So, as I was amidst my pondering session on Monday morning, I realised that I have been out here in England for 10 months. Let me repeat that, ten months has gone by in the blink of an eye!! I can't believe how quickly time is going by nowadays. Oh, speaking of time, this transfer has already gone by and today starts a new one! Elder Ruesch and I are staying together here in Tamworth, which I'm very excited about!
The past week and a half has been lovely! Well, except for last Thursday when I had the fly bug. It was not very fun to have to sit in the flat all day, but I did catch up on some crucial sleep that catalysed my recovery. Also, I had my companion give me a blessing so that helped too :) We were back out on our bikes workin the next day. Now I just have this rubbish cough to put up with haha Okay, that's enough complaining, lets talk about the good things that happened this week!
David has a baptismal date!!!! Yes, he accepted the date of July 10th! He has requested his baptism be on a Sunday because he pretty much cant get off of work, which is alright. He is doing so well though! He is already telling everyone that he is getting baptised. Oh, and he asked us for more pass-along cards because he ran out! haha David is the man. We retaught him the Restoration lesson on Monday, which was a success. He told us that he had a super warm feeling inside of him, like he was getting emotional; he has definitely felt the spirit testify to him that this gospel is true! Gaynor is still a little iffy, but that's alright. It will just take some time for her. But Spencer loves church! He will most likely get baptised when he turns 8.
Anthony is doing very well! He is receiving help from the Lord each day to fight off Satan and his desire to read and pray more has gone up!! He is getting involved with YSA now so that's a great blessing. It will help him mucho to be around people his age who live the high moral standards that he is striving to keep. Oh, something cool that happened was that in the lesson at institute they talked about finances, which means they brought up the law of tithing, a lesson we hadn't taught Anthony yet. He asked us about when we saw him the other day, so we explained it briefly to him just to answer his question (we are planning to teach the full lesson to him in the very near future). He pretty much said that he understands and is prepared to pay a full tithe when he gets baptised! So that was a great blessing for Anthony this week.
I think one of the most eventful days that was full of unfortunate events was yesterday, thus why I'm telling y'all about it! So the day started off nice, we were going to contact a referral. As I was riding down the street, this car was driving closely behind me. I was trying to figure out why it didn't go past me because there wasn't any cars on the other side of the road, but nonetheless, I decided to ride up on the sidewalk to let it go by. This is when I realised that it was a hearse that was driving behind me and that I was holding up a funeral! hahahaha I just kinda chuckled and started riding again. Later on that morning, I almost got ran over by car car while talking to someone on the street. I think I was trying to be told something by someone of which I didn't like...hahaha But anyways, the day went on. Our dinner appointment was the scene of the next unfortunate event. My companion told the family that I could touch my elbow with my tongue, they were amazed and begged me to do it. Now I will be remembered by that family as the Elder who is pretty much a freak hahaha The next thing happened at the very end of the day. We had 5 minutes left before we had to go in for the night, so we decided to try to speak to one more person each. I spotted my victim walking on a nearby path, so I rode over and started speaking to him. As I was talking, he started to look towards the bushes and just stand there with his back to me. After 30 seconds of silence, I asked him if he was looking for something or if he was peeing. He mumbled some words of which i couldn't understand. But what I did hear was some kind of liquid hitting the grass where he was standing, so I got the answer to my question! hahahahahaha Needless to say, I had a pretty good journal entry for yesterday hahaha Good times on the mission.Good laughs and lots of fun sharing the gospel to a variety of people!
My spiritual thought will be from Moroni 9:25. This thought goes out to anyone who is struggling with whatever kind of trial in their life at the moment. Whoever you may be, replace "my son" with your name and read the verse. Focus on the later part of the scripture after the semicolon. Please, always remember that there is someone who loves you. There is someone who can perfectly relate to anything that's is happening in your life. Have faith that Christ is there. Have hope that through Him, your future is bright. Please allow yourself to be a partaker of His sacrifice for you, and receive rest in your soul.
I love you all and hope that everything during the week goes according to plan. Follow the spirit in all things! Be excited for my email next week! haha
-Elder Jaquish
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Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Miracles in Tamworth!
Hello everyone!
This was wonderful! Lots of miracles are happening here in Tamworth! To start off, I would like to talk about Anthony. So we did what our mission president told us to do, we gave him some breathing space. His fellowshipper in the ward, Bro. Siswick, called him and asked him how things were. Anthony told him pretty much that he was struggling with a particular commandment and just doesnt think he can live it. Bro. Siswick said that thats okay, that he could still come to church and everything. Anthony was surprised and said that yes he did want to come back to church! That he wants to see us again and start over! We ran into Anthony on Wednesday in town centre and set up an appointment to see him the next day. At our appointment, he said that he was sorry for the text message he sent us and doesnt feel that way anymore. He knows that he shouldnt have thrown the gospel out the door and that he wants to come back and just put everything behind him! We sorted everything out and read a few scriptures with him to bring the spirit. I know that Anthony felt the spirit once again and regrets his actions. He knows that he has a testimony and has the faith that these experiences he has gone through will do nothing but strengthen his testimony! He came to church yesterday and is doing brilliant! This has definitely boosted my testimony that the Lord is merciful to his children. That this work is His! He will not let Satan win!! I have been blessed to see this great miracle happen, of which I am grateful so dearly for.
Miracle #2 David is doing well. We hadent been in contact with him for a week because he had surgery and the family was busy. His wife Gaynor sent us a text saying that she didnt want to learn or go to church anymore, that its just not for her. We finally saw David on friday when we tried by his house. He said that he thinks Gaynor is just in a phase thing and that she will want to start learning again haha David is so cool. He and his son Spencer came to church yesterday!! David even took some pass-along cards to give to his co-workers! When I asked him about why he took the cards, his reply was, "People at work has been asking me why I have staopped drinking tea and coffee, and I told them it was because I was getting into religion and everything." Total boss! haha David is so ready for a baptismal date!
Miracle #3 We had a new face at church today!!! Rachael came to church today and enjoyed it. Rachael is the sister of an investigator named Chris who was also suppossed to come, but was called into work. Rachael ended up knowing a couple ladies at church who she used to go to school with so that was awesome!!! Hopefully we will be able to start teaching her as well now.
Just one quick funny story before I close. Elder Ruesch and I were riding down this road on Saturday when this car goes by with a woman sticking her head out the window yelling, "Hey there gorgeous" at us. I just kinda chuckled and kept riding. I then realised that they got held up at the red light just up the road. I caught up to the car and stopped right next to it. The passenger was just a laughing as she looked over at me; I then motioned for them to roll down the window. The passenger was shaking her head no while she was getting super embarrassed, but the driver rolled down the window anyways! I said, "Hey whats up?!" and just smiled at them. Then I pulled a pass-along card out and gave it to the lady and said something clever hahahaha She was bright red in the face, it was hilarious. I said my goodbyes and road off hahahahaha Good stuff
Anyways, here is some spiritual food for the day. There is a key word that is throughout all of the Book of Mormon, that word being remember. It seems to be that everytime one nation went wicked, the Lord sent his servants to "stir the people up to rememberance." But why did He want the people to remember? I believe its because it compels oneself to become humble. Only when we are humble will the Lord make us strong. If we remember how merciful the Lord has been to us, and give Him gratitude for what we have, only then will we receive more. We must always be in a state of progression to gain entrance into the Kingdom of our God. This is why it is important to always remember.
Have a great week everyone! I hope that by some chance my words this week will compel someone to look for miracles that are occuring in their life. Godbless.
-Elder Jaquish
This was wonderful! Lots of miracles are happening here in Tamworth! To start off, I would like to talk about Anthony. So we did what our mission president told us to do, we gave him some breathing space. His fellowshipper in the ward, Bro. Siswick, called him and asked him how things were. Anthony told him pretty much that he was struggling with a particular commandment and just doesnt think he can live it. Bro. Siswick said that thats okay, that he could still come to church and everything. Anthony was surprised and said that yes he did want to come back to church! That he wants to see us again and start over! We ran into Anthony on Wednesday in town centre and set up an appointment to see him the next day. At our appointment, he said that he was sorry for the text message he sent us and doesnt feel that way anymore. He knows that he shouldnt have thrown the gospel out the door and that he wants to come back and just put everything behind him! We sorted everything out and read a few scriptures with him to bring the spirit. I know that Anthony felt the spirit once again and regrets his actions. He knows that he has a testimony and has the faith that these experiences he has gone through will do nothing but strengthen his testimony! He came to church yesterday and is doing brilliant! This has definitely boosted my testimony that the Lord is merciful to his children. That this work is His! He will not let Satan win!! I have been blessed to see this great miracle happen, of which I am grateful so dearly for.
Miracle #2 David is doing well. We hadent been in contact with him for a week because he had surgery and the family was busy. His wife Gaynor sent us a text saying that she didnt want to learn or go to church anymore, that its just not for her. We finally saw David on friday when we tried by his house. He said that he thinks Gaynor is just in a phase thing and that she will want to start learning again haha David is so cool. He and his son Spencer came to church yesterday!! David even took some pass-along cards to give to his co-workers! When I asked him about why he took the cards, his reply was, "People at work has been asking me why I have staopped drinking tea and coffee, and I told them it was because I was getting into religion and everything." Total boss! haha David is so ready for a baptismal date!
Miracle #3 We had a new face at church today!!! Rachael came to church today and enjoyed it. Rachael is the sister of an investigator named Chris who was also suppossed to come, but was called into work. Rachael ended up knowing a couple ladies at church who she used to go to school with so that was awesome!!! Hopefully we will be able to start teaching her as well now.
