December 15, 2014

Sounds like you had fun in Utah! I love the lights there. I can't wait
to go back next year. That's good that you get to see Owen so much.
We can't figure out Jennifer. Things will be going really well and
we'll teach her an awesome lesson, and then she falls off the face of
the earth and we don't hear from her for a while. It's super weird.
But she has a lot going on. She works and is trying to find a second
job so she can pay her electricity bill because she's been without
since October. Sad.
Sandra is doing well, still reading.
Sister Stockett was sick when she first got here, so we couldn't do
anything Wednesday night. It was really weird to just be in the
apartment.
We have been working with a couple that just moved into the ward. He
is less active and he served a mission, and she isn't a member.
They're so nice. And they came to the Christmas party AND church!! So
hopefully we can start teaching her soon.
But things are really good here. The weather has been so nice lately!
We found a lot of people knocking this week, so hopefully we get to
see them again.
Sorry this is short, busy day!
Love you! And thanks so much for all the presents!!
Xoxo
Sister Koenig

December 9, 2014

I HAVE THE MEANEST FAMILY IN THE WORLD! How could you go to the happiest place on earth without meeee?! Boo. When do you leave?
Sounds like you've had a fun week. Send pictures!
This week was reallyyyyy busy. We helped a lot of people decorate for Christmas. We cleaned baseboards at a less active's. We did a Christmas program with some of our zone at an old folks home, I sang and played the violin. Jennifer is doing pretty good. Her work schedule is crazy, so she couldn't come to church, but she came to the relief society activity! I'm still a facebook missionary, I've even posted a lot recently... I don't know why you haven't seen them. This week on Facebook I posted the Christmas video on all the different Christian Facebook pages I could find and then, when someone liked my post, I would add them as a friend and message them. Of all the people I messaged, only one responded. Her name is Sandra and I started talking to her about the Book of Mormon. She said that she read part of it once when she found it in the nightstand at a hotel she was staying at, but she would like to read the whole thing. So I told her she could request a free one at mormon.org. She did and is excited to begin reading it. I got to teach her about what it was and had her start reading it on lds.org. So that was really cool. She lives in Texas, but hopefully I can have a Skype lesson with her!! 

Sister Stitt gets transferred tomorrow. I did not see that one coming! So I'm kind of nervous because I wasn't preparing to take over the area. I don't even know very many people still! 

And with the Puerto Rican family...Sometimes missions are so sad. Like we meet so many people that are super interested and super nice...but then nothing ever happens with them. So many dead ends. I just wish everyone would get baptized! At least we planted a seed. Maybe they'll be ready one day. 

I made a Christmas tree and some snowflakes to make our apartment Christmassy. I can't believe that it's almost Christmas already!! 

I got the next package. Thank youuuuu! 

Have a good week. Love you

Xoxo

Sister Koenig

December 1, 2014

This week was really good! We still haven't seen Jean and Chante...
Our appointment with the Escobars isn't until Wednesday, but we
stopped by last week to bring them cookies and a spanish Book of
Mormon. They were excited to see us and the daughter has started to
read the Book of Mormon! So that's exciting! Jennifer has been really
sick, so we haven't seen her. But we're going tonight! Singing went
well. We had a recent convert sing it with us, so that was good.
I liked the Thanksgiving picture. Looks like you had fun! Our
thanksgiving was really good. We went to a campground with a couple of
families from the ward. It was really cold, but it was fun. I had deep
fried turkey. And we had a bonfire and they had a turkey call contest,
that was funny.
We've been using the new video "He is the Gift" when we knock doors
and its been working really well! We just knock on their door and ask
if we can show them a two minute video about Christmas and it works
almost every time. So we taught a ton of other lessons and a lot of
people said we could come back, so hopefully they listen to us! And we
exceeded all of our goals this week! Probably the most productive week
of my whole mission... Now if only we could get some people to get
baptized!
Traffic is so bad here. It's really annoying. The other day we were on
one road for 45 minutes!! Crazy. Definitely something I'm not used to.
I got the package!! Thanks! That was a really good idea, the pillow
case is really cute. I can't believe It's already December!
Have a good week!
Love you!
Xoxo
Sister Koenig

November 24, 2014

Michelle dropped us on
Tuesday. It was really sad. She needs the gospel so much, and I feel
like she didn't even give it a chance. Maybe one day...
Ya, sister Stitt sang with me at the funeral. During the eulogy that
one of the elders gave, it started POURING rain and it got super
windy. It was like a hurricane. So we all got really wet. That was
exciting.
Things with sister Stitt are pretty good.
We saw the granddaughter, Chante, again. But her grandma wasn't home,
so we'll try again another time. Everyone is getting really busy with
the holidays. Favorite thing this week... last night we were knocking
doors and this lady answers the door and we ask the usual questions:
are you religious? What church do you go to? Have you heard of our
church? Blah blah blah... And she seemed super uninterested. But then
she called her daughter to come to the door and the first thing she
does is tell us we're pretty, so obviously that's a GREAT start to a
conversation. Well it turns out the mom is from Puerto Rico and
doesn't really speak English, so that's why she wasn't really talking
but the daughter was sooo interested and is really excited for us to
come back! We asked if they would be interested in learning more about
the Book of Mormon and she was like, actually Ya! Which never happens,
usually people just tell us that we can come back so that we'll leave.
But they are so elect! Pray that they get baptized!! I'm super excited
for them!
This week I learned that Heavenly Father answers our prayers, well
obviously I already knew that. But even with little things. We were
bringing our investigator Jennifer subway (thanks to the gift card I
got from Eric and Rissa) because she doesn't have food or money and
she wasn't answering the door. We knocked like 7 times and didn't know
what to do... So we prayed that she would answer. We knocked one more
time, and there she was, right at the door! And with the family last
night, before we started knocking doors we prayed we would find
someone who was prepared, and we did!
We knocked a lot of doors this week. Even in the freezing cold. But
yesterday was hot. Florida is dumb. Last night this black guy told us
he wasn't interested so as we were leaving I told him happy
thanksgiving and he was like, "happy Jesus!" It was super funny. And
we did a lot of service, yard work, cleaned a porch, frosted cupcakes.
Saw lots of less actives, and one came to church with her two little
boys. She was baptized over ten years ago in Idaho and had never been
to church here. But she came!! And her boys loved it! We saw another
less active lady who gave us lemons, so we're going to make lemonade
today. And another who fed us papaya that she grew, which is really
gross btw, and these GIANT grapefruits that she grows.
I gave a training in district meeting on companion study and it went
so well! My best yet! And they only told me the day before!
We got asked to sing in church on Sunday... I'm not super excited
because they picked the song. It's just the plain ol hymn book version
of I am a child of God but the lady wants us to sing "they are
children of God" and replace all the pronouns to third person... Kinda
weird. And sister Stitt sings really loud and has a much different
voice than mine... Oh well.
Our mission is going to start using family history pamphlets more so
we have to fill out one of our own to show people. So can you please
send pics that I can use and glue to it of you and dad, grandparents,
and great grandparents? Thanks.
Happy thanksgiving! Love you!
Xoxo
Sister Koenig