good story about how we need to follow the promptings of the spirit and the importance of always inviting others to come unto Christ (missionary or not).
So family (and friends), I would love to hear about your missionary experiences (whether people accept or not). It just gives me so much motivation as a missionary to hear about all of your member-missionary experiences.
I love you all so much!
Con muchisimo amor,
Hermana Kinghorn
Last night Hermana Melton and I were able to have a Noche de Hogar (Family Home Evening) in the bishop's house with a few of our investigators. I love this investigator family. The mom is so sweet and a little bit shy. She has twin daughters who are twelve and then an almost-two-year-old. The girls have been going to Young Women's and they really enjoy it. We were able to watch "Finding Faith in Christ" and talk about the importance of following Jesus Christ and we are trying to motivate the family to really do their reading because some read and others don't.
I also wanted to share a story that Sister Larkin shared at the meeting yesterday. She talked about when she was Young Women's President and she had a neighbor who lived across the street named Jody who was young woman age but not a member of the church. One day they were having an activity at her house and she saw Jody standing out side in her front yard. She felt like they should invite her but decided to wait until the young women showed up and to ask them to do it. The young women arrived and told Sister Larkin that it was a bad idea and that Jody was not the type of girl that would like young women's and she would probably say no so they shouldn't invite her. They convinced Sister Larkin so no one invited her. Then two years later, Jody knocked on her door and said that she was graduating from high school and that she had always seen the Larkins and that she loved the way their family was and the respect that they had for each other and that she had always seen the activities they had there and that they were so clean and fun and that she always wished she could go. She asked how she could be like them and ended up being taught in their home and joining the church. This was a good story about how we need to follow the promptings of the spirit and the importance of always inviting others to come unto Christ (missionary or not).
So family (and friends), I would love to hear about your missionary experiences (whether people accept or not). It just gives me so much motivation as a missionary to hear about all of your member-missionary experiences.
I love you all so much!
Con muchisimo amor,
Hermana Kinghorn
Me quedo en Federal Way
Querida Familia y Amigos,
I wasn't transferred so I will be here in Federal Way for at least 6 more weeks. We had exchanges this week and I was able to be with Hermana Hoskins again. She goes home at the end of next transfer. I can't believe it! It was nice to teach with her again because it just reminded me of the beginning of my mission.
Elder Kikuchi came to speak to the mission yesterday it was amazing. This was the first time since I've been here that our whole mission has been together in one room and it was great to see missionaries that I had served with before and how we've all grown so much. I was able to sing while Sister Fillmore played I Know That My Redeemer Lives as the special musical number. First we heard from President Larkin and he talked to us about following the Spirit and about setting goals with the Spirit and about never giving up on our goals but having faith that we can complete them. He shared some personal experiences from his mission in Japan. It is kind of neat because when he was in the MTC learning Japanese Elder Kikuchi was called to be the first Japanese-native general authority and he came to the MTC to speak to all of the missionaries going to Japan. President Larkin said that after the meeting he talked with Elder Kickuchi who told him to "Go love and save my people." President Larkin said he took that to heart and went to work in Japan. Then one day he was contacting in a train station there and happened to run into Elder Kikuchi again. He asked how many baptisms he had last month. President Larkin was so proud to tell him that he had three. Elder Kikuchi grabbed his lapel and said, "Elder Larkin, if you only believed you could have ten baptisms a month!" So after fasting and prayer the next month President Larkin and his companion felt like they should set a goal to have ten baptisms that month. They had seven baptisms by the 25th of the month but they really felt like they could have ten so they kneeled down and prayed with faith that they would be able to find someone, in the words of his companion's prayer, "that was looking for the restoration of the ancient order." That day they approached a man on the street after contacting all day long. President Larkin felt like they should talk with him so they talked with him and started walking with him toward the church. The whole the man protested that the didn't want to listen but when they arrived and had the lesson the man was shocked. He said that he had been reading the bible since he was young and had been to 16 different Christian churches look for the restoration of the ancient order." He said that he had been to the Mormon church two times when he was younger and sat in the meetings but no one had ever talked to him. He met the required number of times to attend church and was baptized that day. Then the next day they taught an English class and President Larkin realized that one of the teenagers in the class had been attending church for years but was never baptized. He asked him why and he said that it was because his parents had never given him permision. President Larkin was going on exchanges because he had a meeting with the mission president and some stake presidents that night so his brand-new companion had to go to the house of the family to try to convince them to let their son be baptized. The new missionary tried to talk to them but they could understand them so finally he just said, "I love you." The teenager's parents eyes started to water and he gave permission for his son to be baptized. Then the next day they had been contacting all day again with no success when someone hit President Larkin on the back. It was one of his former investigators who had gone out of town for school break and said that because he was visiting family in the country he was so bored that he read the whole Book of Mormon and that he knew it was true and wanted to be baptized! Anyway it was an amazing story and I love our mission president and his faith. It really motivated me to have even more faith as a missionary. I know that with faith, all things are possible.
Then Elder Kikuchi talked to us about reading The Book of Mormon every day in our personal study because of the spiritual power that it gives us through its testimony of Jesus Christ. My favorite quote of the meeting was, "Truth can be repeated a thousand times and never wear out because it is true!" We were also able to talk about the new training system that they will have for missionaries that starts next summer. It will make us all better teachers and is centered on helping the investigators receive and recognize revelation through prayer, reading The Book of Mormon, and attending church. When we were in that reading I realized that there was no where else I would rather be in the whole world than right here in Seattle preaching the gospel. I love being a missionary!
I hope you have a fabulous week!
Con Amor,
Hermana Kinghorn
I wasn't transferred so I will be here in Federal Way for at least 6 more weeks. We had exchanges this week and I was able to be with Hermana Hoskins again. She goes home at the end of next transfer. I can't believe it! It was nice to teach with her again because it just reminded me of the beginning of my mission.
