Elder Jesse Killpack 8/18/14 , 8/25/14

Elder Jesse Killpack August 18, 2014

Go big or go home! Um I will consider the proposition of the sister

missionary that May or may not have the chance to see me on a date

after this time of service that we are currently rendering for The

Lord. I don't know his English thing. I just say words now and hope

they still work. We still talk quite a bit of English but we talk a

lot of Spanish too. It's hard sometimes to remember to talk Spanish

when you just want to tell a story super fast. So elder minnich and I

will slightly be parting ways tomorrow. He stays and trains and I

leave to other side of bridgeton. We have some cleaning up to do.

Flojos. Good people just didn't spend time wisely. Speaking of the

elders that are leaving the side of bridgeton that I'm taking over.

So it will be a challenge but I'm going to out do elder minnich haha.

He doesn't even know what's coming. This transfer we contacted roughly

500 people that are older than eight and non members. Woooo hard work

for days. We had some really cool lessons and awkward moments like

when the lady was backing up next to the door we were knocking she hit

the pole. And then it was her house we were knocking. Awkward. We also

met a lady and she said she lived far away and we had a really good

conversation with her. We were then looking for a guy we had met and

we knocked the door and the door was upstairs and around back so

pretty secluded and then it was her door! Crazy loco. Super awkward.

But we also taught a lesson with a counselor from the stake presidency

and he introduced us to old investigators that lost contact with the

missionaries. The are super prepared and it was one of the most

spiritual lessons I've had. He really knew how to be a member present

and I finally used first nephi 2:16-17 really well instead of

stumbling over a way to apply it smoothly. So that was good. Lots of

good things. We will keep it up

Love

Elder. Jesse M Killpack

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Elder Jesse Killpack August 25, 2014

Dear 

Sounds like you all had a blast. I'm excited to go to lake Powell for

the first time. We had a really cool experience where we contacted a

man Maximo and he actually came to church that's the first time on my

mission! Woooooo! He should be pretty solid. Lots of people did we

meet this week. Elder turner is a really good missionary he was Elder

Minnichs companion for five months. He is really good about following

the spirit. I'm going to learn a lot this transfer. I'm running out

of time to hit all the Jersey areas though. I only have two left. We

will see it will be a good run. My address is 12 franklin st.

Bridgeton New Jersey 08302 sorry in a rush but you are all the best

keep up the good work and fun. Send my congratulations to jimmy and to

Kenzie and Ella for all the birthdays and whatnot if I forgot them!

Love

Elder Killpack, 

Sister Love. 8/25/14

Sister Love August  25, 2014

Dearest Family and Friends!

This has been an interesting week. After Cancellation after cancellation,  door after door slammed in our faces, nothing seeming to go right at all, hard and exhausting work, we saw Eric get baptized. In all honesty I would go through the worst days on the mission everyday if it meant getting to help Eric. I've never seen somebody so happy. 

I had a dream the other night where I was trapped in all these sins. I was dropping deep and deeper into this darkness and I couldn't breathe. It actually woke me up in the middle of the night. After realizing that I was safe and that I wasn't getting pulled down I knelt in prayer and thanked God for my Savior's atonement. I'm so grateful that through him we can be forgiven of all our faults. I love him with my whole heart and I owe everything to him. Eric bore his testimony after being baptized and he talked about having all that guilt get swept away. He said he was "Grateful to finally be clean again". It's moments like this that make it all worth it. 

Thank you all for the love and support you give. 

Sister Love

Cleaning the Font

I think this is my favorite picture yet of Bailey on her mission!!!

Sister Love August 18. 2014

Dear Family and Friends!

Sorry I was a slacker this week and have to get off soon so this won't be too long.

This was a way fun week! I love my companion! She is so much fun! Heavenly Father is always looking out for us especially with being on bikes. Just the other day I prayed that we wouldn't get too wet and we didn't get a drop on us. Every time we went into a building it would start to rain, but as soon as we were getting ready to leave it would stop. Just a simple example of God's love, but something that I really couldn't deny.

Eric is doing really well. He is really excited for his baptism! We made him clean out the font to get him in the spirit of things and because the font really needed to be cleaned.. After killing spiders and mopping the walls he got to try on his baptismal suit. He keeps talking about how cool it will be to get sealed to someone. It's his favorite part of the gospel and I have to admit that it's my favorite part as well.

