I hope ya'll are doing great. Wisconsin is treating me well, except there isn't any snow :( But other than that it is great. This week Elder Miller left, but we were able to have some fun times with him before he headed off to Kenosha, so that was good. There is a guy named Joe that Sister Carlini used to teach. He had cancer and he was really into the gospel, but his wife, Adelle, didn't like the missionaries teaching her husband, so they quit teaching him. This week Sister Carlini felt like we should go visit Joe, so we did and turns out that he actually passed away in September from cancer. So that is super sad and we totally didn't expect that, but now Adelle has agreed to have us teach her and her children, so we are excited to teach them, I think they will be really receptive because they are at such a hard time in their lives right now.
Also we went to Tristan's on Thursday night to have a lesson with her and as soon as we walked in I could tell something was wrong, so after the prayer I asked her what was wrong and she went off. She said that she didn't want to do bible study (lessons) with us anymore and that she just feels really alone and she doesn't have any friends and that she doesn't even know if God is real and that she just wants to go back to where she was ten years ago, and the only reason that she didn't cancel on us is because she is a woman of her word. So thank goodness Sister Carlini and Tristan are soul sisters and Sister Carlini is awesome at following the spirit, she was so inspired and said the perfect things to help her out. We also showed her a video called Why we need a savior, so good by the way, and we just let her know that satan is working really hard on her right now, because she is so close to making a covenant with the Lord and this is where he does his best work is when people are so close. And we committed her to reading and praying and coming to church. By the time we left, we were laughing and she was crying tears of joy, and she was so excited for church. We checked on her on Friday night and Saturday night to see how she was doing and she was great, and she said that she had read her scriptures and prayed and wrote in her journal and that she felt so much peace and she came to church on Sunday!!! TRISTAN CAME TO CHURCH! it actually happened. and she stayed all three hours AND SHE LOVED IT! It was seriously the most perfect church meeting ever, she said that she couldn't believe that everyone there is going through the same things that she is and that they are all so nice. She was so scared to come to church because she thought that people were going to judge her, I was just like, only satan would tell you that, because he didn't want you to come see how awesome church is. So ya that was pretty sweet!
I hope ya'll were able to watch the Chirstmas devotional because it was great, and if you didn't, well guess what? it was recorded! so you can still watch it on LDS.org. Have a great week!
Love,
Sister Koyle
This is our Christmas decor, it brings me lots of joy.
I decorated my planner with the two most over used LDS pictures ever, but I love it.
Saying our goodbyes to Elder Miller.
The bars here have the silliest names, there is another one called "that place on 8th street" I guess when there are so many of them it is hard to come up with a name that hasn't been used yet.
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