I hope you all had an amazing week! Ours was pretty fun-
Julie prayed on her own! After our lessons previously we have had to
bug her a little bit to say the closing prayer but this time, she
remembered she had promised to say it (and said so at the beginning of
our lesson) and said it at the end without any complaints! She is
slowly progressing and feeling the Spirit. She ALMOST came with us to
another ward's baptism on Saturday, but overslept and so she didn't
make it.
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| Erin decorated this cast!! Always teaching the gospel! |
We saw Angie finally- she seems really stuck in a rut, spiritually and
otherwise. We, along with her member friend from another ward, have been trying to get her to do something besides sit in her house all
day and not feel good. We've encouraged her to read and pray and
invited her to be baptized and pray about a date. She's just got to
act!
It was really cold this week- either close to or below freezing- so
one night after dinner one of our ward members decided to take us to
meet her neighbors to keep us from walking around in the cold- which
was awesome! We invited them all to the upcoming Relief Society
activity.
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| Erin saw the heavens in the ice! |
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| Ice!! |
Speaking of the cold, it was oddly clear all week (especially for
Washington) and then Saturday the clouds rolled in and it snowed.
Then, Sunday we got some freezing rain. Church was cancelled by
Saturday evening and we ended up indoors all day- it was so icy that
even if we could get down our driveway we felt like we wouldn't be
able to get back up! It's still icy this morning, but starting to melt
luckily. It was a crazy ride!
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| Completely Frozen! |
Other fun stories- we had dinner with the Rapiers in our ward. They
are the parents of Bailey's in-laws. (Bailey is someone I taught who
got baptized a little over a year ago). And she showed us pictures of
Bailey going through the temple!!! That was a cool moment.
This week I've been thinking a lot about plans and perspective. I know
when I don't have a plan I get really stressed- even if the plan
changes, just having a plan helps. And perspective- having eternal
perspective helps us plan for the greatest goal of our lives- to make
it back to live with our Heavenly Father and to receive all the
blessings He has promised us. He has laid out the plan for us to do
that, and showed us a path to follow. That is the gospel of Jesus
Christ- faith, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy
Ghost, and enduring to the end. And he revealed the plan of salvation
and showed us what we can strive for. Heavenly Father makes it as easy
as He can for us to return to Him, and He will not take away our
agency either. So all we have to do is follow Him! And maintain that
perspective. And we will be okay.
I love you all! Have a great week!
Sister Jacobs
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