Dear family and friends,
Well Sister Avila left last night to go home so I have two new companions now. I am now serving with Sisters Joseph and Walch. They are serving in Mesquite and so for the next 3 weeks we will be covering both their area and my area in Kaufman and Forney. It is going to be very busy and crazy trying to cover all three wards. But I am excited to be serving with Sisters Joseph and Walch.
Sister Avila and I were teaching this young man named Paul this week. He is 19 years old and this was our 3rd time teaching him. At the beginning of the lesson it was very rocky and hard to get them to settle down and listen. When he told us that he did not do his reading I was starting to get frustrated and thought what are we doing teaching this young man, I felt like that he did not really care about anything we were trying to tell him. But we finally got them to all set down and we decided to read with him the scripture that we had left him with. We read Alma 32:28 with him about faith being like a seed and having to plant it. Sister Avila asked Paul what stood out to him in that scripture and he said the part about not casting it out by our unbelief! Slowly I started to think ok maybe this kid does care and I just have to keep reminding myself that he is only 19. Well we read some other scriptures and talked about them. The lesson just kept getting better and better. I don't have time to write all that happened in the lesson but it went very well and the Spirit was strong. At the end of the lesson Sister Avila commited Paul to come to church this week for her last Sunday on the mission. Paul finally agreed to come. Brandon, Paul's member friend, then asked Paul if he would say the closing prayer. Paul gave the best prayer that I have heard an investigator give on my whole mission. In his prayer he asked to know God's truth through His word, the Book of Mormon and the Bible. And that he would not cast it out by his unbelief. Then he prayed to be able to feel the Spirit this Sunday as he went to church with the Latter day Saints. He even prayed for Sister Avila and I by named and thanks God for us being in his life. His prayer was long and very sincere. In the car I told Sister Avila how I felt at the start of the lesson but now I know that Paul really does care and that he has a desire to learn and know the truth. It was a great experience.
Sat. we were able to go to the temple again. Sister Avila wanted to go one last time before going home so we were able to go and do a session. I love going to the temple and the peace that you always feel inside it.
Yesterday Sister Avila and I had to speak in both the Kaufman ward and the Forney ward. I made this whole time without giving a talk in church on my mission so I guess the Lord felt I was over due and gave me the chance to speak twice in one day! It was good though and I did not mind. In the Forney ward I was asked to speak about the gift of the Holy Ghost. Then in the Kaufman ward I was able to speak on anything I want to so I spoke about the Book of Mormon, after Sister Avila spoke about the restoration of the gospel. I love speaking about the Restoration and The Book of Mormon. We are truly blessed to know that we have a living prophet on the earth today. That God still speaks today and He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. God does still inspire men today and call them to His work. I know the Book of Mormon is the word of God. It is proof of the Restoration and that Joseph Smith is a prophet of God.
I love y'all. Thanks for your prayers and support. Have a great week.
Love,
Sister Keys
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Work, work, work-April 13, 2009
Dear family and friends,
It has been another great week in the mission field. I love my new area and Sister Avila is wonderful. We get along so well and are already great friends. I don't want her to go home next Monday. Oh and about her going home next week I still don't know what will be happening to me when she leaves if, where I will be going or who I will be with but things will work out for the best.
There is so much work to be done here in these wards what with us white-washing the area. That means that both Sister Avila and I were double transferred into the area. Slowly we are meeting everyone in the wards.
We have so much work to do here. And are teaching a few people. Two people we are teaching are close to baptism. One man named Jose is married to a member and he has been coming to church. We teach him on Wed and are going to see if we can maybe set a baptismal date with him. So keep him in your prayers please. And we are also teaching a single mom named Jessica. At our last appt. She said she would like to be baptized but does not want to set a date yet. She came to church for the second time this week too. We will be teaching her again on Tues and to hopefully help her set a date. So please keep this two in your prayers.
Well I don't have much time. I love y'all and miss you.
Love,
Sister Keys
It has been another great week in the mission field. I love my new area and Sister Avila is wonderful. We get along so well and are already great friends. I don't want her to go home next Monday. Oh and about her going home next week I still don't know what will be happening to me when she leaves if, where I will be going or who I will be with but things will work out for the best.
