January 31, 2011
Dear President,
This week has been successful in a way. We taught 34 lessons, 5 member presents, and 13 less actives and that is so great! We are working hard to get the ward more involved with the work and get them excited about getting out there with us. We have found Jasmine and Stone and Lori....a family and we are trying to teach all of them. They came to church Sunday but not the mom Lori, she was working but we are going to teach the whole family with Lori, and pray she is expecting. They all want to move forward together as a family. 1st lesson with just Jasmine went well, and they enjoyed church.
I truly am learning to love sister Fonua with all of my heart and I learned something with Bro Thevanan this week. I asked sister Fonua if she would like to follow through with this. Sister Fonua has a lot of great push to work, she wants to have success and she needs to be praised and supported. So I proposed an idea that for a week she would be the "big man on campus" she would call the shots, and be in charge of making sure we daily and nightly plan and weekly plan, for the 1st few lessons we use her ideas and follow the spirit together to know what the Lord wants. This has been a challenge for me, and for her, pushing us to a new level. Her to not feel like I’m limiting her or holding her back in what she can do, and giving her the responsibility she needs to have the experiences to teach and feel and not lean so much on me. (This has worked very well so far, we started Thursday). she didn't like the idea at 1st, but we said a prayer and invited the spirit and I bore testimony that I know this is going to be a challenge, but she learns from "doing" and as a trainer I would be doing her a disadvantage if I didn't train her to "do" what I do. To hold her to the same expectations she holds me to because she is capable of it. We will see how the rest of the week goes.
We are searching and finding and working with tons of fewer actives. Making and building the spirit and getting families to the temple!! Where it can all begin!
Since the Han’s have been sick, we've gotten to use their car a few times and wow! We've been able to have a LOT MORE success, just in getting out there more. We now have less actives out 25 minutes and so we are praying that a car will come soon, so we can have more contact with them, the ward is helping, we have a young girl that has been struggling that we use at nighttime after 6pm. 3 days a week, and that's when we have found success. Praying for a car soon, I know this area is so ready!
Thank you President for all you do and all you say to build up your missionaries. I love you and support you and am so grateful for you. I love my companion sister Fonua and am grateful we can serve shoulder to shoulder so we can grow together.
Thank you,
Sister Judkins
Monday, January 31, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Letter #42
THANK YOU,
Oh man I really miss spending time with ya'll and being home. That’s for sure. I love you!
YES I GOT THE PACKAGE mama! Thank you :) 2 weeks ago about. Sorry I didn't write sooner, I've been taking the pills they are really helping and thank you so much! Mom! :) My address is still
Longmire
Peppertree apt #204
College station, TX
Same one you have!!! Thank you!
I need a pair of thick tights, colored (dark purple maybe, or something) it's cold!!! And um....stamps....hair clips....like "errand of angels" movie...like bigger bows, or clips (bigger not little ones) if you see any super cute ones :) Or if Jill or Megan want to make me one! :) Umm...mom...I love the silk tops you sent me!!! YOU WERE RIGHT! They’re awesome in the cold....not in the hot, but way awesome in the cold weather! THANK YOU!!! I LOVE THEM!!! I need to know where I should send a BIG package of my stuff when I need to ship some stuff home in a few months probably. Where should I send it, like journals, planners, letters, books, etc. umm...I'll think of other things I need latter. I know stuff is tight. So it's ok these aren’t' necessities, I just would like professional cute clips and a pair of colored cute tights to be warm....Oh and my shoes… maybe mom could you look to see if you see any good bike/ walking shoes sketchers....the other ones we bought I kept one, but the other hurt my feet so I gave them to Sister Cramer. Hers were falling apart. But I need really hard bottoms, not too much flexibility in the soles, those are best for biking. If you come across anything send me a picture ....I do need that. My feet are starting to have sores. ...:) It’s OK!!! Thank you!!! Love you.
