It has been a CRAZY week! Full of so many good things!!! SO MANY MIRACLES! I don't even know where to start! *Notice: this email may be long!
On Tuesday we had an official met President and Sister Mansell! I know that they are suppose to be here! They are AMAZING! I know they will bring about a lot of good in this mission. They are way different from President Walkenhorst but they are both good! They changed a lot of things already but they will bring about a lot of good! On Sunday morning we got a call from President, saying that he had a special assignment for Sister Esplin! She was so nervous that this was going to happen. She only has 4 weeks left on her mission and she didn't want to leave Noble! She will be heading to Moore, but it actually all turned out okay! President is letting her stay in Noble until after Daniel, Jessica, Danny, Mary, and Kiara get baptized in 2 weeks! What a tender mercy! Also Sister Holley is coming to Noble! We will be in a trio for 2 weeks until Sister Esplin leaves! Sister Holley and I were trained by the same Sister! We are SO excited!!! Sister Holley is amazing! I love her already :)
Daniel and Jessica are doing great! Daniel has stopped smoking and they are SO EXCITED to be baptized on the 23rd! They are so ready! It has been such a neat experience watching the changes Daniel has made. Keep him in prayers!
Now for the real cool part! Mary and Danny. First off we learned that its the Schreiner family! Not the Coker family, they aren't married yet! haha! Well on Saturday we taught them the Plan of Salvation and Gospel of Jesus Christ! It went so well! We talked about how their family can be together forever! and Mary was crying and they were all so HAPPY! Sunday we saw them again and this lesson was probably the most spiritual/amazing/cool lesson of my mission so far! They are getting baptized in about 2 weeks so we knew we had to teach them a lot of the lessons quickly! So we planned to do the Word of Wisdom and Tithing but right before we started, Sister Komers whispers, "you know they aren't married right?" uhhh so that makes them getting baptized a little more tricky. So we rearranged our plans of what to teach and started with the Word of Wisdom and both of them agreed to live the word of wisdom! They know it will be hard to stop some addictions but they have faith that God will help them! and Brother Komers gave them a blessing too! So then we decided to go over the Law of Chastity. And shortly after we started Mary tells us that neither of them have been married before. They have been together for 11 years! But never got married. We talk about how they need to be married before they can get baptized and Danny then, for the fourth time, KNEELS DOWN IN FRONT OF EVERYONE AND ASKS MARY TO MARRY HIM!!!!!! It was the sweetest moment ever! They are planning a wedding for this SATURDAY!! Bishop is going to marry them at the church and afterwards have a little party at the Komers home! And the thing they are most excited for, is getting sealed in the temple a year from now!! This family has completely changed their WHOLE life around because of the gospel. Every step back they are experiencing before getting baptized they are just facing it square on! They are so excited to be baptized! They have one more set back that they have to get through first so please keep them in your prayers! This family is SO happy and so ready to be baptized!! During the lesson I found out that the Komers haven't been to the temple yet. Shortly after the 5 kids were adopted, they got Lyla and so they waited for her to get adopted! And now next month they are going to the temple to be sealed! Brother Komers said he has waited 40 years for this family!!! I just can't express how I felt during that whole lesson!!!! :D I am just so happy for these families!!! Brother Komers sees Mary and Danny as his kids and their kids as his grand kids! And they just talked about being one happy family!!!! The gospel truly makes us SO happy! It unites families! I love the Schreiner family! And I have LOVED the experience of teaching them. This has been a huge tender mercy for me!
My prayer Book of Mormon reading is going well! As I have been reading this past week I have reflected a lot on faith and I read this in the Bible Dictionary and loved it!
The Lord has revealed Himself and His perfect character, possessing in their fulness all the attributes of love, knowledge, justice, mercy, unchangeableness, power, and every other needful thing, so as to enable the mind of man to place confidence in Him without reservation.
As we pray our relationship and faith in Him will be strengthened! I am so grateful for the chance we have to pray! To have a Heavenly Father who loves us so much! Have a blessed week!
All my love,
Sister Jackson
My zone is crazy!
The members know me and Sister Esplin so well! The Martins are too kind :)
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