Some
of my days this week reminded me of those butterflies we get in that precise
moment before getting on a large roller coaster for the very first time
ever.
With
a lot less nudity and a lot more trust and communication with my companion,
Elder Townsend, my week has improved through the sufficient grace of God our
Father in Heaven and the perfect love and example of Jesus Christ.
This
week I had 2 exchanges, one with our zone leader, Elder Loveland, and another
with Elder Taggart. These were very much needed one for me and the other I know
was a much needed practice and benefit for the other missionary. Theres
not much of reason for it but I always end up dreading exchanges, but I get put
in doing one and I always end up appreciating the time with other Elders and
given the time to learn and grow as disciples of Jesus Christ. Because as I
have loved being taught in Puerto Rico, exchanges are not sleepovers.
During
the first exchange our morning exercise was interrupted half way through due to
a house filled with maggots bc we had a missionary not throw away his trash
since I arrived, so we had a long talk about that with him, I hope he learned
that lesson.
And
my second exchange with Elder Taggart, I was honestly dreading this one,
we didn't get along too well and I knew that he had reason big issues in his
training ( that's why trainings is the single most important thing that can
happen to a missionary) but our day was filled so many miracles and many goals
that him and I set for him and his companion, there are many issues that has
been a little hard between the two but I know that sufficiency of God's grace
with bring them closer than they have been. But two look at our success we set
our goal to find 12 new friends for the week, (they needed to work on finding)
and I had him practice on as many people as he could, and with sacred and
beautiful effort he covered that goal even with all our lessons (12) (2 of
those fell through) and left our area with 24 new friends. He is a great
missionary.
This
week we also had zone conference which is always pretty amazing, it was a
little tough because all of it was in spanish but I took more from it than I
expected. Something that stood put to me was the pressing care we should take
in preparing for hurricanes. All I know is that if anyone is in the service of
the Lord we are completely entitled to his help and all that Is said by our
leaders is divinely guided.
It's
been a super busy week and I'm so grateful it's P-day and I can relax a bit and
rest, but through all that has happened I have seen with my very eyes divinely
appointed guidance from divinely appointed sources.
There
are 2 stories of this grace that I'd like to share. Both were on exchanges,
both were amazing.
1.)
With Elder Loveland, we had found a daughter out in the middle of nowhere and
found her family as well and we then had one last cita for the night with a
really sweet kid named Gil (Heel) who is just like my brother Braxton if any of
you know him, the kid has the the biggest heart of anyone I've ever met and
shows his love for all those that come into his presence while also being the
type of person that will be there for you before anyone else in the whole
world. But I was really scared that cita would fall through because I
didn't have his number nor the number for either of the members that were
coming with, nor directions for any of them. With all of that "nor" I
was really really scared. So I kinda just decided that we'd walk back 30
minutes to the chapel to decide what to do next hoping something would turn up,
and when we got back go the Chapel our Ward mission leader was standing by
himself dressed as a missionary and he knew exactly where the other members
lived who was the member that knew where Gil lived. And we had such an amazing
cita with him! Not to mention I was on the exchange with a zone leader!
2.)
This happened with Elder Taggart, we had a yellow dot sitting in our
progress record left by the past elders (I was dropped in a white wash adea)
and so we were thinking about dropping it because only progressing green dots
go on the progress record, anx we also had no way of contacting her. However we
found a friend of hers who was maybe 14 and he took us to her house in the rain
and we found that yellow dot, she is a 8 year old girl with 3 other siblings,
Mother and Father, and Abuelo and Abuela, living with them. (Amazing!)
I
think I better cut it there. God's grace is sufficient, Our Savior Jesus
Christ preforms miracles today, and He will preform miracles tomorrow. He
lives and Loves each of you so much. We may not deserve it all the time, but if
we look to Him for those blessings, He will provide.
I
love each of you. I am receiving each and every email. You are all so amazing
and special. Thank you for your examples in these last days, your strength and
testimony with a firm foundation in our Savior Jesus Christ will bless
nations. Until next week!
Elder
Jorgensen
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