Sister Jessie's Mission

Hey family!

Hey I don’t have tons of time to write because we had a lovely adventure this morning with a bug infestation in our apartment haha. Kind of scary for a moment but its all good we found a solution for now and we worked as a good bug-killing team to get them all out. It was an adventure!

This week was full of miracles and one of those was the marriage of Lucero and her husband. There were honestly so many obstacles that were put in her way in order to not take this step. But we got there together with the hand of the Lord! As they were getting married I could truly feel the power of the atonement abiding there as they made this covenant with each other and with the lord. Their family is a family of less-actives and they were all there and were able to feel the spirit very strongly!

Haha the enemy of all righteousness truly didn’t want her to get baptized either. The day of the baptism they cut the water supply in Moquegua and my comp and I went to fill the pila baptismal and all that came out was contaminated chocolate water! Ahhhh However, later in the day the water came again and the bishop told us that everything was ok. But, we went back about 30 minutes before the baptism and we looked in and guess what? There was only about one gallon of water in the pila. Ahhhh The family came and we had no idea what to do? But earlier in the day we had told the elders of the other capilla to fill their baptismal font just in case. So, haha laughing along the way the entire family and members walked up to the other ward house everything worked out great! The spirit there was so unbelievably strong. As she got up and bore her testimony she began to talk about the trials that she has gone through these past few days and during these four years before receiving this ordinance of baptism. As tears rolled down her face she told everyone that she has been waiting four years for this moment and that even though there are difficulties through the power of the Book of Mormon she was able to know that satan does not have POWER over the children of god. It was so powerful. He does NOT have power over us!!! Never!

We had many spiritual experiences with our less-actives this week and one of the less-actives that was just barely rescued will soon be our mission leader. His name is Guido and the story of his complete change of heart is amazing. He reminds me of the son of Alma!

That is what happened this week and much more! I can’t believe the power of the hand of lord in this work. I can feel him working right beside us always like in Jacob 5 working in the vineyard with his servants. He is doing the same with each of you! I am so excited for conference this week and to be able to invite all of hear the voice of the prophet! Thank you for all that you do for me. Without each of you I wouldn’t be here! LOVE YOU and keep smiling!

Love, Jess