Hello family,
I seriously am so blessed to have
Tarapoto be the place that I started my mission because Mariesol and Rocio are the
best and I love them lots so I wanna tell you a little about them. Luzmila is the coolest she was actually a
menos activo and we just rescued her last change and now she is in the
presidency for relief society. She has 5 kids and her husband is a motokarista
but he is not a part of the church, I think he is evangelico so that’s a huge
problem for them. But she’s hilarious and has a super sarcastic laid back
personality. Mariesol is amazing. She has more faith than anyone, she has four
kids and her oldest is on a mission in Bolivia. Her husband passed away from
cancer about 3 years ago so it’s really sad but she is just so strong in the
gospel and it’s so cool. And all of her kids are named after Joseph Smith,
Hyrum, and Brigham Young haha and then Rocio is just a super cool mom and I
talk the most with her because she is just a sweetheart. She has two little
girls and a son and they’re family is awesome!
So this week I hardly worked in
my area because my comp was with Synders comp whonwas having work done on her
root canals again, and my comp is Hermana leader and has to be there for all
the medical stuff. Anyways we worked in
her area and taught one of her investigators!
Good news though! This week we finally
got a new investigatora! Her name is Arcely! She is 18 years old and she
nannies the kids of one of our members. She is really interested in the gospel
and follows up on every commitment that we give her, so we are really excited
to see where she goes!!
Something suuuper cool this week
though was we had Elder (President) Uceda from the 70 come and talk to us. (He is an area President) One thing that
he talked about was how important it is for the latinas to study the scriptures
in english because the scriptures in spanish are awesome but they are a
translation and there are so many small changes that make a huge difference. He
taught us also how to really read the scriptures. To take a verse and analyze
it line for line to really get the meaning and to look up definitions of words,
just really doing everything you can to fully understand what we’re learning.
This week I’ve been living in
LAKE POWELL. Not even kidding I’ve been roasting aliiiiiive. My comp right now
is in Iquitos so I stayed with the Hermanas in Partido Alto and I’ve loved it. Hermana
Gurney is from New Jersey and she’s super cool. She didn’t know any Spanish
before she came here and now her Spanish is pretty good and she is just a change
ahead of me so I love talking to her about the mission cause we both feel the
exact same, ha.
Oh my! So yesterday I
went to church with Mariesol because we have to count all the people that we
are teaching that come to church, and there was no electricity because the
power was out. So it was soooo hot cause none of the fans could work and the
microphone was off. And so president
goes and stands up and announces who was going to give a talk and he SAID MY
NAME. HERMANA JACKSON VA A DAR UN DISCOURSO POR 5 MINUTOS. hahaha what?? Yeah so I gave like a talk on a scripture
about Christ for like 3 minutes. Apparently
what happened was there wasn’t anyone there who had actually been called to
give the talk and I was the only missionary there this Sunday and I guess one
of the presidency had stopped by our house the night before but I was in the
shower and he told this other missionary Hna Inca to tell me I had a talk but
SHE NEVER SAID ANYTHING! What ??
Well that’s all for this week, remember,
just keep your faith because all things will be made possible through your
faith (:
Love you guys, Thanks for
everything.
Hna Jackson
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