Monday, January 11, 2016

YSA Seesta (It's pronounced EEESA)

Wassupp dear family and friends!

Well its official I get to serve full time with the Gateway YSA Branch instead of just part time like I've been doing for the past two transfers. I'm so excited!!! I love the YSA here and I'm excited to help them grow into a ward. My new companion is Sister Erickson from Star Valley, Wyoming. She is super cool and funny and we have the best of times and we are always laughing. It's super funny though because neither of us have served full time with the YSA so we are figuring it out as we go and truly the Lord is qualifying us so that the two of us sister missionaries don't ruin everything here.


January 5: Sister Jeppson had to pack up and today we went to FHE so that she could say goodbye to all of our YSA buddies. She isn't going very far, just up to West Palm Beach, and so many of them decided that they might skip church at the branch one Sunday so that they can go up and visit her there.

January 6: Today we went and tried to contact a less active YSA named Cindy and found out she hadn't lived there for over a year. However, the new resident is a YSA named Evens and we are now teaching him! Yeah!! The Lord truly does work miracles. Like I said up above we don't really know what we are doing and this is definitely the Lord's work and he is helping us to figure out how to do his work and how to find the people he had prepared.

January 7: Today we went to institute to meet more of the YSA and to show them that we are truly here to help them full time. At institute my recent convert was there and it was super cool, he cut his hair so that he no longer has a man bun which is awesome. Also he told us that his Jehovah's Witness mother is starting to be interested in the church because of how it has changed Bory's life and the positive influence that he is. It is amazing because as of a month ago Bory never really talked to his mom and now they talk all the time and he shares what he believes with her. She told him she wants to go to church with him and so one of these Sundays soon they are going to go to the Spanish ward up in West Palm.

January 8: We went down to Deerfield/Pompano area which is now the southern part of our area so that we could meet one of our new investigators. It was cool because as we were knocking down there we knocked on the door of Nohelia and Carol and they told us that the timing was freaky because they seriously needed a prayer right then and here we were knocking on their door offering to say a prayer with them. It was amazing because we truly are the Lord's hands and we don't always understand why we need to be where we are but he does and he puts us where he needs us.

January 9: Today we had a lesson with Evens and his two nieces were there with him. To show how cool he was, these two little girls kept interrupting our lesson to ask us questions like why are your eyes yellow? and why is your nose weird and he took them in stride and didn't let them distract him. He also asked amazing questions about what we were teaching and what we believe. We are so excited to start working with him more and helping him to prepare for baptism. Today while we were knocking we found out that we were knocking on a pretty well knocked street by the missionaries and a few people were mad, except we know we needed to be there because we knocked on the door of Chris who had moved in the day before and he was excited to come to church and learn more.

January 10: Church was awesome today! We got to finally meet the branch council and they are totally awesome and have work for us to do to help them grow into a ward. Also today at church Bory got the priesthood and passed the sacrament for the first time. It was awesome because he truly is so happy because of the gospel and he now has amazing friends who lift him up and support him rather than tear him down like his old friends did. 

Well love you all and I hope you have an amazing week!

Love, 

Sister Jennings

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