My Joy Is Indescribable!!!

Wow!! 

This week was filled with emotions!!!  Our Querido Amigo got baptized on Saturday and was confirmed a member the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints!!!  It was such a neat experience!!  There aren’t words to describe my joy for our Querido Amigo!!  Hermana Chineppe and I visited him a lot this week and he truly was prepared to enter the waters of baptism Saturday night.  Hermana Chineppe and I got to sing “When I am Baptized” at the baptism for him.  We sang the first verse in English and sang again the first verse and the second verse in Spanish.  It was such a neat experience.  My joy is indescribable to have been able to help this friend come unto Christ.  I am so grateful for this experience that Hermana Chineppe and I shared together.  The most spiritual part was right after he was confirmed yesterday he came back to sit with Hermana Chineppe and I and as soon as he sat down he turned to us and said, "Muchas Gracias Hermanas!"  I was stunned!!  I was so joyful with this response. 

Tell little Samantha to put a sticker on!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tell her that this sticker is Hermana Kent’s favorite convert so this sticker means a lot!!!!!!!!!  (We have a chart for Hermana Kent that keeps track of her days serving and events that take place.  Samantha is our little neighbor who just loves to look at the chart every time she is over).

I know that this church is true!!  I know that our Savior Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father live and love each and every one of us.  I know that they know us individually.  I LOVE this gospel.  I LOVE this opportunity I have to be a missionary.  I love and miss you all lots and lots and lots!!!!

Con amor,

Hermana Kent

Cleaning the baptismal font!

Celebrating 10 months on my mission

Got to celebrate 10 months, some more.

How Great Shall Be Your Joy!

Hola!

This week was such a sacred week again.  We worked a lot with our investigator “M” who is getting baptized this week.  Hermana Chineppe and I are so beyond excited for him.  He is so great and prepared.  There is a story that I have been told that there were two men in heaven.  They both received white envelopes with "mission calls" to come to earth.  In one of them it said that the person would be born in the church and into a loving family and other blessings.  In the envelope of his friend it said that he would not have the blessing of the gospel in his life.  His friend who would be born in the gospel said to "don’t worry my friend, I will find you and I will teach you the gospel."  Hermana Chineppe and I have felt very strongly for a couple of weeks now that “M” was a dear friend of ours before we all came here and that we told him we would find him.  There are no words even close to describe my joy.  It’s not even happiness, it’s JOY!!! 

I LOVE being a missionary.  I LOVE this gospel.  I LOVE that I get to share this great blessing with others.  I know that this gospel is true!!!  I know that our Heavenly Father and Savior Jesus Christ live.  I love and miss you all lots and lots and lots!!!!!!

Con mucho amor,

Hermana Kent

This is what we look like when our hearts are full of JOY!

Staying Together!

Well this week was super great!!!!  It was filled with amazing things!!!!!!  First thing was on Thursday!!!  Thursday was Argentina’s Independence Day.  Our ward had an activity to celebrate it.  We had an investigator come with us!!  It was so great!!  We ended up leaving the activity before he did.  He was very well welcomed into the ward.  This investigator will be getting baptized on the 25th of the month!!!  Hermana Chineppe and I are so excited for him. 

Friday and Saturday we did divisions!!  I was able to do divisions with Hermana Tidwell!!  I have done divisions with her before.  She is so great!!!  It was so fun to be able to work with her for a couple days and learn from her how to be a better teacher, missionary, and better person!!! 

Yesterday in church we had 3 investigators come at 9:00!!  It was so great!!  It was great knowing that Hermana Chineppe and I had 3 investigators sitting in Elders Quorum while we were sitting Relief Society!!  It was such an amazing feeling!!! 

Hermana Chineppe and I are staying together!!!!  BEST phone call EVER last night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I was SICK to my stomach yesterday!!!!!!!  And I was so nervous to be changed before M… gets baptized.  I would have DIED!!!!!!!!!!

