Potential Investigators!!

TERESA - Hi ya!

So things this week have picked up for sure!! We taught someone, “Q”, last Monday night and even though we have yet to speak to him, he said he'd be baptized if he knew it was true!! And then we met with this other guy, “R”, and he said the same thing! He is out of town for a month at the moment but we set up a return app when he gets back. And we also met with a guy “A” who said he would get baptized as well when he has come to know and he came this Sunday!!! He stayed for all 3 hours and said he liked it! A RM (returned missionary), “A M”, totally helped fellowship him!! It was great! We are teaching him Tuesday night and earlier on Tuesday we have two other potential investigators apps! I can't even tell you how happy I am!! FINALLY we are seeing things happen here in Liberton!!  But it is seriously all the result of hard work, obedience, and the Lord's help. Without that, none of this would be happening right now!! I hope I can continue to strive to be better and always remain on the lookout for the elect. It's just so great because we are finding future priesthood holders!! And we so desperately need them!!! Things are looking great :).

So this week we had an interesting experience. We went by a member referral and it was this little old lady and she was really nice. We felt the spirit as we were talking with her and getting to know her and all that. But then a little later for some strange reason I felt really uncomfortable and unsettled. She talked about how people thought she was crazy and after she said that she just sat there with this odd stare. It was definitely NOT right at that moment. We gave her a pamphlet and said we'd come by again and left. I told Sister Woolley how I felt and she said she felt the very same thing! Yeah, creepy. I have felt like this before and even when I don't understand it I try to get out of the situation as fast as I can, because I know that that is how the Spirit speaks to me a lot of the time. It sounds silly but I feel it with my tummy, so I definitely have learned to identify those feelings and impressions! But it's amazing how much we don't realize the spirit when it's with us. I am so glad that because it is with me, it can give me those warnings that I need to get out. For instance another night, Sister Woolley and I were chapping this street of really nice houses but I started to feel really spooked so we got out of there. Apparently the next morning someone was found dead in the AP's area near where we were and it is under investigation! Coincidence? Maybe, but I feel that when we feel something is wrong don't question it, just go!  It's the Spirit talking to you. So that's something I have REALLY come to appreciate!! Now don't get worried, I live in a very safe area so no need to fear for my safety!!

I have been sleep talking again lately!! I thought I was done with that!! But nope! I kept doing QGC's in my sleep with an emphasis on setting up return appointments! It was so annoying! It's because I've got finding on the brain I suppose haha. How weird. It's really funny though. Sister Woolley and I are really starting to get to know each other more and it has been so wonderful! She really is an amazing missionary; she said that she just needs help on improving her people skills. And hey, if I say so myself, I'm not too shabby at talking with people ;) haha. I know we are companions for a reason! We are both here to help each other with our weaknesses so they can become stronger! I love Sister Woolley and things are going so wonderfully!!

Love you all and thank you for all the love you give Rach and I!

Love Always, Sister Teresa Kullick

Rededicated

TERESA - Hello hello!

Ok sooo much has happened! I am training Sister Woolley now and it has been so great! I have learned sooo much and I have improved as a missionary too! It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be but it is at the same time you know? I have rededicated myself to the work and I have been striving to be more exactly obedient! And honestly, blessings have come as a result of that. You can just see and feel the difference :).  I am a lot more satisfied with my work because I know I am doing the very best I can!! You think I would have gotten this before! Also, Sis Woolley and I are related! We looked on our pedigree charts and my 4th generation Great Grandpa is her 3rd. Crazy huh?! It is so great though; we were both so stoked to find that out.

The week Sister Woolley arrived; we dedicated ALL of our time pretty much to finding! We didn't have anyone so we decided to fully focus on that and to pray about where we could go specifically each day to find someone who is ready. And doing that, we exceeded the standard of excellence for QGC's in a week!! And we found a few potentials as a result of that! So this week we are seriously enjoying the fruits of our labors. So many people are texting us and wanting to meet with us! We also had a real good lesson with a guy named Quinton of YSA age last night so we are really hopeful for that! Things are really picking up in this area now. And I really feel that its all because we are putting aside ourselves and going to work and following the white handbook as best we can. Heavenly Father has blessed us with so much and I am excited to be a missionary here in Edinburgh at this time! This is such a wonderful mission!!