Just one quick funny story before I close. Elder Ruesch and I were riding down this road on Saturday when this car goes by with a woman sticking her head out the window yelling, "Hey there gorgeous" at us. I just kinda chuckled and kept riding. I then realised that they got held up at the red light just up the road. I caught up to the car and stopped right next to it. The passenger was just a laughing as she looked over at me; I then motioned for them to roll down the window. The passenger was shaking her head no while she was getting super embarrassed, but the driver rolled down the window anyways! I said, "Hey whats up?!" and just smiled at them. Then I pulled a pass-along card out and gave it to the lady and said something clever hahahaha She was bright red in the face, it was hilarious. I said my goodbyes and road off hahahahaha Good stuff
Anyways, here is some spiritual food for the day. There is a key word that is throughout all of the Book of Mormon, that word being remember. It seems to be that everytime one nation went wicked, the Lord sent his servants to "stir the people up to rememberance." But why did He want the people to remember? I believe its because it compels oneself to become humble. Only when we are humble will the Lord make us strong. If we remember how merciful the Lord has been to us, and give Him gratitude for what we have, only then will we receive more. We must always be in a state of progression to gain entrance into the Kingdom of our God. This is why it is important to always remember.
Have a great week everyone! I hope that by some chance my words this week will compel someone to look for miracles that are occuring in their life. Godbless.
-Elder Jaquish
Monday, June 6, 2011
Ups and Downs
Hey everyone! You alright?
So my mind cannot wrap around the fact that it is already June 6th. Time is flying by quickly!! crazyness...
This week was one filled with ups and downs. I will start off with the bad news first. So does everyone remember Anthony? Well he was like our most solid friend whom we were teaching; he was dead set on being baptised and had received a spiritual witness that the church is true. He recently sent us a text at the beginning of the week saying that he doesnt want us to call him at all and that hes leaving the church. Last monday we had a really good lesson with him about the Atonement and how he can sow up and wound that we have from sin. He understood it, but still wanted to rely somewhat on science. After having the spirit of discernment with us, we taught to his needs and eventually he confessed to breaking a commandment. He has been struggling with a specific commandment all his life and Satan had a strong hold on his life. With the help of the gospel though, that grip lessened quite quickly; it was a miracle if ive ever seen one! Well, Anthony slipped the week before and hadent been reading his scriptures and praying every day. He allowed Satan to open the door once again, but this time, we caught him before he wrapped his filthy hands on our friend. After our lesson, Anthony was back to his normal self, testifying that the gospel is true and that he is nothing without it. He felt the spirit and we could see it in him once again. All was good when we left, or so we thought. Thats when we got the text message from him the next day. I tell you what, my companion and I had our hearts drop, but it didnt hurt ironically. We talked about it and both of us had the feeling that it wasnt over with Anthony. This text message was too sudden and wasnt like him. We looked to our mission president for counsel and he told us to leave Anthony alone for a bit, he has his agency and he knows where the church is in case he wants to come back. All he told us to do is write our testimonies and slip them through his mail slot. Thats all we can do. Im just praying for the best to happen. Its not over though...
Everyone else is doing well. David had surgery this week so they werent able to make it to church. Kieron and Keely are doing really well! We had a couple of spiritual lessons with them this week and they want it. When it came down to Sunday though, they sent us a text saying that Kieron was sick so they couldnt make it to church. Lame huh? Once again though its their agency. aghhhhh haha Such is life. I just recently heard that phrase so its my new favourite one to use haha Anyways, so yeah it was a bummer to have no investigators at church, but we had 7 returning members come so that was a blessing!
One cool thing that is happening in the Europe Area that has been set forth by the Area Presidency is a special June fast. Yesterday, we all fasted our voice of warning and testimony to be heard among all who live in Europe. We fasted for those who have not been introduced to the true gospel or who have fallen away, that they would come back. A challenge was set forth to every member to bring one new face to church every Sunday in the month of June. Im pretty excited about this! I have faith that it will bring many miracles to Europe. Many amazing teaching opportunities will arise is response to this challenege given us by General Authorities!!!
I learned something cool this week in personal study that I want to share with everyone! I think that Ether 12 is my new favourite chapter ever haha I want to specifically pay attention to verse 7. Moroni is talking about how because of faith, Christ has shown himself to many. He has stretched forth his hand because some one had faith. It made me think of dispensations and what constitutes a new one to begin. Its because at least one person has exceeding faith in Christ to the point that this one small voice will be heard among many people. I know that in these last days, that one small voice was Joseph Smith, who from humble beginnings, has brought forth the restoration of the everlasting gospel of Jesus Christ. Also that through faith, we may be partakers of the heavenly gift that our Saviour has offered us thorugh his Atonement. I know these things to be true. I challenege everyone to read this chapter in their own time and think about how they can increase their faith! :)
Love you all and best wishes for a great week!
So my mind cannot wrap around the fact that it is already June 6th. Time is flying by quickly!! crazyness...
This week was one filled with ups and downs. I will start off with the bad news first. So does everyone remember Anthony? Well he was like our most solid friend whom we were teaching; he was dead set on being baptised and had received a spiritual witness that the church is true. He recently sent us a text at the beginning of the week saying that he doesnt want us to call him at all and that hes leaving the church. Last monday we had a really good lesson with him about the Atonement and how he can sow up and wound that we have from sin. He understood it, but still wanted to rely somewhat on science. After having the spirit of discernment with us, we taught to his needs and eventually he confessed to breaking a commandment. He has been struggling with a specific commandment all his life and Satan had a strong hold on his life. With the help of the gospel though, that grip lessened quite quickly; it was a miracle if ive ever seen one! Well, Anthony slipped the week before and hadent been reading his scriptures and praying every day. He allowed Satan to open the door once again, but this time, we caught him before he wrapped his filthy hands on our friend. After our lesson, Anthony was back to his normal self, testifying that the gospel is true and that he is nothing without it. He felt the spirit and we could see it in him once again. All was good when we left, or so we thought. Thats when we got the text message from him the next day. I tell you what, my companion and I had our hearts drop, but it didnt hurt ironically. We talked about it and both of us had the feeling that it wasnt over with Anthony. This text message was too sudden and wasnt like him. We looked to our mission president for counsel and he told us to leave Anthony alone for a bit, he has his agency and he knows where the church is in case he wants to come back. All he told us to do is write our testimonies and slip them through his mail slot. Thats all we can do. Im just praying for the best to happen. Its not over though...
Everyone else is doing well. David had surgery this week so they werent able to make it to church. Kieron and Keely are doing really well! We had a couple of spiritual lessons with them this week and they want it. When it came down to Sunday though, they sent us a text saying that Kieron was sick so they couldnt make it to church. Lame huh? Once again though its their agency. aghhhhh haha Such is life. I just recently heard that phrase so its my new favourite one to use haha Anyways, so yeah it was a bummer to have no investigators at church, but we had 7 returning members come so that was a blessing!
One cool thing that is happening in the Europe Area that has been set forth by the Area Presidency is a special June fast. Yesterday, we all fasted our voice of warning and testimony to be heard among all who live in Europe. We fasted for those who have not been introduced to the true gospel or who have fallen away, that they would come back. A challenge was set forth to every member to bring one new face to church every Sunday in the month of June. Im pretty excited about this! I have faith that it will bring many miracles to Europe. Many amazing teaching opportunities will arise is response to this challenege given us by General Authorities!!!
I learned something cool this week in personal study that I want to share with everyone! I think that Ether 12 is my new favourite chapter ever haha I want to specifically pay attention to verse 7. Moroni is talking about how because of faith, Christ has shown himself to many. He has stretched forth his hand because some one had faith. It made me think of dispensations and what constitutes a new one to begin. Its because at least one person has exceeding faith in Christ to the point that this one small voice will be heard among many people. I know that in these last days, that one small voice was Joseph Smith, who from humble beginnings, has brought forth the restoration of the everlasting gospel of Jesus Christ. Also that through faith, we may be partakers of the heavenly gift that our Saviour has offered us thorugh his Atonement. I know these things to be true. I challenege everyone to read this chapter in their own time and think about how they can increase their faith! :)
Love you all and best wishes for a great week!
Happy Birthday Dad!
So I wanted to start off my email by giving my dad a shoutout saying HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Sorry its one day late haha I hope it was a good one :)
This past week has been a really good one! Everybody we are teachig is still progressing really smoothly. Blessings! haha One cool thing we did this wee is teach the Faith in God kids (8yrs old and up) how to play baseball! That was super fun! And best of all, David and Gaynor brought their son Spencer! SO that was some sweet fellowship, even though Gaynor got hit in the face ahahaha But good news is that she didnt get a black eye! haha She was cool with the whole thing anyways. We have had a couple good lessons with them this week that has shown some progress! Of course David is full throttle with everything its Gaynor that is having a hard time with it all. We are teaching simple, but strong lessongs about the family and how the gospel blesses them. They are praying as a family and reading the scriptures together so thats cool! Ohhhh, and David said the closing prayer a couple days ago!!! Just brilliant! They have been coming to church the past few weeks so they are doing solid right now. Hopefully we can commit them to be baptised soon.
Another family we are woprking with is Kieron and Keely. They are doing well also! We had a great lesson with them the other day, talking about what they want in life and if we can help, or really if they want our help. They really want a fresh start in life and to have their baby girl growing up ion the proper home. Along with many other people in England, Kieron is struggling to find a job. We shared some scritptures that helped him see that God will help him if he turns to him. He is reaing the Book of Mormon like crazy! Hes a cool guy who wants the best for his family, and the gospel can give them that. We plan on teaching them the Plan of Happiness this week so they can really see how their family can be together forever. The gospel is so powerful to the hearts of men.
Anthony is doing really well! He had some trials this week with receiving a blessing from God, and then loosing it. He got a job, but just didnt perform to his potential. He fell ill his first night on the job and ended up loosing it. When we met up with the the following day, he told us that he thinks it was just a test from God to see how commited he is to the gospel. Anthony told us that this trial did not shake his faith at all! He is totally ready for his baptism in June! He just needs to be interviewed by our mision president one more time.
This past weekend we had stake conference, which was actually a mulit-stake conference for the whole of Uk and Ireland. It was broadcasted via satellite from Salt Lake. The speakers were Elder Kearon of the 70, Sis Thompson from the presidence of the Relief Society Elder L. Tom Perry from the 12 and President Monson! They mainly talked about reaching out to those who are lost. That our duty as members is to be a rescuer. If we magnify our callings we will receive great blessings. We need to have the faith to know that we will recognise those who need rescuing. It was a brilliant conference that really boosted everyones desire to do missionary work for everyone! We should never give up because people can change. It was so spiritually feeding; it was amazing.
