December 18, 2017
Hello everyone!!
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| The tri-panionship |
I hope you have all had a great week! It's been a wonderful week full of
little miracles and tons of tender mercies. This email might be a little
shorter than most because Sister Utsch goes home tomorrow
so we are running around like crazy trying to get her all taken care of and p-day
ends at 2:30 today
for our mission-wide Christmas
zone conference. So I guess here's just a brief update:
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| Visiting D |
On Monday
we were finally able to get in contact with D again (remember him?? It's been a
while) He had gone out of town for thanksgiving and then our schedules just hadn't
lined up until this week! He is moving to the Philippines tomorrow,
so Monday
was our last lesson with him. We walked in and he said "I was wondering
when you would come back!! I am ready to learn more about the Lord, Jesus
Christ." And he then told us that he had been thinking about what we had
taught him and he knows it's true! He reads the BOM every day and he wants to
be baptized! We totally didn't see that coming. He started crying and asked us
to write our testimonies in his BOM so he could always remember us. The
missionaries in the Philippines have a golden investigator coming their way!
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| Cafe Rio with L |
We had two lessons with L this week, and we went to Cafe Rio with her for
lunch haha. We realized that we've had a lot of lessons with her in the same
room at the same church building so for one of the lessons we tried to shake it
up a bit and did a lesson based off of the pictures in the church building, illustrating
how everything in the gospel points us back to Jesus Christ. We ended in the
chapel talking about the sacrament and the Spirit was definitely there.
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| "The Clique" aka L's friends |
We threw in exchanges this week! Sister Utsch and I brought Sister B into
our area with us. It's so fun being on an STL exchange with your STL companion
haha. Sister B is serving a trial mission and has been out for a little over
two months. As of right now, it looks like she will not end up staying for the
full eighteen months so we worked really hard to help her make the most of her
time here! We saw tons of miracles, the biggest being that we got in with a
part-member family and had a GREAT interaction with the nonmember! Exchange
miracles!
Funny moment: we were tracting and talking to this lady and her husband who
were nice but not interested. Suddenly she invited us in to their home, so we
were thinking we were going to get to share a message...but instead she goes
"is this cool or creepy?" And we look and it's a LIFE SIZE
Santa...and it starts SINGING AND DANCING. It was hilarious. We were not
expecting that...you see the weirdest stuff as a missionary!
We also had interviews this week! We found out about them the day before,
and usually I prayerfully ponder questions to ask President but since I didn't
have time to do that this time it was basically me and President sitting in a
room for 15 minutes and him going "how are you?" And me saying
"good" haha. It was still good to get to talk with him!
This week we picked up two new investigators, one of them we found from the
area book and knocked on his door and he was so excited! He said
"definitely come back next week!" So that was exciting. The other one
we talked to a few weeks ago, the one who practiced Baha’i! We took him a Persian
BOM and he was also so excited. He told us that we came at the perfect time
because he wasn't doing anything, and he was going to go read right at that
very second. The struggle now is that we obviously do not speak Persian, and
the Persian BOM is only selected sections from the BOM so we don't know what
sections are in there. Haha if you know anyone that lives in Gilbert, is LDS,
and speaks both Persian and English let me know.
On Saturday
there was a baptism in the YSA ward for the elders’ investigator, S. When we
met S we thought she was a member, so it was super awesome to see her make that
covenant with the Lord. The Spirit was really strong, and the Lord's love for
her was apparent. It was probably one of the best baptisms I've been to!
Last night
our mission had our Christmas
choir concert. We were pretty worried, but it turned out great! Tons of
investigators were there; L and K came! And it was fun to see people from
previous areas. There's a video going around somewhere out there of my group
singing, if I ever get my hands on it I'll send it home!
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| Mtn. Ranch ward auxilaries + Stk. Pres. |
After the concert, Sister Donaldson and Sister Rowley came up to us and told
us that they have a golden referral for us! She's YSA, and on date for December 30th!!
We will have a pass off lesson this week, and we are so excited to meet her!
Our ward is already so excited! The miracles will not cease.
Here's a Christmas
quote to get your Christmas
week off to a good start:
"There would be no Christmas if there
had not been Easter. The babe Jesus of Bethlehem would be but another baby
without the redeeming Christ of Gethsemane and Calvary, and the triumphant fact
of the Resurrection."
As we remember the birth of the Savior this Christmas,
let us also remember His remarkable life and the significance His life now
plays into each of our lives! He lives and loves us! Merry Christmas
everybody!
I love you all! P-day next week is Tuesday
due to the holiday.
Sister Jacobson
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| Comps at Burrito Shack |
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| With L |
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| With T |
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| With the H family |
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| Piglet getting his Santa on... |
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| ...me, too. Thanks to Mary :) |
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