Sister Jessie's Mission

Hey fam! It sounds like everyone is doing just great! That makes me so happy! I hope everyone had an amazing valentine’s day. It was a lot of fun here . . . in the rain! Many miracles happened this week. I don’t have too much time to mention all of them so I will just mention a few. One of the biggest was the baptism that we had this last Saturday.

Honestly this week has been a week of miracles for my companion and me. Not only have we seen miracles in our area but we have seen complete changes in our companionship. But the biggest miracles that we saw this week was our baptism that we had with Oscar. It was probably the most spiritually-filled baptism I have ever been in. The mother and grandmother of this same family have been rescued and were there in the baptism crying and baring testimony of what they had lost while being less-active and now her son/grandson is being baptized. At first, Oscar would not let us walk into his door because he told us he was a man of "science" and that he didn’t believe that god existed. Slowly but surely we walked into his life and gave him a Book of Mormon and EVERYTHING changed from there on. In his baptism he said, "I used to be a man of science but now that I have this book in my hands I am a man of god." He is 18 and he is planning on going on a mission!

Also this week my companion and I put together a "sister conference" with all of our sisters from Moquegua and Ilo. The sisters from Ilo came here for the morning which was so amazing to see all of the sisters bond together and feel the joy of missionary service. My companion and I spoke a lot about our purpose here in the mission and their purpose as children of God and talking about obedience and dedication. And then, we had a testimony meeting and many of us began to cry and I truly felt that we all needed this so badly. It was such an unbelievable feeling to hear the powerful testimonies of each one of the sisters and to see the amazing potential that each one of them has. This conference was such a spiritual experience for everyone and now we feel a lot closer to them as their leaders!

We had another amazing lesson with Marcia, the investigator who stopped us on the street and asked US for a pamphlet. We were sitting there in the lesson talking about the restoration and Hna. Lucia (the mom of Oscar) accompanying us, and all of the sudden Lucia says, "Do you feel alone?" And just from this question Hna. Marcia began to tell us about her entire life and how she has felt very alone until now. The spirit was so strong in this moment and all because of one of the members asked her an inspired question. We explained to feel accompanied by the Holy Ghost we must first be baptized and she ACCEPTED in March. Such miracles!

Today Edson is going to the temple! And yesterday our convert received her calling, her recommend and paid her tithing! It was such a special thing to see these two progress and on top of that Edson and Ana are great friends!

Well, this was my week, it was amazing! Thank you for all of your prayers and words of comfort for me each week. I know I say this every week but I honestly could not be here without each and every one of you! Thank you! Keep smiling! Talk to you next week!

Love, Jess