Jenn on a Mission

 Hi Family!   This past week was good, and work moved as usual. Petersburg is a very festive and close knit place I am learning. We were able to attend October Fest on Saturday, at first we wanted to go tracking but when we figured out no one was home because of all being at October Fest we ended up there as well. It is a really cool thing the town puts together with booths were people sale homemade things. It was fun to see what people put together, we also helped hang quilts people had made and it inspired me just a little to maybe make a quilt:)     Wednesday we had a lesson with Christina and had sister Hayes with us. It was a great lesson, we felt that she needed to hear about the word of wisdom so that is what we focused on. She was willing to live the word of wisdom and even got rid of all her black and green tea. It was awesome and she is still praying about a day to be baptized and everything. Friday we taught Joe and had a great lesson, ...

 "If he brings you to it, he will take you through it!" Hi family and friends!   I can never get enough of this! I love being a missionary and being able to share the gospel. Last Monday we had the opportunity to meet with Becky again who is the young girl that had an experience with her friend in Canada. It is awesome to see how eager she is to learn. She did not grow up with hardly any religion in her home so this is all new for her. We talked about the atonement and the role it plays in our lives, she did not even know who Christ was. I cannot imagine going 20 or more years in my life and not know who my savior is. She said she feels like she is just meeting him that day, we review each time as it is all new and takes time to soak in.   On Tuesday we finally were able to make time to go and visit Barbara again. She was being taught by elders before and they left after a couple lessons as they transferred them out and then closed the area. She was not happy about that...

Could life get any better? Hi Family!   This past week was such a great week, I love being able to share and teach the gospel. We had allot of opportunities to teach this week and to find new investigators which I love. We went and saw a girl named Stephanie on Monday night who has some very hard views in regard to Christ and the bible. It is interesting as she says she will not conform to any religion but she does love learning about them. She has visited with allot of missionary's in the past and enjoys talking to them about the LDS religion. As we taught her the first lesson, it became more and more evident that she did not have a knowledge or I should say belief of who Jesus Christ was. She views him as someone just like us and does not think of his life as anything significant. As the lesson went on I was wrestling to know whether or not we should spend more time with Stephanie or if her heart was just to hard. As I was praying during the lesson I felt strongly about gi...

"Squeeze the Ballon" Hi Friends and Family!!   This past week has been so amazing, I think I say that about every week but that is how I feel about my mission!  This week we spent allot of time finding people. Being in a new area and not knowing many people we needed to figure out who people were. Are ward is so supportive and has given us many referrals over the past couple of weeks and it has really helped us out. On Monday we went and met with Becky Luszac who is such a great person. Her journey for wanting to know more about our church started in Canada, she was visiting a friend there who had the missionary's over for dinner that night. Well they happened to be sisters and after dinner they gave this spiritual thought that really touched her and brought her to tears. She wanted to know what that feeling was she was experiencing and about the scripture. After staying in touch with her friend and the missionary for a time she got in touch with someone here in pe...