I just encourage everyone to reach out to one pariticualr person who has been on their mind for a while, and help them. I know that the Saviour's love is real.
I hope everyone has a wondefrful week!
-Elder Jaquish
This past week has been a really good one! Everybody we are teachig is still progressing really smoothly. Blessings! haha One cool thing we did this wee is teach the Faith in God kids (8yrs old and up) how to play baseball! That was super fun! And best of all, David and Gaynor brought their son Spencer! SO that was some sweet fellowship, even though Gaynor got hit in the face ahahaha But good news is that she didnt get a black eye! haha She was cool with the whole thing anyways. We have had a couple good lessons with them this week that has shown some progress! Of course David is full throttle with everything its Gaynor that is having a hard time with it all. We are teaching simple, but strong lessongs about the family and how the gospel blesses them. They are praying as a family and reading the scriptures together so thats cool! Ohhhh, and David said the closing prayer a couple days ago!!! Just brilliant! They have been coming to church the past few weeks so they are doing solid right now. Hopefully we can commit them to be baptised soon.
Another family we are woprking with is Kieron and Keely. They are doing well also! We had a great lesson with them the other day, talking about what they want in life and if we can help, or really if they want our help. They really want a fresh start in life and to have their baby girl growing up ion the proper home. Along with many other people in England, Kieron is struggling to find a job. We shared some scritptures that helped him see that God will help him if he turns to him. He is reaing the Book of Mormon like crazy! Hes a cool guy who wants the best for his family, and the gospel can give them that. We plan on teaching them the Plan of Happiness this week so they can really see how their family can be together forever. The gospel is so powerful to the hearts of men.
Anthony is doing really well! He had some trials this week with receiving a blessing from God, and then loosing it. He got a job, but just didnt perform to his potential. He fell ill his first night on the job and ended up loosing it. When we met up with the the following day, he told us that he thinks it was just a test from God to see how commited he is to the gospel. Anthony told us that this trial did not shake his faith at all! He is totally ready for his baptism in June! He just needs to be interviewed by our mision president one more time.
This past weekend we had stake conference, which was actually a mulit-stake conference for the whole of Uk and Ireland. It was broadcasted via satellite from Salt Lake. The speakers were Elder Kearon of the 70, Sis Thompson from the presidence of the Relief Society Elder L. Tom Perry from the 12 and President Monson! They mainly talked about reaching out to those who are lost. That our duty as members is to be a rescuer. If we magnify our callings we will receive great blessings. We need to have the faith to know that we will recognise those who need rescuing. It was a brilliant conference that really boosted everyones desire to do missionary work for everyone! We should never give up because people can change. It was so spiritually feeding; it was amazing.
I just encourage everyone to reach out to one pariticualr person who has been on their mind for a while, and help them. I know that the Saviour's love is real.
I hope everyone has a wondefrful week!
-Elder Jaquish
People Watching!
Good morning!!
Just to start off my email, I want to tell yall about something funny that just happened here in the library...These women came in here talking really loud and joking and laughing with each other, juts being loud. This older gentleman said something to the effect of asking them if they would be quiet because he was studying. They just brushed his plea off and laughed. Then these two guys started pretty much telling the girls off for being rude! hahaha If was so funny! I love easedropping (sp?). It brings me back to the days of people watching at BYU. Hmmmm, Im a creep hahahah jk
Anyways! This past week has been amazing! We have had some wonderful lesson with some good friends. The first one was with a family. The husband and wife names are David and Gaynor. They have a young 5 yr old boy named Spencer who is the man! haha David had a baptismal date, but wasnt able to keep it because he was just too busy with work and we couldnt visit with them hardly. Well we finally got to have a lesson with just Gaynor on tuesday. We talked mainly about families and how they can be blessed through the Gospel of Christ. We shared with her "The Family: A Proclamtion to the World." She really liked it and enjoyed our visit. Then we were able to see them again, the whole family this time, on saturday. We pretty much did an overview of the Resortation and answered some questions they had. It went really well! We invited them to come to church, of which they were a little not sure about it. But I can tell you right now that miracles happen!! The whole family came to church for all 3 hours of church! And they enjoyed it! We even went over to their house last night and taught a lesson on top of that! They were excited about us coming over! We taught them the Gospel of Jesus Christ and watched a DVD with them about the life of Christ. Everything went so well! The spirit was supper strong. They have some great potential to be baptised within the coming weeks! It is just up to the Lord what happens as long as we work our hardest!
Another sweet experience that happened this week involved Anthony, our most solid investigator with a baptismal date. He just moved house and we were able to help him along with some members from the ward. Anthony has really made friends with the Siswick family; they usually take him to church. Well when brother Siswick was helping with the move, Anthony asked him if he would baptise him!!!! And the best part is that we have been trying to get Anthony to be baptised earlier than planned because of his giant progress and he prayed about it and got his answer! He will be baptised a week earlier making the date June 18th! Exciting huh?!?! On Sunday, he asked us if we would give him a blessing of comfort to resist temptation from Satan because he really wants to be baptised! He asked me to give the blessing and boy was the spirit strong! I could felt the Lord speaking through me. It was awesome :)
We have another cool young family that we are teaching right now as well! Their names are Kieron and Keely. We have been having some really spiritual lessons with Kieron and we have even invited him to be baptised! He really wants to be baptised, so we told him to pray about June 18th and see if Heavenly Father wants him to be baptised then. He was supposed to come to church yesterday, but never showed up. I just think they slept in and were slightly lazy hahaha Its all good though!
My spiritual thought for this week will go along with all the storied I have mentioned in this email. The scripture is found in Mormon 9:19-20. This is a legendary chapter so everyone should read it! haha But these specific verses refer to miracles and why lots of people say that there are none in todays world. I can tell you right now that there are miracles happeneing all around us! You have just read about 3 that are happening here in Tamworth. God is an unchangleable being. He has alwaysed performed miracles, therefore, he still does perform them today! We just have to be believing, doubting nothing. If we have faith, we can see miracles, or ever be a part of one! It is because of our unbelief that we dont receive these special blessings. Trust in the God that you know and love, for he truly is an unchangeable person! He loves us all and will continue to bless us, if we just have faith. I know this is true.
I hope everyone has a brilliant week! Take care :)
Just to start off my email, I want to tell yall about something funny that just happened here in the library...These women came in here talking really loud and joking and laughing with each other, juts being loud. This older gentleman said something to the effect of asking them if they would be quiet because he was studying. They just brushed his plea off and laughed. Then these two guys started pretty much telling the girls off for being rude! hahaha If was so funny! I love easedropping (sp?). It brings me back to the days of people watching at BYU. Hmmmm, Im a creep hahahah jk
Anyways! This past week has been amazing! We have had some wonderful lesson with some good friends. The first one was with a family. The husband and wife names are David and Gaynor. They have a young 5 yr old boy named Spencer who is the man! haha David had a baptismal date, but wasnt able to keep it because he was just too busy with work and we couldnt visit with them hardly. Well we finally got to have a lesson with just Gaynor on tuesday. We talked mainly about families and how they can be blessed through the Gospel of Christ. We shared with her "The Family: A Proclamtion to the World." She really liked it and enjoyed our visit. Then we were able to see them again, the whole family this time, on saturday. We pretty much did an overview of the Resortation and answered some questions they had. It went really well! We invited them to come to church, of which they were a little not sure about it. But I can tell you right now that miracles happen!! The whole family came to church for all 3 hours of church! And they enjoyed it! We even went over to their house last night and taught a lesson on top of that! They were excited about us coming over! We taught them the Gospel of Jesus Christ and watched a DVD with them about the life of Christ. Everything went so well! The spirit was supper strong. They have some great potential to be baptised within the coming weeks! It is just up to the Lord what happens as long as we work our hardest!
Another sweet experience that happened this week involved Anthony, our most solid investigator with a baptismal date. He just moved house and we were able to help him along with some members from the ward. Anthony has really made friends with the Siswick family; they usually take him to church. Well when brother Siswick was helping with the move, Anthony asked him if he would baptise him!!!! And the best part is that we have been trying to get Anthony to be baptised earlier than planned because of his giant progress and he prayed about it and got his answer! He will be baptised a week earlier making the date June 18th! Exciting huh?!?! On Sunday, he asked us if we would give him a blessing of comfort to resist temptation from Satan because he really wants to be baptised! He asked me to give the blessing and boy was the spirit strong! I could felt the Lord speaking through me. It was awesome :)
We have another cool young family that we are teaching right now as well! Their names are Kieron and Keely. We have been having some really spiritual lessons with Kieron and we have even invited him to be baptised! He really wants to be baptised, so we told him to pray about June 18th and see if Heavenly Father wants him to be baptised then. He was supposed to come to church yesterday, but never showed up. I just think they slept in and were slightly lazy hahaha Its all good though!
My spiritual thought for this week will go along with all the storied I have mentioned in this email. The scripture is found in Mormon 9:19-20. This is a legendary chapter so everyone should read it! haha But these specific verses refer to miracles and why lots of people say that there are none in todays world. I can tell you right now that there are miracles happeneing all around us! You have just read about 3 that are happening here in Tamworth. God is an unchangleable being. He has alwaysed performed miracles, therefore, he still does perform them today! We just have to be believing, doubting nothing. If we have faith, we can see miracles, or ever be a part of one! It is because of our unbelief that we dont receive these special blessings. Trust in the God that you know and love, for he truly is an unchangeable person! He loves us all and will continue to bless us, if we just have faith. I know this is true.
I hope everyone has a brilliant week! Take care :)
Reporting from Tamworth, England!
Hello everyone and good morning!