Thank you for all the love and support everyone!

Have a beautiful week!

Sister Love

Elder Robert Killpack

Elder Robert Killpack August 18, 2014

Dear Family and Friends

So this week as been a lot better! I went to Passau at the beginning of the week on an austausch, and it was way cool to stay where Elder Russell stayed and live during his mission! And Landshut is also somewhere he stayed and it is literally the smallest apartment in the mission and i am sure Eric can attest to that if he has been there! Highlight of the week though was our sportabend mit der Jungerlischer that we have every thursday! So last p-day me and elder Garrett bought cleats on a huge sale and they only cost like 25 euro. we got them because we play every week like 3-4 time for fruhsport and sportabend! but we went out and were totally keeping up with the germans and in fact i scored the first goal of the night!!! So basically i am just as good as Joe Wheelwright or even the german national football team hahah just kidding! We are having a lot of fun here in Landshut but always working hard and trying to find those people that need the gospel and are searching for it. We are so close with the guy named Mike but he is very different in the fact that he interprets the Scriptures like no one that i know and doesn't believe in truth being a real thing saying there is no truth in religion but we have been more bold with him lately like Elder Killpack Senior was and it has helped tremendously and are planning on having a baptismal date this week with him and hopeful will baptize him before the end of the year! Today we went to Dachau a concentration camp and it was way cool and way interesting to see the place where it actually happened!! 

It is so weird to hear about all my friends leaving on missions! Madison sent me a picture of her and Hannah at Joe's Farewell and it was the weirdest feeling ever because I wasn't there and to think he is now on a mission too is crazy!!! But it is good that i am where i am and serving along side Joe!! Can't wait to see all the guys when i go home but i don't want to even think about leaving this amazing land of GERMANY!!

With all my love from Deutschland!!!

ELDER KILLPACK

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Elder Robert Killpack  August 25, 2014

Dear Family, 

Pretty crazy week here in Deutschland. So I thought my headache was gone but it hit super hard on monday night and felt like my brain was going to come out of my head. So on tuesday we went to the doctors and she said to just try and sleep it off because it might be a lack of sleep or my body is just worn out. I slept for 18 hours in one day and it was miserable i never want to sleep that much again. I hate just sitting there doing nothing and not being able to go outside and be productive. But after all this sleep and not doing anything for a day and a half I still had a massive headache, then we went to the Neurologist and i got hooked up to a death trap, i mean a cap with a bunch of probes haha. But the could´t find anything wrong but said like dad did that it is probably altitude sickness and gave me medicine for it and now i am good! The crazy part of this story is what happened on monday night. So my head had really been bothering me for about 4 hours and it was time for us to go home, so 9 o clock. And on our way home from the bahnhof we found two people. The first one was really interested in what we had to say but said church is for the weak and he doesn't need a church. Elder Garrett was a little upset because this guy was contradicting himself and was ready for the gospel but just needed the desire to have a church. So after we were done talking with him My headache started getting really bad and i felt like i was going to pass out while walking home. I was getting really light headed and way bad shivers and was about to tell Elder Garrett to help me down because i felt like i was about to pass out, but right before i did we met George. Elder Garrett was still frustrated with the last guy so he made me contact him... in German and i did and as we started talking he told us his story in short form and here is how it goes. He moved to Germany 20 years ago and took lessons from the missionaries 18 years ago and then he send for some reason the missionaries stopped coming and said we wanted to take the lessons again. We asked him if he had ever been to church he send no and i invited him right there to come and he accepted and was really excited for us to show him around the church and to come teach his family of 5 he has 3 kids and a wife. He didn't end up coming to church because of a death of a friends mom, but said he still wanted to meet with us the next week and we are way excited to teach him. After we talked with him i had enough strength to make it home to the apt. before i crashed way hard and my head hurt more than it ever had. The Lord is aware of us and helps us in ways that we would never expect! I love missionary work!!! 

