Hola Amigos,
So the snow is almost gone. It is really funny that I am saying that and we
are almost to May. But it is all good. Red Deer is so beautiful during this time
of the year. The river is starting to flow without ice and everything is
starting to turn green. I am looking forward to sending more pictures of awesome
Canadian summers.
Last week we got to have ZTM (Zone Training Meeting). All the zone leaders take the info from ZLC and share it with the zone. They are really good meetings, but this one was especially good. Our zone is the best. All the elders in our zone want to work and are doing it hard if you ask me. We are trying to focus on getting some of the key indicators up and reminding them that we are all growing. We were able to give two trainings. One on helping our investigators receive personal revelation. The other on knowing God's Vision for your area. I love being able to share some of the things I have learned with others and train them to be the missionary God knows they can be. Elder Vega and I had a blast and the Spirit was there to unite us a little more.
So it is really cool that I was able to come down here with two other
Spanish Elders. We are seeing the Spanish work down here grow. Elder Vega and I
don't have a day go by that we don't talk to a Spanish person. Really funny to be
talking to someone and then they turn to Elder Vega and start talking to him in
Spanish. He looks at me and has the look on his face, "Help me.." He is amazing.
But really cool experience happened the other day. We were walking to contact an
investigator and passing a lot of houses. We passed one house and the Spirit
almost stood infront of me and stopped me. I looked over and said, "We need to
knock on that door." Elder Vega said "That would be funny if they were Spanish."
Turns out she was from Columbia and would have the Elders over. I don't think I
have a clear spiritual expression like that in a while. But showed me that God
knows who he wants to talk with us, we just have to listen. We also met a man
from Mexico like two doors down in our building! Crazy ehh? He is really humble
and I feel like he would be a great person to teach. I love the Latin people. I
think God knows that.
We are teaching a young woman named Courtney. She is the friend of a member
in our ward. She doesn't know much about God at all, so we are excited to be
teaching her, because everything is new and she is interested. She has already
been to church and loves the "different feeling that she gets" when she is there.
We feel like she will be very accepting. It shows me that we really do have a
bigger influence on people by the way we live because she regards her friend
very highly. We are trying to stress the fact that she is a child of God. Going
well.
They announced that the chapel that we meet in is going to receive an
expansion. It will take about a year to complete starting in May. But it is just
showing that the church in our area is growing. Also the mission is growing a
lot. We are already receiving 18 and 19 year old missionaries. They say by the
end of the year that our mission of 140 is going to grow to about 250. Most wards
will have 2 sets of elders. What a blessing to see firsthand the affects of the
changes in missioanry work. We are part of the stone that is cut out of the
mountain. We are rolling forth steady and sure. President Campbell is going to
be replaced in July so we are all sad to see him go. But he has done so much for
me and my testimony of spreading the gospel.
More to come. Loving life.
Mucho Amor,
Elder Kipp
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