Hermana Kent Takes on Florida: Proud To Be An American

Transfer news!!!! Hermana Christensen and I are staying together!!! We are so excited. This is our halfway transfer so we are excited to be together. I can´t believe how fast the time is going! This week begins my 7th transfer as a missionary. Only 6 more left here in Florida, as exciting as that sounds, I am sad. Haha. I truly love it here. Not a fan of the humidity and heat, but I am surviving. :)

Okay, now on to this weeks adventures. To be completely honest, I can't remember anything crazy exciting this week. It was a good week of doing missionary work. Rosa is progressing really well. We The only problem we are having is getting our investigators to come to church... so RMs, if you have any ideas on how to get investigators to come to church I will gladly accept your advice!

In my personal Study this week I got to the story of Ammon in the Book of Mormon........ so if you know me at all you know it was a good week of studying. But before I got to the story of Ammon, I read Alma 14. This is a freaking amazing chapter. I highly suggest you read it. It is the chapter where Alma and Amulek are forced to watch righteous women and children be burned and lots of other horrible stuff goes down. The question of the soul that is answered in this story is "Why does bad things happen to good people", well I would like to use this quote that I read during studies by President Kimball:

" If all the sick for whom we pray were healed, if all the righteous were protected and wicked destroyed, the whole program of the Father would be annulled and the basic principle of the gospel, Free Agency, would be ended. No man would have to live by faith."

God allows pain and suffering to occur so that we might learn to live by faith and so that choice and accountability could work. So whatever challenges you might be facing, remember that God has not forsaken you. All things are for our benefit and part of a plan that is bigger than ourselves. Remember to be humble, and allow the Lord to change you into the person HE desires you to be.

Since I'm lacking in good stories I'll include some good pictures. I love you all so much and hope you have an amazing Independence day! I am so grateful to be a citizen of this country. Almost everyone we work with are immigrants, coming to this country to provide a better life for their families. They take the lowest paying jobs, and smallest apartments to get by, yet, they are so grateful to be here. No matter how bad you make think we have it here, it is NOTHING to what other countries are facing. I am proud to be an American and I'm proud to be serving my mission in the Promised Land!

Con amor,

🌴🌊☀️Hermana Kent☀️🌊🌴