Dear Family, 7 May 2012
Transfers are on Wednesday and Hermana Claveria has to
leave. But guess what, she only has to
pack her bags and cross the road to the other side of Talanga! There are two branches here in Talanga and
each branch has 2 sets of missionaries, one pair of elders and one pair of
sisters in each branch. So she's going
to be with sister Guyant on the other side of the road and her Companion
Hermana Perdido is going to cross the street with her luggage to be my
companion. It’s crazy, we basically just
swapped companions. We were are all
really excited because the 4 of us all get along really well and neither of us
wanted to leave.
I want to share an experience I had that I think
Mom will
especially appreciate. Last week we
visited Doris, our recent convert. We
taught her about Temples and Family history work. It was the first time
she had ever heard
about temples and after explaining what we do in the temples she stopped
us in mid-sentence
and was like "Wait, let me get this straight. You guys submit names of
people that have
passed away and the work that you do in the temple gives them the chance
to be
saved?" We were like "Yeah, that’s
exactly right." And as soon as we
said that she put her hands on her heart and gasped with joy. "There's
hope!" she said. Before she knew about the Church, her preachers
told her that all the people who died without knowing Christ had no
chance of
being saved and go straight to hell. She
said "This makes sense! What a
beautiful concept! I'm going to submit
my mother’s name and grandmother’s name and my grandfather." She went
on and on. Then she pointed at the picture of the Salt Lake
Temple that I had in my hands and said, "Temples show that there is
hope." Her words stuck with me and
really impacted me. It changed my perspective
of temples. It is so true. The ordinances of the restored gospel that
we
do in the Temple are the greatest source of hope for all people that
have ever
lived. I'm so grateful to be sealed to
my family and that we can do this work for all of our ancestors.
Love,
Hermana Jackson
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