Elder Kikuchi came to speak to the mission yesterday it was amazing. This was the first time since I've been here that our whole mission has been together in one room and it was great to see missionaries that I had served with before and how we've all grown so much. I was able to sing while Sister Fillmore played I Know That My Redeemer Lives as the special musical number. First we heard from President Larkin and he talked to us about following the Spirit and about setting goals with the Spirit and about never giving up on our goals but having faith that we can complete them. He shared some personal experiences from his mission in Japan. It is kind of neat because when he was in the MTC learning Japanese Elder Kikuchi was called to be the first Japanese-native general authority and he came to the MTC to speak to all of the missionaries going to Japan. President Larkin said that after the meeting he talked with Elder Kickuchi who told him to "Go love and save my people." President Larkin said he took that to heart and went to work in Japan. Then one day he was contacting in a train station there and happened to run into Elder Kikuchi again. He asked how many baptisms he had last month. President Larkin was so proud to tell him that he had three. Elder Kikuchi grabbed his lapel and said, "Elder Larkin, if you only believed you could have ten baptisms a month!" So after fasting and prayer the next month President Larkin and his companion felt like they should set a goal to have ten baptisms that month. They had seven baptisms by the 25th of the month but they really felt like they could have ten so they kneeled down and prayed with faith that they would be able to find someone, in the words of his companion's prayer, "that was looking for the restoration of the ancient order." That day they approached a man on the street after contacting all day long. President Larkin felt like they should talk with him so they talked with him and started walking with him toward the church. The whole the man protested that the didn't want to listen but when they arrived and had the lesson the man was shocked. He said that he had been reading the bible since he was young and had been to 16 different Christian churches look for the restoration of the ancient order." He said that he had been to the Mormon church two times when he was younger and sat in the meetings but no one had ever talked to him. He met the required number of times to attend church and was baptized that day. Then the next day they taught an English class and President Larkin realized that one of the teenagers in the class had been attending church for years but was never baptized. He asked him why and he said that it was because his parents had never given him permision. President Larkin was going on exchanges because he had a meeting with the mission president and some stake presidents that night so his brand-new companion had to go to the house of the family to try to convince them to let their son be baptized. The new missionary tried to talk to them but they could understand them so finally he just said, "I love you." The teenager's parents eyes started to water and he gave permission for his son to be baptized. Then the next day they had been contacting all day again with no success when someone hit President Larkin on the back. It was one of his former investigators who had gone out of town for school break and said that because he was visiting family in the country he was so bored that he read the whole Book of Mormon and that he knew it was true and wanted to be baptized! Anyway it was an amazing story and I love our mission president and his faith. It really motivated me to have even more faith as a missionary. I know that with faith, all things are possible.
Then Elder Kikuchi talked to us about reading The Book of Mormon every day in our personal study because of the spiritual power that it gives us through its testimony of Jesus Christ. My favorite quote of the meeting was, "Truth can be repeated a thousand times and never wear out because it is true!" We were also able to talk about the new training system that they will have for missionaries that starts next summer. It will make us all better teachers and is centered on helping the investigators receive and recognize revelation through prayer, reading The Book of Mormon, and attending church. When we were in that reading I realized that there was no where else I would rather be in the whole world than right here in Seattle preaching the gospel. I love being a missionary!
I hope you have a fabulous week!
Con Amor,
Hermana Kinghorn
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
El templo, Mi cumpleanos, El Libro de Mormon, y mas!
Querida Familia y Amigos,
Thank you so much for all of the birthday packages and cards I received. We were able to go out to Casa Oaxaca a Mexican restaurant with food from the state of Oaxaca (Wa-HA-ca). The food was so good! Before my mission I liked to change the type of food I ate when I went out but now I always just want to eat Mexican food. It's what we make at home and we always eat food at Mexican restaurants if we go out and it never gets old. Plus we are able to practice our Spanish and we pretty much always see a contact, former investigator, or member if we go to Mexican restaurants.
I will be sure to send pictures next week. I forgot the cord this week.
We had a great time at the temple on Tuesday. I was able to buy the Primary Children's Songbook CDs there and we have been listening to all of the primary songs in Spanish this week.
We have been teaching a little 8-year-old girl in a less-active family to prepare her to be baptized. Her mother spoke with the bishop this week and she will be getting baptized on October 9. It's not a convert baptism but we are really happy for her. She is so cute and we can see how the lessons with her are changing the spirit that is present with the whole family in the home.
We are teaching a family with 12-year-old twin girls. They went to mutual this week and they really enjoyed it. One of them is a little more receptive to the message than the other and has been reading The Book of Mormon in her reading time at school.
We just received an email today from President Larkin that Elder Yoshihiko Kikuchi of the First Quorum of the Seventy will be speaking to us next Monday morning. In October Elder Ringwood will be visiting us. We are all reading The Book of Mormon in preparation for his visit. President Larkin asked us to mark it with two colors: one to mark the words of Jesus Christ and the other to mark what the prophets say about Jesus Christ. This is the first time I have ever read The Book of Mormon this way and I find my testimony that The Book of Mormon is a powerful testimony of Jesus Christ growing. For the first time I noticed that 2 Nephi 29 is a beautiful chapter with Jesus Christ speaking to Nephi. I am starting to understand more and more the purpose of The Book of Mormon to testify that God remembers all nations (2 Nephi 29:8), that God lives (2 Nephi 19:8), that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever (2 Nephi 29:9), that God declares his word according to His will (2 Nephi 29:9), to be a clear testimony of the truth (2 Nephi 31:2-3; 33:5).
I love this gospel and I love you all. Have a great week!
Con amor,
Hermana Kinghorn
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