Elder McKinley Email Spirit of God‏

From:Kody McKinley (elderkodymckinley@myldsmail.net)

Sent:Mon 6/15/09 6:36 PM

Sing: Lead Kindly Light Alma 40:30 ???

Reporting Week 3 of Transfer 6 (His new companion Elder Wall is from Heber he knows the Mairs. He was suprised that Micheal is serving a mission. I think we all were but he is doing good and loves it. We are all proud of him. Aunt Amy knew he would. She always told him "You would make a great missionary some day. You have the gift to talk to people and make friends with that some people can't; you have that personality like me.) In parenthesis Amy Added this, this was not in Kody's email.

So this past week was amazing: Damian & Tiffany Lee: This couple was married last January (that doesn't happen often). They haven't lived in the area long. Actually, Elder Dickson and I tracted into them last transfer and they were really cool. They were what I call "frosted flakes" (sweet but flaky) They would never set up an appointment with us. After a few times going over and nothing happening, we dropped them. Then this week I had the feeling to go visit some of the frosted flakes. As we went to the first person I thought, "why are we even visiting these people? I'm sure nothing has changed." The first guy did not answer. I thought I should not even waste my time, but for some reason I drove over to the next Frosted Flakes who were Damian & Tiffany. They have 2 girls: McKenzie(6) and Madison(4 and ADHD). We went and talked to them just like before. We found out that Damian was laid off. I bore testimony to him about the gospel and asked if they would like to come on a church tour. They accepted. That was a firstThey went on the tour and we used Michael and Kellie as fellowship. They wanted to find a good church to instill morals in their children. Tiffany started crying towards the end of the lesson and I handed Damian my scriptures and had him read Mosiah 18:10 (which is about baptism) and asked if they would be baptized on the 21st of June. With no hesitation Tiffany said, "Yes." Damian, "Yeah."It was a spiritually powerful lesson. All lessons are supposed to be like that lesson! They are the new and improved Michael and Kellie. They're married, they read the Book of Mormon chapters we give them (and actually have started from the beginning). They even are enduring despite the anti-influence of Tiffany's brother-in-law. Every time we go over they invite us right in. It amazes me how lame they used to be and out of nowhere they are into it. They love the Book of Mormon. Katie Iverson/Joey Mason: They both were confirmed on Sunday. I confirmed Joey in Adna Ward and Elder Wall confirmed Katie in Chehalis Ward. Katie is solid. Joey would be solid if his parents were. We are working on them. Juliette: She is the daughter of Arely who was baptized on May 24th. Juliette was supposed to be baptized with her mom, but Satan, thru her brother Merlin, stopped her from being baptized. We have met with her multiple times and she would say that she wanted to wait. I am not leaving this place without her being baptized. She wanted it so bad in the beginning and still does.Well Arely was baptized the last week of last transfer. Then the first week of this transfer Joey was baptized, then Katie the second week. Our baptism that was supposed to happen on the 14th Andrew fell off. I want to baptized every week of this transfer. Someone had to be baptized on the 14th. We set up an appointment with Juliette for after church. The goal: baptism that night. Patriarch Larsen was there because he is their home teacher.It was just like all the other lessons. When we brought up baptism she would go silent. We found out that she was going to fly out to Switzerland next Sunday for 5 wks. She had to be baptized before that. I can't remember what was said. The spirit spoke and she ended up saying, "Sabado." THIS SATURDAY!!! Sabado means Saturday in spanish. Brown's: UBC's baptism on for the 20th. Brianna (11) and Nathan (10) Iakopo (Jake) Tausa: Inactive Samoan guy who is way cool and has a non-member wife. We are going to start teaching her this week. We had 8 investigators at church on Sunday. These are all legite investigators. That is very good number. I have never had that many at church before. Chehalis is on fire. The spirit of God like a fire is burning.We did not baptize this last week, BUT we have 5 for this weekend! :-) Pray for Juliette's baptism that it will go through, and that Merlin will not interfere or find out. God is LOVE,ELDER MCKINLEY