That's right brothers and sisters! It's time for the 187th semi-annual

General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints!

I seriously wish this came around more than every 6 months! Hearing a

prophet of God speak to us is an opportunity we can't pass up! It's

too good, too uplifting and too true! I hope you all tune in for at

least one of the sessions on either Saturday or Sunday. You can find

it on the radio, tv or on lds.org I promise you will not regret

watching it! It's two hours of straight spiritual upliftment, and you

can't go wrong with that!

Anyway, I'm very excited for Conference if you can't tell! It's been a

good week out here, it's also be fairly hot. Thankfully not as humid,

but still hot. I am ready for fall weather! PA just isn't ready to let

it be fall. In other news, transfers are this week, so that's crazy!

It feels like I just got here and I've been here almost 6 months.

Funny how time flies when you're having fun!

Haha, anyway. This week I got to spend some time in Easton with Sister

Watkins and Sister Petersen. They are both amazing missionaries! Also,

fun fact, Sister Petersen is from Bear Lake, UT and we know a few of

the same people! It was fun to talk with her about raspberry shakes

and all those things that make Bear Lake, Bear Lake! Anyway, we had a

great time! We got caught in some crazy traffic and ended up getting

to Easton a lot later than we thought! We did get to go finding a

little and the area is so cute up there! We also taught a lesson to a

lady named Cynthia, who is just the cutest lady ever! She's got a cute

little girl and she bought us chick-fil-a! We ended our night at a

relief society meeting which are always fun!

Once I got back to the promised land (that's Kutztown, just in case

you forgot) I found out that Sister Bush and Sister Cripe had set Dave

with a date!! That's right! For the first time in almost a year the

Kutztown Ward has someone on date to enter the waters of baptism! It

was so awesome to hear that! From what I heard the lesson went great

and that he just wants to gain understanding now! It was just so

great!

We also met with Stephanie this week. It turned out to be a rather

interesting lesson, she is doing good though! She came to church on

Sunday! She was only able to stay for sacrament meeting, which was

sad, but hopefully we can continue to work with her and help her see

the truth of the gospel!

We also got to meet the LaMartins this week! Brother LaMartin and his

wife, Cindy, are so cute! We just wanted to stop by and they happened

to be outside! We talked with them for a good long while about lots of

stuff! Brother LaMartin kept calling Cindy a "closet Mormon." She told

us he calls her that because she watches Mormon Channel all the time.

Her favorite show is the District! She said "Its so fun to watch what

missionaries do. I get super in to it!" It was pretty funny.

We also got to see Daniela! She's a member of the branch and is so

sweet! We talked to her about school and work and all that! She told

us she wants to become a Mortician and that they make over 400,000

dollars a year! How crazy is that?!? Sister Bush has this theory that

they make so much money to pay for counseling for their trauma, PTSD,

and nightmares about dead people. Who knows though, it takes some very

brave people to spend all their days with dead people. That's not up

my alley, I can tell you that much.

To end our week we got to watch the women's conference! If you haven't

watched it, GO WATCH IT! It's so good! The whole thing was about

making sure we remember who we are as children of God. Because we have

a divine destiny, in fact we have divine spiritual DNA because we are

literally God's children. Don't ever forget that. You are literally a

child of God, who has more power and more love than we as humans can

even imagine.

One talk in particular stood out to me. One of the auxiliary leaders

spoke (I believe it was Sister Jones) and she said "When we sin it

makes us less worthy, but not worth less." What a great reminder! When

we do the wrong things Satan gets to us by telling us that we are

worth less now in Gods eyes, that we have lost part of our divine

potential. That is not the case! We are never worth less! To our

Heavenly Father we are children of infinite worth, and that can never

be changed.

This gospel is so real, and so good! I know that Thomas S. Monson is a

prophet of God. That Jesus Christ leads and directs this church. That

Joseph Smith was called of God and ordained to restore the truths that

were once lost. I know that the Book of Mormon is true. I know that

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the true church of

God once again on the earth.

I love being a missionary. I love you all!

Much love,

Sister Jackson

 

YSA branch

Sister Jackson

Sister splits
Watkins, Bush, Petersen, Cripe, Jackson