Week 40: Adventures, Golf, and Cats

Happy belated Mother's Day! It was kind of an awesome day- getting to
Skype home and all! It was good to talk to my family :)

This week has been full of adventures! Most of our set appointments
cancelled, but we had a lot of good opportunities because of that.

Polka Dot Sisters

On Monday we dropped by a less active member and she invited us to have a quick lesson with the kids so we did a Ten Commandments matching game. She's really cool- we're not entirely sure why shedoesn't come to church or anything.

On Tuesday we had dinner with another less active member, Amy Nielson. She's pretty determined not to come back to church but she's really nice and joked about us teaching the lady that's staying with her. She made stuffed chicken breast and asparagus and orzo with zucchini and tomatoes. It was so good. We also met John on Tuesday night! He was
really nice and had a lot of awesome questions- we talked on his porch for a good forty minutes. A lot of what he believes already lines up with the church, and he seemed interested in maybe coming to church sometime! We are going to see their family this week, and we're pretty excited. They seem like an awesome, strong family.

Wood burning Project

Wednesday was wapis- only I ended up making maybe three wapis, because I got recruited to do something else! One of the women who is there a lot came up and asked if any of us had any experience wood burning, so I said yes, I did (even though it's been two years) so she set me up and I helped her with a project she's making for someone! And it came
out super awesome too (pictures below). So that made my day for sure- I love getting to do that kind of stuff!

On Thursday, we had a great doorstep lesson with a potential
investigator- she's really cool and pretty sensitive to the spirit,
but she's also busy so she's hard to meet with. And we got to see Sister Kahm- she gave us frozen strawberries! She wanted a refresher on the three degrees of glory since she's still fairly new to the church. She's been talking to a lot of her friends, and it's pretty awesome. One of them (her name is Erin- oddly enough) wants to meet with us sometime!

On Friday night, we had a fireside with Johnny Miller (the Tiger Woods
of the 1970s) who is good friends with President Taylor. That was
pretty awesome! And it turned into a giant missionary meeting, since
missionaries were allowed to come, but if they were far away they had
to bring someone. So I got to see a lot of old friends! And, here's a
really funny part- Johnny Miller lived at University Villa when he was
at BYU (it's where he met his wife)- and that is the same apartment
complex I lived at when I was at BYU! I knew the complex was old but I
didn't realize it was that old!

Reunion with old friends at Fireside

Saturday was a walking day- no appointments! And it was also really
hot. We walked a long ways- apparently too long, because I didn't feel
so good after dinner- we think it was mild heat exhaustion. So we
stayed in for a bit and then visited some members to help get them
excited about missionary work. It was a good day! Though I think I do
prefer the rain to the heat, especially since it's humid.

Sunday, of course, was Mother's Day! So we got to Skype home. We
walked around quite a bit too, and met a lot of great people. We had a
family a few weeks back- we met the husband and he had assumed we were
there for his wife so we set up a tentative time to come back because
she was at BYU women's conference. Well, they weren't in our ward
directory or area book....so we were confused. So we finally met them
on Sunday night! They're still in Hazel Dell as boundary exceptions,
since it's their daughter's first year at girls' camp and all her
friends are there. But then they think they might come to 3rd Ward.
Anyway, she is super cool and they want to have us over for dinner
sometime! We also rescued a cat yesterday- we were walking around and
this cat was following us. We've seen him before (by his home) and he
was a long way away from there. So we picked him up and carried him
home! He seemed pretty happy about it.

Old hymns from old hymn book

Old hymn

Incredible Nature

My spiritual thought for the week is a quote from Jeffrey R Holland - "In the gospel of Jesus Christ you have help from both sides of the veil and you must never forget that. When disappointment and discouragement strike- and they will- you remember and never forget that if our eyes could be opened we would see horses and chariots of fire as far as the eye can see riding at reckless speed to come to our
protection. They will always be there, these armies of heaven, in defense of Abraham’s seed." (For Times Of Trouble, Oct 1980 New Era)

I love this quote because it's evidence of not only God's love but the love of our spiritual brothers and sisters, and our ancestors, who I'm sure are driving those fiery chariots. Our God is always willing to help us! I have felt His hand a lot this past week, just making things happen, and leading us. He's definitely helping me to better understand both the gospel and myself. I feel like a completely different person than the one that left on a mission nine months ago.
The Lord is always ready to help us become better!

I love you all! Have an amazing week!
Sister Jacobs