"Are you laughing at me because I'm going to hell?"

Hurrah for new Possin baby!!!! 

 

Sister Savelio and I could not be more excited for conference!  We are getting some new missionary pick up lines.  I'm taking ideas from the kiddlings that call in and try to mess with us.  One troller called in and told me that he's a representative of the Church of Joseph Smith.  I couldn't help but laugh through the whole conversation and I didn't feel like I had to hide my laughter because he sounded my age.  His response, "Are you laughing at me because I'm going to hell?"  So I laughed harder.  I was hoping I could get some more Obama jokes or some new material from him that I could use but he hung up abrubtly.  So I called him back but the second conversation didn't last very long.

 

We had an exciting tour with an older couple from Utah who, let's just say may or may not have experimented with many heavy drugs in their lifetime.  They came to the square with the woman's sister from Michigan.  They were super weird at first but then we just decided to love them instead of trying to control them.  they just ate everything up that we taught them and they added some awesome stories about how we are the ship in life and God is the captain.  The best part though is when we went up the the statue of Christ the sister who was visiting was in awe about how beautiful the mural of the galaxy was with the statue of Christ.  On the way up, she told us she's was going to go kneel at Christ's feet and prayer.  I was excited to see if she was all talk or not.  She got up right close to the statue and stuck one hand in the air as she prayed.  She was there for a solid 3 minutes by herself and as she walked back to us she just yelled a "Halleluja!"  So, you could say Sister Savelio and I enjoyed ourselves on the tour.  I feel like we helped them come closer to Christ. 

 

We have an amazing new investigator over the phone named Evangeline who lives in Alaska.  She is the cousin of one of the sister's here and we are so excited to see her progress.  Furealz, I love my job.  We taught her the restoration but kind of backwards as we applied to her.  Seriously, I love my job. 

 

At Welfare square this week, we had a lot of member families come which we always enjoy.  But my favourite WS tour was with Mark from New York.  We quickly learned that Mark is a journalist who temporarilly moved to Salt Lake because of the presidential campaign.  He figured that everyone else in the media is either in D.C or New York so he came here.  I was so excited for the challenge of touring a journalist.  He was really cool and open with us right from the beginning but I wasn't fooled because I've seen too many movies where the journalist tries to be your friend so that you'll trust him with the real dish.  It's a shame the Church has not dirty secrets, nor do I.  We ended up having a really awesome tour with him.  I was so sweaty by the end because he asked so many questions and I didn't want to say anything wrong (TMI?).  I think he was pleasantly surprised to see the realness in us and we even made it a spiritual eperience for him.   He came to the right place to learn about the Church.  Then he drove off in his really nice car. I decided that if he studies enough about the Church then there's no way that he won't find it to be true.  We'll let him take his time.

 

Oh yeah... on the way home from our early run one morning, L. Tom Perry was walking along and stopped to ask a couple of us what we were doing up so early.  Then he said, "I'm going to tell you a secret.  It's a lot easier to run down the hill than it is to run up."  What a wise man.  He seriously just looked like a heavenly being as he walked down the sidewalk all by himself, dressed up nice when it was still dark in the morning.  The Church is true. 

 

See you all next weekend!  Riiiight?

Happy conference,

LOVE, SISTER KATHLEEN KYLE