alrighty, first things first, my new companion is sister southwick and i LOVE her! she is so cute and so ready to work hard. i mean what more could you ask for?! oh right shes from california as well, so all in all this is going to be a great transfer. it was quite a funny start though. i ended up sitting behind all the new missionaries and so before the meeting started i got to talk with all of them. it was kind of fun knowing that i would be training one of them, but that they didn't know that. well the new missionaries got assigned to their trainers one by one and then sister southwick was called to stand up. she stood up, stood there for a minute, and then it was realized that President hadn't written my name down to be her trainer and so they had no idea who her trainer was. so they had her sit back down and called everyone else. finally at the end it was just sister southwick sitting in the front and me sitting behind her and all the missionaries sitting behind us. finally President got up and just started to scan the room looking for her trainer when all the missionaries behind us just started pointing at me and it was then that he remembered, and called our names. everyone was laughing, we were laughing and it literally has been that way since. we laugh all day! like i said this is going to be a good one!
johnny is still going strong and getting ready for his baptism. we were able to have an awesome lesson with his family this past sunday about the spirit, and man it was SO strong. that will probably be a moment i will never forget on my mission. im so excited for him and this journey that he is on towards baptism.
we have been tracting a TON lately and that always make for some good stories. like the one about how there was an ice cream truck and so we flagged them down and got ourselves some ice cream. or the one about how this man opened the door with just a shirt covering him saying, "oh honey im completely naked". like no sir, you did not have to answer the door then. okay? okay. or the one where we ran into a preacher who wanted us to believe in his Jesus. because you know, they're different...or the one where they give you dr. peppers and want you to take a picture with them in their new hat. aww fun times. gotta love tracting!!
we were able to attend the temple today and man it was just what we needed. so good as always!!
here is one of my new favorite scriptures talking about Christ. It says, 1 Nephi 19:9 "And the world, because of their iniquity, shall judge him to be a thing of naught; wherefore they scourge him, and he suffereth it; and they smite him, and he suffereth it. Yea, they spit upon him, and he suffereth it, because of his loving kindness and his long-suffering towards the children of men." so perfectly summed up! i know my Savior lives and He loves each one of us!
i hope yall have a blessed week!
love always,
sister kennedy
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