Kelsey's Call to Serve: Hurricane Miracle Hits Florida

Dear Beloved Friends and Family,

So a hurricane didn't actually hit Florida but we did have a tropical depression the last few days and boy let me tell you it is not fun knocking doors in the rain and being drenched for 3 days straight. Yes I have an umbrella but I often forget it in the car and the umbrella doesn't protect you a 100%. But life is still going good. This has seriously been a week of miracles.

November 30: Today we met Vicky who will probably become my investigator mom because she seriously is so concerned about us and does all she can to help us. She leaves the outside lights on when we are in the neighborhood so we can see. She also lets us use her house anytime we need a drink or the bathroom and she even gave Sister Jeppson an umbrella one day when it was hardcore raining.

December 1: A member came out knocking with us today and it was awesome talking to her about her testimony as well as her getting to share her testimony at the door with some people it was awesome!

December 2: We met Raya who was totally awesome. Something cool she said is that when she is like feeling the spirit testify of truth she doesn't get goosebumps she gets god bumps. Seriously me and Raya are kindred spirits who both love meditation and just wish the world would have more love in it.

December 3: We have a new investigator named Nic and he is totally awesome and just wants to learn more and become closer with God. Cool thing is the other sisters found Nic and referred him to us and Nic is seriously so prepared to learn the gospel.

December 4: Today we finally got to start teaching Breanna. Breanna is absolutely amazing and is getting baptized December 19th. She is so prepared for the gospel and comes to our lessons with amazing questions and she does all her reading assignments plus some. She is basically a Mormon minus being baptized and she is so excited for her baptism and is actively trying to figure out how we can teach her.

December 5: Satan works really hard. Today most of our teaching appointments fell through because they all got sick which really sucks. We also met Marco and his family. Marco was so curious as to why 2 nice girls were knocking doors at night and why we weren't off living our lives. He also wanted to make sure that we stayed safe and told us that if anyone gave us problems that we could just call him up and he would come take care of the problem. It was an amazing opportunity to bear my testimony of why I am on my mission and my testimony of the gospel.

December 6: Today someone warded us away from his door with his fingers held in a cross like we were vampires. It was really funny because we actually believe that Christ died on the cross for us and we always reflect on his sacrifice for us. Tonight was also the Christmas devotional. If you haven't seen it go look it up on lds.org because it really was just an amazing reminder about the reason for the season.

Every week at our training meeting someone brings treats and have to wear this awesome get up during the training and this last week we were the chefs.