Hmmm, I cant believe that as of today I have been on my mission for 4 months!! Crazy huh?! It has gone by pretty quickly. We are already half way through this transfer. And by the end of next transfer I will have been out 6 months. Ahhh. Weird. haha.
Anywayysss, so this past week has been pretty chill. We have gotten about 4-5 inches of snow so far and it is continuing to snow as I type this email! My wishes of having a white Christmas are looking pretty good!! haha I can think of about two experiences that I've had this past week that were pretty cool.
First one: We were on exchanges and I was in charge of Cwmbran for the day again. Can any of you remember our investigator who's husband stopped her from being baptised and allowing us to continue our visits? Well, I got the feeling to randomly stop by her home and say hello. At first, I wasnt sure about it because I didnt want her husband to get mad. We went anyways to find that her and the kids were home and her husband was at work! We were able to talk with her on the door-step for a while. She is doing well. She is still continuing in her daily prayers and reading from the Book of Mormon, which is awesome!! The whole family, husband included, had planned on coming to the Ward Christmas party, but it got cancelled due to the snow. So that was a major bummer. But she is doing well, which made me happy to know!
Second experience: We went and visited a less-active and his partner an investigator one night. We have finally succeded in helping them follow the word of wisdon comletely! They are not smoking anymore or even drinking coffee or tea! So thats really good. And the best part is that they have already seen the blessings of following that particular commandment! But they said that some weird things have been happeneing in their home and that they wanted us to dedicate their home. This is something that I have never been apart of so it was naturally a brilliant experience. While Elder Cadwallader was offering the prayer, I could feel the spirit so strongly. I could feel its power and the power of the priesthood. Elder Cadwallader even mentioned that he could feel like people around him sitting really close to him in prayer with us. This was kinda weird because there wasnt anyone near him. So that was awesome!
This next week is going to be pretty chill/easy. Our only full days to work will be tomorrow and wednesday. On thursday, we will be traveling to Birmingham. On friday, we will be at the mission office/home pretty much all day for a mission Christmas party!!! Them of course saturday is Christmas! Then on sunday we have boxing day here so we get that day off as well! We have already made arrangements to spend Christmas and Boxing day with members so that will be reallyyyy fun!
Small spiritual though: A scripture that I found this week in my studies was 1 Peter 3:15. It pretty much states that we should always be ready to share the gospel with anyone who inquires of us why we are so happy or why we have so much hope to the future. We should all try our best to be an "example of the believers" in everything thaat we do. I know this church is true and that Jesus is the Christ. He is my Saviour and I am grateful for this time of year that we have to celebrate his birth. I challenge all of you, as I will do the same, to take some time this week to study Luke 2, the time of Christ's birth. In that you will find peace and true joy.
I love you all and wish you a MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!
Monday, December 20, 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
Brilliant Week!
Bora da!!!
This past week has been slow, rough and tough but oh so worth it! Actually the past couple of weeks have been like that, rubbish. Anywayysss, the past week the whole mission fasted for 24 hours for the elect of God. We fasted so that the elect will be put in our paths on the condition that we are working hard and have faith. The beginning of the week was slow because my companion was sick (not my fault! haha well maybe). The end of the week was brilliant! Saturday was the best. While we were leaving the flat after taking a lunch break, Elder Cadwallader made a phone call. As he was doing that, I yelled across the street to this lady wishing her a Merry Christmas. To my surprise she stopped and asked my what I said. I repeated it and mentioned that I was a missionary for my church. She then said I know and that she wanted to talk to me. I crossed the street and started talking to her. Apparently she had just started attending chruch again and wanted to find her faith in Jesus Christ again. I talked to her a little bit about faith as my companion crossed the street to join the conversation. He told her briefly about the message of the restoration, mainly on the topic of modern-day prophets. We told her that we have one today and his name is Thomas S. Monson. She then told us that she has been wanting someone to tell her that for a while now. I dont know about you guys but she sounds like one of the elect of God that we had just prayed for!!! So cool huh?! That just testified to me that as long as we are doing our part of the promise that the Lord will give us what we have asked for. The rest of our saturday was up to par of that experience...we gave out a few copies of the Book of Mormon and got some new investigators.
Another experience that we had this week happened yesterday after church. We stopped-by this former investigator that was found by the missionaries before us. We got a warm greeting when we knocked on the door. Only bad part about it is that the woman's mother who her family is living with right now doesnt like mormons so we had to talk on the doorstep. Anyways, the former investigator said that her family is moving soon, possibly before Christmas, and when they do move, she wants us to visit her again and start teaching her again! She is very open-minded and likes learning about the gospel. So she seems like she will be promising. Also, she has like 7 children so thats a big plus! haha
Thats pretty much all that has happened this past week. Time for a wee spiritual thought :) So onnce again my thought comes from my personal study this morning. The past week I have been studying the talks from the General Conference Ensign that just came out. The talk that I read today was "O the Cunning Plan of that Evil One" by Elder M. Russell Ballard. I think everyone should read it haha It compared fly-fishing to Satan and his tactics for catching us. The fly fisherman studies the trout closely. He studies what types of flies they eat, when eat fly is in its breeding season, the water current of the river/stream and the migration patterns of these fish. He makes his lures exactly to the specifications to what the trout will go after and eventually fall to the deception of the fisherman. This is pretty much the same thing that Satan will do to us in order to catch us. He and his followers watch and study us to figure out how they can get us at teh right time. For some its weaknesses of the Word of Wisdom or Law of Chastity. Or even little things as contention with other people. Elder Ballard warned us to be careful with the decisions we make each day. Be watchful of the things you do. One way you can keep yourself protected from Satan is by daily scripture study adn prayer. I know that we have been taught these two simple principles time and time again, but I can testify that they work! Elder Ballard definitely explains this analogy better than I just did so read the talk haha I want each of you the know that this church is true. Jesus is the Christ. Keep him in your heart always, especially during this season. I know that as you follow the commandments and all the things that the General Authorities advised us about this past conference, you will see the blessings of our Heavenly Father in your life.
Love you all,
-Elder Jaquish
This past week has been slow, rough and tough but oh so worth it! Actually the past couple of weeks have been like that, rubbish. Anywayysss, the past week the whole mission fasted for 24 hours for the elect of God. We fasted so that the elect will be put in our paths on the condition that we are working hard and have faith. The beginning of the week was slow because my companion was sick (not my fault! haha well maybe). The end of the week was brilliant! Saturday was the best. While we were leaving the flat after taking a lunch break, Elder Cadwallader made a phone call. As he was doing that, I yelled across the street to this lady wishing her a Merry Christmas. To my surprise she stopped and asked my what I said. I repeated it and mentioned that I was a missionary for my church. She then said I know and that she wanted to talk to me. I crossed the street and started talking to her. Apparently she had just started attending chruch again and wanted to find her faith in Jesus Christ again. I talked to her a little bit about faith as my companion crossed the street to join the conversation. He told her briefly about the message of the restoration, mainly on the topic of modern-day prophets. We told her that we have one today and his name is Thomas S. Monson. She then told us that she has been wanting someone to tell her that for a while now. I dont know about you guys but she sounds like one of the elect of God that we had just prayed for!!! So cool huh?! That just testified to me that as long as we are doing our part of the promise that the Lord will give us what we have asked for. The rest of our saturday was up to par of that experience...we gave out a few copies of the Book of Mormon and got some new investigators.
Another experience that we had this week happened yesterday after church. We stopped-by this former investigator that was found by the missionaries before us. We got a warm greeting when we knocked on the door. Only bad part about it is that the woman's mother who her family is living with right now doesnt like mormons so we had to talk on the doorstep. Anyways, the former investigator said that her family is moving soon, possibly before Christmas, and when they do move, she wants us to visit her again and start teaching her again! She is very open-minded and likes learning about the gospel. So she seems like she will be promising. Also, she has like 7 children so thats a big plus! haha
Thats pretty much all that has happened this past week. Time for a wee spiritual thought :) So onnce again my thought comes from my personal study this morning. The past week I have been studying the talks from the General Conference Ensign that just came out. The talk that I read today was "O the Cunning Plan of that Evil One" by Elder M. Russell Ballard. I think everyone should read it haha It compared fly-fishing to Satan and his tactics for catching us. The fly fisherman studies the trout closely. He studies what types of flies they eat, when eat fly is in its breeding season, the water current of the river/stream and the migration patterns of these fish. He makes his lures exactly to the specifications to what the trout will go after and eventually fall to the deception of the fisherman. This is pretty much the same thing that Satan will do to us in order to catch us. He and his followers watch and study us to figure out how they can get us at teh right time. For some its weaknesses of the Word of Wisdom or Law of Chastity. Or even little things as contention with other people. Elder Ballard warned us to be careful with the decisions we make each day. Be watchful of the things you do. One way you can keep yourself protected from Satan is by daily scripture study adn prayer. I know that we have been taught these two simple principles time and time again, but I can testify that they work! Elder Ballard definitely explains this analogy better than I just did so read the talk haha I want each of you the know that this church is true. Jesus is the Christ. Keep him in your heart always, especially during this season. I know that as you follow the commandments and all the things that the General Authorities advised us about this past conference, you will see the blessings of our Heavenly Father in your life.
Love you all,
-Elder Jaquish
Monday, December 6, 2010
Cwmbran for Christmas!
Herro everyone!!
