January 8, 2018
Hey hey hey!!
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| At Higley Hot Dog |
Yet another great week in the AGM
has flown by. It has been soooo busy. The longer I'm on my mission the busier I
get and the faster the time goes. I wish it would slow down!
Unfortunately I am still feeling pretty
under the weather. Most of my symptoms are gone, but I still have this really
nasty dry cough. Today is day 7 of coughing and I am beginning to lose faith
that I will ever get over this cough haha.
This week we had MLC. I love MLC so
much; it's seriously one of my favorite meetings of the month. This month was a
special MLC with all the district leaders. There was definitely a special
spirit in the room having the core leadership of our mission gathered together.
I've learned recently that there is power in council and that we are able to
receive revelation as we gather together and discuss the needs of those around
us in love. It was an awesome MLC! My cough kinda came to a head at MLC...all
day long I was coughing like crazy and a couple times I started coughing and
literally could not stop. Sister Small and I had to run out of the room two
separate times so I could cough without disrupting the entire meeting. It was
so scary...I was coughing for a good two minutes no break, and I couldn't stop
coughing to tell Sister Small that the reason why I wasn't stopping coughing
was because I couldn't haha. When we came back in the second time we decided to
just sit in the back row in case we had to run out again. After a few minutes
of being back in the room, one of my zone leaders turned around and saw me and
mouthed "You need a blessing." and I agreed with him. At that point I
hadn't asked for a Priesthood blessing, because I hadn't felt like my illness
was serious enough to warrant a blessing. But when this happened I knew it was
time to get one. So after MLC, Sister Small, our zone leaders, and the two
district leaders in our zone gathered together and I got a blessing. I didn't
experience any miraculous healing or anything like that...I mean, obviously I'm
still sick, but it was one of the coolest experiences of my mission. This
transfer our zone has really struggled and every ZLC the six of us gather
together and plead with the Lord for guidance on how to help the missionaries
we serve with. We have definitely shed some tears as we've tried to solve
problems together and as a result have become pretty close...so it was pretty
neat to have all four of those Elders place their hands on my head and receive
a blessing from them. I'm so grateful for the restoration of the Priesthood and
for worthy men who can hold the Priesthood and bless us all here on
Earth!
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| Exchanges with Sis. Roberts |
This week we went on two exchanges!
The first was with Sister Roberts, a sister who has been out for 6 months. We
were in her area and we had an awesome day! We saw tons of success together and
we were able to set up five return appointments. She's a great sister...super
quiet so I definitely felt like the energizer bunny haha but she's super solid.
The second was with Sister Sattler,
who's been out for a little over three months. Our day was a little rough, we
knocked lots of doors and talked to lots of angry people, but we still had fun!
We were able to have dinner with a single mom and her family and help brighten
their day a little bit.
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| Exchanges with Sis. Sattler |
We saw a MASSIVE miracle this week.
During weekly planning we got a call from a YSA member and he said
"Sisters, A has questions about the temple and wants to meet tonight. Can
we meet at 6??" We were floored. A is a former investigator who stopped
investigating about four years ago due to an unsupportive family. While she was
investigating she was beyond golden. She was on date three separate times and
has a Book of Mormon more marked up than mine. She even went so far as
to make a scrapbook of her spiritual experiences. So needless to say, we were
pumped to have a lesson with her haha. It was super cool! We had two members
there, both who were present at all of the lessons she had with the
missionaries four years ago. We were able to answer some of her questions, and
we talked with her about how she can increase her relationship with God. The
Spirit was so strong, and her friends testified of how the happiness that she
once felt as she was investigating can be hers forever this time if she
chooses. We think that she's scared to move forward because the last time she
tried to get baptized she wasn't able to, and you could tell that it really
hurt her. But at the end she was like "I'm looking forward to having more
of my questions answered by you guys and seeing you soon!" And then we
became friends on facebook. Definitely praying for her!
We finally were able to get in
contact with one of our un-contacted referrals this week. It was a miracle. We
felt prompted to stop by this one potential, and as we were biking there we saw
some people outside his neighbor's house. We biked up to them and started
talking to them. It turns out his brother is a member and he's interested in
learning more! They were washing their car so it was a bad time, but he told us
to come back later this week.
We had a lesson with T yesterday.
She is so solid. She knows all of the commandments inside and out, upside and
down and is so ready for her baptism next week. We nailed down some details and
set up a time for her interview and are just so excited for her. She has
invited tons of people to her baptism and we are excited for them to feel the
Spirit that is present at baptisms!
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| With our mini |
We had a mini missionary this
weekend; her name was Sister D and she was baptized in September and wants to
serve a mission. We had an awesome time with her! Having a mini is always an
interesting experience, you never know what's going to happen...but she was so
solid! She's going to make an awesome missionary, and her testimony is going to
bless lots of people when she gets to the mission field. Our weekend was crazy
busy due to exchanges and having a mini and stake conference, but Sister D
totally caught the vision of missionary work. At the testimony meeting last
night she bore her testimony of the fact that this work is directed by the
Lord. It's so cool how after even just 48 hours of being a
"missionary" she was able to increase her own testimony and solidify
her desire to serve.
I love this work! Sister Small and I
feel so blessed to be able to serve together in this area and witness so many
miracles. Each of my weekly emails is just a few highlights from the many, many
miracles we see every week. Thank you for all of the love and support and
prayers.
I love you all!
Sister Jacobson
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