People:
Fantejah & Shahdeja- Holy goodness these two make missionary work worth it! They are teenage sisters and they were found tracting (so yes, tracting is worth it;))! And they are so prepared, they have been coming to church, they went to General Conference, they have gone to mutual, AND they just accepted to be baptized on December 13! And the best part is that none of it is us, it is all them! They have been so prepared by God for this:) And the Ward is just awesome at fellowshipping them!
Christina- This was FUNNY! So with daylight savings it gets super dark super early. So we were still out and about when it was dark out, and we were doing one last lookup before we had to go home. So we get to the house of this referral, and we park and pray and we are about to get out of the car when we hear someone outside. So we get out to go talk to her and it is the referral, and she was so relieved! She told us that she was on the phone with her brother and she saw us and got a little scared so her brother told her to call 911 to report a suspicious vehicle! But she saw that we were church people and she was so relieved that she gave us her phone number and told us that we could call her and come back anytime! And she hugged us and told us she loved us and it was so funny! So, that is the story about how we almost got the cops called on us!
Ofori Family- They are a less active family, the two little boys just moved here from Ghana and they have been too shy to come to church. So we had their primary class write them welcome notes and we filmed the primary singing the hello song and we went over and showed them all this... And now they are planning on coming to church on Sunday! I'm so excited!!:)
Lane Family- This one is the big miracle for the week! They are investigators, and we went over for dinner and Brother Lane had been reading Ether but he didn't make it to chapter 12, so we decided to read it with him. And he felt the Spirit SO STRONG as we read it with him. Like holy cow, miracles are real:) They asked where the church was so that they can come to church on Sunday (a miracle in and of itself:)), and Sister Lane said that she is already all in, she is just waiting for Brother Lane to accept it! I've realized that this 18 months is NOT a sacrifice, it's a gift- I'm a big advocate for people wanting to serve a mission, I've said it before but we aren't kidding when we say it's the best time of your life:)
Sister Thompson!- She is awesome:) She is from Sandy! She drove past my house everyday to get to school and stuff, SMALL WORLD! But she is about to move to the land of eternal P-Days so I'll be saying bye to her in January:(
Sister Kovac- I miss her! South Manhattan is lucky to have her! I'm so grateful for how she taught me to be a missionary, she set the bar high for me and now I just need to keep trying to be better!:)
Places:
Danbury- We had a zone meeting on Monday in Danbury so we decided to go out to eat afterwards for our lunch break. And we went to 5 guys! And it was the first time I ever went to one... But it was fun because we ran into a couple of other Sisters in our zone so we got to eat with them:) And they were about to leave so we got up to hug them, and Hermana Fink is super tall... So I legit stood up on a chair to hug her haha:)
Walmart- This was the coolest experience! So we needed to stop at a store for something and we knew there was a less active who worked at a Walmart in Yorktown Heights, so we decided to go to that store to see if we could find him, but the GPS didn't show that there was a Walmart in Yorktown Heights... So we just decided to go to another Walmart. (And that is the weird part since there wasn't a reason for us to go to a Walmart anymore, and we could've chosen any of the other hundred stores between us and Walmart!) And so we went and got what we
needed and we checked out and right as we were walking out the door I saw a guy wearing a name tag with the same name as the less active we were trying to find. So for some reason I thought it might be him (we didn't know because we had never seen him before), and it was! So we found out that he still wants to be a part of the church, the only reason he isn't active is because he works on Sunday! And it's one of those miracles that doesn't sound as good in writing, but what are the chances that we end up going to Walmart unnecessarily when we didn't even know it was the one he worked in, and then to run into him right as we are walking out the door? I call it a miracle:)
Newtown- We got to go to Newtown, Connecticut for Stake Conference last Saturday! And it was so amazing, I needed to learn to appreciate Stake Conference more! And this one was a good opportunity to learn it, the Stake President (President Checketts) asked all of the speakers not to prepare a talk but to go up and speak by the Spirit- so I was expecting some interesting talks... But they were amazing! The Spirit can prepare talks so much better than we can- and I loved that experience because you know that there were so many people in that room who needed to hear those things, because it was straight from the Spirit!:)
Ossining- Well, everywhere really. It's just so PRETTY! I've been obsessively taking pictures and videos of how gorgeous it is out here in New England (It just sounds so much more posh than New York;)).
Things:
Dropped:(- One of our awesome investigators dropped us to become Jewish... So that stinks, but things like this just make the good things so much better!:)
Halloween- Candy, candy everywhere. People like to give left overs to missionaries. And that includes candy. But Halloween was an interesting experience, when we went to people's houses they assumed we were trick-or-treaters... It was awkward:) But we had to be in by 6:30 anyway, so it wasn't too bad! And we had breakfast for dinner, so holidays on a mission can still be a party;)
Brownie Points- So after Elder Arnold came out District set goals for how we can apply what we learned. And we called them brownie points, because if we reached them we were going to get brownies at correlation (I was wondering when I was going to be able to cash in all those that I've gotten over the years!) And one of those goals was to testify to 7 people everyday. And one night Sister Kovac and I didn't know if we were going to make it. It was 8 at night and we still had to testify to 5 people... So we park, go do a lookup and get one! And then we kind of run around like mad people going to another lookup nearby and testifying to someone through a closed door, going to a restaurant and striking up a conversation with a couple people in there that we could testify to, and then going to a gas station to fill up and then going inside to get hot chocolate and testifying to an employee in there. It was the craziest, most fun hour in my mission! And we did it! We testified to 5 people in the last hour of our day! Go us:) Actually, go the Spirit!
Anyway... Sorry this was such a long email, I just got too lazy and I needed to catch up a little bit! Thanks again everyone for being so awesome and supportive! I'm so blessed to have so many people who make it easy to miss home;) Have a good week!
Love, Sister Jones
Sister Iglesia made these,
I wish I could've kept it! haha :)
This is on the border of
Connecticut and New York :)
I've been trying to get a good
picture of it for months! :)
"Don't worry Mom :)
it's a wash out kind ;) "
(It looks like she colored her hair)
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