Not so long ago in a state far, far away.

Hello family and friends! I hope you all have enjoyed your week! My

week has been excellent and this week is gonna be even better! That's

right! Maurice and Darren get baptized on Sunday!!! Oh stars above

peeps I'm so pumped! Sister Nutting and I have been working so hard to

get here and it has not been easy, but this is easily worth every

second of tears, sweat and sleeplessness we've put into these two men

who we love so much! It's well worth the 12 week wait!

Speaking of hard things being thrown at us Sister Nutting and I have

both been under the weather the past few days! Luckily though we were

able to push forward with smiles on our faces! It's rained a lot here

as of late it rained all day Tuesday and Wednesday which put a damper

on the work...all of our appointments canceled on Tuesday so that

sucked. We were able to share the video to a lady named Paula who was

so sweet! She wasn't interested in us coming back because she's

already found Christ but she wanted our pass along card to share with

her pastor and congregation of ten people!

We were able to teach Victoria this week again! She's so cool! She

realized in this lesson that she wants to be on Christs team, not the

devils team, so she really committed to coming back to church come

January! We are so excited! We also taught Sister Bangura again which

was cool! We read Alma 14 and talked about how Alma and Amulek had to

have faith in the situation they were in! They didn't know how it

would turn out but they relied on God. At the end of the lesson Sister

Bangura prayed for her to act on her faith as Alma and Amulek had and

to be able to come to church on Sunday! We were also able to meet with

a recent convert family named the Dohney's! We've been trying to get

in contact with them for a while and that was so fun! They are so

sweet and Tina Jr's five year old son, Michael was so cute! We showed

them the video and he just kept repeating "that's so beautiful!" Ugh

we just wanted to put him in our bags and take him every where!

We were able to see sister Hemminger's daughter Gaby one more time

before she headed back to Ecuador! She was so fun!

This week we also were able to help Sister Shelton paint the ceiling

of her house! It was really fun because her daughter Elsa just got

back from Rome Italy mission! She's here until March and then heads

back out but she's so fun! She makes really good pasta too! Plus she's

just super cool because she's the same age as us and she's still in

mission mode! It's so fun!

Friday is when our sickness set in, but that didn't stop the work! We

were able to go on splits with our stake relief society president,

Sister Hall and our ward rs president Sister Huss! I went with sister

Hall and we were able to visit with Bonnie Johari, who is pretty sure

this is the end of days because of Donald Trump, but she's so cute!

She is the guardian of her granddaughter Alexa and just has the

craziest life story! She used to work for civil rights and then worked

on the Obama campaign, but gave it all up to be a mom all over again

when Alexa's mom got hooked on street drugs. She really wants to come

back to church once the time changes she can't come yet because she's

on some pretty heavy medication because she's got a bone marrow

disease that keeps her in bed or a wheelchair pretty much 24/7.

Our ward mission leader is the best! He bought us a real Christmas

Tree! It was so fun to go chop it down and decorate it later that day!

We also had the most awkward dinner at a lady in our wards house, she

was cool though! She was the only one home and she's from Honduras but

she bought us Amish food. It was real good. The Amish know how to

cook, I'll tell you that's much!

We have such great ward members! Everyone wants to feed us before

Sister Nutting leaves next week, so not only do we have a full dinner

for this week but we are also booked for lunches! It's amazing!

So I don't know if you all remember the Samuels,  Vino and Anu, but

they contacted us and want to start meeting again! So we were able to

meet with them this week and share the video! Which they really liked

and seem excited to start meeting again!

Both Darren and Maurice have been out of town this week so we haven't

been able to meet with them but we are meeting with Maurice tonight!

They are both still on track for Sunday!

So in Coatesville there is this cute little library thing, you take a

book out and put another one in for free! Sister Nutting and I were

able to stop by it and place not only a Book of Mormon but a Bible

too! We put our pass along card in the books with our number so

hopefully someone calls! It was really cool because we highlighted

both the scriptures used in #LIGHTtheWORLD but also to find a few in

the BOM that talked about how Christ is the light. Because He is! He's

the light of everything in this world! His light is in each one of us

just waiting to grow brighter, if we are willing to share our light!

We were able to meet with a bible referral this week who has turned

into a new investigator! He is so cool! We shared the video with him

and asked him how he's seen Christ in his life and he shared these

crazy near death experiences that he's had! He's in his late 50's but

retired from work at 48 because he was diagnosed with an illness and

he said something so profound, "I am not defined by my illness, I am

defined by Jesus Christ." Wow, how often do we as humans let the

world, our money, our schooling, whatever it may be define us? How

often do we let Jesus Christ define us?

So this week I invite you all to get on Mormon.org and participate in

#LIGHTtheWORLD and to share the experiences you have online! If you

follow me on Facebook you know I will be!

Friends, family, during this Christmas season, let us not only live

more, but rejoice in Christ more. Have Christ more, or Christ Más if

you will. He is the reason for the season, He is the reason for my

joy, He is the reason.

I love you all! Have a great week!

Love,

Sister Jackson

missionaries

Josie and Sister Nutting 

Cutting a Christmas tree