First off, news on the transfers.........Im staying in Cwmbran for at least another 6 weeks with Elder Cadwallader!!! Yay! haha Im happy that i get to stay here for Chrsitmas. Its been an okay past couple of weeks. Nothing too much happened this past week because we had meetings throughout it and I got sick on Thursday, but im better now! It snowed here for the first time this season on the day after Thanksgiving. It was lush! Ahh I love the snow. Too bad I cant go snowboarding dang it. Well its not like there is anywhere around here to go haha Oh, well. Utah better watch out for me the winter after next haha Its a beautiful day here today. Cold...very cold, but blue and sunny, with some ice patches on the road so no bikes for a while.
Update on the work: Tracting and street contacting hasn't been the best the past month so we turned to the area book and reviewed the former investigator forms. There we found luck! There is this wonderful couple who have two little rambunctious (sp?) children that make it difficult to teach haha But this couple looks promising. She has read about half of the Book of Mormon and knows its true. He can't read or isn't too religious but still joins in on the lessons; he seems to be taking them well. We have now started to make the appointments later in the evening when the kids will be in bed so we can teach in an environment where they can feel the spirit. It should be a great week while we will try to focus on them. Nobody else really wants to talk to us. Winters here are the worst for the work, as I have been told because everyone here isn't used to it, which I think is funny since they live here! haha But its whatever.
I went on exchanges with the Zone Leaders two weeks ago and boy was it awesome!! The morning of the exchange we went street contacting. We unknowingly walked to the area where a potential investigator lived, so we decided to stop by to see if he was in. They were and we got to enter their home and sit down with them. We talked about his religious background which led us into teaching the restoration. Mind you this is my first time ever that I have actually taught the first lesson! It was awesome!! Ah, we did work. It was so cool to teach him because I could feel the spirit there. He seemed to be receptive to everything we were teaching him. I have come to find out that he also attended church that sunday after the lesson! Later that day, we went to one of their former investigators and we taught the restoration again. How cool is that? I'm on exchange when I actually teach one of the big three lessons haha I think its somewhat funny. Needless to say, it was a wonderful exchange.
Hmmm, nothing else has really happened the past weeks that jump out in my mind so I will leave you with my spiritual thought that actually comes from my studies this morning. Instead of explaining the whole talk, each of you can read it! Its awesome. It comes from the recent conference ensign. Its titled "Rest Unto Your Souls" by Elder Per G. Malm. It brought me great comfort to my soul and I know for a fact that it will do the same for anyone who reads it. My favorite part is towards the end when he quotes Pres. Joseph F. Smith (i think). Peace is a gift from God and is given to us through the spirit. Pretty much if we want peace we have to be living our lives in accordance to the commandments so that the spirit can reside within us. I love you all and am thankful for the letters that I receive. I love this work. Its the best thing that anyone could be doing! I hope you all have a smashing week (there's a little british language for you hahaha). Tra!
-Elder Jaquish
First off, news on the transfers.........Im staying in Cwmbran for at least another 6 weeks with Elder Cadwallader!!! Yay! haha Im happy that i get to stay here for Chrsitmas. Its been an okay past couple of weeks. Nothing too much happened this past week because we had meetings throughout it and I got sick on Thursday, but im better now! It snowed here for the first time this season on the day after Thanksgiving. It was lush! Ahh I love the snow. Too bad I cant go snowboarding dang it. Well its not like there is anywhere around here to go haha Oh, well. Utah better watch out for me the winter after next haha Its a beautiful day here today. Cold...very cold, but blue and sunny, with some ice patches on the road so no bikes for a while.
Update on the work: Tracting and street contacting hasn't been the best the past month so we turned to the area book and reviewed the former investigator forms. There we found luck! There is this wonderful couple who have two little rambunctious (sp?) children that make it difficult to teach haha But this couple looks promising. She has read about half of the Book of Mormon and knows its true. He can't read or isn't too religious but still joins in on the lessons; he seems to be taking them well. We have now started to make the appointments later in the evening when the kids will be in bed so we can teach in an environment where they can feel the spirit. It should be a great week while we will try to focus on them. Nobody else really wants to talk to us. Winters here are the worst for the work, as I have been told because everyone here isn't used to it, which I think is funny since they live here! haha But its whatever.
I went on exchanges with the Zone Leaders two weeks ago and boy was it awesome!! The morning of the exchange we went street contacting. We unknowingly walked to the area where a potential investigator lived, so we decided to stop by to see if he was in. They were and we got to enter their home and sit down with them. We talked about his religious background which led us into teaching the restoration. Mind you this is my first time ever that I have actually taught the first lesson! It was awesome!! Ah, we did work. It was so cool to teach him because I could feel the spirit there. He seemed to be receptive to everything we were teaching him. I have come to find out that he also attended church that sunday after the lesson! Later that day, we went to one of their former investigators and we taught the restoration again. How cool is that? I'm on exchange when I actually teach one of the big three lessons haha I think its somewhat funny. Needless to say, it was a wonderful exchange.
Hmmm, nothing else has really happened the past weeks that jump out in my mind so I will leave you with my spiritual thought that actually comes from my studies this morning. Instead of explaining the whole talk, each of you can read it! Its awesome. It comes from the recent conference ensign. Its titled "Rest Unto Your Souls" by Elder Per G. Malm. It brought me great comfort to my soul and I know for a fact that it will do the same for anyone who reads it. My favorite part is towards the end when he quotes Pres. Joseph F. Smith (i think). Peace is a gift from God and is given to us through the spirit. Pretty much if we want peace we have to be living our lives in accordance to the commandments so that the spirit can reside within us. I love you all and am thankful for the letters that I receive. I love this work. Its the best thing that anyone could be doing! I hope you all have a smashing week (there's a little british language for you hahaha). Tra!
-Elder Jaquish
Monday, November 22, 2010
Senior week!!
Hiya everyone!
First off, I want to tell yall about the morning we've had thus far. We came to the library on time for email, but when we tried to lock our bikes up, Elder Cadwallader's lock broke. We stood there for like 10 minutes trying to fix it but nothing worked. So we headed over to the bike shop to get a new lock. When we explained the situation they said there was a guarentee on it so they just gave us a new one! That made him happy. Then we came all the way back to email, but all the computers were taken. So we went to Asda to buy groceries. While in there, we recognised the song that was playing but I couldnt remember who the band was. Side story real quick: I miss music soooo much and I hate it how I cant think of certain lyrics to some of my favorite songs or even the bands I listened to! Its made me really frustrated haha Okay, back to this morning...We went to check out and I asked the cashier who the band is of the song and it was Maroon 5! Ahh, it made me happy haha
Anywayyysss, so this week was alright. Elder Cadwallader made me do a senior week this week so that was interesting. I had to pretty much plan for every dad of the week and what we were doing each day. It wasnt as bad as I thought it was going to be. What made me the happiest though is that finally an area that I chose for us to go tracting in was actually a successful area! It was a street called St. Andrew's Close. We found a couple good people in there, but havent gotten a solid return appointment yet. And some of them have funky shifts at work so its a little hard to catch them in. This one woman seemed really interested in our message and took a Book of Mormon and made a return appointment for the next day. Upon our arrival though, we noticed that she had put the book in a plastic bag with a note stating she wasnt really interested and for us not to call by again. Its was heartbreaking, but I guess thats better that us going back many times just to be ignored.
Nothing else really happened during the week for us here in Cwmbran, just lots of rain, cloudy skies and tracting haha One teaching experience we did have this week was at an inactive member's home. He has not been to church in 16 years and we ran into him on the street about a month ago. He still remembers the church and keeps his patriarchal blessing near to him, but he stopped going because he got bored of the lessons. Kind of a lame excuse but its what he said. We watched the Restoration DVD with him and his partner so that went well. After the movie, his partner started asking lots of question pertaining to the Plan of Salvation. We taught her the second half of the lesson and will teach her the rest this coming wednesday! And the best part of that is that the inactive was getting excited during the lesson because he knew all the answers to the questions haha
On saturday, we went to Newport for a baptism. The Elders in Newport got a baptism!! The first one in our district for a while! It was was exciting to see someone get baptised. I just hope that we can find someone to teach and get progressing so that another soul will be brought to our Heavenly Father.
So this week will be the last week of this transfer. We will know this next monday if we are getting transfered or not. I really dont know whats going to happen because ive had both feelings that im leaving and staying so beats me haha My next pday will be next wednesday so I will let everyone know then whats goin down.
Spiritual thought for the week: I was flipping though my scriptures this past week and found 3 really good scriptures that I think everyone should look up. They are all in the Doctrine and Covenants...42:61, 90:24 and 123:17. They all relate to how we should live our lives and receive blessings from God. We should always rely on our savior Jesus Christ. He is the light and the life of the world. Everything good thing we receive is because of His atonement! I love him so much. I believe these scriptures will help each and every one of us endure to the end and get the blessings we want.
I hope you all had the opportunity to pray for a missionary experience this past week! If anyone did, I would love to hear about them! Love you all,
-Elder Jaquish
First off, I want to tell yall about the morning we've had thus far. We came to the library on time for email, but when we tried to lock our bikes up, Elder Cadwallader's lock broke. We stood there for like 10 minutes trying to fix it but nothing worked. So we headed over to the bike shop to get a new lock. When we explained the situation they said there was a guarentee on it so they just gave us a new one! That made him happy. Then we came all the way back to email, but all the computers were taken. So we went to Asda to buy groceries. While in there, we recognised the song that was playing but I couldnt remember who the band was. Side story real quick: I miss music soooo much and I hate it how I cant think of certain lyrics to some of my favorite songs or even the bands I listened to! Its made me really frustrated haha Okay, back to this morning...We went to check out and I asked the cashier who the band is of the song and it was Maroon 5! Ahh, it made me happy haha
Anywayyysss, so this week was alright. Elder Cadwallader made me do a senior week this week so that was interesting. I had to pretty much plan for every dad of the week and what we were doing each day. It wasnt as bad as I thought it was going to be. What made me the happiest though is that finally an area that I chose for us to go tracting in was actually a successful area! It was a street called St. Andrew's Close. We found a couple good people in there, but havent gotten a solid return appointment yet. And some of them have funky shifts at work so its a little hard to catch them in. This one woman seemed really interested in our message and took a Book of Mormon and made a return appointment for the next day. Upon our arrival though, we noticed that she had put the book in a plastic bag with a note stating she wasnt really interested and for us not to call by again. Its was heartbreaking, but I guess thats better that us going back many times just to be ignored.
