February 9, 2015

1 year down....

Hola Todos,

     Well this week went by so fast but it felt like it was forever long again. So like the title of this email says I had my one year mark on my mission this last week. Super Weird! I still feel like it's only been a few months since I started this journey. It definitely doesn't feel like I know as much as a missionary who's been out on their mission for a year. Elders are so lucky that they get two years!

     On Monday we had to go over to the mission office for some quick paper work for Hna Wilks. So the night before we got permission from the Zone Leaders to call the Hermanas serving in the neighboring Spanish branch to go and have lunch with them while we were on the other side of town. It was awesome to see Hna Jennings again, and Elder Grow (she invited him to so we could all have a MTC reunion :D). That was an awesome start to the week.

     One day this week we got to have one of the recent converts in the branch come tracking with us! Fun Right?!? :) Haha we had a blast and we ended up walking like 2 miles but we had a great time and it's just helping him get ready for his own mission. It's awesome to see how the Gospel changes lives because this convert was so incredibly shy and now he comes out with the missionaries everyday and helps us teach people! So awesome! #TheChurchisTrue

     Sunday we had Branch Conference and since we're on the branch counsel we got to go to all of the meetings. It was really coo

l to see more of the administrative part of the church. And my testimony of leadership in the church was strengthened so much! I absolutely love the Stake Presidency here in the Wichita Stake. I also had a lot of fun because I got to translate Sunday School and the combine Relief Society/Priesthood lesson into English for the members of the Stake executive counsel. It was awesome to see how much my Spanish has improved in this last year. But then I was immediately humbled in Sacrament meeting when I had to translate from English into Spanish for the Stake Relief Society President.... yeah, there's still a lot of room for improvement on that end of the spectrum. :)
So this week we worked really really hard... and we didn't get hardly any of the results that we were hoping for. But last night Heavenly Father helped figure out why that happened. I know that if I act on the revelation that he gave me this week will be awesome!!!
I love you all and I hope you have a wonderful week!

Con Mucho Amor,

Hermana Kammeyer

February 2, 2015

It's greener on the other side... right?

Hola Todos,

     Wow, thinking back on this week it feels like so much happened in such a small amount of time. On Monday we had a Stake p-day, so all of the missionaries serving in the Wichita Stake and we watched a MOVIE!!!!! Ahhhh!!! It was so awesome!! We watched the Other Side of Heaven and it was really fun to just enjoy a movie that's not the Testiments. :) The weather was so wonderful that day and it was super sad to have the rest of the week be cold. :( 

     This past week Hna Wilks and I have been working really hard to be more diligent and effective with our time and we haven't seen a ton a results yet but I know that good things are on the way for us if we keep working hard. Friday we had interview with President Bell and it was awesome!! And he told me some pretty exciting news... drum roll please..... I'm going to be training next transfer!!!! :) I am so excited! A little stressed but I know it will be a wonderful experience.

     This week was customer apprechiation week at Chik-fli-a here in Wichita and they were giving away free breakfast everyday!! It was great so everyday this week the zone has gotten together and played sports in the morning and the church and then we would go over to Chik-fli-a and get some breakfast! It was sooo good! :) I hope I can fit into my pants when It's time to go home!

     So Sunday was a super hard day for Hna Wilks and I. No one came to church and I had woken up with a pretty bad cold. Then we went to see a family that we had been teaching for a while, Jose & Ernestina, that we absolutely love and we brought a recent convert with us. And they dropped us. It was really hard to stay positive in that moment. But I'm really glad that we had the recent convert with us because he and I were able to help Hna Wilks because she took it really really hard.

   
Even with this big set back I know that Heavenly Father has great things in store for us on the other side of this trail as long as we remain faithful with WILL be blessed so much!
I love you all so much and I hope you all have a fantastic week!

Con Mucho Amor,

Hermana Kammeyer

January 19, 2105

61 Degrees in January?!?

Hola Todos!

     There was so many great things happening this week! Heavenly Father loves us so much! We are continuing to see miracles every day! One of the best things this week has been the weather! It's been super nice!!! Friday it was 61 degrees Fahrenheit!! It feels like it's April here in Kansas! All of the snow melted so we were able to play Soccer again today, blessing from above. So I don't have a ton of time today but some of the amazing miracles this week was that Jose and Ernestina have been progressing so much this last week! We are so excited for them!

We also met some new people that we are working towards baptism too! Heavenly Father is just blessing us in so many ways it's wonderful!! The crowning moment was church because there was 6 people that we've been teaching at Church!!! It was amazing to see all of the progress happening in our little Spanish Branch!!! I love you all so much!!

Con Mucho Amor,

Hermana Kammeyer

Pictures are from our Soccer game this morning :)

January 12, 2015

God of Miracles!

Hola Mis queridos!

     This week was absolutely amazing!!!! Aw!! Craziness!!! Heavenly Father rained down blessings upon us this week! Day after day we kept seeing miracles happening. There is so much progress happening here in our little Spanish Branch!!! At church Yesterday there were a ton of people, almost more investigators and less actives than regular members! We had 44 people total, yeah!!! And Hermana Wilks and I had two of the families that we are teaching come!!! It was wonderful, I almost cried four times. And one of the reasons is due to all of the progression of the recent converts in our branch. Three out of the four boys doing the sacrament were baptized in the last two months! It was incredible to me to see the changes that have happened in their lives and how they have truly embraced the gospel in their lives. The Church is TRUE!!!!!

