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I promise I'm not a Nun!!!

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  Week: 34 Date: September 30, 2024 Location: Champaign, Illinois Email: leah.kimball@missionary.org Companion: Hermana McQuigg/Colorado Springs, Colorado Blog:  https://livinlavidastlouis.blogspot.com/?m=1 Lexi's Mission Blog:  https://iputtheradincolorado.blogspot.com/ IF YOU WANNA SEE DAILY UPDATES JOIN MY PHOTO ALBUM:   https://photos.app.goo.gl/UtSgfakxxo46tkbd6      ILLINI COCINA DE SOPA!!!  Champaign Illinois September 2024 Happy fall y'all!!! We are getting that cooler weather coming in, and I am terrified… I have been freezing and it's only 60 degrees.. pls y'all pray that this winter won't send me home jk jk 🫣😜 This week was honestly fya!!! Started off the week so solid, ready to hit that missionary work so hard. Y'all let me tell y'all bout some of our friends. We have been teaching these 2 besties, named Luis and Simon. We have been teaching them for 4 weeks. They try to come to church every other week because of their jobs and they ...

It's A Small World After All 🌎

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Week: 33 Date: September 23, 2024 Location: Champaign, Illinois Email: leah.kimball@missionary.org Companion: Hermana McQuigg/Colorado Springs, Colorado Blog:  https://livinlavidastlouis.blogspot.com/?m=1 Lexi's Mission Blog:  https://iputtheradincolorado.blogspot.com/ IF YOU WANNA SEE DAILY UPDATES JOIN MY PHOTO ALBUM:   https://photos.app.goo.gl/UtSgfakxxo46tkbd6     Rose ice cream with Hermana Marcela Champaign Illinois September 2024 Y'ALL THE WORLD IS SO SMALL!!! LET ME HIT YOU WITH THIS QUICK UPDATE!!  So first off I need to tell y'all about the MIRACLE OF THE WEEK!!! So on Wednesday night Hermana McQuigg and I got invited to a members house (Hermana Kerly) to eat with her and her family!! She and her sons are from Ecuador and the husband is American, but they all moved from Ecuador in February! As we were eating, the husband started asking all types of questions like.. how many siblings we have, what our parents do for work, and where we were from (i...

Gotta Learn Me Some Guatemalan Dialects..

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  Week: 32 Date: September 16, 2024 Location: Champaign, Illinois Email: leah.kimball@missionary.org Companion: Hermana McQuigg/Colorado Springs, Colorado Blog:  https://livinlavidastlouis.blogspot.com/?m=1 Lexi's Mission Blog:  https://iputtheradincolorado.blogspot.com/ IF YOU WANNA SEE DAILY UPDATES JOIN MY PHOTO ALBUM:   https://photos.app.goo.gl/UtSgfakxxo46tkbd6     Sister Shumway is my fav temp comp  Champaign Illinois September 2024 HEY EVERYBODY!!!  Another fab email from your fav missionary!! Y'all let me tell y'all, I'm thrivingggg in Illinois!! The weather has been perfect, the people are so much nicer, and the city is so much cleaner!! I feel like I can breathe the fresh air outside and not get second hand high. St. Louis is great don't get me wrong, but I missed the trees and HUGEEE parks! I will say, what has been hard is living literally so close to Illinois University. We live right by “campus-town”, so there are tonsss of college ...

Champaign Problems 🥂🌟

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Week: 31 Date: September 9, 2024 Location: Champaign, Illinois Email: leah.kimball@missionary.org Companion: Hermana McQuigg/Colorado Springs, Colorado Blog:  https://livinlavidastlouis.blogspot.com/?m=1 Lexi's Mission Blog:  https://iputtheradincolorado.blogspot.com/ IF YOU WANNA SEE DAILY UPDATES JOIN MY PHOTO ALBUM:   https://photos.app.goo.gl/UtSgfakxxo46tkbd6      Illinois is so much prettier!!  Champaign Illinois September 2024 Sunday selfie to the champaign 3rd branch!!  Champaign Illinois September 2024 Hi y'all! What a week! So we got transfer news on Monday night and Pres booked me to Champaign, Illinois. Basically middle of nowhere Illinois! My new comp, Hermana McQuigg, and I got white washed into the area… Which means we both have no clue what we are doing. We came out to the mish the same day and Pres has me leading out the area.. that I don't know anything about. It's been super duper challenging but I'm taking it one day at a time....

Officially Compless.. 🥲

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  Week: 30 Date: September 2, 2024 Location: Southside, St Louis Missouri Email: leah.kimball@missionary.org Companion: No Companion!! Blog:  https://livinlavidastlouis.blogspot.com/?m=1 Lexi's Mission Blog:  https://iputtheradincolorado.blogspot.com/ IF YOU WANNA SEE DAILY UPDATES JOIN MY PHOTO ALBUM:   https://photos.app.goo.gl/UtSgfakxxo46tkbd6     Ana and Christina came to church matching yesterday!!  St Louis Missouri September 2024 Hey y'all what is up!! Coming at y'all live from STL city!!! Ayy! Another miraculous week!! We are so blessed!!  First off, I'm officially comp-less. Hermana Bruin is on a flight home at this very moment. She officially did it! As for me, I am with the STL’s for a couple days until transfers this Wednesday. They sent all the missionaries going home this transfer a couple days earlier in case they want to start fall semester. So now I'm just waiting for a new comp and maybe a new area. 🤷‍♀️ We find out tonigh...