Nothing else really happened during the week for us here in Cwmbran, just lots of rain, cloudy skies and tracting haha One teaching experience we did have this week was at an inactive member's home. He has not been to church in 16 years and we ran into him on the street about a month ago. He still remembers the church and keeps his patriarchal blessing near to him, but he stopped going because he got bored of the lessons. Kind of a lame excuse but its what he said. We watched the Restoration DVD with him and his partner so that went well. After the movie, his partner started asking lots of question pertaining to the Plan of Salvation. We taught her the second half of the lesson and will teach her the rest this coming wednesday! And the best part of that is that the inactive was getting excited during the lesson because he knew all the answers to the questions haha
On saturday, we went to Newport for a baptism. The Elders in Newport got a baptism!! The first one in our district for a while! It was was exciting to see someone get baptised. I just hope that we can find someone to teach and get progressing so that another soul will be brought to our Heavenly Father.
So this week will be the last week of this transfer. We will know this next monday if we are getting transfered or not. I really dont know whats going to happen because ive had both feelings that im leaving and staying so beats me haha My next pday will be next wednesday so I will let everyone know then whats goin down.
Spiritual thought for the week: I was flipping though my scriptures this past week and found 3 really good scriptures that I think everyone should look up. They are all in the Doctrine and Covenants...42:61, 90:24 and 123:17. They all relate to how we should live our lives and receive blessings from God. We should always rely on our savior Jesus Christ. He is the light and the life of the world. Everything good thing we receive is because of His atonement! I love him so much. I believe these scriptures will help each and every one of us endure to the end and get the blessings we want.
I hope you all had the opportunity to pray for a missionary experience this past week! If anyone did, I would love to hear about them! Love you all,
-Elder Jaquish
Thursday, November 18, 2010
Say cheese
Sorry for the delay in postings. I have been working on getting the pictures up, soooo now they're up!
Giving someone the "Fork" and a great birthday dinner
Hello Everyone! Beth wyt ti'n ei wneud? (Welsh for what are you doing? haha)
So quick story...first off, instead of using the middle finger here, they use the peace sign backwards (fork) to say the equivalent of using the middle finger for us. This car was pulling out into the road and I looked at the guy driving and smiled and waved at him. He gave me the fork, so I smiled bigger at him and waved my hand harder at him to pretty much not allow him to gain gratification because I didnt get mad hahahahah I hope that made sense...it sounded better in my head that on paper.....
Anywayyyss, this week was awesome! Despite the rain that drenched us everyday haha On tuesday, all the district and zone leaders had training so I went on exchanges with Elder Ruesch in Bridgend. Justin will be proud of me for what we did pretty much all day...we helped a member take out the cell box (I think thats what its called) of a car in order to place a bearing inside so the car wouldnt make so much noise between shifting gears. It was pretty fun slash interesting. I never got uder the car, but I helped in the front by taking out the bolts and screws that held the cell box to the engine and battery tray. Fun stuff! The member was really thankful for our help and afterwards we went to his house and gave a spiritual thought to the family; we talked about families and the atonement of Jesus Christ and i felt the spirit pretty strongly.
On wednesday, we went to Rhiwbina for my first Zone Conference! It was amazing!! President Ogden spoke a lot about how we need to take control of our areas...the area we have been assigned to is our area so we need to follow the spirit and do what is best for the people. He got rid of the 10/10/10/20 rule so we dont have to keep track of finding time and how many books we give out each week. At one point, he was telling a story about this missionary who thought he did little work in his last area because of the lack of success he experienced. Like 15 years later, he visited this area and found out that the current Bishop was some kid that he had given a Book of Mormon to randomly. It was an awesome story. He said to us to never feel like our efforts are wasted. And also about how the things we go through now are preparing us for the future. He even pointed me out saying that I will become a Bishop in the future!! Super dodge haha So yep, according to President Ogden, Im gonna be a bishop haha
Thursday was awesome pretty much because it was my birthday!! It seems super weird to say that Im 20 years old haha Doesnt seem right. Its gonna take some time getting used to. Another reason why thursday was great is because I had a really good spiritual experience. On the bike ride up to Green Meadow in the rain, I say this guy walking down the street. I went by him and thought that my companion would go talk to him, but he went by as well. I turned around and went to speak to teh guy. We had a really good convertsation with him about religion and the relationship we have with Heavenly Father. Even though we didnt give a Book of Mormon to him, I had the impression that he will come into contact with the missionaries in the future...it was sooo cool. Later that night, we were invited over to the Burri's house for my birthday dinner! We had hamburgers and fries...so good! It made me happy that someone had me over for dinner on my birthday :)
We had the opportunity to watch the film Joseph Smith: Prophet of teh Restoration a coulpe times this past week with some less-actives and I'll tell you what...that is one powerful movie! I love it. It strengthens my testimony every time I watch it. On of my favorite quotes in the movie is about the Book of Mormon...."No wicked man could right it, and no righteous man would write it." It just goes to show you how true the Book of Mormon is. It is a divine record that was preserved for us by the hand of God for our time. I have grown to really love reading and studying the Book of Mormon. Im so thankful that I came on this mission because it has strengthened my testimony so much already, even through all of the persecution. But hey, it is in our blood as members of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ to go through persecution! We just need to always trust in the Lord.
Saturday was really good, well the second half of it. We went to Newport in the evening time because Elder Cadwallader had to interview an investigator for baptism! Its really exciting for our district because this will be teh first baptism in our district. The baptism will be next saturday in Newport for the Newport elders. Hopefully we will be able to attend. Towards the night time, Elder Cadwallader didnt have anything planned because we had to cancel our appoontment due to teh baptismal interview so we went to Sis. Jones house to pick up an apple tart that she baked us, which was really good. (Im gonna learn how to bake english pasteries for when i get home haha). On the was over to her house, this drunk guy started talking to us. He kept asking us the same question over and over again even though we had tried to answer it. He kept saying that we were wrong. And that he loved God to bits and that he went to church. Then he would condemn God for his suffering and say he hadnt been to church for 52 years. He finally said bye and left us after muttering a bunch of rubbish. It was so funny though. We tried to help him but he just kept refusing haha Oh well. Then later that night these like 12 year old girls started talking to us and said we were really cute haha But im pretty sure they were tipsy as well hahaha I gave them some of my skittles though, so I did a good deed! haha Then we ran into this other guy who had just been kicked out of his girlfriends house and was walking to his friends house to stay while carrying his clothes in plastic bags. He said he had always wanted to talk to us. We said some comforting words to him and comitted him to come to church the next day. He seemed like a pretty solid "elect", but he didnt come to church. We got his address though so we will visit him this next week.
Ahhhh, so thats pretty much my past week. I love taking time at the end of each day to see how much the Lord blesses me each day and directs us in this work! I love this work, The church is true. I know that without a doubt. I hope everyone has a great week! I would like to challenge each of you to pray for a missionary experience this week and tell me about it! :) Love you all!
-Elder Jaquish
So quick story...first off, instead of using the middle finger here, they use the peace sign backwards (fork) to say the equivalent of using the middle finger for us. This car was pulling out into the road and I looked at the guy driving and smiled and waved at him. He gave me the fork, so I smiled bigger at him and waved my hand harder at him to pretty much not allow him to gain gratification because I didnt get mad hahahahah I hope that made sense...it sounded better in my head that on paper.....
Anywayyyss, this week was awesome! Despite the rain that drenched us everyday haha On tuesday, all the district and zone leaders had training so I went on exchanges with Elder Ruesch in Bridgend. Justin will be proud of me for what we did pretty much all day...we helped a member take out the cell box (I think thats what its called) of a car in order to place a bearing inside so the car wouldnt make so much noise between shifting gears. It was pretty fun slash interesting. I never got uder the car, but I helped in the front by taking out the bolts and screws that held the cell box to the engine and battery tray. Fun stuff! The member was really thankful for our help and afterwards we went to his house and gave a spiritual thought to the family; we talked about families and the atonement of Jesus Christ and i felt the spirit pretty strongly.
