Week #62: Expect the Unexpected

Aloha!

Biking!

Transfer Day

This week has been a good one. We got a call last Tuesday, the day
before transfers, and one of the assistants to the president informed me that I would not be going to St Helens but actually to the Fairway Village ward in the Vancouver East stake. So I am no longer in Oregon! But the Mountain View ward is right across the street, and a few
people I knew there have actually moved into this ward, so I was able to find some familiar faces. So far, this ward has been absolutely
amazing.

Hello from the store!!

The members here are incredible and super willing to help
out. My companion, Sister Sitala, has been out three months so she
just finished getting trained.  Oh, and we are biking! This is my
first time biking on my mission- I feel like a full fledged missionary
now. So we have a balance between walking, getting rides, and biking.







We have some awesome people that we are working with- Katrina, who is
engaged to a less active member, will be married in November and then
baptized a few days later! She is really neat. She has two amazing
kids also. And then we are meeting with the Boyd family- their mom is
a member but the kids hadn't ever really been to church. But they came
yesterday! We dropped by about an hour and a half before church and
their mom dropped them off, then we found them a ride home. Everyone
in the ward loved them! They are good kids.

Fun with new companion and kiddos!

We live with Sister Schott- she is awesome. She has two dogs, Jasper
and Desi, and also a piano :)

New BFF!

We had an awesome ward activity on Saturday morning- they did the
"ward Olympics" so there were all kinds of fun games. We even
participated a little bit. It was pretty awesome!

Little ghost making treats!

Other than that...I still am working on getting everyone's names down.
But they are amazing!

This week I've been thinking a lot about humility. We had a great discussion with Sister Schott this morning about taking responsibility or credit for our good choices, and about relying on the Lord. This is
something I've struggled to understand my whole life. As I've studied on my mission, I've come to believe that there is a balance but that it also is completely different than what the world would think.

Humility, I've found, is not ragging on ourselves. It  isn't refusing to be proud of anything we've done. It isn't passively just following wherever the Lord leads.





 Humility to me means understanding His plan, understanding His mercy and how He has made every good thing in my life possible, and then taking what He has given me and actively participating in my life.

Teaching the gospel

Remembering loved ones.

It means making decisions and seeking His guidance. It means understanding that His will is best, and choosing
to follow it because I know He loves me. It is active, deliberate, and disciplined. Humility to me is understanding that it's okay to be proud of good things I have done, as long as they do not make me prideful. I am proud that I came on a mission, that I chose to follow where God was leading me, because I have learned so much. I still have so far to go, but I have also come a long way and that is good! So humility to me is understanding He knows best and seeking His
direction, but also acting confidently and moving forward boldly because I know He is with me, and on those days when I'm doing my best, I can be confident that I am doing His will. Humility means not being hesitant or afraid because He has told me where I need to go. So it's really one of the most beautiful principles of the gospel.



Love you all! Have an amazing week!

Sister Jacobs