Well its summer in Kingman! We are actually the coldest place in the mission right
now, and it has been around 105* or more all week! So I am thankful that I am
here, that’s for sure! And Kingman is pretty much the best place ever!!
This has been an
amazing week! And so was last week!! Last week, I got to go on exchanges with
Sister Herman In Lake Havasu (and its 10* hotter there...yikes! But I am
working on my tan hahaha) It was a great day! I love exchanges; I love the
opportunity to learn from other missionaries, it’s always an answer to prayers
for me. Our goal with the STL's (Sister Training Leaders) is to try and do an
exchange every week for the rest of the transfer, mainly to give us an
opportunity to work more, and it is really helping me! I always feel the best
after an exchange because I know I worked the hardest I could that day. It just
feel so good when I walk inside after a hard day and you just feel ready to die
:D
We have been teaching
the Carly kids, we had two lessons with them these past two weeks. They are
crazy, but I love it! Our goal is to
teach them the plan of salvation this upcoming week, and set them with a date
for baptism! Their mom is excited for them, and hopefully this will bring her
back to church as well!! She hasn't come in a long time. But her daughter went
to girl’s camp last week!!
We had to drop our semi
investigator, Helen. Missionaries have been going to see her for over a year,
she is in her late 90's and is just lonely. She wants nothing more than to just
die. So missionaries have gone as a service, to just visit with her and share a
scripture. She has no interest in converting, but she is an amazing lady. But
we felt prompted that we needed to drop her because she has not been
progressing. BUT we found out she is interested in family history. So we passed
her off to the family history lady in the ward....and when we tried to tell her
we weren’t going to be able to stop by you could just see her heart break :(
she said "so this is you giving me the ol' kiss good bye huh?" ...we
felt so bad that we told her we would come see her once a month, and I think
that will be perfect. Dropping people is hard, but if they aren’t progressing
then we have to move forward so the lord can lead us to the people who are
prepared.
Sergio is slowly
progressing. He feels the spirit in the lessons; he is just very very shy. He
is comfortable with us but we want him to get to know some youth so he will
feel comfortable at church too. But every time we bring a youth with us he gets
really quiet, so we are praying hard to know how to help him. He was supposed
to be getting baptized this Saturday but we feel that he is not ready yet. He
is living with Scott and Dyan, and they aren’t doing so well. Dyan ended up
back in the mental hospital for another night because she was having a break
down. We try to go over but most the time she makes up an excuse for us not to
come, my heart goes out to her. She knows she needs it, she just feels guilty.
So we are just really prying for them. I feel like Alma on his mission to the
Zoramites. He is praying so hard for their hearts to be softened and for them
to know that the Lord loves them, and to give them strength to overcome. (Alma
31:32-35 read it!)
I love these people so
much!! I love this area! I love being a missionary! We have Scripture study
every week with our recent Converts in the White Cliffs ward, and recently we
have been focusing on church history because that’s something they said they
want to learn about. It has been so fun!!
We went on exchanges
again this week, and I stayed in the area with Sister Hirsch. She is AMAZING!
she is one of the sweetest people I know, we had such an amazing time serving
together for the day. (i forgot my camera, I will have to send pictures next
week cuz we took some fun pictures.) We were looking for a part member family
and we were up on a hill that looked over the town, right at sunset, and of it
was gorgeous!! I love the world! the Lord creates beautiful things! After all
he created us!
This weekend was the
wedding of one of our investigators to one of our members. Sister Tooley (Abby)
and Brock. We got to go help with the wedding. We helped her make tons of
decorations throughout the week, (it was so nice to have a change to be crafty,
it is my stress reliever) And then we went up and set up in the mountains. She
had a country wedding! It was so fun! We were the servers; we did all the food
and helped take everything down. None of his family are members so we had lots
of missionary opportunities! It was a very spiritual ceremony to, It’s just an
amazing thing to see people vow to love one another. 
Father’s day was
great, we had some amazing talks, it made me miss my dad! But I know that this
is where he wants me to be, both my dad here on earth and my Father in Heaven!
I am so blessed to have such an amazing and supportive family!! I love you
all!!!
Until next week!
Love,
Sister Loveless
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