Sister Camille Beck Tacoma, Washington: April 17,2017

HAPPY EASTER EVERYONE!!!!!

So I had a great Easter here! It was probably one of my favorites! So Saturday night I felt like we should go to these apartments and start knocking. There were kids in the court area playing and having fun and while we were at a door this girl comes up to us and says "What are you doing?" So we told her we are missionaries teaching people about Jesus Christ and inviting people to church. So we found out her name is Joslynn and she is 9 then we met her sister Bailey who is 8 and also another neighbor girl named Jacee who is 4 and so we gave them all pictures of Jesus Christ and also a Book of Mormon and a Restoration pamphlet and they were all super excited! All 3 of them wanted to come to church and so we said that they would need to talk to there parents about it and Joslynn ran to ask her dad super excited to come to church for Easter. And cute Jacee wanted to go so bad she almost cried but her mom said no. Well Joslynn came back and said that she begged her dad and he finally said yes and so we wanted to go and ask their Dad to just make sure it was okay and he came out and said it was fine and that he has work so he can't come but it would be cool to have them go for Easter.

Well So the next day we were planning on going by to walk the girls to church but worried they somehow wouldn't be able to come but at 9:15 the Dad called and asked if we were still planning on picking the girls up and walk them to church at 9:15 and also if his son can come too and we said of course he can! So we walked to the apartments from the church to get them and they were waiting for us and the girls came running up to us super excited. Bailey said that she couldn't wait to be able to wake up in the morning because she knew she would get to come to church! And that just about melted my heart! We met the oldest named Ryan who is 10 and they are just all so cute and well behaved! So it was also Stake Conference yesterday which is different but works but with it being 2 hours we brought coloring books and things for the kids to be doing for the whole time and they loved it... we mostly played tick-tac-toe and the dots game with them. President and Sister Blatter also came and spoke and Sister Blatter was so cute with them and kept telling us that they are golden and invited them to also eat ice cream with us missionaries after and they loved it!

We also went back that night to teach those 3 about Joseph Smith and just read the kid's version of the Book of Mormon with them on it and they loved it and were all wanting to read the rest at home. Oh also during Stake Conference one of the songs we sang for the stand up hymn was I'm Trying to be Like Jesus and the 3 of them were following along and started to pick up on how it went and were singing along and it just brought tears to my eyes about how this is what it is all about! The Dad texted us also and said thanks so much for taking them they loved it and also said it was their favorite part of the day!