There is so much work to be done here in these wards what with us white-washing the area. That means that both Sister Avila and I were double transferred into the area. Slowly we are meeting everyone in the wards.
We have so much work to do here. And are teaching a few people. Two people we are teaching are close to baptism. One man named Jose is married to a member and he has been coming to church. We teach him on Wed and are going to see if we can maybe set a baptismal date with him. So keep him in your prayers please. And we are also teaching a single mom named Jessica. At our last appt. She said she would like to be baptized but does not want to set a date yet. She came to church for the second time this week too. We will be teaching her again on Tues and to hopefully help her set a date. So please keep this two in your prayers.
Well I don't have much time. I love y'all and miss you.
Love,
Sister Keys
Monday, April 6, 2009
New area and Conference-April 6, 2009
Dear family and friends,
Can I just say I LOVE being a missionary and I love this work. This week I was transfered to a new area and I am now serving in Kaufman and Forney. We are about 20-30 min. east of Dallas. My new area is huge compared to my last area. The area is a whole county so very spreed out. There is so much work going on here and so much work to be done that we will be very busy trying to keep up with it all.
I also have a new companion. Her name is Sister Avila and she is great. I already love her so much and I am learning a lot from her. She is a great missionary but sadly for me I will only get to serve with her for about 3 weeks for she goes home April 20 to start school. I am grateful that the Lord is allowing me to serve with her even though it will be short. I know that this is were the Lord needs me and wants me to be at this time.
We are working with a lot of less-active and part member families here. I love doing this kind of work and helping families reach the ultimate goal of going to the temple and being sealed together as a family to time and all eternity.
General Conference was amazing. I loved every minute of it and did not want it to end. The time went by way to fast. I could have listened to the prophet and apostles speak for many more hours. And I can't wait for the talks to come out in next months Ensign so I can read them again and again. How grateful I am for a modern day prophet to know that the heavens are not closed. And that God does speak today in the same way He has always spoken through out all of history and that is through a prophet. God does not change, He is the same yesturday, today and forever. Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world. Christ truly did suffer for all that we go through and because of that we are never alone. Turn to the Lord for He knows how to help us get through anything we might have to go through. We are never alone for the Lord is always there for us.
On Sunday between sessions Sister Avila and I were able to teach a young man for the first time. What a way to spend the time between sessions then teaching someone about the Restoration. We were able to teach only because his friend invited him to sit down with us and learn about the gospel. Members are truly the best finders!
I love ya'll!
Have a great week!
Love,
Sister Keys
Can I just say I LOVE being a missionary and I love this work. This week I was transfered to a new area and I am now serving in Kaufman and Forney. We are about 20-30 min. east of Dallas. My new area is huge compared to my last area. The area is a whole county so very spreed out. There is so much work going on here and so much work to be done that we will be very busy trying to keep up with it all.
I also have a new companion. Her name is Sister Avila and she is great. I already love her so much and I am learning a lot from her. She is a great missionary but sadly for me I will only get to serve with her for about 3 weeks for she goes home April 20 to start school. I am grateful that the Lord is allowing me to serve with her even though it will be short. I know that this is were the Lord needs me and wants me to be at this time.
We are working with a lot of less-active and part member families here. I love doing this kind of work and helping families reach the ultimate goal of going to the temple and being sealed together as a family to time and all eternity.
General Conference was amazing. I loved every minute of it and did not want it to end. The time went by way to fast. I could have listened to the prophet and apostles speak for many more hours. And I can't wait for the talks to come out in next months Ensign so I can read them again and again. How grateful I am for a modern day prophet to know that the heavens are not closed. And that God does speak today in the same way He has always spoken through out all of history and that is through a prophet. God does not change, He is the same yesturday, today and forever. Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world. Christ truly did suffer for all that we go through and because of that we are never alone. Turn to the Lord for He knows how to help us get through anything we might have to go through. We are never alone for the Lord is always there for us.
On Sunday between sessions Sister Avila and I were able to teach a young man for the first time. What a way to spend the time between sessions then teaching someone about the Restoration. We were able to teach only because his friend invited him to sit down with us and learn about the gospel. Members are truly the best finders!
I love ya'll!
Have a great week!
