GOOD TRANSFER

Hi everyone! 

I am having such a good transfer! Seriously, everything is just going so well. Trent getting baptized was the sweetest experience.  I was sad I couldn't be there myself to see it happen but his phone call made my whole day. He is back here now.  He brought Sister Bowen and I a copy of his baptismal program, so I will be sending a copy of that your way soon. He also gave us the email addresses of the Elders who took care of him in California, so we could tell them thanks. We got a picture with him as well.

I am super excited for Jeremy's baptism.  He tried on his white jump suit yesterday after church, so he is ready for that! We only had one in his size! It was meant to be I guess :) This Thursday we will be teaching Brother Sipler how to baptize him, and practice so that when it is time for the real deal, they won't mess up. The baptism will be this Saturday, August 2nd. Sister Bowen will get to be there for it! It was very good planning. It will be her last Saturday in NY. We got to make the program this time. It is so awesome! Everything we put in it represents parts of his journey in learning about the gospel.  He has great support from his family, friends and co-workers.  He is a golden investigator.  A dream that every missionary hopes for!

I am so glad that I was called to serve in Lake Placid, New York.  I know that the Lord had a perfect plan for me to be here at this time and to meet these people who have been prepared to hear our message.   

Today is a beautiful, soaking wet day and we are very busy.  We are going hiking with my district to Mt. Baker. I hope the rain lets up a little. We had to cram everything  today so that we would have time for everything. Grocery shopping, laundry, the hike, and we have to be ready to go in time for our trip to Utica. I'm excited though. I get to have two sleep overs! One in the mission home, and one in Hamilton with another Sister on exchange. 

I sent home a package today. Be looking for that. I really loved all of the pictures you sent!!! Keep them coming! You all look so cute! And I would love to hear from EVERYONE! Letters absolutely make my day!!

I love you!!! The church is true! 

Love, Sister Keller

Awesome week!

Hey family/friends! 

I had the most awesome week!!!! Everything went the way it was planned. Trent was baptized!!!!!!!!!!!! He called us before and after the baptism so that we knew what was happening. You could just tell in his voice and attitude the difference there was from being an investigator to a new member of the church. He is now an Aaronic Priesthood holder as well!!! I am so happy :') He was the very first person I had ever had a lesson with. It was a long, hard process, but we kept him in our prayers and thoughts every minute of every day trying to know how we could help him come closer to Christ. It happened though! Finally! He is a whole different person now. He knows that God loves him. He knows that the church is true! 

Now Jeremy is next :) We had a really awesome Sunday with him. We talked about his baptism the day before to help him know what needs to happen. We asked him to ponder on who he would like to baptize him. We were thinking one of the Elders should do it, but they suggested Brother Sipler. He is a recent convert to the church. He was baptized a week before I got here. Him and Jeremy have gotten to be really good friends. Our first lesson with him, we had Brother Sipler present so that he could bear testimony about the things we shared. When we asked Jeremy if this is what he would like, he loved the idea! We then went to Brother Sipler and asked him to baptize Jeremy, and he started to cry! He said it would be an honor, and gave him a big hug. So this weekend was a pretty emotional one, but tears of joy!!! I couldn't be happier right now! This transfer has just been so much fun! So many amazing things are happening. 

So tonight, the Plattsburgh Sisters are coming to pick Sister Bowen and I up to drive to Utica so we can stay in the Mission home. We are having a Sisters Conference on Tuesday over there. I'm pretty excited for that! Then next Monday, Sister Bowen and I will drive to Utica again. This time for her to go to Palmyra and see the sacred grove, go to the temple etc. I will be with a different sister during this time on an exchange in Hamilton. On August 6th, we will be in Utica AGAIN, but this time for transfers! I will get my new companion there and bring her back to Lake Placid. Sister Bowen will fly home on the 7th. We have some crazy busy weeks ahead of us!!! 

Hey, we got a new car :) our old one had too many miles on it. We have a silver 2014 Toyota Corolla now. It's fun! I hope I am the designated driver next transfer so I can drive it!!! 

I love you all so much! I pray for you night and day!! Everything here is going great! I love the work! The church is true!!! 

Your favorite missionary, 
Sister Keller

ANSWERED PRAYERS

Dear Family, 

I had a very good week this week. I felt a lot better and happier! No more home sickness. Sister Bowen and I have been keeping ourselves very busy! We've been knocking on doors like crazy! I would say 100's this week! We found this really beautiful apartment complex that we started tracting and met so many nice people. No potential investigators yet though. It will take us probably a couple weeks to hit every door.

So we were having a hard time getting a hold of Trent this past week. He was in Mexico and couldn't respond to our texts for some reason. He finally responded when he got to California. Everything is going super well for him!! He loved going to church with his brother and sister. I'm really happy that he gets to see them. He is getting baptized in 6 days!!!!!!!!!!! I am so excited!! The best part is that his brother is baptizing him. How special for him! I am sad I don't get to witness it, but he is going to call us before and after :)

Jeremy is doing super awesome! He is so excited to get baptized on August 2nd! He literally goes home from church and tells all of his friends and family how excited he is to get baptized. We know that because during our tracting time, we found one of his friends and they were saying how happy they were for him. I am so glad that he has support from his family and friends. It makes such a huge difference. We love teaching him. We will ask if he has any questions throughout and at the end of lessons, and he will just respond saying he knows it's true, and it makes perfect sense. He has got such a strong testimony. We had a really cool experience with him the other day. So while he was at work, he had a really strong craving for a cigarette. We told him prior to this to text us if he had another temptation. We didn't want him to relapse again. So at work he text us and was really worried. He didn't know what to do to make it go away. We saw this text an HOUR later! We were so worried about him! We tried to call and text back, but no response... We very quickly got down on our knees. We then drove to his work and his apartment to find him. No luck. Later that night, we got a text:"Hey sisters, I don't know if you prayed for me or something, but the temptation went away!" YES! Prayers work!! We told him that we did pray, and that he can too during another craving. We also gave him more ideas to do during his breaks, like read scriptures, listen to music. Anything to get his mind away from smoking. So every thing is good! He also said to us that he is happy to have the THREE of us helping him. Three? Wow! He knows that the Lord is right there with him as well as us! 

