I want a snake when I get home!

Hello Family! 

This has been a very busy week!  We have been blessed to teach a lot of lessons this week.  Monday was a very special day.  We had a dinner appointment with R, one of our investigators.  She has a "zoo" in her home: a ton of snakes, lizards, birds, and a few cats.  Throughout the whole lesson I just had a snake wrapped around my neck, pretty cool!  Mom, I am GETTING a snake when I get home. haha.  Later that day, we had a great lesson with the J, a less-active older couple.  We went home teaching with Elder Watson, a senior missionary.  Right after the Js we went over to the M's, another less-active couple, and can I just tell you, they are absolutely amazing people.  I connect well with them and the whole time we were there, it was only me and Elder Watson teaching the lesson.  Really spiritual moment.  Tuesday we had a lesson with M again.  He is so ready for baptism this Wednesday!!!  Later that evening, we were knocking this one street and we got let in by this really nice man.  He let us in and we didn't really have a lesson with him: 1st- he wasn't really interested, he was just being polite, and 2nd- he was in the middle of making 10+ gallons of alcohol.  As we were leaving, we noticed a few marijuana plants, he says "oh, sorry don't mind my pot plants, your'e not going to tell are ya?"  Kinda a funny situation, #Clueless #Didn'tKnowWhatToDo  haha.  The rest of the week was pretty boring.  We spent all Halloween planning for the week. Oh and we had another lesson with M to go over his baptism program...He asked me to baptize him! :)  I am kinda nervous and excited at the same time.  I will definitely send you pictures next week!!!  Yesterday was a CES devotional and it was stake conference as well, so we basically spent the whole day at the church, besides leaving for the 2 dinner appointments we scheduled accidentally...I am still full!  It was a pretty full week.  We got transfer letters and WOOHOO I am staying in Charlottetown with my new companion Elder Balle.  I will tell you how he is next week.

I hope all of you had a great week!!!

Love

-Elder King

LETTER FROM OCT. 20TH

Hello Everyone! So this week was alright.  This whole transfer we were focused on getting this area organized.  We have been putting up a new wall-map and organizing the area book.  These two activities have been extremely time consuming and, at some times, frustrating, but it will all be worth it.  This whole week we were dedicated in finishing it, so we didn't have much time to proselyte.  We actually finished it on Thursday, and I am so grateful for the time and energy we put into it, because it makes everything so much easier!

Unfortunately, J, our 10-year-old investigator, dropped us this week.  His mom just randomly texted us and dropped us.  Please keep her in your prayers so that her heart will be softened, he was supposed to be baptized next Wednesday.  M has been doing really well though.  His friends, who live in Texas, bought him the Quad for his baptism and he was super stoked about that!  

We have been doing things kinda differently here in Charlottetown.  Every one of our (sisters and us) investigators have been being co-taught by all of us.  OUR investigators are THEIR investigators.  So we have also been teaching E and R as well.  E is doing well, her and I connect really well and the last lesson we had with her was an emotional and powerful lesson.  The only reason she is being taught is because of a member.  #MemberMissionaryWork  E is pretty solid, she has great fellowships and she is strengthening her testimony each day through prayer and reading.  She has a few concerns that we are doing are best to resolve but she is great!  Now let me tell you about R.  I absolutely love her.  She started investigation because she saw an ad for a free Bible and she grew curious about what we believe.  She is just so great!  Every lesson she pulls out this book absolutely FULL of questions that she writes down as she reads from the Book of Mormon.  She is far more advanced than I can handle. Before investigating, she STUDIED, and I mean STUDIED the Bible.  Each day she just confirms that the Book of Mormon AND Bible go hand-in-hand.  She is so great, she just always brings a smile to my face.  She is actually getting her husband to investigate as well!

So we had 2 Halloween parties this week. One with the YSA and one with the ward.  Both were really fun.  We also went to a fireside last night and I would suggest that everyone looks at this website: Shropshiremusicfoundation,org...It was an informational fireside about how kids all over the world are being raised in a war-filled environment and poverty.  Sister Shropsire, a missionary who served here many years ago, started an organization about how music can lift the spirits of those kids.  It was such a great fireside, it made me realize how blessed we truly are to live in a free country.  It also just affirmed how music can really affect the lives of so many.  I know that music has most definitely played a huge roll on my life.

I am doing really well!  I feel better about everything and I am a lot happier.  One scripture that I have been focusing on this week is 2Nephi 31:20...Its talks about hope, faith, and enduring...I Can and Will endure if I put my Faith in Christ.

