Hello friends and family! I hope all is well! It has been a miraculous

week out here! The east coast has been fun with the weather as usual.

It was super humid one day and then the next it was dumping rain. I

will never understand the weather out here. Its crazy.

As most of you know last week I said farewell to Kutztown, my home of

six months. We made the long trek to Broomall Tuesday morning. MI got

to see some pretty great people there! Sister Morwood and SIster

Taylor (from my MTC group!), Sister Kuta and Sister Burrell (my old

STL)! It was so much fun! Its always great to see some of your old

friends and just catch up with them!

Eventually I got to find out who my companion was and you will never,

ever guess who it is! SISTER TAYLOR! Yes, the one from MTC! We freaked

out! I have joined her in Woodstown, New Jersey now, which is so

different from PA. Its so weird. We have had so much fun though! Right

off the bat we started to work and we have been seeing fruits ever

since!

We spent the majority of my first day in a little town called Salem.

Salem is super cool! Just this cute little town with tons of humble

people. We talked with everyone! It was so awesome! As we were walking

around we met a lady who was just sitting on her porch with her little

boy. We introduced ourselves and what we are doing, she was super

sweet! We testified of a loving Heavenly Father and how He knows us.

We set up a return appointment with her for later this week! It will

be fun to see what happens!

We also saw a miracle with a lady named Jan. We were walking to go see

a former investigator and she was outside walking her dog! She is

loosing her sight but she heard us approach and started to talk with

us! We told her who we were and what we are doing and she told us she

had met with missionaries ten years ago! We asked her if we could come

back and she said "I was just about to ask you if you'd like to come

back" it was so awesome! The Lord has a hand in His work! It is so

amazing to see the little things like that happen!

Another fun thing that happened this week, we met with Ms. Nanci. Ms.

Nanci is so fun! We met with her twice this week! She is just the

cutest. She has one big question, "which church has the key?" We have

been trying to help her find the answer. So we have watched part of

the Joseph Smith movie and talked a lot about the Book of Mormon. She

is slowly starting to put the pieces together!

Something crazy awesome that happened in one of Nanci's lessons was

her friend named Stephanie! As we taught the Restoration Stephanie was

just eating it up! It all made total sense to her and she asked for a

Book of Mormon at the end of the lesson. Sadly, she doesnt live in our

area but we are excited for the missionaries in her area to work with

her!

Something super fun about this area is that the Bishop's Storehouse is

in our area. So once a week we get to go and do service there so that

is super fun! I loved it! I love serving people because nothing is

truer than what King Benjamin says in Mosiah "When ye are in the

service of your fellow beings, ye are only in the service of your

God." When we look outside of ourselves and put all of our effort into

serving others we will see amazing things happen to our lives!

The last bit of exciting news came from President Randall at MLC on

Friday. It was actually terrifying, but the Lord is furthering is work

through......SMARTPHONES. That is right, this missionary who hasn't

touched a smartphone in 13 months is now carrying one around in her

bag. Isn't that SCARY?!?!?! I think it is.

Well my dears. I love you all so much. This week as we taught a few

people about the Restoration of the gospel, I had a few thoughts come

to my mind. The Restoration is one of the greatest events in human

history. Without it, where would we be? I know for one thing I would

not be this happy. What would we do without this truth? It would be a

dark and cold world, I can tell you that much. President Randall

challenged us this transfer to read the BOM as a mission so I started

to reread it the other day and it really struck me that the BOM was

designed and destined to be translated. From the title page to the

introduction it says the word translated 8 times. There is no way

Joseph Smith could have written it. There is too much in it that he

could not make up on his own. This was all by divine design. Its that

simple. If you have questions or doubts about it the best thing to do

"is do to as James (1:5) directs, that is, ask of God." So ask Him,

because He has all the answers.

Praise to the man who communed with Jehovah!

Much love,

Sister Jackson

 

Last day with Sister Bush

Sister Jackson and Sister Taylor

New Jersey District

Sister Taylor, Sister Jackson, Pres. Vai Sikahema