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
