Hello to all of Sister Kleisler’s family and friends.
This is Sister Johnson, her companion. I’ve decided to write her group email today. It was a surprise for me that we were going to be comps again. Sister Kleisler does this thing on transfer night where she calls up all the sisters and finds out if they are getting transferred or not. She creates a transfer tree and then by logical deduction she calculates where everyone is getting transferred to and who their companions will be and so forth. She’s usually pretty accurate. So she calls me and Sister Dodge down in Pleasanton and I tell her I’m getting transferred and then I asked her if she knew who my new companion was going to be. She totally knew we were going to be companions again, but of course she wasn’t going to ruin the surprise, “Oh…I think you’re going with Sister Byrne. Yep, she needs a companion so I’m pretty sure that who you’re going with.” So then for the rest of the time before transfers I thought that I was going to be sister Byrne’s companion and I told everyone that because rarely is Sister Kleisler wrong…So the day of transfers comes…AND…Sister Dodge is super sick—I mean super sick. So we ended up missing the transfer meeting because there was no way we were going to get up to transfer meeting which is an hour away by 8am in the morning. Nope, not going to happen. So we sat at home and waited to go up for the 2nd transfer meeting when Sister Dodge’s companion would be coming down from Austin. So there Sister Kleisler is at transfer meeting and she knows she’s getting me, but I’m no where to be found. The AP’s do the call outs, “And in the Encino Park area we have Sister Kleisler AND……………” AP’s always have to add in this dramatic pause so Sister Kleisler broke the suspense and said, “She’s not here.” I can just see Elder Delio’s jaw drop, “How do you know who your companion is? You always know!” “Yep.”
So Sister Kleisler had to wait for me until 3pm when the next transfer meeting would be. The only problem being that all the Sisters left so she was stuck without a companion. So she went to the office and helped the senior couples with stuff and then when the time came she got a ride back over to the church. During this time I couldn’t handle the suspense so I called the AP’s and asked them who my new companion would be. I guess it was their turn to spoil the surprise. “Who do you think your new companion is?” “I don’t know, that’s why I’m asking you.” “Guess.” Ugh. Elder Hunt always make you guess. “No, just tell me.” “Okay, okay. I’ll give you a hint: it will be a reunion.” “Uhhhhhh…..Sister Kleisler?” “Yep” “No way…whoa” I could go more into my verbal response but it would have just a babbled mess of the words “awesome” and “cool.” My vocabulary has decreased substantially since I’ve been out here.
Anyways, on with this very exciting story…So sister Dodge and I pull into the Church parking lot and Sister jumps out of the car filled with Elders and does her strut over to me and yells, “Are you ready for this?!” I smile, “Yep” Sister Kleisler clarified,“Dude, We’re companions!!!” “I know.” “How do you know? Who told you? Someone’s going down!” So thus it was—united once again. The AP’s came up and shook our hands, “The Dynamic Duo reunited at last.”
For the next few days we were like giggling school girls: We had so much to get caught up on and we stayed up each night talking and talking. It was so cool to teach together again. We taught Elsa who is not a member and who is living with her less active boyfriend. We tried to commit her to baptism in December but there are obviously some lifestyle changes she’ll have to make. She wasn’t against the idea, but it’s a pretty big decision so we’ll see what happens. But the lesson itself was really neat. The spirit was there and Sister Kleisler and I went back and forth pretty seamlessly. Its was cool. We also taught the Oakley family this week. They were sick for two weeks apparently and it has really dampened their flame. We will still work with them, but we’re going to have to do something to rekindle the fire that I guess they used to have. I finally met Emylie which was cool. One of the neatest things about coming here is to see how much the members and the investigators love Sister Kleisler. They just love her. She’s got a real talent of making people feel special and successful and people are attracted to that. A huge chunk of the ward is giving out Book of Mormons because Sister Kleisler and Sister Davenport told them to…getting members to hand out Book of Mormons is not an easy task unless you have mad people skills. It’s neat.
