April 6, 2015
Who loved general conference? I did! It was just
fantastic! What a marvelous almost end to my mission of Easter and General
Conference!! We had a pretty good week! Monday started out with us seeing
Afton. That was really good, we read and talked about the story of Nephi
breaking his bow. He is a good kid! Hopefully his grandma can start coming more
consistently because the gospel would be really good for him! Tuesday we had
district meeting. Other than our district having a hard time focusing it was good. Two of the
Elders did a scripture scavenger hunt that was fun. They sneakily figured out
our favorite candy and had that waiting at the end! That evening we had a
really good lesson with Lamont! It finally clicked to him to pray about being
baptized. We have committed him to do that every time we see him and then this
last time we were talking about it and he said "I never thought about
asking in my prayers if baptism is right for me. I'm going to do that!"
It's all about the timing though right? Wednesday was kind of a struggle, but
then turned out good. We had lunch with a less active that went really well, we
had this really yummy salad from Zaxby's! Thursday was really awesome! We had
the Cruz's teach us the Gospel of
Jesus Christ! They each had a topic and they couldn't use the pamphlet
this time! It went really well. Then at the end we committed them to read the
scriptures every day as a family and to all come to church! Then we had a good
talk with Bobby. He is so close! He calls himself a member, he just won't come
to church and he won't quit chewing tobacco! He will come around though! Oh and
Thursday morning we went and helped this lady we are kind of teaching clean her
apartment. I say kind of teaching
because she talks so much that we aren't able to get a whole lot of teaching
done when we see her. She lives in the projects but she has a super clean
house! Probably the cleanest place I have been in that is in the projects.
Friday we had MLC. That was fun! It was fun to see all of the missionaries one
last time and see how everyone is doing. Then that evening after we got back we
had a lesson with the Cruz's oldest daughter's boyfriend. He is so cool! When
we were asking him what he wanted in life and out of religion he just kept
talking about how he wanted something he could raise a family in and be happy.
He is totally going to get baptized! He is seriously just so cool. Saturday and
Sunday were general conference!! Yay!! All of the messages were so good! I
can't even pick a favorite. I think they were all my favorites. I really loved
Elder Bednar's talk about fear and Godly fear. There were lots of talks about
love and family and marriage! I also really liked Elder Ringwood who talked
about Shiblon! I really like Shiblon, he is a cool guy. Elder Holland's talk
rocked! It was so good I didn't even take notes because I didn't want to miss
anything while I was writing! Then Pres Uchtdorf's talk about grace. It was all
just really great!
Well this is my last email to
everyone! I have been thinking about what I will miss about the South just a
few things will be how all the business’s put spiritual message on their signs.
I will miss the black people, they are so awesome! I will miss the accents, I will miss the ugly
pine needles that people put as mulch in their flower beds. I will miss the awful grass, I will miss
talking to random people about Jesus, even though this is what scared me the
most at the first of my mission! I will miss being “blessed” for the day and in
the projects when we knock I will miss the hollering from inside “Who dat is”?
I will miss the azaleas and their prolific pink flowers! I can’t say that I
will miss the bugs though! I will maybe miss the torrential rain and the deep
red mud! (not)! I will miss how in the
South they continue to have prayer in schools, no one fusses about the Pledge
of allegiance, and the deep love that the people of Georgia no matter what
religion have of Jesus Christ!! I keep
thinking about what I am going to say to people when they ask me what I have
learned from my mission and it is just so hard to put into words! I have
learned so much and it means so much to me that I feel like the words I know
just don't do it justice. I have loved being a missionary and I will really
miss it! I will miss calling people to repentance! It is the most amazing
experience when you are able to be a worthy vessel for the spirit and you know
the words you are saying aren't your words at all, it's what Heavenly Father
wants the people you are teaching to know. I now have just a small knowledge of
when Jesus after his resurrection in John 21 15-17 “Lovest thou me, feed my
lambs”, and again Jesus asked “Lovest thou me, Feed my Sheep”, and again a
third time “Lovest thou me, Feed My Sheep”! As I leave those that I am teaching
into the hands of other missionaries, I feel such a love for them, they are so
close to having the blessings of the gospel!
My heart is full and tender and I just have to trust that truly our
Father in Heaven knows and loves us all and he will take care of these precious
investigators and in his own time and with their agency hopefully will accept
the Gospel of Jesus Christ. I love my
Savior Jesus Christ, missionary work is just about the hardest but best thing
that one can do! I am excited to come
home and apply all of the things I have learned. I love you all so much!
I know the gospel is true and it really is a marvelous work and a wonder! I
will see you all next week! I will be anxious to hug “ya’ll”!!
Sister Price
My love to Tammy and Mike, Gage, Taryn, Joelie and Bruce! So sad for you, Jeannette was awesome, she
always took care of me when I would go down for the races, and she had loads of
hair products and appliances for the time I forgot mine!! The food, she always made sure that there was
food supplied! So gracious and
lovely. I can’t wait to hug you all next
week and cry with you probably again!!
My thoughts and prayers are with you this week. Love Sister Kaitlyn
