Hermana Kinghorn and Rodrigues at Alki Beach
Querida Familia y amigos,
After seven transfers here, my companion was finally transferred today. She will be in Kent with Hermana Fillmore while I am here with Hermana Rodrigues who was with Hermana Fillmore. Hermana Rodrigues is from California and went to BYU-Idaho before her mission. This is her secondish transfer and I am really excited to work with her. Last week was very busy and this upcoming one looks like it will be as well.
We have three baptisms planned for Saturday with three amazing women.
A few weeks ago Hermana Probst and I were riding on the bus coming home from South Park. There was a young Hispanic man sitting across from us who was leaned over and sleeping but shortly after we got on he woke up and we started talking to him right away. He was half Mexican and half Irish so he spoke English and Spanish. He said that he didn't know much about our church and that he had been going with his family to a Christian church and that they had all been baptized but that he wasn't yet sure if he wanted to be. So of course we started talking with him about the restoration and The Book of Mormon. His stop came up but we just got off with him and we were teaching him as we were walking toward his apartment. He committed to read The Book of Mormon (Enos 1) and to a church tour that Thursday. Then we could never really get a hold of him again. Then last week in district meeting the English elders in his area were telling us about this man they knew named Israel and we asked them if it was the same person... and it was! It turns out that the elders had contacted him before we met him on the bus (although he must not have realized at first that we were from the same church) and had a good talk with him on the street. Then he went out of town and they couldn't contact him. Apparently we met him right after he got back from out of town. When they contacted him again he told them that he had met us and had been reading The Book of Mormon. Pretty great! You never know the influence that you will have with other people.
Yesterday Hermana Probst and I were out contacting when all of the students were getting dropped off from the high school bus. So we decided to contact them. We were able to teach a group of four of them who are all recent immigrants from Spanish-speaking countries about the Book of Mormon and to commit them all to read it! We will be back on Thursday to see how it goes.
I love you all very much. Have a fabulous week!
Con amor,
Hermana Kinghorn
