Showing posts with label Tampa Florida. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tampa Florida. Show all posts

Monday, February 1, 2021

Last quarter :)

 I feel like I say this every month...but I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S FEBRUARY! Which means the SUPERBOWL is this Sunday! It's definitely the talk of the town around here!! 


Here's a little rundown!

- It is also transfer week this week and we've got some news! Sister Moli will be leaving (😭) and headed to another zone to be a Sister Training Leader! I am so extremely excited for her!! She'll be amazing but I am SO SAD to have to say goodbye!!! I've only been in social media for a transfer and now I'm training someone! CRAZY.

- I am getting a new companion, her name is Hermana Harding!! We were in the SAME WARD when we were younger and so it'll be fun to be with my childhood best friend for the next little bit!! 

- This week starts my second to last transfer.. I go home next transfer.. I am not a fan. I am trying to make time slow down! I am loving every minute of my mission and never want it to end!

- WE MET A FRIEND. Okay so with Covid restrictions here we are not allowed to contact anyone.. but President Hollingsworth said that if we are talked to first or we don't try to go up and immediately tell them we're from a church (they have to ask) BUT we spent a lot of time on USF campus this week filming more advertisements! This girl walked by with a USF shirt on and I turned around and told her I liked it and sparked a conversation! 15 minutes later she was asking us all sorts of questions! We invited her to the bonfire activity the YSA was having! Her name is Taylor and she had been on campus only 2 weeks! She is super sweet! Please pray for her!

- We had some more Zone exchanges all about social media and those went well:)

- We also got a NEW CAR. We got a 2021 Chevy Equinox hahah when we got the call from the Vehicle Coordinators I just started laughing. Missionaries have it so nice. I feel so so SO blessed!!

This week was oh so good! I am so grateful for the sweetest companion and everything she's taught me this past transfer! I am grateful for all of the experiences God has given me since I have been here in Florida! 

OKAY. Church this was amazing and the one speaker spoke ALL about football! There are 2 quotes that I wanted to share with you all:)

"If you play scared, you're going to get hurt."
"We've been selected for God's special teams."

He made the connection between us as the special team and life as the game. What starts
the game off is the kickoff. Players line up and run at 100% to get to the other side. That's us right now. If we run scared we won't get anywhere and we're going to find ourselves hurt, tired and scared. When we take on life with everything we have and when we don't play scared, we can rely on our Heavenly coaches to tell us which play to run and where we need to go. 

I KNOW that this church is true. I know that we each have a special assignment from our Heavenly Father. When we put Him in the center of our lives we'll have a winning season;) we have the Bible and the Book of Mormon alongside our living Prophet as "playbooks" that God has given to us. I invite each of you to read from one of the playbooks and write down what you learn and SHARE with someone else:)

I LOVE YOU ALL. I hope this week is one to remember!

All my love:)
Hermana King

Pics:)
- last preparation day with Sister Thurgood!
- Tampa is BEAUTIFUL 
- The crew
- Got to see Hermana Riggs and it made my WHOLE DAY
- All of the sisters that work in the office
- saying bye to Sister Thurgood!
- ad filming crew
- sister moli's 9 months!!!
- the Cooks make us dinner every Sunday:)
- we got to get groceries with some of the funnest sisters! 












Monday, December 21, 2020

IT'S CHRISTMAS TIME!

 This will be the shortest email I have sent! We had someone run their car into our house. The car didn't make it all the way through the wall but everyone is okay and safe! We were all home when it happened which was a blessing but it definitely has made today a crazy one!


Well CHRISTMAS is this week! SO CRAZY! I'm so excited! Because we don't have an area, one of the senior couples is putting on a Christmas for us:) SO BLESSED!

Okay super quick highlights!
-we went to the ZOO today with some of the sweetest sisters ever!
-we have had so many meetings with President Hollingsworth, a few other missions in the states and we just got Personal Proselytizing from Personal accounts approved for a zone to try out which is AWESOME news!! It is so crazy to me how the Lord has been needing us as missionaries to really hasten the work. 


Like I said, this'll be pretty quick but I did want to share a simple testimony. 

Yesterday I finished the Book of Mormon and as I said a prayer I just sat there and didn't say anything. I have never had a more powerful, overwhelming feeling from the Spirit ever before in my life. I know that the Book of Mormon is true. I know that it really does testify of our Savior, Jesus Christ. This week and everyday we get to celebrate His life and His birth. I know that Christ was born for each of us, I know He lived for each of us, I know that he died for each of us and I know that he LIVES for each of us. I invite each of you to find a story of Christ and read it and ponder it. I know that you will be able to feel the love that he truly has for each and every one of us:) in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen. 

I love you all so so much. Have the BEST Christmas ever!!!!!

Love,
Hermana King :) 




























Friday, June 19, 2020

Pictures from the Tampa Florida facebook page...


Abby with her new companions

She is still Hermana King!

Elder Chris Miller from our home ward, also went to Tampa, Florida on the same day as Abby!

First Facetime!

Abby face timed us and she is doing great!  We are so happy that she is so happy!

Here is a summary of what she told us:
She is doing great!  She is in a trio with two sisters and she is Spanish speaking.  The mission president said she will do some Spanish and some English, so that is great that she will get to use her Spanish.

She just looked so happy!  It made me so happy!  She is in Ocala, Florida, which is about an hour and a half north of Tampa.  Her apartment overlooks a swimming pool.  She said the apartment is very large and she has her own closet.  The two sisters she is with- I can’t remember what their names were- one has been in Tampa her whole mission and has been out quite a while.  The other was in Ecuador but even less time than Abby was in Peru. 

She was the only sister in the bunch that came in, so she drove to the mission home with Pres. and Sister Hollingsworth- it was about a 45 min. drive.  She said that she will be mainly wearing pants on her mission and only dresses, etc. when they go to meetings and things like that.  She will be able to call on Sunday for Father’s day and Monday is her pday, and then they can also call Thursday.  That is the same as it was in Peru, and I think the extra call day is because they are still in quarantine. 

 Pres. Hollingsworth asked how comfortable she was with her Spanish, she told him she is as comfortable as he needs her to be!  Abby, Abby, Abby! 

Wednesday, June 17, 2020