The Week of All Weeks!

 What. A. Week. 

I can't believe time goes this F A S T! Here's just a few things that happened!

- The whole mission got vaccinated! The whole mission came to the mission office within 24 hours. It was N U T S! My arm was so so sore the day after and Hermana Harding and I both had some crazy side effects! 

- We had the best meeting for social media with Brother Rodriguez from the mission department and I asked about some tips for the Spanish demographic side of things! He was so excited when we asked about it because he works with all of the Spanish and Portuguese countries! He invited us to join the AREA MEETINGS for all of the Spanish countries! He told me that he had met with my mission President, President Strong from Peru!!! Ahhh!! So cool and so many lil miracles!!!

- Hermana Harding and I spoke at church this week all about the ward mission plan! I think my favorite part was one of our returning members made friends with a recent convert and then they invited one of the friends of the Elders to sit with them haha! It was the best to see!! The gospel is a gospel of love and acceptance. It really is the coolest thing! 

- The Cooks (the best senior couple ever) finished their mission yesterday! They didn't say bye without having a "tailgate party" the night before! They have shown so much christlike love not only to us missionaries but to our friends and just everyone. They are the BEST.

- We have the greatest and sweetest members in our ward! The New Tampa ward is a ward that you pray for coming on your mission! Our ward mission leader found out we didn't have dinner on Saturday just because it was all so crazy and he zoomed over and got us and the Elders some food!

FrIeNd UpDaTe

- so we have some super awesome friends named Hilda and her husband's name is Greguire and they are SO GREAT. We read some of the Book of Mormon with them and Hilda was explaining everything to Greguire! They are grasping on to every part of the gospel and it's incredible! They are from Dominica! Not the Dominican Republic, but Dominica! I had never heard of it! The growing testimonies of friends that are just hearing of the gospel is one of the best testimony builders for me. Pray for Hilda and Greguire that they can find the documents they need to change jobs :) 

- Being in a new area, we are working on finding people to teach and finding people that are really ready for the gospel. We've seen so many miracles as we have been bolder and it's incredible to see how willing God is!

- We have another friend named Cody and we are working with him right now to trust himself and his knowledge that he has about the gospel. He has been meeting with missionaries for YEARS. He is incredible and just needs to trust in himself a little more! He has so much faith and God loved him so so much, he just needs to trust that too:) 

I wanted to share a quick quote for my thought today from Elder Holland :)

"the first great commandment of all eternity is to love God with all of our heart, might, mind, and strength—that’s the first great commandment. But the first great truth of all eternity is that God loves us with all of His heart, might, mind, and strength."

You guys. God loves us. Each of us. Please trust Him. He is a God of oh so many opportunities and we never have to quit or be done because we can always start again. We are all too hard on ourselves but just like Elder Holland says, never forget what what first great truth of all time is:) God is 100% ALL IN to loving us. We deserve to accept ourselves as well!

I want to invite each of you to write down 3 of your biggest strengths this week. You can write more if you want ;) But focus on the good this week, especially the good about/in yourself! 

YOU ARE AMAZING.

All my love:)

Hermana King!! 

Pics!

- update on our house!

- the best Martinez kiddos!

- seeing some of my favorite hermanas

- vaccinated! 

- our tail gate party with the Cooks! 

- the vaccine got us pretty hard...

- us in the rain! It got up to 50 mph vertical rain! AH! 

- yummiest food from the Cooks on Sunday! 

- teaching Sister Hollingsworth how to take selfies hahaha!