October 8, 2013
To my dearest fam and friends....
I seriously have the best best best
support ever! Everyone I live with is always saying, "Sister Jorgensen,
how is it that you write the least amount of letters, yet still get the
most?!" I probably shouldn't be getting a lot of letters and packages
because I have been the WORST at writing letters! I like to blame it on the
millions of friends that served before me that I wrote to and now that I'm
actually on the mission, I'm completely done with writing letters. But, I
seriously can't express to you guys how much it means to hear from so many of
you almost every week. You're the BEST!
So, let's see, significant events
that happened this past week......
Well, I'm training again! I was so
sad that Sister Rackham and I had to part because we have become such
good friends, but it seems that whenever we begin to get comfortable, Heavenly
Father sends something else our way. I kind of assumed I'd be training because
I went to President's house last week for the potential training meeting. My
new companion is wonderful! Her name is Sister Sommer, from Kaysville, Utah,
and goes to BYU. We actually graduated the same year and are both studying the
same major at BYU but have never met. She has pretty much come out already
completely trained. She started giving presentations at the jail by herself
on the second day, has memorized tons of things that we need to in the mission,
and is just such a good person. She's very happy and positive just like Sister
Rackham! Heavenly Father has truly blessed me with some incredible companions!
I'm still a little nervous because my setting apart and Father's blessings both
talked about having companions that were very different from me and I really
haven't seen that too much yet. We'll see! :)
Wasn't Conference wonderful! Common
trend I saw was how straight forward and blunt the apostles were when they
talked about the commandments. Like, I'm use to Holland and Bednar being bold,
but it seemed like everyone was this time. We got to watch one of the sessions
with the Burchs! It was great! Lisa was taking notes the entire time and
received revelation on how she can help her wayward kids so that was good.
We text Mercedes after Conference
was all over to see how she liked all of it and she said, "we should get
together and share notes". YES, who is this girl! I feel so incredibly
blessed to know her. I mean yes, she still is a stubborn teenager at times, but
she's such a special girl.
We got a new investigator this week
and we're excited about her! Her names Sabrina and she's a single mom with
three kids. She is in a place in her life where she is very prepared and
seeking. She works and goes to school so she is very busy but we are meeting
with her next Tuesday so pray for her and her cute family!
Other than that, this week has been
kind of slow and weird. We haven't had very much time in our area between
meetings, training, and preparing for the 50th celebration! Oh ya, the 50th is
this weekend! This is seriously the best time to be serving at the Jail. All
day Saturday there are going to be lectures from two BYU professors and then a
readers theater. Elder Ballard comes on Sunday and we get to sing for him! :)
I'll let you in on the details next Tuesday! Love you guys mucho! Choose to
make it a great week!
Love Always,
Hermana Jorgensen (the first)
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