Zone Leader, Snow

Hey everyone! 

Well, life as a zone leader is definetly a lot more busy and I love it! Lot of meeting and always something going on with missionaries in our zone. Its really fun actually. Gonna be a lot busier this week. Tomorrow
we have a leadership council in Louisville and that goes all day. Super excited. And then we have a zone meeting so that will take a lot of time to prepare our training's for that.

THIS AREA IS AWESOME. I stinking love being in UK singles branch.

First day I get here the memeber that drove us home from the transfer meeting took us to a place called city BBQ and they were having half priced ribs so we ate a lot of ribs. Well 2 memebrs of the singles branch work there so they come over and talk to us while we are eating and they bring their friend (non-member) over to the table to meet us. They have been talking to her about the church for like 2 months and she wants to learn. So we met her and set up an appointment for a few days later. Within the first hour of being in Lexington we already have a solid member referral. Our lesson with her went awesome. We had it at a member house and there were 3 returned missionaries there for the lesson. It was awesome. Super solid and she is wanting to read and to work towards baptism. Her name is Jordan. Oh and she has a horse farm and she wants us to come and meet her horses and feed them and stuff haha!

We have lots of people to teach but Idont have time to tell a lot about all of them. 

We area teaching a guy names Alvin. His girlfriend is a member and I have met both of them before down in Corbin ward! I thought he was a member but apparently not! So, he is awesome and has a baptism date.

Another person is T. Young black kid thats going to college. Hes really cool. Came to church yesterday and loved it. Hes coming to play basketball today with us. 

Theres lots more but I cant think of everything about them haha we're just gonna baptize baptize baptize here!!

Our branch is super super awesome! Probably my favorite congregation that I've had so far! Only bout 20 on average are there. Its kinda small right now but it changes with the semesters at college. This is such a missionary minded branch. Actually this whole stake is missionary minded. They have a plan to give out 20,000 copies of The Book of Mormon in the next 10 years... AWESOME. So every week in each auxiliary they hand out 1 BoM to someone who accepts to take the challenge to hand it out to someone they know or are working with. Its awesome.

Also, a member brought her friend with her to church that she works with and he really seemed to like it. Super smart guy too. He's from India. He actually participated in gospel principles. Set up an appointment to see him this week!:) So total this week we had 5 people to church!:) 

Oh and our area covers 2 stakes... basically if any missionary finds a young single adult they are supposed to refer us to them.  So, yeah its awesome. But mostly we do our work around UK campus. UK is 31-0 right now in basketball! UK basketball is basically a religion here. Its crazy. You might as well forget driving around downtown when there is a game going on. Its nuts. We tech a lot of our lessons in the UK library which has private rooms that are perfect for teaching. Its great.  

We have FHE with the branch every monday so thats awesome!

Gosh lots of things to talk about but not enough time. I will send some pictures.

Yes, its kirklevington NOT Kirklexington. Elder Lynch's family thought it was kirklexington and he didn't get mail for a while.

I love you all!!!

We gots TONS of snow during the week. Stayed inside for the whole day and jsut planned and cleaned. We weren't aloud to drive our car. Its basically all gone now though. About a foot and a half. Some places got 2 ft

 My companion elder lynch. Hes so funny. I love working with him

Prayer miracle with his camera, leaving London

Hi family!

Well you have probably heard that I am leaving London and heading to the new promise land of Lexington. The spirit of the Lord has called me to leave and journey to a new land and preach to the people there haha! Got to bear my testimony 1 last time in the Corbin ward yesterday, and said bye to a bunch of people! We ate a lot of food too because people wanted to feed us!

Today I started packing and it stinks like always. haha I hate packing! So much stuff! I think I have too much. But it all seems to fit in my bags in the end. Thank Heavens for space saver vacuum seal bags!!

