Hey Family,
How are you today! Wow the time is ticking down for sure isn't
it? And thank you for reminding me.... haha anyways this week was a roller
coaster! Lot's of good and lots of not so good.
First off Brandon's baptism went so well! The bishop was able to
baptize him and about 50 ward members came out to support! It was great, a less
active member that we have been visiting we invited to the baptism and she came
to so we were way happy about that. Man Brandon is so cool and has been so
prepared by the Lord; he is so ready and willing to be dedicated to the gospel.
At church he was participating in all the classes and going around on his own
to meet everyone and introduce himself, it was great! He also paid tithing as
well. I was pretty shocked because usually new members wait until their next
paycheck to start doing that, but he did it anyways. So great. His mother and
son also came to the baptism and were really happy for the decision he made.
They are not of our faith, but they were very proud that he is choosing to
follow Jesus Christ. Maybe once they see what a difference all of this has made
in his life they will be interested in learning more themselves! We also were
able to go and visit 2 less active ladies in the ward that have been so impossible
for us to get a hold of, and a less active family that just moved into the
ward. We ended up being able to get the family and 1 other of the less
active sisters to come to church and the both really enjoyed their time, the
less active family even offered to have us over for dinner this week. It was
great! I am really excited to be able to help them come back to church! We also
had dinner with a returning member to the church, but the dinner was at her non
member friend house, Mike, and we were able to share a little bit with him and
set up a return appointment this week to go back and see him, so that is good!
Oh my word, so after the baptism Sister Petersen and I went to Walmart to print
pictures for Brandon of his baptism to give to him before he left on the road
again and we were standing in line to return a photo album we had bought that
was the wrong size. While we were
waiting for our pictures to be ready some woman walks up to us and was just
staring in disgust at us, and finally Sister Petersen said, are you staring at
my tag? And the woman said yes, and then I asked her if she has seen
missionaries like us before and she said yes, you are Mormon and you don't
believe in Jesus Christ. And I told her "Yes we do, see it's even on our
name tag, we are the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and we do
worship Christ." And then she went off on how we don't believe in Christ
and how we are a cult and blah blah, so we tried to address some of her
concerns, but she obviously wouldn't tell us what they were, and was just sort
of being impossible to talk to. And we eventually just told her if she would
like to learn more that she can go to Mormon.org and then we turned around and
continued to wait in line, and then I couldn't believe she started making a
total scene in Walmart talking to everyone around her and telling them to stay
away from us and that we were a part of a cult and worshiped the devil and this
and that and I could not believe it. We just ignored her though but it really
upset me that someone would do that. I really don't see the purpose. But
anyways then as we walked to go get our pictures a man yelled out to us asking
us what church we go to. We were able to talk to him a little bit and get his
info so that we could go back and teach him. So that was a total tender mercy
from the Lord. But I am running out of time now! Love you all and talk to you
later!
Sister Jamison
Picture
I drew when I was bored.... I know it’s uglyyy...
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