This week has been fun and exciting! Everyday brings something new on my mission here in the Golden state :) I'll go through each day at a time to make my typing hopefully a little faster. I seem to lose so much time at the computer at our email time! I hope to be able to upload and send a few pictures that go along with some of my missionary days/week.
MONDAY
P-day! For our district activity we played Frisbee! Thank you Mom for sending the green Frisbee in my 'Greenie package!' :) It came in handy and we had a lot of fun while enjoying moving around and laughing. I think it helped lift the spirits. I remember it was always fun playing Frisbee in the backyard for Family Home Evening.
TUESDAY
Over the past nine days sweet Sister Jenkins (our ward missionary) has fed us four times! She's always looking out for us :) It's great to go to her home and it feels like visiting family. On Tuesday it was her grandfather's 100th birthday and even though he has passed away, we still celebrated. We had his favorite carrot cake recipe, and Sister Jenkins put out his picture for us to see. It was a cute little party :) I know she loved and loves her grandfather very much, and is grateful to know that she will see him again in the eternities some day.
Speaking of people over 100 years old, we met a neat lady who is 101! We were tracting when we found her. Her name is Helen and she seems very young for her 100+ age. She has a cheerful way about her, and she was up and about and she mostly takes care of herself. She is very sweet and says she knows a lot of friendly Mormons. We had a lesson with her and she participated and had such a great spirit, so hopefully we can go back and teach her more!
WEDNESDAY
We had a lesson set up at the church, but our investigator didn't show up :( That is always a low and super disappointing feeling. Because you prayerfully prepare yourself for them and you, and then sometimes it just doesn't happen. While we were waiting we decided to go into the church. As we were walking towards the door, an nice Indian man came up and asked us if we ordered any balloons. Confused, we said yes thinking it might be for the Japanese students that are staying with some members in our ward. (The students have class during the day in our church building) We unlocked the church for him and started carrying in all these bunches of balloons he had. We looked for the exchange students, but they weren't there that day. Eventually, after making some calls, we found out they were for a wedding reception that was being help that night at the church. The family got stuck doing other things and was running really late, and said they would be there soon as they could. They said they were thankful for us. I'm glad we were there when the balloon man needed us:)
THURSDAY
This is the day we have District Meeting. Since transfers are this week we decided to do a group activity together. We had one person sit on a chair while the rest of us wrote compliment words behind them on the chalk board. It was such a sweet thing to do for each person! Plus is was great to think of each missionary's individual traits and make them smile :)
On the subject of transfers, this week I am... not moving! Sister Xayadeth and I are staying together :) I'm really happy about that and feel like it's a blessing for us. I like the area we are in and feel love inside for the people in and out of our church. Since we've found some great people that we are beginning to teach, I'm was praying to get to know them better and help them grow in the Gospel. I was hoping I could stay and do that if that was what I was suppose to do. Hopefully great and positive things will come in the later weeks :)
This is Sister K's mom, I am not sure if her whole letter came through or if she stopped at Thursday, and missed Friday-Sunday. There was a big space between the paragraph of Thursday, and then her Light of the World. So I will ask her next week if it was an error etc.. :) OK sorry for the interruption and I will now return you to the rest of Sister K's missionary letter =)
LIGHT OF THE WORLD
So I have been thinking a lot about what I wrote in my last missionary letter about the Light the Gospel brings into our lives. How I would see people and spot something like a lightened countenance about them. I have been focusing on that in my and my companions studies this week. I invite you all to read these two articles from the Ensign magazine (You can find them online at lds.org. When you go to that page, there will be a list at the top of the site and one will be Resources and then after clicking that, there will be Magazines and Manuals I think. Just click on that, and type in the month and year.)
February 2009 A Penetrating Light
March 2014 I Will Be Your Light In The Wilderness
I found those to be so helpful and inspiring for me personally this week and gave me more goals to become a light for others, like Jesus Christ is our Light in the Wilderness.
And I also liked these scriptures I came across If you'd like to look them up and read them :)
John 8: 12 - 'he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness...'
D&C 88: 7-13 - 'which truth shineth. This is the light of Christ.... The light which is in all things, which giveth life to all things, which is the law by which all things are governed even the power of God, who sitteth upon his throne,...'
This third one is also one of my favorites
1 Nephi 17:13 "And I will also be your light in the wilderness; and I will prepare the way before you, if it so be that ye shall keep my commandments; wherefore, inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments ye shall be led towards the promised land; and ye shall know that it is by me that ye are led".
That meant a lot to me because sometimes it does seem like I am in a wilderness or somewhere very unfamiliar, not just by my surroundings but when trying to find answers or talking to strangers or even just being in a crowd. And it is so good to know that the Lord loves us enough to help lead us, to care about us, and to make sure that we can have light to know what we should do.
Remember that we can always trust in the Lord. He loves us and wants what is best for us. He will never lead us astray. And this thought helps me so much - He will be our light in the dark!
Much love and prayers for you guys, thank you for keeping me in your thoughts and prayers. I couldn't do this mission without the support and love that I feel is being given to bless me.
Love and smiles,
Sister Skinner - Karatassos
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