Hi

hello! 

what a wonderful week it has been in the washington spokane mission! i love being a missionary!

i am sister training leader - i really want my title to be changed to sister zone leader, much better! - for my zone so i get to go to mission leadership conference with the zone leaders. tuesday was the weirdest thing ever! i drove to spokane with the zone leaders. me and the zone leaders. driving away from my companion was such a strange feeling! weird! i was so excited to see the other sister training leaders after being with the zone leaders. alone. you don't even realize how much you love to be around your companions.

we had an awesome day on friday! i love the days you have to eat in the car! they are the best! we didn't have time for lunch or dinner we had so many appointments. it was awesome. those days really make you feel like a missionary!

our members here are awesome! we go out with members almost everyday to do our work! if only they would be the ones to give us the names of people to go teach... thats okay. its a start! rides today, referrals tomorrow.

being a missionary is so much fun! 

i love going around every day just talking to people about the joy of the gospel! it is the best thing ever!

love,

sister training leader rasmuson :)

p.s. the pictures are of (1) all the sister training leaders at mlc (2) my cucumbers. got 6 at church yesterday! members. fresh from the garden. yum! going to have to get creative :)

HI all!!

hello!

i had a really great week! i was going to tell some funny stories, some uplifting miracles and some powerful spiritual experiences. really i am sure i was. but thomas and kirsten are having a baby today. maybe even as i type. rylee lynn rasmuson. i'm going to be a auntie! needless to say, i have forgotten everything else that happened this week. but i am sure it was good... oh well! happy birth day rylee!

love

sister rasmuson

a.k.a new aunt

a.k.a awesome missionary

team rylee lynn!

HEllo!

hello!

life has been crazy the last few weeks!

i got to go to the temple last week! i love the temple! i wish we could go more often! but my work is currently with the living! and i love it! the drive was 2.5 hours each direction- and i got to drive it. it was so wonderful and refreshing.

then this week pday was weird again because of labor day and mission leadership conference (for zone leaders and sister training leaders). finally it is a normal pday! i can get stuff done!

we are seeing miracles everyday! i love it! i just love being a missionary! 

sister woodfield, my companion, is awesome! i love working with her! she is hilarious and we laugh a ton! plus we get to see the other sisters in our district a lot. i love them too! missionary work is work, but it can be fun work! 

we have some investigators! awesome right? we don't always have a ton of those so it is nice to be teaching people! i don't know if all of them will get baptized right away but we do have one, ana. she is legit! a member of the branch invited her to hear him speak in church. she came. we met with her. invited her to be baptized. she said yes! missionary work is fun!

transfers are coming up this week. i wonder what will happen this coming week! i would love to stay companions with sister woodfield but i have never had a companion that long or trained anyone past the first 6 weeks (except myself). i told her that i don't know what to do with people after 6 weeks. i would wake up in the morning on the day after transfers and ask her, "why are you still here?" that would just be weird!

i love this work. i know that it is god's work that i am doing here in lewiston! we have been learning about the atonement a lot in this mission. it is awesome! i love the atonement. jesus christ really did suffer and die for us. he was resurrected. and he lives! i am coming to know this personally more and more for myself. not only by the words of others but by the spirit. through the spirit is how i am getting to know it for myself. the atonement helps us through everything! christ suffered everything for us! because of that, he knows us perfectly. he is god's greatest gift to us. 

"for god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life." (john 3:16)

love,

mikayla

Hola Readers!

hola readers!

transfers this week! i am again staying in lewiston! but my area did get split so i will just be serving in the young single adult branch only. sister woodfield in staying in the family ward. and i am second training her mtc (missionary training center) companion. sister gardiner.

i love transfers. i don't have a car, a place to live and don't know how to pick up my companion. all has to be figured out by tomorrow. woo.

this week was great! i drove to spokane alone with the zone leaders to mission leadership conference.  which was great! 

nothing really exciting happened this week. we do have a new investigator. her name is becca. she is on date to get baptized at home in mccall, id. but is going to school at lewis clark state college in lewiston so we will be meeting with her until then. she is so cute and super solid! 

not much to report. good week!

love you all! the church is true!

love, 

kk

ps- sister thompson and i built a porch in lapwai on exchanges. it was awesome. then the lady made us buffalo stew.