Hello all!
Hope you're all doing well! With this wintry weather coming in across the west, time to bundle up yeah? Mom and Dad thank you for your emails this week! - I dropped by Frank and his son's house this week with Elder Asay and I thanked them again for the coat! They are great guys...we're trying to get in to there house and share a message with them but they're always busy! But I did thank them for you! They want to have us over some time for eggplant haha whatever that is, he wants to cook it for us!
Anyways, this past week has been good! We had some great lessons! And we also had Zone Conference on Thursday! It was wonderful! We learned a lot about the Role of the Holy Ghost in conversion! President Colton is an amazing man! I really look up to him! Haha we had a practice time to role play a situation where we were to ask the investigator to be baptized, and President Colton sat in on OUR role play out of the whole zone! haha a little intimidating! But we did well! He also jumped in and added his advice and insight on how we could do better ! But we definitely needed that, as were looking to commit others to baptism, I know that practice will help us this next week as we try to get more things set up! But yeah the ZC was great!
Also, we have been working with a lady named Roxanne, she's met with the missionaries for the past two years! haha shes been investigating our church and the Jehovah's Witness church and she is on the fence, and has some hang ups on whether or not Joseph Smith was a prophet or not, but we've been trying to help her gain a testimony of the Book of Mormon, because if she can get that, she can also come to know that Joseph Smith was a true prophet. Also, in the two years that she's met with the missionaries, she has come to church only once! So, we committed her to come to church and she came!! She's been known to not show up! But we got her to come ! So that was good! So shes making progress!
Paige Finley is getting baptized this Saturday! So we are very excited! This will be my first baptism! haha I'm excited! but yeah!
Other than that, the work is good. Just doing my best and trying to be the kind of missionary I know the Lord would want me to be!Today it is snowing! Not really sticking yet, but I am sure it will later! But yeah, Elder Asay has never really seen snow down it Mississippi , so he is excited haha. No word on the visa yet, but i have a feeling that it'll be soon...the first group of visa waiters before me, who came out here 6 weeks before me, got there's about 3 weeks ago, and so I'm guessing in at least three weeks. Maybe I'll get a nice thanksgiving dinner, then head down to Villahermosa! But we'll see I guess right? It's all in the Lord's hands!
But I hope you're all doing well! I love you all so much and appreciate all your love, prayers, and support! As I get down sometimes, I feel those prayers pick me up and help me want to do better! I know this is the true gospel! There is no other way to make it back to our Heavenly Father, except through His gospel and through the Atonement of Jesus Christ! I love it! Anyways I hope you're all doing well!
Megan and Kenzie, keep ballin' it up! I love you and Jeffrey and Marina I love you guys and am excited more and more as the time is coming for you guys to be sealed! As we talk with one of our less actives, and as they are striving to go to the temple and be sealed, I cant help but share your story and share my excitement about you guys and how excited i am for you to take this step! Its a wonderful thing!
I love you all and hope that all is well! :) PS pictures are attached...one of them is with Elder Ursua who i went on exchanges with who is also awaiting a visa! He's going to Veracruz!
love, Elder Jordan Robert Eliason
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