So just an apdate on whats happening here, I recently got transfered to Tamworth! Which is slightly funny because its pretty much just up the road from my last area in Wolverhampton! haha Im still in the same stake as before, so thats pretty cool. My new companion's name is Elder Ruesch. When I was in Wales, I went on exchange with Elder Ruesch one time and so Ive worked with him before. He is the man!!! I really love this guy. He is so funny and works super hard. We are already having a blast with each other. Good things will happen here in Tamworth over the next 6 weeks. We are teaching a lot of people at this moment! We have one friend named Anthony who is pretty solid! He had a baptismal date next month so thats wayy exciting! And we have so many more people that we are teaching that are soooo close to receiving a batismal date. All together, we are teaching 8+ people!!! This makes me very excited because it gives us the opportunity to help so many people. I have already fallen in love with our friends here that we are teaching the gospel to to help them improve their lives and apply restored truth into their lives. They is some complicated people here though that it will take a lot of mighty prayer and fasting to know what to do to help them. Some have had a rough life that has left them with trust issuses. They absolutely need the gospel in their lives, its just a matter of how can we help them trust that the gospel can help them; how can they trust in the Lord who they think has been absent from their lives for so long. It will be a test, but I know that the Lord will be with us.
Ummm, so i have a quick funny story before I share a spiritual thought...So last night we hosted a missionary fireside at the chapel for the members to help them be better missionaries. Well, on the way home, we were going down this bike trail that is next to this grassy hill. I decided to be cool and start riding down the hill to do a little "off-road adventure." I saw that a small ditch was coming in my path and I thought it was the perfect opportunity to do a sweet jump. As I got nearer to the ditch, I realised that it was deeper than I thought and that in the bottom of it was cement. It was too late to bail, so I hit the ditch and pretty much flew over the front of my handlebars while still holding on to the bike. Luckily though, before I landed on the grass, I tucked in my shoulder to catch my fall. I stood up really quick and just busted out in laughter! My companion caught up to me and well like what the heck are you doing?!?! We just started laughing even more. The most impressing of this all is that I didnt get any grass stains on my suit!! hahahahaha Awesome huh? Yeah, Im the coolest ever...
So, spiritual thought:
Hmmmm, I didnt realise the time so this one will be quick. I just want to encourage everyone to ready 2 Nephi 2. Agency, or free will, is sooooo crucial to the plan. Just think about the influence of agency upon everyone.
Love you all, take care!
-Elder Jaquish
So just an apdate on whats happening here, I recently got transfered to Tamworth! Which is slightly funny because its pretty much just up the road from my last area in Wolverhampton! haha Im still in the same stake as before, so thats pretty cool. My new companion's name is Elder Ruesch. When I was in Wales, I went on exchange with Elder Ruesch one time and so Ive worked with him before. He is the man!!! I really love this guy. He is so funny and works super hard. We are already having a blast with each other. Good things will happen here in Tamworth over the next 6 weeks. We are teaching a lot of people at this moment! We have one friend named Anthony who is pretty solid! He had a baptismal date next month so thats wayy exciting! And we have so many more people that we are teaching that are soooo close to receiving a batismal date. All together, we are teaching 8+ people!!! This makes me very excited because it gives us the opportunity to help so many people. I have already fallen in love with our friends here that we are teaching the gospel to to help them improve their lives and apply restored truth into their lives. They is some complicated people here though that it will take a lot of mighty prayer and fasting to know what to do to help them. Some have had a rough life that has left them with trust issuses. They absolutely need the gospel in their lives, its just a matter of how can we help them trust that the gospel can help them; how can they trust in the Lord who they think has been absent from their lives for so long. It will be a test, but I know that the Lord will be with us.
Ummm, so i have a quick funny story before I share a spiritual thought...So last night we hosted a missionary fireside at the chapel for the members to help them be better missionaries. Well, on the way home, we were going down this bike trail that is next to this grassy hill. I decided to be cool and start riding down the hill to do a little "off-road adventure." I saw that a small ditch was coming in my path and I thought it was the perfect opportunity to do a sweet jump. As I got nearer to the ditch, I realised that it was deeper than I thought and that in the bottom of it was cement. It was too late to bail, so I hit the ditch and pretty much flew over the front of my handlebars while still holding on to the bike. Luckily though, before I landed on the grass, I tucked in my shoulder to catch my fall. I stood up really quick and just busted out in laughter! My companion caught up to me and well like what the heck are you doing?!?! We just started laughing even more. The most impressing of this all is that I didnt get any grass stains on my suit!! hahahahaha Awesome huh? Yeah, Im the coolest ever...
So, spiritual thought:
Hmmmm, I didnt realise the time so this one will be quick. I just want to encourage everyone to ready 2 Nephi 2. Agency, or free will, is sooooo crucial to the plan. Just think about the influence of agency upon everyone.
Love you all, take care!
-Elder Jaquish
Cool ladies
Good morning everyone!
I hope everyone had a fantastic week! I know that I did :) Sometimes I dont realise how much I am blessed each week with the people we have that we are working with. But as we accounted for this past weeks efforts, I was brought to a rememberance of how blessed each of us really are. The Lord is definitely merciful.
This week we had two investigators and eight less-active members at church! The Lord has blessed us so much with having people at church and teaching. It has become somewhat of a norm for me, but then I remember Cwmbran when we hardly got anyone at church for the 4.5 months. No bueno. But the Lord has blessed us so much here. I can definitely see His tender mercies in this work. The ward members here are the best! They always make sure that they introduce themselves to the new people at church and make them feel welcomed. Its apparent to see when a ward is missionary oriented because they try their best to tell their friends about the gospel and ask how they can help us. If you couldnt already tell, I love Wolverhampton! haha
Anywaysss, so we met a couple really cool people this week. The first lady is Nikki. We knocked on her door and talked to her about the Gospel and how Christ can help her and her family. We talked about the Plan of Salvation with her and related the Book of Mormon in the conversation. She asked how she can make sure that her kids are safe and well taken care of and what sort of things she needs to teach them so that they can have the best when they become adults. We read a couple scriptures with her and invited her to read Mosiah 4...I love that chapter. She was excited to read and have us come around again!
So that was cool lady number 1. Cool lady number 2 is Nicole. We also knocked on her door on the morning of the Royal Wedding. Thank goodness though thay she isnt a royalist so she wasnt watching the wedding haha Anyways, she told us how she just started her search for the true church. Interestingly enough, she said what started this search was her observation of the increasingly number of Musilms in this country. She wanted to know if maybe that was the true religion, so she started to look into all different denominations of religions. She agrees that because there is one God that there has to be one true faith and church. We talked to her briefly about Joseph Smith and how/why we have the Book of Mormon. She practically asked to have one! haha She seemed really excited to read the introduction and more. So, cool thing about her is that she used to live in California and work for Warner Brothers. She moved back here to England and now works indirectly still for Warner Bros. Does anyone know who Marvin the Martian is? Well she is the vocie for him! Cool eh?! haha I think so. She is really good at impersonating different accents, so when I spoke, she changed her accent to American and vice versa when my English companion spoke haha So Im excited for our return appointments with these two people!
So today for pday, we are going to this Royal Air Force Museum with a family from the ward. Im pretty excited! It should be cool. Some other missionaries in our district went a while back and said it was awesome! They have some hugee planes there! Which means, picture time hahaha
Time for a quick spiritual thought! haha
So there is this scripture that has been my "theme" scripture for the transfer; I have its reference written on the front of my planner. Its found in 1 Timothy 6:11-12. Paul is talking about how we should desire righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience and meekness. All attributes of our Saviour. We should "fight the good fight of faith"!! We have all been chosen, every person on this planet, to be partakers of eternal life. It is just up to us to choose to have eternal life instead of death. If we try our best all the time to be like our Redeemer, we can realise our true potential, we can use the Atonement to its fullest, and lastly, we can be exalted on High. I know this to be true. We were put on this earth to fight the good fight of faith; to be tested and tried, but to come off conqueror(sp?). I know that this church is true! The Book of Mormon has power. It is Another Testament of Jesus Christ, a volume of Holy scripture from our Heavenly Father to give us further guidence in the latter-days.
I challenge everyone to seek after righteousness this week be being worthy of the companionship of the Holy Ghost.
Love you all! Take it easy...
-Elder Jaquish
I hope everyone had a fantastic week! I know that I did :) Sometimes I dont realise how much I am blessed each week with the people we have that we are working with. But as we accounted for this past weeks efforts, I was brought to a rememberance of how blessed each of us really are. The Lord is definitely merciful.
This week we had two investigators and eight less-active members at church! The Lord has blessed us so much with having people at church and teaching. It has become somewhat of a norm for me, but then I remember Cwmbran when we hardly got anyone at church for the 4.5 months. No bueno. But the Lord has blessed us so much here. I can definitely see His tender mercies in this work. The ward members here are the best! They always make sure that they introduce themselves to the new people at church and make them feel welcomed. Its apparent to see when a ward is missionary oriented because they try their best to tell their friends about the gospel and ask how they can help us. If you couldnt already tell, I love Wolverhampton! haha
Anywaysss, so we met a couple really cool people this week. The first lady is Nikki. We knocked on her door and talked to her about the Gospel and how Christ can help her and her family. We talked about the Plan of Salvation with her and related the Book of Mormon in the conversation. She asked how she can make sure that her kids are safe and well taken care of and what sort of things she needs to teach them so that they can have the best when they become adults. We read a couple scriptures with her and invited her to read Mosiah 4...I love that chapter. She was excited to read and have us come around again!
So that was cool lady number 1. Cool lady number 2 is Nicole. We also knocked on her door on the morning of the Royal Wedding. Thank goodness though thay she isnt a royalist so she wasnt watching the wedding haha Anyways, she told us how she just started her search for the true church. Interestingly enough, she said what started this search was her observation of the increasingly number of Musilms in this country. She wanted to know if maybe that was the true religion, so she started to look into all different denominations of religions. She agrees that because there is one God that there has to be one true faith and church. We talked to her briefly about Joseph Smith and how/why we have the Book of Mormon. She practically asked to have one! haha She seemed really excited to read the introduction and more. So, cool thing about her is that she used to live in California and work for Warner Brothers. She moved back here to England and now works indirectly still for Warner Bros. Does anyone know who Marvin the Martian is? Well she is the vocie for him! Cool eh?! haha I think so. She is really good at impersonating different accents, so when I spoke, she changed her accent to American and vice versa when my English companion spoke haha So Im excited for our return appointments with these two people!
