HELLO MI BONITA FAMILIA!!!
First off,
Happy Happy Anniversary to the greatest parents ever! I can't say I completely
remembered (I'm sorry), but luckily Pressy reminded me! hahaha I've been
thinking all day about how Ashy is going to call! Man, I'm so jealous! I
sure hope we can figure something out at Christmas so that we can all talk
together for a little bit! How is she? I can't believe she's already out of the
MTC! That went quick! Now were going to have two Hermana Jorgensen
out in the real world! I'm so excited for her to begin her new adventure!
Well, this
week here has been a little bit challenging to say the least. It started out okay
in the beginning of the week. We finally got to go over and talk to Lucy
and she had been doing pretty good with reading her scriptures and praying. She
was reading about Lehi's vision about the tree of life. We showed her a
picture and compared it to her life and how she is on the journey to the tree
and holding onto the rod. She really liked it. I then felt prompted that
we needed to share the law of chastity. It went really well and
she seemed to understand everything. She said, "Well, it looks like we'll
be getting married then." We knew it wasn't going to be an easy route, but
we were excited that she felt that way. It all went down hill when we texted
her the next day. We were going to go visit her that night and she said
that she didn't know why we wanted to come anymore if she couldn't be baptized.
We were completely confused. It was like a night and day difference. We asked
what had happened and she said that her "husband" doesn't want to get
married right now. We asked if we could come up and talk to her (since she just
lives upstairs from us) and this whole week she has just been dodging us. She
keeps making up all these excuses about how she hasn't had anytime this week.
It's so sad because I know that she knows the Book of Mormon is true and she
was so excited to get baptized. We have just been wanting to see her and talk
to her in person to see how she is feeling and what's really going on. It's
just such a hard situation because her "husband" is so sick, like
he's literally dying. Anyway, needless to say, it's been a little bit of a hard
week.
We don't
really have any super solid investigators right now. We are in the process of
finding new people to teach. We have been talking to many people, but we
haven't had too many that have actually accepted a return visit. It's
incredible how many people (including members of our ward) want to talk about
everything but the gospel when we come over! At times, I feel like they think
we are counselors and we get to hear way way way too much about everyone's
personal lives. My companion and I are just trying to step forward and have
faith that God is preparing those for us to teach. We are trying new ideas to
find people. This week we went and visited Lawanda. I don't know if I've ever
told you guys about her. She's a recent convert, her and her daughter (who's
12). Hermana Thorne and I use to go visit them a lot. We haven't been able to
for the last little while because she is always so so busy with work. We
finally got to go see them this week though and it was so great! I love their
family so much! She's a single mom with 5 kids. She told us she is going to be
quitting her job and is going to start working on her GED so they'll be able to
come to church now hopefully! She has a 9 year old son named Mikey and we are
hopefully going to be able to start working with him because he hasn't been
baptized yet and wants to be!
So, this
week I've been thinking a lot about goals. Let's just say I've been having some
1/3 of the way done with the mission breakdowns! I've been thinking about all
the things I've learned and how much I've grown and I have just really been focusing
on setting goals for the next year or so because I know if I don't, this time
will just pass me by too quick and I'll come to the end with regrets. One of
the things that I really want to work on is developing Christ-like attributes.
Sister Wuebkes and I have been talking all week about our many goals and
trying to make plans on how we can accomplish them. Often times I feel like the
end goal is so far out of reach that I just don't even start, but as I've
broken it down to transfers (6 weeks) and days, they seem a lot more
attainable. Well, I'm sorry this email was kind of everywhere and not too
exciting. Please, please, please pray for Hermana Wuebkes and I that we can
find those that Heavenly Father has prepared! I love you all so very much!
Have such a wonderful week! XOXOXO
Con Amor,
tu hermanita jorgensen
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