Hello my peeps! I hope you have all had a fantastic week and that

you're ready for the next week! I can't believe it's already been a

week since I left Broomall and was shot up north! In case you missed

last week I now reside in a place called Kutztown, which is pretty

much the boonies and after being in a suburban area for the last eight

months it's weird to see so much space and farms and stuff. I forgot

what the countryside looks like. All it's missing is the mountains! My

new companions are pretty much the best! I have Sister Abbott who is

from Hawaii has lots of siblings, a nephew, and is almost done with

her mission! Then I also have Sister Kuta who is from Oregon, is the

middle of three kids, loves pugs and has been out five months!

On my very first night in this area we had dinner with a lady named

Kate. Kate is married to a less active member of the ward and she has

a desire to be baptized! She's studied with missionaries before and

knows a lot so she's ready to be baptized but she wants to make sure

she is really ready. She is incredible! She's so funny and just loves

her family and the Lord! Plus she loves Star Wars.

Also this week we met with a YSA named Chris (also if you missed last

week I'm now over two congregations a YSA and a ward. Yes 6 hours of

church). Chris really loves Christ, and has a great desire to grow

closer to Him. Chris also came to church on Sunday and he liked it and

the YSA was super happy to have him here!

We also also met a YSA name Eluid and he was really excited to see

missionaries again! He set up a time for us to come and see him next

week so we are super excited!

I love being in the YSA branch out here. It's literally so small.

There were only seven people in relief society including the three of

us, but it gives us a great opportunity to get to know each YSA and to

truly be able to help them! They are all just incredible missionaries

and they love sharing their testimonies so much!

The ward is also just oh so good! We have had some great times at

dinner and helping people out! Sister Rodriguez is a lady from

California (whose grandparents lived in Logan! She's crashed her bike

on temple hill before and we bonded) but she owns a candy shop and so

we went and did service for her and it was pretty much the sweetest

service ever (pun intended). We bagged chocolate pretzels and

restocked candies and tested sea salt Carmel chocolates. It was

amazing.

I also met a family from Logan! The Baliey family stopped me at church

and said "we heard you're from Logan! Are you a Mustang?" PEEPS I

DIED. After a shocked answer of yes, sister Bailey told me she's from

Providence and is a mustang too! Brother Bailey is from North Logan

and we just had this bonding moment at church with the fact we all

know each other's hometowns.

We also had dinner with a lot of amazing people here's some quotes/ highlights:

-Lunch with Sister Silfies who talks like a valley girl and it's

amazing. She also wants to get a family we are working with baptized

so bad and it's so cute. She's also had some great quotes, while

talking about men she said "all these YSA's these days saying 'he's

got a good job' um excuse me, what about his job with the Christ?!" "I

don't know where the man is but all I know is he's gotta be tall dark

and loves the Lord!"

-dinner with the walls (bro walls is from Tennessee) then at church

bro walls walked up and gave us knuckles after saying "what's up sis?"

-the Jameson's. The literal dream family. Bro Jameson heard once that

feeding missionaries is like feeding Jesus. So all night he went

"Babe, this is Jesus."

I love the people out here so much, it's nothing but good clean fun!

We had this really great lesson in relief society about President

Uchtdorf's talk from the October 2016 conference called "Learn from

Alma and Amuleck" (read Alma chapters 8-16 if you have questions). In

it he poses the questions, "what can I learn from Alma?" And "How am I

like Amuleck?" We had this awesome discussion about how we are all a

little like both. It really reminded me that repentance is a real

thing and that we can do anything when we are on the Lords side,

because he won't let us fail.

I love you all! I love being a missionary and I love sharing His

gospel with all that I can!

Much love,

Sister Jackson

 

Sister Abbott, Sister Jackson, Sister Kutz