Sister King told me that Centerville didn't wake up until I got here. Our teaching pool has just BOOMED. But I told her that it wasn't me. It's because all the sister companionships that have been here in the past have not gotten along very well. When Sister King got to Centerville, she was with a sister who was on her last transfer, and who was trunky and just plain tired. So once I got here, there were finally two missionaries with the same amount of enthusiasm and dedication for the work, and therefore, most able to work in unity. So it wasn't just me. It was both of us. I love Sister King. And people can tell, even our investigators can tell how well we work together and the unity that we share. It's refreshing for them.
One of our investigators was showing us these videos of her performing her belly dancing, and Sister King was like "oh I could never do that" and I started joking with her when the lady went into the other room, I was like "oh please, you would be like the best in the class, you would be the one in the middle that everyone else would dance around. No you would be the one that they would carry in on their shoulders, like Nefertiti or Cleopatra" and sister King started laughing so hard!!! and the investigator heard us and walked in and told us how awesome we were. She has never seen missionaries get along as well as we have and she has been through A LOT of missionaries. Like 4 years of them at least! or something like that. She's never going to join anytime soon. But, she loved the fact that Sister King and I laughed and joked like that, that she decided to bring all 3 of her sons to trunk or treat the very next week!!!!!! She even texted us like the day after transfers and asked if we had stayed!!!!! It's awesome. She has never texted us before!
Uchtdorf gave a talk about missionaries once and the missionary in the story that he told said to his companion "there are two reasons that companionships are not successful, one is because they are both trying to do the wrong thing, or because only one of the companions is trying to do the right thing, and the other is not." He was alluding to the fact that missionaries have to be in one hundred percent unity in order to find 100 percent success. It's the truth. That's why I told sister King that
we are being so successful. Centerville finally has two missionaries that are both trying to do the right thing together. There are a thousand more miracles that happened in Centerville this week that I will send in the mail!
Maggie :]
Only 100% unity towards obedience brings 100% success towards eternal life.
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