Happy Fourth of July!! Can you believe it's been a year this week since I entered the MTC?? I most surely can't!! What a blessed year! It has been absolutely incredible...........more than I could have even imagined! From the hardest times, to the moments of exceedingly great joy- I can say I have loved it all.....sometimes I still don't understand why everything happened, but I know it was all for a reason :) As I've been pondering of my mission this week, I have come to realize that this isn't IT- like the best part, but in actuality it's just going to get better from here- life after the mission, future fam, job, callings......the best is yet to come! So my dearest little bros Z& J.....get excited.......the best is yet to come!
Ok this email is going to be a little different this week because I just need to sing and express my feelings!! This week I began chuaning the jiao with my new companion and fellow Sister Zone Leader Sister Belnap.........o my heavens, I can't even begin to express in words how incredible she is!! I have not felt so much power in teaching, contacting, or serving for a long time! You know how sometimes you don't know what you're missing until it suddenly appears in front of you? That is Sister Belnap in a nut-shell.........from her I am learning all of the little pieces of the Sister Jarvis missionary puzzle that I still needed! I most indefinitely feel that I have been living and serving under my potential for the last couple of months.......I didn't realize it before, but now I do!! It took a teary-eyed dinner at SUBWAY with both of us expressing our feelings to the other of our first four days together. We realize how we have no feather of a doubt that Heavenly Father has placed us together because I needed her and she needed me.........words can seriously not express the feelings I have felt this week!! My mission here on out will be changed forever! She is one of the most powerful missionaries I have ever been with and I am truly learning how to be a very sharpened tool in the Lord's hands and live up to my full potential as a missionary and a daughter of God!!
So next up!! Miracles!!! Little YJM is getting baptized this Saturday and it is an absolute miracle!!! She wants to be baptized so bad and she was able to participate in the youth activity this weekend which was so great- the ward has already taken her under their wing! I am still astounded by her faith and desire to learn.......we had to teach like 5 commandments in one lesson on Saturday and I felt so bad because I felt I was just throwing them at her......but every time she said she was absolutely willing to follow them! It was cool because she actually has to deal with a lot of bad things at her school, so the Law of Chastity actually meant a lot to her.......I sometimes forget how crazy it is out there and how important these commandments are for every age. She is so special, we met her a month ago, and now she is going to make an eternal covenant with God :)
Also!!! We have duan chuan (short term missionary) this week!!! She is a 17 year old girl from a near-by city and she is going to chuan the jiao (be a missionary) with us this week!! She is ADORABLE! Only been a member for just over a year and she will teach and preach with us all week! It's like having a baby- but a super grown-up one ;) ALSO- we are going to teach line dancing at our pioneer activity and we want to starta Zumba class for the sisters! I am so excited!!
Faith, Faith, Faith! You should read PMG. Ch. 6 on Faith- Faith is incredible. I've found that I have really been lacking it recently, but with my super awesome companion who truly has the gift of faith, I have seen this area change and it's amazing! The |Savior didn't have once ounce of doubt in his soul, so neither should we :) (something I'm still learning!) Let's all go get some faith this week!
Love ya!!!
Sister J.
The Threesome
Their three cozy beds
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