Happy late Birthday Grandma Lynn! I thought of you all day on the 16th! It is our mission president´s birthday and also Elder Pugh´s birthday, so there was lots of celebrating all the same! I was secretly celebrating for you though!
So when I was on an intercambio, Hermana Moss showed me a CD she has about the pioneers. There´s a track on it that lists off the names of a bunch of the pioneers and one of them was Mary Jane Mount. I know how much you love to look at your family history, so you can have fun with that. Maybe we have pioneer ancestors!
So this week was pretty good. Not a whole lot happened, but we are steadily moving forward in the work. We had an intercambio on Friday and Hermana Moss came to my sector and I had to lead. We got lost a lot, but it was still fun! Funny story. We had contacted this guy, Juan Pablo, and he told us to come by to share with him and his family. We went by a couple times, but they were always really busy and told us to come back later. We went by on Friday with Hermana Moss, and he basically told us that he talked with his parents and they want to stick to being Catholic. Just at this very moment as we were talking to him in his doorway, two Jehova´s Witnesses come by. One of them says to him "Juampy!! (that´s a nickname for Juan Pablo) It´s been a while! When can we come by?" to which Juan Pablo replied "Anytime man!" The Jehova´s witnesses then walked away, Juan Pablo turned back to us and said... "As I was saying... we´re Catholic and we can´t really share with anyone else..." Hermana Moss and I laughed the entire afternoon about that.
Oscar´s report date to the MTC was delayed 6 weeks. His family was really bummed out, but I got to share with them about how I was about to go to Russia to teach English, which is a great goal, but I ended up not going and it turned out that I met Bekah the very weekend that I would´ve left. We talked about how the Lord works in ways that we sometimes don´t understand until we can see it in retrospect. It was really cool to get to recall the miracles that I´ve had the privilege of witnessing! It made me think about how we are all so privliged to be a part of this work. Missionaries always talk about how awesome the mission is because they get to see people´s lives change, but that´s not exclusive to missionaries! I was so blessed to have the opportunity to help people know the Gospel before my mission, and I know I´ll have the opportunity to continue doing so after. I´m not so convinced about this whole "Best two years" thing. We can always be doing missionary work and enjoying the miracles that we see in the lives of others!
Anyway, that´s it.
I love you all!
-Jamie
So when I was on an intercambio, Hermana Moss showed me a CD she has about the pioneers. There´s a track on it that lists off the names of a bunch of the pioneers and one of them was Mary Jane Mount. I know how much you love to look at your family history, so you can have fun with that. Maybe we have pioneer ancestors!
So this week was pretty good. Not a whole lot happened, but we are steadily moving forward in the work. We had an intercambio on Friday and Hermana Moss came to my sector and I had to lead. We got lost a lot, but it was still fun! Funny story. We had contacted this guy, Juan Pablo, and he told us to come by to share with him and his family. We went by a couple times, but they were always really busy and told us to come back later. We went by on Friday with Hermana Moss, and he basically told us that he talked with his parents and they want to stick to being Catholic. Just at this very moment as we were talking to him in his doorway, two Jehova´s Witnesses come by. One of them says to him "Juampy!! (that´s a nickname for Juan Pablo) It´s been a while! When can we come by?" to which Juan Pablo replied "Anytime man!" The Jehova´s witnesses then walked away, Juan Pablo turned back to us and said... "As I was saying... we´re Catholic and we can´t really share with anyone else..." Hermana Moss and I laughed the entire afternoon about that.
Oscar´s report date to the MTC was delayed 6 weeks. His family was really bummed out, but I got to share with them about how I was about to go to Russia to teach English, which is a great goal, but I ended up not going and it turned out that I met Bekah the very weekend that I would´ve left. We talked about how the Lord works in ways that we sometimes don´t understand until we can see it in retrospect. It was really cool to get to recall the miracles that I´ve had the privilege of witnessing! It made me think about how we are all so privliged to be a part of this work. Missionaries always talk about how awesome the mission is because they get to see people´s lives change, but that´s not exclusive to missionaries! I was so blessed to have the opportunity to help people know the Gospel before my mission, and I know I´ll have the opportunity to continue doing so after. I´m not so convinced about this whole "Best two years" thing. We can always be doing missionary work and enjoying the miracles that we see in the lives of others!
Anyway, that´s it.
I love you all!
-Jamie
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