The other night we ran into a guy out in a parking lot. He chatted with him for a bit. I told him a little bit about the history of the church and our basic beliefs. He was kinda if-y and it didn’t really like seem like he was going to be super interested. But then Sister Kleisler jumped in and bore a powerful testimony of the Book of Mormon. She taught a little about where it came from and then told him her own personal feelings about it. That was the turning point in the conversation. Suddenly he let us set an appointment with him. We brought Papa Smith to the appointment and it went really well. John, the investigator, told us that he wasn’t really interested in what we were talking about the night before, “But I was intrigued with what you said about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon.” As he said that he pointed to Sister Kleisler because he was obviously referring to her testimony the night before. It was cool. Who knows what will happen, but it’s just one more instance where testimony penetrates and touches a soul more than bare facts ever will.
So guess what happened to Sister Davenport? Well according to Sister Kleisler, Sister Davenport was going to be transferred up to Austin to serve in a Spanish area in South Austin. Well, she was right about the Austin part, but instead of getting sent to the Spanish area, she was sent back to her very first area on the mission. She was in that area for 6 months before and that’s actually the same area that her and I served in when she trained me almost a year ago. So by the end of her mission she will have served in the Anderson Mill area for 9 MONTHS! Crazy.
Anyways, there’s not much else to report on. Life is beautiful, not always easy, but beautiful. I love serving with Sister Kleisler because she has touched and strengthened so many people out here with her love, her endurance, her child-like wonder, and her ever-increasing faith. Nothing gets in the way of her love for the Savior—even if it means plowing through heck and back.
She loves you all...a lot,
Sister Johnson
Monday, November 30, 2009
Sunday, November 29, 2009
The Return of Sister Johnson
11/23/09
Hey Y’all!
Well this has to be a quick one because this has been such a busy day and I have had no time for anything! I have a bunch of news to share, the first is in the subject line. I am getting a new companion and her name is Sister Johnson- no not a new Sister Johnson, I get MY Sister Johnson back and I am so excited!! Transfers are tomorrow morning and we will be together until I die, on the mish that is. Sister Johnson is killing me- that’s the other news. I am coming home in January!!! This is my last transfer! Crazy!!! My feelings are mixed, I am so sad to be leaving the mish but I am also so glad to be able to be with my family and friends again. It will be bitter sweet for sure. But I don’t have to think about that for now, right now I am just concentrating on having the best 6 weeks of my mission!!!! It is going to ROCK!
The work here continues on steady and sure. Elsa and Marty came to church on Sunday and that was great! The Oakley’s were still sick, so they didn’t come, but they all promised to come next week. We went over there tonight so Sister Davenport could say goodbye and we talked about their Thanksgiving plans. They have a bunch of Potatoes to peel and so Sis. Johnson and I are gonna go over and help with that the day before Thanksgiving. That will be fun! I have always been a good potato peeler- right mom? Ha ha Our Thanksgiving is going to be a ton of fun this year, it might even top my San Marcos Thanksgiving!! Our ward does a Turkey Trot up “temple hill” and it’s a 4 mile run- Sis. Johnson and I are totally doing it! She doesn’t know that yet, ha ha but she is gonna do it! Then we are bouncing around from house to house and STUFFING ourselves with food!!! I am so excited! I think I am gonna fast the day before! Lol :)
Well Today has been crazy busy, Sister Davenport has been packing, then we had some other sisters come over and they were emailing while I was attempting to clean up our room and make it presentable for Sister Johnson. Then we went and played some dodgeball with our zone, then off to do some errands, and then back to work! We saw a TON of people tonight, like all of our investigators and stuff so Sister Davenport could take pictures and say goodbye. Now tomorrow comes the final goodbye. I will really miss Porter (Sister Davenport) and it will be hard to see her go. Especially cause I think she is going up to Austin. :( But it will be alright, I will have my Jo Jo back!!!!! Well y’all sorry this was so short but honestly it is like time for bed! I love y’all and appreciate your support!
SMILING ALL THE WHILE
Sister Kleisler
Hey Y’all!
