"He's shaped like a corndog"

Look at that tiny dog!! She's full grown too!

This week was so good. And so exhausting. So many times this week I just fell into bed and fell asleep so fast it was disorienting in the morning. We had a couple incredible meetings this week, first being the Worldwide Missionary Training Broadcast. It was so good, and there were some pretty crazy changes made. The key indicators have changes, we only have four now, and our schedule has been changed. It's going to be an interesting change, but so far it's been great 👍. The other meeting that was incredible was with Elder Neil L. Anderson. The whole mission was there. It was a great experience. I'm still reviewing my notes, but I loved how they talked about giving up everything to Heavenly Father. And Elder Anderson encouraged us to memorize scriptures from the Holy Bible and the Book to Mormon. It was such a great meeting. And it was made even better by the fact that our two recent converts and the Ward mission leader and his girlfriend (who happens to be another recent convert) were our ride, and they stayed for the missionary meeting, and then they went to the youth meeting right after! It was so great.

Another thing that made Sister Lloyd and me so proud, we felt like mothers to their children, was when our branch president switched up the speakers for sacrament meeting and had the youth speak on what they learned from Elder Anderson, and both S & A talked about things they learned and said how they knew the Church was true and gave the best testimonies ever!!! And S blessed the sacrament yesterday!!! It was the best. 😄 We just kept looking at each other and smiling and thinking that they were the best people ever. (Plus it totally let me off the hook for a talk I was going to give on the sacrament. So that worked out 😁)

This area is amazing! The people 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦👨‍👩‍👧‍👦here are the best! And there are so many prepared hearts💕! 

And the title of this letter comes from our conversation in the car on the way home (2-2 1/2 hour drive) - apparently that's a thing. They also said that there are some (persons?) shaped like a sucker. It was a funny moment. 

Last night was the first time we didn't have daily planning at night🌄. It's in the mornings now🌅. And it's a good thing because we shut down! We were so exhausted. Sister Lloyd and I were talking in the southern accent, and she said something so completely southern that I died! I just laughed until tears were rolling down my cheeks. 😂 It was the best. 

This week was so good! And we have a possible baptism this weekend. We'll see how it goes, cross your fingers and pray really hard! He is so ready and prepared!! It'll happen sometime anyway, but everyone is hoping this weekend. 

This was just a wonderful week. I spent a lot of time studying the sacrament, and it was neat to learn about it. One thing that I've appreciated understanding better is why we need to take it every week. I understood that that was a thing, and because we are so forgetful as human beings, but it was interesting to connect that as we partake of it weekly we are a continual representative of Jesus Christ. We renew our pledge to him that we will stand as a witness of Him, and the moment we decide to not take the sacrament we make that witness void. We are turning down the Atonement in our lives and put our access to it on hold until we partake of it again. It's a serious matter. That's not to say that if we can't take it for one reason or another we are making that witness void, it's the choice, us using our agency to run down that gift that He's commanded we receive weekly. That hit me pretty hard this week. There is such a thing as being too sick to get there to take it, and things like stake and general conference that prevent that from happening, but those moments are important to help us recognize the difference so we can appreciate it more when we have that opportunity again. Just like when we're sick and we enjoy being healthy so much more for it. Just never choose to be sick- not to take the sacrament. That is when we receive that damnation our soul-we quit growing and changing to be more like Christ. 

I love the gospel. I love the Lord. I love His mercy, His love, His peace, His comfort. Even though I fall so short of the mark, He is still there lifting me and helping me to be better. Sometime I feel like I can't do all He has asked of me, but then I remember who He is (or rather the Spirit reminds me) and I know that I can do it, because He is the one who asked it of me. Because He knows what I can became and He knows how to get me there. I can do all things with God, I just have to humble myself and accept His will. The great and spacious building that is the pride of the world is so huge!! Even the most humble of men still has a rather large corner of that building. There is pride in humility. But as I give it all to Heavenly Father there is strength and growth. I know He is real. God the Father lives. He loves us. Jesus Christ lives and serves us with all He has. I am so grateful for this knowledge and the opportunity to share it with so many people here. 

I love y'all! Thank you for everything you do, and especially for who you are! 

Love Kimber 

Sister Beckstrand

Here we are, enjoying dinner after the meeting with Elder Anderson

Everyone looks so good!

Bubbles! It was a fun week!