So today for pday, we are going to this Royal Air Force Museum with a family from the ward. Im pretty excited! It should be cool. Some other missionaries in our district went a while back and said it was awesome! They have some hugee planes there! Which means, picture time hahaha
Time for a quick spiritual thought! haha
So there is this scripture that has been my "theme" scripture for the transfer; I have its reference written on the front of my planner. Its found in 1 Timothy 6:11-12. Paul is talking about how we should desire righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience and meekness. All attributes of our Saviour. We should "fight the good fight of faith"!! We have all been chosen, every person on this planet, to be partakers of eternal life. It is just up to us to choose to have eternal life instead of death. If we try our best all the time to be like our Redeemer, we can realise our true potential, we can use the Atonement to its fullest, and lastly, we can be exalted on High. I know this to be true. We were put on this earth to fight the good fight of faith; to be tested and tried, but to come off conqueror(sp?). I know that this church is true! The Book of Mormon has power. It is Another Testament of Jesus Christ, a volume of Holy scripture from our Heavenly Father to give us further guidence in the latter-days.
I challenge everyone to seek after righteousness this week be being worthy of the companionship of the Holy Ghost.
Love you all! Take it easy...
-Elder Jaquish
Happy Easter
Happy late Easter everyone!!!
I hope everyone had a great Easter! And that they enjoyed the season of our Saviour's resurrection. I really enjoyed my Easter Sunday as I heard talks on the Atonement and all the blessings and gifts we receive from that event. I noticed a difference in the people that I talked to the past week, which was really cool. More people stopped to see what we had to talk about. Plus, it was nice to use the approach relating to Easter to get people to listen haha What was even better is that a lot of less-active members came to church on Sunday!! Hmmm, I wonder why....hahahaha I sorta think its funny that A LOT of people here say, "Yeah I'm Christian." Then we ask what church they go to, and they respond, "Oh, I dont go to church, just for Easter, Christmas, funerals and christenings." hahahahaha Now to me thats kinda hypocritical...its sad though because thats how the majority of people here are nowadays. Its okay though, at least they have some experience with religion. Or wait, this is my favorite conversation with someone; "Hey mate, me and my friend are talking about Jesus Christ with everyone today!" They respond, "I'm Catholic." So we say, "Good! Then you havea belief in God." They say, "No." hahahahahaha Ohhhhh some people.
Sorry that was kinda random. Just some funny things that happen way too much. Please dont think I'm condenming(sp?) the British people :)
So pretty much I love my mission. I love the people here and I love Wolverhampton! This past week was wayy fun, even though we didnt have a s much success as we had hoped for. One really brilliant experience we had these week strengthened my testimony of offering service. So as we were riding to St. Annes Rd. to do some tracting, Elder Clarke-Wills noticed some guy washing the windows on a house. He stopped and asked the guy if he needed any help, and he said yes! We found out that this man was actually helping out some friends who cant do outside chores because of age. We were able to help him by washing the couples cars. The elderly couple whom we were helping were called Joe and Babs. They are both Jamaican, but have lived in England for a while now. Despite that fact, they still had these really strong Jamaican accents that were sooo cool. I could hardly understand them haha I had to really focus and listen to understand what they were saying. So cool. I loved it. So we washed their cars and talked to all three of these Jamaicans and just had a great time! Afterwards, we offered them our phone number and told them to call us if we could help them with anything else. Elder Clarke-Wills then mentioned how he used to decorate and stuff so we could help with that kind of stuff as well. Babs started saying some stuff and invited us to come inside. She then showed us her living room and told us how she needs to redecorate everything. We told her we could help her as long as she cooks us dinner! hahaha She was like oh yeah yeah yeah of course of course. Them she started to last all the West Indie food she could cook us. Mhmmm. My companion was really happy to hear that because he loves west indie food and has it all the time because his dad is from Trinidad and Tobago. Right before we left Joe and Babs, we gave them a Book of Mormon and invited them to read some. To our surprise they have had contact with the church before and already have a Book of Mormon! So that was really cool. They did accept us sharing a message with them about the Gospel next time we come around. Sooooo, long story short, you can share the gospel through serving your fellow men. Through your kindness, people will be more receptive to wanting to know about your morals which can lead to telling them about the gospel.
Nothing too much else happened this past week. We have like so many people who are just soooo close to receiving a baptismal date. Sometimes I just dont know what to do for these individuals. But Ive come to realise that it comes down to their comittment to follow the Saviour or not. They have to make the choice for themselves, they have to take that leap of faith. They have to put their trust in the Lord and listen to what their heart is telling them; what the Holy Ghost is telling them. I have grown to love the laws of the gospel; they are pretty simple but deep. One of these laws, or principles, is agency. I love the scripture in 2 Nephi 2:27. We have the freedom to choose liberty and eternal life, or captivity and death. It is up to us to make that decision for ourselves. No one can makes us. I encourage everyone this week to make the right choices that will help them progress as children of a loving Heavenly Father.
I love you all and hope that everyone sees the many blessings they receive so mercifully every day!
Tra for now then!
-Elder Jaquish
p.s. Im sorry if this email seems random and dysfunctional. For some reason im easily distracted today haha
I hope everyone had a great Easter! And that they enjoyed the season of our Saviour's resurrection. I really enjoyed my Easter Sunday as I heard talks on the Atonement and all the blessings and gifts we receive from that event. I noticed a difference in the people that I talked to the past week, which was really cool. More people stopped to see what we had to talk about. Plus, it was nice to use the approach relating to Easter to get people to listen haha What was even better is that a lot of less-active members came to church on Sunday!! Hmmm, I wonder why....hahahaha I sorta think its funny that A LOT of people here say, "Yeah I'm Christian." Then we ask what church they go to, and they respond, "Oh, I dont go to church, just for Easter, Christmas, funerals and christenings." hahahahaha Now to me thats kinda hypocritical...its sad though because thats how the majority of people here are nowadays. Its okay though, at least they have some experience with religion. Or wait, this is my favorite conversation with someone; "Hey mate, me and my friend are talking about Jesus Christ with everyone today!" They respond, "I'm Catholic." So we say, "Good! Then you havea belief in God." They say, "No." hahahahahaha Ohhhhh some people.
Sorry that was kinda random. Just some funny things that happen way too much. Please dont think I'm condenming(sp?) the British people :)
So pretty much I love my mission. I love the people here and I love Wolverhampton! This past week was wayy fun, even though we didnt have a s much success as we had hoped for. One really brilliant experience we had these week strengthened my testimony of offering service. So as we were riding to St. Annes Rd. to do some tracting, Elder Clarke-Wills noticed some guy washing the windows on a house. He stopped and asked the guy if he needed any help, and he said yes! We found out that this man was actually helping out some friends who cant do outside chores because of age. We were able to help him by washing the couples cars. The elderly couple whom we were helping were called Joe and Babs. They are both Jamaican, but have lived in England for a while now. Despite that fact, they still had these really strong Jamaican accents that were sooo cool. I could hardly understand them haha I had to really focus and listen to understand what they were saying. So cool. I loved it. So we washed their cars and talked to all three of these Jamaicans and just had a great time! Afterwards, we offered them our phone number and told them to call us if we could help them with anything else. Elder Clarke-Wills then mentioned how he used to decorate and stuff so we could help with that kind of stuff as well. Babs started saying some stuff and invited us to come inside. She then showed us her living room and told us how she needs to redecorate everything. We told her we could help her as long as she cooks us dinner! hahaha She was like oh yeah yeah yeah of course of course. Them she started to last all the West Indie food she could cook us. Mhmmm. My companion was really happy to hear that because he loves west indie food and has it all the time because his dad is from Trinidad and Tobago. Right before we left Joe and Babs, we gave them a Book of Mormon and invited them to read some. To our surprise they have had contact with the church before and already have a Book of Mormon! So that was really cool. They did accept us sharing a message with them about the Gospel next time we come around. Sooooo, long story short, you can share the gospel through serving your fellow men. Through your kindness, people will be more receptive to wanting to know about your morals which can lead to telling them about the gospel.
Nothing too much else happened this past week. We have like so many people who are just soooo close to receiving a baptismal date. Sometimes I just dont know what to do for these individuals. But Ive come to realise that it comes down to their comittment to follow the Saviour or not. They have to make the choice for themselves, they have to take that leap of faith. They have to put their trust in the Lord and listen to what their heart is telling them; what the Holy Ghost is telling them. I have grown to love the laws of the gospel; they are pretty simple but deep. One of these laws, or principles, is agency. I love the scripture in 2 Nephi 2:27. We have the freedom to choose liberty and eternal life, or captivity and death. It is up to us to make that decision for ourselves. No one can makes us. I encourage everyone this week to make the right choices that will help them progress as children of a loving Heavenly Father.
I love you all and hope that everyone sees the many blessings they receive so mercifully every day!
Tra for now then!
-Elder Jaquish
p.s. Im sorry if this email seems random and dysfunctional. For some reason im easily distracted today haha
Beautiful Day in Wolverhampton!
Top of the morin everyone!!
Things are great here in sunny Wolverhampton. Its beautiful outside today. The green trees and grass and all the beautiful colourful flowers are nice to see as we ride our bikes each day. The only downfall is that the summer will probably be rainy because we arent getting the rain we need in the spring. Oh well, life goes on!