Well this has to be a quick one because this has been such a busy day and I have had no time for anything! I have a bunch of news to share, the first is in the subject line. I am getting a new companion and her name is Sister Johnson- no not a new Sister Johnson, I get MY Sister Johnson back and I am so excited!! Transfers are tomorrow morning and we will be together until I die, on the mish that is. Sister Johnson is killing me- that’s the other news. I am coming home in January!!! This is my last transfer! Crazy!!! My feelings are mixed, I am so sad to be leaving the mish but I am also so glad to be able to be with my family and friends again. It will be bitter sweet for sure. But I don’t have to think about that for now, right now I am just concentrating on having the best 6 weeks of my mission!!!! It is going to ROCK!
The work here continues on steady and sure. Elsa and Marty came to church on Sunday and that was great! The Oakley’s were still sick, so they didn’t come, but they all promised to come next week. We went over there tonight so Sister Davenport could say goodbye and we talked about their Thanksgiving plans. They have a bunch of Potatoes to peel and so Sis. Johnson and I are gonna go over and help with that the day before Thanksgiving. That will be fun! I have always been a good potato peeler- right mom? Ha ha Our Thanksgiving is going to be a ton of fun this year, it might even top my San Marcos Thanksgiving!! Our ward does a Turkey Trot up “temple hill” and it’s a 4 mile run- Sis. Johnson and I are totally doing it! She doesn’t know that yet, ha ha but she is gonna do it! Then we are bouncing around from house to house and STUFFING ourselves with food!!! I am so excited! I think I am gonna fast the day before! Lol :)
Well Today has been crazy busy, Sister Davenport has been packing, then we had some other sisters come over and they were emailing while I was attempting to clean up our room and make it presentable for Sister Johnson. Then we went and played some dodgeball with our zone, then off to do some errands, and then back to work! We saw a TON of people tonight, like all of our investigators and stuff so Sister Davenport could take pictures and say goodbye. Now tomorrow comes the final goodbye. I will really miss Porter (Sister Davenport) and it will be hard to see her go. Especially cause I think she is going up to Austin. :( But it will be alright, I will have my Jo Jo back!!!!! Well y’all sorry this was so short but honestly it is like time for bed! I love y’all and appreciate your support!
SMILING ALL THE WHILE
Sister Kleisler
Jaw Dropper!
11/16/09
Hey Y'all!!!
So guess what?!? On Sunday as we were walking around the chapel waiting for sacrament meeting to start, praying silently our investigators would show up and making small talk with the members, all the sudden I see this white haired guy in a pink polo shirt, black jeans and nikes walk into the chapel. My jaw dropped!!!!!! It was Bruce Oakley!!! Brucecame to church!!! Dun dun nuh nuh....VICTORY!! We were so darn excited to see him there, and he loved the fact that he surprised us, I thinkthat was his plan all along, ha ha what a stinker! But anyway he came,the rest of his family is all sick with the flu so he came by himselfand only stayed for sacrament meeting so he could go home and check on them, but still it was so cool that he came! He seemed to enjoy it and we're pretty sure he'll be back next week with the whole fam! Alright well now there isn't anything stopping them all from being baptized! We will hopefully set a date with them this week but we gotta get them all healthy again cause right now their house is quarantined. We are hoping that we can baptize them on the 29th. They are ready- they just don't realize it yet. So as for other investigator news, bad news with Emylie. I really should be careful what I wish for cause it looks like now we will be teaching her as an investigator all the way till January! Her uncle that was going to baptize her got the swine flu and had to miss a week of work and now he can't take any more days off to go to Utah to baptize Emylie, so now the Scarisbricks are staying here for Thanksgiving and then sometime in January will to Utah for the baptism. Sister Davenport and I are pretty frustrated by the whole thing because yes it is important to have the family there and what not for the baptism, but to keep putting it off is putting off blessings! Baptism is a saving ordinance and shouldn't be preformed only when it's convenient!!! Ok my rant is over. Ha ha so anyway that's what's going onwith our investigators. Elsa is also doing really well, we will be teaching her Law of Chastity tonight so we will see how that goes. Kipper and Sandra have both fallen off the face of the earth so they are no longer progressing, sad day. But we have Faith in the Lord and know he will lead us to more people who are prepared.
