Well Friday and Saturday and Sunday were really great! We went to Green Bay on Friday for a mission tour with Elder Ringwood and Elder Cordon of the seventy. Elder Ringwood is Russell M. Nelson's son in law so that was pretty cool and Elder Cordon is from Guatemala. Everything that they said was just super good, they are very inspired men. We basically had a Q&A with them for about 2 hours, it was so cool. There was this one question that someone asked and Elder Ringwood said "well I'm a general authority, which means that generally I know what I'm talking about, but I'll let President Williams take that question."
Then Saturday night and Sunday morning was Wausau Stake conference and Elder Ringwood and Elder Sinclair of the seventy were there, because Wausau got a new stake presidency. And me and my comp got to sing in the choir so that was pretty fun to be able to do that. Something that really amazed me all weekend was that these three members of the seventy had to give several different talks, and they had to speak several different times, and yet each time they didn't have any papers in front of them. They used personal experiences and they used scripture, but most of the time they didn't even open their scriptures they just quoted it off of the top of their heads and explained all of the different aspects of the different scripture stories without looking at them. It was pretty amazing. You could easily tell that when they spoke they spoke by the spirit to say the perfect things that would touch the hearts of the different people that were all there. There were many things that touched my heart, I wish that I could share everything with all of you.
Somethings that really stood out to me was Elder Ringwood said that he had studied compassion a lot and in every instance that Christ had compassion that there was a miracle that happened, someone was healed or something. Except in Matthew 9:36-38. Then he said that he comes to these mission tours and sees all of these missionaries and realizes that we are the miracle that it is talking about in those verses, that missionary work is full of miracles and that we are so blessed to be part of this great work. I am so grateful for this gospel and for the Lord's church on the earth today and for all of the order that is in this marvelous church and gospel. Christ himself really is leading and guiding his church on the earth today.
I hope you all have a wonderful week! Have fun at school!
Love,
Sister Koyle
P.S. if you sent me an individual email or letter and I don't respond to you, I am sincerely sorry, but there really isn't much time for anything except for missionary work when you are a missionary :) I only get this chance once in my life, but I still love all of you!
Three generations :) Sister van Overbeek, Sister Koyle, Sister Carlini
These are a few of the sisters that I came out to the field with. Two of them were in my district at the MTC.
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