Pictures - Feburary 5, 2014

Email Letter - 15 January 2014

Hey everybody,

I’m having a great time in San Fran. The last week has been great and also a little crazy. I think I’m going to start with the crazy. Last Thursday there was a "Welga" in San Fran, that’s when all the local stores close down and go on strike cause they don’t want to pay taxes or something like that, but anyways basically the whole city is closed for a day or so. Because of that people go a little crazy and some people use this as an excuse to riot and a bunch of "Tigures" (a Dominican word) there’s no word for it in English but basically just bad people ride there motorcycles up and down the main rode shooting there guns at whoever they see and attacking people, so really needless to say we didn’t go out that day. Luckily it wasn’t to bad and it only lasted 1 day and we were able to go out the next day and be ok.

The great part of this week is that we have 6 people with really firm baptismal dates. The first is a family that we’ve been working with a lot, the are planning to get married on February 7th and the baptized on the 8th, which happens to be elder Grover's last weekend so he’s pretty happy to be going out with a bang. And the other is this lady and her kids, she is a super awesome lady and we really should’ve had a date with her before this week cause she is progressing like crazy. Her baptism is set for the first of March so I’m super excited and Elder Grover is disappointed that he wont be here for it. I’m going to dunk her so hard ha-ha. Cant wait, this area is exploding with amazing investigators. Well that’s it for this week I love you all and ill write again next week.

-Elder King

Email Letter - 07 January 2014

Hey everybody! I’m having a blast right now. We had transfers last week but because I’m being trained nothing really changed for me, really just a few of the missionaries in my zone but that’s not a big deal cause I don’t see them a ton. Last week during transfers everyone that didn’t get transferred got together and we played volleyball at one of the churches, which was a ton of fun. Afterwards on the way home a couple of guys tried to mug us but it was really just a sad attempt because they were super drunk. Its actually really funny cause after they realized that we weren’t going to back down and give them our stuff they tried to play it off like a joke, poor guys. Ha-ha.

Anyways, right now we´re working with a lot of families and they’re all doing really well and making a lot of progress. One family in particular is doing amazing and our goal is to try and get them baptized before Elder Grove goes home, so we´re going to be focusing on them a lot. Hopefully everything will come together.

Well I love you all and I pray for you always.

-Elder King

Email Letter - 4 December 2013

Hey everybody,

I’m going great here in the DR. This is probably one of my most favorite places on earth! I love it here! We are making great progress with our investigators. The people here are so nice it's unreal.

Elder Grover and I are getting along great and our goal is to have me ready to train by the end of the next 2 transfers. It won’t be easy but it’s possible.

Well anyways I don’t have a lot of time this week but I'll be sure to write more next week. I love you all.

Elder King

Surprise Pic - 2 December 2013

We received this picture of Quin with President and Sister Douglas.

Email Letter - 27 November 2013

I’m loving life here in San Francisco. Its so beautiful here and its not too humid here ether. But there are hills for days, I’m pretty sure they are going to be the death of me. Things are going great with elder Grover, he is a great guy and an amazing mission dad, he helps me a lot. We have a few investigators right now and they’re all progressing fairly well and we have big dreams for the branch we`re in and things are looking good. The plan is to get sacrament meeting attendance up to 75 people by the end of the month which is almost double what it is right now. The branch president is a great man. He has a very powerful testimony and is a great leader, with his help and the help of the members great thinks could happen to this branch in the next 3 month I’m here, but hopefully ill be in this are longer then that. Thank all of you for the support. I love you all.

Elder King

Email and Picture - 20 November 2013

Well it’s my second day out of the MTC and my first day in my new area and new companion. I’m doing great in my new area, I’m in the city of San Francisco and it is beautiful. The apartment in living in is really nice and I love my new comp. His name is elder Grover, he is from cedar city. He was the AP for a long time in I was told by several people, including President and his wife that he is the best missionary in the whole mission. Hermana Douglas also told me that if president put me with him that he must have really high hopes for me. At the end of my training I’m going to kill him, missionary talk for he’s going home when he’s done being my companion.

The branch I’m assigned to has about 35 attending church, a number that has doubled since elder Grover has been here, and we will be working with these two families for the first little bit. One of which has a baptism date for December 14. Super exciting! That’s really all that’s new for this week so I'll write you all next week with more. Love you all.

- Elder King

Elder King with his new companion Elder Grover

Note from Quin's Papi: A link that gives some information about San Francisco from wikipedia. I noticed the Burger King in the picture immediately. :)