Anyways, hello! I am happy to hear
about how your week went! Especially for Connor! I am so happy that he
is doing well! I am bragging quite a bit about him to other missionaries
and my companions. Number 1 brag is that he is in the band, number 2 is
that he is so STINKING TALL!!!! I ABOUT LOST IT WHEN I SAW GRANDPA
RESTING HIS HEAD ON HIS SHOULDER!!!!! He is one giant boy!!! I am so
glad that he did so well this season.
This
week has been crazy but good! We came home to a dirty apartment so we
spent 2 days cleaning it AND the area book! It's an area that needs a
lot of TLC so we have been working on it. My stress levels reached a new
max but I have an awesome companion! Everyone in the ward is really
happy that there are new sisters in the area. They also think that
Jacklin and Jolley is a cute combination and they say that our President
must have quite the sense of humor when it comes to our names. By the
way, she also knows Bryce. She lives in Alpine and her brother, Caleb,
had Bryce as a teacher. And she knows a few of the girls I played soccer
with! We are going to work hard to find out where we are related! :)
We
mostly had a lesson with our recent convert, S. She is a super
cute girl who has been dating a member of the church and is living with
her boyfriend's parents while she moves into her new home. She is super
fun and her testimony of the gospel is solid. We had a pretty fun
experience with her too when we taught the restoration. (We are teaching
her 8 year old son so that he is prepared to be baptized). But just
before we started the lesson, they asked us if we wanted to try a
healthy drink that they drink 3 times a day. It is called Dragon
Juice..... Yeah.... and it lives up to it's name.... It is a whole water
bottle with a 1/4 cup of Lemon juice and a 1/4 teaspoon of Cyan
Pepper..... It was sooooo hot!!!! Sister Jolley and I tried to pound it
down and I got so hot that my face turned a purply red... I have really
red skin already... yeah they freaked out a little bit. :) Sister
Jolley's face was a bright pink!!! It is supposed to help detox and
suppress appetite. Well, it worked. But we had a dinner that night that
was the equivalent to a Thanksgiving dinner! So I woke up with serious
heart burn and was so nauseated that I couldn't move until 7:30. Luckily
we had Ward Council at 8:30 so I still had time to get ready and make
it on time for the meeting... :) It was quite the weekend! :) The best
part though was getting a text from the member that S is living
with saying that we knocked our lesson out of the ballpark. She told us
then on Sunday that the kids were still talking about the lesson! :) I
sure am grateful for the spirit!
We then did
service for our Relief Society President, who sent you that picture. :)
We had so much fun with it! It was a rainy, cold day and one of the
elders in the picture is from Arizona and came to Minnesota in the
summer. We had to work really hard to get him to smile and just before
she snapped the picture he said, "I hate Minnesota! It's too cold!"
hahaha! It was so funny! Then, as we were clearing out the garden, we
found a mouse! Sister Chidester said that mice were bad for the garden
so we needed to catch it. Well, we chased that darn mouse for 15
minutes! It was super fast! Sister Jolley ended up catching it and it
was VICIOUS!!! It kept trying to bite anything that got near it! Then,
as Elder Smith was rubbing its head, it fell limp.... and sister Jolley
screamed, "IT DIED!!!" and dropped it on the ground. The poor mouse was
so scared and riled up that its little heart gave out!!! So the Elders
gave it a "proper burial" by throwing it over the fence... man. It was
sad. But we had a great time and now the Elders call her the mouse
killer. haha.
Our biggest focus with this area
is going to be gaining back the member's trust. We have found that
their fire has gone out a bit so we are going to work hard to help them
to gain our trust again and hopefully they will start to have a larger
desire to do missionary work again. But we can see that there is a lot
of potential with this area that, with a little work, will help this
place to BOOM!!! :) Especially with the Holidays around the corner.
People seem to be a lot friendlier around the Holidays. :)
Well,
to answer your questions mom, I have the address, but I forgot it. I
have a full package of pills though so I will get it to you next week
and it should be fine. :)
So, Sister Jolley,
like I said up top, is from Alpine Utah. She is so funny! She has a
really fun personality and is ready to work hard. She said she wonders
why President would ever put her as a Sister Training Leader but I knew
full well that she would do good! She is a great teacher too and is
always willing to give her all and do the Lord's will! She is very in
tune with the spirit as well and has a good attitude towards this new
area which is saying something because she came from Anoka ward which is
the most missionary minded ward I have ever seen! So she is super
optimistic! And yes!! She is so excited to exercise! The cool thing is
that we live really close to the church so we are going to do District
Exercise by playing Volleyball!!! And we have weights and a workout book
for the days we don't do that so we can work out together in our
apartment. We can't go running because we live in a kind of shady area.
It's not bad but we don't want to take chances here. But I am so excited
to have such a great companion! :) I have been super lucky that I have
had such good companions my whole mission! :)
Well, I love you all and I hope you have a good week! Keep smiling!
Love,
Sister Jacklin
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| I love the people in Minnesota! |
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| Sister Jolley and Sister Jacklin |
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