Highlight: We Made A Minecraft Cake 🎂
Week: 69
Date: June 2, 2025
Location: Cape Girardeau, Missouri
Email: leah.kimball@missionary.org
Companion: Sister Richins /American Fork, Utah
Blog: https://livinlavidastlouis.blogspot.com/?m=1
Lexi's Mission Blog: https://iputtheradincolorado.blogspot.com/
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| No smoking motivation from the sisters (us) for Dennis!!! Cape Girardeau Missouri June 2025 |
We've taught Dennis every day this week! This guy is truly the BEST! He comes to all of the activities the stake holds each week! We have Book of Mormon class on Tuesdays and Institute on Thursdays, and he does not miss a single activity! On Thursday, he even bought 6 pizzas and brought them to Institute—he is legit so prepared!! He had his very last cigarette on Saturday, and we've just been working our tails off to help him stay clean!!! He even got a priesthood blessing on Saturday!! He's the best!
Our new member Larry just adores Dennis—it’s actually so tender. They've become good buds!!! Dennis is also so fun. He wears a big ol’ cowboy hat every Sunday and drives a convertible with a huge Superman sticker on the back! He’ll keep you laughing—he has a three-joke limit on all our calls because he's very quick with his jokes, haha! He's incredible!
He has also LOVED learning about temples and has a pretty big desire to help his mom, who passed away, be baptized in the temple. He came to church again this past week. Although, when Dennis comes to church, it's wayyy different than anyone I have ever taught! He talks to everybody. He introduces himself to everyone!!! So the whole ward lovessss Dennis! It's been sooo fun—he's literally the coolest!!
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| My comp's family sent her some ¿sodas? from Japan, so this is me trynna read the nutritional facts. Cape Girardeau Missouri June 2025 |
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| I got my stitches removed this week!!! This is my post-op pic! Cape Girardeau Missouri June 2025 |
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| Larry and Shelly post bomb lesson yesterday!! Cape Girardeau Missouri June 2025 |
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| GREGG GOT BAPTIZEDD YAYAYYY!! Cape Girardeau Missouri June 2025 |
Also, since we’re at Aerial's house like every day, we've gotten the chance to meet and teach her whole family. The rest of the siblings are younger than her, and her mom works on Sundays, so we’re trying to figure out how to get them all to church! I'm hoping the mom will find a way out of working Sundays, or Aerial will buy a car or something!!
We’ve also been teaching Shelly (Larry's mom). She's kinda old, so she's not really absorbing much of the info we share with her, but she still has faith and wants to be baptized. She's a hoot! We’ve been trying to get her to quit drinking sweet tea! We had a super powerful lesson on Sunday with the both of them, and they just LOVED church! So that’s where we are with her right now—although it's been good because Larry reads the Book of Mormon to her nicely and takes her to church! So it's been helping him stay super strong after his baptism! He also loves to help us teach her!
We had another super powerful lesson with Janet this past week! One of our young women joined us, and it was so good! Lots of tears shed on Janet’s end, but the Spirit was genuinely so strong! It was one of those lessons where she could feel the Spirit and Heavenly Father's love for her so strongly that I could say anything bold and it wouldn't offend! I love those types of lessons!
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| US AND MISS. JANET JACKSON!!! And Julia!! Cape Girardeau Missouri June 2025 |
So, while the Spirit was super strong, I was able to tell her, “Janet, I just want to shake you and tell you to get back to church.” I testified about how much she needs the Church in her life right now. I love how the Spirit works! It reminds me of that promise where it says, “Open your mouth and it shall be filled,” or something like that. I say that because that’s truly how it feels—the Spirit fills my mouth with words! Being a missionary is sooo cool!!!
On Friday, it was a weird day—Sister Richins accidentally killed a squirrel with the car, an ancient old creep definitely said the worst sentence to me that I’ve ever heard (he’s a perv), and well… just a long day. But Sister Perkins, like she always does, made the day a million times better! She invited us over that day to help her make a Minecraft cake for her son Kit! It was actually a total blast! Sister Richins and I whipped out our major decorating skills and totally nailed the inspiration pic! It was so fun! Legit, made the day sooooo fun!
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| The FABULOUS Sister Perkins and KINGSTON takin our selfie!! Cape Girardeau Missouri June 2025 |
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| Our Minecraft masterpiece of a cake! Cape Girardeau Missouri June 2025 |
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| My weakest moment after breaking my fast eating some chocolate cake! My "BRUCE" moment.. Cape Girardeau Missouri June 2025 |
Well, yesterday being Fast Sunday, I got to bear my testimony to the whole congregation! I bore my testimony on how there is so much joy that comes from dedicating your life to Jesus Christ! I read a quote this past week from Howard W. Hunter that reminds me of how we can greatly show our love for Jesus Christ:
“A great indicator of one’s personal conversion is the desire to share the gospel with others. For this reason, the Lord gave an obligation to every member of the Church to be missionaries.”
I’m so grateful for missionary work, and I’m really grateful for my time here in Cape Girardeau and the members who have taught me how to do member missionary work! They are a HUGE help to our work, and I know God blesses His missionaries and His work with people He can trust! I look forward to being able to be a member missionary when I return home, and I’m so happy I get to spread the good news for the rest of my life!!
Anyways, I love y’all so much! Have the best week ever!!! God is good! 🩷
— Hermana Kimball
Dad: Grandfather really paid off with Kash love this past week!
Mom: Reese always looking at you reminds me of what you used to say about dogs: “I love them with my eyes.” Haha.
Colton: Did your BIL grow up in Japan? How is he your guide?
Caryn: So jelly of y’all at the beach this past week!!!
Taylor: I love Miles Cam!
Bailey: Thanks for not letting “naked party” die…
Clay: RIVER PARTY 6/20/25!!!!
Lexi: I can’t believe I’m gonna see you legit so soon!
Bella: Hey, we get to hang out for one day until you're in college 😲
Collins: Sorry I was in a reality TV show too, but at least I didn’t break your phone case 🥲
Capri: I love your Jack impression.
Kash: I hope you remember me.
Reese: Hey, see you soon.
Miles: Ditto.
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