I'll Go Where You Want Me to Go: Feelin' Hot, Hot, Hot and Humid

Hey, y'all!

It is hot, hot, hot here in KY right now! We saw many blessings this
week. We found 11 new investigators! I know that our Mission President
was inspired to push us to find new investigators because we have seen
the promised blessings.

Marisol is one of our new investigators, and she has the cutest little
girl. We actually dropped her because we couldn't get ahold of her.
After we sent her a drop message, she wanted us to come back! She is
our progressing investigator! We wanted one so badly, and the Lord
delivered. We taught her about The Plan of Salvation, and she was
really receptive to it. She really wants to learn and have a happy
family.

We went on two exchanges this week! I love working in different areas
with the hermanas here. I always learn something from each of them.
Our first exchange was with the Lex Oeste hermanas, and I got to work
with Hermana Corona here in Shelbyville. Hermana Corona has such a
cool personality. We got to teach Marisol after not seeing her for a
few weeks. It was a great lesson, and I truly felt the gift of tongues
as we taught her.

Our other exchange was with the LaGrange hermanas, and I got to work
in LaGrange with Hermana Gittins. She's a great missionary! We worked
our tails off in the heat. I've never been so sweaty in my life! Oh!
And I rode a bike for the first time on my mission (and probably for
the first time in years)! I looked like a baby deer taking its first
steps as I tried to get control of the handbags, but I eventually got
the hang of it.

On Saturday, I had the opportunity of going to the temple. Hermana
Wilkinson's recent convert, Israel, went to do baptisms for the dead
for the first time. It was so good to be in the temple and to feel of
the Spirit there. As we were walking out, I saw Hermano and Hermana
Howard. They are the couple from the Corydon Branch who gave us loads
of food and supplies from Sam's Club. It was so good to see them. It
made me a little trunky for Corydon.

We had a lesson with a member who struggles to get to church due to
health limitations. Both Hermana Wilkinson and I had studied the
enabling and strengthening power of the Atonement, and it was the
lesson that this sister needed. One thing I know to be true is that
Christ's Atonement not only offsets death and sin, but it also allows
us to receive strength in challenging times. He suffered "pains and
afflictions and temptations of every kind", and He did it completely
alone in the Garden of Gethsemane so that He could know perfectly how
to help us.
Mosiah 24:14
"And I will also ease the burdens which are put upon your shoulders,
that even you cannot feel them upon your backs, even while you are in
bondage; and this will I do that ye may stand as witnesses for me
hereafter, and that ye may know of a surety that I, the Lord God, do
visit my people in their afflictions."

Christ knows you, and He loves you.

💕 & 🐴
Hermana Boyson