February 17, 2014

Dear Family,

How are you all this week? I hope doing very well!

This week has been a good one for Sister Kreiberg and I. We have seen

many miracles and I felt that I have learned many things. We have been

able to have a few good lessons with one of our investigators Nathan.

He still is in the same pattern that he has always been, we go over

and he tells us he doesn't think he's ready to change his life and to

live the Gospel. But as we teach the spirit Is always very strong and

by the end of the lesson you can tell he thinks about the things we

teach the spirit has touched his heart. Yesterday we had a lesson with

him and we thought he was going to drop us, but we helped him to

realize that the gospel is so important to each one of us. That it is

the only way we can return to live with our Heavenly Father, And that

as he reads from the book of Mormon and prays he will know his answer,

and that he will know the truthfulness of the restored gospel that we

have been teaching him. Nathan has been struggling to keep his

commitments to read from the Scriptures and pray. We taught him the

importance of how to feel the spirit and receive an answer by keeping

commitments. I think he understands now that the Book of Mormon is the

literal evidence of everything that we teach, of the truthfulness of

the Gospel and the plan that our Heavenly Father has for each one of

us. We recommitted him to read from the scriptures and pray this week,

even while he is on his vacation. We will see how that goes for him.

This week we have also been able to contact Lynda again. She was out

of town for about a week and a half and we weren't able to get a hold

of her.  Tonight we will go over and teacher the Plan of Salvation.

She is very ready to receive the gospel. It is just a matter of

helping her understand that coming closer to Heavenly Father and

living the Gospel is how she is going to receive the lasting peace and

happiness that she seeks. And that she can be with her husband

eternally. We also had a miracle this week with the Duschl family that

we are teaching. They have been very busy with their different

schedules this week. And we have only been able to talk to them on the

phone once. We invited them to come to church unsure if they would be

able to attend seeing as they had family coming into town. But

yesterday Debi Duschl and her son Alex came to sacrament meeting. It

was very good, it talked a lot about families and Debi and her son

really enjoyed it. It is amazing how the Lord has blessed us with

these miracles. We've been praying very specifically and very hard

that he will bless the lives of our investigators so that they will be

able to progress in the Gospel. It has also helped me to realize that as

a missionary I really don't do that much, I simply do as I'm told to

teach the people in the area that I serve and to pray for them day and

night. But really the miracles in the progress of each individual that

we teach comes because of the Lord. Sometimes it is so frustrating to

be able to see that as a missionary you only really do so little. All

you were asked is to be obedient and to use the atonement to carry you

through this work. And if you can't do that then the work does not go

forward.  Missionaries do so little when it comes to the progress of

others, but yet their obedience plays a huge role in the progress of

the people that are being taught. Every day I try to become better, I

can see exactly what it is that I need to do in order to use the

atonement more in my life. Sometimes it becomes overwhelming because I also realize that getting better doesn't ever end. There's always

something that we can do better. I think that is my favorite thing

about the gospel. Is that we can always progress no matter what, the

atonement has made it possible for us to be better than we were

before. I am so glad for the people that I've been able to teach him

to help I have been on my mission this short time. I have been able to

see peoples loves change because of the gospel and it is the most

rewarding feeling that I have ever felt, something that I don't think

I will ever be able to explain. But I can see that my mission has

helped me more than any other person that I've been able to meet.

Sometimes it doesn't seem fair because you we are here to serve

others. But the wonderful thing about forgetting about yourself to

serve others and help them be converted to the Gospel, is that you

become more converted to the Gospel than ever before. I can see the

Lord bless their lives, and I can see how he has blessed my life being

here. Every experience I've had is something that I have realized that

I needed, and I am so grateful! I can see though that I am not done

yet, I have not become as converted as I know that I can be, and for

that I am so grateful that I still have eight months to work at it. I

love you all and I hope that you are doing all you can to come closer

to the Lord each and every day. I know that it can bless your life

more than you could ever hope for. The gospel is the most wonderful

gift that we have ever been given. It is the perfect tool for us to

return to live with our Father in Heaven. We are so lucky. I will talk

to you all soon.

Sister Jamison