"If we give our heart to God, if we love the Lord Jesus Christ, if we
do the best we can to live the gospel, then tomorrow--and every other
day--is ultimately going to be magnificent, even if we don’t always
recognize it as such. Why? Because our Heavenly Father wants it to be!
He wants to bless us. A rewarding, abundant, and eternal life is the
very object of His merciful plan for His children! It is a plan
predicated on the truth “that all things work together for good to
them that love God.” So keep loving. Keep trying. Keep trusting. Keep
believing. Keep growing. Heaven is cheering you on today, tomorrow,
and forever." (Jeffrey R. Holland)
This is one of my favorite quotes from Conference:) And I feel like I
have seen it in my life this week! We were able to see so many
miracles and I'm so grateful for it, I know that if we keep trying to
do what Heavenly Father wants from us, He will see our effort and He
will bless us more than we know!
On Monday we were having a pretty good day, until one of our
appointments cancelled. We had a backup plan that we were going to go
do, but we realized that we didn't have the address with us so we
couldn't go do that. It would've been easy to go home and just call a
bunch of people to see if they were interested in learning more. And
that is what we decided to do, but we only got about 5 steps before we
both realized that isn't what we should be doing. So we decided to go
do a few lookups. And that led us to one of the coolest lessons I've
had on my mission! We knocked on this woman's door and she answered
and let us right in. She said it was a miracle, that she is never home
at that time, and even if she is she usually doesn't go check who is
at the door! So we started talking about how she had met with
missionaries before and how they had challenged her to pray about
Joseph Smith. And she told us that she knew that he was a prophet,
that she had prayed about it and had heard a voice tell her that
Joseph Smith was a prophet. I felt the Spirit so strongly, I know that
God speaks to all of us in the way that we need to hear. A testimony
of the prophet Joseph Smith is such an important step in our
conversion and it was amazing to see how someone we had never met had
already taken that first step! Because of that experience she wants to
meet with us again and come visit the church!
I was so scared to go into one of the lessons we taught this week to
one of our investigators. We were teaching something that I thought
might create problems. So we go into the lesson and I am still really
nervous, but then we start teaching... And she is accepting everything
we say! And a couple of the things she said in the lesson gave me the
greatest sense of joy! She said that she couldn't wait to go to the
temple someday, and that she really hoped her son would be able to
receive the priesthood someday. It made me so happy to see her look
past baptism, baptism is not the end of our journey- it is a wonderful
beginning! And she was really able to recognize that! I am so grateful
that this Gospel is a lifetime pursuit, that we get to live everyday
trying to become more like our Heavenly Father:)
There are so many more miracles where that came from, but I feel like
they all take so long to explain haha! I just really love the
opportunity I have to be a missionary and to see all of these
miracles! God is in this work! I see it and feel it everyday:)
Love you all! Make tomorrow magnificent:)
Love, Sister Jones
do the best we can to live the gospel, then tomorrow--and every other
day--is ultimately going to be magnificent, even if we don’t always
recognize it as such. Why? Because our Heavenly Father wants it to be!
He wants to bless us. A rewarding, abundant, and eternal life is the
very object of His merciful plan for His children! It is a plan
predicated on the truth “that all things work together for good to
them that love God.” So keep loving. Keep trying. Keep trusting. Keep
believing. Keep growing. Heaven is cheering you on today, tomorrow,
and forever." (Jeffrey R. Holland)
This is one of my favorite quotes from Conference:) And I feel like I
have seen it in my life this week! We were able to see so many
miracles and I'm so grateful for it, I know that if we keep trying to
do what Heavenly Father wants from us, He will see our effort and He
will bless us more than we know!
On Monday we were having a pretty good day, until one of our
appointments cancelled. We had a backup plan that we were going to go
do, but we realized that we didn't have the address with us so we
couldn't go do that. It would've been easy to go home and just call a
bunch of people to see if they were interested in learning more. And
that is what we decided to do, but we only got about 5 steps before we
both realized that isn't what we should be doing. So we decided to go
do a few lookups. And that led us to one of the coolest lessons I've
had on my mission! We knocked on this woman's door and she answered
and let us right in. She said it was a miracle, that she is never home
at that time, and even if she is she usually doesn't go check who is
at the door! So we started talking about how she had met with
missionaries before and how they had challenged her to pray about
Joseph Smith. And she told us that she knew that he was a prophet,
that she had prayed about it and had heard a voice tell her that
Joseph Smith was a prophet. I felt the Spirit so strongly, I know that
God speaks to all of us in the way that we need to hear. A testimony
of the prophet Joseph Smith is such an important step in our
conversion and it was amazing to see how someone we had never met had
already taken that first step! Because of that experience she wants to
meet with us again and come visit the church!
I was so scared to go into one of the lessons we taught this week to
one of our investigators. We were teaching something that I thought
might create problems. So we go into the lesson and I am still really
nervous, but then we start teaching... And she is accepting everything
we say! And a couple of the things she said in the lesson gave me the
greatest sense of joy! She said that she couldn't wait to go to the
temple someday, and that she really hoped her son would be able to
receive the priesthood someday. It made me so happy to see her look
past baptism, baptism is not the end of our journey- it is a wonderful
beginning! And she was really able to recognize that! I am so grateful
that this Gospel is a lifetime pursuit, that we get to live everyday
trying to become more like our Heavenly Father:)
There are so many more miracles where that came from, but I feel like
they all take so long to explain haha! I just really love the
opportunity I have to be a missionary and to see all of these
miracles! God is in this work! I see it and feel it everyday:)
Love you all! Make tomorrow magnificent:)
Love, Sister Jones
"Bronx Zoo!! I found Zoboomafoo!" :)
"I love finding these all over the city!"
I went on a split with Sister Spencer :)
And we got ice cream...
It isn't a split without ice cream! :)
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