I am so grateful for my calling right now as a missionary.  I LOVE this gospel.  I know that it is true!!  I know that our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ LIVE!!  I know that they love us more than we can comprehend!!  I know that the Book of Mormon is true!!  This week as I was studying Alma 34: 32-33 really spoke to me. 

32 For behold, this life is the time for men to prepare to meet God; yea, behold the day of this life is the day for men to perform their labors.

 33 And now, as I said unto you before, as ye have had so many witnesses, therefore, I beseech of you that ye do not procrastinate the day of your repentance until the end; for after this day of life, which is given us to prepare for eternity, behold, if we do not improve our time while in this life, then cometh the night of darkness wherein there can be no labor performed.

I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet!!  I know that Pres. Thomas S. Monson is our prophet today!!  I love and miss you all!!!! 

Con mucho amor,

Hermana Kent 

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Thank you all for your prayers on behalf of Karina.  The infection in her foot is healing and she is beginning to feel better!

We are so excited, our friend "M" is getting baptized!

A Sacred Week

Hola!

This week has probably been the most sacred week in my whole mission!!!!!!  Hermana Chineppe and I found 10 new investigators this week!! 10!!!!!  We were so blessed this week!!  They are all great people and I am so excited to work with them!!! 

We had such an incredible lesson with one of our investigators this week!! We were teaching him about the 10 commandments.  We taught him the first two commandments and Hermana Chineppe asked him “why should we follow these commandments?”  He immediately responded and said, “Well because they are commandments.”  I LOVED the response that he gave us that simply because they are commandments.  I was so happy by his response.  He is truly prepared!!!  He will be baptized the 25h of this month!!  Hermana Chineppe and I are so excited for this investigator that we are working with!!  There are not words to describe how excited I am for him!!!!  I am just literally BURSTING with joy for him!!!

I know that this gospel is true!!  I LOVED this gospel!!  I know that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ live and love us very much!!!  I love and miss you all!!!

Con amor,

Hermana Kent

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A Note from Hermana Kent's mom:

Hermana Kent is suffering from an infection in her foot right now.  We invite you to include her in your prayers that she may heal quickly.  This has been very disheartening to her as it is interfering with the work that she is so excited  to be doing.  Thanks for all your love and prayers on her behalf.

Happy Fourth of July!

Hermana Kent and her flat mates dressed for the Fourth of July
Notice the coats and scarves...weird for July:)

Answered Prayers and Blessings

Hola!!!!!!!! 

This week was greatly filled with random little things!! It started off perfect with the temple!!  I have such a strong love for the temple!!!!  I am so grateful to be a member of this church and be able to go to the temple and feel of the strong spirit there!! 

Tuesday and Wednesday Hermana Chineppe had to take care of visa paperwork and so I spent Tuesday and Wednesday morning in the mission office studying with another Hermana whose companion was doing visa paperwork with Hermana Chineppe.  One of the Hermanas that we live with has been sick this week and so we have been on lots of divisons this week getting work done in both of our areas.  Well getting work done in our ward.  Our ward is split between us two companionships.  It is so great!!! 

Yesterday Hermana Chineppe and I got to church and we did not have one investigator, not one less active, and not one recent convert that we are working with there with us.  I was a little sick about this. People had told us that they were planning on coming but yesterday it rained hard all day.  Anyway I was a little sick about this and was praying and praying and praying.  All of a sudden Hermana Chineppe gets excited and tells me that one of our investigators just showed up!!!  It was after the sacrament but we ended up having one investigator!!  I prayed after and thanked Heavenly Father for this blessing.  I prayed that this investigator would be able to feel the spirit as the speakers were speaking.  All of the speakers spoke about baptism and keeping the commandments!!  I was so extremely grateful!!!  He is going to get baptized, he just doesn’t know it yet;)  Jajajaja he is reading and praying and now coming to church.  The only thing is his job might be a problem.  It’s difficult to explain.  We have an investigator that we are praying will be baptized here this Sunday or next, but we will see. 

