HALF-WAY

It´s been a crazy week. We went the the hospital on thursday for my companions stomach and expected to be there for a few hours and ended up staying until saturday afternoon haha. We still dont really know what she had, and she has a really strict diet now, but shes fine!

On Thursday I also officially reached 9 months! its crazy how time flies...and also how slowly time can move haha.

On Saturday we had our first interviews with our new president! He is really cool. His spanish isnt the best, hes from utah, and hes really loving. He gives us permission to do a lot more stuff than our old president did. Our old president was pretty intimidating...super powerful and spiritual...but kind of scary haha. This president is just so nice and approachable! My companion and I went with just his wife to costco to buy a salad haha.

Our investigatos and ward are great. No one is really progressing, but its ok because we are always trying to find new people!

I would send pics, but I think my SD card got a virus or something, because it says its locked and I cant look at anything on my camera either :(

Love and miss everyone!

HOLA!!!

Haha, well I havent written for a while and not too much has happened. I had special transfers again...and again I still have no idea what happened :( But my new companion is really cool! She´s 24, from utah and speaks perfect english and spanish. Her family is from el salvador and we have fun together (even though she acts like she thinks shes my mom a lot haha).

This week we said goodbye to my mission president, Presidente Mejorada! :( I am going to miss him a lot. Tomorrow our new president, Pres Williamson-from Utah, will preside over the mission! I think a lot of things will change in the mission!

The work here is pretty hard. Last week we had 6 investigators come to church and it was amazing!! But this week a lot of people dropped us and we only had 2 come to church :( The investigators have to come to church at least 5 times to get baptized, so its been kind of rough over here haha.

We have some awesome families here though and I have made lots of amazing friends! Today we went with all of the sisters in the zone to buy pants!! Its going to feel so weird walking around as sister missionaries in pants hahaha!

Hope you all have a great summer!

Love,

Hermana Knudsen

7 MONTHS!

Wow, it feels really weird to have been gone from home for 7 months now! I feel like I´ve been here my whole life haha. 

This week I got sick for the first time. I guess I have a stomach infection and I have to take some pills for 11 days haha. We spent of tuesday at home because I spent the whole day sleeping and in the bathroom haha. I didnt eat anthing for like 3 days, but I think I´m better now.

We aren´t teaching a lot of people right now, so we have been contacting a TON! We found 2 really good contacts...but when we went to their house for the lesson, they both told us that they are actually members and have just been inactive for like 15 years now...so we cant baptize them haha :/ Yesterday at church a lady from the ward brought her granddaughter and the granddaughter is suuuper interested in the church and knows all of the lessons. She is like 25 and said she has just been waiting for her parents to let her be baptized because they are super catholic. We have a lesson with her on wednesday and we are super excited!!

Today was a pretty good P day. I went to costco with my companion!! We got muffins and pizza! 

This morning we went to a little store thats on our same street to buy breakfast and when we came back to the house, our neighbor was getting arrested and put into the police car...so that was interesting hahaha.

Last week we had transfers but I get to stay here in Echeveste, Leon with my same awesome companion!!! Also one of my super homies from San Miguel is in my zone and we get to see each other every Tuesday!!

Love and miss everybody!

Hermana Knudsen

Mother's Day skype and pics

Here are a couple of pics we snapped of Kourt while Skyping on Sunday and a few she sent to us yesterday, along with a quick email from her. When we talked, she was waiting to hear about transfers and worried her companion would be leaving. 

From Kourt:

hey...miraculously we didnt have transfers!! my whole district is the same except one zone leader went home!

my super homie elder prado came to my zone and hes companions with elder marshall!!

1 year to go!

WOW...so on the 14th I completed 6 whole months, and if all of my calculations are right and the transfers go according to plan, I will be home in one year from tomorrow!!

This was a pretty good week, but nothing special happened. On Tuesday we had interviews with President and all of the missionaries in Leon and today we went to a buffet with the whole zone! We have been having super good lessons, but the investigators still aren´t coming to church :( We are also working really hard on finding more people!

I´ve really learned a lot in these 6 months I think that the biggest thing I´ve realized is how weird time is. I´ve learned that nothing is permanent and everything changes. Every single day I have looked forward to or dreaded has come and gone...the bad times dont last forever...and neither do the good times haha :(

I have also learned how to rely on the Lord a lot more and to trust him. His plan always turns out to be better than mine haha.

I have learned a lot about the scriptures and how much they can help us with any problem we have.

I think I have learned how to talk to people a little bit better...Im not as scared of people anymore, so thats good haha.

Also, I have learned so much from the people I have met in these 6 months. The people from the MTC, the members of the wards I have been part of, the investigators and all of my missionary friends are totally worth all of the hard parts about the mission.

Love and miss everybody! See yáll in a year!

Hermana in Leon

From Kourtney to me (Mom):

Hi MOM!!! i love you haha did you get the picture that my companion sent you of me next to your initials graffieteid on our house?? hahaha leon is so sketchy and i guess we live in a dangerous part and eveyone wants us to switch houses with the elders...but we have a washing machine...!

yeah i still love my comp! her camera has wifi, so at the church we can send pics to emails haha.

i got the packages!!! thank you so much!!!! tomorrow we have multizona with president! ugh were kind of frusterated with our investigators right now, we have like 4 that are really interested but they wont freakin come to church and we dont know why haha. and you cant get baptized unless you have 5 sacrament meetings!! but were trying haha. we dont walk as much here...we take like 5 buses a day and its so confusing haha and the buses here cost double the amount as in SM or dolores, so we dont have as much money haha. i wanna go to queretaro because e ramirez is there with my trainer hna cruz!! man my homies from san miguel were the best haha

Week 1 in Leon!!

Wow...it finally happened! I have a companion that I love!! Hna Paez is like my best friend and we work super hard together! She is from Equador and her city is going to get a temple!

Leon is super cool! I guess my other areas were like little towns, and leon is a big city, so it kind of an adjustment. I guess my area is the most robbed area in the mission and we cant take our cameras around or anything, but I like it here. Today we went to a mall and it was just like america! (But in spanish and with different stores haha.) Also a friend from the mtc is in my zone and we share a church for district meeting so I get to see him every tuesday! 

Conference was awesome! Most of the missionaries in Leon went to the stake center and I got to watch it in english with all of the other gringos in a room with a desk and comfy chairs!! I really felt the love of the leaders this conference and especially liked the talks from Pres Monson, Christofferson, and Holland. (and Oaks and Uchtdorf)

I think that the people are going to be really great. We dont have a lot of investigators right now, but the ones we have are really strong! I cant believe that I have been gone for almost 6 months! Spanish is coming along haha. I can understand everything, but I still have a little trouble saying exactly what I want to say. My comp speaks english!! It is so helpful! She can translate!!!

Love and miss everyone!! See you in a year!