I have big news- my outbound mission pres, President Watkins called this week and they're sending me back to San Jose for my last transfer! They need me to do some damage control because 4 sisters just got sent home early. Wait, what day is it? Psych, my whole life is a lie today because of the foolish month that it is! I'm just going to type another sentence here so that the last one doesn't stand out when you read this whole paragraph. Who did I get? Anyone? C'mon. Dad? Also, I'm pregnant. Oops.
Missionary life on the first of April is way too easy. Sister Vach is a surprising prank mastermind so you could say that our roommates had a hard time brushing their teeth this morning. We didn't get too crazy. The best though was taking our new sister on a roll-play tour. Sister Takahashi is basically my new bff from Calgary. We scored and ended up with her in our zone so we got the pleasure of taking her on a mock tour today. My poker face was non-existent today mostly because I felt dumb acting but Sister Takahashi did sooooo well. Probably too good. At the end of the tour we told her that Sister Vach and I had to discuss things and then we would let her know what we thought. We told her she did well and we gave her a few suggestions and then at the end they asked if they had officially "passed off" I knew I just needed to close my big mouth or else I would blow our cover. Sister Vach told her that we spoke with the mission president earlier and he was looking for some specific things that just weren't apparent in the tour that they gave us. They asked for specifics and Sister Vach made up something that sounded believable. And finally she said, "Hey, do you know what day it is..." I watched the relief fly onto Sister Takahashi's Canasian face. Too easy.
Conference is here again! I feel like all I do is talk about General Conference but this is my last one with a tag on! Sister Vach and I wanted to do something fun for our zone to make this conference just a little bit more interesting than the last. So, we put our creative juices together and formed Conference BINGO! I'll attach 2 examples of the bingo sheets we've created so that you get the idea. I had a few more random ideas to add to the bingo cards but my companion threw them out the window for being too distracting. That's why we need companions. So, I think the final products are both fun and missionary-centered. Mostly.
Last week we had a lesson with some of the Salt Lake Elders and their investigator. He was a drug dealer and is committed to being baptized when he is legally allowed. That was a fun lesson but the point of this story is that we got interrupted on our lesson by some kind of folk rock band. The girl in the band kind of leeched onto us without realizing she was interrupting anything. We got her contact info and sent her on her way. This brings me to yesterday when we called her. Of course she was laying in her hammock in Arkansas when we called her. Things seemed to be good when we started the conversation. We didn't dive into any new information to quickly because we wanted to get to know her first so that we knew what she should teach. After a 5 minute normal conversation, I asked her how she found her own religious beliefs and then we lost her. More like she lost us. The woman knows how to talk. She had some good questions but she was super hard to teach because she had so much to say about her best friend, mother earth. She hates American politics. A lot. She doesn't like to use the word "religion". She doesn't believe God is a male entity - she believes God is a universe and part of the earth. She thinks of God as something that encompasses everything. She sees the earth as having feminine energy and the universe as masculine energy. Probably my favorite things she said is about how we will face mass famine if we keep purchasing from Wal-mart because the $7 shirt is probably made in a Chinese sweatshop and it's going to make us run out of food. That was fun. I think we'll just email her for now.
Saturday was crazy for us. It was the Young Women's conference so there were about 21000 young girls touring Salt Lake and it was a beautiful day so there were a ton of other visitors too. We barely had time to breathe because teaching opportunities were kept being placed right in front of us. We met a standup comedian in a tank top named Theo who just wanted to what buildings he was allowed to go inside. Then he told us about how is recently started praying and that helps him a lot in life. He gave us his contact info without us even asking for it. We also had a tour with 2 ladies from Australia. One of the ladies was super nice and had been exposed to the Church when she was a teenager. The other lady was super rude to me. She seemed very intolerant of our Church and asked in a very condescending way if I have ever studied other religions. I was annoyed by the time she asked me that so I told her that I'm actually very educated. That caught her off guard and then we taught her more about the Book of Mormon. She tried to tell us that the passage we read contradicted the Bible but then her friend stood up for us and backed up the book. Saturday was also our day to train a couple visitor center sisters from the mtc and one of them so happened to be Morgan Duval from Chapel Hill. She's going to the St. George Visitor's Center. We had a good time catching up with each other. See pic.
Okay, gotta run! Pray that I'll make it in the Ensign! That was a blasphemous test. But hey, third time's a charm.
LOVE, SISTER KATIE KYLE
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