I want to share with you an interesting experience that happened last week. We had some extra time before this one dinner app so we went chapping. The very last door we knocked on was this woman Dawn. The more and more we spoke with her, I felt something that I had never felt before with a complete stranger, and that was that I felt this immense amount of love for this lady and I really did care about her. She was so receptive and wanted us to come back this next week. She was different and I could feel it. She is ready to accept the gospel and I am so very excited to see her and talk to her about how her life can be complete!! She wasn't like the others we usually run into, I am telling you, she is prepared!! I CANNOT wait!

But I have been feeling so much better since the start of this moves! It has totally changed for me and so much for the better!! I have reset some goals for myself and I know that if I do ALL that I can (being exactly obedient) then I will see my dreams come true! This is such an exciting time and I am honored to be apart of this great work. Extraordinary things are going to happen.

I love you all, thank you for everything!

Love always, Sister Teresa Kullick

I was ill...

RACHEL - Hello family,

How is Grandpa doing? Is he improving? Tell him that I pray for him every night and that I love him!

This week has been rather uneventful due to me having to stay in because I was ill. I have had a cold for the past 2 1/2 weeks and it has gradually gotten worse. It turned into a fever on Tuesday. President and Sister Bullock said I had to stay in for a couple of days to let my body try to recover. At first I tried to resist and go outside after I called for permission to go work, but that didn't last long as I realized I really was sick. Sister Dell took such great care of me and then Sister Allison then took over and tried to help as well. So I have been quarantined for the past couple of days. We went to the Doctor and he gave me some antibiotics and I have been taking them. I am feeling like I am beginning to recover now instead of it getting worse. So I am very happy that I am out and about now and fulfilling my purpose!

On Monday, Sister Dell and I were able to receive two referrals from a member and now we have one new investigator from her wonderful missionary efforts! She is a part member family and so we now have the goal to help them all come unto Christ! I have come to greatly appreciate member referrals, even if in the end the individual they referred us to was not interested, it has been great to have the help of members who literally want their neighbors, family members, and friends to have the same happiness they have. All we have to do is invite and that is how we become successful missionaries, not if baptism is a result but if we simply invite because that is all we can do. Us missionaries love member referrals, so help out your full time missionaries!!

Sister Allison and I really only had about 1 1/2 days to really work and it has been a pleasure serving with her. I do believe that Stafford needs an English Sister, as I believe I have already said to you in my last letter. The Branch has really been improving and we want to help it reach it's full potential. There are unfortunately quite a few less active members and I do believe that if we were able to re-activate all of them we would have a Ward! So that is our next important goal at hand! I wish before my mission I made a greater effort to try to reach out to those struggling with their testimonies. I really do know that there is so much we can do to help those who do need to be lifted and by strengthening them, we strengthen our own testimonies. What a great opportunity it is to be the Savior's hands and to serve our brothers and sisters.

I am very grateful for the opportunity I have to serve a mission; I would have it no other way. I simply know that this gospel is true. I know Joseph Smith had one question to know of the truth and received an answer from Heavenly father and the Savior themselves. I know that the authority of God is on the earth again and it is in His church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Through God's plan of Salvation we can know how to keep the relationships with the ones we love and have them last even after death. The power of the Holy Ghost is real and those who read of the Book of Mormon can know for themselves can receive a witness from the Spirit of it's pure and precious truth. I know that it is only through Jesus Christ we can be able to have a way to return to our father in Heaven again someday. I love missionary work and the happiness I feel everyday from doing it. I simply know this is true.

Thank you for all of those who have written and supported Teresa and I! We love you all!

Take care!

Sister Rachel Kullick

P.S. I want to wish Bridgy a congratulations on her wedding announcement! I would like an invite if possible please!

Sisters Meeting & an English Sister

RACHEL - Dear Family,

I heard about Teresa training and that is amazing! I am sure that she will be great for her new Sister! So Congratulations Teresie!

The Sisters Meeting was amazing! Sister Dell and I were the last ones to arrive because our train got delayed but we were there just in time! In the beginning, the Assistants to the President gave a training on Companion Exchanges and how these exchanges are suppose to be life changing and how we can get the most out of them. Then we were given a talk by President Bullock about leadership and that was amazing! It was about going from Good to Great and how good is the enemy of great...I learned so much! Then we had lunch and then Sister Bullock gave a talk on dress and grooming and then all of the Senior Sisters gave 3-4 min training/talks. There were on How to have effective Nightly planning, How your family is blessed when you serve, How to lift and encourage others, How to treat and communicate with Elders/Men, How to have effective District Phone calls every night, How to work with the members, Companionship unity, and many more. We all taught each other throughout the entire meeting! At the end we had a question and answer session by President and Sister Bullock and that was wonderful! My appreciation for my Mission President and wife grew a hundred fold! I love them dearly, they have changed my life.

