Bongia, family and friends! It's a balmy 47 degrees here in

Pennsylvania and I hope that all of you have had a great week! Life

out here is so good, I am loving it!

James gets baptized this week! He is so ready and so awesome!

Yesterday we met with him and taught about missionary work. We role

played with him on how to be a full time missionary and it was so

funny! Sister Shin and I demonstrated it and then he role played it

with us. It was hilarious, he wasn't sure how to act or how to respond

to questions and things like that! He cant wait to be baptized, and he

is so excited to step into the waters of baptism!

Agnes is doing so awesome! We are meeting with her today and she cant

wait to be baptized either! She is so awesome, so so so so so awesome!

I wish I could teach her all day everyday and never do anything else.

I cant wait for her to be baptized in two weeks! The work is going so

good and so awesome, I love the people out here so much!

We met a YSA aged lady named Briana this week as we were knocking on

doors and she was so awesome! We shared the old #hallelujah video and

it was so cool! She was visibly touched by the spirit and was so ready

to learn more! When we asked to come back she told us that anytime

works, so we are hoping to stop by sometime this week!

We also met with a former investigator named Bruce! We shared the He

Lives video and he really liked it! He wants us to meet with him again

but he wants to meet at his church, so we are trying to figure out how

to get him to meet us at our church instead of at his but we never

know how to work it. Its an adventure, being a missionary.

We had a great time with investigators this week! We also met with an

investigator named Nisa who had a lot of questions! She is incredible!

She is so willing to learn and grow and has a love for Christ that is

just awesome!

Brother Waters came to church again! He's so awesome, three weeks in a

row is quite the amazing feat for him! Watching him progress and

change and realize how important church is is amazing. I love the fact

that I am able to help those who already have made these covenants

keep these covenants, it helps remind me how important this gospel

really truly is in every stage of our lives.

We met with Sister Cofield again and it was good! She's so funny, and

she LOVES the Book of Mormon. She talks about how she's already

reading it and praying. She said she prays in the car because it's the

quietest time in her day and it allows her to feel like Heavenly

Father is in the passenger seat. It's incredible.

We had a double lesson with our recent converts his week! Kevin & Abby

are doing so awesome and Abby is so powerful to have in lessons! She's

a little less active so to hear her testimony of the gospel and why

it's important to her is so awesome. She just has a way of bringing

the spirit into each lesson. She's incredible. She went to New York

this weekend to visit her brother and on her way out of Philly the bus

passed by the temple and she texted us about how overwhelmed she was

with the spirit and how thankful she is to be a member of our church!

I love her!

We had an interesting experience this week. I always feel awkward when

people flirt with me as a missionary. We were knocking on doors and

went to see a lady who had expressed interest in learning more, well

her son opened the door and said "were good." But then kept talking.

He asked if I was married or if I had a boyfriend. I wanted a

boyfriend so bad in that moment that I said "Yeah, I have a boyfriend

back home." And that lead to him asking where home was and I said

Utah, which then brought up the Jazz. I told him sadly I don't watch

basketball, then he asked what I do watch so I said soccer. Then he

asked what my team was, RSL (obvi) and then proceeded to show off how

much he knows about soccer by talking about how Beckerman is on the

USA team. I quickly brought up Jesus Christ and the door was shut.

Only on a mission.

We had exchanges this week and it was so good, I love Sister Payne! We

had a good talk and a great exchange and some great talks about the

work and it was awesome! I love exchanges!

We had the craziest dinner appointment this week. Remember last week I

mentioned the Mack's? Well we had dinner with them and the Matthews

the night before they were supposed to leave. We are sitting at this

dinner table and Brother Mack is talking about his college days and

how his grandpa helped him get into BYU, Sister Matthews laughs and

turns to us "Do you know who grandpa is?" Obviously we said no.

GRANDPA IS SPENCER W KIMBALL. I literally had dinner with a direct

descendant of a prophet. Sister Shin and I thought we were going to

die. It was crazy.

We also had dinner with the Randall's! President was off on mission

duties but it was so fun to have dinner with them and to get to know

them more! They are incredible people and I'm so thankful for their

help, guidance, and kindness. I couldn't have asked for better

leaders.

If there is one thing that's constant in this roller coaster of

mission life it's the Book of Mormon. My last few weeks have not been

easy, my last few months have been really hard, and the Book of Mormon

has been my comfort, my guide, my light. I know Christ lives. I know

through His Atonement we can over come any and all things.

This church is true. I know it with all of me. I love you all. I miss

you all. I love my mission!

With love from PA,

Sister Jackson

Pennsylvania Ave.

Sister Jackson and Sister Payne

Sister Mack, Sister Shin, Sister Jackson