Elder Robert Scott Killpack 

Addresses for all three Missionaries

Elder Robert Scott Killpack

Zweibrückenstraße 717

Bei Kirche Jesu Christi

84028 Landshut

Germany

Sister Bailey Jayne Love

316 Lakeside Circle

Marysville OHIO

43040

Elder Jesse Killpack

 12 Franklin street

Bridgeton New Jersey 08302

Sister Bailey Jayne Love. August 11, 2014

Bailey Jayne Love, August 2014

Hello everyone!

It's been a pretty good week in Marysville! Not too much to report since we just emailed on Wednesday, but things are definitely going well.

I got a new companion: Sister Farmer! She's from Centerville Utah, 19 years old, did a year at BYU, and is very excited to be out and working hard! She doesn't need much training because she's a natural and she seems to know her way around Marysville already! It's always stressful for me to train, but it really helps when your trainee is awesome!

Eric is doing really well. I keep getting overwhelmed with the thought of him one day going through the temple and having an eternal family. I know that working towards baptism is the first step, but the beauty in the Gospel is that you can always progress! Exaltation is eternal progression. We are so blessed.

I love this gospel. I love this church so much. I love the way I was raised because my parents are worthy temple goers. I'm so grateful for the many many blessings that I receive each day and I'm grateful that I can have a hope for eternal families. I'm grateful for so many things, but mostly my Savior, Jesus Christ who understands me perfectly. Through Him I can find peace, joy, happiness, growth, and eternal life. Alma 7:11-14

In other news my companion has crashed her bike (nothing serious yet) at least 4 times and she continues to sing hymns while doing it.. haha I love her!

Have a great week everyone! Love you all!

Sister Love

Our Zone. Just a bunch of crazy missionaries.

Me and Sister Farmer.

Elder Jesse Killpack. Aug 11, 2014

Elder Jesse. Aug 11 2014

Padiuxi Thanks for getting that package out. I am already learning more

Spanish and zapoteco. It's crazy because it's old Spanish and the

spellings weren't canonized yet. It uses Latin in random places so

it's good that I know Latin too. I learned that the zapoteco people were

very similar to the degrading society of the Nephites. Human

sacrifices and everything. Crazy. Anyways. On a happier note. I got to

baptize a convert from Camden yesterday. Woo!  I didn't know he was

going to ask me to do it and he called on Thursday while we were

planning so that was sweet. Um the man from last week did not keep the

appointment so sad for him but while we were on the way to his house I

ran into people from Camden that were stopping by for only five

minutes in Bridgeton. Little things that mean a lot.

We taught a man named Rome. (Jerome) and taught him the restoration one

day and explained that everything rested on the Book of Mormon. He was

atheist but studied the bible a lot. The next time we taught about the

Book of Mormon and how Christ can command the molecules. The next time

we really laid out the plan of salvation from beginning to end. We

explained that God was like us once. And that we were intelligences.

And he eventually came to the conclusion that he would be full bred

Mormon or else he would take  the world with atheism. I like that.

I feel like people need to understand how white and black it is. Other

side note, I bought brown shoes for six dollars. And I sewed part of my

pants. Elder minnich sewed another part or should I say he darned

them? I learned what darning means ; to mend by sewing. Haha I got to

see my boy two more times because we had zone conference and then the

baptism. His Spanish is improving. I don't know what else I should

say. But I know this is where we should be in this church and that if

you don't know or have forgotten why, It's because you do not pray to

know if it is true. Also you  do not sincerely seek to humble yourself and

repent according to the answer that you receive. Read 2 nephi 32. And

then you might feel a bit humbled and want to ask again. And you will

receive an answer.

Esaariu

Les quiero

El Élder Killpack

Baptism in Camden on Saturday.

Jesse's Greenie is all grown up!

