Winchester 3/20/17

Dear people,

Another fab week in the beautiful town of Winchester in the great state of Kentucky in the United States of America, God bless it!

Exchanges this week were really good. I got to go to Paris again! This lady we stopped by almost had a heart attack in the middle of the lesson so that was pretty freaky. Had a really good talk with the hermana I was with. After the exchange, Sister Endemann and I were talking about how it went and both of us realized how inspired it was, the little things that happened in that 24 hours that needed to happen to help those two sisters. 

So I have never been to Golden Corral in my life. But last transfer we ended up going a couple of times because members took us. It's your classic greasy all-you-can-stuff-your-face-with place, but southern style. Which means like twice as greasy. I had vowed never to set foot in the place again, but some members took us Saturday night. Which would have been fine, except we had ward Coordination at Frisches for breakfast, and another member took us out to eat for lunch (a little hole in the wall place that has hot browns yay). So we were greased OUT by the time we were done for the day! At this point we were vowing never to eat out again in our whole lives. Sunday, a sister in the ward invited us over to eat the next day. She said, "It doesn't matter when you come, we're just going out anyways. Probably Golden Corral." For three whole seconds, I honestly thought she was joking. 

 We have a cute little family in the ward who has been working with their neighbor for several months--he comes by their house multiple times a week and they study the Book of Mormon together. He's eating it up, but not quite willing to act on it yet. We had the idea to come to their meeting and invite Sandy! It went so well. She shared her brand new testimony and it seemed to really touch him. 

*drumroll please

Sandy got baptized!! It was absolutely lovely. How can you tell if someone is ready for baptism? It's repentance, which is another word for change. Sandy has changed so much. She was positively beaming all day. Looking back on her conversion process, I've seen how patient and tender Heavenly Father has been with her. She's like a little girl reunited with her dad. All that we do as members of the church is to help God's children realize who they are and who they have always been--sons and daughters of God. Sandy invited several members of her family and we invited our friends we work with at the heritage museum. Altogether 12 non members came!!

Love you all,

Sister Kristen Johns

Her spirit animal!

Yay! Sandy was baptized!