A week of success! 8_3_15
What can I say about this week? It was so successful! My
prayers have been answered, great and grand things are happening, our area is
continually progressing and I am loving my companion!
This week we got the opportunity to exchange with our lovely
sister in Charlestown! I got to be with Sister Webb and got to experience her
light and truth that she has!
We had the opportunity to read the baptismal
interview questions to one of their new baptismal dates and also teach quite a
few people. We had a miracle experience as we were trying to find people to
teach, since our lessons canceled and we had a potential in the area we tracked
a few doors and tried a few people.
One man told us his belief in Christ was
diminished because of an experience he had in the past. He said that he didn't
want to go to church also because of that experience. We told him that Christ
felt the pain he felt and that He loved Him. This man was very close to turning
us away and then... He invited the sisters to come back no teach him! We were
so excited and went to the potential investigator and he was awake. He came right
outside and we thought we were just going to teach him about the Book of Mormon
when we ended up teaching the restoration and he accepted a baptismal date!
Yay! So awesome and we followed up with the Charlestown sisters and they said
he was progressing so well and that even his friend got into a lesson as well
and they went to church! So cool! I love miracles!
W/ Sister Jen Blackwell, awesome Missionary Mom
Had fun Painting these backdrops for a member child's birthday party.
Plus I got to play for a bit
This week one of our investigators was not home and so we
decided to try a potential no he wasn't home either so we knocked on his
neighbor’s door after receiving the impression. A man came outside and we told
him who we were and he stepped right outside. He said he only had ten minutes
for us to share something with him so we both thought "challenge
accepted" we ended up teaching the entire restoration in under 9 minutes!
We set a return appointment and walked away feeling excited. But people still
have their agency and the appointment didn't work out but he is always there
and didn't move out of the area so sister Patterson and I plan to go back there
in the near future :)
Trip to the Zoo, a Louisville Slugger, & Fasting
Last Monday we got to go to the zoo! It was great fun and we
got to hang out with some of our sisters and the Hermanas! We love them! And
thank you so much to Sister Blackwell for taking and providing it for us. We completely appreciate you! Saturday Sister Patterson's recent convert
drove down for the day and drove us around and saved us a ton of miles for the
day! My goodness we were able to get so much done! We ate at my favorite restaurant
for lunch and then talked to so many people and contacted referrals and set up
return appointments with many incredible people! It was a blast!
Yesterday on Sunday we fasted. I will just tell you Heavenly
Father knows to keep his promises. It was such a great day that as I was
fasting I felt like I was on happy gas. I felt so calm and relaxed but
submissive and ready for anything. I think I was looking weird because I just
had this smile on my face all day long. It was kind of sad too because my
favorite family is moving this week back to BLACKFOOT, IDAHO! Yay! They are the
coolest family no sister hall's niece is Leah Anderson who is the sister of my
co-workers where I lifeguarded before I came out on my mission! She has been a
light in my missionary work here at brook side and I am really sad to see her
go but I love her to pieces. Brookside
is amazing! We are finding continually and our investigator, Adam, is getting
baptized this SATURDAY! Whoo! We feel so determined to help accomplish the
mission goal as well as our own goals!
Helaman 10_following promptings from the Spirit
I recently read something so cool that I want to share with
ya’ll! I was reading in chapter 10 of Helaman this morning and it was talking
about Nephi and how he had shared about the Chief Judge being murdered and then
they went and found that it was true but still no one believed that that was
the truth or even that it meant anything.
Then Nephi gets discouraged and starts to walk home and as he does he
hears a voice that says that God was proud of everything that Nephi had done
and at he would continue to do many of the Lord’s work and then God rebukes him
and commands him to go back and proclaim repentance to the people. So he stops,
turns around and does exactly as he is commanded and declares truth. They don't
listen and so he declares it again and they don't listen again and then try to
take his life and then as they are about to do so Nephi disappears or something
and is 'delivered' :D ! Then right at the end he comes back yet again to
declare it! I learned from this that God is mindful of our efforts as
missionaries and knows how hard we try and he will call us to continue to
declare the truth and as we press forward with faith and do our very best He
will deliver us and strengthen us! This chapter was so cool to read because I
have seen this in my missionary work and also in the sisters we exchanged and
how hard they try to please Heavenly Father, it's simply amazing! I love it!
Anyway life is great and we are continually doing our best!
Harken to it, then do it!
Adam’s Baptism 8_10_15
So this week was a hoot!
We did a lot of stuff this week and worked hard but the best
part was, Adam Yashinto is now a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints! Yay!
A CD of Church music and talks we made for Adam as a Baptismal Gift.
Adam Yashinto Baptized, 8_7_15
We were looking back on when we first met Adam to now
and oh man he has changed so much! To think that he was a boy that had no
concept of who God was and now he is a man of God is incredible. The baptism
was awesome! We had many members attended and give their support. Unfortunately
none of his friends or family attended but he asked a few times can I video
tape this so my parents can see? We had to tell him no. But this is an
opportunity for him to share the gospel with his own family and friends and
help them experience the same joy!
Adam came up straightway out of the water
and got dressed, came out and said that he couldn't even explain the feeling he
had right now. He said he felt so good and that he himself didn't even think
that he would get this far. Then our ward mission leader asked him to come up
and bare his testimony and he got up and said he was grateful for his
missionaries and for the church and he said when he was first learning about
the church he said it felt a little "sketchy" especially the
"law of chastity". But after
he prayed about it and read more he knew it was all true and that our bodies
really are gifts from God! He has been so awesome! Plus he received the Aaronic Priesthood! Yesterday at church we had five investigators at church! It was so
cool! Some had to leave early but we were grateful that the lord trusted us and
the members of His church with these precious souls.
Also our baptismal date for September 5 (wow can't believe
we are setting dates in September!), Sarah Scire, came to church! Finally! Yay!
We have taught her most of the lessons and all now that we need to do is get
her to keep coming to church and teach a few more lessons and then she will be
baptized as week! We have been teaching Sister Scire for a few months now and
she is almost in the book of Mosiah in the Book of Mormon! Yay!
Dressed for success
This week we had our district meeting and the Hermana's
called us and said we should dress up like elders since it was the last district
meeting before transfers-- so we did and I think that we look pretty dang
cute. Then we had our district lunch and
went out to five guys! Mm mmm! We had
the blessed opportunity to exchange with the Shephardsville sisters and I go be
in Brookside again and this time with Sister Beecroft. She taught me how to be
loving and kind to everyone we meet. She
will probably be training sometime soon, I just know it :)
Sister P and Me.
Well this week went by way too fast and now I wait for my
sister to get her mission call! The week better go by even faster! I love you
Sydney and congrats on your call that you will be getting, just know I am
crying her in Kentucky-they will be tears of joy!
[NOTE: When asked, where do you think Sydney will get her mission call to?
If stateside, Detroit, MI If Foreign: Sydney, Australia]
I love you all and hope you have your own missionary moments
this
week! Let me know if you do! I want to hear it all!
Love, Sister Jones
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