안녕 친구와 가족 I hope you all have had a wonderful week! I figured I would

start my email off with a Korean greeting in honor of my companion.

Who is doing awesome! We are working well and just loving each other.

We have a good time working hard and spreading the gospel to all the

people in Broomall who are willing and ready to listen to the awesome

message we carry!

This has been a great week for learning and growing. We were able to

make a few new contacts, speak with some less actives and invite all

to come unto Christ! We also had some great meals at members houses.

At one house we were talking about how we are all children of God and

what it means to us to know that we are a child of God. Sister Meaders

then said the glorious subject line for today's email. It was awesome,

I was laughing so hard I almost couldn't breathe. Missionary work is

seriously the best, I feel like I have never laughed harder in my life

than I have on the mission. The Meaders also have a Scout named Bobbie

and I love that dog.

We met a former investigator named Cathrine Dawson on Saturday because

we ended up having a lesson cancel on us. Anyway, we had stopped by

her house before and no one had been home but that day she was! She

was so excited to see us because the last missionaries just stopped

coming by, so she let us right in and introduced herself and we just

got to talking! She is a GREAT first grade teacher, she love origami

and she used to be Catholic. She hasn't been an active Catholic for

about ten years, she left and her the Catholic Church because she felt

as if it wasn't right, and has been on the search for truth ever

since. She is excited to learn more about the church and to start

meeting with missionaries again, we set up a return appointment for

Friday night and its going to be awesome!

We also saw the blessings that come from fasting! On Sunday I decided

I would fast for someone to teach that we could get baptized this

transfer. So at church we had two members come up to us with referrals

who are willing to hear more about the restored gospel and then today

we saw the West Chester sisters who have a referral for us, who went

to church for SIX months when he was living in Africa. Needless to say

I am pretty pumped up right now.

We were able to meet with a few less actives this week. The first of

which being Brother Waters, who was interesting. He was super nice but

had this knack for taking the lesson off topic every time he feels the

spirit, so it was a little hard to keep going because he just kept

getting so off topic about everything. Every time the spirit came in

he would go off topic, but Sister Ebeling (bishops wife) saved the day

every time. She would literally know just what to say to get back on

topic and bring the spirit rushing back in.

The other one is a lady named Sister Cofield, who is just awesome! I

am not sure why she doesnt come to church because she just jumped

right in to talking about how she knows she needs to go to church

because she needs to take the sacrament. We were really hoping that

she would come to church but she didnt. There is always next week

though!

In regards to church we did have two less actives come who we didnt

get the chance to meet with this week! Sister McNeill and Jackie! We

walked into the chapel after our meeting and Jackie was sitting right

there! We were so excited because I have never met Jackie and we had

been trying to get in contact with her! Then right after the sacrament

was passed Sister McNeill came in and joined us for the rest of

testimony meeting! It was so awesome guys! SO AWESOME

Speaking of fasting and awesomeness. James, my sweet little James. I

adore this child and his family so much, like I am so humbled and

grateful to work with James on his path to eternity. He is just such a

good kid. Anyway, James fasted on Sunday! We haven't even taught him

about fasting but he heard about it in primary and the Holy Ghost told

him he should fast, so he did! We went over for dinner on Sunday night

and he was so excited to see us because it meant that he could eat! He

is just doing so awesome. I am so grateful for them and their

examples.

Also Kevin, and Brother and Sister Sayles went and did baptisms on

Friday! It was so awesome! I was able to be baptized and confirmed for

Kevin's ancestors! Sister Shin wasn't feeling well so she decided to

just do confirmations, but it was awesome! The spirit in the temple is

just so strong. The Sayles expressed to us that they cant wait to be

sealed as a family next fall and to James! Watching these people that

I have come to love so much progress in the gospel always brings me

just such great joy. Joy beyond belief. Kevin had a lot of awesome

questions about the rest of the temple and just talked about how

excited he is to access the rest of it again next fall!

I love the Broomall ward and how close we can work with President and

Sister Randall. We have tried to get them out teaching with us but so

far all the appointments we set up to teach with them cancel on us.

Its crazy.

Oh my heck funny story. So one day we were going through our area book

to find some potential investigators to call and we called this one

lady who was a member referral who met with missionaries once before.

Anyway we called her to see if she would like us to come by and she

answered our question with "what do you think of our new president?"

Which was surprising, so we just explained that we don't want tv or

keep up with the news so we don't have an opinion. She then proceeded

to just talk about how terrible he is and how she's called D.C. to

have him impeached but they aren't listening, for like a solid 20

minutes before she finally just said "I'm too stressed out to have

religion in my life right now, but thank you for calling!" It was

interesting.

Today has been so fun! We had a Zone P-Day and played pinball soccer

with President and Sister Randall. Nothing but good clean fun was had

by all. It was nice to exercise and have some friendly competition in

the zone! Plus nothing like a nice bearing of testimonies of the Book

of Mormon to wrap it all up with a pretty blue bow! I pinky promise to

have pictures next week of the pday and of our district. I went from a

district of two sets of sisters and one set of elders to one set of

sisters and two sets of elders. So it's an adventure for sure!

Speaking of the Book of Mormon, I had a goal to finish it with in the

first six months of my mission. I am three chapters away from

finishing, so since I will most likely finish either tonight or

tomorrow morning I just want to let you all know that I know that the

Book of Mormon is true. I know it with every fiber of my being. There

is not a book truer than this. I know that with the Book of Mormon we

can return to Christ one day. I know that it was written for our day

and to help us along our paths to salvation. I know that because the

Book of Mormon is true that Joseph Smith was a prophet called of God

and that this church is true. I know that I have never found more

comfort, joy or solace than I have inside the Book of Mormon. It is

the truest book you will ever find, and each verse you read is an

answer to a prayer. I have seen it answer my prayers, and I know it

can answer yours. Life throws us curve balls sometimes, but if you

hold the Book of Mormon as a bat, you will hit a home run every time.

If you'd like a free copy please talk to your local missionaries or

visit Mormon.org.

I would not want to be anywhere else right now, not even Disneyland. I

know that this work is Gods work and that everyday I have the chance

to help someone grow closer to God. Even if its just helping myself.

I love this work. I love our Savior. I love you all and miss you all!!

Much love,

Sister Jackson

 

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