20!!! 💖🎂🌟

 

Week: 40
Date: November 12, 2024
Location: Champaign, Illinois
Email: leah.kimball@missionary.org
Companion: Hermana Anderson /Lehi, Utah
Blog: https://livinlavidastlouis.blogspot.com/?m=1

Lexi's Mission Blog: https://iputtheradincolorado.blogspot.com/

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Gotta hit the pose for the big 20!!! 
St Louis Missouri
November 2024

Light the world cookies for the branch!!!!
Champaign Illinois
November 2024


So hey everyone, I'm officially 20! AYEEE!!! I was truly spoiled this morning and had the chance to go to the temple on my special day! So happy to have temple Tuesday on the best day of the year! 
 
This week was such a roller coaster, not going to lie. We did lots but also did nothing.. and you'll see why. Let's get to the good stuff!!!

Well actually sad news y'all… Reinaldo broke up with us :(. SO SAD!! He said he's not ready for so much commitment and has been ghosting us ever since! But when one door closes another opens!! We have still been teaching Jey and Cindy and I just love them! Jey loves the Book of Mormon and has been reading it non-stop this week! He also has been taking notes on his reading all week and it's the purest ever!!! Just praying they'll get married ASAP!! 
 Jeys notes from his BOM reading 🥹
Champaign Illinois
November 2024

The one morning I lost in pickle ball...
Champaign Illinois
November 2024 


Angel is literally an ANGEL!! HE TEXTS US EVERYDAY!! He's been contacting us daily… I'm like say lesssss! He is the best!!! We've been cruising with the spirit in his lessons! It's actually been so fun to teach him because it really is such a strong, pure spirit! On Saturday we had the opportunity to invite him to be baptized! We are working for the date of December 7th!!! Slay! 

Also I'm not sure if I told y'all but in the last week all 4 of our baptisms fell off date :((( So everyone just pray for our area! Here's the tea: 
Reinaldo Broke up with us 
Mateo doesn't feel ready
Sergio moved to Miami… (so not off date js gone) 
Memo moved to Alabama (not off date, just gone again) 
Lol so so sad and hard, but I know that people are prepared and I'm so so excited for Angel! I think training has really gotten me in the “talk to all” mentality and faith over fear mode. Because I remember like.. if I don't talk to them, no one will! 

This past Saturday we didn't get the opportunity to leave the apartment too much, and if you don't leave the apartment there is genuinely nothing else to do besides phone work… But I was done with that soooo.. we decided to make peppermint chocolate chip cookies for everyone in our branch! We put them in the cutest Christmas goodie bags with Christmas bows!! 
I saw Sis Shumway on my birthday, slayyy!!!
St Louis Missouri
November 2024

Pickleball with Pres and Sis Mckay at 6 am!!! 
St  Louis Missouri
November 2024


I'm gonna be honest with y'all this transfer has been pretty tough. My companion is darling and really working hard but sometimes missionary life is just super hard. For the past month she has really struggled with adjusting to missionary life and her anxiety. This week took a toll for the worse. Thursday afternoon as we are about to go out for our night, my companion received a panic attack. I, having never dealt with this before, was not very sure what to do and I consoled her. Then it was just getting worse. I called the medical coordinator and he directed me to take her to urgent care. So I did, we got there that night and the doctor was able to help her! I am so grateful for doctors and for the comfort that was given to my companion! Sometimes we all just need some extra help and that's not a bad thing! 
Sis de Jesus told me to hold the chicken she was gonna feed us for dinner!
Champaign Illinois
November 2024



This slayin' queen with our dinner 😋 
Champaign Illinois
November 2024



This week has taught me a lot about what my purpose is right now, as I try to share the joy that comes from sharing the joy of Jesus Christ! I've been pretty sick of being at home so the moments we are able to go out, I'm sprinting through the streets knocking on every door. Missionary work is a lot more fun when you do it. Because when I'm at home I kinda just think “dang it'd be nice to be home in Texas” lol. But I really do know that this trial is teaching me so much, and I do know God is blessing me. Each day I feel more patient and more strong. I know that He is watching over our situation and guiding me on how I can best support her!

Yesterday, I got the chance to go on another exchange with one of my besties Sister Fifita! I love that girl to death! I know that God sent me to this area to meet these sisters! They truly are some of my best friends. This morning as I woke up and my car was decked out with gifts and decorations, I remembered how truly good God is! He loves you all, today for my spiritual thought I just want to bear my testimony! 

Temple with my girls!!
St Louis Missouri
November 2024

Sis Fifita and I rockin our Christmas fits for our exchange!
Champaign Illinois
November 2024 


My mission has been some of the hardest most uplifting months of my life. God has undeniably been in the details of my life! He loves each of us so personally, and makes it so known! I see God through the creations... the earth, the people in my life, and in the scriptures! He makes it known everyday that he loves me and that he knows me! I am beyond grateful for the healing power of the atonement of Jesus Christ! I feel so blessed to know that Jesus died for me, that he suffered and bled for me! I truly marvel at the grace that Jesus offers me through His atonement. I have so much love for the gospel of Jesus Christ and I know that He and my Father in heaven are the source of the joy in my life! I am happy through them! I am so blessed for the 9 months I've had to truly know God! I know that angels are surrounding me, and I am truly blessed for eternal families! I am so lucky to share this knowledge and come unto Christ. Knowing Him has changed my life. I know He lives!

I love each of you so much, and constantly pray for you all! Please email me if you have any question about the gospel of Jesus Christ and how to become closer to him to experience the joy! 

-Hermana Kimball 

Also y'all it's my best friend’s birthday today @lexi (Sis Kimball)! Lexi is my best friend, and I am blessed to know such a beautiful ray of light! Her testimony genuinely keeps me out sometimes, and her love for Jesus is inspiring! To know Lexi is to love her! Feel free to spam her email box! 💗💗💗

Dad: Holy war and Outer Banks is the only thing keeping you up til 2 am these days.
Mom: 20 years ago we blessed your life, but at 20 you bless ours 💗 I love you hard worker! 
Colton: Blessed for the BYU clips!! Keep 'em coming! My comp and I live off of them! 
Caryn: But ur text play by play is what my whole district lived off of! 
Taylor: California dream life. 
Bailey: Sorry she was being difficult #twinsbutnotthesame
Clay: You and Coleman need girlfriends!  
Lexi: HAPPY BIRTHDAY QUEEN¡! 🎂 Eat cake for me today ! Love you forever ! 
Bella: Okay you are literally the prettiest! Like I was dying at your HOCO pics.. clearly some elders on my mission were too… 
Collins: Girl, keep them Tik Toks going! One day you'll be famous! 
Capri: You are truly my most photogenic sibling!
Kash: I can't believe you can talk!!! 
Reese: Stop growing, I just need to squeeze you! 



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