I wasn't near the tornadoes. Just huge lightning and thunder storms. They are beautiful though!!! Sunsets/rises are very pretty here too. It reminds me of Hawaii! The mountains here are solid green just like in Hawaii.  It's gorgeous!!! Also there is hardly any humidity in the north country so I got really lucky coming here for the summer time :)


Oh guess what! There are so many foods that I like now! Like broccoli and cauliflower. One thing I can not stand is a Beet smoothie.... I wanted to gag. It was at a members house. Sister Bowen had to finish mine. It tasted like dirt! A DIRT SMOOTHIE! 

Well, life is pretty grand here in my little town of Lake Placid. I love you all very much! I hope you have an awesome day! 

Love, Sister Keller 
P.S. The church is true

Happy 4th

Dear Family/Friends,

So it has been a while, but I need to follow up on my invitation to you from a few weeks back! How have you been doing with not watching TV on Sundays? Isn't it such a blessing to have DVR, and be able to watch all of your shows the next day? :) If this has been a struggle, I would like to remind you that you have the ability to pray for strength to resist, and to be thankful for all of the many things you could do on Sundays as a family aside from watching a TV show. Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. It is a time to give thanks, to worship, to be together as a family doing things that invite the spirit.

I would like to share with you my Missionary Commission: 

"I am called of God. My authority is above that of the kings of the earth. By revelation I have been selected as a personal representative of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is my master and He has chosen me to represent Him, to stand in His place; to say and do what He Himself would say and do if He personally were ministering to the very people to whom He has sent me. My voice is His voice, and my acts are His acts; my words are His words, my doctrine is His doctrine- and I am His agent. My Commission is to do what He wants done, to say what He wants said, to be a living, modern witness in word and in deed of the divinity of His great and marvelous Latter-day work. How great is my calling!" -Elder Bruce R. McConkie. 

I know that my calling is great! I know that my work is marvelous, because it is the work of our Lord and Savior. I love my calling!!

I had a really fun 4th of July! I got to go to a parade, and watch fireworks! The best part was that I was able to sit on my front porch to watch the show. I hope you all have a wonderful day! I love you!

Love, Sister Keller

Meat loaf?!?

Dear Family and Friends

I first would like to say thanks for all of your prayers! I know that they are working because good things are happening in Lake Placid :) They have also helped me with some struggling times these past couple days. I know that Heavenly Father hears and answers our prayers. I have seen them answered every day! I have seen the blessings that have come as well. Even for you!

So this week, I really missed home. I felt sad for a couple days and had little to no desire to do anything but stay in my apartment. We didn't of course. But it was hard on my companion to keep me going and get me motivated again. I didn't like the fact that I have such a long way to go before I could see any of you again. I soon realized that Satan was working on me, and making me feel miserable. I said a ton of prayers through out the day, and told the Lord how much I am struggling each night before I went to sleep. I have felt the Lord's love for me and I see how much he cares. I am doing so much better now! I have more of a desire to get out there and work than I have before! It has been such a blessing too! Especially when it came to helping my investigators. Elder and Sister Miskin gave me a copy of the letter you sent them in response to their letter. I loved it!!! it made me so happy!

I got sick on Tuesday. I could hardly move because I felt so dizzy, and I didn't want to eat anything. So we stayed in our apartment the whole day so I could sleep it off. Sister Wirthlin's orders. At the very end of the day I got up feeling a little better and had strength to eat something. I can remember thinking that all I wanted was meat loaf for some reason... weird right? Well, I knew I couldn't just go make some, so I decided to scramble an egg. All of the sudden I heard a knock at our door. It was our neighbor/land lord/ member of the church there to bring us both a plate full of meat loaf!!! How cool was that!?! The spirit prompted him to bring me the extra food they had for dinner that night. Cool story for the week :)

Trent is going to be baptized on July 19th, and confirmed on the 20th! It's a done deal! He had his interview with my district leader, and has all of the plans made for his brother to baptize him!!! I'm so excited, I could just fall out of my seat! I wont be able to attend his service because it will be in
California. But that is okay! He is becoming a member of the church! He is accepting the gospel in his life! He is beginning what will be the greatest blessing of his entire life!! I am so happy for him :)

I have a very strong testimony of the power of prayer. I am so thankful for all of the blessings we receive each day. If there is anything that has changed in me since I have been out, it is that I KNOW that I can help others come unto Christ. By the powerful promptings of the spirit, all I need to do is open my mouth and speak. The Lord will do the rest by filling their hearts and minds with the knowledge they need to never thirst again.

 I KNOW that the church is true! 

I love yous all! ( NY accent :) )

Love, Sister Keller