So this week I had a neat experience with consistency and the power of it. Let me explain, a week ago President challenged me to read my scriptures EVERY day without fail and have morning and nightly prayers. I had been slacking a bit and so this was a promise that I made to President. Well I started doing it and it had an amazing effect on me. I realized that once I made it a goal to do it and told myself that I couldn't miss even one day, I was starting to become consistent and it rocked! The real cool part though is how the spirit whispered to me to enlist some help in my challenge. We were at the Oakleys about two weeks ago and they weren't really progressing, they liked us coming over but they weren't taking steps to act. So as I was sharing my testimony with them I was prompted by the spirit to extend to them the same challeneg that I was working on. I told them I needed their help ind oing it, if they were doing it at the same time as me it would encourage me to keep going. So all three of them (Max was at school)excepted the challenge. The best part is, it's been 2 weeks and they are still doing it!!! They are loving the Book of Mormon and have really in depth questions and they are progressing now! So anyway it was just areally neat experience to me and such a testimony builder of just how important the Book of Mormon really is!
Have a great week and keep the letters coming!
SMILING ALL THE WHILE
Sister Kleisler
Hey Y'all!!!
So guess what?!? On Sunday as we were walking around the chapel waiting for sacrament meeting to start, praying silently our investigators would show up and making small talk with the members, all the sudden I see this white haired guy in a pink polo shirt, black jeans and nikes walk into the chapel. My jaw dropped!!!!!! It was Bruce Oakley!!! Brucecame to church!!! Dun dun nuh nuh....VICTORY!! We were so darn excited to see him there, and he loved the fact that he surprised us, I thinkthat was his plan all along, ha ha what a stinker! But anyway he came,the rest of his family is all sick with the flu so he came by himselfand only stayed for sacrament meeting so he could go home and check on them, but still it was so cool that he came! He seemed to enjoy it and we're pretty sure he'll be back next week with the whole fam! Alright well now there isn't anything stopping them all from being baptized! We will hopefully set a date with them this week but we gotta get them all healthy again cause right now their house is quarantined. We are hoping that we can baptize them on the 29th. They are ready- they just don't realize it yet. So as for other investigator news, bad news with Emylie. I really should be careful what I wish for cause it looks like now we will be teaching her as an investigator all the way till January! Her uncle that was going to baptize her got the swine flu and had to miss a week of work and now he can't take any more days off to go to Utah to baptize Emylie, so now the Scarisbricks are staying here for Thanksgiving and then sometime in January will to Utah for the baptism. Sister Davenport and I are pretty frustrated by the whole thing because yes it is important to have the family there and what not for the baptism, but to keep putting it off is putting off blessings! Baptism is a saving ordinance and shouldn't be preformed only when it's convenient!!! Ok my rant is over. Ha ha so anyway that's what's going onwith our investigators. Elsa is also doing really well, we will be teaching her Law of Chastity tonight so we will see how that goes. Kipper and Sandra have both fallen off the face of the earth so they are no longer progressing, sad day. But we have Faith in the Lord and know he will lead us to more people who are prepared.
So this week I had a neat experience with consistency and the power of it. Let me explain, a week ago President challenged me to read my scriptures EVERY day without fail and have morning and nightly prayers. I had been slacking a bit and so this was a promise that I made to President. Well I started doing it and it had an amazing effect on me. I realized that once I made it a goal to do it and told myself that I couldn't miss even one day, I was starting to become consistent and it rocked! The real cool part though is how the spirit whispered to me to enlist some help in my challenge. We were at the Oakleys about two weeks ago and they weren't really progressing, they liked us coming over but they weren't taking steps to act. So as I was sharing my testimony with them I was prompted by the spirit to extend to them the same challeneg that I was working on. I told them I needed their help ind oing it, if they were doing it at the same time as me it would encourage me to keep going. So all three of them (Max was at school)excepted the challenge. The best part is, it's been 2 weeks and they are still doing it!!! They are loving the Book of Mormon and have really in depth questions and they are progressing now! So anyway it was just areally neat experience to me and such a testimony builder of just how important the Book of Mormon really is!
Have a great week and keep the letters coming!
SMILING ALL THE WHILE
Sister Kleisler
Monday, November 9, 2009
Cliff Notes
Hey Y’all!
