^^the most awkward mustache picture ever taken, ever!! Also not the caution tape in the background. Seriously so much awkward!
^^more awkward ^^
^^This is a the most random
little deli, and I love it!!^^
I live a charmed life! I love being a missionary in the NJMM. Sometimes I think I’m way too small to feel all the joy and love that is available to me, so it just comes bursting out of me and hopefully it blesses the lives of others because it is sure blessing mine.
Miracles are real; I think Heavenly Father is more willing to bless us than I ever dreamed. I’ve noticed that if I follow promptings from the Spirit that come as I pray that everything tends to work out. I know what to say and where to go. Investigators are able to come to church. We find the team-up we need. The Spirit is felt, and that’s really the most important thing. As much as possible I’m trying to diminish myself and magnify Christ and the Spirit who testifies of Him, His Father, and the truthfulness of the gospel. I am just the mouthpiece…and occasionally I’m a cheerleader for my companions and my investigators. It’s fun.
My companions are some of the most incredible women I have ever met. I'm impressed by their faith and their dedication to the work.
We are teaching 4 little girls. I think I sent you a picture of them last week. Last week they weren’t able to attend church, even though we had arranged a ride and everything for them. It broke my heart. But this week they came! It was such a miracle. I was sitting there in sacrament meeting feeling more like a mom than a missionary. I was playing the dot game with a 13 year old on my left and I had a 6 year old on my right grabbing my face with her hands and ripping up papers and putting them in my lap. All the while testimony meeting was going on. It was one of the most incredible testimony meetings of my life. I wasn’t able to focus on every word that was said, but I caught pieces of truth that touched my heart: “I know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God.” “God is our loving Heavenly Father.” “Joseph Smith was called as a prophet and the church of Jesus Christ was restored through him.” “I know God hears and answers my prayers.” “The gospel has blessed my family.”
Little, simple sentences but they meant so much to me. Then I looked down at these sweet girls whose lives have been harder in 13 years or less than mine has in 23 and my heart was just so full. I am so grateful to my Heavenly Father for blessing me with a family who loves me, who supports and encourages me. What a rarity and what an incredible privilege. I’m so grateful that I get to testify to people every day that the gospel can help them have happiness and unity in their home. I love telling people that all wounds can heal through the atonement of Jesus Christ.
Really, God just wants us to be happy. Everything He has ever done and anything He ever will do is to bring about the greatest measure of joy possible for His children. I am convinced that there is no challenge, no disappointment, no achievement, no triumph that is not perfectly calculated to teach us the things that we must know to become the people God intends us to be SO THAT WE CAN BE HAPPY! I look forward to eternal joy as the result of obedience to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
All my love,
Jari
Miracles are real; I think Heavenly Father is more willing to bless us than I ever dreamed. I’ve noticed that if I follow promptings from the Spirit that come as I pray that everything tends to work out. I know what to say and where to go. Investigators are able to come to church. We find the team-up we need. The Spirit is felt, and that’s really the most important thing. As much as possible I’m trying to diminish myself and magnify Christ and the Spirit who testifies of Him, His Father, and the truthfulness of the gospel. I am just the mouthpiece…and occasionally I’m a cheerleader for my companions and my investigators. It’s fun.
My companions are some of the most incredible women I have ever met. I'm impressed by their faith and their dedication to the work.
We are teaching 4 little girls. I think I sent you a picture of them last week. Last week they weren’t able to attend church, even though we had arranged a ride and everything for them. It broke my heart. But this week they came! It was such a miracle. I was sitting there in sacrament meeting feeling more like a mom than a missionary. I was playing the dot game with a 13 year old on my left and I had a 6 year old on my right grabbing my face with her hands and ripping up papers and putting them in my lap. All the while testimony meeting was going on. It was one of the most incredible testimony meetings of my life. I wasn’t able to focus on every word that was said, but I caught pieces of truth that touched my heart: “I know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God.” “God is our loving Heavenly Father.” “Joseph Smith was called as a prophet and the church of Jesus Christ was restored through him.” “I know God hears and answers my prayers.” “The gospel has blessed my family.”
Little, simple sentences but they meant so much to me. Then I looked down at these sweet girls whose lives have been harder in 13 years or less than mine has in 23 and my heart was just so full. I am so grateful to my Heavenly Father for blessing me with a family who loves me, who supports and encourages me. What a rarity and what an incredible privilege. I’m so grateful that I get to testify to people every day that the gospel can help them have happiness and unity in their home. I love telling people that all wounds can heal through the atonement of Jesus Christ.
Really, God just wants us to be happy. Everything He has ever done and anything He ever will do is to bring about the greatest measure of joy possible for His children. I am convinced that there is no challenge, no disappointment, no achievement, no triumph that is not perfectly calculated to teach us the things that we must know to become the people God intends us to be SO THAT WE CAN BE HAPPY! I look forward to eternal joy as the result of obedience to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
All my love,
Jari
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