So let me start out with an experience/story that I recently had! Its all about prayer and how God hears and answers them.So a few weeks ago I week to McKee to work with an Elder there on exchange, and I forgot my camera case that has all of my memory cards of my whole mission in it. No big deal though, the next week I was going to work in Beattyville, on exchange, which is past there and I would just pick it up on my way back. So, this week after working in Beattyville we were driving back to meet our companions and we stopped in at the McKee Elders apartment and I grabbed my case, talked to the elders for a few minutes and then we left to meet our companions at a gas station so we could switch back. I loaded all my stuff in the car, grabbed my camera case, showed it to Elder Durfee and said "Look I found my case!" And then I threw it in our car. Well yesterday I realized that I could not find my case. Literally looked in every crack of that car and couldn't find it. Also looked everywhere in our apartment. Called the Beattyville Elders and they couldn't find it in their car either. My case was gone and we had no idea where it could be. It made me so so sick because ALL of my mission pictures were in there and now they were gone. The only thing we could think of is that maybe it fell out of the car at the gas station. I confirmed with Elder Durfee and his companion that they saw me throw my camera case into our car, but it wasn't there. Last night and early this morning I prayed and prayed so hard that I could somehow find this case. We were going to drive the 30 miles to the gas station just to look for it, which if it had fell out in the parking lot it would most likely have been taken. Well this morning I get a call from the McKee Elders...they found my case inside their apartment in the same spot I had left it the first time 2 weeks ago. There is no way that I left it there the second time when we went there to pick it up. We were positive that I had grabbed it, drove to the gas station, and then  put it in our car. God answers prayers. I don't know if that camera case just floated back to their apartment or if I had actually left it there for the second time, but God answered my prayer. And I am so so so so grateful for it. Never ever underestimate the power of prayer

 Gonna go eat at a Chinese buffet today with Bro. Johnson for the last time and then he's driving us to the meeting in Louisville tomorrow morning. He's a great guy. Love him to death!

 Ok so heres another story about what we did this week. A member was moving this week and needed our help so we said sure. He and his wife and 1 daughter were just moving from outside of London to right in town into a town house. Well we show up to his house and he opens his garage and our jaws just DROP... this garage was just FULL of stuff half way to the ceiling. And it was all sorts of stuff. But then I though "Oh maybe they just moved everything out of their house into the garage so we could put it into the moving truck". Nope wrongo.. we walk inside, whole house filled with boxes and odds and end stuff everywhere. And we were the only ones he had asked for help haha he didn't want to ask the Elders quorum for help. So it was just us 2 and him. His wife was just boxing things up and the 30 year old daughter was just watching haha. Well, it took 4 hours just to load the truck and then another hour and a half to unload it. And the washer and dryer had to go upstairs in their new town house. So Elder Peck and I had to drag those heavy suckers up the stairs. (don't get me wrong, Im not complaining about it at all, it was a great work out and the member needed help, this is just a good story) Well after we filled 1 full size U-Haul truck, I guarantee they still had at least 2 or 3 loads left. Never ever seen so much stuff in my whole life. Went back a couple of days later to help them some more and it seemed like there was still just as much stuff in their house and garage haha! We couldn't believe it. After unloading another truck load into their town house the whole place was filled literally to the ceiling in some rooms. Boxes lined the hallways and bedrooms were filled to the door. I have no idea how they were going to even sleep in there! But, in the end they were very grateful for our help and we were glad that we could help! They are great people, just might have way to much stuff;)

 

Oh and so the new area that I am going to is in a branch and our area covers most of the UK campus. So you can guess what kind of branch this is, yup, a Young Single Adults Branch! Oh boy! Only 1 of 2 in the entire mission, and Im in it haha! I am dang excited! Our building is the stake center so luckily we have a nice full size building!:) And my companion is Elder Lynch. I've been around him a bunch before, he Is awesome. Super funny kid and he has the best attitude out of anyone that I have met! I am so excited!

 

Well its time to go eat at the Buffet! I am dang hungry. Didn't eat breakfast!

Love you all