In her response to Mom's letter, (for one thing I asked her about the weather):

 You know, it's funny, but it's actually been really nice here lately. Not too cold, but still pretty chilly. It's been hanging around the fifties. Sometimes it gets chilly, but it's been staying nice. It's crazy because it's nearly January, but it feels like it's getting warmer. The trees have even started to bud!!! 

This area is significantly larger than my last areas. And here are a lot of dirt roads we drive on. We have full car (a car all the time) but we do have to take seven walk days a month. It's nice though, we get to plan it and put it on useful days. And the miles are specific for every area. It depends on how big the area is, and what other areas are in the car share. A lot of things go into it, but they work it out...

...It's funny, I can totally feel the difference when we sit down to plan for the next day and start discussing things and we start trying to figure it out, but it's not working and then we stop and remember that we were going to pray, and then it all works out somehow after we pray, it gets better and sometime the day seems to plan itself. It's really fun when ya happens. And it's interesting to note the difference. 

Love you Mom! Kimberly

"I'm so thankful and so tired"

Thank you for the title, Sister Lloyd, my sentiments exactly!

This week has been incredible. Can I just say? Two incredible weeks in a row, and now I'm so very tired. This week we had two people get baptized!!! They are the best people ever!! And then S got the priesthood the very next day, they were confirmed in sacrament meeting and then in priesthood he was conferred with the Aaronic priesthood and ordained of the office of Priest! Unfortunately we missed to ordination because Sister Lloyd was playing piano in primary. But that's ok, we were there for everything else.

Ashley and me 😃 (and Sister Lloyd in the background)
when S&A were getting interviewed.

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Brett (the Ward mission leader), S & A, Brother Gonser (Brett's Dad)

This whole week was great. It started off with a bang when we were actually productive in cleaning the house, and we swept the WHOLE HOUSE, and I'm pretty sure it had never been swept before since the missionaries first moved in. So it was a pretty big pile we had to throw away. Then we had S&A's interview, and it went really well. And then we had a great lesson and dinner at the home of a part member family who shall not be part member for long. 😋 anyway, they are a super neat family, and they make some good soup.

Tuesday we went and helped out at the Stone County museum. It was FREEZING ❄️❄️, and super fun. I ended up learning a lot about this area's history. I probably won't remember much, but it was fun. Then we went and tried a bunch of people, no one was available. We finally had a lesson with a sweet lady and it was great because the Relief Society president was able to be there with us. She is preparing for baptism in the upcoming month and so far she is loving the things we teach her.

So then on Wednesday we had an incredible zone meeting (that we had to drive our own car two hours (138 miles) to get to😞) and we learned sooooo much! And our role play went really well. It was fun, and a neat new way President had us do it, we all broke off into groupie of four or five companionships and then took turns teaching each other and evaluation it. We were introducing the Book of Mormon and then leading into the Restoration. Also, the mission is moving onto phase three, we are now using Skype and FaceTime to work with our investigators and members and such (warning: don't even try to contact me, I will turn you down). Also, we are going to have a giant mission wide meeting in North Little Rock (yes, you heard right, the whole mission in one place) with Elder Neil L. Anderson of the quorum of the Twelve Apostles. It's going to be incredible. I'm so excited! After the meeting we did a lot of finding in our area. We found one guy that could be promising. We'll see how that goes. Then as we were knocking one last door, when it was nice a dark outside we heard a howl. I thought nothing of it until Sister Lloyd said that it was wolfs, so then I started booking it to the car and she followed. We totally almost got eaten by wolfs! Just kidding, it was probably an overreaction, and probably just dogs; she was just joking. We had a good laugh though. We went back and knocked a couple days later, no one answered that time either.

Then Thursday was yet another day that began with several hours of service. We help out every week at a cute thrift store/food pantry and help put together bags of food for the people that need it. It's really fun, and I like the people there. Later that day we had a really good lesson with a guy the missionaries have been teaching for a while. He's got some pretty rough concerns, but he keeps coming back trying to figure it out. Hopefully he'll be able to get the answer he needs. Pray for him y'all, he could use it.

And then Friday came, along with weekly planning. It blindsided us, this week went by so fast. Other than planning not much happened until dinner, we had dinner with some members, and then after we had another lesson with the family that we had taught on Monday at their house. It was really great. We get a lot of Preach My Gospel and The District type lessons here (setting-wise, I don't know about the teaching). It's really fun.