This has been a pretty crazy week and I can barely remember what happened so I am gonna look at my planner and break it down day by day. Well first off Monday we had a way fun football game with our zone. We played our district verses everybody else, which was funny cause that made half of our team sisters, cause there are 2 sets of sisters in our district. The best part was when we were lining up for first down and one of the elders on the other team told his team to each pick a man then another elder on their team said, “ no problem, I’ll get the relief society!” Ha ha well guess what, we ended up creaming their team! It was so fun! Then after P-day was over we had a way sweet lesson with Marty and Elsa. We got a new young married couple, the Johansons to come with us to the lesson and they did such a great job fellowshipping Marty and Elsa. We taught the first part of the Plan of Salvation and gave Elsa a soft commit for baptism and she accepted. So we don’t have a date yet (we got to commit them to live Law of Chastity first) but we are on the right track! On Tuesday we had President Interviews and then after that we went and did service for one of the ladies in the ward. Her mom has just been diagnosed with breast cancer and she needed some help cleaning her house and stuff because her life has pretty much fallen apart as of late. So we were able to help her out which felt so great. We taught the Oakleys as well on Tuesday and they needed a little push in the right direction- we committed them to read in the BoM EVERY DAY and pray morning and night. That night we had dinner with a super sweet member family and we followed up with them on the commitment we left them to give out a Book of Mormon. Well turns out that the Husband not only gave out 1 copy of the Book of Mormon, but he gave out 6! So sweet!!!! We got burned that night by Sandra Villanueva, her son said she was sick, but man usually she will at least call us and cancel! On Wednesday we had Zone Meeting and then we went over to the Oakley’s to do service and teach them a little bit. They are doing GREAT with their commitment and had some great questions about their reading in the BoM. Even Bruce is doing his reading and LIKES it! So awesome! Then that night we taught Emylie Scarisbrick- man it’s gonna be a bummer when she gets baptized- ha ha jk. But it will be sad to not be able to go over there as often- I LOVE that family! Thursday we did our weekly planning and figured out what we were gonna teach all of our investigators for the upcoming week and what we are gonna commit them to do. Then we had a dinner that night with a really fun family that is working on sharing the gospel by having gospel centered conversations with people they work with. Friday was full of appointments and good times. We saw Isabel, a very less active member who is working on coming back, she is so sweet and needs a lot of support. Then we had another lesson with the Oakleys and brought some sweet member fellowshippers. We taught the Word of Wisdom and committed them to live it. That went really well and they are gonna work on that. So sweet! Then Elsa and Marty had us over for dinner along with the Johansons. We taught the rest of the Plan of Salvation and Elsa had a ton of great questions!! She also did her reading and is loving the Book of Mormon! So sweet! Saturday we did some service for the Smith’s- making a compost bin lid. Then we had an appointment with Jewel and Christopher- she is doing SO GOOD! They went to the temple twice this week to do baptisms and she was able to baptize like 40 of her relatives, she LOVED it! It is so neat to see my converts go to the temple! Then we had another appointment with little miss Emylie, so fun! So ya a pretty busy week and that was just the cliff note version! Lol Then came Sunday- so the big question is, who came to church? Did Kipper- nope, haven’t been able to get a hold of him, total bummer. Did Sandra, nope we haven’t heard from her in over a week! Lame. Did Elsa? She tried to get off work, she really wanted to come, but she couldn’t get anyone to take her shift, next week she’ll be there for sure! Did Emylie? Yah, dude she is solid! She even had a part in the primary program and did great! Did the Oakleys? Yup, but not Bruce. Church was great too, it was the Primary Program and they did a fantastic job! It is the only time I have ever seen a Primary Program where the kids actually sing and you can understand all the words to the songs! So cute! So ya life is good here in Encino Park, and it is starting to look like the end of November will be full of baptisms! :)
Well Y’all that’s it for today! I appreciate your letters and ask that you keep ‘em coming!
