Hey Family!
How are all of you this week!? I hope good!
Well this week has been a really good one! The members
were so nice first of all and did so many things for me for my birthday.
Sister Duff made me a strawberry pie (my favorite!!) and got me a few of my
favorite snacks as well. Sister Clark (The YW Pres.) Left cute little hearts
and notes all over our door with some flowers and Sister Grover (bishops wife)
made me a strawberry short cake and the elders got Sis. K and I balloons and
chocolate covered strawberries! Wow Right!? Everyone has been way to nice, I
really appreciate them all so much! And thank you all SO much for the fun
birthday package you sent me! It was all so cute and really brightened my day
up!:) It was the perfect way to start the week!
We also got to help out the young women this week and that was
way fun! They were filming a video for their New Beginnings program and they
themed it around the Olympics. The skit was that they were the US Womens' Hockey Team and that they were all lazy and out of shape and not ready for the
game, so we (SIster Kreiberg and I) were their trainers and we came in and
whipped them all into shape! We had them doing exercises while they would read
the scriptures and Ensign, we also had them do things like jumping jack and
marching while they recited the young womens theme, you know to help them get
into spiritual shape too! It was all a lot of fun! At the end of the skit they
all gathered together and wore these cute shirts that they made with the
Olympic rings on theme, except it was all the young value colors and it said
Viera 1st Ward on it (way cute) and then it showed us talking about their
training and the team captain talked about the training they got from us, it
was way fun, and the motto of it all was come unto Christ in everyway and go
for the gold! (Meaning the young women medallion). They were all so cute
and we all had a good time! While we were there a Sister in our ward (Sister
Ragozzine) was telling us of a cute thing that happened the other day with her
girls. Apparently Sister Kreiberg and I were on our bikes going somewhere and
they happened to drive by and see us and her little girls got all excited and
said where do you think they are going! And Sister Ragozzine said I am not
sure! And then the cutest thing, the two little girls like 4 and 7 were
talking to each other and the little one said to the bigger one do they always
ride bikes? And the bigger one Chole said well you see... Sometime they ride
their bikes.. And sometimes they walk too, and sometimes they even drive a
car... And I'm pretty sure they can fly.... Hahaha isn't that so cute!!!!
Sister Ragozzine said she just started laughing because of the way she said it
all. Ah man those little girls are cute, Chole is the same little girl that
always hugs me at church and tells me I smell like strawberries. They are so
awesome!
Nathan our investigator is doing very well too. He came to
church for the first time yesterday and loved it!!! It was so funny, we always
show him Mormon Messages and clips of the Prophet and apostles and so Nathan in
his mind thinks that the conference center is what church is going to be like,
in a huge place with a big pulpit and the prophet and apostles speaking to you
or as Nathan calls them the "really hard core Mormons" haha But when
he got to church he saw that everyone was normal and he goes, where are all the
hard core people from the iPad? And I explained to him that they are in Salt
Lake and that the people here are people that live right here in the community
and etc. He then was very surprised that so many people came up to him and
introduced themselves, Nathan really liked that the people were very
friendly. Brother Pierce in the ward even invited him for dinner that same evening and Nathan thought that was very nice too. He enjoyed testimony
meeting and for the testimonies he liked he would give the people a thumbs up
from his seat haha it was so funny, he also sang all the songs with a big smile
on his face. It went a lot better and more "normal" than I think he
had thought. Sister Kreiberg and I were relieved at this because Nathan
is a tad anti social and he seemed to really like meeting so many new
people, he especially thought it was cool that the bishop would talk to him. We
explained that the bishop is a very friendly man and that he loves to talk to
everyone! Nathan also read quotes and commented in all of his
classes. President Estes told us that he stood up in High Priests and talked about
how he was meeting with the sisters and preparing to be baptized and how we
have really worked on him and in a good way. President Estes also said that
Nathan had mentioned that I had come over to teach him on my birthday, but
didn't tell him it was my birthday because I was just happy to see him and that
it was the best birthday present I could have asked for because I was excited
he was back in town. That was very nice of him. When he had found out it
was my birthday days after he kept asking me why I would spend it teaching him
lessons, and I told him it was because this gospel is so important and that he
is very important to me and that being able to teach him was the best gift I
could have gotten! Which is true, Nathan is one of my favorite people and it
was a joy to be with him.
He is doing very well and it is so great to see how excited the
members are about him too. Every week we talk about the people we teach in Ward
Council, but it doesn't really seem real until our investigators come to church.
When everyone got to meet Nathan they got to see how amazing he is and how much
he has grown closer to the Savior. Being able to teach Nathan has taught me
many things. When we first started teaching him at the beginning of every
lesson without fail he would say "I don't want to do this anymore, church
is not for me and I am not even sure if God exists" But every time we
taught him the spirit was so strong that he would ask when are you coming back
and what should I read from the Book of Mormon to prepare for our next
lesson. He did that for about 3 weeks straight and Sister Kreiberg and I
weren't sure if he was going to go anywhere. But slowly the spirit has
been working on him, he now reads from the Book of Mormon and prays every day.
And when we come over he is always excited to tell us that he completed his
"homework" he also likes to bear his testimony to us but in a
"secret way" he likes to tell us that the spirit is working on him
and that he now is learning more that ever that he has a Father in
Heaven. It is so incredible to see the changes that he has
made. He still likes to mess with Sister Kreiberg and I all the time, and
I am still the hammer... But it is such a joy to be able to teach him. I am so
grateful that Heaven Father trusts us to teach his children, it is teaching me
so much, words cannot explain! Seeing others come unto Jesus Christ is
the best feeling in the world, knowing that others can partake of the same
blessings that you receive and have more happiness in their lives is the best!
I love it!
Well I love all of you!!!
Sister
Jamison
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