Elder Robert Scott Killpack, August 11, 2014

Elder Bobby! August 11, 2014

Lieber alles, 

It was a good week here in Landshut! Last monday we had family home evening with some ward members and my german was put to the test! they asked me how many siblings I had and I said 10 and they kinda freaked out a little!! Then in complete german I was able to explain my families situation and basically my whole story. It was crazy because I was throwing words out there that I didn´t even know that I knew. The Gift of Tongues is real and it has helped me so much out here on the mission because I know that as long as i open my mouth that the Lord will speak through me even if I don´t know exactly what I am saying the investigators will. We had interviews with president this week and it was really cool to just sit down with him and just talk about the missionary and hear the input he had for me and how much his advice helped. A mission president is really called of God they carry such a strong spirit with them and they are here to help and they do an amazing job. We are lucky for 2 reasons... 1. Our mission president served his mission here in Germany and knows what its like and really helps us better meet the needs of this german people and how to better contact and teach them. 2. Our mission president was one of the main guys that helped write Verkündet mein Evangelium! or Preach my Gospel, so he really knows mission work and helps so much! There isn´t a lot to talk about for this week because all 8 of our appointments we had set up for this week fell through. It has been hard on Elder Garrett because he wants so bad for me to have a good start to my mission, but having 8 appointments fall through when you get to the doorstep is tough. But he said something really cool to me that stuck out after our last appointment fell through. He said "The Lord must really trust you" I asked him what he meant by that and he said that the Lord obviously trust you enough to start you in an area like this and with a start like this and trusts that you will come out of the struggle at the start a strong missionary. I thought about that for a while because I didn´t feel discouraged about what had happened but here an ex zone leader was saying that this was tough and that this isn´t how the mission normally is and it made me excited because I thought that this was just the norm of the mission to get shut down but now I know that is not the case but that right now God is testing me and my comp and we are just going to keep working hard so that if we have another week like this its not ALL 8 appointments fall through its ALL 15 because we will have more people to teach and give the greatest gift, this GOSPEL.

ELDER KILLPACK

Last day at the MTC in England!

Elder Jesse Killpack Aug 4, 2014

Elder Jesse Killpack
Aug 4, 2014


Dear Family and Friends,

We went to the Washington DC Temple on Saturday. We went with a less active member

that we helped come back. It was super awesome. It was my first time with the new video

and  Spanish so it was a bit overwhelming. We got to have a mini

orientation with the temple president because Elder Hardy, my old

companion, was the escort. That opened my eyes quite a bit. I

understood everything in Spanish but it was still weird. Super good

day. We are doing well in Bridgeton and we are finding people still. We found 

Ten new people this week. We are still the leaders in the district and we

didn't even get to work on Saturday or Friday night. I got to stay in

Camden Friday night with my golden (greenie) that I didn't get to

finish training. He is learning a lot. There should be a baptism from

a man we were teaching when I left this next Sunday. Oh bonus news. I

found out that someone I was teaching in Philly actually got baptized!

I'm not a failure in Philly! It's a long time after I left but  was is we set him 

with a date with him for like two weeks after I hadleft Philly.  

When the appointment came around,  they had neglected to talk to the dad

about it. They had to work with the dad a bit so he could be

ready to baptize him. So that's exciting news. We had people at church

this week. Working hard and loving it. We taught a man that we found

in his backyard while looking for someone else. We were really bold

with him. He had told us that the most important thing to him was his

family and we told him that if that was true then he would listen to

our message but he was still  shrugging us off. Somehow, the

conversation changed a  bit and I told him that he knew we

had a message of truth that would bless his family and he was scared.

I told him that look me in the eye and tell me that he 

didn't know this was true.  He didn't even attempt to look up

at me. ( weird being tall) He continued to not really care what we

were saying. I told him that he had now his second chance (He had

talked to missionaries before) to accept the gospel and if he didn't

we would be before him at the judgement saying we tried to help him.

He didn't want to set an appointment for a specific time.  Elder

Minnich said that we were very serious about this. I shook his hand

and said I'm sorry. As we started to walk away, 

 he said,  "You said Saturday at eight? I'll do my best to be there."

 I hope that really stuck with him and  we will make some

serious progress with him. There are a lot of lessons where Elder

Minnich and I do the good cop bad cop. From the story I'm sure you can

guess who is who. Haha talk to everyone and follow the spirit and

don't be overly worried about being bold. Christ offended lots of

people because they couldn't accept the truth but He still had a love

that is hard to comprehend. That's what I'm working on this week

really putting myself in their shoes and asking if I would want to

hear from myself.  So, I think, I finally got a good missionary letter

after sixteen months woo! I think the temple helped.

Love to all, 

Elder Jesse Killpack

Sister Bailey Jayne Love. August, 2014

Family and Friends!

All is well in the Great OCM! I'm very grateful this week that I actually love change. I thrive off of it.. well out here I do anyways. I was anxious to lose our great Mission President and Wife but I can see how blessed the mission is now that President Daines is here. He likes to stick right to the books and I really love it.. He also likes to shake things up which makes the mission very interesting.. I love it!

