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| Sister Jamison and her companion spoke on more effective prayer at RS night. |
Thursday, February 6, 2014
February 12, 2014 - Viera 1st Ward RS night
February 3, 2014
Hey family!!
How are you! I hope really really good! Well this week was
pretty good for me. I offically have my own iPad now. It is so weird to
have! We have all kinds of things that you couldn't even imagine on these
things. Everything is electronic, we don't have paper planners anymore or
an Area Book or a Map Book, it is all on apps on the iPad. It seriously
blows my mind! I still feel so ditso when I use it because I am so used to
paper everything. But it has been good. I am still trying to figure out
how to work it, but I know that will come with time! It is a lot easier
to bike with that's for sure, much lighter! Well lets see this week we had so
many set appointments and basically every single one of them except for 2 fell
through. hahaha story of my life. We also biked this week because it was the
elders week for the car and it poured rain on us every day! Wow can anyone say
Sister Jamison now has a nasty cold! Yes you can! But it's all good,
Sister Kreiberg and I worked the best that we could and even though our week
didn't go as planned we still were blessed! On Saturday night we got home at
about 8 to change into dry clothes and go back out and we had a little talk in
the apartment before we went out, we talked about what could we have done
better to have more appointments this week and if there was any reason
something we did might have caused all this misfortune haha ( we just
complained really I think and did some critical analyzing of our week)
then after that we went out for the last 45 minutes of our day and walked
around our complex to decide what apartment building we should knock on. As we
walked we stopped to say a prayer asking Heavenly Father where we should be and
that we know that there is someone here ready to hear our message. After that
we walked a bit more, picked a building we thought we should be at and then picked
a door. We knocked on the first door and
a man named Nathan opened. We asked if we could say a prayer with him and
he said that we could. After the prayer Nathan asked us if what we were doing what
was called witnessing, we say well we are here to spread the gospel and share
with you our testimony, so we guess that's like a witness of Jesus Christ. He then asked us if we believe that only a
certain number of people are going to be saved in Heaven and then it dawned on
us that he was asking if we were JDubs, we told him that we were not and he
said oh that’s good haha, and then he asked us if we believe that God, Jesus
and the Holy Ghost were one being/power source and we told him that we did not,
but that we believed they were all separate beings, but one in purpose. Then he
said good, good. Well then I can listen to you, haha we said that is great and
started to talk to him a little bit. Nathan is very cool, he lives alone and he
is a retired disabled vet, as we spoke to him he told us that this was something
he could see himself getting involved in because he needed to strengthen his
faith and that he had nothing else to do. (because he can't work) We said well
great, then you should come to church tomorrow. He asked us where it was
at and we gave him the address, he then said “oh wait I can't go the Super Bowl
is tomorrow.” We then asked him what was
more important, God or football? He laughed and said you got me there, I know I
should be in church, but how about this. I want to watch the super bowl
tomorrow so I am going to do that, and then you can come back sometime this
week and teach me more about your gospel so that I can get more comfortable and
I will go to church with you next week. We agreed on that and set an
appointment with him for Tuesday. Nathan is way funny and has a good
sense of humor. While we were at his door he flipped out his iPad and added us
on facebook, gave us his phone number and his email. and said that we could
contact him anytime. We told him that as sister missionaries we could not
go in his house alone with him so that when we came back we would be bringing
another male and female and he was all excited about that, you can tell that he
wants some friends and so this will be great for him to have members at his
lessons! Sister Kreiberg and I are way excited about teaching him and we know
that Heavenly Father blessed us with meeting him after the bad week we had.
Well nothing else really too exciting happened this week. Elder
L. Tom Perry came and spoke to all the ward councils here and in the
surrounding states and it was broadcast from the Olympia chapel in Windermere,
which is right across the street from the temple. We got to watch the broadcast from our Ward Mission Leader's house, it was very good. Elder Perry
is seriously a fire cracker, haha he was yelling from the pulpit half the time
(very enthusiastically of course) about missionary work and how ward councils
should focus on missionary work with their ward, less actives and non members.
It was nice to hear from him that it doesn't matter who you are, missionary
work means helping people get to the temple whether you are a member or
not! It was so good. Loved it!
Well that is all the exciting news for the week! Love you all!
Sister
Jamison
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!
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