We met with a lot of new less-active members this week! They are all
such amazing people. I think I've talked about the Cruzes before- we
are officially teaching them now! And Gabe as well- you might remember
him from way back like three months ago, he was the kid with the
unicorn mask. We met with him and asked if we could come back and he
said that would be nice! He's a really good kid, just needs a little
push. It helps that they live right across the street from the church!
We did a lot of knocking and visiting less active members as well. We
set a record number of people talked to in one day for the two of us!
That was awesome. We followed up with a lot of people too. We've made
a lot of awesome goals to work with the members of our ward better and
to be better missionaries, and it's been showing some results already.
We're really excited to see what happens as we continue! And Brother
Winks, our ward mission leader has been working on a cool idea-
helping the ward create family mission plans! It's an awesome idea.
I'm looking forward to working together with the families to help them
make goals to reach out to others! That is the best way to do this
work!
Most of the rest of the week got overshadowed by Saturday. That was a
weird day....it started off pretty normal! Well, not really. That was
when we found out that President Taylor had a mild heart attack. The
zone leaders asked on Friday if I could play the piano for a musical
number on Thursday so we took some time in the morning to practice and
helped clean the church. We had an awesome correlation and afterwards
we decided to go by a less active lady's home. Well she answered the
door and she was pretty emotional but kind of odd. She started telling
us about her life problems (some pretty serious ones resulting in
baseball bat holes in the wall...) and showing us all these
documents...well, turns out she was pretty wasted. So we told her God
loved her and we left, basically. It was a very weird experience. Then
that evening we were driving to our dinner appointment and we got in a
fender bender! It was nothing serious and no one was injured at all-
just cosmetic damage to the cars, really. But I was freaking out
because I had no idea what was going on. See, we'd driven up to the
light and gotten into the left turn lane when the guy next to us
decided to turn left, side swiped us, moved back, and hit the bumper
of a third car. The third car was furious. The guy in the truck didn't
even realize he'd hit us! So it was a mess. But everything worked out
(we prayed really hard) and all the paperwork is done and it wasn't my
fault, so everything is okay! But it was a crazy evening. Needless to
say, we didn't make it to dinner.
Sunday, we took it pretty slow and we got everything organized for
today, and right now we're at the mission office. We did the paperwork
we needed to do and now we're temporary office secretaries while the
staff are in a meeting! President Taylor is having surgery but he's
confident and calm. He assured us everything would be okay in his
weekly email and actually said "it will take more than a heart attack
to stop the WVM!!!" He is a very strong man and a great leader!
My scripture of the week is Phillipians 4:7: "And the peace of God
which passes all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds
through Christ Jesus." I have felt that peace this week! Especially
after our fender bender. I was really worried that things were going
to be crazy but I felt the Spirit assuring me that it would be okay,
and that He would help. Jesus Christ knows that things are crazy and
that I didn't know what to do! And He took care of that. He filled in
those gaps. And with my grandpa's passing and President Taylor's
health troubles, I have felt that peace again and again. He is always
there looking out for us, and there is a peace that passes all
understanding that we can have if we ask for it!
I love you all! Stay strong!
Sister Jacobs
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