Sister Bailey Jayne Love, July 8th, 2015

Dare to be Mormon!!


The best week of my life thus far.

A while back my former mission president, President Nielsen, had made
the statement that if anyone says that their best 2 years (for sisters
18 minutes obviously) was their missions after a lot of time has
passed on that that was really sad. I can see where he is coming.

This week we had an opportunity to teach Heather again. Oh how I do
love her. She expressed the realization that we as members of the
church are generally just happier in life. We talked about the reason
for our "plastic smiley faces" as I like to call them is because we
understand why certain things must happen in our lives. The blessing
we get to become like our Heavenly Father is worth everything. Even in
the hardest of times, we can have peace knowing that "everything shall
be for [our] good". I'm so grateful for the knowledge that we have.

We also had the chance to set up a booth for the 4th of July. It
wasn't incredible successful in finding people to teach, but we did
get our name out there. Someone passed by my homemade free handed sign
(which I am incredibly proud of) and muttered under their breathe
"Latter-Day Saints." I wanted to jump up and scream the primary song:

"I belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
I know who I am.
I know God’s plan.
I’ll follow him in faith.
I believe in the Savior, Jesus Christ.
I’ll honor his name.
I’ll do what is right;
I’ll follow his light.
His truth I will proclaim."

I have been so grateful to have been able to serve Him in this way. I
have loved teaching what has given my own life meaning and I only hope
that I will be able to continue to do so. I am so grateful that we
have a modern day prophet on the Earth. President Thomas S. Monson a
couple of conferences ago quoted a small poem which sums it all up!

Dare to be a Mormon;
Dare to stand alone.
Dare to have a purpose firm;
Dare to make it known.

I love this Gospel! Thank you all for all the love and support that
you have give me as I have served these past short months. I'll see
you all soon!

Love, for the last time,
Sister Love a full time missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints

Elder Robert Scott Killpack July 06, 2015

Family and Friends,

Another fantastic week gone by in the beautiful Alps of Tirol! The work is really picking up, so Elder Erickson and I are just trying to keep up with it all. And sometimes it is hard to make sure we have enough time, which is a rather good problem to have, but it just means we have to be even better at using our time. We have really started connecting with the ward better too! I truly love these guys here in Innsbruck. They are amazing. We went to a gemeinde rat and we could just feel the excited they had, because they saw the missionaries were actually working. Back in the day( like years ago) the missionaries here didnt have the best reputation for being obedient, so that kind of left a little scar here. But we are changing that! In other words, I have never been so tired in my life. Haha It is a good thing to be tired, except for when you fall asleep during lessons, or while contacting on buses and trains, or when contacting on the street... Dont worry hasnt happened yet;) Lately we have been focusing on helping our investigators make steps of faith and ACT!!! It is probably the hardest part while teaching... getting people to actually do stuff! But we can improve ourselves and really help these people more, and help to start keeping commitments and grow! We can´t grow our faith unless we are willing to do something! Faith without works is dead! Love you all have a great week!

Elder Killpack

Elder Robert Scott Killpack June 29, 2015

Dear Family and Friends,

Well we had a splendid week of being busy! I love being busy! It is a great feeling, but only if you get everything done that you have planned. Well ya Elder Erickson and I have been having a lot of fun teaching the people that we have and just simply teaching a lot. The best part is seeing people progress in the gospel no matter how much they are progressing. I love it! We are also connecting with the ward better and you can see in the energy starting to build here! We have a lot of Brazilians in our branch so Eu aprendo português. haha It is fun to try and falamo português com eles. So that is a lot of fun:) And I had a pleasant surprise on Sunday. Franca decided to show up in Innsbruck!! She is from the Landshut branch and it was so fun to see her! So weird to me that, that was last almost a year ago when I got to Landshut. I WILL go back there. I my need to bribe president to let me go there as my next area and finish my mission there. That would be a dream come true! it is funny, Elder Erickson tells me that, I am not trunky, or at least trunky for home, but I am major trunky for Landshut! haha Funny, but true... Love you all and I hope you have a fantastic week!

Elder Killpack

Lydia's Baby

Franca

Sister Bailey Love June 29th 2015

Dear Family and Friends.

Not too much to report. We committed someone to be baptized on the 18th of July! Woot! His name is John and he is a handful! He came to church yesterday and LOVED it!

We had a really amazing lesson with Heather this week along with her girls! It was a really good experience for everyone involved. Heather started to express what a prophet was to her and how she found comfort in the idea. I love this family so much. It's amazing how you can feel how much God really does love His children. It's something that I'm going to miss terribly.

