Happy Easter! Everything is great!

Dear Friends and Family,

Happy Easter! I hope y'all had a really good one. I sure did! We had a lot of investigators and less active members come to Church. It was so great! We were so happy to see them. I know how important church is, and how much it will bless them. It was so exciting! We also had dinner with a bunch of people who don't have family in the area, so we all ate together. It was fun. 

This week has been amazing! We have been finding a lot of people to teach!! We had a great lesson with one of our YSA investigators. He's supper smart and loves to talk. He's so ready to hear the gospel and has a lot of questions. He has a hard time focusing, but he is doing great and learning a lot. With the help of a member, we were able to get through a whole lesson in one visit. Some members are great at helping our investigators focus. Members are great!! We had a Temple walk with one of our investigators this week. It was great! The spirit is so strong at the Temple. I love having the Temple in my area. It was great! 

My companions are great! Sister Higgins and Sister Olson are a lot of fun. 

Oh, and there was a day that we went and helped with the Bishop's store house during our normal study time. We were up by the Temple, so we did our study's on the Temple grounds afterwords. It was amazing! I love the Temple sooo much. I can't wait 'till our Temple trip which is coming up very soon!

I love y'all so much!!!

Sincerely,

Sister Kimberly Galloway

#hallelujah

Easter, Sunday Night, The Trio

Temple Walk. With Skye (an investigator). 

Studying at the Temple. #Loveit

Piano 'Lesson' Learned

Dear Family and Friends,

Happy Easter!!! 

So, it's been another great week! I would love to tell you about a funny story that happened this week. We got to help one of our investigators, move a piano, from their first floor, to the top floor. I never realized how heavy pianos can be! 

Imagine watching 4 girls, taking a door off of a steep, narrow stairwell, and then trying to move a heavy piano up the stairs. We were able to get the door off, and had no trouble moving the piano across the room, and up the first two flight of staircases. My companions and I, decided to ask the owner if she had any neighbors that could help us move the piano farther, because it was getting difficult for us to handle the task on our own. She said she didn't really know any of  her neighbors. The lady and a sister missionary in our companionship, went around the neighborhood asking people to help us finish hauling the piano up the rest of the stairwell. When the sister and the owner of the piano had returned, there was a Mexican family, and a teenage boy standing behind them. We were so glad to have had more help with this project! 

With all of us working together, we got the piano up a few more steps. Plus, the stairwell was very narrow. This made it difficult for all of us to help once the piano was 'stuck' in the middle of the staircase. We came to a point, that we feared that the piano would begin to fall backwards, because the stairs were steep, putting the piano at a difficult angle.The father of the Mexican family, had mentioned that he had some supplies back at his house that would help fix our piano problem. He left to go get his tools, and when he came back he had gotten two pieces of ply wood, and some rope. With more helping hands, and some nice equipment, we were able to get the piano up the rest of the way. Moving the piano had become much easier, quicker, and safer.

Even though we didn't move the piano in the smoothest, quietest way, as well as some bruise marks on our bodies, and a scratched up wall, we were able to learn something from the journey, and we felt good knowing that we had accomplished a great goal. 

I would like to compare this to overcoming an addiction. The investigator had known that she couldn't do move the heavy piano all by herself. She decided to ask her friends. We could help her go a lot farther than she could go alone. She didn't know who else to ask. However, we were able to find more people to help us, who gave more insight and support with the issue at hand. There came to a point that not all of us could help anymore. But we were able to get more tools, and a new strategy to keep us from falling back. With a good support group, and a plan to keep us from falling backwards, we were able to get that piano to the top of the stairwell, and stay there. 

Love y'all!!!!

Sincerely, Sister Kimberly Galloway

New Area, New Ways

Dear friends and family,

I got transferred to Cary 2 and Raleigh, YSA. I'm in a trio companionship, with Sister Higgins, and Sister Olson. Sister Higgins was trained by Sister Hesen. Sister Hesen, happened to be my MTC companion, and has been out for almost a year. Sister Olson just finished being trained. They are a lot of fun. 

While we are helping out with the YSA area, the Stakes are not that big. The Temple is in our area. No, we didn't get to go in this week. However, we were able to have a meeting by Temple, so we decided to take some pictures! We have a lot of great people we are teaching!! I'm mostly working on learning everyone's names, who they are, and figuring out how to get around. Sister Olson is doing great at teaching us how the area works, and what to look forward to! I love being a missionary. 

Sincerely,

Sister Kimberly Galloway

Go Forth With Faith

Dear Friends and Family,

Hey y'all! Hope you're all doing well. This has been another crazy week. Plus I'm getting TRANSFERRED again! This time, I know where I'm going! I'm going to be serving in the Cary 2nd Ward. I'll get to be in a TRIO companionship for the 3rd time. I'll be living and serving with, Sister Higgins and Sister Olsen (not sure on the spelling).  North Carolina is great, and this will be my 8th area that I've served in. I wonder if this will be my last area or if I'll have one more transfer? This transfer will be 7 weeks instead of the normal 6 (because of the MTC changes...#June8notJun1). 

We've been working on contacting referrals a lot lately, mostly from the Elders. We went on an exchange with the South Boston Sisters. We drove there and back to switch. They were fun. It's hard to leave Chapel Hill again. But I know I have made eternal friends there, and the Lord needs me to serve somewhere else now. I must go where he wants me to go.

Hymn No. 223 "I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go
31243, Hymns, I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go, no. 270

Verse 1
It may not be on the mountain height
Or over the stormy sea,
It may not be at the battle's front
My Lord will have need of me.
But if, by a still, small voice he calls
To paths that I do not know,
I'll answer, dear Lord, with my hand in thine:
I'll go where you want me to go.

[Chorus]
I'll go where you want me to go, dear Lord,
Over mountain or plain or sea;
I'll say what you want me to say, dear Lord;
I'll be what you want me to be.

Verse 2
Perhaps today there are loving words
Which Jesus would have me speak;
There may be now in the paths of sin
Some wand'rer whom I should seek.
O Savior, if thou wilt be my guide,
Tho dark and rugged the way,
My voice shall echo the message sweet:
I'll say what you want me to say.

Verse 3
There's surely somewhere a lowly place
In earth's harvest fields so wide
Where I may labor through life's short day
For Jesus, the Crucified.
So trusting my all to thy tender care,
And knowing thou lovest me,
I'll do thy will with a heart sincere:
I'll be what you want me to be.

Text: Mary Brown, 1856-1918
Music: Carrie E. Rounsefell, 1861-1930

1 Nephi 3:7
D&C 4:2 "

https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2002/10/i-ll-go-where-you-want-me-to-go?lang=eng

Sincerely,

Sister Kimberly Galloway

PS. A profound quote from a friends email...quotes by Elder Bednar as he quoted Elder Hales 

"When you cannot do what you have always done, you only do what matters most"  

Went to Virginia...

...and back to North Carolina.

Exchange with Sister Dye

Exchanging with the Boston Sisters

Spring is coming...

 District, minus Zone leaders