The news is in.....I'm getting transferred! I'm going to the Mountain
View ward in the Vancouver Stake this Wednesday. It's bittersweet- I
know it's where the Lord needs me, but I will miss Hazel Dell! My new
companion will be Sister Forsyth.
Anyway, as for everything that happened the rest of the week, it's
been pretty crazy! On Monday night we ate dinner with someone we hope
to teach (hopefully I'll have a picture next week). It's a family, and
everyone has been baptized except for the mom- including the great
grandma! They are full of personality.
We've done quite a bit of tracting this week, since a lot of our
appointments fell through. We met quite a few nice people! We're
running out of places to go though..... I placed a Book of Mormon too!
We were talking to this woman and she was really nice. She seemed
pretty interested and we had a great conversation. She said she had a
lot of LDS friends and before we left I felt like I needed to ask if
she'd ever been offered a Book of Mormon before and she said no! So we
left her with one!
Zone meeting was on Wednesday, and that was a lot of fun. We had some
great trainings. We really focused on the Standard of Excellence and
on working with the members and getting them excited. We talked about
how to invite members to invite people to things, and how to structure
our dinner thoughts to help excite them. Thursday we has a sister
study with the traveling APs and that was also awesome. That focused
more on extending commitments and on making our message personal
(because it is). We talked about how important it is that they feel
that the Gospel is true. We've had a lot of spiritual uplift-ment this
week. Thursday was also when we got our transfer letters. We also went
tracting and accidentally re-tracted into someone that Sister Girot
had placed a Book of Mormon with before, so that was kind of funny! He
was really nice, and he said he had the book on his desk but hadn't
read it yet.
On Friday we had interviews with President Taylor, so that was pretty
cool! They were shorter than I thought, but it makes sense- there's a
lot of missionaries to interview. We also had some fun appointments.
We met with someone for the first time, and we weren't sure if she was
a member or not. The first time we met, she said she'd been raised in
the church. So we talked to her, and she said she went when she was
younger because of her stepdad but wasn't baptized. Then we were
talking at the end of the lesson and we said "eventually we'll invite
you to be baptized" and she said she already had been, a few years
ago! So it was a bit confusing. But she wants the lessons! She is
pretty cool.
Saturday was the real adventure! We had a service project in the
morning- the Carrot Fest. There's a farm in our area that grows food
for the Clark County food banks. So volunteers come and help out. We
picked so many carrots. We actually picked them too fast- they had us
stop and go pick corn instead! We also helped wash and bag the
carrots. We were there all morning, and we got a new investigator! We
started talking to someone and she was really nice, and she was
interested! It was awesome.
Anyway, life is just great out here. I can't believe it's Monday
already- time goes by faster and faster as I get used to the routine.
It is so great to be here. I feel so much closer to the Spirit and it
is so nice to see people progressing and just making small changes.
Missions are great!
Love you all! Stay strong!
Sister Jacobs
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