Sister Knell's New Address! (Late)

Sister Knell's new address!

677 Arnett Blvd Apt. 16A

Danville, VA 24540

Oct 14th Letter - Fall is in the air! And LOTS of RAIN!!! ;)

Hi y'all!!

Out of time! But a quick list of highlights!

Monday- Did our laundry at one of my favorite members homes ;) (I know I can't really have favorites..)  It was so fun!!  and relaxing!!  She served in the North Carolina Charlotte mission too!!  Which was fun to talk about all the places shes been and where she served and how it is all changed!  She showed us pictures and everything!  so fun!!

Ha.. and Monday night was an interesting night... we lost our phone in one of our investigators cars.. ahaha and long story short didn't get home til 10:45pm.. and bed almost midnight.. ahaha crazy adventure!!

Tuesday- Got Dee's package!! yay!!!  Made my day!!! (:  Thank you Dee!  Provo bakery cookies!  The BESTEST!!

We had an amazing experience with one of our investigators Debra!  We taught her the stop smoking lesson and there is a part where she has to crush the box of cigarettes by the count of three and when we got to 2 she had already crushed them!!  She was so excited!!  haha It made me so excited!!  She is doing great!!!  (:  she came to one of the primary children's baptisms and really enjoyed it!  But said she had a lot of questions!!  So we will be visiting with her today!  and she has continued to not smoke!!  Which is huge!!  (: so happy!!!! 

Wednesday- Was a very slow day..

Thursday-Zone Conference!!!  So AMAZING!!  I love President and Sister Craven!!!  We also have a Mission Conference coming up this weekend and there will be two from the seventy!  EXCITING!

Friday- Service with our lovely sister Reyes!  And there was rat poop everywhere and we didn't have masks or anything.. --long showers afterwards,,, haha..

There was a huge bonfire that night at a members home!!  SO FUN!!!  Jen our investigator came!!  It was great!

Saturday-Got a package from sister Andersen!!  Thank you!!  Such a great surprise!!!  (:  Tell her thank you please!!! 

Sunday-Biked to the church in the rain... to PEC.. soaked!!! hahaha

Getting a cold... eek!!

Today played disc golf!!!  SO fun!!

love y'all!!!!

love, 

Sister Knell

Sept 30th Letter - Lots of Little Things

Hello y'all!!

Okay so sorry about last week!!!  

Highlights of this week:

Mon: We had a zone activity which was lots of fun!!  But wasted 95 miles getting there and back :S but the zone leaders said they'd take care of it, thankfully!!

Tue: We had an amazing meeting with the primary presidency on our ward.  I love being able to see how things work in the church--behind the scenes ;) A lot of work really goes into EVERY little change, activity or idea.  I love it!  

We had lunch with a recent convert named Federica.  The elders baptized her a few weeks ago.  It was a lot of fun!  She is a sweetie!!  You can just see the light beaming off of her!!  It is truly amazing how this gospel blesses peoples lives!

Then we had more service at our ward members Garden shop, which I LOVE!!!  We made a pumpkin display!!  Lots of fun!  (:

Wed: We had district meeting and lunch.  It was amazing!!  I was able to bear my testimony about priesthood blessings and how they are truly inspired by our loving Heavenly Father!  We all said goodbye to elder Bench--he goes back home wednesday.  He's our district leader.  Crazy!!  It's been reminding me of when Josh and Ben cam home.  Weird to see it on the other end now! ha

Then that night we had a fun canning service with the ward.  I'm lots about stuff out here!! Gardening, canning, maybe I'll be good at food storage when I go home! ;)

Thurs: Sister Blaney has been teaching me how to play the piano!  SO fun!!  But hard and a little frustrating.. hahaa  but I love it! 

We had a lesson on facebook!!  YAY!  with a man we met one day as we were finding.  So hopefully something will come from it!  (:  

Friday was a really great bust day!!  We met lots of people!  We had lunch at O'Kelly's, oh my goodness!! SOOO GOOD!!!  We need one in Utah!! haha

We had a really great lesson with Debra one of our investigators!  She is growing so much!!  But didn't come to church or the RS broadcast.. which was sad :( but hopefully next time!  We had dinner with my favorites! haha the Holtry family!  I have a really funny story about us and sister Holtry.. that I didn't share last week but out of time.  It includes her car, rainy night and a tree in the middle of the road.. haha a very fun adventure that night!! haha

Sat: The ward had a pancake breakfast for a sweet little girl who has a tumor on her brain and she is going into surgery this next coming week.  The ward here is amazing to each other, I love see them help each other!  They are great!

The RS broadcast was so much fun!!!!!!!  We had a dinner before and activities.  The activities were my favorite!  we were able to really get to know each other and there were lots of laughs!!  It reminded me of get togethers with the Knell clan!  i loved it!  (:  We had an investigator come to the broadcast!!  YAY!!  and the dinner!!  We see here tonight, so I'll let you know what she thought!  Hopefully she liked it!! she is a very strong southern baptist..

