Her Favorite

Sunday morning, I was making pie.

Aria LOVES to help everyone with everything.

She had been waiting patiently for me to hurry and go color with her, but the pie was taking a little longer than she could handle.

So, she brought a chair in and started to wash the dishes.

I've never seen dishes done quite the way Monkey does them!

The sink was full of warm bubbly.

But, the dishes were set on the counter and prior to "washing" each dish, she'd pour a more than adequate amount of dish soap directly onto each dish.

She announced that washing dishes is her "most favoriteist!"

Then she went over and helped Papa pick out some very important rugs!

 

Thanksgiving 2022

We decided to try something new this year for Thanksgiving.

Things are MUCH different with grown kids and kiddos who have divorced parents.

Burke's three youngest spend Thanksgiving with their mom each year.

His two oldest have their mom's family and they both have in-laws.

My two oldest have in-laws.

Kaydon, of course, is in the Dominican Republic.

Colton is just very busy.

So, we decided to start a new tradition of doing Thanksgiving breakfast!

This allows for the kids to go to in-laws later and not have to worry about pleasing everyone!

We nailed it!

Braxton and Mia were still not able to come.

Hopefully next year!

 This year the menu included:

Fruit and yogurt parfaits

Muffins

Cinnamon Rolls

Donuts

Juice, Milk, and Egg Nog

Coffee

Bubba (Burke's Braxton) and Suzanne are the favorites with the grandbabies!!

Sweet Colton wanting a selfie with Mama!

Being a Gigi is the greatest blessing.

Nothing compares to it!!

These two are the cutest.

Aria is SUCH a helper with Kehlani.

This guy is my favorite.

He is SO supportive of all of my ideas and gets up early to make sure everything is just how I pictured.

Something I love about him is that he makes sure that every individual person is seen, heard, and loved on.

So thankful!

 

Missionary Moment - Puerto Rico San Juan & Dominican Republic Santo Domingo West

Good morning all! 

 

Thanks for all your messages and Happy Thanksgiving wishes!

 

 Those bad boys are always appreciated 

 

This week I finally got my new companion who just happened to finish his training in Mexico.. which means that, yes, he's Mexican haha 

 

Elder Ramirez is from Veracruz and is a super athletic kid whose wanted me to help him learn English so we've been doing quite a bit of that while he cleans up odds and ends in my Spanish 

 

This week everyone seemed to be a little sick including yours truly and no one is really sure why 

 

Although this area is pretty great the borders of the area itself are our biggest struggle as we have to share members of the same ward but no members in our area and all members in the other we've been working to fix up that problem here pretty soon after lots of house talking deciding how to make it fair for all. 

 

Yesenia came to church like a beast, please pray for her to help her come next week

 

Rolando was baptized by water but never received the gift of the holy ghost but he hasn't been at church to get that and is now MIA soooo that's pretty depressing 🙃

 

Not too much this week but each of you are in my thoughts and prayers! 

 

Love you! 

 

Elder Jorgensen 

 

Aria Turns 5

Aria is Burke's beautiful granddaughter.

She is spunky and sassy and sweet.

She loves princesses and unicorns.

She loves to play "school," as long as she's the teacher!

She has her papa wrapped around her finger!

Happy birthday, My Monkey!
I love you so big!

 

These Little Ladies

Saturday morning, I set off to run errands.

I just HAD to stop by to see my girl... and her adorable parents. :)

I brought them some Twisted Sugar and some loves!

Daddy was gone for a few days, working.

So, Lady Cakes was helping him make pancakes and do laundry.

Daddy got her dressed... Mommy would be doing her hair!

This baby girl LOVES her big girl bed and her big girl bedroom!!

This Gigi loves this baby girl!!

Then this Little Lady had a Belle-themed birthday party Saturday night.

She actually turns five tomorrow, but celebrating her on Saturday was fantastic!

She has everything a girl could ever want.

Mostly, she has lots of people who love her!

 

Missionary Moment - Puerto Rico San Juan & Dominican Republic Santo Domingo West

Good morning friends and family! This week certainly seemed a little longer than usual for sure and I'm so happy it's P-day! 

The truth is that this week was so much different than usual which is usually expexted as a missionary.. change.. but this week Elder Hyte had gone home and now he is happily safe with his family. So this week we hit up the trio with Elder De La Rosa and Harper who are both great missionaries and super hard workers! 

Getting back to working both areas like I had done before they got here was tougher we we'd both developed strenth in the parte that we're divided, so although we struggled a bit we got the job done and through the duration of the week we set 8 baptismal dates 7 in my area and 1 in theirs which means when I get my new companion here on Wednesday we'll have lots of work to do! 

btw transfer news came out and I'll be training a new missionary and district leader which means I'll be staying here in Hato Nuevo for 2 more transfers which is mo one knew before that's 6 months in one area which is A LOT of time in one area! 

Although I'm nervous about training and being district leader I am completely aparece that the Lord qualifies those He calls. 

 Before closing out I'd like to share a story of how the Lord calls us on His errands. After having a really difficult Sunday we had put ourselves in the other Elders area and by the end of the night we decided to visit a few friends that hadn't made it to church including an older lady that is helping us with her friend that also has a baptismal date but both hadn't made it to church and from that morning (yesterday morning) I had thought by passing by, not just to ask why they hadn't come to church but to fulfill priesthood responsibilities, I didn't know what to do or what had happened but I knew that I needed to fulfill them. These thoughts came to me gently and softly and really made me pay attention to what I was feeling. And so as we made our way to this members home, we walked up to their gate and her grandson came up and simple told us that she had been waiting for us to give her a blessing, upon entering the home she had been patiently sitting on her chair and almost immediately told us that she'd been calling for us in prayer. We gave her the desired blessing and a prayer and not Ling after we were back out visiting others. But I know that if the Lord ever needed to have an Errand run, Elder Jorgensen can do it. 

I love the Lord brothers and sisters, He knows you and loves you. He counts His sheep. I've always had a problem with trust but someone I know I can put trust in is the Lord. If I didn't, I wouldn't prioritize others eternal life over my own loves ones because I know that The Lord will take care of them much more as I give myself to him. 

 I love you, each of you. Your in my thoughts and prayers each day. Trust in the Lord and listen to His still, small voice. 

Elder Jorgensen 

Lani Boo

I am LOVING having this little lady just down the street.

She, her mommy and daddy, and Colton stopped by a couple of nights ago.

After working out with Gigi, she just got her dang self ready for the night with a little makeup!!!

Kehlani is SO stinking smart.

She speaks both English and Spanish.

She sings songs.

She "reads" books to the dogs.

She is funny and sassy and feisty.

She loves to shush her parents (which is so hard not to laugh at).

I am just living my best life as a gigi!!

 

Basketball for Squirt

Basketball season is in full gear for Ryker Man.

Most of his teammates are also his baseball and football teammates.

He and Cooper are also back in speed training.

It's NEVER not busy!

I love this picture of Cooper walking back up to us after he went down to give his little brother some advice.

They are super close and always practicing together!

I am so glad I grabbed this picture.

This is a typical night:

Cooper and Ryker cuddling in bed with us.

It's one of my most favorite things!

 

Isis Graduates

First of all:

How beautiful is my daughter?!

This beautiful girl graduated on Friday with her Master Esthetician License!!

She worked so hard and did amazing on her tests!

She did this, for the most part, as a single mama.

We are so proud of her and love her so much!!