SMILING ALL THE WHILE
Hermana Kleisler
This has been a pretty crazy week and I can barely remember what happened so I am gonna look at my planner and break it down day by day. Well first off Monday we had a way fun football game with our zone. We played our district verses everybody else, which was funny cause that made half of our team sisters, cause there are 2 sets of sisters in our district. The best part was when we were lining up for first down and one of the elders on the other team told his team to each pick a man then another elder on their team said, “ no problem, I’ll get the relief society!” Ha ha well guess what, we ended up creaming their team! It was so fun! Then after P-day was over we had a way sweet lesson with Marty and Elsa. We got a new young married couple, the Johansons to come with us to the lesson and they did such a great job fellowshipping Marty and Elsa. We taught the first part of the Plan of Salvation and gave Elsa a soft commit for baptism and she accepted. So we don’t have a date yet (we got to commit them to live Law of Chastity first) but we are on the right track! On Tuesday we had President Interviews and then after that we went and did service for one of the ladies in the ward. Her mom has just been diagnosed with breast cancer and she needed some help cleaning her house and stuff because her life has pretty much fallen apart as of late. So we were able to help her out which felt so great. We taught the Oakleys as well on Tuesday and they needed a little push in the right direction- we committed them to read in the BoM EVERY DAY and pray morning and night. That night we had dinner with a super sweet member family and we followed up with them on the commitment we left them to give out a Book of Mormon. Well turns out that the Husband not only gave out 1 copy of the Book of Mormon, but he gave out 6! So sweet!!!! We got burned that night by Sandra Villanueva, her son said she was sick, but man usually she will at least call us and cancel! On Wednesday we had Zone Meeting and then we went over to the Oakley’s to do service and teach them a little bit. They are doing GREAT with their commitment and had some great questions about their reading in the BoM. Even Bruce is doing his reading and LIKES it! So awesome! Then that night we taught Emylie Scarisbrick- man it’s gonna be a bummer when she gets baptized- ha ha jk. But it will be sad to not be able to go over there as often- I LOVE that family! Thursday we did our weekly planning and figured out what we were gonna teach all of our investigators for the upcoming week and what we are gonna commit them to do. Then we had a dinner that night with a really fun family that is working on sharing the gospel by having gospel centered conversations with people they work with. Friday was full of appointments and good times. We saw Isabel, a very less active member who is working on coming back, she is so sweet and needs a lot of support. Then we had another lesson with the Oakleys and brought some sweet member fellowshippers. We taught the Word of Wisdom and committed them to live it. That went really well and they are gonna work on that. So sweet! Then Elsa and Marty had us over for dinner along with the Johansons. We taught the rest of the Plan of Salvation and Elsa had a ton of great questions!! She also did her reading and is loving the Book of Mormon! So sweet! Saturday we did some service for the Smith’s- making a compost bin lid. Then we had an appointment with Jewel and Christopher- she is doing SO GOOD! They went to the temple twice this week to do baptisms and she was able to baptize like 40 of her relatives, she LOVED it! It is so neat to see my converts go to the temple! Then we had another appointment with little miss Emylie, so fun! So ya a pretty busy week and that was just the cliff note version! Lol Then came Sunday- so the big question is, who came to church? Did Kipper- nope, haven’t been able to get a hold of him, total bummer. Did Sandra, nope we haven’t heard from her in over a week! Lame. Did Elsa? She tried to get off work, she really wanted to come, but she couldn’t get anyone to take her shift, next week she’ll be there for sure! Did Emylie? Yah, dude she is solid! She even had a part in the primary program and did great! Did the Oakleys? Yup, but not Bruce. Church was great too, it was the Primary Program and they did a fantastic job! It is the only time I have ever seen a Primary Program where the kids actually sing and you can understand all the words to the songs! So cute! So ya life is good here in Encino Park, and it is starting to look like the end of November will be full of baptisms! :)
Well Y’all that’s it for today! I appreciate your letters and ask that you keep ‘em coming!
SMILING ALL THE WHILE
Hermana Kleisler
Friday, November 6, 2009
Halloween Pictures!
I attached some pictures b/c it seems like as of late the pictures I have emailed home just haven't seemed to make it on the blog. Ha ha
So Here are some Halloween pics for ya- First some super sweet pumpkins with their awesomely creative carvers!
