Dearest Familia,
So this week was way good! A bit
crazy but FULL of miracles!!! So Where to even start... We had an awesome
lesson with Matthew on Tuesday night and it went soo well. The spirit was so
strong and you could tell that Matthew was so ready to learn about the
gospel. Sister Thomas did a great job at teaching as well, this was like
her 2nd or 3rd time teaching a full restoration lesson and she did
awesome! Matthew was just smiling during the whole lesson and asking so
many great questions, he also expressed with us that he was looking to
"start over" and to come closer to Jesus Christ and do better in his
life. We bore our testimony to him about the atonement and how all of that is
possible through Jesus Christ, we read Alma 7:11-13, and explained to him that
the Savior has experienced all of these things so that we can become clean
through him. That scripture and thought made him very happy and he is
ready to do whatever he can to come closer to the Savior. SOO AWESOME! At the
end of the lesson we invited him to baptism and I swear (no I don't I'm a
missionary) but I kid you not we couldn't have asked him quick enough! He was
basically asking us when he could be baptized and when we could come back and
continue to teach him. It was so great, one thing I have realized is that the
Lord is preparing His children all the time to receive the restored gospel,
everyone we have taught that has keep the commitments we extend and truly seeks
in their heart to know if this is the truth and then are baptized, have been
prepared long before we got to them. These people are so easy to teach and so
willing to do whatever they can to come closer to the Savior, they know that
there is more truth that they are looking for and they find it when we teach
them and they are so happy. Gene is so cute; almost every time he see's
us he can’t thank us enough for bringing him the gospel. Gene was able to
go to the temple this past week and he had a wonderful time. When Gene
gets really excited about something or someone he always says that is so
awesome or they are so awesome, when he was telling me about his temple
experience he says " That was so awesome, words can't even explain how
awesome that was, I mean awesome just can't even describe how awesome."
haha he is so funny and he thinks the gospel is "INDESCRIBABLY AWESOME."
Well another miracle that happened
this week was Sister Thomas and I finally made contact with a woman that Sister
Low and I tracted into about 8 or so weeks ago. Her name is Rachel and she is a
single mother with 1 girl and 2 boys (K weird right?) But anyways she is
awesome! When Sister Low and I found Rachel she was so friendly to us and
welcomed us into her home and we were able to pray with her and leave a short
message with her and she loved us and said we could come back anytime, so that
was cool. Well we had tried to go back all the time and no one was ever
home and so after a while we wouldn't stop by as much just because we didn't
think anyone would be there. Well the
other day Sister Thomas and I were in the area and I had a thought that we
should stop by Rachel’s home and see if she was there, so we stopped by and
BOOOM! She was there haha. She was so
excited to see us and she welcomed us in and we started talking a lot about
missionary work and a brief restoration lesson and Rachel was basically telling
us the lesson. And Sister Thomas and I were like whoa wait you know so
much! How! And I guess Rachel did in home care or something for a friend that
was dying - an older woman back like 10+
years ago and this friend was LDS, well long story short this friend would talk
to Rachel all the time about the gospel and about eternal families and gave
Rachel a Book of Mormon and yaddy yatta! Well no wonder she was so kind to
always let us in and talk to us, she loves Mormons! Ha well anyways Rachel was
very impressed with Sister Thomas and I and how we have dedicated our time to
serve the Lord and Rachel was saying how she wants her Children and herself to
be close to the Lord and we said well that's why we are here! We want to teach
your family the Gospel!!! Rachel accepted and we are going to go back this
Saturday and teach her family, we also got to meet her 15-year-old daughter who
is so so nice and a very cute young girl and she is excited for us to come back
too! We can't wait and just like Matthew - they have already been prepared for
us! - The Lord is always preparing His children and it makes it so exciting for
us when we find them and can share with them this amazing message that we have!
I love missionary work because of this! I love being able to share this message
with others so that it can bless their lives! - K funny moment, Sister
Thomas and I were riding our bikes the other day and it POURED rain, well we
went to run for cover and the only thing in sight was a big black trailer in
the middle of a muddy/grassy field by a new development (the kind of trailer
that has ads on it in construction sites) and we drug our bikes under there and
sat for 45 minutes while it stormed and it was way hilarious because so
many people passed us and no one helped haha uhhhhh hello! 2 girls dressed
nice, in skirts, under a trailer in the mud- something doesn't seem right
there let’s pass by anyways haha okkkk it was all fun though! Thank goodness
Bishops wife came and saved us toward the end! -
Well love you all and thanks for the
letters and emails! Keep it up! Share the gospel!
-Sister Jamison
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