On Saturday we had kind of a slow day, but surprisingly we got some big stuff done. And then in the evening we had S&A's baptism!!! And we even had an investigator (she was their friend) there!! Another investigator we had invited tried to come, but she came too early and left before we were able to catch her 😢. Oh well, it was a good service anyway. Afterwards we went out to dinner with the Ward mission leader and his recent convert girlfriend and our recently baptized members and their friend. It was really fun to see how excited they all were, and be with young people our age for a minute. We also had a really neat conversation about the Book of Mormon, and the friend who came to the baptism (we'd had a lesson with her a couple weeks ago) had been reading the Book of Mormon, and studying it and been finding connections and answers from things in the Bible she's wondered about. It was really neat.

And Sunday was just fun. S&A were confirmed, so that was a plus. After church we had a potluck with some really great food. And then we went out to work and had a couple really good lessons before we finished the week.

It was a wonderful week, and we had several people mention that Sister Lloyd and I teach really well together and that our companionship unity it really good. It was so funny, many times this week we would go to do the same thing, or have he same thought of what to teach, a scripture to use, something that needed to be done. And even just an opinion about something. It was really funny.

This whole week was just great. We had so many things happen, and just as Sister Lloyd said, "I'm so thankful and so tired."

Thank y'all for all your prayers and support, I love y'all!

Kimber
Sister Beckstrand

I love this pic of the mirror in the baptismal font!

A MOUNTAIN VIEW of Zion

Ok, I can't take credit for that, (the title?) it was Sister Esplin, but I figured it would work for this weeks email. First off, I'm feeling so much better, thank you for all your prayers. Second, I LOVE MOUNTAIN VIEW!!!!! This place is amazing, and while I am desperately missing Millington, this place is great. We have three people that have baptismal dates, and two of them are for next week. They even came to stake conference yesterday. We got a new stake presidency here, so there were two members of the Seventy here, and they got to meet them! Even President and Sister Wakolo got to meet them. It was really neat. The other guy who has a date didn't have a car and the meeting was two hours away, and we had a hard enough time finding a ride there that I don't feel too bad that he wasn't able to come. Anyway, he'll be at church next week. I still have yet to meet this guy, but I've heard a lot about him from Sister Lloyd, and he seems pretty cool. His wife is a member that we've taken to a lesson this week. One of the few members I've met! Stake conference kind of messed that up, I still don't know anybody (except for the people that gave us rides, and the second counselor and his family because they fed us this week at the church, and then I briefly met the branch president at the gas station.) Did y'all catch that? Branch president. Yes, I'm in a branch. And I still don't even know how tiny it is because we have not had normal Sunday yet! I'm not bitter, it's just rough because we already have exchanges this week, and it's most likely going to be members with the new STL (sister-training-leaders). Oh, well, the members I've met so far are really nice. Plus, this area is HUGE, so yay for cars! And this week,,,

This went through our minds. But wait...

This is what we woke up to on Friday. What?!? I wasn't supposed to get snow my whole time here!! And it was freezing!!! Cold wet (humid?) is soooo much colder than dry wet. Utah is a breeze compared to this. My feet about fell off several times this week.

Sister Beckstrand & Sister Lloyd (who is from Livermore CA)

We had fun though.

That's my hobo look after freezing outside and sitting in front of the space heater. It was so cold, (maybe not as cold as Alaska). Anyway, it was fun this week. Lots of busy stuff, and walking in the freezing cold, talking to people on their front porch for forty minutes while my feet turn into blocks of frozen flesh, this is the life of a missionary. I love it 😍.

Love y'all!
Kimber
Sister Beckstrand

So we had a back and forth discussion by email for a few minutes...

M-Happy ONE YEAR MARK on Friday! [I got her mailing address in case anyone wants to send her a note for that! Or you might want to email her a note. Just ask.]

K- Oh, yeah! I forget about that, every day is just the same and busy as every 😋

M- Is the sister pointing to you Sister Lloyd? Where is she from? 

I knew snow would be colder in the humidity there. Stay warm, and enjoy those baptisms!!

Love,Mom

K- Yes, that's Sister Lloyd. She's from California.

M- 13 million citizens of CA, and it's huge - can you be more specific? Your dad is from Cali!

K- Ok, I'll ask...Livermore

M- That's sort of close to San Jose, Dad dated girls from there, ha ha.

K- Haha, she's mentioned it before as a place near her

M- Love you tons. Have a great week, and think of Annie going through the temple this Thursday!

Heading home from work now.

Love,

Mom

K- Ok, that's super exciting! Tell the boys I love them. And all the cousins too :)

First Area, First PDay, First Email!

