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josie.jackson@myldsmail.net

Sunday, January 7, 2018

A missionaries weekly by Charles Dickens

Hello all! I don’t even know where to start this week. Turns out it was destined to only get crazier as time went on! A lot has happened since I last emailed you, but here is a quick and simple way to put it. We are now in a trio, we have a car (it’s not the one that got in the accident, that’s still in the shop, fingers crossed it’s done by Christmas), and we are covering two areas until transfers next week. It’s been quite the ride. I’m not even sure where to start, so let’s just take it from the top I guess! 

Monday after we had a rather delicious dinner at the Woodstown Diner we headed over to meet with a family in our ward! It was lots of fun, and we taught the last half of the Restoration (because we taught the first half the time before that)! It was so great! 

Tuesday was so fun! After District Meeting we went on exchanges with the Sewell sisters! I got to spend my day in Sewell with Sister Young, and it was so much fun! We stopped by a few people and we met this awesome group of YSA’s while we were out finding! We were able to show them #LIGHTtheWORLD and invited them to learn more about the restored gospel of the Savior. It was so awesome! 

Wednesday, after exchanging back, we spent the day in Penns Grove where we met some super awesome people! One was a 16 year old girl who was coming home from school as we were knocking on her door, we told her we had an awesome video we wanted to share with her and her family. She went to go see if her mom wanted to watch and then came down to tell us her mom didn’t want to, but she did! We showed her light the world and we talked about the Savior and what He has done for us. She bore a beautiful testimony about how Jesus Christ has blessed her life. 

We also had a great time street contacting on Wednesday, as we were walking around an apartment complex we saw a YSA aged girl walking around with a shopping bag of a popular shoe store. So me being the awkward missionary I am said “Hi! Did you go get yourself some new shoes?” She was totally thrown off guard, but it worked! We just struck up a conversation with her! She showed us her new shoes and told us about the job she had just applied for, and we got to share light the world with her! She was very open and interested in learning more about the gospel! 

Thursday was rather adventurous. We had our usual Thursday activities, weekly Planning, the storehouse. At the Storehouse we had a little too much fun. They needed people to bag fruits, veggies and mixed nuts, so we were on bagging duty. The mixed nuts were the best part, each time one was cracked we had to take it out (there was a TON) and put it aside. Anyway, some of these looked rather interesting and to prove just how tired I am at one point a put a piece of a walnut inside an almond shell and said “It looks like a dolphin, jumping out of the ocean!” At another point there was a very cracked Pecan and my response was “This looks like one of those artsy fartsy paintings.” Then things got even crazier. We received a call from Sister Randall telling us that a sister was going home and we needed to be her companions companion. So that night we drove with these sisters to PA (Shoutout to Havertown! You’re missed!) and then drove back to NJ. So now we have a car, another area and another companion!

Friday was a fairly normal day, kind of. We went to lunch with a Sister and then went to visit Sister Johnson! It was so good to see her, we haven’t seen her for a while and it was so nice! After that we drove up to Sewell (the other area we cover) and went to go do service at the library up there, so many books my friends. After that we did some stop bys in Sewell and then came back to Woodstown to meet two recent converts who moved into our ward! They are so awesome! They joined a year ago, and just recently moved here from Tennessee! We ended our night at the RS Christmas party! It was so fun to just spend time with the Relief Society ladies! 

Saturday was quite the day again! We started off with going to breakfast at a Masonic temple, and helping out there! We went from there to lunch with the Vann’s and then got to go see Maggie in her school play! Don’t worry we had permission! She was Charolette Fizwigg in A Christmas Carol! She was so stinking cute! We also got to sit by her parents and her older sister and that was so fun! We were able to get to know them a little bit more and to get a better understanding of them! It was just so fun! 

We were going to go to stake conference that night, but we decided not too. Later that evening we got a call from the Zone Leaders and we realized we should have gone. President Skiahema had told the adult session about Maggie and her story, including a picture of her. So that was going to be fun! We tried to decide if we should warn Maggie or not, but we had some other stuff we needed to do, and then we were off to bed before a decision was made. 

Sunday we got ready and headed to the Whitcombs to drive up to Cherry Hill for Stake Conference. Maggie was also with us, and we decided we needed to say something. So we just told her what we knew, and everyone at stake conference who had seen her picture came to introduce themselves and tell her congratulations on her baptism date. It was a little overwhelming! Stake Conference was really good though, we got to sit on the front row, and we heard a lot about repentance and the Atonement, it was very good! 

Sunday evening Sister Berhan went on splits with a member from Sewell ward for a few lessons and to get some work done over there! It was so awesome of the sister to offer to do that! While we were on splits Sister Taylor and I got to meet with Maggie! It was so awesome, she’s so solid and has such a great testimony! She told us her parents had some questions and she got to explain the plan of salvation to them, she also told us that she felt like a missionary right then and there. She is just so awesome! We are so excited for her baptism on the 23rd! 

So yeah, that’s been my week. It’s been one for the books that is for sure! Even with all of the craziness that has happened this week we are still going strong! I know that Heavenly Father watches out for each of us. After all, His whole purpose is to “bring to pass the immortality and enteral life of man” (Moses 1:30) and in order to bring about that purpose He has to know what’s going on in our lives! 

Brothers and sisters, I know the gospel is true with all my heart. We got to teach the Restoration this week and I felt the spirit confirm once again the truth of the message. I know without a doubt that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that we have a living prophet upon the earth today. I know the Book of Mormon is the word of God. Within it are held the words of eternal life. When ever you feel lost, confused or misplaced know that Christ felt all of that for you, and before you. He knows better than anyone how you feel in those moments, turn to Him. Immerse yourself in His words and then pray and ask for guidance. You will get an answer, I promise you.

“Fall on your knees. Oh, hear the world rejoices. oh night divine. Oh night, oh night divine.” -O Holy Night

Much love,
Sister Jackson

Sent from Woodstown, NJ 🚜

 
Sister Taylor, Maggie, Josie

Service 

The Vanns

The Whitcombs, and Maggie

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