Monday, January 27, 2014
January 27, 2014 - Stake Conference w/Elder Nelson, Elder Munns of the 70 and President Berry
Hey Family!
This week was super good! We had a mission conference and Elder
Nelson came!!! It was such a good conference and I learned so so much. At first
we had president Berry speak to us and he spoke about faith and how faith is an
intelligent force and that we will harvest what we sow. It was very good.
Elder Munns of the 70 also spoke to us and his talk was my favorite. He
spoke about the Son's of Mosiah and what it was they did to teach with power
and authority. It was very cool for me because that is where I am at in
my scripture reading right now! He pointed out five things that they did
and I was able to then rate myself on how I was feeling that I was doing with
those things, and lets just say that I feel like I could be doing a lot better!
I also realized that missionary work can not be done without daily
repentance. Elder Nelson's talk was great too, he talked about the
importance of this work that we are doing and that we are here to help families
return to live with their Father in Heaven, that baptism is important but that
our main goal is to help people get to the temple. He then went on and talked
about the importance of families and that the best and most important
missionary work will happen within the walls of our own homes, and we as missionaries
are here to help people get to that point. It was so great I could go on and on
about it but I really don’t have the time! I love you all! Have a great week!
Sister Jamison
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
January 21, 2014 Viera 1s Ward
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| Elder Greer, Sisters Kreiberg, Jamison, Elder Polito at the Bishop's Youth Devotional Sunday night |
Monday, January 20, 2014
January 20, 2014/ Viera 1st w/Sister Kreiberg
Hello!
How are all of you this week? I hope well! Wow things are doing
much better over here in Florida!
My new companion is Sister Kreiberg from Denmark and she is
awesome. She is a professional dancer and she speaks 5 languages!
WOW! Danish, English, Norwegian, Swedish, and German. It is so funny to be
with her because she does
not get the way Americans talk with all the slang and Idioms.
The other night I was asking her about her dancing career and I asked if she
could show me
some of her dance moves and she said only if you show me yours!
Then I said haha I don't think so, I have two left feet and cannot dance, haha
then Sister Kreiberg froze with the most awful look on her face and came over
to me to look at my feet while she asked me, do you really? I started to laugh
so hard when I explained to her that, when Americans say they have 2 left feet
it means they are clumsy. Haha its been so much fun, so now for the past week I
have been trying to think of American slang to teach her.
Things are going great here in Viera though, Sister Kreiberg and
I have been out biking and tracting all week, and we are very very sore!
We were able to get a new investigator this week though and that was exactly
what we needed. We met a young girl named Emily and she is 17 years old.
When we knocked on her door and introduced ourselves she told us that her best
friend was Mormon, when we asked who the friend was she said Tori Clark, and we
told her that she was in our ward! It was way cool! We asked if we could share
a message with her and she said that she would like that! She also said that
Tori has tried many times to pray with her or read the scriptures, but that she
just wasn't really interested, but that she thought it was cool that we were
there so she invited us to give her a message. We taught her the message
of the restoration and it went great. The spirit was so strong and
Emily had mentioned that Tori had shared many of these things with her
before. At the end of the lesson we invited her to church and
she said she would love to come and that she would call Tori and ask for a
ride. She then asked us if we had a Book of Mormon that we could give her, and
of course we did. All I can say is that I am so grateful for Tori! It
is amazing what influence we as members have on our
friends. Emily wouldn’t have given us the time of day if she hadn't
been prepared before hand to receive the message that we had for her. On Sunday
Emily also came to church with Tori and had a wonderful time. She loved being
in the Young Womens and is excited to continue to come back to church with
Tori. We are very excited too! Guess what!!!!! So Anthony and Jeff from my
last area have been coming to church every Sunday, and what is even greater is
that my last Sunday in Pleasant Hills Jeff's wife Jessy came to church as well,
which was a miracle in itself because she was sooo against it! and now just the
other day they texted Sister Baker and told her that they liked coming to
church and that they were thinking about all getting baptized. HOLY COW!!!!! It
is a miracle, I never thought I'd see the day that Jessy walked into a church
and she did and I never thought I would see they day that Jeff said he wants to
be baptized and look at them now! It is so great to see the changes in people
lives as they live the gospel and come closer to their Savior. I know
that they truly have been prepared to receive this gospel and that Heavenly
Father is very aware of His children. I am so grateful to be apart of
this great work! I love you all!
Sister
Jamison!
Sunday, January 12, 2014
Sisters Collins, Welch & Jamison - January 12, 2014
These three lovely sisters were companions for a short while. They spoke in Sacrament today in the Viera 1st Ward.
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Monday, January 6, 2014
Viera/Melbourne January 6, 2014
Hey,
So this week has been pretty good. We have been working like mad
to try and cover both the areas that we have. It has been good though.
We have been able to meet a lot of LARC's and members in the Viera ward.
Just trying to meet people and build up relationships right now. My new bishop
is way awesome and has really been helpful with all the changes that have been going
on as well as the ward mission leader. But hopefully next week when the
transfer ends and I get a new companion up here it will be a bit easier to
balance the area and just focus on Viera and not Melbourne as well.
We have had some great lessons this week though Sister Collins
got sick and stayed at home with a member while Sister Welch and I went
out. We had a great lesson with a woman
named Beatriz Garcia. She is a Spanish lady who doesn't speak English to
well, and so we brought a Spanish member to our lesson to help with
translation. We went in with the intention of teaching the plan of
salvation, but after we said the prayer we went right into teaching about
keeping the Sabbath day holy and the symbolism and importance of the sacrament.
The lesson was way powerful and during the lesson as we spoke about the
atonement and how we access the atonement through the sacrament Beatriz started
to tell us how that was one of her concerns, and how she was worried about
taking the sacrament, because she didn't know if she was worthy or could.
We explained to her why we take the sacrament and that it is not for the
already perfect. She understood and started to cry as she realized the
love that Jesus Christ has for her and that she could participate in the
sacrament. It was a very good lesson. She was able to come to church on
Sunday with her daughter and she loved it so much. She will be baptized
very soon no doubt. She really wants to get into the gospel, and going to
church and learning about the gospel is already changing her life so much. I
just wish she was in Viera, but that's ok. Well this week is going to be a lot
of finding, we still have ton's of work to do in Viera, we don't really have
anyone we are teaching there and so we are going to be tracting a lot. That's
always a joy; it will be good though, at least it's not too cold here. I am
also on Facebook now, which is sooo werid, I always feel so disobedient when I
am on. The mission has it now and all the missionaries get an allotted
time to be on. Don't get mad if I have to delete any of you or not add
you, P Ber is still trying to figure out exactly what he wants as far as the
rules and our usage. We are supposed to be on for an hour each day to do
online proselyting, I still haven't figured out how to really do that, I am
mostly still trying to remember how it all works and how to set up my own page.
But once things get rolling it should be better. But that is pretty much
all for now! I love you all!
Sister
Jamison!
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