Hey, it's good to get your letters. My address is ... Southaven, MS*

The humidity is not that bad, it's not even that cold, the felt coat is doing fine....

So my companion, Sister Hirschi is the same age as me, born 3 months later. She is really fun. She knows a lot too, I know I can learn a ton from her. It's pretty cool that you ran into someone from my mission. I still don't know a lot of people. I have a lot to learn still. I got a slight cold this past couple days, and so my brain is pretty fried by now. We did a lot of cleaning today, our apartment had a big mess in the corners of supplies for the mission, so we sorted through all that just barely. 

Yesterday we had an investigator.come to church! How awesome is that? His name is T__, and last year he was taught all the lessons and even had a baptismal date, but we don't know why, but that never happened. So we are going to get that set up for him. The ward here is really nice. They had a big fifth Sunday meeting yesterday third hour about the ward doing more missionary work. It was really cool. 

It turns out that we are whitewashing my first area. And it used to be an ASL area, so Sister Hirschi and I are going to have to learn it. It's a good thing I already know a little. Sister Hirschi knows nothing about it, but she is going at it in a way that makes me think that she will pass me up pretty soon. The only way I can stay ahead of her in by answering all her questions about it. I'm starting to remember a lot as we review stuff. 

Our apartment is huge. Two bed, two bath. We have to share a room, but we each have our own closet and bathroom. It's really big. Our kitchen is also pretty roomy, and we have a bit of a dining room, and our living room is quite spacious. There isn't much furniture, but we don't need it. We're never here to notice. 

Most of our time is spent trying to figure out our area, meeting with the members, strengthening our relationship with them. They are all very nice. They love to feed us. It's really fun to go meet all the members out here. There are a lot of people here for the optometry school that is in Memphis. It's so common that anyone who is a young family here from the west you can almost always guess that and you'd be right. 

Ok, I'm not sure what else to say, but if you write back before my time is up I may be able answer more things for you. (See below for some of that back and forth conversation!)

I just learned that I can read you letters during any down time I have during the week, I just can't reply. So go ahead and send more, just don't expect nearly as much in return :P

Love, Kimber
Sent from my iPad

Follow up emails for a few minutes:

Sent from your ipad! I was wondering about that... 

Hahaha, yea I got an iPad. It's pretty confusing trying to figure out all the apple software ;p

Is sister h a greenie too?

No, she's been out five months

That's a relief. My first comp was from my same MTC batch, it was crazy. I'm sorry you have had a cold. Thanks for the best letter! Praying for you! Love you, Mom

Ps any chance you could send more postum?
Hey, by the way, could you send me my ASL dictionary? It should be on my book case, I'm thinking bottom shelf

First email finally came - it was about 3:30 in the afternoon, AFTER I had left work. So much for watching email all day! I was in the carpool line picking up her brothers, and I thought to check my cell phone...there it was! Good thing, because then I was able to email back and forth with her for a few minutes.  Now that I'm at home, her dad is checking the area where she lives, counting the numerous churches in the area, noting how big the ward area is, etc. FUN! 

*If you want her mailing or email address, contact Mom B, or if you have her old phone number call that-but not during school hours please-her brother will answer it and tell you how to contact her mom.

I made it!!

I'm officially here. In Arkansas. I made it!! My trainer is Sister Herschi (like the chocolate bar). She is really nice and super fun to be around. Apparently we are "whitewashing" our area. Which is both of us are new to the area. This area was an ASL area before we were transferred in. So I might be able to learn some ASL while I'm in that area.

I am seriously soooooo exhausted, getting up before two, and then flying all day. I'm a little lightheaded from all the new things that are happening. But this is where I need to be.  I'm excited to be here. I can't wait until all I think about is being here and wanting to have more time before I go home. 

Dad, thank you for all the years that you taught me things, about how to talk to people, your stories about you mission, and just helping me learn how to read the scriptures during family scripture reading. It has come in very useful. Thank you!!!

I love you all, Kimber

Another letter! PHONE CALLS and she's on her way to Arkansas!

Got another snail mail letter in yesterday's mail. Woot! (I think she thinks she has to respond to every letter written to her, and I've taken advantage of dearelder.com while she was in the MTC, since they will print any letter you type up on their website by 12:30 p.m. and deliver it to the MTC that same day for free. I sent her letters about every other day that way. That will slow down once she's out in her area...)

