Sister Jessie's Mission

Hey fam!

Sorry I’m extremely late. My companion has been having some problems with her health and because our area of Moqugua is very off in nowhere land there aren’t any doctor’s clinics that can do all the tests and labs that she needs to do. So, this morning we got up early and got on a bus to Arequipa in order to make her appointment in the afternoon, so I didn’t have time to write this morning. She is doing fine. The mission nurse just wanted us to do these test to make sure nothing is wrong. But it was fun today to be in Arequipa and talk with president for a while. We plan on getting the results tomorrow morning and heading back to our area to work as fast as we can! I love my new area!

Funny thing that happened today, right as we were walking into the clinic guess who walks in right after us? Our investigator from Moquegua! Haha she was so surprised and happy to see us. Her name is Ana and she has cancer. We have been teaching her these past two weeks. She loves coming to church and just seems like she is craving to learn more about the plan of salvation because she doesn’t know when she will be taken from this life. We talked to her for a while in the clinic. She just feels so tired and weak all the time but is trying as hard as she can to read the Book of Mormon. She has such a sweet and gentle spirit. We are going to challenge her again this week. We are feeling that she is ready. Please pray for her!

Our other investigator, Maria Ester, was the one I talked about last week who told us that she felt she had known us before this life. She is progressing extremely well. She knows so many people in our ward and every person who knows her has been telling us that she is a very closed person and will not change her ways. However, the first lesson we had with her she committed to a date in December! She is amazing and honestly seems like a member of the church already. She lives alone in a big house and has told us she feels lonely and she wants to become the person that God wants to her be but doesn’t know HOW. But, through the gospel of Jesus Christ we can know the HOW of every question we have in life. Especially if it is about reaching our divine potential! I am so excited to teach her more this week!

We have been receiving many references from the members -and the other day we received a reference of a family of five. We went over to their house to do a NDH and the mom expressed to us that she has always loved our church because of our focus on the family and she has been praying for something to come into her life in order to make the changes necessary to become a stronger mother and family! Tomorrow we have another lesson with them and my companion and I are super excited to teach them about eternal families and the covenants they can make in the temple! Temples are my absolute favorite thing to talk about in lessons!

Also, this week we had a training over satellite by the area presidency on how we can be a more effective ward council in order to hasten the work of the Lord! It was so amazing. We have so many things to change but right after this meeting we met together as a ward council to talk specifically about the things that we want to change which was very powerful. And from that, I know that from now on the investigators and less-actives will be in good hands here in the ward!

I went on divisions with Hna. Flora the other day who is from my same group at the CCM. It is crazy that just about nine months ago we were praying that one day we could be companions and the other day we got to be companions for a day!

Well, that was my week this week! Many miracles seen because of the guidance of Heavenly Father. This week I truly felt the power of the atonement through the sacrament. Before the mission I honestly didn’t understand the significance of partaking of the bread and water, however, during the course of my mission I have tried to actively participate in the sacrament. Taking the advice of the president of the primary I think this last conference who spoke about the sacrament that during the sacrament we should make a list of the things we want to CHANGE in order to be more perfected the next week. I would suggest this to all of you! As you do this, you will feel the power of the atonement flow through you as you renovate your covenants during the sacrament!

Well, I love you so much. Thank you for all your prayers and love. I couldn’t do this without you! Up until next week, keep smiling. Especially when you don’t feel like it! Love you!

Love, Jess

Doing divisions with Hna. Flora. She is from my group on the CCM and now she is in my zone.