Well this week has been fantastic, My whole mission I always wanted to serve in the UP, I never got called up there, but this week I did get to go on exchanges there for one day and two nights, so that was great, basically all of my wildest dreams came true. We also met some super cool people up there in Marquette. This one girl was just walking down the street and we started talking to her and she was so awesome, and super open, she willingly gave us her address and set up a return appointment. Then we went our separate ways and Sister Jaeger goes "do you remember her name?" and I said "no, I'm soo bad at remembering names" and then Sister Jaeger goes, "I just realized we didn't get her phone number." At this time we had been knocking on a door, and the people weren't answering and I said, maybe she will come back, and sure enough we waited about 5 minutes and we saw her walking back down the street so this time we got her name and phone number. Talk about Second chances.
Another time this week, Sister Hess and I were going to go tracting and we picked a street and then the first door that we knocked on opened right up and it was this girl about my age and she just let us right in, we didn't even have to ask, and we sat down and she said that other sisters had taught her before and that she has been reading the Book of Mormon, and she wants to come to church. So that was super cool, she wasn't able to come this week because it was her son's birthday, but she said she will be there next week and we have an appointment with her this week.
Also a while ago we got a member referral for this sweet catholic lady who has two little girls, and we were able to teach her this week and invite her to church and she was so sweet, she said "Thank you for letting me come to your church" And then she actually came with her two girls and she made a lot of awesome comments in Sunday school and relief society. You never know what someone's reaction might be when you invite them to church.
Also we were tracting this week and we met this beautiful lady, she was pretty stand off ish at first and she didn't want to hear our message but then we offered to say a prayer with her and she said sure and let us in and we asked what to pray for and she just let her heart open and told us about all of these crazy struggles that she and her boyfriend have had, they got in a bad motorcycle accident almost a year ago and he is still in the hospital and wasn't even supposed to live, but this week he was able to stand for 8 minutes on his own, so she asked us to pray for him and during the prayer she was just balling her eyes out, she has such strong faith, and she knows that she couldn't get through this without God, we ended up leaving her with a Book of Mormon and told her that she would find comfort as she reads it.
Wow sorry this email is so long, it was just a super great week. Also can we talk about the women's broadcast? it was so good! I loved Carol F. McConkie's talk about being holy, it reminded me of a training that I had one time, many people try to stay above the world's standards, because at least they are "better" than the world, but the world is quickly going down hill, so if you are above the world you will inevitably eventually go down hill with them, and their lack of standards. But God's standard is high, it is always the same and unchanging, so we should always be striving to live according to God's standards, and progressively becoming better each day. As we do this we will become holy, we will stand out, we can forsake the world, we can be converted and receive all that the Father has.
Love,
Sister Koyle
The Green Bay zone. My last zone conference :( Fun Fact, Apparently The Green Bay zone is the largest geographical zone in the United States :) And Houghton (which is the tip of the U.P.) is the farthest away from a temple in the United States.
I went on exchanges with Sister Jaeger to Marquette Michigan! This is a picture of us by Lake Superior. So I'm basically a pure Yooper don't ya know, eh? ;) (A Yooper is what they call the people who live in the U.P. and they call the people in the lower part of Michigan "trolls" because they live under the 5 mile long bridge that connects upper Michigan and lower Michigan) Another fun fact, apparently The Upper Peninsula down to Wisconsin is the only place where the time change is north to south.
We found this tracting :) No matter who is president, Jesus is King. :)
Also found this tracting :)
Here is a little bit better picture of Lake Superior, it looks just like Lake Michigan :)
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