We had transfer calls and Sister Blaney and I are staying!!  yay!!  As you know Elder Bench is leaving--so weird! Oh and we are now in a car share.. not excited... hahaha 

More biking!!  Wish me luck ;)

Sun: no investigators at church :( but hopefully next week at G.C. :D

Sunday was a great day!!  Haha out of time!

I love y'all es mucho!!! 

Love, 

Sister Knell 

September 9th Letter - Inspired Knocking!!

Hey Y'all!!!!!

This week has been amazing!!!!  We have seen so many miracles!!!  

I am running out of time again :S  but I'll give you a quick highlight for each day!  (:

Tuesday we got another new investigator!!  Her name is Debra Avery!!  We call her Sister Avery!!  She is the sweetest lady!!  After her appt. we had another appt. w/Chuck but he wasn't there so we decided we should get the bike pump from the elders (our bike tires were VERY low) and so we made plans to meet them at the church but on our way there we passed a cute little white house and I felt like we needed to stop and knock on the door.  A lady answered the door and then told us to hold on (normally this doesn't happen, they just say sorry not interested).  We hear a lot of shuffling around and then a man comes to the door (I was worried he was going to tell they weren't interested--in a nice stern voice "yelling").  he invited us in and shock our hands.  They apologized for their house being messy.  We could tell they changed their clothes and cleaned up the house.  Sister Blaney and I were in shock!!!  Then the man (David) started talking about religion!  We were really shocked!!  Long story short!  David has been looking for a church!!  He feels like all the churches he has gone to lately are very hypocritical and he doesn't want his children to be raised in a church like that.  We talked them about the church and what we believed.  He was very interested but their whole family was sick and so they wanted us to come back next week.  Hopefully we start working with them!!  They had the cutest little ones and I felt something in David.  His wife Sherry doesn't believe in God right now but I could see that change as well.  Meeting with them was a tender mercy from the Lord!  I am grateful I have been listening to the promptings of the Holy Ghost!!  Sometimes I get nervous and think, "nah, next time" (especially when its pouring and I look like a hobo ;) but I am grateful I didn't do that with David and Sherry!!  I know they needed that in some way or another to let them know God is listening to them!  (:

The rest of the week was great!!  I wish I could share it all but I am really out of time.. eek!!

I love you all so much!!!!  I hope y'all have a blessed week!!!!

Love, 

Sister Knell

September 2nd Letter - Many Miracles!

HEY Y'ALL!!

Well, I need to be quick!!!

This week has been amazing!!  We have seen so many miracles!!  Especially just yesterday!!!  We got three new investigators! We had exchanges and both the High Point sisters came here!  It was truly amazing all the success we saw!!  And all in one day!!  Labor Day was probably my favorite day!!!  And they are all pretty solid!!! yay!!!  The work is moving forward in Danville!!!  (:

Tuesday we had interviews with President Craven.  i feel so blessed to be under his direction!  he is an amazing mission president!!  I know I am suppose to be here in Danville!  I love the people so much!!

Wednesday the ward had an open house for us sisters.  It was AMAZING!!!!  The ward got together and brought us everything we needed for our apartment and pantry.  Seriously EVERYTHING!!  Sister Blaney and I felt so loved!!  We know miracles are going to happen here!  It was also fun to get to see that text from mom through the bishopric!  Small world!!  i love doTERRA! ;) 

Thursday we got a new investigator named Jason.  He is actually our neighbor.  Dad, he's the one that told me about the BYU vs Virginia game.  We are trying to help him stop smoking.  He has the desire.  Just needs to do it now.  But we had an amazing lesson with him and a member yesterday.  He is progressing!!  I know he can do it!

Friday was a crazy interesting day!  But one funny thing that happened was that we visited a lady named Pat in the ward that collects coca cola everything and has a warehouse just full of coca cola stuff. anywho..  She offered us coca cola and I have learned here in the South, you do not turn down anything or the people here get offended.  I warned sister Blaney about it but she didn't listen.. haha.  So when Pat gave us one and sister Blaney said no, the whole atmosphere changed and Pat was so sad and offended!!  And then I became Pat's favorite! ha.  It was something you probably had to be there for.. but it was really funny!  Oh!  and she made me put salted peanuts in my coke!  It was actually pretty good! ha.  She said it was a "redneck southern thing" but none of members have heard about it.. so she was probably just pulling my leg.. oh well.. it was fun! (:

Lots more happened but I am out of time!!

I love you all and this work!!  The church is true!!!

Love, 

Sister Knell

August 26th Letter - She's in Virginia!!?!

Hey y'all!!

