Hello my lovely friends and family! I hope you all had the most

enjoyable week of your lives. I am coming at you live from a rainy day

in Broomall Pennsylvania and a great week behind me! It was just such

a good week to be a servant of the Lord. I seriously love my mission

so much, it is one of the hardest things I have done, and yes there

are hard times but the love I feel is worth all the hard days, hours,

and minutes here.

I love Pennsylvania and it's craziness. Not only does it have speed

bumps, but also speed humps which are a larger speed bump and much

better than a speed bump if you ask me. Not only speed humps, but also

speed tables. I thought it was an exaggeration but no, it was like an

actual table. Only in PA.

This week we had exchanges and I got to spend the day in the

Philadelphia 1st ward with Sister Phelps! We had a great time

together! We taught one of their less actives named Sydney and she was

so cute! She had such a great spirit and a willingness to serve the

Lord. We read the talk "God shall wipe away all tears" from last

Octobers conference and it was so powerful! The talk is so good and I

highly recommend that you go and read it!

We also played bingo with some old folks at a rest home out there and

it was so fun! It made me think of all the old folks back in

Downingtown that we used to do exercise with! I just love old people,

they are the best kind of people.

Lastly we taught English class to some of the African members in the

ward and it was so much fun! I love Africans so much, they are just

the sweetest people and they have such a love for the gospel that it

is incredible to see their faith.

On Wednesday the one and only Sister Seaman came out and took us to

lunch. I sure love that family and I miss the people in Downingtown.

Last week I forgot to write about Stake Conference but it was so

awesome! I got to see Sister Gregory, the Seamans, the Williams, the

Clarkes, Oscar and Maurice! My heart swelled with pure joy when I saw

Maurice there. He has just embraced the gospel with open heart and

arms! I just love seeing how much he has changed and the great love he

has for this gospel.

This week we helped Agnes pack up her apartment, that is right, she's

moving out to the P1 area. Which is so sad but the good news is is

that President Randall has given Sister Shin and I permission to still

go and teach her! She will be moving back to the Broomall area in a

few months so she is going to still be taught by us and hopefully

attend our ward! She is so incredible and I am so happy to see how she

is accepting the restored gospel into her life!

Remember a few emails ago I mentioned a lady named Patricia? Well this

week we met with her! It was so awesome! She is going to have surgery

soon so she isn't planning on meeting with us for a few weeks but she

is willing to be baptized! When we brought up baptism she said "Yeah I

was thinking about being baptized." We tried to set her with a date

but she isn't sure when she will be fully recovered from her surgery,

so stay tuned!

We met with Brother Waters this week and he is doing so awesome! Last

week he told us that he was not ready to give up his word of wisdom

addictions, well this week he told us that he has decided it is time

to give them up and to start getting better and able to live without

them! Sister Shin and I were so proud to see him know that this is the

next step that he needs to take in order to progress!

We had a chance to do some service for Sister McNeill this week! Her

mom is moving in with her for a few weeks so we helped her move some

furniture around and set everything up! We also had a chance to talk

about how we can gain faith in reading the scriptures and how we can

know God by reading His word! I know this to be true, and I know that

as we read from the Book of Mormon everyday we can grow closer to him

and feel the spirit more in our lives. I know that my faith is built

each time I open the book, and i feel so great by the time I close it.

James is doing so good! We met with him last night and had a great

lesson on faith! We talked about how we have faith in God and how we

trust Him because He gives us the Holy Ghost so that we can know where

to go next. We did a super fun activity where we had him blindfolded

and hid a Book of Mormon somewhere in his house. Sister Sayles acted

as the Holy Ghost and lead James to the book while Brother Sayles,

Sister Shin and I acted as worldly voices trying to get him to not

find it. James was steadfast and wouldn't listen to anyone other than

Sister Sayles though, so I was quite impressed by his determination to

not stray from the voice.

We had an amazing Zone Conference this week! So full of the spirit and

so many things were learned. We have been focusing on faith as a

mission for this transfer so the conference had a lot to do with how

we have been building our faith over the last few weeks!

THE WOMANS BROADCAST, I dont care if you are male or female, 83 or 3

you need to go listen to President Eyrings talk on peace right now. I

promise you will not regret listening to it. He talked a lot about how

the Holy Ghost is the one who brings peace into our hearts and minds,

He is the one who leads up to choose the right and who gives us the

means to return to our loving Father in Heaven.

I love this gospel and the fact that we have living prophets and

apostles on the Earth today. I love that we get to listen to these men

and women who are called of God every six months. I love the peace and

comfort that only the Gospel can bring through the gift of the Holy

Ghost. I hope you all take the marvelous opportunity to listen to the

spirit and to these called servants of God this Saturday and Sunday.

You can watch it on BYU TV, LDS.org, or a local meetinghouse. The

times are 10-12 and 2-4 MST. I promise you that you will not regret

listening to at least one of the four sessions and that as you go with

a question for God, He will answer you.

Enjoy conference and the spirit that it brings this weekend! Love you all!

Much love,

Sister Jackson

Zone Conference

In the snow

Pennsylvania snow!