I want to be Baptized!

April 18th

Hey Yall!

This week Sister Caudill and I have been doing a lot of thinking about why the people here in Oklahoma are SO nice! Everyone here is just friendly!! Earlier this week we were out walking the streets and we saw two people fixing up this house. We started talking with them and they told us that the church they go to, Word of God, fixes up houses for people to live in and the one they were working on is a transition home. We ask if we could help and they said that their church was just up the road and we could go talk to the person is charge of the houses. So we head up there and walk into their church. We walk in, not even members of this church, and the people there were SO kind and welcoming! They took us right into their office! and then asked us what we needed and found the person we needed to talk to. So we end up telling them about justserve.org (if you haven't been on the website, check it out!) and how we would love to come help them and have other members from the community come to! Afterwards he give us some banana bread. This is bread they fundraise to help keep their church going and they just gave it to us for free! So so kind of them! We decided that its all the churches here that make people so friendly. Having God in the community just makes all the difference. Everyone is trying to be a better person and in result you just get really friendly people! I have some of the nicest people ever, here in Oklahoma!! 

On Saturday the Elders investigator Bob, got baptized! Bob was given a Book of Mormon by President Joseph Fielding Smith over 40 years ago! and on Saturday he was baptized! When he was in his 20s he got to meet the prophet when he was in Utah. Its a neat story! Well anyways there was this cute young family in the ward that attended the baptism and the little boy who is 3 said, "I want to be baptized!" This was the 3rd baptism he had been to and ever since he just keeps talking about being baptized! It was SO cute! Afterwards we had a lesson with a member referral, Casey! Him and Brother Larson attended the baptism and he has been to church a couple times too. The lesson went really well! As missionaries we role play every morning for lessons we are going to teach and to practice teaching. We had role played a couple times in preparation for teaching Casey and it was so neat to see the things we had practiced, happen in the lesson! Similar situations happened and it was neat to see the revelation we had received before to help us teach him! God is so nice! I LOVE this gospel and I am so so so grateful to be sharing this message with everyone!

Thanks for all the support, prayers, and love! Have a blessed week!

All my love,

Sister Jackson

We started teaching this super cute family! And their girls are adorable! Their cat just had 4 little kittens and they showed them all to us :)

Sister Caudill and I tried to take a picture with this sign that says, "Welcome to the Village" but we couldn't quite get it and this was the best picture we got! And GREAT news, we are staying together for another transfer!!!!

We had dinner with President and Sister Gray!!! They are such great people! I want to be like them someday!