Speaking of  heading to her area, she flew off today for Arkansas! She called us this morning at 6:00 a.m. from the SLC airport, and everyone joined us in our bedroom to listen to her; my phone battery needed charging. Everybody who lives in the house got to talk to her - the timing was JUST right! She challenged the boys to get to the MTC as quickly as possible and how wonderful it was, and when asked if there was anything the boys could do to prepare for the MTC, she said, "Read the BofM again, and study Preach My Gospel." Hmm, I wonder where I've heard that before?! Then in the middle of the day during a little layover she had in Atlanta I got to talk to her again for a short three minutes between my classes. That time she said that everything that Dad has been talking about her whole life - all his lessons on influencing others, discussing differences, how to share gospel truths that are controversial, keys to conversion, etc., etc. ... she has found are all extremely useful and practical now, and she's not even out in the Bible Belt yet! It was awesome! She said she will have to write him a special letter letting him know just how helpful it has been. Now we hold on until Mothers' Day to talk to her again.

Okay, on with the letter!

21 January 2016

 Mom

I had a very interesting day yesterday. It was Pday, and I did get to email you and tell you a bit about my week. But the really funny things happened right after I emailed you. I was in the laundry room with the rest of my district. I had just put my whites in and it started when I realized that I left my missionary handbook with my ministerial  certificate and my temple recommend in a pocket of one of the skirts I had just put in there. I started to panic. The door would not open, it was locked. I could see it in there swirling around with all my clothes. I sort of collapsed next to it on the floor in a mixture of panic and laughter. Despite the loss of the book, it was hilarious. Then after it finished washing I had to shake paper out of all my clothes. There were giant paper wads too. The handbook was destroyed. (Easily replaceable.) My ministerial certificate was sort of shredded on the edges, but most of it survived. My recommend is just fine. Just wrinkled since it dryed. I never got a chance to finish drying my clothes because we had to go to class.

Then in class when we had a study hour, Sister Fogg and I went out into the hall to study, and she had to go back into the classroom to get her pen. I said ok, and continued marking my scriptures. I sit there for a minute, and realize that my companion just walked down the hall and into the classroom and I'm still sitting there, so I ran with my pen in one hand, cap in the other down the hall and into the room. We spent another few minutes before we could get down to work. (Laughing, as usual, I guess.)

We laughed a lot yesterday.

We got to go to to choir on Sunday, and sing in it in the Tuesday night devotional. We sang, Consider the Lilies. It was wonderful. I was thinking that I would love to have that album, but I don't want to buy it. Would it be possible for you to send me a copy of the one you have? It would be really good to listen to the MoTab sing it.

Also...an errand she wants me to do for Sister Fogg...

It has been a lot of fun. There are tons of classes and our schedule is full all day, every day. I never really have time to just sit and think, which is ok, I'd probably panic a bit more than I can as busy as I am.

I love how I get to really study the scriptures here. I never really wanted time to read it before coming here. I love wanting to read.

I know that it is going to be really hard, but I am excited to be able to learn from all these hard things. I have decided to go for it. With everything I have I will do hard things and come back a much stronger, surer person. Thanks for everything you do for me.

♥/Kimber

(Everything in italics is added by Susan/Mom)

Surprise letter! Snail mail even!

I found a surprise in the mailbox when I got home from work today - a LETTER from the MTC! What fun. Here is most of it transcribed:

15 January 2016 (So just two days after she went into the MTC!)

Dear Mom,

I am really enjoying my time here. The sisters in my district are really fun. 3 of us are going to Arkansas, and the other three are going to West Virginia (I think). There is a lot of food here. I am eating 3 meals a day. It's kind of weird. I always take more than I can eat though. It really is a lot of food.

We spend all day going from class to class and have personal and companion study. Sister Fogg and I are learning a lot about each other. She is from Las Vegas, originally from Maine. Her and Sister Decker are going to Arkansas.

Last night I played the piano for the opening hymn in one of our meetings. Then I was assigned as the music coordinator for our district and do the stuff you do for Sacrament Meeting. I'm a little excited about it. I really like music enough to appreciate this job/assignment. They hae a place where you can check out instruments from the MTC, but they don't have any violas. It makes me a little sad. But it's ok. I don't have time to do anything.

We had service this morning. Sister Fogg and I washed windows. That was fun, and we laughed a lot. This morning has been a little relaxing. Other than the getting up a bit earlier. We had to get sack lunches because we are supposed to go to the gym today after breakfast. I'm not sure what Sister Fogg and I will do for gym, but we said we would do something.