Ok, funny...:) sooooooooooo FUNNY!!!! Last night, we were trying to contact some people and knocked on the 1st door (duplex) the next door neighbor answered to tell us he didn’t' live there and we ended up teaching her 1 1/2 hours!! And she wants us for dinner next week, but doesn't want to learn more .... Yet... :) She knows a lot though even helped send off her friend's son on his mission. Ok....not the funny. He he!!! Ha ha BAAAHAHA!!! Ok...
So remember Bob, we tracked into him and had an incredible lesson and he was crying and told us to come back any time. So we went by his house and I had to pee SUPER BAD!!! So I just said let’s ask Bob..... :) ....so (its 7:40pm) pitch black....he answers and I ask, "Hey I have kind of a funny question, can I use your bathroom? We're far away from our apartment is that OK if I use yours?"
He looks at me with a dumbfound look "ugh....I guess so..."
"Are you Bob?" I ask "No" he says....AAHAHAHAHAHAHH, I burst out laughing, "oh so you don't even know who we are~??" "Nope," I introduced us and what we do, and he said with a beet red face.
"Oh man, Bob pulled a fast one on you, he told me ya'll might be coming by."
I was laughing so hard by now with him (Mike, who was Bob's friend)...."Well can I still use your bathroom!!???"
"I guess"....I went in so quick in the bathroom because at this point I was laughing so hard I could have peeded myself.... hahahaha!!! I just laughed trying so hard not to be loud enough for them to hear.... while I left my new greenie out there with this random guy....HAHA!!! The day couldn't have gotten BETTER....then I came out and taught him a lesson and had prayer and invited him to learn more...he said no....then I told him to get Bob's address and call us and we'll send the elders to him....and pretend he has committed to baptism....Mike was bust'n up laughing at this time too! And his dog loved me A LOT so I think he really liked us too!....hahah!!! We kept laughing and we're going to bring him cookies this week with our testimonies of the plan of Salvation to say thank you.... Oh too funny! He was beet red and hitt'n his hands together say'n "oh don't worry, he'll know ya'll came here, he'll probably hear it right after ya'll leave!!! He'll get an ear full!" ...."I said well, I am sure glad we did meet you, and thanks for letting us use your bathroom Mike!...
Then we left!!...laughing all the way to our next appointment. hahahah!!!! Too funny! Don’t worry we're gunna find Bob and send the elders to him!!! :) Mike ratted him out and told us his address!! Ha ha!!! Great friends!!!
Yes I'm training, it's tough because you feel like your never doing enough, always a feeling of inadequacy and you’re not good enough in the back and front on my head. Satan is working hard. When you have a new missionary they are (in this case) very much on fire! Sister Fonua is incredible, VERY ready and prepared to be here! She has studied a lot and knows SO MUCH MORE than I did when I first came out here!!! I didn't know anything! Plus I acted sometimes as if I knew everything! ... Oh what a humbling experience. Although I have always been aware of my nothingness and God's greatness I have been in constant reminder of it with my new Greenie-Power companion. She is truly putting everything I've learned with patience and everything I loved about Katie training me and dad training me to manage the store...(they at that time were the perfect examples for me) and my mothers constant example, we sometimes just don’t' really see until latter.
