Love and Unity

Good morning all!!

This week was bomb!!! Yesterday we had Stake Conference and it was
focused on love and unity. The talks were amazing and I felt the
spirit in rich abundance!! I learned that whatever we do, it will
effect someone. The smallest thing can create a huge effect in
someones life, so we as missionaries should always be a good example
of the Saviour in ALL that we do. I guess that can be applied to
members as well. Nowadays, people will become converted by the way we
live our lives and the spirit they feel from our examples. We had 2
investigators and 13 less-actives come to conference too!!!!! The
Stake President mad a huge effort to get 1000 people at conference and
I think we may have well hit the goal!! Miracles happen when we give a
little effort.

The sweetest blessing I got this week was a referral from a member.
They have this woman who lives around the corner from them who has
been asking a lot of questions about the church and stuff and they
told her about us. Well it turns out that this woman is from North
Carolina and has been living here for about 2 years; she married an
englishman. We called her on Tuesday and the first this she did was
invite us over for dinner on Sunday!! She asked what I wanted and the
only thing that came to my mind was sweet potato casserole! hahah
Well, she made some for me :) And we also had beef stew with Texas
Pete from Winston-Salem and pound cake for dessert! :) Oh my goodness
it was amazing!!!! She had some friends over as well who are from
Oregon. I think my companion felt a little awkward being around so
many Americans hahaha I loved it. We were able to teach them about
Jospeh Smith and the restoartion. They are all strong Christians and
were pretty interested in our message, but I think they were a little
hesitant to believe it was true. We invited them to read and pray
about the Book of Mormon and they accepted. I know what if they do
this with a sincere heart, God will answer them and they will find out
the truth.

The rest of the week was pretty good too! We helped someone move in,
we were able to teach our friends with baptismal dates for the 3rd of
March; they are doing well. And yeah, it just seems like it was a busy
week. Tomorrow we are going to Birmingham for a Zone Conference and
its gonna be amazing! Im so looking forward to that.

The Lord is blessing us with so many tender mercies right now. I feel
grateful to being able to witness so many of God's children being
blessed. I know that He loves us so dearly and knows our specific
needs. He is the creator of all and come perform miracles if He wants;
and He does, we just need to look out for them. I love the people here
and I love this country. The mission is awesome and is teaching me so
many wonderful lessons and principles to live by in the future.

I hope everyone has a brilliant week!! Look for miracles and record
them in your journal!

Godbless.
Elder Jaquish