One and done✅️

Week: 22
Date: July 8, 2024
Location: Cottonwood Creek, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Email: lexi.kimball@missionary.org
Companion: Sister Arnold/Nashville,Tennessee

Mission Blog: https://iputtheradincolorado.blogspot.com/

 God bless the USA!!🙌🎆🇺🇸 #realfireworksintheback
Colorado Springs, Colorado
July 2024

Idk why we are twinning but new comp!!!👭
Cottonwood Creek Colorado
July 2024

Fly high Eagles!!🦅 I guess I did such an amazing work in just 6 weeks they needed me somewhere else. Cause I got transfered again. I'm no longer in Eagle Point 😭 but it's all good cause I'm now in Cotton Wood Creek 🐇✌️🤪 I have a new companion her name is Sister Arnold she's from Tennessee🤠 so I was excited to bond with her about country music but she informed me she does not in fact like country music but it's ok cause imma convert her to it, and then after the mish she will be jammin🕺! 

I'm so excited for Cotton Wood Creek though. and it's been good so far!! 🤞

We had our last P-day with the district last week and it was on Tuesday cause of transfers, so that was weird. We were at the mailing office, and I see this lady with a bunch of packages and so I started talking to her (yk trynna share the gospel or whatever). Well finds out this lady sells mushrooms for people, and I'm thinking "like to eat?", no she told me, it's for psychiatric purposes and she then gave me her card!!🍄🤪 Says it helps her mentally, so I wanted to share that the gospel helps me mentally too, but I had to bite my tongue.   What a crazy experience at the post office lol!! 

On P-day we played volleyball again so I could leave a lasting volleyball impression. 💁‍♀️ After some recreational activities I said goodbye to my fav less active soon to be active family!😭 It was so bitter sweet, but I got her email so imma make sure they stay active cause this is salvation here!! 😇

TRANSFERS which is always fun cause you can see all the missionaries.  The not fun part is the worry that you forgot to pack something, but it's fine because I SAW SISTER SIMMONS😱😁!!!! She started crying when she saw me cause she loves me soo much. This is all true!!🥹 It's been a long 6 weeks so we got to catch up and talk for a bit. She told me about my first area and how the people are!! She's actually transferring and heading back down to the valley and she loves it there, so that's awesome!!  🐄🤠

RIP my fav family!!😭
Eagle Point Colorado
July 2024

Then me and my new comp Sister Arnold who's hilarious, we headed to the new area and we had dinner with a member family. Before this though, Sister Arnold told me all about their infamous Squirrel joke that he says every time new missionaries come in. This joke was hyped up to much that when it was said, it was so hard to laugh, but I put on the best scene of my life 🎬 cause that is now my favorite joke. But it was so great I love the members so far, so that awesome!!🙌 

"Gosh you look like the 4th of July, makes me want a hotdog real bad!"🇺🇲🌭 #ifykyk 

If you don't know this movie reference, we aren't friends!! OK, the 4th was sooo funn!! I thought it wouldn't be, but it was a blast!!  Only some zones were able to, but we got to walk in the Monument Parade representing the Colorado Springs Mission!! It was awesome!! We first had to ride this bus with a bunch of people and they we definitely all thinking "why the heck is there 50 missionaries on this bus right now?🧐" Well we couldn't tell ya but it was a very squished ride to our spot for the parade! We finally got there, and we stood in the dry grass for about 2 hours waiting for the parade to start. So we all were just talking with each other and soo bored so of course I decided to teach people the famous Kimball family name game!! It started off with just about 8 missionaries with the sisters whispering my ear what the names are so I could write them down, and then having the elders create a new note each time so they don't whisper in my ear 🙅‍♀️ and they don't see each others names. After these 8 people loved the amazing game they recruited more missionaries, so this turned very chaotic, very fast. So I then taught this game to about 25 missionaries. I recruited an Elder to write down the elders names so it would go faster. But basically every loves the Kimball family name game!!💁‍♀️

 We represent!!✊️
Coloradfo Springs, Colorado
July 2024

 New district who dis?
Cottonwood Creek, Colorado
July 2024

We finally started walking after a long time of playing games. They gave us a bag of candy to hand out to the kids and of course we see all these kids and missionaries are just chucking candy at them, so I decide to limit my candy chucking until the end. Everyone ran out and so I was the only one with candy, so these kids were going crazy for them. It was sooo fun. We walked about 5 miles 🥵 jk it was like 2.5 miles and we got to wave like royalty in the parade. It was so much fun. Of course I was eating it up!!👑💁‍♀️  We were also offered beer while walking in the parade, such a nice offer!😑 I then challenged Elder Fairbourn to street contact someone while in the parade cause he's the king of street contacting, and I gave him a card with a picture of Jesus on it, and he did it!! He successfully completed the challenged! 🙌 

0.5 parade!!
Colorado Springs Colorado
July 2024

Bleed usa!!
Cottonwood Creek, Colorado
July 2024

A small miracle, so it was 4th of July and my comp and I had no dinner for that night which is so sad. But we decided to pray about it that day to miraculously have a dinner happen, so we aren't alone eating pb and js in our apartment. MIRACLE we got a text from some sister missionaries saying they have a member who is offering to feed more missionaries, so we got to go and we had some good ol American food🍔🙌🦅🇺🇲

We volunteered at the library and John Cena was there Pic below!! It was crazy!! 😱 we got to help organize books and clean some cds so if anybody checks out Friday the 13th just know I cleaned it!!💁‍♀️

Post hardwork cereal while watching fireworks🙌
Cottonwood Creek, Colorado
July 2024

JOHN CENA caught in the library!!
Cottonwood Creek, Colorado
July 2024

Facetime with the one and only NANA!!!
All OVER the USA
July 2024

Just wanted to share one of my fav quotes!! "Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably. … [You see,] He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of. … You thought you were [being] made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.” 

Because of Jesus Christ atoning sacrifice we can be made equal to the tasks ahead.

I have been studying about Divine discontent and that comes when we compare "what we are" to "what we have the power to become.” Divine discontent can move us to act in faith, follow the Savior’s invitations to do good, and give our lives humbly to Him. But don't let it become discouraging when we come up short. I have been working that on my self a list of things I need to improve but I don't let this discourage me! We should welcome feelings of the Divine that call us to a higher way!! 

I love y'all!! And I hope y'all have a lit week this week! 🥳

- Sister Kimball

Dad: I bet you loved girls camp😁

Mom: I'm sorry is that Courtney Cox I see in every photo?

Colton: Wow your a whole cowboy now 🤠🚜

Caryn: Don't watch Man on the Moon since now you live on a farm!! "Court, court...."

Bailey: We got this!! No hacker can beat us🦸‍♂️

Taylor: First of all, why is everyone on a beautiful girls hit right now? Second of all, why is that my known dance move? 

Clay: Please shave 🙏

Leah: Still shocks me your in Missouri😮

Bella: Best ycl EVAA!!! 🤪 iykyk

Collins: Look at you Utah girl pop off👑💁‍♀️

Capri: Have you gone to Lonley Ghost yet?👻 If you do, please tell mom to get me a hoodie🤪😘

Kash: Farm boy🤠🙌