Training has really put my faults right in front of my face and consistently having a prayer in my heart to my Lord and Father in Heaven. Oh how grateful I am to feel my Savior's love for me, you our family our spiritual family (all of God's children.) How I am trying with all my heart to realize the potential my Heavenly father wants me to live up to, it's hard to feel that I am so far from being who he expects and wants me to be. Everyday it seems like Satan tries to tare us down and say, "you will never reach your potential, so why even try?" Those are the times when I remember the scripture, "if all men where or ever would be like unto Moroni, the very gates of Hell would shake".....so...you would think, how hard is Satan trying to lead away the chosen and the strong and the weak as well. He wants to ruin families, wreck good friendships, and make you feel unworthy for the companionship of not just the Holy Ghost, but our savior and even our own Father in Heaven. How happy it does make me when I start my prayer with "dear kind Heavenly Father......" what a plain and precious thing that has been distorted over the years. God is our father, we are spiritual children of him and he sent us here to receive bodies, experience good and evil and choose to have faith in his son, our brother Jesus Christ that through him and the infinite atonement which he suffered for all, we can repent, be baptized by one holding the authority given to him by one who received the original power from Jesus Christ who received his by his Father. And then the Holy Ghost can be given through and only through that same power by the laying on of hands, and as we feel the Holy Ghost's promptings, we may choice to be perfected in him, we can choose our eternal salvation. Whether we will live with God in his kingdom or if we choose to not stay strong to the end, to be slothful, or lazy, or let Satan’s knot tying lies wrap us so tight we believe that we will NEVER reach our potential. When Christ is right, they’re succoring us (running to us) arms open ready to help us burst the bands that hold us bound. I know that we give our BEST....because Heavenly father gave his best....his only begotten son that whoso believeth in him shall not parish, but have ever lasting life.
Family I am so happy to be a missionary, and though times are hard, I know that our brother and savior are with me and my father in heaven is with me. When I fall and hurt and cry and don't want to get back up and ask, "why does it have to be so hard?" My father has already known that struggle and he has it covered with my older brother who was the best life this world has ever known. And yet he was bruised for our iniquities, and with his stripes we are healed. He knew many of us need something here for us, and so he has given me my family..... That will be his hands and (letters) we are his hands...he can help us feel his love, we just need to show that love to others.
I love the work, I love you all with my whole heart!
From here to heaven
-Love, Sister Judkins
Oh man I really miss spending time with ya'll and being home. That’s for sure. I love you!
YES I GOT THE PACKAGE mama! Thank you :) 2 weeks ago about. Sorry I didn't write sooner, I've been taking the pills they are really helping and thank you so much! Mom! :) My address is still
Longmire
Peppertree apt #204
College station, TX
Same one you have!!! Thank you!
I need a pair of thick tights, colored (dark purple maybe, or something) it's cold!!! And um....stamps....hair clips....like "errand of angels" movie...like bigger bows, or clips (bigger not little ones) if you see any super cute ones :) Or if Jill or Megan want to make me one! :) Umm...mom...I love the silk tops you sent me!!! YOU WERE RIGHT! They’re awesome in the cold....not in the hot, but way awesome in the cold weather! THANK YOU!!! I LOVE THEM!!! I need to know where I should send a BIG package of my stuff when I need to ship some stuff home in a few months probably. Where should I send it, like journals, planners, letters, books, etc. umm...I'll think of other things I need latter. I know stuff is tight. So it's ok these aren’t' necessities, I just would like professional cute clips and a pair of colored cute tights to be warm....Oh and my shoes… maybe mom could you look to see if you see any good bike/ walking shoes sketchers....the other ones we bought I kept one, but the other hurt my feet so I gave them to Sister Cramer. Hers were falling apart. But I need really hard bottoms, not too much flexibility in the soles, those are best for biking. If you come across anything send me a picture ....I do need that. My feet are starting to have sores. ...:) It’s OK!!! Thank you!!! Love you.
Ok, funny...:) sooooooooooo FUNNY!!!! Last night, we were trying to contact some people and knocked on the 1st door (duplex) the next door neighbor answered to tell us he didn’t' live there and we ended up teaching her 1 1/2 hours!! And she wants us for dinner next week, but doesn't want to learn more .... Yet... :) She knows a lot though even helped send off her friend's son on his mission. Ok....not the funny. He he!!! Ha ha BAAAHAHA!!! Ok...
So remember Bob, we tracked into him and had an incredible lesson and he was crying and told us to come back any time. So we went by his house and I had to pee SUPER BAD!!! So I just said let’s ask Bob..... :) ....so (its 7:40pm) pitch black....he answers and I ask, "Hey I have kind of a funny question, can I use your bathroom? We're far away from our apartment is that OK if I use yours?"
He looks at me with a dumbfound look "ugh....I guess so..."
