Showing posts with label Birthday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Birthday. Show all posts

Monday, August 12, 2013

Amazing Miracle Week

1st Birthday in Mission Field.  "20"


Hola mi familia!!!!!!

I miss and love everyone so much. Hope all is well :) this week was amazing! 

Monday was a fun day, we went and got a bunch of candy and cupcakes and a pinata for our zone. It was a fun day celebrating my birthday early.  Thanks again for all the gifts.









Love the V Family so much!  They made my birthday extra special.  Me & my companions Hermana V & Hermana S.
We also had a young woman come with us for the night to go teach a couple lessons. We taught a cute girl named C, she is super interested and wants to grow her faith closer to the savior. We taught her the Restoration and committed her to read in the Book of Mormon, we also invited her to baptism and she said yes! It was a cool experience. We also went to visit our recent convert C.  Well we had an amazing lesson with him, crying and all. C was so humble, he was crying.  Now one amazing thing that our tripanionship has is we don't push things on people, BUT we are very bold in asking questions and inviting. 
One of they yw :)
Tuesday we had an AWESOME lesson with a woman named P who lives in White Salmon. There are little spanish neighborhoods, but it is not what you think neighborhoods are... its very different. Well I feel like i should share the amazing story about P.

P is a woman Hermana A and I trackted into in April when spanish missionaries first came here. P showed no instest, so we left her alone... 6 weeks later in the end of May when Hermana V first came here with me, we decided to visit P. Again she showed no interest. Well, just recently the english elders in White Salmon had some changes.. but they were visiting one of their investigators (who is P's neighbor), they were outside and saw a lady, they had a prompting to go and talk to her. They talked and gave her un Libro de Mormon. They told us to go visit a lady who was very interested... so we went and visited her on Saturday, and we laughed when finding out the woman they had talked to was P! P let us in her home RIGHT away and was so excited to hear a message!! we taught her La Restauracion, she lost her Libro de Mormon, so we gave her another one.. We got a return appointment 4 days later on Tuesday.. WELL we got in and to our surprise P had read ALL the way to Mosiah in El libro de Mormon!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! We became so excited and couldn't wait to share more! We taught her El Plan de Salvation AND we invited her to baptism.. she said "Si! Cuando?(yes! when?)" we all looked at each other shocked, we said "tendremos un servicio de bautismal el 21 de sieptembre!(we will be holding a baptismal service the 21st of september)" P looked at her calender and said "OK! a que hora?(ok what time?)" we said "cuando usted quiere(when you want to!), como a las 7?(how about 7?)" she said YES!! AHHH we are super excited and I hope to be here for her baptism.. she truly is and was being prepared... I know there is a time and place for EVERY one on this earth to choose to listen and accept this gospel :) 
Our Tripanionship.  Las Hermanas.
Other than that, we had amazing miracles.. we were tracting one day around 1-4(which normally is a horrible time to tract) BUT we ended up getting 3 lessons in a row! door after door! haha my brain was fried jumping between english and spanish all day long :)

ALSO, remember the man i met in Safeway my very first night here? and how he approached me and Hermana A? WELL... after 4 months of trying, we FINALLY got a lesson with him!!!! He is a less active and we want to get him back to church NOW! so that is a start of something new :)
well yes, many little miracles, I LOVE IT!!!! Have a good week everyone, ill talk to you next time :)
Now vemos, cuidase!  ~ Hermana Kelsey Jaeger

Monday, August 05, 2013

Early Birthday Celebrations!

Our tri-panionship.  The 2 Hermanas that I am training. They are amazing.  
Well this week was ALL a blur!!!!! We got a few new investigators this week, they are all very interested!! So many little miracles i cant even explain! Well still no one coming to church :/ but we are doing our best, even going with members to go pick up our investigators for church. This is a short email this week because i don't even remember what all happened! we continue to teach amazing lessons in spanish and english. little by little we improve our teaching and expand our knowledge of what and how to teach people. 
All the ermans in our District.  4 are Visa waiters :)

I got all 3 birthday packages last week at our Sisters training... i opened them.. hahaha :) sorry i couldnt wait!!! saturday we will be working so i wanted to open them asap! we laughed so hard when i opened the bottel of RANCH! We are having a party as a zone today so i get to use all the stuff you sent me:)there are only 13 of us, plus an elder couple.. so a total of 15. we want to celebrate and party today! Thank you also to everyone who continues to send me love and those that sent me a little birthday surprise and other things!!!  :)
My Birthday Boxes :)
Little miracles this week, like getting in to teach certain people that never showed interest before. Planting MANY little seeds of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I learned many things this week. most importantly is that we dont always see the fruits of our labor... just as we plant a seed, me may not see the tree grow. or we may not see the fruit begin to grow. all that is important is to plant seeds every where any time. You never know what the future holds :) 

Don't be afraid to be you! be who you are while being a representative of Jesus Christ. we all have different identities and ways to learn and teach and grow. no one is exactly the same, which is why everyone is assigned to serve a mission EXACTLY where they need to be. A mission is for us to grow and learn. we all make mistakes in this life. I am thankful for the Atonement of Jesus Christ that i can try and try and continue to try to be better. 

Well time to enjoy the rest of P-day.. we are going to make cupcakes and celebrate my brithday early with my Zone! and then we all get back to work haha. We are going to have a pinata and use all the  birthday decor I got in the mail.  Sorry I opened all my birthday gifts! I couldnt wait :)  I love everything.
I opened my gifts early.  Thank you!
Time is going by so fast. i come home in 1 year... WOW!  keep working and keep serving!  Cant wait we are listening to Elder Holland come and speak to us August 24th!

I love my family so much :)  Again thank you everyone!  love you all so much!
stay healthy and stay happy :) --  Hermana Kelsey Jaeger

 
Love the Birthday t-shirts  ~  Have you heard of Sheris?  Well, it was yummy!!