So like I said, this week has been pretty good to us. We have been doing lots of tracting. We just need to find some solid people who want the gospel in their lives. We have so many investigators right now that could be baptise if it weren't for their lack of faith. They just need to act upon the impressions of their heart and hope for a better life through the Atonement and the restoration of Jesus Christ. On Saturday we had some good success. We passed out 3 copies of the Book of Mormon and got 3 return appointments for this week, so I'm excited about that! This one guy we met is a muslim from Kenya. He is a liberal muslim, I think he said, so he is very open to learning about other religions. He puts it this way, he wants us to teach him what our beliefs are and if he gets converted then great, if not, then we can just use him as a "referral person" for others if they dont think we are kosher or something haha Thats wasnt the best explanation of what he said but whatever...
Oh, next awesome experience I had this week happened on Thursday. I went on exchange to Cannock on Wednesday and we were switching back on Thursday. We were running late so we decided to just lock the bikes up to some random pole near the bus station where we were ment to catch a bus and get a taxi. At first, we were just trying to make small talk with the taxi driver so the ride wouldnt be awkward. Soon enough though we were talking about how we are missionaries and what we like to share with people. We taught the driver the lesson about the Restoration of the gospel through Joseph Smith and also what meaning the Book of Mormon has. The taxi driver accepted a copy of the Book of Mormon and our invitation to read a little bit of it and pray to know if its true. Elder Setu got his contact details and made an appointment to see him the next day! Sooooo cool eh? I just love how easy it is now to share the gospel with absolutely anyone in any situation! Its what I have been commissioned to do, so therefore I must do it at all times, in all things, in all places.
Hmmmm, well the spiritual thought for this week will comes from 3 Nephi 6:14. When I read this scripture it reminded me of the second coming. It reminded me how it has been prophesied that many will not be prepared, both physically and spiritually. In this scripture, everyone goes apostate, save only a few of the Lamanites who were truly converted to the faith. They were prepared to withstand the craftiness of the Gadianton Robbers by being "firm, steadfast, immovable and willing with all diligence to keep the commandments." This is how each of us need to be in order to be prepared for the second coming of the Lord. We need to "put off the natural man." We need to stripe away all of our pride and become as a little child who is "submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him..." I know that this church is true! I know that my Redeemer lives! He can and will take away all of our pains and afflictions, all our sorrows, if only we become as little children and have faith in Him.
I love you all and hope that everyone has a successful week in whatever that pursue themselves in.
Cherrio!
-Elder Jaquish
Things are great here in sunny Wolverhampton. Its beautiful outside today. The green trees and grass and all the beautiful colourful flowers are nice to see as we ride our bikes each day. The only downfall is that the summer will probably be rainy because we arent getting the rain we need in the spring. Oh well, life goes on!
So like I said, this week has been pretty good to us. We have been doing lots of tracting. We just need to find some solid people who want the gospel in their lives. We have so many investigators right now that could be baptise if it weren't for their lack of faith. They just need to act upon the impressions of their heart and hope for a better life through the Atonement and the restoration of Jesus Christ. On Saturday we had some good success. We passed out 3 copies of the Book of Mormon and got 3 return appointments for this week, so I'm excited about that! This one guy we met is a muslim from Kenya. He is a liberal muslim, I think he said, so he is very open to learning about other religions. He puts it this way, he wants us to teach him what our beliefs are and if he gets converted then great, if not, then we can just use him as a "referral person" for others if they dont think we are kosher or something haha Thats wasnt the best explanation of what he said but whatever...
Oh, next awesome experience I had this week happened on Thursday. I went on exchange to Cannock on Wednesday and we were switching back on Thursday. We were running late so we decided to just lock the bikes up to some random pole near the bus station where we were ment to catch a bus and get a taxi. At first, we were just trying to make small talk with the taxi driver so the ride wouldnt be awkward. Soon enough though we were talking about how we are missionaries and what we like to share with people. We taught the driver the lesson about the Restoration of the gospel through Joseph Smith and also what meaning the Book of Mormon has. The taxi driver accepted a copy of the Book of Mormon and our invitation to read a little bit of it and pray to know if its true. Elder Setu got his contact details and made an appointment to see him the next day! Sooooo cool eh? I just love how easy it is now to share the gospel with absolutely anyone in any situation! Its what I have been commissioned to do, so therefore I must do it at all times, in all things, in all places.
Hmmmm, well the spiritual thought for this week will comes from 3 Nephi 6:14. When I read this scripture it reminded me of the second coming. It reminded me how it has been prophesied that many will not be prepared, both physically and spiritually. In this scripture, everyone goes apostate, save only a few of the Lamanites who were truly converted to the faith. They were prepared to withstand the craftiness of the Gadianton Robbers by being "firm, steadfast, immovable and willing with all diligence to keep the commandments." This is how each of us need to be in order to be prepared for the second coming of the Lord. We need to "put off the natural man." We need to stripe away all of our pride and become as a little child who is "submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him..." I know that this church is true! I know that my Redeemer lives! He can and will take away all of our pains and afflictions, all our sorrows, if only we become as little children and have faith in Him.
I love you all and hope that everyone has a successful week in whatever that pursue themselves in.
Cherrio!
-Elder Jaquish
Mission Football
Hello everyone!!
Everything is well here in Wolverhamton! We had our biannual Mission Football yesterday in Birmingham. And of course, the team I was on won, as it usually goes hahahaha But seriously, we won the tournament! We beat all 4 teams by a few goals. The last game was intense though because it started to rain and was really windy, but it soon stopped and the sun came out again. Then the same thing happened again hahah Crazy english weather. It was wayy funn though! And I got some sunburn as well! haha Good stuff.
The past week has been really good, with reguards to tuesday and wednesday. Most of tuesday was spent towards fixing our bikes and stuff, ugh. Then wednesday something funny happened. Well we were on our way to our last appointment for the day. I was riding own this hill on the side of the road as normal. I went to spit to the side of me, but the spit didnt all come out but was just hanging from my mouth (sorry if this is somewhat gross haha). I was paying more attention to not getting my spit on my clothes than where I was going, and at teh last second I looked up and saw a parked car. I tried to swerve out of the way but was successful. So yeahhh, I ran into the back of a parked car....laugh all yall want hahahaha Luckily though, I wasnt going too fast so when I fell forward off my bike I didnt get injured. The car on the otherhand received a small dent and scratch. We left a note on the car to contact the mission office to sort out the insurance and repairs.
The rest of the week wasnt too much better. Some of our investigators dropped us, which is okay because that just means they arent totaly ready yet for the gospel. Plus, there are a lot more people here that are ready, its just up to us to find them! We had a couple good appointments, but nothing too spectacular to share about haha Just that we met this biplar guy who is crazy/funny haha We invited him on the street to be baptised and he accepted! When we went to his house a couple days later to teach him, he just wouldnt stop talking! haha It was like we were having this debate without him letting us state our side! Oh well. Story goes though that he wont give up smoking for Jesus, but he would die on the cross for him. Try to figure out that one...
Sunday was the best! We were able to get an investigator to church and 7 returning members!! Testimony meeting was amazing. It was like member missionary fest this past week. A bunch of members shared stories about how they have been sharing the gospel with their friends!!! It is just so exciting to hear members being excited about doing missionary work! Hopefully within the next week we will be able to get some good referrals from the ward to teach!
Well, I want to end this email by referring to a talk from General Conference. I really liked the talk given by Elder Bednar about receiving revelation. Some people receive revelation all the time in big events, but for most of us, we get it little by little and probably not as frequent. That doesnt mean we are doing anything wrong!!! Elder Bednar gave us some instructions to stay faithful and continue in reading the scriptures daily so that when it is time for us to be prompted to do something, we will be worthy enough to recognise the Holy Ghost and receive revelation.
I am so grateful to be serving my Lord Jesus Christ at this time. There is no other thing that I could be doing right now that is as important as this work. I just encourage all of you to also partake in this work and receive the same blessings that I am so blessed to have each and every day! I love this work, the church is ture!
Oh and just a shoutout to my brother, Justin, this week for his 30th birthday on thursday!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRO!
Love you all, take care.
-Elder Jaquish
Everything is well here in Wolverhamton! We had our biannual Mission Football yesterday in Birmingham. And of course, the team I was on won, as it usually goes hahahaha But seriously, we won the tournament! We beat all 4 teams by a few goals. The last game was intense though because it started to rain and was really windy, but it soon stopped and the sun came out again. Then the same thing happened again hahah Crazy english weather. It was wayy funn though! And I got some sunburn as well! haha Good stuff.
The past week has been really good, with reguards to tuesday and wednesday. Most of tuesday was spent towards fixing our bikes and stuff, ugh. Then wednesday something funny happened. Well we were on our way to our last appointment for the day. I was riding own this hill on the side of the road as normal. I went to spit to the side of me, but the spit didnt all come out but was just hanging from my mouth (sorry if this is somewhat gross haha). I was paying more attention to not getting my spit on my clothes than where I was going, and at teh last second I looked up and saw a parked car. I tried to swerve out of the way but was successful. So yeahhh, I ran into the back of a parked car....laugh all yall want hahahaha Luckily though, I wasnt going too fast so when I fell forward off my bike I didnt get injured. The car on the otherhand received a small dent and scratch. We left a note on the car to contact the mission office to sort out the insurance and repairs.
The rest of the week wasnt too much better. Some of our investigators dropped us, which is okay because that just means they arent totaly ready yet for the gospel. Plus, there are a lot more people here that are ready, its just up to us to find them! We had a couple good appointments, but nothing too spectacular to share about haha Just that we met this biplar guy who is crazy/funny haha We invited him on the street to be baptised and he accepted! When we went to his house a couple days later to teach him, he just wouldnt stop talking! haha It was like we were having this debate without him letting us state our side! Oh well. Story goes though that he wont give up smoking for Jesus, but he would die on the cross for him. Try to figure out that one...
Sunday was the best! We were able to get an investigator to church and 7 returning members!! Testimony meeting was amazing. It was like member missionary fest this past week. A bunch of members shared stories about how they have been sharing the gospel with their friends!!! It is just so exciting to hear members being excited about doing missionary work! Hopefully within the next week we will be able to get some good referrals from the ward to teach!
