Hello my dear friends and family! I hope that all is going well for

each of you in each of your lives! It's been a great week out here in

PA, as it always is! We had a great time going out and finding people

to teach!

To start off our round of really great lessons we had a lesson with

Angel! We had a great talk on faith, each of us there were able to

share stories of times when our faith has been pushed to the edge.

When we have been as faithful as we have ever been but we were still

pushed in away that we never thought was possible, yet we made it out

on top and our faith has never been stronger. I just love the idea of

faith, we all have faith, we have faith the sun will rise, we have

faith mom will make dinner (or buy it), we have faith in our alarm

clocks too off at the right time. If we think about it that way we

know that faith is more than just believing in God. In Ether 12:27 it

talks about the weakness that men are given and that it is given to us

to build faith, that as we show faith in Him that weakness will become

our strength. I love that, as a missionary you are shown your weakness

left and right, but over these last few months I've seen that weakness

become a strength to me.

We also had a lesson with the Hillmans! The family I mentioned last

week that we "accidentally" found at the service activity. They are

super awesome! When they first met missionaries they weren't sure

about baptism, but eventually they were all baptized, moved around and

landed back here in Kutztown! We talked with them about Ether 12:27 as

well and talked about how with faith we can overcome all things.

Especially temporal things, that as we act on our faith the power of

the Atonement of Jesus Christ is allowed to follow freely into our

lives.

We met with Stephanie and Dick and they are so amazing! Super funny

people, we talked about why scripture study is so important. We also

talked about tithing and why it's so important. They were so open and

had so much to say! It was incredible! After every lesson Dick throws

his arms out and waves with one hand and goes "Peace Guys!" It's so

great, they are just so cute!

We had the best lesson this week with some members. The Opperosano's

are from New York and are converts to the church. We met with them and

started to teach the lessons, we taught the Restoration and it was so

awesome! We had a great conversation about why the gospel is true, why

it's important and why we still live it each and everyday. Sometimes

we look at the things we do as members and we are faced everyday to

make decisions to either choose the gospel or to not. Everyday we show

our commitment to Heavenly Father based on our actions because

sometimes it can be pretty tempting to sleep in on that Sunday that

church is at 9am, but we make that decision to get up and go when the

world says to stay in.

We met with Dave again! He's doing amazing. We talked to him about

tithing and how it's so different from the way most churches and how

we use it. We also talked about the Law of Chastity. It was pretty

great! We had a great conversation about how the world has changed so

much since he was growing up and how it's pretty much unheard of for

people to be chaste until marriage. It was pretty great, when we

committed him to live the law of chastity he just smiled and was like

"Well, I'm already living it." It was so awesome!

Right after this lesson we got caught in a giant rainstorm running

from our car to the apartment (it was right next to curfew) and as we

were running our phone decided to come to life. It jumped right out of

Sister Bush's bag and right into a puddle. We went 3 days with out a

phone and couldn't get a hold of anyone because our miles were low so

we couldn't drive to them. Who knew that a phone would be so key in

missionary work! We now have a legitimate flip phone, it's so awesome!

This week Sister Bush and I had a meeting down in Broomall, and it was

awesome! For those who don't know the Missionary Department released a

new version of chapter 8 in Preach my Gospel called "How do I fulfill

my purpose?" And it is AMAZING!!! President Randall spent most of the

day training us on how to use it so that we could help the other

missionaries know how to use it. We also talked a lot about why

setting goals is so important and why we need to make plans to

actually get there. Goals need plans, otherwise it's just an

unachievable dream.

On Saturday we had so much fun! We parked at the church and then

walked over to Kutztown University. Where we spent the majority of our

time just contacting people on the street. We handed out 20 pass along

cards, but talked to way more than that. Out of those 20 people we had

one who gave us his number and told us to come back. We were so

excited! It was awesome.

Earlier this week we also met a lady named Lessie. We were just out

doing what we tend to do, knocking on doors, and when she first opened

she wasn't all that interested. Then Sister Bush brought up that we

help build faith and we'd love to come back to build faith with her.

She seemed to light up and she gave us her number and as she was

closing the door she said "Please call me, and we'll sit down

sometime." It was so awesome! I remember when I was brand new new to

the mission, I hated knocking on doors, and don't get me wrong it's

still not my favorite pastime. Yet, when we knock on 20 doors and only

one of them is opened all the way it makes the other 19 so so so worth

it. Worth the people trying to Bible bash, worth the people who think

we are something that we're not, worth every single rejection.

This week I've had an interesting experience this week with prayers.

My whole mission I've heard the idea of being accountable to the Lord,

but I never knew what that really meant. So I asked President Randall

at our meeting and he gave me some ideas. I've since started to apply

them and let me talk you something. Heavenly Father recognizes when we

are trying to change, and He wants to help us change. It is quite the

feeling, I've felt it before, but it's always nice to feel it again. I

always knew that He was listening but now it's like I can feel him

right next to me, it's like I'm having a real conversation with a real

person, because I am.

Oh my dears, life is so good, God is so good, I love being a

missionary. It's been a great year, and I can't wait to see what

happens next.

I love you all!

Much love,

Sister Jackson

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Josie, Hermana Gomez, Sister Bush

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