another great week:)

  Hi all!!! I hope you all are having a great start to your week!!! It was an eventful, full of smiles kind of week here in Largo!! 

I want to share a few fun things that happened this week!!

Highlights:)

-we said goodbye to the cute online MTC missionary helped us with a few lessons! She is now in Ogden, Utah! Woot!! She will be so great! 

-okay okay okay! A quick update with our cute friend PATRICIA! We had a few lessons this week with her and she is DOING AMAZING. A week ago we had challenged her to pick a date to get baptized. We really felt prompted to have her come up with a date on her own so we gave her a time reference of anytime the week of the 26th...well all of our lessons with her have ended up being about baptism so we made a plan to talk about temples and families! On Thursday of this past week, we were about halfway through our lesson with Patricia cuts us off and says "so about the date I was supposed to pick" ....what! Haha! She said she had been reading the Book of Mormon and praying about the 26th and the number 29 popped into her head! She works on Saturdays and so when she looked up the calendar and noticed the 29th was a Tuesday she said that was her answer! She told us that she wants to BE BAPTIZED THE 29TH OF SEPTEMBER! We are so proud of her and so happy for her!!!

-Victor is so great! He wasn't able to make church yesterday and so we have to change his baptismal date just a little bit, but he is super ready and excited! He told us which friends from the branch he wants to baptize and confirm him! He told us he is SO excited!

-ALSO we have some REALLY AWESOME Facebook videos coming out the next 2 weeks! So watch out for those!!

-we got to work with some of the BEST members to make some posts for Facebook and it was just so fun to be able to get to know more of our branch! They are all so so great!!!

This week was a BLAST and I feel very lucky to be able to be here in Largo. I am so grateful for all of the members and our friends!! 

I wanted to share a quick quote and challenge with you all! Last night was the Face to Face with Elder Rasband and wow it was so good!! A quote that stood out to me was this "Be optimistic about the future. Even now" The prophet told us how EXCITED and OPTIMISTIC he is about the future. The worldly perspective is the complete opposite. We can have the same confidence in the future that President Nelson does!! We should optimistic about what's to come. D/C 68:5-6 is a good reminder of that!! 

President Nelson in 2018 extended an invitation to all of us and it's a challenge I want to extend to all of you today! This week as you read the Book of Mormon write down and ponder these questions:

"First, what would your life be like without the Book of Mormon? Second, what would you not know? And third, what would you not have?"

The Book of Mormon is TRUE. The Book of Mormon proves that this gospel has been restored, that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that the authority of the Church of Christ has been brought back to the earth. We have the knowledge of ALL OF THAT. What a blessing!! The Book of Mormon is OH so important and I challenge all of you to ask Heavenly Father THIS WEEK if it's true. I am so grateful for the Book of Mormon and the knowledge and joy it brings me in my life! 

I love you all SO MUCH! I can't thank you enough for all the love and support! Thank you SO MUCH! Thank you so much for the prayers for our friends! We appreciate it SO MUCH! 

Love,

Hermana King:)