June 24, 2017 - Donny Osmond devotional

On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Kathleen Elizabeth Ball <kathleen.ball@myldsmail.net> wrote:

Donny Osmond spoke at our Sunday devotional!!! He sang just a little bit of Lets Get Down to Business because he was the voice of General Shang in Mulan!! Too Cool!!

Donny Osmond groupies

I have seriously LOVED the MTC!!! I Love this pilot program that I'm in (even though I don't really know how different it is from the norm) and I LOVE LOVE LOVE my companion and my district!!! We play Hardcore 4 Square for exercise time, and believe it or not, I am actually becoming kind of decent at it!!!! Also, HAPPY FATHERS DAY to all of the Fathers and future Fathers in my life that i love and care about!!!!! <3   

Earlier this week Sister Larsen and I recognized that we were having a hard time teaching to the needs of our investigator (which is key to converting them to Christ and not just the church or to people in it) and we were being told that one way to help do that is by asking questions!! One of our teachers, Brother Anderson (who played our first investigator Tanner before he was our teacher) sat down with us and worked through it with us. We still aren't perfect at it, but we are now to a point where we can teach with questions to help them see the importance of what we are teaching them and how to apply it to their lives, and why!!!  Because of that we committed one of our investigators to Baptism!!!!!!!!! We think she is already a member, just playing an investigator, but there is still a chance that she isn't and that she might get baptised!!!!!!!!! 

The investigators we teach here are called TRC investigators, which just means that they are just helping us practice teaching for when we get out into our fields of labor. With that though, 43 of those "fake" investigators aren't members of the church and are actually looking into the Gospel!! I LOVE all of my investigators, and I have felt Gods love for each and everyone of them, which makes it hard, because sometimes they don't recognize that and have a hard time having faith. 

I seriously LOVE what I am doing!!! 10/10 recommend missions to everyone!!!!!! 

Hole cut in ice for baptism... in Edmonton????

Something really cool I realized/was taught/ never had really thought about before is what does "the Gospel" even mean?? "The Gospel" of Jesus Christ is simply that we have a way to live with our Father in Heaven again with our families for time and all eternity, because of the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ!!! I want to share that with everyone, and I am so grateful that I am on a mission right now, preparing to go to Canada, to do just that!! I want to share Gods love with the World and show them that there is a way to make it through anything, and that means ANYTHING!!!! 

I have only been here for a week and a half and I already feel my faith has grown SO MUCH!!!! 

I Love you all and miss you!!!!!!!    Keep the emails coming!!!!! <3 <3 <3 

                                                                <3/ Sister Katie Ball   

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