Dia De Los Muertos !! 💀🪅🎉
Week: 39
Date: November 4, 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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Feliz dia de los muertos con Hermana Kerly!! Champaign Illinois November 2024 |
Hey y'all this week was genuinely a party! I didn't know how much I'd love Halloween!! Seriously, suchhh a blast!
On Monday and Tuesday Hermana Anderson and I were grinding out some knocking, and we found two huge families!! So Tuesday night I genuinely was feeling sooo accomplished and I knew it was gonna be a balla week!! Then… Wednesday hit and we got some pretty sad news, our friend Mateo isn't ready for his baptism! He just straight up told us he needs more time :((( We instantly got some fellowshipping going but throughout the week he's been pretty set on waiting a bit longer :(! Please pray for him!
Wednesday afternoon though, President Fulton wanted to take our district out to B-DUBSSS to celebrate my bestie @sisfairchild and my birthdays! It was seriously a blast! We got sung to and everything! Pres Fulton is so awesome! My area (aka the whole stake) covers some of Indiana and he lives in Indiana and he drives all the way out here to take us to lunch! Talk about a front row seat in the celestial kingdom!! It was soo fun! He told all of us the starfish story again! Gets me hyped up every time!
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Happy 20th birthday to my girl Sister Fairchild!! Champaign Illinois October 2024 |
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Got everyone to wear green for BDUBS with Pres. Fulton Champaign Illinois October 2024 |
Thursday aka HALLOWEEEN was a blasttt!!! Sis Fairchilds B-day is on Halloween, so we all went to Texas Roadhouse and stuffed up on some honey butter rolls! 😋 Then since we had some friends going to the YSA party we got to go!! It was so fun! I love the YSA! It's so chill to serve people the same age as you, and all the ones who served in Spanish speaking countries talked to our friends the WHOLE time! Talk about blessings. I legit was praying to Heavenly Father that others would talk to them because, with my comp still being so new I have to speak a lot and I get so nervous that I'll run outta questions! Prayers answered people! Later.. our friends asked for the YSA girls numbers… Haha! Totally praying I'll get to plan some “bodas” (weddings) soon!
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The only people who didn't dress up at the YSA Halloween party #wedressupasmissionaries Champaign Illinois October 2024 |
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What to do on a pday in Illinois!!! Champaign Illinois October 2024 |
Then on Friday was DIA DE LOS MUERTOS!!! Just Fiestas on Fiestas this week! It has been so great!! But y'all, let me give you my quick rant of the day. We get a text similar to this one, but in Spanish…“Hey sisters will you be there at 4:00 to set up?”, “claro hermana”... y'all the party was supposed to start at 4:30.. Hermana Kerly always clutches up and she arrives at 4:40 to start decorating.. but nobody else got there until exactly 6:37… I love Latinos !! Haha reminded me of my Honduras days when mutual used to be a 5 hour commitment! Anyways, Dia de los Muertos was so fun! We got so many friends and members set up on family history and got to hear the inspiring stories of some of their ancestors! Then we got to eat some food at 8:00 (why so late?)! It was so bomb!
Y'all on Friday while Hermana Anderson and I were just eating our lunch we get a text from REINALDO!!! Whatttttt!! Talk about another prayer being answered! He said his phone broke!! But now we are back on track for his baptism on November 30th!! We got the chance to meet with him Saturday night and we talked a little bit about his baptism and how we can all best prepare for it! He actually told us that two missionaries visited him and gave him a book of Mormon and the restoration pammy in the time that we lost contact… miracle. We asked all the missionaries in our zone who did it, and no one confessed… so we are pretty sure either the three nephites or angels came and shared a message with him! So cool! Then he pulled up to church on Sunday!! I'm so excited he's back!!
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The sistas after our 2 hour drive to zone conference last week!! Champaign Illinois October 2024 |
Saturday night, Hermana Anderson and I were literally sprinting to lessons!! It was a blast!! Our last lesson of the night was our friends Jey and Cindy!! Who we actually found that night while they were moving from one trailer to the next! (We knock lots of trailers)! They are from Quito, Ecuador! They are the coolest, and on the spot committed to church the next day! Then y'all they came.. and best of all, it was a fast and testimony meeting and Jey went up and bore his testimony! Jey told the whole congregation that he knows this is the place for him and how he attended the same church in Ecuador!! Like what?!! We had no idea! He then gave Hna Anderson and I a shout out! (I love when they do that) and he went on to introduce his wife and baby to the whole congregation and told them all how this is their church family!! Literally the coolest experience ever! Best of all Elder Bednar's son (our stake pres. President Bednar) was there to hear the whole thing! He then got to go up and meet Jey and Cindy! I genuinely was so lucky to be apart of that church service yesterday! 🙏
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Champaign Zone= Best Zone! Champaign Illinois October 2024 |
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Selfies on halloween w/ the sistas! Champaign Illinois October 2024 |
Then let me tell y'all super quick about our friend Angel! I'm hoping you'll be hearing a lot about him coming up! He's been to church these past two weeks! He's from Mexico and he's 25! He has a wife back in Mexico and he told us that he's seeking truth! It's points like these in my areas on my mission where I can just argue that I'm literally in the best area, the promised land! I love prepared people! They make the slow days and the mean people so much easier to get through! Angel is super dope! I'm excited to keep meeting with him!
This week I was thinking a whole lot about a video that our mission president shared with us in Zone Conference last week! And the video is called “This is Church” it's a video about how our actions and lives represent the church! The church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is truly Jesus Christ's church restored here on the earth! Because we are more than just the meeting house! Jesus Christ is more than just our Sunday school! I am truthfully trying to bring church into my life more regularly! Trying to represent Jesus Christ and His church in ALL of my actions! I love Jesus so much! I am so grateful for Him and His sacrifice! I am so grateful that “the church” is the same in every place around the world because God is consistent! And with that, when I attend church and try to include it in my life daily, I feel at home with God!
I love y'all so much! God is soooo good! And I know that he loves me and each of you!! Shoot me an email, letter, or package for my bday next week (call me needy lol)! Here's my mission addy! Haha!
1850 Craigshire Rd Ste 205
St Louis MO 63146-4013
United States
-Hermana Kimball 🩷
Dad: NVM about baptizing Guatemalans.. I got ahead of myself :( anyways Bro Miller talks abt you everytime I see him! It's like ur famous.
Mom: I feel like you send pics of yourself right before my email home just so I can't compliment how much weight you've lost!! Glad the 2 a days are finally making progress 🙌!!
Colton: Scarred me to see you in a hospital gown
Caryn: Making me want to come home just to experience Christmas at your house
Taylor: Too bad you're from Canada! #futurevoter2028
Bailey: Better Leia then I ever could be #skinny queen
Clay: Scary green mask costume=no play (maybe next year) cool tik toks tho
Lexi: Have I told you that I tell everyone your 6’2 then I show a pic of you and your comp Sis J and I tell them that Sis J and I are the same height! Lol tall queen!
Bella: You might wanna go look at moms comment on your FB profile pic
Collins: I thought your nails looked way more fun then Capri’s spa day
Capri: Jelly of your spa day (don't tell Collins)
Kash: Literally Elf baby from Elf
Reese: Needing some more Reese content asap
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