Dear Family and Friends,
I hope all is well. I love getting mail, so please keep writing. I love it here in North Carolina. Chapel Hill is beautiful! There are lots of hills and Chapels just like the name. I am definitely in the Bible belt and I like it here. There are giant trees everywhere. There is a crazy amount of leafs on the ground. Everyone just pushes them into the street and someone comes around to clean it up.
The work is going slow in this area. But we do have an amazing investigator right now. We found him while tracking. He has a deep love for God and Jesus but says he's not religious. Yet he was quoting the Bible right and left. I think I recognized them all so far. Almost everyone here is from somewhere else. He's from Africa. I feel like I an teaching around the world as I am just over this one ward, Chapel Hill 2 right now. It is a college town so there is a lot of diversity in the residents and a lot of young college family's. The people are great. Everyone has there Southern manners whether they listen to you or not. The ward loves to feed us. It is rare that we don't have a dinner appointment. we try our best not to let them feed us too much.
I love getting to know the people, serving them and teaching them. I know there is no way that I could do this without the Holy Spirit of the Lord. Expeshelly when teaching people who are so much smarter than me. I know that I have something that they need. Our investigator says he was told in a dream that we were coming and that with the way we talk he knows he will believe us. We want him to know for him self not just believe us. I felt like we were teaching King Lamoni's father. He just has so many questions and then just soaks it all in.
We do a lot of work with inactive and less active members. I am so impressed with this one Sister who walked in all by her self on my first Sunday here. She told us that she was inactive for about 5 years and is back. She just glows every time I see her. We are trying to support her as much as we can but we had nothing to do with her coming back. I am so proud of our ward for how they are embracing her. We tout Young Woman's yesterday. They usually have about 9 girls but only had 2 for most of our lesson. But those 2 are just as important as the 9 would be to teach.
I am giving a talk in church in 2 weeks. I bore my testimony on fast Sunday, my first Sunday and was asked to give a 5 minutes talk the 2nd Sunday that I was at the Missionary Training Center. So people are hearing a lot from me in that way. The food here so far has been great for the most part. The Lord has differently helped me eat stuff I don't like without gagging or making faces. I am very grateful that he has blessed me to have a stronger tolerance.
Sister Anderson is my trainer. She is great! She does her best to help me and support me. One of my Grandmothers died this week and she cried too. She's so sweet. We are working hard and loving it. I can put dignified Photos on Facebook so y'all can check there for pictures.
Sincerely,
Sister Kimberly Galloway
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