Week: 47 Date: December 30, 2024 Location: Springfield, Illinois Email: leah.kimball@missionary.org Companion: Sister Roos /Paradise, Utah 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         KESHA and us in Jacksonville 😇 Jacksonville Illinois December 2024 Hi everybody!!! Christmas week is officially over, and it truly was one of the best weeks of my mission by far. This week, we were so blessed to celebrate the birth of our Savior, Jesus Christ!! A quote that has been on my mind a lot this week is, “We wouldn’t celebrate Christmas without Easter.” We truly are so blessed to have our Savior, Jesus Christ, die for each of us, allowing us to return to our Father in Heaven. Being on my mission, I truly didn’t understand how merciful the Atonement of Jesus Christ is until I unders...

Week: 46 Date: December 23, 2024 Location: Springfield, Illinois Email: leah.kimball@missionary.org Companion: Sister Roos /Paradise, Utah 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 Hansen and I on exchanges!!! Springfield Illinois December 2024 Hey y’all! Another email from your favorite missionary in Illinois! We are seeing so many miracles and working our behinds off! Tuesday we had zone conference, and it was our Christmas zone conference, so it was a pretty bigggg deal! We drove all the way to St. Louis, had a very spiritual-filled morning, ate lunch, then played Minute to Win It games. Springfield zone was not going to lose whatsoever, so we were hyping everyone up! I've never yelled as much or cheered more than I did at zone conference. I may have gotten a little too c...

Week: 45 Date: December 17, 2024 Location: Springfield, Illinois Email: leah.kimball@missionary.org Companion: Sister Roos /Paradise, Utah 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     Temple Tuesday w/ Sister Thomas! St Louis Missouri December 2024   Hi Everyone! I can’t believe it’s almost Christmas and I haven’t seen  Elf  yet! Someone please upload it to Gospel Stream! 🙏 Last week was Temple Tuesday, and I got to go to the temple with my favorite member ever—Sister Thomas! Sister Thomas has truly changed my whole mission. She’s one of the reasons I’m positive God has called me to serve here in Springfield. She’s so wonderful and reminds me a lot of my mama! She even offered to drive us to the temple on Tuesday and joined us for the endowment session. Afterward, we all went...

Week: 44 Date: December 10, 2024 Location: Springfield, Illinois Email: leah.kimball@missionary.org Companion: Sister Roos /Paradise, Utah 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     YSA OPENED ON SUNDAY!  Springfield Illinois December 2024 Hi Ya'll!! Welcome back to another weekly!! YSA is up and runnin' and I could not be happier!!!  I literally am just so pumped to tell you about the miracle that we experienced yesterday!! We went campus finding at Millikin University, about 40 mins from us, and it was seriously miraculous! It did not take long at all when we knocked a couple doors and we knocked into a group of 9 Millikin football players, playing some video game. I was shocked and intimidated that we knocked on their door, but my companion introduced us to the group of 22 yea...

Week: 43 Date: December 2, 2024 Location: Springfield, Illinois Email: leah.kimball@missionary.org Companion: Sister Roos /Paradise, Utah 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      I love to see the temple St Louis Missouri November 2024 Our friend Everett and us at the temple!!  St Louis Missouri November 2024 Hi y'alll!!! What a wild and yet very very fulfilling week it's been!!  Let's get right to it!! So Tuesday we took a trip to St Louie and were able to go to the temple with our recent convert Everett! Everett is blind and just got baptized. Going to the temple with him was genuinely so special, and we were able to describe how to baptize and he was just so pure about it! I just love the temple so much! I feel so much peace there! 🥰  Then we all celebrated and g...