Hola Familia,
So this week was just a crazy one, good but crrraaazzzyyy!! So
the beginning of the week was so great Sister Thomas and I finally ran into
Sister Diaz (the casquete kids mom) and we were able to have a nice lesson with
them about the importance of coming to church and Sister Diaz is really coming
around. She was saying how she has felt that she really needs to go to church
and how she feels like the Lord keeps reaching out to her and she is committing
herself to come with her children which is so great! We are also working on
getting Christian and Jariana baptized on the 3rd Saturday of October and I am
so so so excited about that, those kids are so wonderful and they always talk
about church and how they want to go and now their parents are starting to be
active again and it is such a blessing for them. Every time we come over they
get so excited and say the missionaries are here!!! They love us and are always
sharing candy with us and drawing us pictures, so cute. I really am so grateful
that they are working together as a family now to come to church and have those
kids get baptized, it is so important and they are starting to realize it!
Yay!! My physical therapy has been going pretty swell too, I just do a lot of
stretches and I guess that is supposed to help, the therapist told me the
pain would get worse before it gets better because of all the stretching
she is having me do, which I am definitely feeling, I get very very sore
after my appointments, but I know that it wont last forever! We also had ZTM
this week which I always love (Zone Training Meeting) and 2 minutes before the
meeting started I just happen to look at the phone and saw that we has a missed
call from President Berry, so we ran out into the hall really quick and called
him back and he told me that I was going to get ET'd (Emergency Transferred)
that evening to Pleasant Hills South which is in Kissimmee
(Ki-Sem-eee) so that was a bit of a shocker!!! So as you can imagine I
couldn't concentrate too well in my meeting because I was worrying about all
the stuff I had to do and all of the people we were going to see, UGH!!! But it
was ok, after the meeting Sister Thomas and I went straight home and on the way
President Berry called us back so that he could tell us why, (he didn't have
time before) but I guess there is a better doctor down in Kissimmee by the
mission home that the mission nurse Sister Nielson wants me to see, and I
needed to be closer, also I guess SLC is really crunching down on the missions
as far as who is allowed to drive anymore, there have been many accidents I
guess, but anyways Sister Thomas doesn't know how to drive, scary I know I have
been teaching her for the past two weeks and it has been the scariest two weeks
of my life! Ii will say no more! But anyways, missions aren't allowed to teach
missionaries to drive anymore so they needed to switch someone in to drive her
to prevent accidents and get me closer to a better doctor, so I guess that's
all good. So Thursday night I got moved to Pleasant Hills South, and it
is everything but pleasant haha I will tell you more in another letter
though... But all I can say is that no one no one no one speaks English, I
can't understand more than half the people in my ward either, ughh I am going
to have to be brushing up on some espanlo if ya know what I mean. I hope that I
can remember some of what I used to know, but it's pretty much fizzled out my
brain. My new companion is Sister Baker from Salt Lake City and she is sooo
awesome! It's so cool we are like the same person! I really love her and I feel
so comfortable around her, it's been a really nice change of pace for me! We
really relate on a lot of things and we just get where each of us is coming
from, so that's way cool! My district is also really awesome, the elders are
really goofy and nice and we all get along super well! They are always telling
funny stories about their weird experiences here and it's soo hilarious
haha
Conference was also SO SO SO AMAZING! I loved all the talks so much, my
favorite would be Elder Soraes (maybe I spelled that wrong) talk about being
meek and controlling anger and irritation, wow so good, I realized that I need
to learn to be more meek! I also really loved Elder Holland’s talk about
depression, it was a little different than his normal talks but I really
enjoyed it! Elder Nelson also gave a wonderful talk on Self-mastery; I hope you
all saw that it was so so good! It was so crazy because that morning in
personal study I studied self-mastery from the topical guide and the scriptures
just stuck out to me so much and really prepared me to hear his message.
But most of all my favorite was hoe so many of the speakers touched on what a
family structure is supposed to be like, and the divine influence of women, it
is so true!!! The saying that when mom's not happy no one is happy came to my
mind and I was like Bluhhh!! See sooo true!!! I always love when
they talk about families and how they are ordained of God, the family is
so important and how the circumstances in which we start a family are
so important to our Heavenly Father. Love love love that talk, husbands be nice
to your wives! Anyway I really enjoyed it and I hope all of you did too! And if
you missed any of it go online and watch it! There was such wonderful and
inspired counsel! The true and only way to have happiness is to live the
principles of the gospel, there is no other way, and it is so simple to live,
aren't we so lucky we have a Father in Heaven that loves us that much. I love
you all!
Sister
Jamison
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