     Also this week we were finally able to contact one of the families that we absolutely love this week, Jose and Ernestina. It was awesome seeing them again, so many laughs & good times, and they are progressing and back on tract for their baptism at the end of this month!
Sorry this email is so short but all is well and the Lord is taking care of us and is guiding us to his lost sheep here in Wichita Kansas. I love you all so much and I hope you are able to see the miracles that God is raining down upon you, as well!

Con Mucho Amor,

Hermana Kammeyer

January 5, 2015

Church is .... Canceled?

Hola, todos!

     I hope you all had a wonderful Ano Nuevo! So much happened this last week it's kinda hard to believe that it was only one week. This week our District Leader finished his mission, after 26 months he finally went home. And it was interesting having to deal with all of the craziness that happens when someone goes home before transfer day. For New Years we had dinner with some of the Elders recent converts and we had the BEST TAMALES EVER!!!!!!!! So good!!!!! We had left over tamales for dayz!!! So good! We also had a bunch of really awesome lessons through out the week and I am so excited to see the area progressing!!! :)

     We also had some "crazy" weather here. You would've thought that Kansans had never seen snow before with the way they drive! So we've been bundling up pretty tightly this week to try and stay warm. It definitely doesn't snow as much as Utah but it sure does get cold here in Kansas! So Saturday night we probably got 3-4 inches of Snow and they canceled Church!!! We were like "okay, makes since with the Spanish branch because they never leave their houses when it snows. But everyone else?" Out of the 4 wards that meet here in 

     Wichita only one of them wasn't canceled. So you can imagine how packed that sacrament meeting was. It was fun to go to Church with all of the other missionaries in this area but it was so weird because it was a ward full of old white people. I felt way out of place! Hna Wilks and I were like "We need our Spanish Branch!"

   
So this week is transfer week. Hna Wilks was pretty sure that she would be leaving but I guessed right and she will be staying here with me another Transfer. We're both pumped to be here another transfer and we are determined to see miracles and become the best missionaries that we can be this transfer! I hope you all have a wonderful week and are always able to recognize the tender mercies of the Lord everyday!

Con Mucho Amor,

Hermana Kammeyer,

Pics:
Issac (the dog) hitched a ride with us. He had followed us for 4 blocks until we got to our car so we figured that we should probably bring him back to his owner! :)


Snow Day!

December 29, 2014

... and a Happy New Year! :)

Hola Todos,

     Whoa, it's kinda hard to believe that Chirstmas is over! Hna Wilks and I didn't want it to be Christmas because then all of the Christmas Magic would be over and it was the last (for me only) Christmas as missionaries.

     We had a great time though! On Christmas Eve we went around passing out as many El es la Dadiva (He is the Gift) cards as physically possilbe. We definitely didn't get all of them passed out but I'm proud of the attempt that we made. Then we had dinner that night with some Members and the Spanish Elders and it was a blast. When we got home Hna WIlks and I decided to have our own Hispanic Christmas (aka staying up until midnight and opening our presents then). So we stayed up and read our Books of Mormon and we watched Mr. Krueger's Christmas and played a bible trivia game. It was lots of fun! We ended up just opening half of our presents so we could still have the traditional Christmas morning. Christmas morning we spent doing serve for the mother of one of our investigators and it was so much FUN!!! Sorry family but it was probably my favorite part of the day. But a close second favorite was talking to my family! :) We ended up finishing that late so we didn't get to go the the mission home which was a little bit of a bummer but it was still all good. We had dinner with a investigator and then to finish off the night we went Caroling as a Zone! All in all it was an awesome Christmas!!!

     The rest of the week went great. I got to give a another talk in Sacrament and that was interesting... Haha, I'm still not fluent! :) But I am so glad that I get to be a missionary here in Kansas at this time! It is definitely one of the best experiences of my life. I love you all so much and I hope you have a wonderful New Year! :)

Love,

Hermana Kammeyer

Pics:
Christmas Morning Pic next to the tree, remember it's early so excuse my awful hair! :)
Hna Wilks and I after we finished raking leaves on Christmas.
Zone picture after caroling, sorry it's so dark.

December 22, 2014

Feliz Navidad!

Hola Todos!

     It's so weird how time works. It feels like this week went by so fast but as I think about what happened this week it seems like everything was so long ago!

     The week started off awesomely with Spealized Training/Christmas Party with the Wichita, Derby, and Newton Zones! It was GREAT!!!! Almost every missionary that I've served with was there!! It was so good to see everyone, especially Hermana Fernandez who I haven't seen since she finished training me. There was an ugly sweater contest which was a blast, unfortunately I couldn't find an ugly sweater the day before.

     The rest of the week we spent running to and fro avoid snow... and then melted puddles of snow :) as we shared the wonderful message of Chirst's birth with as many people as we could. Christmas is an awesome time to be a missionary! I love spreading the good news of Christ with everyone!!!!

     We had a huge miracle happen yesterday at church. Jose and Ernestina came to Church!!!! Woot woot! Jose brought the kids by himself to sunday school and then Ernestina got off work in time to come to sacrament meeting!!! Yes!!! They are awesome and it's amazing to see how fast they are progressing and their desire to come closer to the Lord is incredible! I am so grateful that I get to be a part of their story. Us missionaries also got together and decided to do a musical number for Sacrament meeting since it's Christmas. It went great and it was super funny because Presidente Cereceres joined in at the last minute and he didn't realize that at one point it was just Hna Wilks singing so he sang to... really really high. :) You just gotta love Spanish Branches! :)

     I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas. Always remember the true meaning of Christmas and how much our Savior has done for us. Please use this time to have Christ mas (see what I did there :D) in your life! Feliz Navidad!

Con Mucho Amor,

Hermana Kammeyer

Pictures:
Practicing for our Musical Number
Soccer, this was from this morning :)