A Life Changing Mission

I apologize as a publisher of this blog. This email post was last week. The email post for this week, is directly beneath it, titled, [Ponderizing General Conference]. I'll be sure to be more careful about when I publish her emails on here. 

Dearest Family and Friends,

This week has been crazy!!! I've been transferred to Hope Mills. Sister Farr and I both left Hillsborough. One of the Sisters, white washing, was trained by the same Sister who trained my trainer. I find that comforting. My trainer went home to Utah. I have two companions now! We are in a trio in Hope Mills, a little town in the middle of Fayettville. We cover two wards like I did in Raleigh. Where one of my friends just got sent. I'm a senior Companion again like I was with Sister Farr. We are adjusting to all the changes and meeting lots of people. We've been really busy. This area is really close to Fort Brag. So there are a lot of army families. The leaves on the trees are starting to change colors. We get to go to the Temple and then listen to General Conference and I'm so excited! 

We thought this couple the word of wisdom  and knowing that they'd already given up alcohol, and that one of them had been having a hard time with smoking, and we thought it would take him 5 years to stop, but this time he said he had already quit. He has no desire to smoke anymore. He stopped a week or a few weeks a go. He has been seeing the blessings from being smoke free and noticing the consequences from all that time he had been smoking. It was great! We all made goals to live the word of wisdom more fully this week. 

I love this area. We have a lot of investigators right now. It's wonderful! I am meeting lots of amazing people. I love seeing how much everyone is so different and we are all struggling and the Lord loves and is helping each of us. I've meet so many people. I have seen the hand of the Lord in their life's. This is my 4th area, the 5th and 6th Wards and my 7th and 8th Companions. I've been out for a little over 10 months. So far I know that my life will never be the same. I am growing spiritually! My life has been touched by many amazing people. I know I have been able to touch many lives. I am so grateful for my mission. I know a lot of people didn't believe I could do it. I can't without the help of the Lord. But with the Lord all things are possible. This is the hardest thing I've ever done. But I wouldn't trade it for anything. My mission is stretching me in every way I can imagine. I am as I am inviting others to do, I am changing. I will forever be grateful for the lessons I'm learning. I love you all! I miss you! And I hope all is well where ever you are. 

Sincerely,

Sister Kimberly Galloway

P.S. Please remind me when your and your family's birthdays are. I don't think I think I'm missing some.