JayLynn E. Loves: Call to Serve

This week was GREAT! A lot has happened. Its starting to cool down and the air is getting better!

KARL!

We have finished all of Karl's lessons required for baptism! Karl had his baptismal interview with our District Leader a couple days ago and things are looking good! Karl and Cayden's baptism will be held on Saturday morning and we are so excited for them! Pictures coming soon!!

John!

So we've been meeting with John for a few weeks now and he came to church with us for the first time yesterday!! He overall enjoyed it. There were a lot of kids that were crying and making noise and the parents didn't do much about it so it was kind of annoying but John said he actually liked how the kids weren't shoved in the corner like some of the churches he has been too. He said he enjoyed the service and we were able to introduce him to a lot of the members! We have our next lesson with him on Tuesday :)))

Amber!

Amber is a inactive member of the church who we've been meeting with. Her son, Hunter is the one who attacked and bit me a couple months ago smh. lol but anyways, she came to church yesterday!!!!! For the first time in 15 years!!! She said it was so good to be back. She was scared to bring her boys because she didn't want them dropping the F bomb during sacrament and attacking the other kids. But they stayed pretty good. Hunter who is 7 years old wanted to go to nursery and he had a blast there. We had Brother Francis watch Hunter so he didn't attack the kids while we took Amber to class. She kept saying it was good to be back and she plans of coming again next week!

"No Juan's here"

We went to try a less active member named Juan. A lady answered and said, "No Juans here" and slammed the door. It was funny.

Sister Forkas

Sister Forkas is an older lady we've also been meeting with. She is a less active member who hates kids. The kids are the reason why she doesn't go to church. But she came to church yesterday!!! It was a miracle but then she said it was terrible because the kids were so loud. We plan to teach her the importance of why we go to church and focus on the sacrament. She said she will try to sit in the front next time. lol

Patty!

We taught Patty the importance of studying the scriptures, She had a couple questions about who the Nephites and the Lamanites were. We were able to teach her more about the Book of Mormon and also what the Pearl of Great Price and Doctrine and covenants are. She is still doing super good. We also went over the articles of faith and she liked it. We just have a few more lessons to go!! We are counting down the days until her baptism!!! 27 more days!

Bob!

So we met Bob a couple weeks ago and we were able to have our first lesson with him this week! he said that right after he talked to us the first time, he went online to read more about our faith. He asked a lot of questions pertaining the structure of our church. We were able to teach him the Restoration and gave him a book of mormon to read. He said he will read and pray about it. He talks a lot about his wife that had passed from Cancer and said he hopes to see her again. We were able to testify of the Plan of Salvation and taught briefly what happens after we die. We had a great lesson and the spirit was strong. He had to go but invited us back on sunday.

We were able to go yesterday to his home again and we brought Brother and Sister Lee with us who lives near him. They got a long really well and they have a lot in common.But then Bob told us that he is not interested in learning anymore. He said its a big commitment for him to continue learning and that he is still grieving his wife's death. It was sad but he is just not ready yet. We still plan to visit him now and then. We will continue to keep him in our prayers.

No Scott

We went to try a less active member named Scott and it turns out he moved. But the man who answered the door was really nice and asked us what we were doing. We told him we help others come closer to Jesus Christ and he respects what we do. He is a Christian and Loves god but not interested in our message. He was super nice and we gave him a book of mormon! #seedplanted

Don

We met Don one day while walking in front of his home a couple weeks ago. He said we could come back in a couple weeks. a couple weeks past and so we decide to go a knock on his door. He was home and we talked outside for a while and had a great lesson about the Plan of Salvation! It was so good. The spirit was there and Don cried! He said he never has heard of anything like it. He didn't know what happened before we came here to earth and he was just so happy and knew what we were saying is true. He kept saying, "That makes so much sense!" haha it was great! He had to get to a doctors appointment but invited us to come back another time. He asked about our church service and asked us what the process is for becoming a member of the church. It was so cool! We are excited to go back to teach him more!!!!!!!!!

