Gosh Bon Jovi is still so relevant even on a mission! Well, hello all

you great and lovely people! I hope you're all enjoying your last day

for the three day weekend and have a great Memorial Day! I am so

thankful for those who have fought for this country and the freedoms

which we enjoy. Without their sacrifice we wouldn't have all the

freedoms we have today, including our religious freedom, which I am so

thankful for.

It has been a great week out here in PA! As it always is! We are

really picking up out here! We were finally able to meet with our

investigator, Dave and it was really good! His wife just recently

passed away so we were able to talk about the Plan of Salvation and

how we know he will see his wife again. We also talked a lot about

baptism and Dave expressed that he knows he needs to be baptized by

immersion to enter into the celestial kingdom (which is the one he

wants to be in) so he told us he would pray about it and let us know!

It was so cool because the Spirit was so strong in the room as we

testified of the Plan. The coolest part though is in my personal

studies that day I was prompted to study the plan again and to find

scriptures in the Bible that talk about the Spirit world & the three

kingdoms. Which came in handy with Dave because as we talked he asked

where it said those things in the Bible. Man, the spirit is so cool. I

was able to share with him the scriptures I had found just that day

and the spirit just testified of the truth as we spoke. It was

incredible!

We also were able to see Sister Monroe at church yesterday! She just

has surgery so she hasn't been able to meet but there was a baptism

today for a child of record who came out to visit, since they moved to

Utah a few years ago. She and the whole Monroe family came and it was

so good to see them! We were able to set up an appointment so that we

can come and talk about baptism!

We did some service this week for Sister Dean and it was so awesome!

We helped her with things around the house and just the little chores

and one of her TSSA's were there and just kept asking us questions

about what we do as missionaries. The best part was that right before

she left she was like "Mormons rock! I'm gonna make a shirt that says

that and wear it around!" It was super awesome! We are hoping to see

her again!

We also did service for the Lower Macungie Township Historical

Society. We just helped move a bunch of boxes and it was so hot. We

were so sweaty afterwards is was ridiculous, it also didn't help that

it was humid. Oh good times.

This week we had to say goodbye to sister Abbott, she flies home on

Wednesday. We also had transfer calls on Sunday and Sister Kuta will

be leaving me tomorrow! I will be staying up here in Kutztown and be

companions with Sister Bush. I'm excited to keep working up here and

pushing the work forward!

Oh my dear friends and family. It has been an unbelievable nine months

out here serving Christ. It has been amazing, life changing, and

remarkable. I have been blessed beyond belief out here. My feelings

thus far can be so well explained in the 26th chapter of Alma verse 16

"Therefore, let us glory, yea, we will glory in the Lord; yea, we will

rejoice, for our joy is full; yea, we will praise our God forever.

Behold, who can glory too much in the Lord? Yea, who can say too much

of his great power, and of his mercy, and of his long suffering

towards the children of men? Behold, I say unto you, I cannot say the

smallest part which I feel."

I love this verse for so many reasons. Because really the Lord is so

merciful, so powerful and so forgiving. I'll be the first in a long

line of people to tell you that I am the farthest thing from perfect,

that I am so undeserving of the blessings I have been blessed with in

these last nine months. But I'll also be the first to testify that the

Lord is merciful and from his mercy we are blessed. The Lord is

powerful and from his power we are given power. The Lord is forgiving

and from his forgiveness we are able to progress and return to him.

Just as Ammon, I can't say the smallest part which I feel for my

experiences here, or the smallest part of how much the Lord has

blessed me, or how much I love him. I have quite literally been living

on a prayer out here, because I couldn't do this without the Lord.

Friends and family. I am forever changed because of Christ. I am

forever changed because I let him in. I am forever changed because he

loves me enough to chasten, try and challenge me. I am forever changed

because of His love, His mercy, His power and His forgiveness. I know

that it can change you too. Don't be afraid because I am a living

testament that it is worth it to let Christ change you. I am a better

version of myself because of Him.

I know He lives. I know He love you and He loves me. I know the church

is true. So, what else matters?

I love you all.

Much love,

Sister Jackson

 

The District

Gandalf the White aka Josie

Josie and Sister Kuta