Letter #23 3/4/13 Jegas, Baby!

Ok I don't have much to say this week. We've had awesome numbers!! And stake Conference!! Which was awesome because Southport is in our Stake!! Woo!!! So I was able to see a lot of people!!! It was great :) I also saw none other than A!!!! Ok so background on this... I don't know if everyone knows this already, but A went to Utah like a week ago and spent the weekend at our home!! Well when I saw A she had a giant black boot on her leg... Because she broke her leg snowboarding at home!! I thought that was crazy. ALSO I guess her grandma was SUPER impressed with the church when she came to Utah!  

[We took A and her grandma to Temple Square and saw Music and the Spoken Word.  We had Family Home Evening.  While she was here we answered lots of questions and she read the entire book, "Believing Christ" by Stephen Robinson.  When she returned home A gave her a Book of Mormon and she has an appointment with the missionaries tomorrow!]

Ok so to answer some questions... There is not a church on the marine base here in Jacksonville. There is one off base, not too far from the base, but it isn't on base. The Marine Base is Camp Lejeune and basically EVERYONE in the ward is a marine or was a marine haha it's pretty crazy. We go on base very regularly to have dinner with members and stuff, but most of our proselyting work is done off base because it is illegal to proselyte on base. Which is why working with members is so invaluable. If people invite us on base to teach them, we can go. So members are awesome :) 

Marine home towns... Well it's basically everywhere haha There are people from EVERYWHERE here. So we try to find Utah plates as often as we can :) Haha Investigator backgrounds... Well all the baptisms that we have lined up come from part-member families. So the mom or dad is not a member, but the other spouse is. So.. Having a background with the LDS faith ALWAYS helps. if that helps? Beyond that I haven't really looked for correlation...

Elder Bentley tells everyone-- "Hi!!"

Ok this letter is super short this week... Sorry :( It'll be longer next week, promise!! Oh, transfers are next tuesday. So it's possible one of us is transferred but I don't think it's likely. I really don't have much to say. I'll have a good story for you next week :) And if I don't, I'll make one. Haha 

I love you all!! Have a great week!!!

HURRAH FOR ISRAEL!!!

Love Elder Kilbourne