New Transfer

YOYOYO

Today is the first day of the new transfer so my whole world is new including my companion.  Before my zone leader read who my new companion was she said, "Oh, this just got interesting."  I'M SO EXCITED!  Kim called this one.  I'm with Sister Jardine from Raymond. I didn't know Sister Jardine before but I've definately facebook creeped her before my mission so I basically know everything about her (as well as through Kim).  And even better than that, our assignment is West Gate instead of the Beehive House.  Two tall blond canadians sitting in a box on Temple square.  You know, why not?  So now I get to have a party in the information booth by the tabernacle everyday.  We'll be pretty busy there in the summer because we are the eyes and the ears of Temple Square.  We communicate with all the other sisters when there are guests who need tours in a specific language.  When it's not busy in the booth, we call/teach our investigators, answer inbound calls or take a chat online.  So far I've been at west Gate for a few hours this morning and I'm so in love with it.  It's roomy with solid air condidtiong; I could even have a blanket in there.  I think we'll still get a good amount of time to teach on the square so that'll be swell.  The other sisters just laugh at the fact that the two of us are companions now because they know we'll have a good time.

 

In other news, I'll tell you about some good lessons that we had this week on the square...

 

We were lead to a super precious girl named Eva.  I thought it was a test at first because she invited us to sit down with her then asked all of the right questions.  She has so many questions and fears about life and eternity so we taught her about the things that will make us happy in this life.  After a long time of talking to her and then showing her around temple square, it was obvious that she knew enough about what she needs in life.  She has already been meeting with the missionaries in her area.  We straight-up told her that she should get baptized and she knew she should too.  Clearly this young girl's been through rough times because she has a 4 year old and her child's dad is in prison.  She's seen darkness and she's seen light now.  She knew it too.  She knows this is the right Church to join, she just needs to do the work to prepare for baptism (a.k.a marry her boyfriend.) 

 

Right after we said bye to Eva, we talked two three, young frenchmen.  We took them to the conference center and tried to teach them about faith.  They were all atheist so the conversation was a little rough.  Still, I hope that we were able to teach them that there is a specific purpose for them on the earth.  After that we started the movie Legacy for a middle-aged couple.  They told us that they were so impressed with the missionaries on temple square and that they love what we have to teach.  The woman asked us if it was all a show.  Are we just pretending to be happy people?  She said she wondered that especially with mormon families including Mitt Romney's.  They seem perfect but she wanted to know if it was all an act.  I told her that we ARE happy.  When you centre your life on Christ, you have joy.  Plain and simple.  Then I bore testimony about fighting with my siblings.  It happens. But at the end of the day, all is well. 

 

Last one.  Yesterday, Sister Castañeda and I stopped for a while to talk to two middle-aged men who just seemed lost and depressed.  It was intense because they shared with us about how the one got divorced last year and the other one is going through a divorce right now.  Yikes, I'm not a social worker yet.  I didn't know really what to say to them so I turned to the scriptures.  I landed on Moroni 7 so we talked a little about miracles (verse 37) but we mostly focused on hope (verse 40+).  I didn't plan on using those particular scriptures that day but it was cool for me to be an instrument used to teach them that there is hope.  The one man just talked about how people make mistakes and that it's so hard for him to see his four children now.  It broke my heart to just listen to him speak.  Remind me not to get divorced.  But still, there is hope for every situation and the Lord will help. 

 

That's it for me.  Come visit the box.

Love, Sister Kyle