We painted again for a member who just moved in our ward. It was super fun

Sister Heninger

We decided to spend our Pday last Monday with a less active member who we have been working with named Sister Heninger. She was put in the hospital a couple of weeks ago due to an accident. She had fractured her back. We drove up to Carson to see her and she was so happy to see us. She doesn't have any family close to her. We were able to read in the book of Mormon with her and left her with a prayer. It was so great visiting with her! She is a wonderful woman.

It's Transfer Monday! And Sister Squire and I are staying the same!! We are so excited to continue serving with each other! Its gonna be a great transfer! We have a lot of events happening, 2 baptisms to prepare for! (the third one we had to postpone). It will be both of our first baptisms! :D

Karl

We taught Karl again this week! We pretty much have taught him all the lessons now. We will continue to meet with him to review the principles we missed but Karl is doing great! 12 days until his baptism!

NEW PERSON BEING TAUGHT!

I swear, this area is on FIRE! I can't believe how much it's grown since the first week I got here! But we found Diana who had met missionaries in the past. We found her while going thru old records so we decided to stop by and try her again.We went, she let us in and we got to know her and ended up teaching the whole Restoration of the gospel! She is an older woman in her 60's and she said she has been searching for a church for her. Her Daughter is a member of the church which caused her to search more about our Faith. She has read the Book of Mormon and enjoyed the stories in it. She believes in the Restoration and invtited us back next week! She currently attends the Lutheran church.

Richard B

Richard is greatest kid! His parents are divorced and he goes back and forth living at two homes. His Fathers fiance is an anti mormon and had thrown away Richards Book of Mormon that we had given him. But Richard said that he went and grabbed it and dusted it off and hid it. He is going through a hard time and we haven't been able to meet with him. But he still has desires to learn more about the gospel . He says he loves going to church because he feels peace. He is so awesome! the most strong and faithful 12 year old! We invited him to the Why I Believe fireside yesterday and he came! He liked it and learned a lot!

Richard D

We called our Mission President to find out any updates on Richards approval to get baptized. He was able to call Church Headquarters and they told him that the wait is gonna be another couple months. Richard is having lots of health issues and is getting really anxious. We met with him and his wife and watched a video of Christ healing the blind. We talked about how Christ can heal what can't be cured. They loved the message and said they would continue to look to Him through their trials.

Nick.

Nick is a guy we were teaching but then we found out he is YSA age so we hand to hand him off the the YSA elders. :( it was kinda sad because we love Nick! he is golden! but oh well.

Patty!

We met with Patty and taught her about obedience and prayer. She is doing great! and she is super excited still for September 22nd! And so are weeee!!

Car on fire!

this happened last week but I forgot to write about it. So I was with Sister Minton on exchanges. We ate lunch at Taco Bell and headed home in our car. We were at the stop light when all of a sudden the car in front of us catches on fire!!! The guy in the vehicle gets out and tries to put it out. Some other people ran to help and we were just sitting in our car like what do we do? we decided to pray haha so I said a quick prayer and during our prayer a lady is yelling at us to move away from the fire. We felt prompted just to stay in our car. We were able to maneuver our car out of there. We don;t know what happened after but we were safe. so that was a miracle. haha

We texted a lady who we thought was Jennifer in our ward. Turns out it wasn't his response was "Quit texting me fool" lol

Dan

We met a guy named Dan and he is an interesting individual. He asked if Sister Squire was related to a Billy Squires who is a singer. She said no and then he goes on his phone and shows us all of these Billy Squire songs. And he is full on jaming out it was so funny, and then he showed us how to use "Witch Sticks" to find gold and silver coins on the ground. And then he gave us tips on how to write songs.

Well there goes my time. until next week!

Love,

Sister Tupuola

Hello Fam! It's been a week!

As you may already know there are a lot of fires going on and the air quality hasn't been too great. In my area it has been pretty bad with surrounding fires. There are ashes falling from the sky. We were told by our misison president to stay indoors as much as possible. But being a missionary thats hard! But we've been trying to do our best to stay inside. And we have been using our car to get to and from places.

But I haven't been feeling to well this week. The air isn't helping at all. Satan is trying real hard to stop the work but I refuse to do nothing. There is too much work to do.