I hope Everyone is doing well

Love you

Elder King

LOVE!

Re: Elder King!

Hello Family!

Exciting news, this has been a great week! Extremely busy and full of lessons! It started off with great Thanksgiving dinners on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday with the members!  We provided service to a less active who was living in filth. (I'll show you before and after pictures)  We've been continually meeting with M, who is still on-date for Nov 5 (Along with 2 others getting baptized that day!) M came to church for the first time yesterday and loved it!  He is just so awesome!  We also taught J, a ten-year-old investigator who is getting baptized as well.  Elder Raymant and I picked up 2 new investigators this week! (Not sure how solid they are yet, I guess we'll find out!)  Also we co-taught with the sister's new investigators, who is on-date for Nov. 29 : ) Really busy and great week!  Lots of great lessons, we were seriously running late for appointments because we had so many.

Love You All
-Elder King

So this week I was studying love and charity and the atonement and I realized something, I really lack love.  I need to love the people I am serving and I wasn't!  I need to love the Lord, but it was hard to feel the love back.  After a week of studying love, I now understand why I was feeling down, I just needed to love!  These past few days have been great because I applied love and the atonement to my life and it has really been a blessing.  Instead of teaching lessons, I'm teaching people.  I am really making that connection with them and I am starting to love them.  Loving the people I serve is helping them understand how to love the Lord.  IF ANYONE LACKS LOVE I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE THEM TO ACCEPT THE ATONEMENT.  "Our love increases when we remember we are all God's children and that He loves us.  The love that results from this realization has the power to transcend all boundaries of nations, creed, and color."  

I really used the atonement in my life and I have seen the blessings that came from it.  I not only feel happier I AM Happier!  This area is really progressing right now and we are finding the lost sheep.-Luke 15. This success is because of His love.  Love is endless.  We need to love our neighbors, families, and people we are serving NO MATTER WHAT!

I bear my testimony, That I Know He loves each and everyone of His children no matter what mistakes we have made or people we've wronged. HE LOVES US, we now need to love Him and when we do, you Will receive blessings. In the sacred name of Jesus Christ, the Savior and Redeemer of the world, amen.

THANKSGIVING IN CANADA

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! O WAIT, I'M IN CANADA.  

I hope you all had a great week!  My week was interesting.  Monday and Tuesday were regular days, nothing new and exciting happened.  Wednesday-Thursday I was on an exchange in Montague, this tiny little area where almost no one resides, only extremely old people.  I didn't really like that exchange, the area was small.  Things started to get better by the end of the week when Elder Raymant came back from New Brunswick.  So I sang with Elder Raymant, Sister Bowden and Lewis yesterday during sacrament.  Elder Raymant has 'GOLDEN' pipes.  He can sing really well!!!  Also yesterday we scheduled 2 dinner appointments, oops #NotComplaining.  So we had 2 really good Thanksgiving meals, and we are having another one tonight.  

Working through and with members is the best, and only effective way!!!  This whole transfer we made it a goal to only work with members.  We knock only where members reside and only do work through the members.  So far, it's working!  We have had a ton of dinner appointments (DA) and have got referred to a lot of receptive people.

Nothing too exciting this week! 

Love you all, 

Elder King

LETTER FROM OCT. 6TH

Hello Family,

So this week was alright.  We had a lesson with M, our investigator, on Tuesday and he is just so amazing.  When we first started teaching him a few weeks ago, he was like, "I am not making any promises, I'm not going to become converted or anything like that."  The more we taught him the more he enjoys it and feels like this is something that he can do...We've been teaching him since.  He should be baptized on November 1.  After the lesson, we drove 2 hours to Moncton for zone training the next day.  I am not sure what is going on in Moncton, all I know is that there is a certain situation that happened that caused all the missionaries there to be removed from the area, so everyone who knew the situation was sketched out about being there.  Weird right.  We had the zone training which was alright then made our way back home on Thursday.  On Thursday,  Elder Raymant, being a zone leader, needed to go on an exchange, so I spent the day with Elder Kelley, him and I are going to be going on exchanges quite a bit.  All we've been doing this week is advertising for General Conference, which by the way was amazing this year.  We had a chili dog buffet here at the church for Priesthood session, no ice cream afterwords though, :(  That's my week in a nutshell, nothing too exciting.  

Love you all,

Elder King