Hermana Kent Takes on Florida: Our Lesson Went on a Road Trip

Man, this was such a good week! Hermana Christensen and I saw a lot of blessings!

I'll start by explaining my subject. We taught Rosa this week. She is a young mom from the Dominican Republic. She was a referral from Mormon.org and is super solid! Her kids are all still in the DR which is really sad. She is living with her sister and brother-in-law but it's not a good situation. They are pretty mean to her and not very supportive of her decision to investigate religion. So when we came by for our lesson she felt very awkward because she didn't want them hearing her experience with reading and praying (which was amazing btw). So we decided to go walk outside but it was over 100 degrees and super humid so that was miserable. We decided to sit in our car with the AC. It was so fun though. It ended up being an incredible lesson. We taught her the Plan of Salvation and she loved it! She cried through the majority of it. She told us that she believed the Book of Mormon was true and wants to be baptized. She is on date for July 23rd! So yes, we extended a baptismal invitation in our car. Haha. But hey, the spirit was incredibly strong!!!!! It was amazing.

Some other fun stuff:

- knocked a trailer park for 2.5 hours and some Pentecostals tried to recruit us.

-saw sever snakes this week. NOT OKAY

-had a ward BBQ

-Quoted some scriptures in sand

- HIT MY 8 MONTH MARK!!!!!!!! Time is freaking flying. Also not okay.

- Finally learned how to French braid

- Ran into my Trek brother Jeff Barnett. So we were just sitting in the foyer on Sunday and I was studying my Spanish flash cards. I legit didn't even see Jeff sit down and he didn't see my face because I was looking down. Then he asked "what mission is this?" I looked up to answer and both of our eyes just got huge. We were like “holy crap! What are you doing here?! How's it going? What a small world!"

It was so crazy. At that moment it was just him and his brother. He asked how long I'd been out and stuff. Crazy, crazy, crazy! Then his mom came in and IMMEDIATELY said “hey it's a Kent girl!" Then she took the picture. I gave her a hug to pass along to my family. That was seriously so fun!

I love this work! I’m studying Alma chapter 5 this week and I freaking love it. It is super chastising. Verses 12-14 talk about a mighty change of heart and being converted to the Lord. I also read the talk called “The Character of Christ” by Elder Bednar and he had this to say about the difference between a testimony and Conversion:

“If a testimony is what you know to be true by the witness of the spirit, then conversion is consistently being true to what you know"

I loved this. And I know it to be true. It doesn't matter what we know unless we are going to do something about it. I don't want just a testimony. A testimony isn't strong enough. I want to be converted to the gospel of Jesus Christ and forever follow Him.

I love you all and hope you are doing well. This is the last week of the transfer. Hermana Christensen and I are hoping to stay together. We have had an amazing time together and holy cow it has flown!!!! Stay tuned for next week!

Hermana Kensington Kent