"Are you Bob?" I ask "No" he says....AAHAHAHAHAHAHH, I burst out laughing, "oh so you don't even know who we are~??" "Nope," I introduced us and what we do, and he said with a beet red face.
"Oh man, Bob pulled a fast one on you, he told me ya'll might be coming by."
I was laughing so hard by now with him (Mike, who was Bob's friend)...."Well can I still use your bathroom!!???"
"I guess"....I went in so quick in the bathroom because at this point I was laughing so hard I could have peeded myself.... hahahaha!!! I just laughed trying so hard not to be loud enough for them to hear.... while I left my new greenie out there with this random guy....HAHA!!! The day couldn't have gotten BETTER....then I came out and taught him a lesson and had prayer and invited him to learn more...he said no....then I told him to get Bob's address and call us and we'll send the elders to him....and pretend he has committed to baptism....Mike was bust'n up laughing at this time too! And his dog loved me A LOT so I think he really liked us too!....hahah!!! We kept laughing and we're going to bring him cookies this week with our testimonies of the plan of Salvation to say thank you.... Oh too funny! He was beet red and hitt'n his hands together say'n "oh don't worry, he'll know ya'll came here, he'll probably hear it right after ya'll leave!!! He'll get an ear full!" ...."I said well, I am sure glad we did meet you, and thanks for letting us use your bathroom Mike!...
Then we left!!...laughing all the way to our next appointment. hahahah!!!! Too funny! Don’t worry we're gunna find Bob and send the elders to him!!! :) Mike ratted him out and told us his address!! Ha ha!!! Great friends!!!
Yes I'm training, it's tough because you feel like your never doing enough, always a feeling of inadequacy and you’re not good enough in the back and front on my head. Satan is working hard. When you have a new missionary they are (in this case) very much on fire! Sister Fonua is incredible, VERY ready and prepared to be here! She has studied a lot and knows SO MUCH MORE than I did when I first came out here!!! I didn't know anything! Plus I acted sometimes as if I knew everything! ... Oh what a humbling experience. Although I have always been aware of my nothingness and God's greatness I have been in constant reminder of it with my new Greenie-Power companion. She is truly putting everything I've learned with patience and everything I loved about Katie training me and dad training me to manage the store...(they at that time were the perfect examples for me) and my mothers constant example, we sometimes just don’t' really see until latter.
Training has really put my faults right in front of my face and consistently having a prayer in my heart to my Lord and Father in Heaven. Oh how grateful I am to feel my Savior's love for me, you our family our spiritual family (all of God's children.) How I am trying with all my heart to realize the potential my Heavenly father wants me to live up to, it's hard to feel that I am so far from being who he expects and wants me to be. Everyday it seems like Satan tries to tare us down and say, "you will never reach your potential, so why even try?" Those are the times when I remember the scripture, "if all men where or ever would be like unto Moroni, the very gates of Hell would shake".....so...you would think, how hard is Satan trying to lead away the chosen and the strong and the weak as well. He wants to ruin families, wreck good friendships, and make you feel unworthy for the companionship of not just the Holy Ghost, but our savior and even our own Father in Heaven. How happy it does make me when I start my prayer with "dear kind Heavenly Father......" what a plain and precious thing that has been distorted over the years. God is our father, we are spiritual children of him and he sent us here to receive bodies, experience good and evil and choose to have faith in his son, our brother Jesus Christ that through him and the infinite atonement which he suffered for all, we can repent, be baptized by one holding the authority given to him by one who received the original power from Jesus Christ who received his by his Father. And then the Holy Ghost can be given through and only through that same power by the laying on of hands, and as we feel the Holy Ghost's promptings, we may choice to be perfected in him, we can choose our eternal salvation. Whether we will live with God in his kingdom or if we choose to not stay strong to the end, to be slothful, or lazy, or let Satan’s knot tying lies wrap us so tight we believe that we will NEVER reach our potential. When Christ is right, they’re succoring us (running to us) arms open ready to help us burst the bands that hold us bound. I know that we give our BEST....because Heavenly father gave his best....his only begotten son that whoso believeth in him shall not parish, but have ever lasting life.
