May 20, 2014
My Dearest Fam and Friends,
Oh what a week it has been! We have
been oh so busy this transfer and I love it! It helps me to stay focused and
all in. This upcoming week is going to be even busier and I am so excited!
Tomorrow we are going to the temple as a mission and on Friday we have
interviews with President Keyes! It is going to be such a wonderful week.
This past week has been good. We have
seen so many of our investigators take big steps towards baptism and we are so
excited for them. We have also had a few hiccups this week with some of our
investigators, but hey, that's just missionary work for you. On Thursday we got
to go out to dinner with Bro. Harvey and his wife to Olive Garden! It was so
much fun! We also took them through the Visitor Center through a presentation
about the family. It was so good for them. Bro. Harvey is doing great and
should hopefully still be getting baptized June 7th. We did teach him the Word
of Wisdom last night, and to my surprise, he wasn't as familiar with it as I
thought he would be. He's been married to his wife who's a member for over 20
years, and he said that she's always asked him to quit things but that he
never completely put two and two together. He is all good with everything in
the Word of Wisdom except for coffee and tea, which we figured. We invited him
to live it and so hopefully he will be all good. Funny story, remember how I
took that prom date through the VC a few weeks ago? Well, it turns out that is
their grandson and he's the one that's going to baptize him! haha We pieced
that together at dinner and it was so funny!
Saturday was a very busy day for us!
We went to a funeral in the morning. Sister DePriest's father passed away
(she's a lady that we have been working a lot with in helping her to come
back to church). She asked if we would come so we did. I haven't been to a
funeral in quite a while! It was really neat to be able to be there. I did a
lot of pondering and reflecting as we sat through the service. The Plan of Salvation
is real! It is something we teach all day everyday, but I feel like being there
really helped me to solidify my testimony of this plan. Death is not the end! I
am so grateful for the peace and comfort that this plan brings to us.
We also went to a barbecue on
Saturday. It's a new missionary program they are trying in our ward. Each
month, different families are assigned together to have some kind of activity
to invite neighbors and friends to and then at the end we share a message. It
went pretty good for the first try and will hopefully continue in the future.
After that, we rushed over to start setting up for the baptism of Miss Lacey.
Everything went so well. We were a little frazzled when 10 minutes before the
program, we couldn't figure out how to print the programs and Lacey wasn't
there, but after a prayer, everything seemed to work itself out. I didn't bring
the right camera card today so I'll have to send pictures of the baptism next
week!
Well, I love you all so so much! Hope
you have such a wonderful week! I know I will! :) So excited for the temple!
XOXOX
love always,
Sister Jorgensen
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