JayLynn E. Loves: July 2018

This week was crazy good! Here's what happened!

JOHN!

Do you remember that guy that I wrote about last week? The guy Sister Squire felt prompted to talk to? Well we were able to meet with him again!! and it was soo good! We sat on his lawn and we taught the whole Plan of Salvation! He has never heard about this plan but finds it very interesting. He was really interested and asked great questions. We also talked about many other things such as Temples, Family History and the Book of Mormon. He was very open and honest and told us his concern about the Book of Mormon and about Joseph Smith. We were able to explain more about the book of mormon and testified of Joseph Smith. We told him that the only way to know for himself if these things were true was if he read the Book of Mormon and prayed about it. He said he would read it and that he'd pray about what we've shared with him. He said we could come back any time! It was a great experience!

PATTY!

Okay! What a miracle! So Patty is our new person we are have been teaching and she is seriously the most golden person everrr. Doesn't ever have any questions or concerns. She just nods her head and says yes to everything we teach. She believes in what we have taught her so far and she has come to church 3 times now!

SIster Squire and I feel that she is ready for baptism so this week we planned to extend her the invitation!

I felt we needed to pray for a specific date to commit her to so we both knelt down in prayer and asked Heavenly Father to help us find a day for Patty to get baptized. After the prayer we sat in silence for a while as we looked at the calender. We were looking in the month of August but nothing stood out. I then flipped the page to the month of September and immediately the

22nd stood out to me. "Thats the date!" I said and Sister Squire agreed and so we went with it!....

So fast forward to our next lesson with Patty, We were able to bring a member, Sister Holdeman and her daughter with us. We taught about Faith, Repentance and Baptism, the lesson went really well and everything flowed great. We were then able to extend Patty the invitation to get baptized!

(At the end of the lesson)

Me: So Patty, will you follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized by someone holding the priesthood authority of God??

Dead Silence,,,(it was kinda awkward cuz she didnt respond)

Me: We are holding a baptismal service on September 22nd. Will you prepare yourself to be baptized on that day?

Patty then starts to cry and she looks up at us and tells us that September 22nd is a special day for her. Its not only her Birthday but it was the day she lost close family relative. The spirit was super strong in the room and we were all in tears. Sister Squires said she is not one to cry but she was also in tears haha. It was the coolest thing.

Patty told us that because we chose that day, that is was a sign from God that this was the right thing for her to do. It was the most spiritual experience that I've had on my mission!

Marie and Robbie!

We were walking around waiting to go in to our lesson with the Pittams, a less active family. We had 20 minutes so we just walked around their apartment complex. We ran into this guy named robbie. He was doing something with his flowers so we asked him if he needed any help. He said no. He asked us if we were the Mormons and we said yes. He went on to explain that he is investigating the Jehovah Witness faith. He said his wife is a Jehovah Witness. His wife then came out and we talked for a while. They asked us if we wanted some cucumbers so said sure and then they invited us in their home. They told us to sit in their living room and then all of sudden the wife, Marie comes out with not only the cucumbers but a whole bunch of JW pamphlets. She asks if we have time to exchange beliefs and so we said yes. Although it didnt turn out to be an exchanging of beliefs. She didnt give us any time to talk lol. She just went on about how we are wrong and the Joseph Smith is of satan. We told her we had to leave but she asked us if we could come back. We told her that we could come back if she lets us share some of our thoughts and beliefs. She said she would let us talk next time but that she would have to tell us if its wrong. lol it was probably the most wierdest experience. She was super nice but we probably won't be going back any time soon. haha

Paster Dan!

We were given a referral to go visit a Pastor who lives in our area. And well It didn't go too well. We were kinda hesitant to even go at first knowing he is a pastor of some church in the area. But we decided to go anyways. We biked over to his house and we met him and his wife as they just got home and were getting out of their car. Pastor Dan then starts to preach to us and we felt like we were being attacked. He said that he had once been a mormon and has been taught what we've been taught. He said an angel came to him and told him that our church was actually not true. He told us that we are being deiceved and that he felt really bad for us. I was getting angry and felt we needed to leave. He told us to go read the Bible and pray for forgiveness. He said that he has proof that our religion is wrong and told us that we could come back so he could show us. But we felt we needed to go so we just left him as he still tried to talk to us. It was an interesting experience!

well this week was so awesome and im sad that im out of time to write everything else that happened! but until next week!

I was also able to go on exchanges with Sister Veikoso from hawaii! We had a blast!

It was a wonderful, hot summer day and my husband and I wanted to go window shopping for s few furniture we need for our office space. So what better place to visit but Ikea. I really like that store! If I had a big house and I had money to splurge, this would be the place I would go to. There are so many great room ideas and furniture that I want for our little space. But reality kicks in and I have to be reasonable on what is a need or a want. Besides the amazing products and room displays, they have a restaurant on the second floor that I really like. Okay when you think of wholesale places you would think that the food would be the simple greasy fast food like hotdogs, fries, simple sandwiches, soda, etc. Actually they do have that downstairs for that quick snack. But if you want a really good meal, than you need to visit the Swedish Market, Restaurant and Bistro. Its full of yummy and healthy food options. It has just the right amount of food on your plate and it will make you feel content. Everything is freshly made and ready to be served. The line was short, the cooks were friendly and ready to plate up your choice of meal and there is a ton of sitting options to enjoy your meal. They even have a kids menu, salad bar, dessert station, and drink station.

As we went through the line, we saw many yummy food options to eat and I chose their Braised beef with mashed potatoes, mixed veggies & a small salad (540 Calories meal / 280 calories salad) and Mika got the Salmon fillet with cauliflower mash and mixed veggies (485 Calories). And to be quite honest with you, it tasted really delicious. It had the right amount of flavor and seasoning that we were both amazed by it. Since we've been watching our food intake and calories, we both noticed that our tasted buds are high-ten and sensitive. Plus it has made our cravings and appetites more towards the smaller and lesser intake. But anyways, this restaurant is awesome and we enjoyed every moment of it. If you're in the area, walk through their amazing display rooms, drop your kids off at the play center and even enjoy their soft serve ice cream, which is the bomb.com! (Its really good)

Happy Eating everyone!!