Gorda Hermana Kimball ..🥲
Week: 28
Date: August 19, 2024
Location: Southside, St Louis Missouri
Email: leah.kimball@missionary.org
Companion: Hermana Bruin/ St George, Utah
Blog: https://livinlavidastlouis.blogspot.com/?m=1
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| Your weekly Sunday selfie!! St Louis Missouri August 2024 |
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| Our yummy diabetes bowls !! #youjellylexi? St. Louis Missouri August 2024 |
On Monday after P-day we started an exchange with our STL's!! Which means I got to spend the day in the English area with Sister Burkholder! The English area is so different from our Spanish area. People are a whole lot weirder, a bit messier, and a bit meaner lol! Also some people just have some wild theories about who God is! Blessed to be Spanish speaking #sorrylexi…
But anyways, let me tell y'all the grandest miracle of the week! So.. Sister Burkholder and I had a goal to make our exchange an exchange of miracles and gratitude. So if a miracle would happen even just a baby miracle, we would pray and thank God! Y'all, God must've known we were really ready for a big miracle that day because we had a lesson with their friend Tori. Tori ended up canceling on us and we said a prayer for guidance on where we needed to be. As I was looking at the map I told Sister Burkholder that we should head to Christy park (which isn't really even a park. It's like a patch of grass). She didn't really feel the urge to head there so we agreed on a bigger park that was just past Christy park.
As we were driving to our decided park, Sister Burkholder pulls the car over and says “we need to go talk to that family”. Heading over, the original family she spoke of was gone, but there was another family, two children and parents. Sister Burkholder and I walk over and she starts the conversation. They then said “No English”.. which is my cue, and I started speaking to them in Spanish! Asking all about where they were from and if they wanted to come to church with us. They told me their names are Victor and Estefani and they are from Puerto Cortes, Honduras (which was awesome because that was very close to where I lived in Honduras) and that they arrived to St. Louis 2 weeks ago. They said they have been looking for a church in the area. BOOM MIRACLES!!! Anyways, we exchanged numbers and set up an appointment with them and as we were walking away we see the sign “Welcome to Christy Park”. Let's just say the Holy Ghost is the best guide!!
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| Intercambios con hermana burkholder!! St Louis Missouri August 2024 |
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| Pov: on our way to beg Pres. to stay together another transfer St Louis Missouri August 2024 |
On Saturday we had the bombest meeting with our friend Alejandra from last week!! Some more info about Alejandra!! She's 17 and she has a 2 year-old daughter!! She's from Honduras 💁♀️ and she's the one who has a cousin on a mission in Ecuador! She has actually been looking to connect with God recently and then she told us it was a miracle we knocked on her door! We met with her once two weeks ago and three times this past week! She keeps inviting us over!! It's the bomb. On Friday night we had invited her to start reading and praying about the truthfulness of the Book of Mormon everyday! Then, Saturday morning we had an appt with her. I asked her if she read and prayed.. kinda expecting her to say no because we visited so late at night the night before, and were there pretty early the next day. But she said yes!! Then she begins to quote 1st Nephi 2:16. And talks about how she knows that even though she is young like Nephi she can still have that yearning for a connection with God!! Honestly, y'all she's just the coolest!!
Church is always the bomb.. especially cause I have been in my area for so long, the members love me. I love them so much!! Literally, they have my whole heart. Except one member… Hermano Gallardo. jk He's the bomb. We eat at the Gallardo's home every Thursday for lunch and they make some of the yummiest food. Although every time we are over there they encourage us to grab a second plate of food. As missionaries we aren't really supposed to say no. But I did the impossible.. a couple weeks ago I went to lunch not wanting to eat a lot. So very pleasantly I declined the second plate. I told Hermana Gallardo that I love her food so much that if I keep eating so much she's gonna make me fat, and I won't be able to get married when I go home. (That's her biggest fear.. she always tells us that when we get off the mission we need to be getting married) She's very anti-feminist lol! She calls us her princesses and tells us we should find men to treat us as such. She's so pure.. anyways.. now they don't push a second plate on me but now I have to suffer by Hermano Gallardo making my new nickname “Gorda” (fat girl) lol.. so now every week in front of everyone he says “HOLA GORDA”.. SO EMBARASSING!!! Lol he's so funny I just call him “Gordo Chaparro” (little fat man) to get him back. Anyways, we are totally homies!!
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| Literally the bombest district and our bomb STL's!! St Louis Missouri August 2024 |
We had our president interviews this past week and I just love President Mckay!! He gives the greatest counsel!! He promised me some fire blessings and I then pleaded that he let me stay one more transfer here! I love BellaVilla with my whole heart. I just feel like I have more work to do. He said he'll pray about it and see what God has in store, which is fair, so we will see!! If I stay another transfer here that means I would stay 7 ½ months literally in the promised land. ( I bet the other areas are great. I just have so much love for my baby area.. I grew up here 🥹)There's big miracles in store for BellaVilla so everyone pray that God's plan is the same as my plan 😉 😜!!
My spiritual thought comes from my study of the Fall of Adam and Eve this week.. I love how simple 2nd Nephi 2:25 states:
“Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy.”
The fall of Adam and Eve always confused me for a long time. Like why did that need to happen? I love that in the principles we teach concerning the pre-mortal life we talk about how God always had a plan. God's plan was always for us to exist, go through life, send a Savior, and return to him. If Adam and Eve would have stayed innocent and pure in the Garden of Eden. None of us would have this opportunity to live. None of us would have the opportunity to choose for ourselves. God is so merciful. He gives us the opportunity to choose him. He gives us the opportunity to know good from evil, love from sickness, pain from joy. We need to have one in order to experience the other. God gave us this life with the opportunity to choose in order to experience joy. The gospel of Jesus Christ is joy. I love joy. I love this time that I have to learn about Him and His plan. I am so blessed!
Always remember to choose joy! ✨️
Y'all are just the best and never forget that!! I love you, but most importantly God loves you! I pray for all of y'all!! Always remember who you are and what you stand for!! God is so good!
-Hermana kimball 💓
Dad: Ahora tu español es fácil de entender!! Me encanta su discurso!! Bien hecho papá! 💗
Mom: Necesita un poquito más de práctica con su acento 😘 te amo !
Colton: Your fill-ins this week were fire!!!!!
Caryn: Literally the cutest prego lady I've ever seen
Taylor: Hoping your not tired of Bailey yet
Bailey: happy 26!! Ur getting closer to 30 everyday now!
Clay: Wish church news would post ur lives so I could watch em 🥲
Lexi: Thanks for the clothes. now I'm slayin..
Bella: Your tik toks literally have me crying. I miss you sissy
Collins: Hey girl.. how's 5th grade?
Capri: So some boy has the same birthday as you? Does that mean he likes you?
Kash: Ur big bro Colton ever play the blanket game with u?
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