On wednesday, we went to Rhiwbina for my first Zone Conference! It was amazing!! President Ogden spoke a lot about how we need to take control of our areas...the area we have been assigned to is our area so we need to follow the spirit and do what is best for the people. He got rid of the 10/10/10/20 rule so we dont have to keep track of finding time and how many books we give out each week. At one point, he was telling a story about this missionary who thought he did little work in his last area because of the lack of success he experienced. Like 15 years later, he visited this area and found out that the current Bishop was some kid that he had given a Book of Mormon to randomly. It was an awesome story. He said to us to never feel like our efforts are wasted. And also about how the things we go through now are preparing us for the future. He even pointed me out saying that I will become a Bishop in the future!! Super dodge haha So yep, according to President Ogden, Im gonna be a bishop haha
Thursday was awesome pretty much because it was my birthday!! It seems super weird to say that Im 20 years old haha Doesnt seem right. Its gonna take some time getting used to. Another reason why thursday was great is because I had a really good spiritual experience. On the bike ride up to Green Meadow in the rain, I say this guy walking down the street. I went by him and thought that my companion would go talk to him, but he went by as well. I turned around and went to speak to teh guy. We had a really good convertsation with him about religion and the relationship we have with Heavenly Father. Even though we didnt give a Book of Mormon to him, I had the impression that he will come into contact with the missionaries in the future...it was sooo cool. Later that night, we were invited over to the Burri's house for my birthday dinner! We had hamburgers and fries...so good! It made me happy that someone had me over for dinner on my birthday :)
We had the opportunity to watch the film Joseph Smith: Prophet of teh Restoration a coulpe times this past week with some less-actives and I'll tell you what...that is one powerful movie! I love it. It strengthens my testimony every time I watch it. On of my favorite quotes in the movie is about the Book of Mormon...."No wicked man could right it, and no righteous man would write it." It just goes to show you how true the Book of Mormon is. It is a divine record that was preserved for us by the hand of God for our time. I have grown to really love reading and studying the Book of Mormon. Im so thankful that I came on this mission because it has strengthened my testimony so much already, even through all of the persecution. But hey, it is in our blood as members of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ to go through persecution! We just need to always trust in the Lord.
Saturday was really good, well the second half of it. We went to Newport in the evening time because Elder Cadwallader had to interview an investigator for baptism! Its really exciting for our district because this will be teh first baptism in our district. The baptism will be next saturday in Newport for the Newport elders. Hopefully we will be able to attend. Towards the night time, Elder Cadwallader didnt have anything planned because we had to cancel our appoontment due to teh baptismal interview so we went to Sis. Jones house to pick up an apple tart that she baked us, which was really good. (Im gonna learn how to bake english pasteries for when i get home haha). On the was over to her house, this drunk guy started talking to us. He kept asking us the same question over and over again even though we had tried to answer it. He kept saying that we were wrong. And that he loved God to bits and that he went to church. Then he would condemn God for his suffering and say he hadnt been to church for 52 years. He finally said bye and left us after muttering a bunch of rubbish. It was so funny though. We tried to help him but he just kept refusing haha Oh well. Then later that night these like 12 year old girls started talking to us and said we were really cute haha But im pretty sure they were tipsy as well hahaha I gave them some of my skittles though, so I did a good deed! haha Then we ran into this other guy who had just been kicked out of his girlfriends house and was walking to his friends house to stay while carrying his clothes in plastic bags. He said he had always wanted to talk to us. We said some comforting words to him and comitted him to come to church the next day. He seemed like a pretty solid "elect", but he didnt come to church. We got his address though so we will visit him this next week.
Ahhhh, so thats pretty much my past week. I love taking time at the end of each day to see how much the Lord blesses me each day and directs us in this work! I love this work, The church is true. I know that without a doubt. I hope everyone has a great week! I would like to challenge each of you to pray for a missionary experience this week and tell me about it! :) Love you all!
-Elder Jaquish
Here comes the rain...
Helo, sut wyt ti?! (Hello, how are you/how is everyone)
I have been learning some more welsh phrases this week haha And i learned that welsh is the oldest european language ever! So cool. And another ramdom thing, we have this old Jehovah Witness couple that we have become friends with that told us that approximately only 5% of Britain goes to church. So just a little stat on what people think of religion here.
This week was very very very wet and cold. Today is the first time ive seen the sun since last monday haha It doesnt bother me too much though. People just dont like to talk when the weather is like that so it makes things a little hard. But nonetheless, we stop them and talk to them! I think our best day this past week was on tuesday. We made a random stop-by the house of the investigator we have been working and had a pretty good conversation with her on her doorsteep. We pretty much did half of the baptismal interview with her to see where she stands. And.....we committed her to baptism!!!!!! Her date is November 27th. Sad to say though that she got into a fight with her husdand who is against all religion saturday night so she wasnt able to come to church yesterday. This is a hard situation we as missionaries are in because we want her to receive the gospel into her life but the gospel isnt meant to break up families. So, we will get into contact with her this week sometime to ask how we can help. She did mention though that she wasnt going to let her husband stop her this time from being baptised. Just please pray for her everyone. Thank you. Another event that happened that day is that a less-active YSA called us wondering about church saying that she wanted to come! But, she never did. Sad, but at least she put forth the effort of wanting to go. We will be in contact with her and her friends throughout the week. We got her!! haha But just a small testimony real quick, these blessing came upon us and our investigators through fasting and prayer. Those two things are powerful stuff, i love it.
One other exciting thing that happened this week was bonfire day! That is a silly holiday the British people celebrate for when they burnt this guy on the stake because he tried to blow up parliament but failed. So all night they shoot off fireworks and have giant bonfires. Due to low clouds and lots of rain though, it wasnt too good. But, the next night everybody was shooting off fireworks it was awesome! Elder Cadwallader and I went to the top of this one hill so we could look out over all of the valley and see the fireworks. It sounded like we were in the middle of a battlefield! haha So cool. That was on the 5th and 6th.
Hmmmm...the rest of the week was pretty normal. A lot of talking to people on the street and sharing the gospel to everyone! Oh, last night we went over to Sheldon and Evangeline's house adn made pizza from scratch! It was soooo good. And we watched the film Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration. I absolutely love that movie. It strengthens my testimony everytime I watch it. There is no doubt that this church is true. I know it.
Spiritual thought for the week comes from the zone meeting we had this past wednesday. Our purpose is to gather the elect and bring them to the gospel. These elect are those who are ready to hear the gospel. They will have a broken heart and a contrite spirit. They will accept the gospel in its fulness. Everybody isnt one of these people. Our duty is to spread the good news of the plan Heavenly Father has for us and the path through Jesus Christ that we can come back to live with Him. We should never get discouraged because when we do, we are not giving everyone the chance to partake of the gospel. I know this church is true and that Jesus is the Christ. I love how just being out here for almost 3 months has strengthened my testimony so much. And it has come through continued scripture study and prayer. I love this work. Its the best! haha Look up these two scriptures: 2 Nephi 2:27 and D&C 18:10-15. I hope everyone has a wonderful week! Love you all.
-Elder Jaquish
I have been learning some more welsh phrases this week haha And i learned that welsh is the oldest european language ever! So cool. And another ramdom thing, we have this old Jehovah Witness couple that we have become friends with that told us that approximately only 5% of Britain goes to church. So just a little stat on what people think of religion here.
This week was very very very wet and cold. Today is the first time ive seen the sun since last monday haha It doesnt bother me too much though. People just dont like to talk when the weather is like that so it makes things a little hard. But nonetheless, we stop them and talk to them! I think our best day this past week was on tuesday. We made a random stop-by the house of the investigator we have been working and had a pretty good conversation with her on her doorsteep. We pretty much did half of the baptismal interview with her to see where she stands. And.....we committed her to baptism!!!!!! Her date is November 27th. Sad to say though that she got into a fight with her husdand who is against all religion saturday night so she wasnt able to come to church yesterday. This is a hard situation we as missionaries are in because we want her to receive the gospel into her life but the gospel isnt meant to break up families. So, we will get into contact with her this week sometime to ask how we can help. She did mention though that she wasnt going to let her husband stop her this time from being baptised. Just please pray for her everyone. Thank you. Another event that happened that day is that a less-active YSA called us wondering about church saying that she wanted to come! But, she never did. Sad, but at least she put forth the effort of wanting to go. We will be in contact with her and her friends throughout the week. We got her!! haha But just a small testimony real quick, these blessing came upon us and our investigators through fasting and prayer. Those two things are powerful stuff, i love it.
One other exciting thing that happened this week was bonfire day! That is a silly holiday the British people celebrate for when they burnt this guy on the stake because he tried to blow up parliament but failed. So all night they shoot off fireworks and have giant bonfires. Due to low clouds and lots of rain though, it wasnt too good. But, the next night everybody was shooting off fireworks it was awesome! Elder Cadwallader and I went to the top of this one hill so we could look out over all of the valley and see the fireworks. It sounded like we were in the middle of a battlefield! haha So cool. That was on the 5th and 6th.
Hmmmm...the rest of the week was pretty normal. A lot of talking to people on the street and sharing the gospel to everyone! Oh, last night we went over to Sheldon and Evangeline's house adn made pizza from scratch! It was soooo good. And we watched the film Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration. I absolutely love that movie. It strengthens my testimony everytime I watch it. There is no doubt that this church is true. I know it.
Spiritual thought for the week comes from the zone meeting we had this past wednesday. Our purpose is to gather the elect and bring them to the gospel. These elect are those who are ready to hear the gospel. They will have a broken heart and a contrite spirit. They will accept the gospel in its fulness. Everybody isnt one of these people. Our duty is to spread the good news of the plan Heavenly Father has for us and the path through Jesus Christ that we can come back to live with Him. We should never get discouraged because when we do, we are not giving everyone the chance to partake of the gospel. I know this church is true and that Jesus is the Christ. I love how just being out here for almost 3 months has strengthened my testimony so much. And it has come through continued scripture study and prayer. I love this work. Its the best! haha Look up these two scriptures: 2 Nephi 2:27 and D&C 18:10-15. I hope everyone has a wonderful week! Love you all.
-Elder Jaquish
Week 10.....dosent seem like its been that long
Hiya everyone!!
