It's All A Blur

Hello all!


This week has just flown by. I can't believe transfers are a week and
a half away already- it's gone by so fast. Time just keeps speeding
up!

This week we did a lot of finding- trying to talk to people and
knocking on doors. We met one guy at the end of last night who said we could come back at some point! And we finally got to meet with Steve and Leah again- we haven't seen them in three weeks or so. We had a great lesson with them! Leah's son was excited to participate too- he wanted his own copy of the Book of Mormon and before we left he asked me where does God live? And does he take care of the humans that died?
It was so cute!

And of course Happy Thanksgiving!! We had an awesome time here. We figured knocking doors probably wasn't the best idea so we visited a few less active members. Then we visited some active members because we needed a bathroom, and their daughter in law, who is not a member was there! And she is one of the coolest people I've met. We had a
great discussion with her. Then we went to the Muraskis for lunch- and there was this less active member we've been trying to meet with! He doesn't want to meet with us, but it seems like he can't get away from us. We're not pushing it though. Then we went to the Sinsays for dinner, and the Nicholsons for dessert (their son just got back from a
mission in Colorado Springs!). So we rolled home, basically. It was a pretty exciting day.





We had an interesting experience on Saturday night- we had a missed call from a mystery number, so we called back and left a voicemail. A few minutes later, we got a call back, and we answered. The guy introduced himself as Ivan and said his family had given him a quad, and he had a few questions for us. After that, it got interesting. He had some deep deep doctrine questions. Need I remind you, we are 19
year old girls, not scriptorians. So we didn't have all the answers.  But we tried to set up an appointment for a later time, but he wouldn't give us his address because "we couldn't answer a few simple questions over the phone." And he wouldn't really let us try to answer them- he kept interrupting, with more questions, just picking at
phrasing. Well, I could try to logically prove that the Church was true all day and get nowhere. The Spirit was definitely not present there. So we just invited him to pray and ask God and we ended the call. It was a really interesting experience- I've never really been in that kind of a situation before. It was interesting to see how the Spirit left. With someone who is genuine, it's easy to feel the Spirit and to teach and testify. With someone who's all brain and no heart, it's impossible. In D&C 42:14 it says "if ye receive not the Spirit, ye shall not teach." The Spirit is essential to all we do.

A lot of good has happened this week, and yet it still feels like
we've both been through the wringer. There's been a lot of opposition
coming our way- it must mean something amazing is about to happen!
Hopefully that something isn't one of us getting transferred (knock on
wood) but whatever it is, the Lord knows what He is doing!

Stay safe and stay warm! Love you all!
Sister Jacobs