Transfers were totally different this time around!!  nobody knew what was going to happen.  President called it a "Box B" experience.  Which made it a little more stressful!  Ha.  Sister Reid and I cried a bit during transfers...  I am going to miss her!!  She is so great!!  She is training too!!  I am excited for her, she is going to be an amazing trainer!

Well, I am in Danville, Virginia!  Sister Blaney and I are opening the area for sisters!!  Sister Blaney is brand new!  And I will be training her!  She is the sweetest thing!!  I am excited to work with her!  She is from Carston-Alberta, Canada!

It is so weird to be in Virginia!!  I feel like I should be in North Carolina!  You would think I wouldn't be able to tell the difference, but somehow i can.  The ward here is AMAZING!!  We got in super late on Tuesday night because the drive was three hours long because there were a few detours and such!  And the bishop and his wife and brother Evans were waiting for us with dinner and things for the apt. So so sweet!! 

The apt is so tiny!!  The town has a small town feel to it!  Downtown is BEAUTIFUL!!!  Main Street is full of Victorian homes that a HUGE and gorgeous!  I am in LOVE!! haha  Sister Blaney probably gets annoyed by how much I talk about the homes here. ha (: 

Interesting story:

At transfers I was picking up our "Danville" opening box and one of the Assistants comes up to me and says, "there is a new name for you in the mission office." and I am thinking, "Oh no!!  What did I do?!" he continues to say, "So we were finishing up transfers with President Craven and had everything all figured out.  President was having a hard time because he really wanted to open Danville up for sisters.  He kept saying, 'I wish we had just ONE more sister' and then we looked down and saw your name on the ground.  B/c you had fallen off the transfer board!"  So they did transfers without me!! haha I was like wow this is a great a story--y'all forgot about me. ha but then he told me they call me, "the transfers angel" 

For some reason hearing that really helped me be more excited about opening Danville.  B/c I was getting really nervous about being so far away from the mission office and leaving University City.  It was really hard.  But I know that this is where I am suppose to be!!  I am excited to serve here!  The people are amazing!!  We have had so many great experiences already!!  I know the work is going to grow here!!  I can just feel it!

Oh!  And I spoke on Sunday!  All of us missionaries did.  The ward was having a special fast on missionary work and helping the work move along here in Danville.  I am excited to see whats going to happen.  The Lord is truly hastening His work!!

I love you all so so much!!!

Love, 

Sister Knell

ps, everyone says, "aunt" like Dee does!! haha LOVE IT!!

and mom and dad, one of you asked about letters to my comps families.  Yes, I do that (:

loves!

August 19th Letter - Leaving University City ):

Hello Family! (:

First off, I am getting transferred ): sadly!!  I leave tomorrow!  I am not a fan of packing! haha

--hold any letters!!  I'll send my next address next week! --

Well, this week was slower...like very slow... which made it kind of rough.  But I know God is in charge and great things are going to happen!

A little random funny from this week:

The other day sister Reid and I got caught in a rainstorm as we were biking to an appt.  Well our appt. fell through so we were biking back and we passed by this cute white house.  I had a feeling we needed to stop there.  But I ignored it.. and kept riding on.  But then the feeling was even stronger!  So, I yelled to sister Reid to stop and turn back because we needed to knock on this door.  Also, I needed to go to the bathroom so I thought, "perfect! I can use the bathroom and then sister Reid and talk to them!" ha.  We get to the door and a lady says, hello and then we ask to use her restroom and that we are far from our apt.  She hesitates but then lets us come in.  We were soaked!!!  So, when I came out of the bathroom sister Reid was laughing at something.  She seemed nervous having us there so we said thank you left her a Mormon.org card with our name and number and left.  As we were leaving sister Reid said the little boy turned to his mother and said,  "Mom, do we always have to be nice to hobos?" hahahaha I was dying!!  We must have looked awful!  I have no idea why we needed to stop there but maybe something will come out of it (:

Randomisms:

*We celebrated sister Reid's 3 month mark by ordering Chinese take-out!!  So yummy!!! (: --it reminded me of home and all the fun times my friends and I ordered Chinese take-out (: happy days!

*My 6 month mark is tomorrow!!  Crazy Sauce!

*The past week has been amazing fall weather!!  So hopefully fall is coming soon here in North Carolina!

*I dyed sister Reid's hair.  It looks good! (: 

*Our apt. will now have Hilliard sisters!!  They will be working with the Zone Leaders in the YSA ward.  We don't know who they will be yet, well tomorrow (: sister Reid keeps joking that I'll be a Hilliard sister and pack up my stuff just to unpack in the next rooms closet.. haha I'd die!! (;

*Best surprise!  Etta called us from Michigan to tell us she made it safely there!  I love her!!  Made my day.  She will get baptized one day!!  I just know it!!

All is well!

I love y'all!!

Love,

Sister Knell