First things first.  i'll tell you about my son!  Elder Jacobson is a great missionary!  he already came out prepared and with SUCH a solid testimony.  he definitely knows why he's out here and it's been great to be his trainer!  it was really hard to say goodbye to my trainer.  it felt like someone popped my life raft in the ocean and said "figure out how to make a life raft with out your own" haha.  it was weird and hard at first taking the lead in lessons and leading a greenie around and stuff but as I've been teaching him, it's reaffirmed what I have been taught by my trainer so it's a blessing for sure.  a call to leadership is a call to repentance, so I've been focused even more on being the best I can be and being led by the spirit and striving for a "perfect missionary" example.  while still being Elder Judy of course.

great this week though!  we've done much tracting and working with members.  I decided to take him on a tour of the area our first day haha he's a construction site manager so he's not used to biking so that was fun haha.  he was in charge of managing 6 sites at once at times.  that's crazy and cool.

we got to teach Bhavish and his wife this week!  a little update: so she was a member till highschool ended then church wasn't a priority so she didn't go, not cuz she decided not to really just cuz it happened like that.  so we taught them the plan of salvation and it was a little rough cuz it was my first lesson leading out and taking control, but luckily he soaked it up!  he was making his own anaoglies to understand the doctrine, she actually was tearing up.  it was so it was pretty powerful.  im so glad to have the spirit and that it taught them something.

we've been working with a less active member, named Vicki.  she is kinda stubborn but she's had one heck of a history so I don't blame her.  she had cancer and her husband died then this and that and I don't wanna make anyone cry, but she's been improving a lot!  last month she was NOT gonna even read the BOM then we committed her to read and she did!  so we're very happy.

we taught Kenny again this week, and it went well!  we taught him the gospel of Jesus Christ and he was very receptive.  also the father and wife sat in for the first time and he actually had some good input!  he knows his bible and there is definitely something there.

I learned a ton in church!  i'll share a few qutoes: integrity is our relationship with God and how much we value it and how much we want to be true to it.

the Atonement extends to our infirmities so that in ALL circumstances we can become like Christ and he can say "I know".

making covenants is what yolk us to the savior.

MIND BLOWING COOL STORIES:

so I saw this lady at walmart  and I was nice and smiled and she shook my hand.  we started talking and she's a member.. then I told her I was from Idaho.. "oh what part??" "Pocatello" "oh really??  that's cool! I have a brother who used to own a dental practice there!  but he moved" "oh that's so cool! who is that?"  I don't know if you knew the McWorters?"   I MET CHASE MCWORTERS AUNT IN WALMART!!!!  my mind was sooo blown!!!  she took a picture of us and sent it to Rusty!! crazy eh??

ALSO! we had dinner with a family that I knew the dad had gone to highland which is wild!!  we were talking some and he told me about how he spent a lot of time in the canals on SIPHON ROAD.. CANAL SURFING!!  so my mind was hence forth blown again...

last one: IT SNOWED IN TEXAS YESTERDAY!!  I could NOT believe it!! the snow flakes were big too! I was soo happy cuz I had written snow off as something I would NEVER see again!  it was beautiful...

fantastic week this week!  I have felt the strength of many many prayers and I TRULY, really am eternally grateful.  I know that I could not do what im doing with out help.  I know that there is power in prayer and if we petition the heavens for our needs, desiring in righteousness, they will be given us.  my prayers were answered many times this week.  I know that the savior has provided a way to become sons and daughters of god.  "Becoming something new is what the plan of salvation is all about.  It is the desire of God that we all become new creatures so we can inherit all that he has and become like him."- President Ames.  I love my mission president.  i'm so glad he is so inspired and it so excited about the work!

God is good Hurrah for Israel!

Elder Judy