Jump on the band wagon

#LighttheWorld 

watch the video at mormon.org

It's a good one, you won't regret it. 

 

This week has been great. The past two weeks on P-day I have actually been able to go to zone sports because the missionaries here are close enough to each other to have zone sports, so that is a ton of fun. We had a really wonderful week, it flew by pretty quickly. We had a really great zone conference on Tuesday, the spirit was SOO strong, I loved it. Then for Thanksgiving we just went to some members houses and that was really great and fun. On Friday we went on exchanges with the STL's and I was able to learn a lot of needed things, which was great. And I met some awesome people. Our STL's had a baptism on Saturday so we were able to go to that, it was great! We shared the first vision with a lot of people this week, it was great. We don't really have any investigators here, but we are going to get some :) I love being able to share the new Christmas video with people it is really awesome and people are way more willing to talk to us when we tell them about the Christmas video. I love this time of year it is just wonderful, especially when you are a missionary. I hope that everyone has a great week! 

Love,

Sister Koyle

Sorry I didn't send pictures last week, the computer was being weird. . . 

This week we had zone conference :) #MilwaukeeNorth 

​These are 6 of the 26 people that I came out with #13months 

One is a trainer one is an assistant and one is a zone leader, it is cool to see how we have all grown in the past year.  

​We went on exchanges this week, I got to go to Milwaukee YSA and Brookfield with Sister Gross 

And we found a Christmas tree in our closet last night and set it up :) 

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Hello world. This week was a'ight, can't complain. We met with our recent convert. We set a baptismal date with this really funny black lady. We volunteered at the food pantry, and at the hope center, which is a place where they give away free clothes and shoes to people who need them. Those are both really fun places to volunteer. You always meet the most interesting people. The food pantry is my favorite, the people there are super nice and the people are so happy to receive food. I feel like we did a lot of service this week which was great, it always makes a person feel good when they serve others. I keep finding more and more people here that are from the Burley area so that is pretty cool. The people here are amazing!!
A lady at church yesterday gave an amazing talk about gratitude, she talked about the ten lepers. She said that she knew that all ten lepers were extremely thankful that they were healed, but only one of them actually took the time to express that thanks, and because of that, his relationship with Jesus Christ was strengthened, where as the other nine did not have their relationships with Jesus Christ strengthened because they didn't take the time to thank him. And she talked about how many times we receive things and we are so thankful but we don't actually express that thanks to the person or to our Heavenly Father. But if we do express thanks that it makes our bonds and our relationships closer with our friends, family, and our Heavenly Father and our Savior Jesus Christ. I thought that was pretty profound. 

Here is an awesome quote from President Gordon B. Hinckley that one of my STL's showed me.

"Many young women are serving missions, many are preparing to serve. Not because they aren't married or have nothing else to do, but because they have a desire to serve, therefore they are being called to the work. The reason so many are going is because in the next generation Heavenly Father will be sending His priesthood army to the earth and wants to send them to mothers who have been trained and taught in the gospel. What better training can a young women have than that of serving a mission!"

I hope everyone has a fabulous Turkey day!! 

Love,

Sister Koyle

Waukesha!?!

My new address is 

141 Morris St. #3

Pewaukee WI 53072

This week has been great, I said goodbye to Gresham and all 600 people that live there and I went from transfer point to transfer point all day Wednesday down to Waukesha where there are roughly 70,000 people. So it's a change. It's good though. On Wednesday my trainer finished her mission and I was actually able to work with her and tract with her for a couple of hours on Wednesday so that was a huge tender mercy.

 I am serving with Sister Jenson again, that is not very common, but it's good we get along great. We actually had a baptism on Saturday, this 85 year old lady, who is super cute. President and Sister Williams just showed up at the baptism, that was weird, I haven't seen him in like 2 months, and now I am close enough that he can just show up wherever. Anyways this lady who got baptized, her grandson was baptized about two years ago and her daughter was baptized last year, so now there are three generations in the church, super cool. Nothing too exciting has happened, we have some cool neighbors who just moved in and he said that he used to meet with Sister Missionaries in West Allis, he said that he really needs more religion in his life, so we are going to start meeting with him. The ward here is great! It is super huge, there are like 215 members that come each week, and church is 1-4 so that is really weird, we got out of church yesterday and it was almost dark already. But the people are great, people are really nice. It is kinda weird to be in a little city again, but it is nice I like it, for some reason it is a lot easier for me to be out going and talk to a lot more people, probably because I know I will never see them again, where as in Gresham you see the same people all the time. It is also weird to see Elders everyday, and I have even seen two sets of Sisters since I have been here, there are so many more missionaries around, I was an hour away from any missionaries in Gresham. So there are a lot of differences and a lot of changes, but all in all it is still Missionary work, The Lord's work. It is still a joy to meet new people and to share the gospel with them. I finished the Book of Mormon this week and I really liked this scripture in Moroni 9:6

 "And now, my beloved son, notwithstanding their hardness, let us labor diligently; for if we should cease to labor, we should be brought under condemnation; for we have a labor to perform whilst in this tabernacle of clay, that we may conquer the enemy of all righteousness, and rest our souls in the kingdom of God."

I have a labor to perform, and so do you! I hope everyone has a wonderful week! 

Love yous! 

Sister Koyle

Caroline's baptism! 

On Tuesday night we were saying bye to some members and we got out of the car and this adorable little puppy came right up to Sister van Overbeek and she would not put the puppy down, she really wanted to take it home but I was like #whitehandbookpage46 

My trainer on her last day!! dropping her off at the mission home.  

​Dad I met your cousins the Blackers, they are in the ward that I am serving in :) There are also some Tateokas that are in my ward that are from Burley. 

Transfer

Someone texted this picture to Mom

Hello Everyone! On Wednesday I'm getting transferred to Waukesha (north of Milwaukee), and I am serving with my old companion Sister Jenson. . . wish me luck. This week has been great, and I'll miss serving in Gresham a lot, I have really learned to LOVE it here. I'll miss Sister van Overbeek, she is the best daughter a mother could ever have, we have had a lot of fun together. The Lord has blessed us with many miracles. This is a great time to be serving in the Milwaukee Wisconsin mission there are miracles all around us. The Green Bay Stake president told us yesterday that the baptism goal for the Green Bay Stake for 2017 is 204 baptisms, usually that is how many the whole mission has in a year, but the Lord is hastening his work. It is a great time to be a missionary. I hope everyone has a wonderful week.
Love,
Sister Koyle

Last district meeting in Antigo, Sister van Overbeek, me, Elder Potz, Elder Jorgenson, Elder Melle, Elder Bennett 

Exchanges with the Wausau sisters, Sister Christensen, Sister Naughton, Sister van Overbeek and me 

And some deer!!