Love,
Sister Keys
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
NOTICE
Jeanne has a new address....I have updated it on the panel to the right. Keep writing her. I know she loves to hear from everyone.
Temple, Exhange, and Leaving-March 30, 2009
Dear family and friends,
This past week was great and went by very fast. In fact this whole transfer went by fast. I can't believe I have already been out on my mission for over 6 months now. Where did the time go.
On Wed. Sister Gross and I were able to go to the Dallas Temple. As we were about to go into the session we ran into Sister Borg (my trainer). She was there with her companion too. It was so good to see her again especially inside the temple. I love going to the temple. It always feels me with such peace. You can not leave the temple in a bad mood, it always lifts your spirits. Then right after we got back into our area after the temple the Lord blessed us with a new investigator. We found a lady named Tina. Her and her family use to have sister missionaries come over to her house when she was back in elementry school. We taught her the Restoraton and she was greatly impressed with the Joseph Smith firts vision.
Friday we did an exchange with the Hermanas in Carrollton. I had the opportunity to spend the day with Hermana Schulte in Carrollton and Sister Gross and Hermana Brundage spent the day in Allen. It was great to be able to go to Carrollton and work along side Hermana Schulte. I learned so much from her. We were able to teach a few lessons that day and it was over all just a very spiritual day.
It is the end of another transfer and Sister Gross and I both being taken out of Allen. We got a call Sat. night to pack our bags and go to Transfers Tuesday morning. They are taking us Sisters out of the area and bring Elders back in. I can't believe Sisters are leaving the area already for Allen has only had Sisters since I got here. Sister Gross and I find it kind of funny because all of our investigators are women except for Steve. So we don't know how that is going to work for the Elders.
Looking back on my 6 months in Allen the Lord has blesses me so much. When Sister Borg and I got to Allen we only had 2 people we were teach and that was it. And now leaving we have about 5 people in 2nd ward and 8 people in 4th ward that we are teaching at this time. The Lord has been very merciful to us. I just pray these people will continue to come unto the Lord and make and keep commitments. It is hard to say good-bye to all the people in Allen, I am going to miss them. But at the same time I am kind of excited to go to a new area.
Well I love ya'll. And I hope everyone has a blessed week.
Love,
Sister Keys
This past week was great and went by very fast. In fact this whole transfer went by fast. I can't believe I have already been out on my mission for over 6 months now. Where did the time go.
On Wed. Sister Gross and I were able to go to the Dallas Temple. As we were about to go into the session we ran into Sister Borg (my trainer). She was there with her companion too. It was so good to see her again especially inside the temple. I love going to the temple. It always feels me with such peace. You can not leave the temple in a bad mood, it always lifts your spirits. Then right after we got back into our area after the temple the Lord blessed us with a new investigator. We found a lady named Tina. Her and her family use to have sister missionaries come over to her house when she was back in elementry school. We taught her the Restoraton and she was greatly impressed with the Joseph Smith firts vision.
Friday we did an exchange with the Hermanas in Carrollton. I had the opportunity to spend the day with Hermana Schulte in Carrollton and Sister Gross and Hermana Brundage spent the day in Allen. It was great to be able to go to Carrollton and work along side Hermana Schulte. I learned so much from her. We were able to teach a few lessons that day and it was over all just a very spiritual day.
It is the end of another transfer and Sister Gross and I both being taken out of Allen. We got a call Sat. night to pack our bags and go to Transfers Tuesday morning. They are taking us Sisters out of the area and bring Elders back in. I can't believe Sisters are leaving the area already for Allen has only had Sisters since I got here. Sister Gross and I find it kind of funny because all of our investigators are women except for Steve. So we don't know how that is going to work for the Elders.
Looking back on my 6 months in Allen the Lord has blesses me so much. When Sister Borg and I got to Allen we only had 2 people we were teach and that was it. And now leaving we have about 5 people in 2nd ward and 8 people in 4th ward that we are teaching at this time. The Lord has been very merciful to us. I just pray these people will continue to come unto the Lord and make and keep commitments. It is hard to say good-bye to all the people in Allen, I am going to miss them. But at the same time I am kind of excited to go to a new area.
Well I love ya'll. And I hope everyone has a blessed week.
Love,
Sister Keys
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