I cannot tell you how much I love Paducah!
Lucian is the 9 year old boy we are teaching! He is getting baptized
on the 19th!! Wahoo. We had great lessons with him this week. His mom
who isn't a member sat in on a couple of the lessons and came to
church on Sunday! We're excited to start teaching his mom too.
Well this week we went on exchanges with the Fulton Sisters. I stayed
in Paducah with Sister T. (Tongue gotta hola que pa) is how you say
her real name. This is my fourth exchange with Sister T. Haha I feel
like I have been companions with her. She is one humble sister.
We had district meeting and we also had interviews with President
Andersen. I have thee best mission president in the world. Gosh I love
them both. We talked about the area, the investigators and some
sisters. Then he asked me a question... I don't even remember what it
was. I just remember him saying "Looking back on your mission..." And
I just bawled. You can't ask a question like that!! Haha not cool. He
just said how proud he was and how proud Heavenly Father was.
Saturday evening I got a call from Brother Stewart in the bishopric.
He said "I heard you are going home soon! Will you give a talk
tomorrow?" Sure. So I spoke on Faith and service. And it was so fun to
study that topic. All I can say is the spirit was with me and I had
extra help. I just sat down and knew family members on the other side
were there helping.
I got my first mosquito bit of the year yesterday. They are the worst!
Also everywhere we go it smells like green onions. There are wild
onions everywhere!
We had an amazing lesson with Kaitlyn and John Stevens!! Ben Jenkins,
a member came with us. But we went in and we waited a little bit for
John, but he was at work so we just started. Well we talked about the
plan of salvation. I got out my little plan of salvation lay out & we
did that. I asked Kaitlyn, "where do you think we came from before we
came to earth?" She was really stumped. She thought it was a great
question! The spirit was totally there. We taught and taught and
taught her the whole plan. She just kept saying, "it just makes
sense!" "Most of this is what I do believe!" So cool! We shared
scripture, Ben bore a powerful testimony a couple times and it was
great!! By the time we got to the end John had showed up! Well he
walked in and Ben said he knew him from somewhere. Well come to find
out 10 years ago they worked at Olive Garden together! They hit it off
great. John was more open to us.thank you members who come to lessons!
Kaitlyn got all excited and said, "Ask John the question you asked me
about where we came from before we came to earth!" Haha so I did. He
didn't know. So we said Kaitlyn will explain it to you for now, and
we'll teach it to you later! John said "Well when can we set up
another appointment to do this again?!" A missionaries dream response
right there. So we set up a time for a church tour next Sunday, April
19th, 2015. Wahoo! We were so pumped. The spirit was so strong. My
heart was so full! I LOVE teaching the plan of salvation. I LOVE being
able to see people change. I LOVE being a missionary.
Have a great week!! Love you all.
Sister Gates
I cannot tell you how much I love Paducah!
Lucian is the 9 year old boy we are teaching! He is getting baptized
on the 19th!! Wahoo. We had great lessons with him this week. His mom
who isn't a member sat in on a couple of the lessons and came to
church on Sunday! We're excited to start teaching his mom too.
Well this week we went on exchanges with the Fulton Sisters. I stayed
in Paducah with Sister T. (Tongue gotta hola que pa) is how you say
her real name. This is my fourth exchange with Sister T. Haha I feel
like I have been companions with her. She is one humble sister.
We had district meeting and we also had interviews with President
Andersen. I have thee best mission president in the world. Gosh I love
them both. We talked about the area, the investigators and some
sisters. Then he asked me a question... I don't even remember what it
was. I just remember him saying "Looking back on your mission..." And
I just bawled. You can't ask a question like that!! Haha not cool. He
just said how proud he was and how proud Heavenly Father was.
Saturday evening I got a call from Brother Stewart in the bishopric.
He said "I heard you are going home soon! Will you give a talk
tomorrow?" Sure. So I spoke on Faith and service. And it was so fun to
study that topic. All I can say is the spirit was with me and I had
extra help. I just sat down and knew family members on the other side
were there helping.
I got my first mosquito bit of the year yesterday. They are the worst!
Also everywhere we go it smells like green onions. There are wild
onions everywhere!
We had an amazing lesson with Kaitlyn and John Stevens!! Ben Jenkins,
a member came with us. But we went in and we waited a little bit for
John, but he was at work so we just started. Well we talked about the
plan of salvation. I got out my little plan of salvation lay out & we
did that. I asked Kaitlyn, "where do you think we came from before we
came to earth?" She was really stumped. She thought it was a great
question! The spirit was totally there. We taught and taught and
taught her the whole plan. She just kept saying, "it just makes
sense!" "Most of this is what I do believe!" So cool! We shared
scripture, Ben bore a powerful testimony a couple times and it was
great!! By the time we got to the end John had showed up! Well he
walked in and Ben said he knew him from somewhere. Well come to find
out 10 years ago they worked at Olive Garden together! They hit it off
great. John was more open to us.thank you members who come to lessons!
Kaitlyn got all excited and said, "Ask John the question you asked me
about where we came from before we came to earth!" Haha so I did. He
didn't know. So we said Kaitlyn will explain it to you for now, and
we'll teach it to you later! John said "Well when can we set up
another appointment to do this again?!" A missionaries dream response
right there. So we set up a time for a church tour next Sunday, April
19th, 2015. Wahoo! We were so pumped. The spirit was so strong. My
heart was so full! I LOVE teaching the plan of salvation. I LOVE being
able to see people change. I LOVE being a missionary.
Have a great week!! Love you all.
Sister Gates
We decorated Jerris car for her birthday with cupcake sticky notes. She's an investigator.
Tennessee St. In Kentucky................. (Thanks for the skirt Mace!)
Going to an appointment on Donielle's birthday with the top down!!
Doing an Easter Egg activity + scriptures with Malia, Jenna and Andrew!! More investigators.
After interviews and district meeting the Foxcroft sisters came over and had dinner with us!
Helping decorate for Mormon Prom was thee most stressful & funniest thing. Elders think they know it all... Not a good idea.
Exchanges with Sister T! We were sad this was our last exchange.... We've been on four. She's practically one of my companions.
This is my p day outfit today! Skirt and shoes complimentary of Mace.
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