Even though this was a harder week for me, we were still able to see many miracles! Here's what happened..

Patty B.

Patty is doing so GREAT! She came to church again yesterday and enjoyed it! She is excited for her baptism on September 22nd and is already inviting people to it! She still thinks its crazy how we came up with that specific date for her. We stopped by her home last night and she couldn't stop talking about how happy she is. She recognizes Satan working harder on her but she refuses to let him win! She is doing awesome and has been reading her scriptures everyday!

Richard B.

little Richard is still on fire! He came to church yesterday and still has a desire to get baptized! We are still waiting for his parents permissiion but he is still doing great!

Richard D.

Richard is still waiting to hear from the first presidency for approval for his baptism. He is still anxiously waiting but he is doing good. He came to church again yesterday and is still striving to stay on the path. We are meeting with him every week. We read in the scriptures with him in Alma 17 about the sons of mosiah and he enoyed it.

Karl Kelley.

Karl is still excited for his baptism on Sept 1! we met with him this week and taught the Plan of Salvation. He has a great understanding of the gospel and is doing good. His son Cayden is slowly opening up to us and he talks more to us. He showed us some of his Karate moves. It was so cute.

Song Writing!

Sister Squire and I have been having a blast serving together! One of the things we have been doing is writing songs about our experiences. We will have to record them! Some of them are dumb but its a thing that weve recently been doing!

-I had the opportunity to do another training in District Council about immersing ourselves in the scriptures. It was great and I was able to learn a lot. The other missionaries were able to learn a lot as well.

-We taught the gospel principles class about baptism yesterday in the Jobs peak ward. We had a great discussion and everyone participated.

-We almost got attacked by llamas. It was great.

Matt L.

Matt is a referral we recieved from the Elders in Yerington. They met him on the street and have been teaching Matt for a few of weeks now. They felt like he is ready for baptism and they set him with a baptismal date for September 8th! But Matt had recently moved out of Yerington and now lives in the Walker Branch area! Which means we are to teach him now. We met with Matt this yesterday and got to know him. He has 6 dogs and 2 goats and they are the world to him. Matt also enjoys hunting and fishing which is why he moved in our area, to be close to the Topaz lake. He has a great understanding of the gospel and enjoys going to church. He went to church yesterday and loved it. He is still excited to get baptized and knows these things we teach is true. He is willing to do what it takes to be baptized. Matt is super awesome and nice! We are excited to work with him and prepare him for his baptism! September is going to be a great month!

Ledean H.

So we had recieved a referral the other day from a member of the church to go visit a lady named Ledean. We felt prompted to go visit her on Tuesday and decided to put our other plans we had on hold. so we went out to search for her address and we could not find it anywhere! a couple hours we still werent having any luck finding Ledean's address. But we refused to give up. We said a prayer for the Lord to help us find it. After asking random people on the street, we were able to find Ledeans home! It turns out , we had the wrong address the whole time but it was a miracle that we found the write house! We met Ledean and she let us in. She told us she hasnt been doing too good health wise and has almost died several times. She is an older lady in her 90s. We were able to teach her the plan of salvation and she believed in everything we said! We had to leave to get home but she invited us to come back on Sunday!

Miracle!

So we do service for the methodist church every Saturday at their thrift store and we went there and they were closed. We didn't know what to do. We didnt have any back ups planned so we were just going to go home. But we felt prompted to walk around in a certain part of our area. We were able to talk to sooo many people! We met a guy named Don who is christian and said we could come back! He said we were a blessing to him and that we made his day! It was awesome! If we didn't follow that prompting! We wouldnt have met him and all those other people!

Genesis!

I have been studying in the Old testament about Joseph in Egypt. I love his example and his positive attitude he had even though he went through struggles and trials. He was sold as A slave by his brothers but he still remained faithful and looked for the good in every situation! reading and studying about him has given me motivation to look for the good in every day! Even though I havent had a great week being sick, I have been able to stay positve and we have still seen so many great miracles!

I am out of time but I hope you all have a great week! thanks for all of your love and support! love you guys

Sister Tupuola