Sister Kate LeBaron~ Bentonville Arkansas Mission: If you're area book doesn’t look like a jar of skittles you're missing out...🌈🦄😇

HOWDY YALLL!! This week was crazy! Also for all the people who aren't missionaries who are confused at my title area book is the planning app we have as missionaries, they have lots of different colors that stand for different things like teaching appointments, contacts, meetings... we have lots of colors going on this week aka we were real busy lol

Monday: PDAYYYY! we went bowling and I remembered that im mega trash at it! But ya know in ether 12 it says God can make our weaknesses become strengths so maybe one day I'll be good at it lol! It was still so fun tho, we met this super cool girl on our way to go bowling and we were able to give her a bom!

Tuesday: George! We went to the church to go plan stuff and we saw this guy outside and we felt like we needed to go talk to him so we did. George is so cool, he had been meeting with missionaries in a different area for a while and we were able to really have a lovingly bold conversation with him. We talked about baptism and why and how it would help him as well as the bom and how it will give him guidance. We spent a good hour answering his questions and it was by far one of the most spiritual lessons I've been in it was so cool! We made him pinky promise to reach out to his missionaries this week and he said he would so pray for George!

Wednesday: MEMBER MINI MISH! We got to take our member out with us to go on a mini mission for the day, we were able to see so many miracles!! We met this one girl who didn't speak any English her daughter translated for us. as soon as she heard we were lds she wanted us to come and see her again it was so cool! We saw our friend who's been just having a super hard time lately and we showed her a video about why bad things happen to good people and the spirit was there so powerfully! I felt like I really learned what it means to mourn with those that mourn. Here's the link to the video yall should watch it because it's sooo good:

https://www.facebook.com/brittha/videos/6417105184980946/?idorvanity=534352464165662&mibextid=NnVzG8

Thursday: ROAD TRIP! We made the massive trek from st rob to Bentonville, sister tayco and vlogged our journey if ya wanna give it a looksie you can see the magnificent film we made on my Google photos((: we got to stay in Roger's with lots of sisters and it was sooo fun!! Ahh I love them all so much🥰

Friday: T5 T6! Ahhh we had a training in Bentonville with all the missionaries who are in there 5th and 6th transfer and it was so amazing! President and Sister Collins are seriously so inspired, I just think it's so cool how the holy ghost works because I learned so many things that weren't even talked about, but because the holy ghost was there powerfully, I was able to receive so much revelation! It was such a fun day too I was able to see so many of my friends and 2 of my old comps! S/o to sis Halle and sis lacey I love yall to kolob and back! 🤍💫

Saturday: EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON! We had 8 lessons planned for Saturday and all but 3 bailed); but God had something else in store for us! Everything worked out exactly how it needed to and even though I wasn't able to see that in the moment it was cool to look back at how God's hand was in our work so much that day and everyday! I learned that I need to stop complaining when things don't work like we plan and start praying to know what god has planned.

Sunday: NEWILL GOT BAPTIZED!!! Ahhh Newill is the sickest soldier ever, before he joined the army him and his family were investigating the church a bit (because his uncle is a bishop) and it's been so cool to hear about how much God prepared him to hear about the gospel! One thing that he said sold him was the family a proclamation to the world! The idea that family's can be together forever is life changing! It's been so rewarding watching him grow! 🥰

Invite: make heaven crowded!

I've been thinking about this so much lately. As a zone we have set a goal to put people on date to be baptized and we are doing a 40 day fast (I'm fasting from distractions) to be able to achieve our goal. As we were setting this goal I was thinking about why we set number goals as missionaries and the answer I received was short, sweet but powerful. It's because we want to make heaven crowded. We pass so many people on the street, we talk to so many people in a day. All children of God and most of them have no idea what they are missing out on. We as missionaries invite people to make covenants or promises with God one being baptism. We as members of the church can sometimes forget how the covenant we made when we were 8 years old ( for some) changed our lives but it's so vital that we try to remember. It can be easy to shy away from helping our friend to learn more about the gospel and what making covenants can do for them out of fear. But my invitation for you this week is to put aside that fear and to do something to make heaven a little more crowded this week! There are hundreds of different directions you could take this so pray about it and follow the spirit. Heaven is not heaven if not all of us are there so let's try to get as many people there as we can!