Email Letter - April 23, 2014

Hey everyone.

So this last week was really good. We are just getting a ton of work done and making a lot of progress. We now have baptismal dates with 3 single mothers and their, between the 3 of them, 5 kids so thing are going really well, the sad thing is I wont be here for any of them. A family we were teaching that I thought for sure would progress were convinced by some friends that we worship Joseph Smith and asked us not to come by anymore. That was kinda disappointing cause they didn’t even give us the chance to explain, but whatever I’m sure they’ll figure it all out in a few years and then some lucky missionary will find them and they’ll be happier than ever. 

This last Sunday I gave a talk in church and it might have been considered a little mean but I would really call it a friendly reminder or being bluntly honest. It went really well. We talked about the Savior and the example he was for us and then I talked about how when we don’t follow the example he gave for us its an equivalent of denying Jesus. It really got some people thinking and I feel like it really helped the ward. 

Those and the highlights for this week, I love you all and I hope you all had an amazing Easter. I'll write you again next week.

-Elder king

Email Letter and Pics - April 16, 2014

Hey everyone! I’m doing awesome here in San Fran. Elder Mendez and I had a baptism last week. It was the other son of Jimmy and Sonia, the family we got married and baptized back in January. The other kid was finally ready to be dunked so that was great. But the area I’m in right now is exploding, this last week we invited about 10 people to be baptized and all of them accepted so things are looking really great for the future of San Fran.

The other really fun thing we did this last week was all the missionaries in my zone went and played baseball against a team of teenagers and is was awesome the downside was that I got super sunburnt, but it was so worth it. The DR is the best ever, ha-ha.

-Elder King

Email Letter - April 9, 2014

Hey everyone.

So this last week was awesome and me and Elder Mendez are just killing it here in San Fran. I’m actually really jealous of him cause I’m pretty sure that I’m leaving after this transfer and that he is just going to have so many baptisms. Ha-ha. This last week we started teaching 2 families and they are going to progress super fast. They’re the golden families that every missionary wants. Also 2 single mothers that I’ve been teaching for a few weeks have now started to progress and we´re going to put baptismal dates with them pretty soon. This area is about to explode and I’m loving it. The down side is that I probably won’t be here for any of it. But at least I’ll leave behind a progressing area.

Also general conference was amazing, as usual, but the talks that I really loved were the one President Eyring gave in the priesthood session and President Packer when he was just barking at the world like always ha-ha, though it was very sad to see how much pain he is in. But that’s it for this week everyone. I love you all and I’ll write you again next week.

-Elder King