Hmmm wow. Im at week 10 already...weird. It doesnt seem like its already been that long. And it doesnt seem like it should be November yet haha I hope everyone had a good halloween last night! I didnt see too many kids out, but thats prolly because we had to come in at 8pm, mission rules.
This past week has been amazing! I have enjoyed doing the work so much this past week and despite the continuing large amouts of rejection, I dont stop in my efforts to share the Gospel with EVERYBODY. I like the challenege this are is giving me anyways haha Some exciting news...one of our investigators is progressing more than she ever has! She attended church the past two Sundays and will be going to a ward activity this tuesday. Things are looking good for her eternal progression. There are some little blockages in her path but I know that she can overcome them and we will be with her the whole way. Hopefully, as I have been impressed to think over the past few days, she will have a baptismal date by the end of this week! Very exciting! Especially since the last baptism was a year ago. So I will keep yall updated in the next email.
One experience that I had this past week that has encouraged me to be more dilligent in the work happened in District Meeting this past thursday. Elder Cadwallader, being our distrct leader, told us to go into a separate room to pray for guidence on what we can improve on in the next week. I said my prayer and opened the scriptures to Jacob 1. In that chapter, my prayer was answered in verses 7,8,19. Read them. I have experience a greater love for the people since then. I want to work with all my heart, might, mind and strength to proclaim the gospel to everyone so that they can feel the promptings of the Holy Ghost and experience its blessings.
I went on my first splits this week! I went with Bro. Hawskings and visited a few less-actives. It was pretty cool slash it felt weird because I was with someone other than my companion haha It was fun though. Oh, funny quick story: I watched this kid fall off of a tree branch and land on his bum so I started clapping at him. He realised where the clapping was coming from and started yelling at me, so I quickly turned around so he couldnt see me and told Elder Cadwallader to hurry up and walk away hahahahahahahaha Its okay though because he was far away from me as I watched from a bridge. I thought it was funny though.
Spiritual thought for the week: I have been studying various materials, namely the scriptures, old ensigns from the 70's and Jesus the Christ, that have been talking about the importance of the Holy Ghost. Everything we know is a byproduct of the promptings of the Holy Ghost. He is the one that has witnessed to us that the Gospel is true. Thanks to the Holy Ghost, we KNOW that our religion is truly the restored gospel of Jesus Christ in the latter-days. Striving to learn more about the third being of the Godhead will help us realise these things. Studying the scriptures well. I know that this church is true and that God lives. Jesus is the Christ and only through Him can we be exalted. Know that we can be exalted. Know that through His atonement, we can be forgive of our sins and shortcomings. I know all of these things to be true. I love this work. I hope everyone has a great week fully of missionary experiences!!
Love you all,
-Elder Jaquish
ps. Look up John 17:3, Mosiah 4:5,8-10, D&C 18:35 and maybe even study the parables in the New Testament!
Hmmm wow. Im at week 10 already...weird. It doesnt seem like its already been that long. And it doesnt seem like it should be November yet haha I hope everyone had a good halloween last night! I didnt see too many kids out, but thats prolly because we had to come in at 8pm, mission rules.
This past week has been amazing! I have enjoyed doing the work so much this past week and despite the continuing large amouts of rejection, I dont stop in my efforts to share the Gospel with EVERYBODY. I like the challenege this are is giving me anyways haha Some exciting news...one of our investigators is progressing more than she ever has! She attended church the past two Sundays and will be going to a ward activity this tuesday. Things are looking good for her eternal progression. There are some little blockages in her path but I know that she can overcome them and we will be with her the whole way. Hopefully, as I have been impressed to think over the past few days, she will have a baptismal date by the end of this week! Very exciting! Especially since the last baptism was a year ago. So I will keep yall updated in the next email.
One experience that I had this past week that has encouraged me to be more dilligent in the work happened in District Meeting this past thursday. Elder Cadwallader, being our distrct leader, told us to go into a separate room to pray for guidence on what we can improve on in the next week. I said my prayer and opened the scriptures to Jacob 1. In that chapter, my prayer was answered in verses 7,8,19. Read them. I have experience a greater love for the people since then. I want to work with all my heart, might, mind and strength to proclaim the gospel to everyone so that they can feel the promptings of the Holy Ghost and experience its blessings.
I went on my first splits this week! I went with Bro. Hawskings and visited a few less-actives. It was pretty cool slash it felt weird because I was with someone other than my companion haha It was fun though. Oh, funny quick story: I watched this kid fall off of a tree branch and land on his bum so I started clapping at him. He realised where the clapping was coming from and started yelling at me, so I quickly turned around so he couldnt see me and told Elder Cadwallader to hurry up and walk away hahahahahahahaha Its okay though because he was far away from me as I watched from a bridge. I thought it was funny though.
Spiritual thought for the week: I have been studying various materials, namely the scriptures, old ensigns from the 70's and Jesus the Christ, that have been talking about the importance of the Holy Ghost. Everything we know is a byproduct of the promptings of the Holy Ghost. He is the one that has witnessed to us that the Gospel is true. Thanks to the Holy Ghost, we KNOW that our religion is truly the restored gospel of Jesus Christ in the latter-days. Striving to learn more about the third being of the Godhead will help us realise these things. Studying the scriptures well. I know that this church is true and that God lives. Jesus is the Christ and only through Him can we be exalted. Know that we can be exalted. Know that through His atonement, we can be forgive of our sins and shortcomings. I know all of these things to be true. I love this work. I hope everyone has a great week fully of missionary experiences!!
Love you all,
-Elder Jaquish
ps. Look up John 17:3, Mosiah 4:5,8-10, D&C 18:35 and maybe even study the parables in the New Testament!
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Chapel Reopening!!
Bora da! (Good Morning!)
So this past week was the best week ever!!! Elder Cadwallader and I did work. This one day we went tracting and gave out 4 copies of the Book of Mormon out! Two of those were simultaneous doors! We had a lot of sit-down lessons this week as well. One experience that we had on the day that I previously mentioned is stuck in my head right now. Okay, so we ask people all the time if we can help them carry bags or do yard work or anything, but we always get rejected. As we were speeding down this hill, we saw this older lady carrying grocery bags. The thought came into my head, oh she will probably reject us anyways so whats the point of stopping. But, we stopped and asked her and to our surprise she accpeted out help!! She was very thankful that someone had finally offered to help her. Even though her flat wasnt too much further up the road, we were able to give service to someone. After reaching her flat, we explained who we were and she accepted a Book of Mormon as well! It was awesome. We are going to see her this tuesday.
Another reason why this week was the best; our chapel opened back up!! It felt so good to be in our own chapel. The members were so excited to be in there as well. We were able to get three investigators and four less-actives to church yesterday. It was such a great blessing from the Lord. Now that church is more easily accesible now, we have a better chance of getting people to church and onward to become progressing. We have this one investigator who has been investigating the church for a while. We had been visiting her alot this week teaching her about the Holy Ghost and how we can recognize its presense. I know that she has felt the Holy Ghost before, i sure felt it during one lesson. She has had a baptismal date once before, but a lot of things came up in her life around that date so she never got too close to being baptised. During one of the lessons, I felt something so powerful to committ her to a new baptismal date, and Elder Cadwallader felt the same thing. We never did because her situation is somewhat difficult; she needs time. But after talking it over with Elder Cadwallader and her fellowshipper, we are going to be bold and follow the promtings of the spirit and committ her this week to a date. So exciting!!
Spiritual thought for this week goes along with the previous two stories. We need to always follow the promtings of the spirit no matter what. We have been given that gift from God and we should use it. If we are prompted to do good, it is of God and of the Spirit. We should always look to do good. Always pray for missionary experiences each day, for if you do I know you will be richly blessed. I hope you all have a great week and I challenge you all to look for a spiritual/missionary experience this week. Please tell me what happens!! Tya (Bye in welsh haha).
Love you all,
-Elder Jaquish
So this past week was the best week ever!!! Elder Cadwallader and I did work. This one day we went tracting and gave out 4 copies of the Book of Mormon out! Two of those were simultaneous doors! We had a lot of sit-down lessons this week as well. One experience that we had on the day that I previously mentioned is stuck in my head right now. Okay, so we ask people all the time if we can help them carry bags or do yard work or anything, but we always get rejected. As we were speeding down this hill, we saw this older lady carrying grocery bags. The thought came into my head, oh she will probably reject us anyways so whats the point of stopping. But, we stopped and asked her and to our surprise she accpeted out help!! She was very thankful that someone had finally offered to help her. Even though her flat wasnt too much further up the road, we were able to give service to someone. After reaching her flat, we explained who we were and she accepted a Book of Mormon as well! It was awesome. We are going to see her this tuesday.
Another reason why this week was the best; our chapel opened back up!! It felt so good to be in our own chapel. The members were so excited to be in there as well. We were able to get three investigators and four less-actives to church yesterday. It was such a great blessing from the Lord. Now that church is more easily accesible now, we have a better chance of getting people to church and onward to become progressing. We have this one investigator who has been investigating the church for a while. We had been visiting her alot this week teaching her about the Holy Ghost and how we can recognize its presense. I know that she has felt the Holy Ghost before, i sure felt it during one lesson. She has had a baptismal date once before, but a lot of things came up in her life around that date so she never got too close to being baptised. During one of the lessons, I felt something so powerful to committ her to a new baptismal date, and Elder Cadwallader felt the same thing. We never did because her situation is somewhat difficult; she needs time. But after talking it over with Elder Cadwallader and her fellowshipper, we are going to be bold and follow the promtings of the spirit and committ her this week to a date. So exciting!!