I have a new companion! Her name is Sister Allison! She is from Nottingham, England and is 23 years old. She is sooo nice and I do believe Stafford is in need of an English Sister! I know miracles will happen in this next transfer!

I have been ill for the past 2 weeks and yesterday I had a fever which is not the first time on my mission :D but I am determined to fight it and to not have a sniffly nose anymore!

Let everyone know I love them! And thank you mom and dad for being so wonderful!

Love always, Sister Rachel Kullick

Rachel's British companion!

Sister Kullick and Sister Allison

New Training Companion

TERESA - Hi ya!!

Moves call was last night and Sister Peterson is leaving to go home and I'm staying here in Edinburgh. And I am training a brand new missionary!!!! Ahhhh! I am totally terrified! haha My whole mission I scraped by with being junior companion and now I'm a trainer?! No way! Golly gee wiz this is mental. But I had a feeling even though I am never right about these things I thought that maybe I would. Even talking about it gives me butterflies! One of the AP's, Elder Young, told me that they were really praying about it (there is only one sister coming in this moves) and they felt that I should be the one to train her! How nice is that? This is going to be something. I thanked my mission President for trusting me and he said, "Don't thank me, thank Heavenly Father. You will never work harder than you will now." haha Whoa! It is so true as well. I need the push!

This is my second half. I like to compare it to field hockey where as maybe in the first half I didn't play so well. I let a lot get by me and it's like what Potty (our coach) (His real name is Mr. Potmesil so you can see where the nickname came from!) would say, he'd say, this is a new half, new game now. Forget the first half and start fresh, this is your game now, not theirs. And that comparison really has helped me on my mission. I'm ready to get back in there and play my hardest, work my hardest. If I wasn't happy with my play/work in the first half, forget about it and do better this time around. I know it sounds silly and obvious but this really hit me a little while ago. And with training I know it's Heavenly Father's way of giving me that opportunity to be better this time around. Because with training, I HAVE to step up my game, there is no question. So I am ready and willing to give it my all this time around and I am so very grateful that I have the chance to do and be better! This is exactly how repentance is as well. It doesn't matter if you've messed up before. Make it right and move on and do better. That is what I love about the gospel. It is full of second chances and Heavenly Father is going to always be there to help you every step of the way. There is no doubt in my mind that He will help me! He wants me to succeed so why on earth would He leave me alone? He wouldn't. And let me tell you, I am so very glad for that knowledge!!

It's like I am building that bridge of faith. Where I know I need to do something but I have no idea at all how I'm going to do it but I have to put my trust completely in my Savior. For example, and this may seem silly but it so applies! In "Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade" Indie's dad (Sean Connery) gets shot and so he HAS to find the Holy Grail now to save his father's life. But it gets to this part where he has to cross this huge ravine and it just looks impossible with no way over it. But he sees in his book that it is possible and his dad says that he just has to believe. And so Indie takes a deep breath and says it's a leap of faith and then takes a step into the ravine only to find that the bridge was there the entire time but he just couldn't see it from where he was standing. And that is exactly how it is with us. Sometimes we have NO idea how we are going to get from A to B but we know it is possible even when it seems impossible. So when we put all our trust in our Savior He will show us and direct the way that was there all along with His help. He knows we can do it. The only thing that holds us back is us and our lack of faith. Crossing the ravine is not the hard part, our Redeemer's got that covered, it's getting us to take that first step and trust that He does have it covered. I know that even though we can't see it all the time, the way to reach our potential is ALWAYS there. I know that with the help of Heavenly Father I seriously can do anything. Why do we limit ourselves??

I am sooo stoked for my second half of my mission because it will blow the first half out of the water. I can always improve and be better and this is the time to shine! haha So my companion will be Sister Eliza Woolley (who knows, maybe we're 3rd cuzzies!) and I am so excited to learn from her and all that she has top offer! This will be good. There is much to look forward to. Now all I have to do is have the confidence to get around Edinburgh (2nd largest city in all of Scotland) with no help of someone who's been here longer! But it will be fine :)

I am so grateful to be here now. I love my mission and I know it's helping me to become the best I can be. And boy do I need it! haha But thank you so very much for all of the love and support Rach and I have received from you all! WE love you guys so much! Thank you! I am so happy to hear about grandpa!! I am always praying for him.

Love you, Sister Teresa Kullick

England Birthday Pictures

Sister Dell and Sister Rachel Kullick's birthdays