Lol Second- some cool sister missionaries handing out candy in their trunk!
So Here are some Halloween pics for ya- First some super sweet pumpkins with their awesomely creative carvers!
Lol Second- some cool sister missionaries handing out candy in their trunk!
October is Over!
November 2nd, 2009
Hey Y'all!!!
Halloween has come and gone and so has October!!! This is just crazy! One of the Elders that is going home in the same group as me informed me the other day that we only had 3 months left- I promptly told him to shut his mouth! Ha ha Talk of going home is strictly forbidden around these here parts! But anyway, Halloween was great. We went and did a temple session in the morning and then in the evening sister Cutler had a party for our whole zone at the mission home. So ya that was fun! Our ward had a trunk or treat earlier in the week and it was a lot of fun too. Sister Davenport and I just couldn't help but dress up and so we were Super Sisters! A member in the ward helped us sew superman capes and t-shirts, they said sSk and sSd for super sister kleisler and super sister davenport! The members LOVED our costumes and thought we were pretty cool. We also had some investigators come to the trunk or treat so that was way sweet.
This week has been busy as always, we have lots of investigators who are doing way good. We had 5 people at church yesterday which was way sweet. The Oakley's came, except for Bruce. He is being stubborn, his pride is keeping him from the truth, but we aren't too worried about it, we will break him down. Ha ha also Elsa came to church, she went to their old ward for the last time. And then Emylie came, good ol Emylie. So ya it was a busy Sunday, I will have to say that I will look forward to Sundays AFTER the mission, oh man they will be so much less stressful!! And a lot less meetings too!
Life is good here in Texas- so much fun! We had a great P-day last week, the elders came over and carved pumpkins at our house and then we went and played soccer in the rain. It was so muddy and we had a BLAST! Today we are going to play football with our zone, but it's not raining today. We have had some way nice weather as of late which is awesome!!
Well I don't have much else to say except, thanks to my family for the emails- I always appreciate a full inbox on Monday mornings! Also thanks to y'all for your letters this week, I enjoyed all of the Halloween cards. Thanks C for the super cool Candy Corn Halloween package!
I hope y'all have a fantastic first week in November!!
SMILING ALL THE WHILE
Hermana Kleisler
Hey Y'all!!!
Halloween has come and gone and so has October!!! This is just crazy! One of the Elders that is going home in the same group as me informed me the other day that we only had 3 months left- I promptly told him to shut his mouth! Ha ha Talk of going home is strictly forbidden around these here parts! But anyway, Halloween was great. We went and did a temple session in the morning and then in the evening sister Cutler had a party for our whole zone at the mission home. So ya that was fun! Our ward had a trunk or treat earlier in the week and it was a lot of fun too. Sister Davenport and I just couldn't help but dress up and so we were Super Sisters! A member in the ward helped us sew superman capes and t-shirts, they said sSk and sSd for super sister kleisler and super sister davenport! The members LOVED our costumes and thought we were pretty cool. We also had some investigators come to the trunk or treat so that was way sweet.
This week has been busy as always, we have lots of investigators who are doing way good. We had 5 people at church yesterday which was way sweet. The Oakley's came, except for Bruce. He is being stubborn, his pride is keeping him from the truth, but we aren't too worried about it, we will break him down. Ha ha also Elsa came to church, she went to their old ward for the last time. And then Emylie came, good ol Emylie. So ya it was a busy Sunday, I will have to say that I will look forward to Sundays AFTER the mission, oh man they will be so much less stressful!! And a lot less meetings too!
Life is good here in Texas- so much fun! We had a great P-day last week, the elders came over and carved pumpkins at our house and then we went and played soccer in the rain. It was so muddy and we had a BLAST! Today we are going to play football with our zone, but it's not raining today. We have had some way nice weather as of late which is awesome!!
Well I don't have much else to say except, thanks to my family for the emails- I always appreciate a full inbox on Monday mornings! Also thanks to y'all for your letters this week, I enjoyed all of the Halloween cards. Thanks C for the super cool Candy Corn Halloween package!
I hope y'all have a fantastic first week in November!!
SMILING ALL THE WHILE
Hermana Kleisler
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