Spiritual thought for this week goes along with the previous two stories. We need to always follow the promtings of the spirit no matter what. We have been given that gift from God and we should use it. If we are prompted to do good, it is of God and of the Spirit. We should always look to do good. Always pray for missionary experiences each day, for if you do I know you will be richly blessed. I hope you all have a great week and I challenge you all to look for a spiritual/missionary experience this week. Please tell me what happens!! Tya (Bye in welsh haha).
Love you all,
-Elder Jaquish
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Transfers are up!!!
Creso! (that is like the equivilent of hello in welsh)
So I will start off with the exciting news...transfers are a couple days early this time so i know what the deal is...and...Im staying in Cwmbran for at least another 6 weeks!! And even more exciting news...The Cwmbran ward building will be opening back up this coming Sunday!!! Oh im excited to get to work for the next 6 weeks now. We will have so many returning members this week and hopefully now we can get our investigators to church! I sense some fruits are come our way haha
Another exciting event that transpired over the week is that I got my first hair cut while in the mission field, and bot is it short! haha But its whatever...I like it ofr the time being, but will definitely not get it this short in the future haha Oh and one more thing that happened that was interesting: While on exchanges this week, Elder Cauffman and I met this couple whom the guy was inactive, have received his patriarchal blessing and has the priesthood. He even still keeps his blessing in a safe place, which was cool! But he has traveled far from the iron rod. We got his details and will get into contact with him soon and bring him back to church!! Do Worrkk. ha
The past week has been kinda rough. Everybody just seems to reject us. Its hard when you go like two or three hours in between each good conversation we have on the street, if that makes sense. People here are really stubborn haha But thats okay, I wont let them tie me down. Elder Cadwallader and I have been focusing pretty hard on faith. We just have to go out each day and to each person with the faith that they will be the one. Its definitely said easier than done, but I have already seen blessings coming from having an attitude of faith everywhere I go. I just love the atonement of Jesus Christ. I love how after having the worst day ever and thinking that tomorrow will be the same, you get proven wrong and have the best day ever. I know that only comes through prayer; asking Heavenly Father to help you in your weaknesses. Its inevitable that you will receive weaknesses, it states so in Ether 12:27. But it also states the reason we have these weaknesses; we are given them so that we can have the blessed opportunity to humble ourselves in order to receive blessings. My wish for all of you is that when you are going through a hard time, either physically or spiritually, that you become submissive to the Atonement of Jesus Christ. He was lifted up on the cross so that we can be lifted up in our trials and afflictions. We come to truly know the atonement by coming to Christ first to help us instead of trying the help oursleves first. Always pray and study the scriptures. I love you all!
-Elder Jaquish
So I will start off with the exciting news...transfers are a couple days early this time so i know what the deal is...and...Im staying in Cwmbran for at least another 6 weeks!! And even more exciting news...The Cwmbran ward building will be opening back up this coming Sunday!!! Oh im excited to get to work for the next 6 weeks now. We will have so many returning members this week and hopefully now we can get our investigators to church! I sense some fruits are come our way haha
Another exciting event that transpired over the week is that I got my first hair cut while in the mission field, and bot is it short! haha But its whatever...I like it ofr the time being, but will definitely not get it this short in the future haha Oh and one more thing that happened that was interesting: While on exchanges this week, Elder Cauffman and I met this couple whom the guy was inactive, have received his patriarchal blessing and has the priesthood. He even still keeps his blessing in a safe place, which was cool! But he has traveled far from the iron rod. We got his details and will get into contact with him soon and bring him back to church!! Do Worrkk. ha
The past week has been kinda rough. Everybody just seems to reject us. Its hard when you go like two or three hours in between each good conversation we have on the street, if that makes sense. People here are really stubborn haha But thats okay, I wont let them tie me down. Elder Cadwallader and I have been focusing pretty hard on faith. We just have to go out each day and to each person with the faith that they will be the one. Its definitely said easier than done, but I have already seen blessings coming from having an attitude of faith everywhere I go. I just love the atonement of Jesus Christ. I love how after having the worst day ever and thinking that tomorrow will be the same, you get proven wrong and have the best day ever. I know that only comes through prayer; asking Heavenly Father to help you in your weaknesses. Its inevitable that you will receive weaknesses, it states so in Ether 12:27. But it also states the reason we have these weaknesses; we are given them so that we can have the blessed opportunity to humble ourselves in order to receive blessings. My wish for all of you is that when you are going through a hard time, either physically or spiritually, that you become submissive to the Atonement of Jesus Christ. He was lifted up on the cross so that we can be lifted up in our trials and afflictions. We come to truly know the atonement by coming to Christ first to help us instead of trying the help oursleves first. Always pray and study the scriptures. I love you all!
-Elder Jaquish
The Chavs......
Hello there!!
Wow, its already week 7...and my first transfer in the field is almost over. Transfers are next wednesday, but I believe that we will be staying here another 6 weeks. I will let you guys know what happens! But I kinda want to stay. I know that the work will get better once the ward building opens back up and we can finally get people to church! Not being mean or anything, but the people here come up with some rubbish excuses for why they dont try to get to church, but there you are. (I hope you liked my british accent right there...im working on it haha)
So this week has been fun. Wednesday and Thursday we had a zone meeting in Rhiwbina which seemed to take forever! haha It was nice though. We focused on the role of the Holy Ghost in conversion. The Holy Ghost is very very important in the work that we missionaries do. Without it, there would be no conversion. We are merely teachers, or in other words preachers, while the Holy Ghost teaches the individual and testifies that our message is true. One experience that happened this week furthered my testimony of this. For once, somebody held their appointment! We found Darren while tracting. He is a pretty skeptical guy, especially on religion. We gave him a Book of Mormon and committed him to read the introduction and the testimonies of the 3/8 winesses and of Joseph Smith. He asked us question after question while we tried to answer them, not teach him. As I pondered on that night, I realised that a lesson without the Holy Ghost is just an argument, as was our lesson with Darren. If we teach with the Holy Ghost, the lesson will be more like a discussion. We should always strive to have to Holy Ghost as our constant companion because we can teach others by being an example and doing the right always.
One funny thing that happened this week scared the crap put of me (which interestingly enough, crap is a curse word here haha so weird). So first off, they have wannabe gangsters here called chavs. These are kids from the ages of like 12-early 20s who just walka round in large groups and cause havoc. They are stupid though because they are all talk and dont really do anything except dress in sweatsuits haha So anyways...a couple chavs were walking by us as we were talking to this one old fellow. One of them ran up, jumped on my bike and started to ride off. I was about to start chasing him when his friends said that he was only joking. He eventually gave my bike back but my heart was pounding for like 5mins after he left hahahaha I was about to take him down...maybe haha
Quick spiritual though for this week: I read a talked given by Elder Holland in an Ensign yesterday. He talked about the time that the Prophet Joseph Smith spent in Liberty Jail. This moment in his life, other than his martydom, was the worst. Not going into much detail about the conditions he was in or the circumstances the saints and his family were going through, Joseph cried to the Lord for help. He was calmed by the tender voice of the Lord and told that his afflictions would only be but a short season. Elder Holland relates this event to the Saviors life and to our lives. We each will experience a time when we will be in, what Elder Holland calls, a temple-prison. We will all go through hard times. We must remember that the trials we go through are small compared to what Christ went through and the prophets of the church. We must go through trials to learn and gain experience and knowledge; that is the whole purpose of life. Trust in the Lord and in Heavenly Fathers plan. Lean on them when times seem to be tough, He will never forget you. Jesus Christ is our Savior and dearest brother.
I love you all and I hope that this next week will be full of excitement and happiness.
-Elder Jaquish
Wow, its already week 7...and my first transfer in the field is almost over. Transfers are next wednesday, but I believe that we will be staying here another 6 weeks. I will let you guys know what happens! But I kinda want to stay. I know that the work will get better once the ward building opens back up and we can finally get people to church! Not being mean or anything, but the people here come up with some rubbish excuses for why they dont try to get to church, but there you are. (I hope you liked my british accent right there...im working on it haha)
So this week has been fun. Wednesday and Thursday we had a zone meeting in Rhiwbina which seemed to take forever! haha It was nice though. We focused on the role of the Holy Ghost in conversion. The Holy Ghost is very very important in the work that we missionaries do. Without it, there would be no conversion. We are merely teachers, or in other words preachers, while the Holy Ghost teaches the individual and testifies that our message is true. One experience that happened this week furthered my testimony of this. For once, somebody held their appointment! We found Darren while tracting. He is a pretty skeptical guy, especially on religion. We gave him a Book of Mormon and committed him to read the introduction and the testimonies of the 3/8 winesses and of Joseph Smith. He asked us question after question while we tried to answer them, not teach him. As I pondered on that night, I realised that a lesson without the Holy Ghost is just an argument, as was our lesson with Darren. If we teach with the Holy Ghost, the lesson will be more like a discussion. We should always strive to have to Holy Ghost as our constant companion because we can teach others by being an example and doing the right always.
