Christmas

I hope that everyone had a very Merry Christmas.  Again I just want to thank everyone that sent me things, my companion and I were very blessed this year! There are wonderful people here in Waukesha that have been so kind to us. We have felt very loved. I hope that everyone has an amazing week. I love you all!

Sister Koyle

Bathroom Selfie!!  

We went on exchanges!! 

and made Snow cones!

Many are cold but few are frozen

Well my new daughter's name is Sister Wilson, she is from Calimesa, California, and she is great. She is pretty quiet, but she is a great missionary and we are getting along great so far. I am basically out of time for today, but I just want to thank everyone who has sent me anything for Christmas, or been a part of sending me something. It really means a lot and I really appreciate it. It has been super cold this week. Yesterday it was like -8 and apparently on Wednesday it was -27 with the wind chill and we have had a ton of snow, so it's wonderful. I LOVE the snow, it brings me to much joy. I am excited for Christmas. I hope we can all focus on our Savior at this time of year and how we can become more like Him, and use more fully His atonement. I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas.

Love,

Sister Koyle

 Waukesha Missionaries in our Christmas sweaters

lots of snow 

-9 . . . cold 

​Sister Wilson and I, no wonder nobody answers their door we look like bandits.

​Here is a picture of the Christmas tree that ya'll sent me!! Thanks! I haven't had time to put up the new ornaments yet.

I'm going to be a Mom again!!!

So, transfers have come, a week early due to Christmas (The Church doesn't fly missionaries the week before Christmas.) So Sister Jenson is going to Verona, which is near Madison I guess, so that is cool, she is really excited. And I get to train a Greeny again!!! I'm so excited. It dawned on me about two days ago that it was actually a possibility that I might train again. And turns out my wish came true. I have no idea what her name is yet or what she looks like, but I'm sure she is great. And I can't wait to meet her on Wednesday. 

This week has been great. We met this awesome guy tracting that actually wants to meet with us, like for reals, he was totally genuine, and willingly gave us his phone number and set a return appointment, he said that his parents used to meet with Missionaries. So that is cool because he is literally the first person I have met in this area that has wanted us to come back. 

Umm it snowed a good 6-8 inches these past two days so that was legit. I love the snow. We were late to our meeting at the church and we go outside to get in the car and there was like 6 inches of snow on every little part of our car, so we were just more late for our meeting, since we had to clean it all off. And then we get to church and our meeting was cancelled, so it was totally fine. 

President and Sister Williams (my mission President and his wife) talked in our sacrament meeting yesterday so that was really awesome to see them there and to be able to hear from them. They both talked about their conversion stories, which was awesome. Before President got baptized he wrote a letter to Harold B. Lee, the President of the church at that time, and asked him to baptize him. Later his secretary called and informed President Williams that due to the fact that Harold B. Lee would be in Europe at an area conference that he wouldn't be able to baptize him. I thought that was a pretty funny story. 

I hope everyone is doing well. I hope that everyone is enjoying this Christmas season, and taking time to remember their Savior, and do serve others as he would.
Here is a quote from my favorite talk of all time. It was the last talk that Elder Scott gave, and it was the talk that I really tried to live by when I was in college, it is called "Make the Exercise of Faith Your First Priority"
"Don’t yield to Satan’s lie that you don’t have time to study the scriptures. Choose to take time to study them. Feasting on the word of God each day is more important than sleep, school, work, television shows, video games, or social media. You may need to reorganize your priorities to provide time for the study of the word of God. If so, do it!"
And here is the link! Ya'll should read it!
https://www.lds.org/ensign/2014/11/sunday-afternoon-session/make-the-exercise-of-faith-your-first-priority?lang=eng 

Have a happy and safe week! 

Love,

Sister Koyle

Our ginger bread houses 

Tracting . . . I love the Restoration, I wish all of Waukesha loved it too. 

Waukesha Ward Christmas party!! 

My inspirational tea . . . "Your choices will change the world"

It finally snowed!

We were contacting former investigators this week and it was dark out, so we go to this one lady's house and she lets us in, she is super sweet and super Christian, and then she looks down and sees dog poop on the floor, and she tells us to sit down and she goes and gets a rag and literally cleans our shoes off for us. Super embarrassing and kinda weird to walk into a complete stranger's home and have them clean off your shoes for you. So that was fun. 

Another time this week we were street contacting near campus, not on campus because it is a catholic school, but anyways and we met this awesome guy from Algeria, he is like a world champion jujitsu fighter, and he is Muslim, and speaks very little English, so that was really fun to try to talk to him. He had a lot of questions about our religion though, and about Christianity. 

 Yesterday in church this lady said that in her patriarchal blessing it says that she walked with Jesus in the pre-earth life. That really got me thinking, I thought that was really cool and then of course I wondered if I walked with Jesus in the pre-earth life as well. And then I thought, well do I walk with Jesus in this life? We were able to go to two baptisms on Saturday and I gave the talk on baptism at one of them. And it is so cool that when we are baptized we basically make a promise to our Heavenly Father that we will walk with Jesus. We promise that we will represent him and strive to become like him and do the things that he would do if he were here.
The Christmas devotional yesterday was super great I hope that everyone was able to watch it, if not it is on lds.org, so go watch it!

I hope that everyone has a stellar week! 

Love,

Sister Koyle

Our missionary stockings

  

District pics, last district meeting of the transfer, we have the assistants and the STL's in our district. It's a blast! 

Very front: Elder Lee

Middle: Elder Godfrey, Sister Jenson, Sister Koyle

Back: Elder DeSantis, Sister Lamprecht, Elder Van Orden, Sister Gross

  

​We walked out of church yesterday and it was a winter wonderland. I love it!