So I'm very sad to be losing Sister Hendrickson, but I'm really excited to have the calling of a trainer again. I know that the Lord will need to be helping me every step of the way, but I'm very grateful to have this learning experience.. again.. hopefully I won't have to give my baby away to LDS family services.. The zone has already nicknamed her "Baby Love" haha she is in for a treat!

Everything else is great. Eric is so excited! He shaved the other day and told us it was for his interview for a job. Later on we found out it was because he wants to impress our Bishop haha He is doing really well. We've taught him almost everything now and He's soaking it in like a sponge! We do need to build up our teaching pool a bit more, but I'll always be working on that!

I Love you all! Have a great week!

Sister Love

Elder Robert Killpack Aug 4, 2014

Bobby's  address is 

Zweibrückenstraße 717

Bei Kirche Jesu Christi

84028 Landshut

Germany

Hello USA,

So we left the MTC last Wednesday and headed to Deutschland! We had problems with some of the sisters getting the luggage through so we had literally no time in the airport and that stunk because I didn´t get to call home. But the flight was good I saw by a british guy who was way sick and exchanged emails so now if I ever go back to Manchester I have a place to stay ha! When we landed in München we got detain for like an hour and a half because we didn´t have our visa´s with us and the po-po got a little mad with us ha but we ended getting out and it was nice to be out of that airport. After the airport the very first thing we did was get on a s-bahn for an hour. We had our first finding experience and only could use German haha. But it was really cool especially the first lady because she was from northern Germany! It´s like my ancestor are just following me around and give the things I need to find out more about them. But me and this lady were talking and she asked me about my vorfahren (ancestors) and I told here that they came from northern Germany and I was trying to learn more about them and that´s when she told me that she was from northern Germany and so we exchanged emails and I can email her about my ancestors and she said she would help me find out more about the area the lived in or anything that has to do with them who lived in northern Germany. So that was our first leg of our train trip, the second leg was just as good though! So me and Elder Hunt (my district leader in the MTC) were talking with this lady and she asked us about our name tags and what the meant... aka the golden question! And we told her about our church and she was listening and we gave her a pass along card and she kept asking more questions and we answered them as best we could and eventually we placed our first book of mormon! so in the first hour of being in Germany I placed my first Book of Mormon! Now I am in Landshut (country hat) with my trainer Elder Garrett! He is way sick we laugh like non-stop over stories that probably aren't all the funny and he really helps me learn and helps me work harder everyday. Things are good here in Landshut. All the Elders say that Landshut has one of the best wards in the entire mission and I would have to agree this is my favorite ward so far!! They have two families with youth and they are so funny. The Hopf´s have 6 kids and they have the coolest family. Their oldest daughter is 19 and the youngest son is 6 and he is the biggest ball of energy I have ever seen and just makes fun of us missionaries all the time and asked me questions and I have no idea what he is saying but its just funny to hear a little small voice speak faster and better german than i can haha. So bruder Hopf is the ward mission leader and at one point in time he was the number 5 Tae Kwan Do person in the world! So Friday morning me and elder Garrett went and did early morning exercise with him learning Tae Kwan Do. But the best part was how it happened because i kid you not it looked like we were filming karate kid 3. So we woke up rolled out of bed at 6 a.m. ran through an empty city with thickest fog around us. We then arrived at our destination... a ghetto basketball court in the middle of no where and our master was awaiting us. It just felt like a classic karate film the early morning practice thick fog and ghetto area to practice! So that´s the Hopfs. On Friday I also had my first Döner and boy was that good! I could eat a döner every day to be honest. On Sunday I had to give my first Zeugniss auf Deutsch in front of the ward and I did okay definitely wash´t perfect but I think they understood me and thats all the matters! Well I hope everything is going good at home and can´t wait to hear all the amazing stories you guys have!!

LOVE,

ELDER KILLPACK

p.s. Happy Birthday Hannah 

First German meal Weißwurst und Kartoffel puree

 The view outside of our apartment.

 My First Döner.

 Elder Garret eating a Döner.

 My first chocolate bar

 A street in Landshut.

A tower and a castle