Yes this week. Prime. It's been the fastest week of my life. 

First order of business, we got a new gold tag investigator named Lawanna, she is awesome! She is originally from Arkansas and she moved to Utah for the Huntsman Cancer Research Center. We don't know what kind of cancer she has, but we do think she is a real investigator. I made the mistake of bringing up living prophets and she did not like that at all. She didn't understand if he is a living prophet how come shes never heard of them. We just talked about how he is the leader of our church and you have the ability to learn about him through the wonderful tool that is lds.org

Second order of business, within the last week and a half I have had the opportunity to hear two of the twelve apostles speak!!!!!!!!!!!! Elder Christofferson came on Tuesday and spoke a lot about the missionary theme "teach repentance and baptism converts" and how repentance is such a profound part of our lives. Repentance is more than just confessing your sins, repentance is making a daily choice to choose God. Then on Sunday Elder Ballard came and spoke just about missionary work in general, that was really good and cool. One of the things that stood out to me was he said we can tell anyone anything, as long as we do it with a smile on our faces! 

Now the moment I know you've all been waiting for....................FLIGHT PLANS!!! We finally got our flight plans Friday night and man, ya'll should've seen my face. You would've thought it was Christmas morning in Disneyland. We leave the MTC Tuesday morning at 3:30 (woof, I know) and then our flight leaves SLC at 7:20, we then have a lay over in Detroit at 12:55 (yes, I did sing the song from Happiest Millionaire & thought of you Amy) and then we finally arrive in the city of brotherly love at 3:40. MAN I can not wait!!! 

So I did something I never thought I would do this week. Something a lot of you probably thought would ever happen. I auditioned to sing opening numbers for the meetings here. WHAT I know, I have gone crazy. Plus I guess it wasnt just me. It was Sister Stubben, Roberts, Taylor and I. Sister Taylor played the piano and the other three of us sang. We sang a mixture of Savior Redeemer and Called to Serve that was super beautiful. We took a video of it so when I get it from Sister Taylor I will be sure to send it!! 

Monday night was cater night and well, Taco Bell is not good. My tummy was not a happy camper after that. Safe to say, I will not be eating there again anytime soon. Man speaking of food, I can't wait to get out and eat real food. I am super worried that I won't even know what real food tastes like anymore. It's just like Mountain Crest. 

One of the best decisions I made this past week was to buy a new Book of Mormon! I have been color coding it and there are so many answers to prayers, this last week was hard to be away from all of you guys but I had the most amazing thing happen while I was reading this week. I was reading in 1 Nephi, when Lehi tells them to go back to Laban to get the records and Nephi says "I will go and do the things the Lord commands" so they leave on their mission to get these plates. We have no idea how long they are gone, while they are gone their mother is back at camp worrying about them. A chapter or two later there is a verse when they arrive home that says something like "We returned unto the tent of our father and behold our joy was full and our mother was comforted." WOW what a blessing to me!! I fully know that that was God saying "Jos, you got this. Your joy will be full." This book is a blessing. I challenge you guys to start reading it again or if you are currently reading to continue reading, because it will bless your life so much!! 

This week has been awesome. Next week I will be coming to you from PA!! I cant wait! 

Love you ALL!!

The pictures attached are of me and the girls in my district, us and our flight plans, and then me and sister stubben at the temple. Yes in the picture of us just holding flight plans I couldn't even hold it out because I was waiting to wake up from my dreamlike state and have them disappear! 

Love,

Sister Josie D. Jackson

Philadelphia Pennsylvania Mission

Josie, Sister Stubben, Sister Roberts, Sister Taylor, Sister Morwood, Sister Tew

Josie & Sister Stubben