Family I am so happy to be a missionary, and though times are hard, I know that our brother and savior are with me and my father in heaven is with me. When I fall and hurt and cry and don't want to get back up and ask, "why does it have to be so hard?" My father has already known that struggle and he has it covered with my older brother who was the best life this world has ever known. And yet he was bruised for our iniquities, and with his stripes we are healed. He knew many of us need something here for us, and so he has given me my family..... That will be his hands and (letters) we are his hands...he can help us feel his love, we just need to show that love to others.
I love the work, I love you all with my whole heart!
From here to heaven
-Love, Sister Judkins
Monday, January 10, 2011
Letter #41
Hello family and friends,
I'm TRAINING THE TONGAN!!!!!!! AHAHAHAH!!! YES FOR REALL!!!! AHAHAH!!!!
Ok this week has been full of incredible miracles.... 1st mom thank you for your letter. That I hope you know was a miracle! And a sincere loving answers to me from my heavenly Father. I know that things are going to turn around because the Lord promises that if we are obedient and follow him, you will prosper in the land. And how incredible to me when I received your letter with the miraculous news of the store. My testimony of obedience has been strengthened to a knowledge and not just faith. I know my Heavenly Father keeps his promises. Thank you family and friends for your prayers I could feel them this week!
Well with Transfers here it is…. I'm staying in college Station my comp is going to Kleinwood, and I am getting the English sister that is coming in (who we believe is from Tonga :) I've been doing the Haka all week getting ready with my warrior faces! Get ready College Station 3rd ward we are getting GREENIE FIRE!!!! It’s incredible, President Hansen called me this morning for a pep talk about my commitments of being 100% and really wanting to, to please Heavenly Father and for my family and the area I'm serving to start seeing blessings! I'm so incredibly grateful! PRAY FOR MY NEW BABY!!!! (Mission lingo, gotta love and hate it, at the same time)
I feel like I've been changing so much lately. My spirit is so sensitive to things around me and the WORK IS GOING GREAT! But there’s always MORE that we can be doing. I'm learning how to give all of me, it's a hard thing to give to the Lord, but a must for him to shape you and mold you into the person he wants you to become to reach your fullest potential. and to be Happiest.... :)
Bill is incredible, we taught him 2 times and he is getting BAPTIZED!!!! He's so ready, the spirit was so incredibly strong during his lessons!
Troy we found tracting, remember him? :) Well the lesson went so AWESOME!!! The spirit was strong and I feel a little like 1/2 and 1/2 with him, there’s something interesting about him. So I'm careful and listen to the spirit as to know what he will need to continue until he gets baptized. He said he'd come to church and get baptized. pretty cool!
The area is white and ready to harvest, we just need to get out there and sharpen our sickles and get ready to harvest!!!
Katie thanks for your HUGE letter ...LOVED IT.... :)
Family thank you for your letters of encouragement and love. I read them over and over again and feel the love I have at home cheering me on and how I cheer them on everyday too!!! Know that I'm being obedient and miracles are occurring and I'm not perfect and I still need to repent but what a blessing to know when you truly repent, you are clean and the Lord remembers your sins no more. So even though mine are little tiny things that I don't mean to break, it's important to realize they are not obedient and to start again! Broken heart and contrite spirit.....what does that mean? Think about that this week!
I love you all so much, pray for SISTER FONUA she's my new Tongan Greenie.....she is going to bring FIRE POWER, and I am going to learn to lift her high and the Lord will take her higher. I will learn to be happy for her successes and to fight for right together!!! I love you all so much!
I get to go to Houston Tuesday till Thursday and go to the temple Wednesday at 10am with my new greenie!!! so pumped!!! EXPECT MIRACLES.....WHEN OBEDIANC IS A QUEST!!!!! :)
Love you from here to Heaven!
