Hermana Kent Takes on Florida: Q&A with the Book of Mormon

This week was BOMB!!! It was seriously such a good week. We were busy which was fantastic!

Tuesday I went on exchanges to the STLs area. I got to meet this marine who is really cool. He is VERY intimidating. Look wise, he's actually pretty scrawny but he could kill me at a glance. He could read us like a book. It was crazy. Super cool guy though. Also it was

7/11 day so y'all had better of gotten free slurpees from 7/11.

Thursday we had ZTM (Zone training Meeting) and it was amazing. There was a huge emphasis on being unified as a mission. If one baptizes, we all baptize. We need to be unified and help each other out. Often times missionaries get selfish and competitive, but we are ALL servants in Gods army fighting for the same cause.

Friday was the best day ever. Usually we have weekly planning (a 3 hour planning session for the upcoming week) but we had so many back-to-back appointments that we didn't get to it until 6:00 at night.

We taught Ivelisse who has a baptismal date for the 23rd of July. We have to change it though because she is still not coming to church. :( anyway, we decided that we needed to go back to the basics. She hasn't started reading the Book of Mormon so we decided that instead of teaching a lesson we were just going to read with her. So we began by asking her to think of a question and then we said a prayer asking Heavenly Father to answer her question as we read chapter 1 of 1st Nephi. And guess what. She got her answer in the SUMMARY!!! She couldn't believe it. She was so excited. So we kept reading and when we got to verse 20 she flipped. It says,

"But behold, I, Nephi, will show unto you that the tender mercies of the Lord are over all those whom he hath chosen, because of their faith, to make them mighty even unto the power of deliverance."

She LOVES that verse. She marked it and told us she was going to buy a canvas to write it on so she could put it on her wall. She was so excited to keep reading. She believes the Book of Mormon is the word of God. I can testify that the Book of Mormon can answer any question of the soul. I encourage each of you to ponder a question, pray to find an answer, and read a chapter from the Book of Mormon. I promise that if you do so with faith, you WILL find an answer. I have watched it happen time and time again on my mission and I LOVE it. The Book of Mormon is a true blessing and I am grateful for the sacred opportunity I have to tell people about it. However, you don't have to wear a black name tags to tell someone about the world’s greatest treasure.

Also fun fact, our Ward Mission leader just got called to be the new Spanish/Portuguese patriarch. Not only will he cover our stake, but TWO other neighboring stakes. There are so many members who want their patriarchal blessing but because there wasn't a Spanish patriarch they couldn't receive it. There was a legit audible gasp in the congregation which was pretty cool. The members are all so excited for this blessings am I!

I love my mission more than anything in the world!!!! Today's lesson in relief society talked about losing yourself in the service of God and how we are happiest when we are serving others. I can testify that that is true. I am the happiest I have ever been. I know this church is true. I know that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ live. I know that the Book of Mormon is true and WILL answer any question our heart is asking. I love being a missionary and I love Florida!

Con mucho amor,

Hermana Kent