Never Forget Him. He Has Never Forgotten You

Hello!!

Merry early Christmas! This week has been a very wet one- we keep
joking that Noah is on his way over. It's also been pretty eventful!

On Monday, we made Christmas cookies with the Willits (members of the
ward- so fun!) and I played pretend with their four year old. So now
we're buddies. Anyway, it was pretty awesome! Tuesday was a normal
day. Then Wednesday was transfer meeting! So I have a little more to
add to my epic story from last week. Sister Slattery and I both
thought transfer meeting started at ten. So we left, thinking we'd get
there at 9:30 and be early. Well, it turns out transfer meeting does
not start at 10, it starts at 9! So it's a good thing we aimed to be
early! My new companion is Sister Heath and she is awesome. We have
had a lot of fun the past few days.



The first day she was here, it was very wet. Luckily, members keep
passing us and then stopping and offering rides! We walked around a
lot and talked to a lot of people. We met someone who could be a
potential investigator- his name is Alfonzo. He answered the door and
we asked if we could share a message, and he said he just had a few
minutes, but sure! So we showed him the Savior Is Born video and
talked about how important Christ is. Long story short (because I
don't recall all the little details) we ended up giving him a Book of
Mormon. He said he's been looking for a church to attend! And for
dinner that night, the Thompsons picked up Olive Garden for us, since
it's out of our boundaries (it's across the street in the other stake
so we can't go...). It was awesome! A good first dinner for Sister
Heath! And Sister Slattery was so mad- she was the one who really
wanted it. Olive Garden has always been just out of her boundaries for
all ten months of her mission. Heavenly Father has a sense of humor!

On Thursday it was actually just sprinkling, and then someone invited
us inside so we missed the worst of the rain! We just knocked on her
door and we got to come in and it was awesome. Her name is Margaret.
She had a few misconceptions about the church- she thought maybe we'd
already baptized her! So we had to explain how baptisms for the dead
work. We also talked about the Restoration because, even though she's
from Idaho, she'd never heard the Joseph Smith story before! It was
really cool. And we missed the rain. Apparently that day (or maybe
Friday) there was a huge storm and a tornado up in Battleground and we
didn't get any of it! It was a great day.

Friday was fun too- weekly planning! We went to visit some people
afterwards and they were just leaving (sad) and their street was
totally flooded! So we took some fun pictures (thanks for the rain
boots, Mom!) and then talked to some more people. I'm still getting
used to this whole training thing. Luckily, I know this area really
well, so that's nice. On Friday night, we dropped by Steve and Leah,
who we've had some trouble getting in to see, and they were there! We
had a good conversation with them (Steve offered us a knife since
we're out walking...) and invited them to the ward Christmas activity!
They didn't make it, but it was short notice.

Saturday was definitely a different day! We had some names to visit
but nobody was home. Then we helped out with the ward Christmas party!
We got there to set up, and they were already almost done. So we
helped finish up (the Fifes were in charge and their little boy James
was telling us about when he's going to be a missionary. I'll attach
the video! He also said we were his missionaries- so cute!) and then
Sister Takis took us to Baja Fresh, which was really nice of her! We
were the greeters for the actual activity- we had sleigh bells and we
told everyone where to go. It was a great activity! The service
auction was awesome, and the photo booth was adorable.

On Sunday we had two missionary homecomings, Jordan Morgan and Emily
Rogers, so Sacrament meeting was really full! They gave awesome talks.
It was hard to tell who was there and who wasn't because there were so
many new faces. It was awesome though! Then we walked around until
dinner, even though it was pouring rain....probably a bad idea. We did
better that night though- we came inside and called some people that
we are hopeful to meet with! A few of them answered and some sound
promising. It was great! We had dinner at the Arbuckles. Sister
Arbuckle is a recent convert- she'll be able to go to the temple
soon!- and her daughter is basically a member but she's not allowed to
get baptized until she's 18. The others are not members. We had a good
dinner with them! They're a really nice family!

Anyway, it's been an awesome week. Getting to train is a lot of fun,
and Sister Heath is awesome!  It's fun to go through all this training
stuff and think about how much I've changed, just remembering who I
was when I was first here and looking at what I've learned now. It's
interesting to see. I can't wait to look back at the end of my
mission! And even further down the road. It's amazing how much more I
feel like a missionary. I used to think the District videos were
really cheesy. But now, I'm watching them, and I understand it. I
really do love these people,that much, and I'm excited to see them
grow and go to the temple someday!

I hope you all have a great week! Remember the real reason for
Christmas- the Savior who came and lived so we could know how to live,
and died so someday we can live again! Never forget Him- He has never
forgotten you! I love you!

Sister Jacobs