It snowed last night. So now we walk through snow to get to all our meetings and other things. Sister Fogg is so funny, after washing windows she left her coat in our residence because she didn't need it, but I took mine. She said that you'd think she's the one from the colder place instead of a desert. And here I am, from here, freezing. It was funny.

I have to go now, so I'll write again soon. I love you!

♥/Kimber

The "One and Only MTC P-Day" Letter/s

Hi Mom!!

No I never did go on trek, and I did get to go to the temple today, it was really great. Sister Fogg had not been able to go since she was endowed, so she had a fun time with me. I was a really neat experience. I won't get any more p-days until I'm in the mission field, so get ready to wait for a while. I did get two "Dear Elders", (www.dearelder.com, a free same day delivery service provided to the Provo MTC). I don't know if you sent more yet, but I love getting them. Just so you know, I only get an hour on the computer, so send snail mail as much as possible, I have a better chance of getting to it, and through it all.

Amanda said something to me before I left, she said that as a missionary you are on two timelines, the Eternal one and the physical one. she said that while you are focusing on the spiritual aspects, time means nothing, and goes by so fast, and the physical is everything so it feels slow. Or something like that. I really get it though! It's only been a week and it feels like it's been so long, yet no time at all. All the sisters in my residence feel the same. We were talking about it a bit ago. There are actually six of us in our residence, Sister Fogg and me, Sister Campbell and Sister Hunnington, and Sister Ward and Sister Decker. Sisters Fogg and Decker are going to Arkansas with me, if I haven't told you yet. It's been really fun getting to know these sisters. I don't need the earplugs, (we heard she might need them in the MTC to sleep,) we're all good, and it is easier to get up when the others are too. 

In our district I'm the laughing one. And when I laugh, I really LAUGH. Like red in the face and can't breath. The sisters call it that they "broke" me. It is really funny. (Amazing and fun to picture, huh?!)

The elders in my district are Elders Banks and Tenney, and Foster and Ray. They are super funny too. Let's just say that I laugh a LOT. We all have fun laughing and learning together.

Thanks for the (bottle of pickled) asparagus! and the fudge. It's really good. I dumped out most of the juice so it's lighter (in the asparagus).

You know that parable about the atonement where there were doughnuts and the kid had to do pushups so his class mates could get one?If you could, I would love a copy of it. (She is referring to The Parable of the Pushups.)

On Sunday we had a meeting with all the sisters about dress. Apparently, (...some of her clothes won't work, so she asked me to look for a few particular ones...) It would be awesome if you could send them to me. 

I'm nearly out of time, and I need to figure out how to do the picture thing still, so I'll send them as soon as I can. I'll spend a bit of time after I send this letter working on that, but I may not be able to get it to work. (As you can see, she figured it out for one picture at least!)

Love you!!!!

Kimber

We all got our letters after 5:00 Wednesday afternoon, (after a whole week of anxious waiting for some of us!) I guess she hasn't learned how to consolidate the letter writing yet...come to find out, she wrote individual ones to Mom, Dad, and to each of her brothers - to each of us who sent her an email - all in less than an hour! Here's her Dad's:

Hi Dad!!!

Jonathan and Jason both wrote me about ... (family stuff)... Hours a day in class, about 2 sessions a day, 3-4 hours long- I think. It's a lot. It's really fun though. Things in the MTC that are easy are I guess, having grown up with you teaching about things that we can learn and get from the scriptures it is easier to do, and pay attention when others do it too. I also really like that we are learning from the scriptures so much. The Book of Mormon is my textbook!! Its awesome. Hard things are feeling like I can teach the investigators well, and not confuse them too much. But I'm learning, slowly. P-day is today, Wednesday, but my next one will be the Monday after the 26th. The food is good, there are lots of choices, so I just pick and choose. My district is District B, but Zone 36. Or vise versa, I'm still learning Lingo.

Hope I got everything, sorry I couldn't say more, I only have and hour.

Love you!!

Kimber

(Everything in italics is added by Susan/Mom)

"I'm Alive"

We dropped Kimberly off at 12:30 today...and we received a short 9 pm email from her already! I heard that waiting for that first email is the hardest part of the mom's wait - then that wasn't so bad! Here's what she had to say:

Hi!! My first day is nearly done. My companion is Sister Fogg. She is really nice, and we get along really well. I has been a fun day, and I am excited to see what tomorrow will be like. I hope you guys had fun at Pizza Pie Cafe, if that's where you went. I love all of you so much. Thank you for supporting me and helping me get to this point. It has been wonderful. I love you!!

We miss her so much already, but she's exactly where she should be!