Well, I want to end this email by referring to a talk from General Conference. I really liked the talk given by Elder Bednar about receiving revelation. Some people receive revelation all the time in big events, but for most of us, we get it little by little and probably not as frequent. That doesnt mean we are doing anything wrong!!! Elder Bednar gave us some instructions to stay faithful and continue in reading the scriptures daily so that when it is time for us to be prompted to do something, we will be worthy enough to recognise the Holy Ghost and receive revelation.
I am so grateful to be serving my Lord Jesus Christ at this time. There is no other thing that I could be doing right now that is as important as this work. I just encourage all of you to also partake in this work and receive the same blessings that I am so blessed to have each and every day! I love this work, the church is ture!
Oh and just a shoutout to my brother, Justin, this week for his 30th birthday on thursday!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRO!
Love you all, take care.
-Elder Jaquish
Same Town...New Companion
Top of the mornin!
So this past week was transfers. I'm staying in Wolverhampton and my new companion is Elder Clarke-Wills!! I've got another Londoner on my hands,haha except he's from North London. He is really chill and sarcastic, just the way I like it. My last companion, Elder Smith, was way too serious and just didnt know how to have fun slash have a laugh. I'm lucky now to have Elder Clarke-Wills because our sense of humor is pretty much the same, so this transfer will be a lot of fun! And I can already tell that we are going to have some great success as well!
Its been a crazy past couple of weeks. Just jammed packed with meetings and now just past transfers. Plus, it was conference weekend so things are moving pretty slowly right now. But with a new week comes a new opportunity to work hard and find the elect! One pretty cool experience that I've had happened on last tuesday. Elder Smith and I were doing some finding in the morning and came across this man that was walking on the street. We started talking to him and it turns out that he is the brother of another potential investigator that we received a while ago! This new man's name is Rick. He studies theology, so he has some pretty good knowledge of Christianity. He gave some good responses to when we talked about the Book of Mormon being translated once and the doctrine behind Joseph Smith's first vision. He agreed with us when we talked about how/why there are so many different churches. Oh, and also the fact of how its wrong to worship symbols like the cross or such things. Sad thing though is that we didn't get a return appointment, but we did get his phone number and address! So we will set up an appointment with him this week.
Another cool slash hilarious experience that Elder Clarke-Wills and I have had happened on thursday. There is this African lady that we tried talking to on the street who was sorta trying to blank us. Once we got her attention, she realise that we were missionaries and that she knew this one missionary that had served here a couple years ago. Well it turns out that Elder Clarke-Wills also knows this elder from back home. We asked to come visit her sometime and she gave us her address. The only bad part is that she has a heavy African accent, so we didnt fully understand where she lived. We tried to find a road that had a similar sound to it, but had no luck. We then remembered that she mentioned that she was going to pick up her child from school, so we decided to go and try to find her. Right about now yall should be getting the mental picture of two young guys dressed in black scoping our a primary school...well it was looking a little stalker-ish hahahahaha So instead of looking like creeps infront of the school, we decided to go around the corner and do a little tracting in hope that she would cross our path. She never did haha So we are going to try by this street that we think she might live in high hopes to find her.
Oh the joys of being a missionary...
I want to close my email this week by referring to a talk that was given Saturday at conference by Elder Russell M. Nelson. He taljked a bit about our life on earth and the trials we have to go through in order to get the most out of mortality. He talked about how this life is a probationary time, a test to see if we can stay righteous and receive all that our Father hath. He mentioned how we must trust in the Lord in order to persevere through tribulations. There is one really simple way we can show our trust, and thats through keeping ALL of the commandments. We are given commandments to receive blessings and we must keep all of them...beggars cant be choosers...One scripture I really like that goes alrong with this topic of trust is 2 Nephi 10:17. It states that God will fulfill ALL His promises. How great of a blessing we had been given that God will never fail us!!! We just need to have trust in this promise. "Your future is as bright as your faith."
I love this gospel soooo much. Its true!! It helps so many people get through the hardest of times, as well as the easiest of times. With over 14 million members worldwide, this prophesied restoration will never cease, until the great day of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. I hope everyone got as much out of conference as I did. It was brilliant! Love you all and good luck to everyone with their week. Always remember to enjoy life! :)
Ohhhh, quick shout out to my sis-in-law Kelly and my brother Justin...HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! to both of you. Love ya!
-Elder Jaquish
So this past week was transfers. I'm staying in Wolverhampton and my new companion is Elder Clarke-Wills!! I've got another Londoner on my hands,haha except he's from North London. He is really chill and sarcastic, just the way I like it. My last companion, Elder Smith, was way too serious and just didnt know how to have fun slash have a laugh. I'm lucky now to have Elder Clarke-Wills because our sense of humor is pretty much the same, so this transfer will be a lot of fun! And I can already tell that we are going to have some great success as well!
Its been a crazy past couple of weeks. Just jammed packed with meetings and now just past transfers. Plus, it was conference weekend so things are moving pretty slowly right now. But with a new week comes a new opportunity to work hard and find the elect! One pretty cool experience that I've had happened on last tuesday. Elder Smith and I were doing some finding in the morning and came across this man that was walking on the street. We started talking to him and it turns out that he is the brother of another potential investigator that we received a while ago! This new man's name is Rick. He studies theology, so he has some pretty good knowledge of Christianity. He gave some good responses to when we talked about the Book of Mormon being translated once and the doctrine behind Joseph Smith's first vision. He agreed with us when we talked about how/why there are so many different churches. Oh, and also the fact of how its wrong to worship symbols like the cross or such things. Sad thing though is that we didn't get a return appointment, but we did get his phone number and address! So we will set up an appointment with him this week.
Another cool slash hilarious experience that Elder Clarke-Wills and I have had happened on thursday. There is this African lady that we tried talking to on the street who was sorta trying to blank us. Once we got her attention, she realise that we were missionaries and that she knew this one missionary that had served here a couple years ago. Well it turns out that Elder Clarke-Wills also knows this elder from back home. We asked to come visit her sometime and she gave us her address. The only bad part is that she has a heavy African accent, so we didnt fully understand where she lived. We tried to find a road that had a similar sound to it, but had no luck. We then remembered that she mentioned that she was going to pick up her child from school, so we decided to go and try to find her. Right about now yall should be getting the mental picture of two young guys dressed in black scoping our a primary school...well it was looking a little stalker-ish hahahahaha So instead of looking like creeps infront of the school, we decided to go around the corner and do a little tracting in hope that she would cross our path. She never did haha So we are going to try by this street that we think she might live in high hopes to find her.
Oh the joys of being a missionary...
I want to close my email this week by referring to a talk that was given Saturday at conference by Elder Russell M. Nelson. He taljked a bit about our life on earth and the trials we have to go through in order to get the most out of mortality. He talked about how this life is a probationary time, a test to see if we can stay righteous and receive all that our Father hath. He mentioned how we must trust in the Lord in order to persevere through tribulations. There is one really simple way we can show our trust, and thats through keeping ALL of the commandments. We are given commandments to receive blessings and we must keep all of them...beggars cant be choosers...One scripture I really like that goes alrong with this topic of trust is 2 Nephi 10:17. It states that God will fulfill ALL His promises. How great of a blessing we had been given that God will never fail us!!! We just need to have trust in this promise. "Your future is as bright as your faith."
I love this gospel soooo much. Its true!! It helps so many people get through the hardest of times, as well as the easiest of times. With over 14 million members worldwide, this prophesied restoration will never cease, until the great day of the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. I hope everyone got as much out of conference as I did. It was brilliant! Love you all and good luck to everyone with their week. Always remember to enjoy life! :)
Ohhhh, quick shout out to my sis-in-law Kelly and my brother Justin...HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! to both of you. Love ya!
-Elder Jaquish
"When I am Baptised"
Good morning everyone!!!
So this past week was amazing! It was quite busy though to start off with. Elder Smith had a leadership training meeting on tuesday, we had district meeting on wednesday, Elder Smith was sick on friday, and on saturday we went to Walsall for a baptismal interview plus we had our baptism!
Yes, I got it right the first time! The baptism was amazing. The service went well and the spirit was so strong. It was blissful when I stepped into the water to baptise Nneka. It was kinda funny though because I was focusing on saying all the words right and everything and before I knew it Nneka was leaning back to go down into the water! So I had to make sure that I had my hand on her back securely so that I could bring her back out of the water. It all happened so quick, but I guess thats a plus! haha After the service, I asked Nneka how she felt and she answered clean and wet haha So it definitely counted! haha Elder Smith confirmed her a member of the Church of Jesus Chirst of Latter-day Saints on Sunday, which all went well. It has been such a blessing being able to teach Nneka and form that relationship with her that brought her to the waters of baptism and taking that first step on the path to exaltation. I can testify that the Lord is leading the work down here on this earth. By His hand were we able to teach Nneka. And by the restoration of the Priesthood was that baptism able to be recorded in Heaven.
We received another blessing this week. Two saturdays ago while we were trying by some people, I stopped this man on the street to talk to him. He told us about how his life was in a wreck at this moment and how he wants to put it back on track; the way to do that is through the Gospel of Jesus Christ which "healeth the wounded soul." We set up an appointment to see him the next day, but we weren't able to make that appointment. We went by this past monday and talked to him about his desires. He really wants to have God in his life and to start coming to church. We told him the time and location of the chapel and set up another time to see him. We saw him again on wednesday and boy was it a great lesson. The spirit was so strong as we explained what the gospel can help him with in his life and how he should go about it. We talked about baptism and he accpeted a date at the end of April!! That was the first of the blessings for that appointment. At the end, we taught him about prayer and how thats the first step and many he needs to take. He said his first prayer ever in his life with us that night. The spirit was so strong in that room that he began to cry. I can't put into words how sweet it was to have experienced this. Unfortuantly, he had to go to hospital this week and will be there for two weeks time. We will definitely be in contact with him though when he comes out.
