Sister Malcom and I at the Island Night! I LOVE her! I am going to miss her so much! Tuesday there was a Relief Society activity. It was so fun!
Lastly, Sister Caudill and I! She is my new companion! She is wonderful! I love her already :) She is an amazing missionary and I am so blessed to be her companion!
Sister Sorensen and I left Lawton on Wednesday morning! We drove up to the City for transfers and we got so lost haha. But eventually we made it! I met Sister Caudill and then we drove the half hour to our area. We are in the Village ward and it covers part of Edmond. Its way different than Lawton but I love it already! The members are wonderful! And we are working with some wonderful people as well!
We have done a ton of finding these past couple days and have met so many people! We have seen so many miracles! We can see God's hand in our lives every day! We are working with some wonderful people! One lady that we are working with is 92 years old! Its a members mom and we just recently started teaching her the lessons. She is so cute! Another lady we are working with came to Stake Conference yesterday. She is wonderful too! During one of the talks she told us that they were speaking to her. She was crying the whole time and is just so prepared for the gospel!
Stake Conference this past week was AMAZING! So good. There were so many wonderful speakers. President Gray talked all about how we all have our own personal ministries and how Heavenly Father works through each one of us. He talked about how each day we need to ask Heavenly Father who is in need of our help. One of the Stake goals is that no one sits alone. They shared a wonderful story about 2 kids in a family that went and sat next to 2 people that were sitting alone. What a great example those kids can be to us. We would do good to look around us and see who is sitting alone. Who is in need of a kind deed.
There also was a missionary broadcast this past week: teach repentance and baptize converts. It was wonderful as well. I really liked what Elder Neil L. Andersen spoke on. He talked about how we need to have Christ's name always on our lips. It is so important that we testify of Christ in every conversation. In essence, we covenant to take His name upon us when we are baptized. In Mosiah chapter 5 it talks a lot about this. King Benjamin had just finished his address and I love what the people say in verse 2: "And they all cried with one voice, saying: Yea, we believe all the words which thou hast spoken unto us; and also, we know of their surety and truth, because of the Spirit of the Lord Omnipotent, which has wrought a mighty change in us, or in our hearts, that we have no more disposition to do evil, but to do good continually." The people believed all his words and were desirous to enter a covenant with God. A covenant to always remember him and take his name upon them. In verse 12 it reads, "12 I say unto you, I would that ye should remember to retain the name written always in your hearts, that ye are not found on the left hand of God, but that ye hear and know the voice by which ye shall be called, and also, the name by which he shall call you." Like it mentions in 2 Nephi 25:26 "And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins." Christ is the center of it all. "For his way is the path that leads to happiness in this life and eternal life in the world to come." I am so grateful for my Savior and I know that He lives! Romans 1:16 "For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek"
Have a blessed week!
All my love,
Sister Jackson
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