Hello my wonderful family and
friends! :)
This week has been all sorts of ups and downs, just like a
mission always is :)
On Wednesday and Thursday the cold got the best of me and I
was down and out. Sister Marshall made me drink lots of water
and take some medicine to get me better. Which was good.
because we all know how I feel about water. And medicine,
haha. On Wednesday morning we asked the zone leaders to come
and give me a blessing. When they showed up, I answered the
door and one of them goes, "ooh. Um... wow. Are you doin
alright?" I didn't feel that bad. but apparently I
looked it, haha :)
Halfway through the week we heard rumor that one of the
sets of sisters in Paper Mill was going to become 50/50 YSA
and Paper Mill sisters. And we heard that the zone is
splitting. And we heard that there are going to be the first
set of Spanish speaking sisters. And we heard that transfers
were going to happen early because of Thanksgiving. So much
was in the air and I think it's fair to say we were going
crazy. Sooooooooo. Here's the low down. The only thing
that's changing is my companion. Anticlimactic, right? Haha.
All I can say is there must be a reason why I'm here.
Heavenly Father called me here, English. And even after
another opportunity, I'm English again. Which I'm beginning
to appreciate, I think. But on the upside... I get to be
here for Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years!!
Which I'm stoked for. The members here rock. Seriously :)
Speaking of which... Happy Thanksgiving on Thursday!!
Something that Sis Marshall and I have been doing and
challenging others to do is... be grateful!! Try to only be
grateful in your prayers. It gets easier as it goes... and
it helps in praying with faith :)
We kind of a cool experience yesterday. We were tracting
in an apartment complex (love that!) and it was cold. And it
was almost time to go to dinner. I mentioned the cold and
Sis Marshall goes, "it just means that there's someone super
important for us to find!" The next door? A lady opened the
door. She has 2 cute boys. She has been trying to make it to
church the past few weeks, but something always comes up. We
knocked on her door and she was so excited because she knew
we were sent from God. We talked to her quite a bit and then
we asked if we could share a scripture with her because she
missed church. I looked at her and asked, "Do you have faith
that if I open this book to a random scripture that it will
be a message that God wants you to hear?" She said yes. So I
did. And I don't remember what the scripture was, but I do
remember that she teared up and she needed exactly that. We
left that very Book of Mormon with her and she was excited
for it :) We'll be going back very soon :)
Most importantly are our two very progressing
investigators! One is going in for a surgery on Wednesday so
we haven't been able to actually meet with her, but we've kept
in contact. Her phone is working again, thank goodness :)
Then we taught our other investigator again yesterday. The
Portuguese elders weren't able to be there, so we taught him
with his girlfriend, the member. He is *so* ready for the
Gospel! We taught him some of the commandments and he asked if
he could start paying tithing before he gets baptized! Wow.
The Spirit was so strong :) Later we got a phone call from the
Portuguese Elders and they said that they had dinner with the
two of them and asked them about goals they had for the
upcoming year. She said that hers was a secret. He said that
he wanted to get to the temple and he also had a secret. So...
wedding bells anyone?!?! Haha. I hope so. They're adorable. :)
Christmas info!! Because all of the letters, cards and
packages that will be going through the mission office for the
holidays, they have asked that all letters, cards and packages
be sent directly to our apartments. This will be through the
end of December, then it'll go back to the mission office.
That address is:
Sister Ashley Jacobs
1818 Greyfield Ln
Sandy Springs, GA 30350
I love you all dearly and I'm excited to "see" the fam in a
month!!! :) :) (We get to skype or do Google Hang out on
Christmas Day.)
Oh! Speaking of which. Please make a list of questions
you'd like me to answer! This is only one of 2 phone calls
that we'll have and I wanna make it awesome!! Also, if there
are things I write about that you wanna hear in more detail, I
can definitely do that. I'll be coming up with some questions
of my own :)
Love you all!!
~Sister Jacobs.