Funny story for this week: we ran into this old guy who apparently has seen the prophet on the tv and also he has visited him in his living room. He was telling us how he has a book of life and its is written for this guy on how he will die. He was claiming that we (I dont know if he were referring to believers or mormons) will destroy him and everyone else on the planet haha I dont know what this guy was on about but he must have been on something! It was kinda freaky, but just plaion weird at the same time haha Needless to say, we didnt stay around him for too long haha
So for the spiritual thought this week, I want to refer to Alma 60:21,23 Moroni is complaining to Pahoran about the lack of provisions and pretty much rebuking the whole city of Zarahemla, but thats not what I want to talk about. I want to liken these scriptures to our time. Moroni is telling us that we shouldnt be idle and think that the Lord will save and preserve us. We have to do something about whats happening in the world. We have to do something to bring us out of any trial we are facing. We have to remember that if we are actively engaged in a good cause, that we will be delivered. I wrote a side not in my scriptures referring to James 2:17 -- "Faith without works is dead." -- We need to trust in the Lord that he will help us in our time of need. This is why the armies of Helaman were so victorious, they trusted in their God and had strong faith. I know that if we try to help ourselves and those around us that Heavenly Father will bless/help us, if we are not doubting. I know that this gospel is TRUE! The Book of Mormon is TRUE! I hope everyone is reading is daily because it will help you get through each day.
I hope everyone has a great week! Until next time...
-Elder Jaquish
So this past week was amazing! It was quite busy though to start off with. Elder Smith had a leadership training meeting on tuesday, we had district meeting on wednesday, Elder Smith was sick on friday, and on saturday we went to Walsall for a baptismal interview plus we had our baptism!
Yes, I got it right the first time! The baptism was amazing. The service went well and the spirit was so strong. It was blissful when I stepped into the water to baptise Nneka. It was kinda funny though because I was focusing on saying all the words right and everything and before I knew it Nneka was leaning back to go down into the water! So I had to make sure that I had my hand on her back securely so that I could bring her back out of the water. It all happened so quick, but I guess thats a plus! haha After the service, I asked Nneka how she felt and she answered clean and wet haha So it definitely counted! haha Elder Smith confirmed her a member of the Church of Jesus Chirst of Latter-day Saints on Sunday, which all went well. It has been such a blessing being able to teach Nneka and form that relationship with her that brought her to the waters of baptism and taking that first step on the path to exaltation. I can testify that the Lord is leading the work down here on this earth. By His hand were we able to teach Nneka. And by the restoration of the Priesthood was that baptism able to be recorded in Heaven.
We received another blessing this week. Two saturdays ago while we were trying by some people, I stopped this man on the street to talk to him. He told us about how his life was in a wreck at this moment and how he wants to put it back on track; the way to do that is through the Gospel of Jesus Christ which "healeth the wounded soul." We set up an appointment to see him the next day, but we weren't able to make that appointment. We went by this past monday and talked to him about his desires. He really wants to have God in his life and to start coming to church. We told him the time and location of the chapel and set up another time to see him. We saw him again on wednesday and boy was it a great lesson. The spirit was so strong as we explained what the gospel can help him with in his life and how he should go about it. We talked about baptism and he accpeted a date at the end of April!! That was the first of the blessings for that appointment. At the end, we taught him about prayer and how thats the first step and many he needs to take. He said his first prayer ever in his life with us that night. The spirit was so strong in that room that he began to cry. I can't put into words how sweet it was to have experienced this. Unfortuantly, he had to go to hospital this week and will be there for two weeks time. We will definitely be in contact with him though when he comes out.
Funny story for this week: we ran into this old guy who apparently has seen the prophet on the tv and also he has visited him in his living room. He was telling us how he has a book of life and its is written for this guy on how he will die. He was claiming that we (I dont know if he were referring to believers or mormons) will destroy him and everyone else on the planet haha I dont know what this guy was on about but he must have been on something! It was kinda freaky, but just plaion weird at the same time haha Needless to say, we didnt stay around him for too long haha
So for the spiritual thought this week, I want to refer to Alma 60:21,23 Moroni is complaining to Pahoran about the lack of provisions and pretty much rebuking the whole city of Zarahemla, but thats not what I want to talk about. I want to liken these scriptures to our time. Moroni is telling us that we shouldnt be idle and think that the Lord will save and preserve us. We have to do something about whats happening in the world. We have to do something to bring us out of any trial we are facing. We have to remember that if we are actively engaged in a good cause, that we will be delivered. I wrote a side not in my scriptures referring to James 2:17 -- "Faith without works is dead." -- We need to trust in the Lord that he will help us in our time of need. This is why the armies of Helaman were so victorious, they trusted in their God and had strong faith. I know that if we try to help ourselves and those around us that Heavenly Father will bless/help us, if we are not doubting. I know that this gospel is TRUE! The Book of Mormon is TRUE! I hope everyone is reading is daily because it will help you get through each day.
I hope everyone has a great week! Until next time...
-Elder Jaquish
Baptismal Interview
Mornin everyone!!
This past week has been amazing! Nneka had her baptismal interview on Saturday and she passed!!! So she will be baptised on Saturday, March 19th at 6:30pm and she has asked me to baptise her!!! Ahhhhh, I'm so excited :) This is such a great blessing from the Lord. Elder Smith will be confirming her on Sunday during Sacrament Meeting. Its gonna be fun to say her full name because she has 2 middle names and pretty much every one of her names, all 4, are Nigerian! So it will be fun :)
We had a cool blessing when we went and taught Nneka on wednesday. We taught her the Word of Wisdom and the Law of Tithing. She ended up having a friend over who also participated in the lesson. While we were getting ready to leave, her friend started saying that she wanted to come to church and thaty she wanted to get baptised as well!! hahah Cool huh?! She didnt come to church yesterday because she was at her dads house, but she and her mom should be coming to Nneka's baptism so that will be brilliant! They will feel the spirit and want to be taught! I have faith that great things will happen at Nneka's baptism.
We had a Zone Meeting this week which was awesome! I definitely felt the spirit strongly. We focused on helping our investigators get to church and helping them understand the importance of it. We had a dicussion on why church is improtant to each of us. No one was raising their hand so I decided to raise mine. All I said was that Sunday is the most important day to me because I get to partake of the sacrament. I stated that it kills me to see and hear people just not care about church anymore. When I said those words, I was overwhelmed with the Spirit. I dont know why, but it was nice. It felt good to be filled with my Savior's love. I just wish everyone that I talk to on the street could feel these same feelings and just go to church!!!
Another cool thing that happened this week is that one of the other missionaries that is in Wolverhampton had a dream about a family getting baptised in our area. He saw the name of the street and it turns out that its in my area!! So this next week we will be on the hunt for this family! haha
So I will end this email by giving two spiritual thougths, one funny and one serious. So does everyone know the Mormon.org adverts for the new profiles you can make? Well its kinda funny how at the end the person states their name and says, "And I'm a Mormon." Captain Moroni kinda does the same this in Alma 54:14. I busted out laughing when i read this scripture hahaha If nobody else finds this funny, then I guess I'm just weird haha
Anywaysss...so quick spiritual thought. Alma 47 is a great chapter and it warns us about how Satan can and will tempt us. If yall read this chapter, ponder on the ways that Amalickiah leads Lehounti from off the mount Antipas, then liken it to yourselves in todays world. I know you will receive the same revelations that I received about bad movies/music, the word of wisdom, law of chastity, pornography and other such ways that Satan can lead us astray.
I want to encourage everyone to use their faith this week and look for opportunities that they can serve their fellow men. I promise you will receive great blesings for doing so!
Take care everyone.
-Elder Jaquish
This past week has been amazing! Nneka had her baptismal interview on Saturday and she passed!!! So she will be baptised on Saturday, March 19th at 6:30pm and she has asked me to baptise her!!! Ahhhhh, I'm so excited :) This is such a great blessing from the Lord. Elder Smith will be confirming her on Sunday during Sacrament Meeting. Its gonna be fun to say her full name because she has 2 middle names and pretty much every one of her names, all 4, are Nigerian! So it will be fun :)
We had a cool blessing when we went and taught Nneka on wednesday. We taught her the Word of Wisdom and the Law of Tithing. She ended up having a friend over who also participated in the lesson. While we were getting ready to leave, her friend started saying that she wanted to come to church and thaty she wanted to get baptised as well!! hahah Cool huh?! She didnt come to church yesterday because she was at her dads house, but she and her mom should be coming to Nneka's baptism so that will be brilliant! They will feel the spirit and want to be taught! I have faith that great things will happen at Nneka's baptism.
We had a Zone Meeting this week which was awesome! I definitely felt the spirit strongly. We focused on helping our investigators get to church and helping them understand the importance of it. We had a dicussion on why church is improtant to each of us. No one was raising their hand so I decided to raise mine. All I said was that Sunday is the most important day to me because I get to partake of the sacrament. I stated that it kills me to see and hear people just not care about church anymore. When I said those words, I was overwhelmed with the Spirit. I dont know why, but it was nice. It felt good to be filled with my Savior's love. I just wish everyone that I talk to on the street could feel these same feelings and just go to church!!!
Another cool thing that happened this week is that one of the other missionaries that is in Wolverhampton had a dream about a family getting baptised in our area. He saw the name of the street and it turns out that its in my area!! So this next week we will be on the hunt for this family! haha
So I will end this email by giving two spiritual thougths, one funny and one serious. So does everyone know the Mormon.org adverts for the new profiles you can make? Well its kinda funny how at the end the person states their name and says, "And I'm a Mormon." Captain Moroni kinda does the same this in Alma 54:14. I busted out laughing when i read this scripture hahaha If nobody else finds this funny, then I guess I'm just weird haha
Anywaysss...so quick spiritual thought. Alma 47 is a great chapter and it warns us about how Satan can and will tempt us. If yall read this chapter, ponder on the ways that Amalickiah leads Lehounti from off the mount Antipas, then liken it to yourselves in todays world. I know you will receive the same revelations that I received about bad movies/music, the word of wisdom, law of chastity, pornography and other such ways that Satan can lead us astray.
I want to encourage everyone to use their faith this week and look for opportunities that they can serve their fellow men. I promise you will receive great blesings for doing so!
Take care everyone.
-Elder Jaquish