Letter 3-12-18

Hello family and friends!

While this week wasn't the best week of missionarying, it was full of service and adventures with getting lost on foot, sense we have no car. We also slightly ran away from a creepy old woman that yelled, "HEY YOU, COME HERE!" that led us to a changing table with a huge diaper and pj's on it...... haha yeah, it traumatized me a bit.. :P haha

During church there were two questions that came up that are good to ponder on:
1.) How has God supported you in your trials?
2.) When was a time, when there was no doubt that God was there and loved you?
I would invite you to write these questions and answer them in your journal! Also, if you'd like to share with me, i'd love to read of your experiences! :)

For, me, I've only had time to answer question one, so here is my answer. :)
1.) For me, the family He has put me in and those friends, that I'm around help me know and feel Gods support, care, and love when I go through hard things. Also, when I've received Priesthood blessings in hard times. I can feel Him loving and supporting me in my decisions at that time and point in my life. He's never just left me alone to fall, but He's there when I fall and is there to help me up. He's never turned His back on me. I can always rely on Him.

Just remember, that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love you so much! They are always there for you no matter what!

Mosiah 2:41 - Those who keep His commandments, are blessed in ALL things. LOOK for them, write them down, share them, that way you can see His hand in your daily life. :)

I love you all!
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~Sister McKnight
Washington, Kennewick Mission

Letter 3-5-18

Well this week was pretty awesome!

One night as we were walking home there was a man that was fast walking, that did a double check at us. I noticed and so I made sure that he knew that we knew and so I said "Hello!" and he was like... "ARE YOU MISSIONARIES?!"  after we said yes he ran over and we started to talk and we set up a lesson with him at the church building on Tuesday, had another lesson of Thursday, then invited him to church, and he came! :)

So yesterday at church, we had two investigators come to church, and it was pretty awesome! Almost everyone's testimonies were on the Holy Ghost, which was perfect for our two investigators that came to church yesterday! :)

We are also teaching and inactive families daughter who isn't baptized yet! We put her on date for March 24th last week, and we hope that she'll be able to make it to that date, which her parents involved, hoping that her father could baptize her. :)

Some cool things I learned at church yesterday:
@ God is no respecter of persons- He doesn't care who you are, just who is turning in the right direction. 
@ Love people for who they are
@ LOOK up and LOOK out

(LAST SUNDAY):
# I give you these trials so your faith can become stronger, so you can help those around you.
# You can overcome it, God won't put thins in your way to crush you.
# Anything is possible with determination and help from our Heavenly Father.

INSIGHTS FROM MY JOURNAL:
* "Nevertheless [fill in your name] thou knowest the greatness of God; and he shall consecrate thine afflictions for they gain." 2Nephi 2:2
* Having a belief is enough
* He hears everyone of your prayers
* LOOK to God and live
* "If he willingly sacrifices all that he has, he shall find that he has enough" Jesus The Christ
* "And i will also be your light in the wilderness; and I will prepare the way before you, if it so be that ye shall keep my commandments; wherefore, inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments ye shall be led towards [what you are searching for in your life] and ye shall know that it is my me that ye are led." 1 Nephi 17:13

I love you all so much! And no that you all are in my prayers and that God does hear and answer every child's prayer, in His own way and time. :) I know that God loves each and every single one of you and knows what you're going through.

YOU CAN DO IT!!!

Love you!!!
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~Sister McKnight
Washington, Kennewick Mission

Pictures for February

Zone 

My first pedicure!

This was at the library! What movies do you see?

With my companion Sister Byrne!

The four roomies!

Letter 2-26-18

Hello everyone! This past week was pretty awesome! We put two people on date. :)

We had a church tour with our investigator, Cola. :)

We got to meet and have lessons with some awesome families who are less active in the ward! :)

We got to go to the temple with our recent convert, Lizeth, to do baptisms for the dead! :) Roxanne got baptized on Saturday! :)

We had interview with the President this week. I received a blessing from him to help me continue strong, to the end of my mission. :) It was exactly what I needed to hear, the blessings and promises are amazing! :)

Also, church yesterday was amazing!

