Baptism By Fire

This week has by far been the busiest week of my mission, and possibly my life, so that was awesome. We met a lot of really cool people who are just searching for and have a desire to find the truth, now we just teach them and hope that they have the motivation to do something about that desire. 

Tristan was baptized on Saturday so that was sweet! It is really cool to see the amazing changes that she has made in her life, and it is so cool to see the power of the atonement work so quickly in someone's life. You can literally see a big difference in the light in her face, especially compared to when I first came to Sheboygan to now. She said that even the people that she works with have noticed it. She also said that as she reads the scriptures each day that she is able to have a lot more patience with her boys and with the people she deals with at work. She is such an amazing strong woman. 

When I left on my mission one of my sisters told me that people here will cook potatoes for me since I am from Idaho, except they won't actually know how to cook potatoes. I have had some fun experiences with this already, but the best one yet was on Saturday. So for Tristan's baptism one of the members decided to cook baked potatoes for afterwards, except they had a genius idea of putting butter in with the potatoes, well the butter melted in the oven and got on the bottom of the oven and smoked up the whole church and started the tin foil on the bottom of the oven on fire, so that was really exciting. This my friends is why you don't cook things in the church kitchen. 

We had an awesome worldwide missionary broadcast this week from some of the apostles and other various people, and they really stressed teaching repentance, which is awesome. I never really understood repentance until now. Everyone thinks that it is a big scary word, but it is just a wonderful gift. We need to repent everyday so that we are able to have the spirit with us. 

I hope you all have a wonderful week!

Love,

Sister Koyle

Me Tristan Marion and Sister Butler

We had some Lake effect snow, woo hoo.

​This is real life.

​We had to take a selfie.