One funny thing that happened this week scared the crap put of me (which interestingly enough, crap is a curse word here haha so weird). So first off, they have wannabe gangsters here called chavs. These are kids from the ages of like 12-early 20s who just walka round in large groups and cause havoc. They are stupid though because they are all talk and dont really do anything except dress in sweatsuits haha So anyways...a couple chavs were walking by us as we were talking to this one old fellow. One of them ran up, jumped on my bike and started to ride off. I was about to start chasing him when his friends said that he was only joking. He eventually gave my bike back but my heart was pounding for like 5mins after he left hahahaha I was about to take him down...maybe haha
Quick spiritual though for this week: I read a talked given by Elder Holland in an Ensign yesterday. He talked about the time that the Prophet Joseph Smith spent in Liberty Jail. This moment in his life, other than his martydom, was the worst. Not going into much detail about the conditions he was in or the circumstances the saints and his family were going through, Joseph cried to the Lord for help. He was calmed by the tender voice of the Lord and told that his afflictions would only be but a short season. Elder Holland relates this event to the Saviors life and to our lives. We each will experience a time when we will be in, what Elder Holland calls, a temple-prison. We will all go through hard times. We must remember that the trials we go through are small compared to what Christ went through and the prophets of the church. We must go through trials to learn and gain experience and knowledge; that is the whole purpose of life. Trust in the Lord and in Heavenly Fathers plan. Lean on them when times seem to be tough, He will never forget you. Jesus Christ is our Savior and dearest brother.
I love you all and I hope that this next week will be full of excitement and happiness.
-Elder Jaquish
Monday, October 4, 2010
Mission Football!!!
Hello everyone!
So I'm kinda mad because I didn't get to do email last week because I think the internet hated me and I could not log on to my email. So anywaysss...
Everything is well here in Wales. The past couple of weeks have been rough. Its like nobody wants to talk to us or hold their appointments. We are praying and pondering a lot as how to get this area of the Lord's vineyard progressing. We have many investigators who have the potential to be progressing, but they seem like they dont want to. Its just hard because I just want them to have the same knowledge and happiness that I have, but they reject it. At the end of the day its up to the individual to decide if this is what they want in their life or not. We met this one guy on the street two Sundays ago and is was like a blessing sent from heaven. He expressed his want to turn his life over to the Lord and that nothing would stop him. He stated that he wanted to forget his past life and move on to a life of service. At our return visit two days later, we committed him to be baptized and set a date! The excitement was much and the spirit was definitely present. It was awesome to hear him say "yes, I want to be baptized." He even said he wanted to come to General Conference with us, which added on to the excitement. When we stopped by on Friday to visit and teach him, Elder Cadwallader and I were ready to discuss the restoration with him. We saw him sitting on the couch, or we saw his head. His friend answered the door, but claimed that our investigator was out helping a friend. We knew he wasn't telling the truth, so just to make sure, we walked down the street and stood there for a couple minutes. As we walked back by the window, we saw our investigator slowly sitting back up on the couch. He even saw us outside and we waved at him! haha It was pretty heartbreaking knowing that there was so much potential for that night, but that we got flogged. We tried calling him, but got no response. And we haven't spoken to him since. Its rough but you just have to come to the realization that its up to the person to whether or not they want us to teach them. I hope and pray that he will let us come back and teach him. Your prayers would be much appreciated as well.
So on a lighter note...last Monday we had mission football!!!! This is when the 3 zones in southern wales get together and had a tournament style gameplay. My zone is cardiff and the others are merythr (i don't know if thats how you spell it) and cheltneham. And guess what....we were the champions!!!! We beat the first team 4-1 and the second team 2-0! It was awesome. Funny thing that happened in the first game, while i was showing some of my skills on defense, somebody yelled out "is he english?" hahaha Everybody was surprised at how good i am. It was awesome. Oh and i scored an amazing goal in the first game, even though i was playing sweeper, which is the last defender before the goalie. We had a corner kick and i ran up to receive the short pass in. I did a move to get around a defender and kicked the ball towards the goal. It zoomed by everybody and entered the goal at the upper left corner. Everybody went crazy! One of my teammates gave me the nickname Gillette because my goal was so smooth haha I'm not trying to be prideful or anything, especially after the talk we hear in General Conference, but....I killed it in mission football :D
Spiritual thought: One of the impressions I got while listening to conference pertains to the Book of Mormon. This book is the keystone to our religion. As Joseph Smith puts it, "Without the Book of Mormon and the revelations, we have no religion." The Book of Mormon is essential to the truthfullness of many of the gospel principles. One we gain a witness that this divinely inspired book is true, we will come to find out that Jospeh Smith was a true prophet, and that all of his successors are prophets of God. We will come to know that he receives direct revelation from God for us. We will gain a greater knowledge and testimony that Jesus is the Christ and that He is the saviour of mankind, and that only through His name, we can return to live with our Father in Heaven. I hope that all of you will sincerely read, study and ponder upon the Book of Mormon everyday because it is the most important book on the face of this planet. This is my testimony in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Love you all,
Elder Jaquish
Monday, September 20, 2010
Englands the best!
Hello there!
So it is weird to think but today is my one month mark. haha The days are super long, but the weeks are short and the months shorter.
Anyways...its been a pretty good week in Cwmbran. It was most definitely a busy week! Our zone had training on tuesday, which was basically everything that i had just learned in the MTC. The new training they are implementing in the mission field has already started to be taught to new missionaries in the Preston MTC, which means England is the best haha But they will be starting this new training in the other MTCs very soon. On wednesday I went on exchanges with the Elders in Cardiff because my companion is a district leader, so i was privileged to spent the day in Cardiff city centre and elsewhere for most of the day. It was pretty fun because there are so many different ethnicities in Cardiff. All we have here in Cwmbran is pretty much just welsh and english. Thursday was a pretty big day for me though. We went on another exchange with the Elders in Blackwood; my companion left me to be the senior companion for the day with Elder Leyba. I'll tell you what...it was scary! haha I don't really have too much of a sense of direction around Cwmbran yet so we got lost a few times. We spent almost the whole day just talking to people on the street and knocking on doors because all of our appointments failed. The story gets better though....on our way home we met a Jehovah's Witness. We started talking to him and he kept pointing out the differences in our beliefs, but that he agreed on some of the true doctrine we have. I call this experience a semi-bash because we didn't argue with him too much, but we did ask him a lot of questions in order to get him to contradict himself haha Probably not the best idea but he wasn't interested in our message anyways. He did challenge me to find where in the Bible that Jesus is referred to as Jehovah because they believe Jehovah is God, which we know isn't correct. Hence, that is where my spiritual thought is related to. But before that, the rest of my week...we had a good day on Sunday. We received news that hopefully out chapel will be opening back up within the next two weeks which is awesome!! That will definitely make the work a little easier, meaning it will progress a good amount. Many less actives will come back to church and we will be able to get our investigators to church! Today for pday our zone is getting together to play football, soccer, which makes me very happy! haha Oh and its getting colder here, it was 15 yesterday morning, in celcius that is. I love it.
Okay, so spiritual thought: We all know that the title Jehovah refers to Jesus Christ. I have started to read "Jesus the Christ" again and the chapter that was in my personal studies talked all about this! I love how things coordinate like that. So Elder Talmage refers to a couple scriptures to show that Christ is Jehovah; this is how he does so. Jehovah in Hebrew can be translated to LORD in english. We see that in the Bible when Christ is referred to it is in capital letters as LORD. In Exodus 3:13-14, Christ tells Moses that he should tell the children of Israel that "I AM" sent you to lead them out of Egypt. The name "I AM" has the same meaning as Jehovah. Christ is also referred to in the Bible as the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. This is in referenced in Exodus 6:2-3. In John 8:58 Jesus Christ is referred to as "I AM" which previously stated has the same meaning as Jehovah! Therefore, Jesus Christ is Jehovah. He is our savior redeemer. He is the only way by which we can return to live with our Heavenly Father. He is our loving brother and advocate with the Father. I love this work, the church is true.
-Elder Jaquish
Monday, September 13, 2010
What I wouldn't do for a set of wheels!
Hello everyone!!
Ahhh so I'm in the field now. Crazy huh? I think so. But anyways, my first area is in Cwmbran, Wales. If it were spelled how you say it it would be Cumbran, but its welsh. Its been a crazy past five days. I have tracted so much already! Almost every one of our appointments always cancels so we just go finding. Its okay, I love to talk to people, but the welsh are stubborn. Nice, but very stubborn. We talk to people on the street and sometimes they listen to what we say add then decline our invitation to learn more, most of the time they keep walking as they say not interested, and more than that they yell at us haha Well they dont yell that much but they always say they have their own religion. My favorite is they say "No thank you, I'm a Christian." And we just reply with "Perfect, so are we! We have a message about Jesus Christ and this book teaches all about him." But they always decline. haha I love it. I know its bad to make people look stupid, but you cant help it when then make themselves look stupid with little effort from us. Okay, so enough of my ranting about the people. My companions nmame is Elder Cadwallader and he is from California. He has been out fo about 10 months and hes awesmoe. We have so much in common its unbelievable. One thing we say is that we were matched as companions in the pre-existance because we get along so well haha But nonetheless, I am learning a lot from him; how to be bold and never give up on talking to people, even after hours of rejection. I'm excited to learn a lot more from him.