I hope everyone has a great week!

Love you all!

Sister Love

Pictures:

iPads are good for something! Even if all they do is keep children occupied...

Some ward members took us to the famous German Village in Columbus!

Elder Robert Scott Killpack. June 22, 2015

Dear Family and Friends,

Hey family and friends! This last week was a good one again:) we were

able to teach and see the progression of pur investigators! It really

is the coolest thing to see people progress in their understanding of

this gospel! For example this week we taught one of our investigators,

who has a baptismal date for july 11( pray for him!) but in this last

week he has made so much progress that he might be baptized at the end

of the month! We are super excited for him. Er ist einfach toll! Haha

We are also hoping to see another investigator enter the waters of

baptism really soon as well. She just needs to see another baptism to

get that over whelming answer she is looking for. It is kinda funny

because everyone tells her she is basically a member, but just not

baptized. She literally comes to every activity! Well that was the

week in a nut shell love you guys!

Elder Killpack

P.s. Sorry that was from last week... I thought it sent...

HUMP DAY!! Wow a year already that is so crazy to me! I cannot believe

how fast the time has gone! We had a very eventful week this last

week! So to start it off we got Ipads last tuesday and we are so

blessed now to be able to use them in achieving our purpose! I have

already seen the blessings of using them to help answer peoples

concerns. But at the same time we are making sure we are the ones

teaching not some speaker from a general conference in the nineties!

We have seen, again, our investigators taking such big steps of faith

and have seen their progression of coming nearer to Jesus Christ! I am

so excited for them all and cant wait to see the day when they enter

into the covenant of baptism whenever it may be! Thank you all for

your support it means a lot to have family and friends back home

cheering me and this work on! We also had transfer calls on Saturday,

and Elder Erickson and I are staying, but we have a rather strange

thing going on... We have four elders in our area but we dont all live

in the same apartment. The other elders live in Telfs which is a half

hour out of the city, so we are closing our area and moving into their

old apartment and taking over both areas. So it will be pretty

intense! I hope it all works out because all our investigators between

us and the Telf elders live in the city! But I will all work put I

know it! I love that imner area transfer haha!

Love,

Elder Killpack

Von meinem Ipad gesendet

Sister Bailey Jayne Love. June 22, 2015

Friends and Family,

This week has been emotionally confusing. To be completely honest well over the past 18 months has a huge emotional rollercoaster. Never in my life have I been so exhausted and frustrated, but never in my life have I been happier.

Missions are weird.

As I near the end of my mission (it's not my fault that I know it's coming.. Would everyone just stop reminding me!) I have been, for lack of a better term, a basket case.. But it's usually only at night time when I'm about to fall asleep when reality hits and I slowly and silently cry myself to sleep..

I've gotten to be pretty dramatic on my mission haha

Over all we are doing really well in this area. The ward is amazing, investigators are progressing (some slower than others) and there are plenty of good times.

Heather is doing really well. She is such a strong woman. I look up to her a lot. She is just what I want to become. She has great faith and I know that she will be able to recognize the answers she has already gotten. I can feel that Heavenly Father loves her so much and knows her. He is going to work wonders in her life. I'm excited to see what comes.

We also got to go to the Temple! Man.. I love the temple. I got some REALLY interesting answers this time around. I'm so grateful for personal revelation!

My last thought is all about the Lord's timing. I don't believe that anyone is placed into our lives at a specific time just by happenstance. I know that God knew I needed to be in Ohio at this time for a reason. Why else would the age change be lowered? The people I have met and been able to serve have left such a lasting impression on me. I'm so grateful for the Lord's timing in his work. and not just in missionary work, but in our daily lives.

There is a quote from a devotional given back in the day when BYU I used to be Ricks. I heard it had a training recently and It has stuck with me ever since.

"Why were you born when you were born? Why weren’t you born in 911, or 1215? Is it because some computer in the cosmos blipped and you came out now? I don’t buy that. I believe you were born in this dispensation, with the gospel of Jesus Christ on the earth today, because you were somebody before you got here. If you had any idea of who you were before you got here, the hair would stand up on the back of your neck."

-Hyrum W. Smith

We have the restored gospel at this time for a reason! Go find out what that reason is! I still haven't figured it out but I'm grateful that I have a lifetime to find out why I'm here.

I love you all! I know that each of you have been put into my life for a reason and I'm eternally grateful!

Love,

Sister Love

Elder Robert Scott Killpack June 18, 2015

Pictures of Elder Killpack for this week.