June 4, 2012

Dear Family,                                                     4 June 2012

I wanted to share another story about Doris in my last letter but I didn’t get time.  I hope you’re not all sick of hearing about Doris but she just is just really interesting.  This one probably more funny than it is spiritual.  So I told you that she gave as a couple of referrals and we went to visit one of them.  Her name is Ofrilia.  When we first contacted Orfilia, she didn’t want to listen to us but eventually accepted an appointment for us to teach her.  Doris came with us and as we taught her we kind of struggled helping her understand the message.  She wasn’t really getting it until Doris  helped us out by teaching the restoration in her own simple and somewhat strange way that we would have never used. Then, Ofilia was like “Oh, yeah.  Now I get it.”  Then when we invited her to be baptized she expressed a few doubts she had but then Doris piped in and said “Look, these two are sent by Jesus Christ.  If you reject them you’re rejecting Jesus Christ.  You’ve got to listen to them and go to church and ask God if this is true because when you die, Jesus is going to ask you why didn’t  listen to the servants he sent and then you’ll go to hell.  So you’ve got to listen to them!”  Hermana Perdida and I were really thrown back and scared of how Orfilia would react.  But she just said “Oh, yeah.  You’re right.  Come back any time you want!”  Haha, so Doris has become quite the powerful missionary.

Don’t have more time to write.  It has been a good week.  I’ll write more next week.

Love you all

Hermana Jackson