April 21, 2014
Tuesday 4.15.14
So today was AWESOME! Yes that’s right it deserves capital
letters. So Elder Ballard has given us a challenge or told us that we need to
contact 10 people every day so 20 for the two of us. So we are doing that today
as we were contacting we contacted Loreto. She is so amazing! Ok so here is
what went down. After lunch we are just walking around the neighborhood
literally knocking on each door. No one was home. Until we “ahhllloood” at the
house of Loreto. Let’s switch to her perspective now’ So I was sitting at home
with my twins of 1 year and I hear someone “ahlo”. I think oh darn I’m so busy.
I go look out the window and think oh darn it’s the Jehovah’s Witness. I grab
my screaming child and head out to the gate to show them I’m busy and can’t let
them in. but it’s just two young gringas and they asked me if I had time to
hear a message and for some reason the
word no didn’t come to mind. I went back in to get the keys and let them in.
Our perspective’ whooohooo finally someone let us in and oh those babies are so
cute! We sit down and we start teaching about the book of Mormon. We read the
introduction with her and then she really started opening up to us. She told us
her story and how God was there for her when she was a child and how everything
had gone her way till she had her first son and couldn’t take the test to get
her degree in law. She went from living her dream to eventually a stay home mom
with 3 children under the age of 3. She told us how this made her crazy but at
the same time she loves her children. She told us how she feels that she has
distanced herself from God and doesn’t know what she wants from her. But she
wants to feel close to him. We then told her that her role as a mother is the
most important thing she could be doing and that it was the work of the Lord
and in the end no job no salary or other worldly possession will compare to her
work as a mother. It’s the most important thing because you are literally in
charge of raising and nurturing children of God. She started to cry and told us
that is what she needed to hear. She wants us to come back and is looking for
god right now and it was so neat and I just can’t describe in words what
had happened other than god had prepared
her beforehand. I can’t wait to see what happens.
4.16.14
So then we were asked to teach seminary and we are here to
build up the kingdom where we are so we went and we wanted it to be an
experience for the youth because it’s just a hard time those high school years
so we were teaching 2 Nephi 9 and we went all out. It talks about the atonement
and the spirit world, resurrection, judgment, and the celestial kingdom. So we
started off in one room which was ëarth¨we then ¨died¨and went to 2 different
rooms representing the spirit world, where we will wait as spirits for the
second coming of Jesus Christ. The spirit paradise was all organized and with
uplifting music and pictures of Christ and the spirit prison was a mess of
chaos and eerie music. We talked about the difference between the two rooms and
dhow we wanted to live our live here and make good choices so we could go to
spirit paradise. We then we’re resurrected and made our way down to the high
counsel room for our ¨judgement¨and we then ended in the chapel as the
¨celestial kingdom it was neat because we went in and got to talk about how all
of the plan of salvation is possible through Christ. They then read part of 2
Nephi 9 while Hermana Huber played quedate conmigo senor. After we shared what
we learned and how we all wanted to make it to the celestial kingdom and how it
depended on what we do here and what kind of life we live here to what kind of
life we will live in the next life. It was neat because we had 3 less actives
come and then they all came to church this Sunday.
4.17.14
So this week I wanted to share an object lesson with others
that the elders showed me when I was like 12 or so. I am going to explain it to
ya’ll and I’ll send pictures to help. But neat story before I explain it. I
went to this small town hardware store to look for the big nails you need for
this object lesson and before I bought them I taught it to the guy selling them
and after he gave them to me as a gift! It was awesome! But any who here it is
so what you do is you need 11 large nails like the length of a pen.
1.
You pick one up and put it like this (Picture 1) you then explain that this nail
represents our lives and that the
2.
other nails represent the things we have to do
in our lives (picture 2) such as sleep, eat, read the scriptures, pray, go to
church, go to school, love others, etc. But
most importantly we need to have Christ in our lives or apply his atonement,
when we suffered for our sins and through his atonement we can repent and can
receive strength to do what the Lord asks of us.
3.
You then ask someone to place all of these things
that you need to do in this life on top of the one nail. Or in other words they
have to try to balance 10 nails on top of one nail head (picture 3) which seems impossible. I then
explain that the world likes to make us believe that it is impossible to have God
in our lives and do all the other things we need to do that there is no time to
go to church, read the scriptures, or pray because there are so many other things we have to do in life.
4.
I then
show them how the impossible is possible with Christ and arrange all the things
they have to do in life like this (picture 4) leaving one out that represents
Jesus Christ.
5.
I then place
the nail representing Jesus Christ on top (picture 5) and then the impossible happens. I then can place all the things we need to do
in this life, the things of God and things of the world - all the nails= on top of the other nail, representing
our lives
6.
(Pictures 6)
we see that with Christ we can do the
impossible but when we take Christ out of our lives (picture 7) we can’t do it.
I know
that with Christ and his Atonement in our lives we can do what he asks of us we
can 
This week was Herman
Nicols last week as a mini missionary. We are going to miss her but we still
have lunch at her house every Wednesday so it isn’t goodbye good-bye but now we
will have 4 missionaries like before.
This week we also got
to meet baby Jaime the son of Paula and Andres. He is so tiny and cute!
4.20.14
Sunday was Easter! It was so great. Something I started this
week was to re-read the book of Mormon but as I read I highlight every time it
says the name of the Savior or God. They are 2 distinct people, God is the
father of our spirits and Jesus Christ is our brother who showed us the way
back to God and atoned for all of us, but they have the same purpose to bring
to pass the immortality and eternal life of man. It’s been a neat experience so
far to see just how much I get to highlight. I mean if you haven’t noticed I am
all about the visuals they help us remember like for example I hope after the
object lesson I shared with ya’ll every time you guys see a nail you will think
about how important the savior is in our lives. And how he did suffer for all
or our sins, disabilities, sicknesses and etc. and how he overcame death and
rose again and one day we will too.
Hermana Jennings
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