Okay, so I love Wales. Its a beautiful country with rolling hills and the most green I have ever seen. I've gotten lucky though because since I have been here its only rained once, aside from the current weather. But it rains a lot so I'm looking forward to it haha It was quite enjoyable tracting all day in the rain a few days ago jk It was horrible. One thing that reallys sucks though is that I havent gotten a bike yet so we have had to walk everywhere, which is not fun when half of the city is a hill, which leads me to my first story for yall:
So when we got to Cwmbran, we dropped my stuff off at the flat, or apartment for you Americans haha, and we then proceeded to go tracting. We met this one kid who seemed interested and we gacve him a copy of the Book of Mormon. We got his address and made an appointment to visit him on saturday. Well this address happened to be to a house that was at the top of the hill and was pretty much the last house that you could get to. It took us about an hour to walk there, no joke, and when we finally got there all tired we knocked on the door and the family that answered had never heard of this kids name...figures he would give us a bogus address. Elder Cadwallader and I had a good laugh about the whole situation. But the spirit guides you it ways that you dont always like. We started talking to these kids who were playing rugby in the street, threw the ball with them a couple of times and talked to them because they were facinated that we were from America. One of the boys took us down to his house and we met his mother and talked to her about the Gospel and the Book of Mormon. She took a book and we comitted her to read and pray. She accepted and we have an appointment with her soon! It was really cool to see how the Lord works in mysterious ways. I have faith that she will hold her appointment and won't cancel...hopefully! haha
Okay so second funny story I have. Just as some backround info, Jehovah Witnesses are pretty famous around here as well so a lot of people get us mixed up with them. So while we were walking the other day this group of girls kept saying really loudly that they love birthdays and Christmas. I didnt realize that Jehovah Winesses don't believe in those holidays, but anyways, my companion mentioned why they were saying those things so loudly. So me being me, I turned around and said to them, "You know that we aren't Jehovah Witnesses right?" And the one girl gave me this funny look so I returned the favor and started walking again hahaha I love being a missionary.
Time to get serious with a spiritual though: This actually comes from my personal studies this morning. We have been told that as we gain a greater relationship with Christ and try to understand His atonement that we will find more joy and it will be easier to do the work. So I started reading "Jesus the Christ" the other day. Whilst upon my reading today, it stuck out to me that Heavenly Father didn't want any of His children to fall away and suffer, but it was something that had to happen according to the plan. Because Lucifer was cast out of heaven, man would be tempted. That is why we needed the atonement. We needed a way to rid ourselves of sin and have a way to resist the cunning temptations and ways of Satan. Another thing that intersted me is related to the fall. I believe the scripture is Romans 8:12,18 or something like that, but it says that by one man death was brought upon all, and by one man we will be saved from that death. Jesus Christ is and was the only person by which we can gain salvation. Always strive to lean more about him and His misson on earth. I know that by doing so you will be greatly blessed with the spirit.
"I love this work, the church is true."
-Elder Jaquish
Ahhh so I'm in the field now. Crazy huh? I think so. But anyways, my first area is in Cwmbran, Wales. If it were spelled how you say it it would be Cumbran, but its welsh. Its been a crazy past five days. I have tracted so much already! Almost every one of our appointments always cancels so we just go finding. Its okay, I love to talk to people, but the welsh are stubborn. Nice, but very stubborn. We talk to people on the street and sometimes they listen to what we say add then decline our invitation to learn more, most of the time they keep walking as they say not interested, and more than that they yell at us haha Well they dont yell that much but they always say they have their own religion. My favorite is they say "No thank you, I'm a Christian." And we just reply with "Perfect, so are we! We have a message about Jesus Christ and this book teaches all about him." But they always decline. haha I love it. I know its bad to make people look stupid, but you cant help it when then make themselves look stupid with little effort from us. Okay, so enough of my ranting about the people. My companions nmame is Elder Cadwallader and he is from California. He has been out fo about 10 months and hes awesmoe. We have so much in common its unbelievable. One thing we say is that we were matched as companions in the pre-existance because we get along so well haha But nonetheless, I am learning a lot from him; how to be bold and never give up on talking to people, even after hours of rejection. I'm excited to learn a lot more from him.
Okay, so I love Wales. Its a beautiful country with rolling hills and the most green I have ever seen. I've gotten lucky though because since I have been here its only rained once, aside from the current weather. But it rains a lot so I'm looking forward to it haha It was quite enjoyable tracting all day in the rain a few days ago jk It was horrible. One thing that reallys sucks though is that I havent gotten a bike yet so we have had to walk everywhere, which is not fun when half of the city is a hill, which leads me to my first story for yall:
So when we got to Cwmbran, we dropped my stuff off at the flat, or apartment for you Americans haha, and we then proceeded to go tracting. We met this one kid who seemed interested and we gacve him a copy of the Book of Mormon. We got his address and made an appointment to visit him on saturday. Well this address happened to be to a house that was at the top of the hill and was pretty much the last house that you could get to. It took us about an hour to walk there, no joke, and when we finally got there all tired we knocked on the door and the family that answered had never heard of this kids name...figures he would give us a bogus address. Elder Cadwallader and I had a good laugh about the whole situation. But the spirit guides you it ways that you dont always like. We started talking to these kids who were playing rugby in the street, threw the ball with them a couple of times and talked to them because they were facinated that we were from America. One of the boys took us down to his house and we met his mother and talked to her about the Gospel and the Book of Mormon. She took a book and we comitted her to read and pray. She accepted and we have an appointment with her soon! It was really cool to see how the Lord works in mysterious ways. I have faith that she will hold her appointment and won't cancel...hopefully! haha
Okay so second funny story I have. Just as some backround info, Jehovah Witnesses are pretty famous around here as well so a lot of people get us mixed up with them. So while we were walking the other day this group of girls kept saying really loudly that they love birthdays and Christmas. I didnt realize that Jehovah Winesses don't believe in those holidays, but anyways, my companion mentioned why they were saying those things so loudly. So me being me, I turned around and said to them, "You know that we aren't Jehovah Witnesses right?" And the one girl gave me this funny look so I returned the favor and started walking again hahaha I love being a missionary.
Time to get serious with a spiritual though: This actually comes from my personal studies this morning. We have been told that as we gain a greater relationship with Christ and try to understand His atonement that we will find more joy and it will be easier to do the work. So I started reading "Jesus the Christ" the other day. Whilst upon my reading today, it stuck out to me that Heavenly Father didn't want any of His children to fall away and suffer, but it was something that had to happen according to the plan. Because Lucifer was cast out of heaven, man would be tempted. That is why we needed the atonement. We needed a way to rid ourselves of sin and have a way to resist the cunning temptations and ways of Satan. Another thing that intersted me is related to the fall. I believe the scripture is Romans 8:12,18 or something like that, but it says that by one man death was brought upon all, and by one man we will be saved from that death. Jesus Christ is and was the only person by which we can gain salvation. Always strive to lean more about him and His misson on earth. I know that by doing so you will be greatly blessed with the spirit.
"I love this work, the church is true."
-Elder Jaquish
Friday, September 10, 2010
Out of Training!!
As of September 6th Jayson is officially out of training and should now be at his mission home. He said the trip from Preston to Birmimgham should take around 2 hours. There is now a pictures page available to see. Along with his email he sent a picture of the missionaries that were at the MTC with him for the past 2 1/2 weeks!
Thursday, September 2, 2010
More news from England!
Cherrio everyone!
So England is treating me....okay. I somehow got the flu a couple days ago and it really was not fun. I spent a whole day in my room sleeping. But, im all better now and and glad to be back at work!! I still love it here. Finally it has stopped raining everyday here haha And we have been playing lots of football (soccer)! It awesome. Cool thing that has happened so far is after one week of being here they sent us out to Manchester City Centre to proselyte! It was way scary. My companion and I walked around and "talked" to lots of people. Most ignored us or just said hi or no thanks. A few we talked to for a couple minutes. This one guy from Afghanistan who was muslim talked to us for a while. I taught him a lot of doctrine but he wasnt very receptive to it. He kinda just laughed and he actually started teaching us! haha I was like who is this guy, to be teaching me?! Then he got into politics, which is no good. I tried getting away multiple times but was unsuccessful. Thankfully, it was time for us to board the train to go back to Chorley. It was such a learning experience and wayyy harder than i thought. We definitely have a lot to improve on. But good news...we getting to go knocking on doors this friday! So im excited about that. Other than that, we went on a church history tour and got to see where Pres. Hinckley stayed when he was in Preston on his mission before he went to London. Also, we went to this beautiful little village where Heber C. Kimball and Joseph Fielding taught. It was a spiritual experience and so much fun.
Spiritual thought:
Elder Bednar said in a devotional that it is not enough to go on a mission, but we need to strive to BECOME a missionary. We need to work hard and remember that it is the Lord's time and work. All members of this church should strive to live the gospel and become converted, not just convinced that this is the true gospel. I know that this IS the true restored gospel of Christ. Promise that i will have a better thought next time :)
-Elder Jaquish
Saturday, August 28, 2010
First news from England
Hello everyone!!
So the MTC here in England is beautiful! And so is the country, I love it already!! And the best part is that its always cool outside, which makes me very happy. Anyways, the plane ride over here was okay. I didnt really sleep on the plane from Atlanta to Manchester but I think that's only because I was so excited. There are 29 missionaries here at this MTC, crazy small huh? They never get more than 50 or 60 which is amazing because the MTC in Provo is huge! The countries that are represented here are America, France, Italy, England, South Africa, Swaziland, India, Sri Lanka and
Albania. Its so cool to hear all of the different accents all the time. And I think I'm starting to get an english accent on my own. I always seem to catch myself saying certains words and its awesome haha I have been working here nonstop since I got here Friday morning. The schedule is jam packed, but I love it. My companion's name is Elder Grudzien and he is from South Carolina. We all have been having classroom instructions and devotionals to personal and companion study time. Its gonna take some time for me to get used to how quickly this email goes because its already time to go! Ahhh! I promise I will tell you more next time. If you send me an email, I cant email back so if you would please email me your physical address. I love this work and am excited to get into the field!
-Elder Jaquish
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Leaving for England!
Jayson has left for Manchester, England today. We all will miss him on his journey...
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