Testimony:
I think in one way that the mission has benefited me personally is my testimony. My mission through awesome positive experiences and the not so awesome experiences has helped my testimony grow so much, where parts of my testimony are strengthened and are firm and without coming on my mission, I wouldn't be where I'm at now, with my testimony. That I'm SO grateful for and I know that because of my mission and how it's blessed me that way, I will always be eternally grateful. (if that makes sense) I feel like this mission has helped me prepare for life ahead, with a stronger testimony in hand. :) Haha I also think my understanding and LOVE for the Book of Mormon is the greatest blessing for me on my mission. I haven't really loved to read the Book of Mormon till my mission, because now I know how to read it and to apply it to me and those I'm around, which is an amazing blessing. :) 

~Sister McKnight

Washington, Kennewick Mission

Letter 2-20-18

Well this week was transfers. Sister Burn is pretty awesome! We found a new investigator from a less active family in our ward. It's pretty exciting! We are staying busy. :) Doing the best that we can do here in the Palouse ward. :) We had ten investigators in this ward, so we got work to do! :)

Some awesome video's you should watch!:

https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/youth-media?cid=HP_TH_15-2-2018_dPFD_fMLIB_xLIDyL1-A_&lang=eng

https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2018-01-0030-become?cid=HP_TH_15-2-2018_dPFD_fMLIB_xLIDyL1-C_&lang=eng

They are both something that I need to work on, but that are powerful new videos! They speak so much truth, it's amazing! :)

Read the Book of Mormon, and sincerely pray to our Heavenly Father. Only good things and blessings will come from it. You'll be strengthened, given peace, and comfort.

I also know that there is so much power in having a witness of Joseph Smiths first vision! I love how whenever i recite it or someone tells it to me, his exact words, the Spirit testifies of that holy and amazing event. If you don't have a testimony of Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon, do so, because it'll bless your life and make you stronger to fight against the evil and the temptations of the world.

*Just keep swimming!
*Do you're best, and God will do the best!
*5 minutes a day(in the Book of Mormon) keeps Satan away!

Love you always and forever! Let the the light of Christ shine through you and be a window to his love! :) <3
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~Sister Rebecca McKnight
Washington, Kennewick Mission

Letter 2-12-18

We just got transfer calls and sadly my companion, Sister Quayle is leaving to Walla Walla and the other Sisters that live with us, one of them is leaving, :/ Sister Franson. :( Such a sad day. :/ I'm receiving Sister Byrn, but I have no idea or clue who she is or where she's coming from but I do know she's been out for maybe 6 months or so. :) Wish me luck. :)

In other news, we had a ton of people come to church yesterday, so that was AWESOME!!! We had two investigators: Bo (age 11) and Serena (age 9) come. We had Paula's family (less active family) came to sacrament meeting. Then another less active father and daughter came for all of church! It was pretty awesome!!! While not a lot of people were there, there was everyone there that we invited! :) SO AWESOME!!! # blessed! Some cool things that we hear on Sunday:
* We are where we are supposed to be.
* Without you, the music of life would be different and wouldn't sound the same.
* No request is too big or too small, so pray, Heavenly Father wants to hear from you. :)
* There is SO Much power in prayer
* Covenants, Direction, and Revelation --> why we read scriptures

Thank you all so much for who you are and all that you do, you're amazing!

Love you!

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~Sister McKnight
Washington, Kennewick Mission

Letter 2-5-18

I love personal study on my mission! That's one of the things that i LOVE so much!!! We get an hour to study!!! I wish it was more sometimes, but i love it! During this week, I was ready a few talks and two of the stood out to me and I wanted to share them with you!

The first one is called "YOU GOTTA BELIEVE" by Matthew O. Richardson in Decembers church magazine! The quote I wanted to share with you is "Stand up straight, smile, and remember who you are. You are a child of God. Be a light. Don't you ever forget!" Isn't that awesome! You can feel his testimony and it's as if he's talking to each on of us! :) <3 So cool!

The second one is called "The Gospel Path to Happiness" by Elder Holland!  Some cool quotes are: "Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." 
"Most times happiness comes to us when we least expect it, when we are busy doing something else, Happiness is almost always a by-product of some other endeavor."
"All of this takes effort, It is a battle but a battle for happiness that is worth waging."
"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier"
"No one comes to true happiness except by Him."

This week, I beat the game bop-it!!! And with that bot a new investigator names Serena (Star) who's nine years old. She asked us how to pray and so we taught her, left a restoration pamphlet with her. Next day we knocked on her door to ask her mom if it was okay if we start teaching her and she said yes! So then we gave her a children's Book of Mormon! We are super excited! Please, keep her in your prayers! We are super pumped to put her on date! :)

I love you all and am so grateful for your examples and prayers! It means the world to me. :)
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~Sister Rebecca McKnight
Washington, Kennewick Mission