Family!
How is everyone doing? I hope that everything is up and ready for the
wedding. That day is going to be so so
special! Well, this week has been really good.
My companion is a true strength to me.
She knows how to work and have fun, make jokes and laugh all the time!
We are working really well together and are beginning to see a lot of progress
in our area, especially with the help of our mission leader and our bishop. They are such strengths to us.
This last Sunday was a true miracle.
However, it did not start out that way. We set out that morning to go
and pick up our investigator, Carmen, who is unbelievable. And I had no doubt
that she was going to be dressed and ready. However, when we got there no one
was at her house. My comp and I stood
there at their door just completely shocked, and as we walked away from their
house I just had a giant clump in my throat trying to think of what we had done
wrong or what we could have done differently. In sacrament meeting I was
feeling a little sad as a result and I opened my hymn book to get ready to sing
the sacrament hymn and all of the sudden I see in the corner of my eye a person
in the doorway. It was Carmen! We waved at her to come in and sit by us but
she insisted that we both come outside. As we made our way outside, I turned
the corner and I see their entire family of 6 kids in their Sunday best waiting
outside the door. This was a miracle and I couldn’t have asked for more that Sunday. All the kids went to their classes and
absolutely love it. Carmen is practically already a missionary and constantly
baring her testimony to her sisters and her family. This is the golden family Heavenly
Father has given us and I can’t wait to work with them this week to move closer
to Christ as a family unit!
There was another investigator, Vanessa, who we taught on Saturday and
she committed to come to church with us the next morning and she did! She
honestly already seems like a Mormon. The
questions she asks and the answers she gave in the classes were perfect. She is
so ready for this gospel in her life.
We are also working with a less-- active family with 5 kids. It was extremely hard at first to get them to
church but this last week they came with their entire family and we are seeing
such progress with them. Our goal is to point them towards the temple. Can’t wait to work with them a lot more this
week!
This week we had a Karaoke Night with our entire ward and our
investigators. It was an absolute blast. I have never felt so much unity and
love in a ward. They all just feel like
family. I wish I could send some videos, because wow, our bishop really put on
a show--showing his hidden talents of dancing and singing. haha
Slowly but surely we are continually making progress here and I am
seeing miracles each day. The secret is that we just have to LOOK for these
blessings in our lives. This is such an unbelievable work and missionaries are
not the only ones called to carry it out. Each of you have a badge painted on
your heart and as a result we need to try to fearlessly share this gospel with
all those who are looking for it. I love you all so so much! Keep smilin!
Love, Jess
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two
of our investigators and my penchinista on the right
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Hmmmmm....I
wonder where the hot water knob is?....Oh wait...we don't have one haha
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