Translation Train 🚋
Week: 55
Date: February 24, 2025
Location: Springfield, Illinois
Email: leah.kimball@missionary.org
Companion: Sister Searle /West Jordan, Utah
Blog: https://livinlavidastlouis.blogspot.com/?m=1
Lexi's Mission Blog: https://iputtheradincolorado.blogspot.com/
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| Greg and our silly faces for the Book of Mormon Springfield Illinois February 2025 |
Sister Searle is legit my BFF—I love this girl with my whole heart. She's from West Jordan, Utah, and has been out for 9 months! She's literally soooo Christlike and legit radiates joy!!! Not to mention, she's got cute clothes (that I'm def borrowing), so I'm pretty hyped for this transfer together!!!
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| Grandma fannie!! She's a queen! Springfield Illinois February 2025 |
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| .I LOVE MY MLC GIRLS St Louis Missouri February 2025 |
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| Here's our sister pic from the last mlc !!! St Louis Missouri February 2025 |
Halen has a pretty tough home life, where he actually doesn't know when he was born or who his dad is. So in every conversation we have, he now lets us know how he knows Sister Searle is his sister. My fav part is that he keeps saying, “Our faces look the exact same.” Lol, but now he's actually letting us teach him cause he's convinced his sister is teaching him! So it's so slay!
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| Are they twins? Springfield Illinois February 2025 |
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| JERICKA AND FAMILY!!! I just love them! Springfield Illinois February 2025 |
Anyways, y’all, we have been teaching Elizabeth sooo consistently, and she's literally so cool! She's still making her date—March 16th—we just needa get her to church. She's been super sick, so that was lame, but we are definitely on a good path! So definitely keep her in your prayers that we can get her coming to church!
Also, the first night I picked up Sister Searle, we went to a lesson with our girls, the Aguados! They are seriously some of my bestest friends! They are three sisters in the nursing program here, and every time we go over, we legit could just chat for hours—we don’t, but it's been so fun! We are heading over this upcoming week to do a whiteboard night! I'm really hoping we can get these girls back to church! They are seriously so fun!
After their lesson, we went to our car to do a phone call lesson, and right when the lesson was over, two policemen were knocking on our windows with their crazy bright flashlights like we were doing something mega sketch! Haha, it was funny—apparently, someone called the cops on us, so they had to check our IDs and our license plate lol. It was so strange but made for a stellar opportunity to invite them to church! They were lowkey interested, so we gave them the addy! Slay!
Yesterday at church, we were just praying that we could get people to come. So we texted through our whole area book, and our Haitian Creole friend Chener drove 40 mins with his neighbor Jeanette to the YSA. Now, looking back on previous emails, I feel like all of our cool friends always come from 40 mins away lol!
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| The Hardy's!!! Springfield Illinois February 2025 |
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| Our Haitian friends, Jeanette and Chener, came to church !!! Springfield Illinois February 2025 |
Anywayssss, we were pretty nervous because of the HEAVY language barrier, so when they came to church, we were Google Translating everything! Then, a miracle arose, and Jeanette let us know she knows Spanish. So I translated the whole service to Jeanette in Spanish, then she would translate it in Haitian Creole to Chener. Then after 1st hour, we were able to have a bomb restoration lesson, where I taught Jeanette in Spanish, and she taught Chener in Creole. It was genuinely a translation train! But it was so fire, and we invited them to be baptized on March 22nd and then passed them to the Jacksonville sisters. It was so so fulfilling—I love love the gospel!
This past week, our friend Addie in the YSA gave a talk, and in the talk, she quoted this poem. It's kinda long, but it's sooo worth the read!
I'm so excited for Easter to talk about Jesus Christ! I'm so grateful for His sacrifice and everything He has done for me and for all of y’all! I truly have come to know Jesus Christ on such a deeper level, and I'm so grateful for my mission—and I'm grateful for Him. I know He loves and cares so much about each of us!
I love y’all so much, and I hope y’all have a great week!!! God is good! 🩷
-Hermana Kimball
Shoutouts:
Dad: I genuinely am shocked that every 50-year-old man looks 70 here, and you look 40!
Mom: Glad you still miss me 🥰
Colton: Glad you think you're my fav sibling lol
Caryn: I love your smiley kids.
Taylor: T-2 months!
Bailey: Bridesmaid soon!
Clay: Put him on SNL.
Lexi: DIETING QUEEN 👸
Bella: BYU gang soon.
Collins: New Facebook profile pic, cutie.
Capri: Flower girl?
Kash: Chugga chugga choo choo.
Reese: Big eyes like Lexi.
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