Ok so I did read the letter you sent me to open on my Hump Day and I cried!!!  (We sent her a copy of the Father’s Blessing her dad gave her just before she was set apart as a missionary).  I was so happy!!  I LOVED everything in it. Especially about Kazen.  I have felt him every day for 9 months it’s pretty cool.  And I feel him pushing me on my back every day to keep me going.  I don’t remember if I told you but at the temple in the row of chairs there was me and Hermana Chineppe and then two empty chairs.  But I KNOW they weren’t empty because Kazen and her brother were there with us!!!!!  (Hermana Chineppe’s brother also passes away 17 years ago).

Heavenly Father answers our prayers. He knows us and He LOVES us!!!  I LOVE this gospel and know that it is true!!! 

Love and miss you all lots and lots and lots!!!!! 

Con amor,

Hermana Kent

Nine down!  Nine to go!

Father's Blessing

Reading the blessing dad gave before being set apart as a missionary

Trying to get the accent right!

Not sure if the pencil helps, but the smile is beautiful!

Hermanas Chineppe and Kent this morning!

Home Stretch!

Hola!!!!!! 

This week was a great week!!!  Nothing big happened but it was a great week!!!!!  We went to the temple yesterday!!!!!  It was so great!!!!  The spirit was so strong!!!!  I LOVE the temple!!  It is a place where we can truly forget about our worries and concerns and feel peace and the love our Heavenly Father has for us.  The spirit was so strong yesterday!!  I felt so much peace!!  It was such an energy booster to be able to attend the temple!!  I know the temple is the house of our Heavenly Father!! It truly is heaven on earth!!  I am so grateful for the temple!!  I am grateful to be a member of this church that is able to go to the temple!!! 

After the temple we had a family home evening as a mission!!  The spirit was so strong!!  A few of the missionaries shared with us their conversion stories and how their journey to becoming a member of this church.  A few of them had only been a member for 2 years at the time they sent in their mission papers!!  The spirit was so strong as they bore their testimonies!!  A group of us closed Family Home Evening with a special musical number (it’s great to see she is still using her talent to sing).  I am sorry I didn’t take a video.

Tomorrow is my HUMP DAY!!!  It means that time is moving WAY to fast!!!  I knew it would go by fast I just didn’t realize THIS fast!!!!!!!!  It goes by WAY fast.  And I know starting tomorrow it will just speed up now that I am on the home stretch.  We are going to celebrate with ICE CREAM.  But we might do it on Thursday because Hermana Chineppe will have 4 months on Friday so we are thinking we are going to celebrate with ice cream together for both of us together.  

Did you know if you look at our house on google earth, dad’s truck is outside and the garage door is open?  Jajajajajajajajaajajaja.  One day members wanted to see where I was from, so we pulled it up and that is what we saw. 

I know this church is true!!  I know that our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ live and love us so much!!  I LOVE the book of Mormon and I know that it is true!! 

I love and miss you all lots and lots and lots!!!!!

Con mucho amor,

Hermana Kent

Temple Blessings!

Wow!!   This week was an event here in Hurlingham!!!  A family from our ward  that. was baptized about a year ago was sealed this week!!!  They are sealed as an eternal family!!!  It was so neat to be apart of!!  We did't get to go to the temple but we were at the church after the sealing when they showed up to a surprise party that the ward had for them after!!  It was so neat!!  They were so excited!!  

Also this week I have had an awful cold and so the night before the sealing our bishop and the hermano that was sealed gave me a blessing!!  It was such a neat experience as they both participated and gave me a blessing!!  

I am so grateful for this gospel!!  I am so grateful for the temple!!  The temple will be leaving our mission and now will be in the South mission and so we all get to go to the temple next Monday before it leaves our mission the end of this transfer!!  I have been dying of excitment!!  There are no words to describe my feelings for the temple there is such a spirit there!!   I LOVE the temple and know that it is the house of the Lord!!!  I LOVE this gospel!!  Love and miss you all lots and lots and lots!!!

Con mucho amor,

Hermana Kent