The Hills

The Hills are on fire! Not literally, just with the spirit! We have been blessed with lots of lessons and many potential investigators this past week. Sister Woods and I have been blessed!!!

I can't even think about what happened because we were so busy!

Sister Turner and I are the Sister Training Leaders in the Idaho Falls area and we did our first exchange this week! Sister Lewis came with me to my area. She is wonderful. She is waiting for her Visa to her mission in Argentina! We got a lot of work done. It's fun to get to know the other Sister's here. 

We had our Missionary Leadership Council this past week with President and Sister Brinkerhoff, The Assistants, all of the Zone Leaders in the mission and the Sister Training Leaders. The meeting is always from 9-2. It was wonderful! The Assistants did an awesome training about key indicators (how we keep track of our investigators and lessons we teach). They related it to making cookies :) They made cookies for everyone but some of them were very salty. So we talked about how we need to balance out everything in the mission and follow the recipe. I love this meeting because we just have discussions about everything! It's great to get to know the other missionaries as well.

We are teaching a boy who is 7 and is very very excited to get baptized! His name is Tek. This past week we had a scavenger hunt with him where he had to recite articles of faith to us. Today for our Zone Activity, we are playing Volleyball at their house.

Oh, BIG NEWS!!!! Do you remember the Cervantes/Fullmer family that I taught in Idaho Falls Central? Their Daughter got baptized there. Well, the rest of the family was baptized this past Saturday! They were being taught by my Zone Leaders so I got to go! It was a beautiful service and it was great to see all of them. They will get sealed next year!!! I think I'm just going to have to live in Idaho forever to see all of these sealings, baptisms etc. haha

There is an elder in our district named Elder Warner who is one of the funniest people I have ever met. He has a very, very low voice. In District meeting last week, he whipped out his planner and with his booming voice said that you always need to keep a picture of yourself on it just in case it gets lost. Also put your name, address and phone number, or else little kids will think it's funny to vandalize it. The picture he put on was a picture of Mr. Potato head. haha.

Oh man, I had my first double dinner this past week. It was horrific  First we had a big dinner at a house, and then we get a call from this man saying that he invited his non member friends over that evening to meet with the missionaries  We were pumped! But they forgot to tell us they were feeding us. So we went there straight after dinner and they had food on the table and everything set up. I said, oh I'm so sorry we interrupted your dinner! They said, we sent you a message earlier that we were feeding you! Have a seat! We explained that we had just come from dinner and they told us that they made it all for us. So we took some deep breaths and ate very very slow. Then she brings out a huuuuge strawberry short cake. At this point I thought I was going to be sick. Luckily, she let us take it to go. I thought I was going to throw up. Worst feeling ever. And We went on exchanges the next day. Poor Sister Woods went with spanish speaking sisters and had a double dinner as well. haha 

Zone conference is coming up! We have someone from the Seventy coming to do a mission tour! He is also coming to our Missionary Leadership Council meeting so that will be fun too :)

Oh and p.s., in England, Chock a Block means that you are very busy.

I love my area. The members are fantastic here and are very helpful. They are really grasping the concept of member missionary work! 

Happy late birthday Dad and Grandpa!!! I hope it was a good one :)

I love all of you lots and lots!

-Sister Kuhns