-Love you,
Sister Judkins
Daddy,
You’re so strong and you have such incredible abilities! Dad! I'm so happy to see different traits and talents that I'm working on that you and mom have passed on to me. I'm so happy that you and mom NEVER GIVE UP!!! That's something that I have a double dose of, you and mom no matter what NEVER give up, and I really don't think it's in our vocabulary. Dad I want you to listen to something and have mom and the kids listen to it, this is to all the mission presidents, but I want you to know that this is my mission in a nutshell.
go to You-tube watch this movie:
"Missionary Work and the Atonement"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBXcNosn50g
This is why I'm here, daddy, mom, family....These feelings are real, I have felt them, when my body begs for rest.....when I am rejected and spit upon, I remember there was someone a lot greater.........a lot BETTER.....
This is what keeps me going in times where I can't do it alone....I think that this will touch you dad like it did me....bringing tears to my eyes that I couldn't stop the flow of. I love you dad and know I am being obedient!!! Thank you for encouraging me, now I know this will encourage you dad! Let the spirit guide your thoughts and decisions as you have always taught me to do!
I love you,
Your daughter that misses you dearly,
Sister Janna Judkins
I'm TRAINING THE TONGAN!!!!!!! AHAHAHAH!!! YES FOR REALL!!!! AHAHAH!!!!
Ok this week has been full of incredible miracles.... 1st mom thank you for your letter. That I hope you know was a miracle! And a sincere loving answers to me from my heavenly Father. I know that things are going to turn around because the Lord promises that if we are obedient and follow him, you will prosper in the land. And how incredible to me when I received your letter with the miraculous news of the store. My testimony of obedience has been strengthened to a knowledge and not just faith. I know my Heavenly Father keeps his promises. Thank you family and friends for your prayers I could feel them this week!
Well with Transfers here it is…. I'm staying in college Station my comp is going to Kleinwood, and I am getting the English sister that is coming in (who we believe is from Tonga :) I've been doing the Haka all week getting ready with my warrior faces! Get ready College Station 3rd ward we are getting GREENIE FIRE!!!! It’s incredible, President Hansen called me this morning for a pep talk about my commitments of being 100% and really wanting to, to please Heavenly Father and for my family and the area I'm serving to start seeing blessings! I'm so incredibly grateful! PRAY FOR MY NEW BABY!!!! (Mission lingo, gotta love and hate it, at the same time)
I feel like I've been changing so much lately. My spirit is so sensitive to things around me and the WORK IS GOING GREAT! But there’s always MORE that we can be doing. I'm learning how to give all of me, it's a hard thing to give to the Lord, but a must for him to shape you and mold you into the person he wants you to become to reach your fullest potential. and to be Happiest.... :)
Bill is incredible, we taught him 2 times and he is getting BAPTIZED!!!! He's so ready, the spirit was so incredibly strong during his lessons!
Troy we found tracting, remember him? :) Well the lesson went so AWESOME!!! The spirit was strong and I feel a little like 1/2 and 1/2 with him, there’s something interesting about him. So I'm careful and listen to the spirit as to know what he will need to continue until he gets baptized. He said he'd come to church and get baptized. pretty cool!
The area is white and ready to harvest, we just need to get out there and sharpen our sickles and get ready to harvest!!!
Katie thanks for your HUGE letter ...LOVED IT.... :)
Family thank you for your letters of encouragement and love. I read them over and over again and feel the love I have at home cheering me on and how I cheer them on everyday too!!! Know that I'm being obedient and miracles are occurring and I'm not perfect and I still need to repent but what a blessing to know when you truly repent, you are clean and the Lord remembers your sins no more. So even though mine are little tiny things that I don't mean to break, it's important to realize they are not obedient and to start again! Broken heart and contrite spirit.....what does that mean? Think about that this week!
I love you all so much, pray for SISTER FONUA she's my new Tongan Greenie.....she is going to bring FIRE POWER, and I am going to learn to lift her high and the Lord will take her higher. I will learn to be happy for her successes and to fight for right together!!! I love you all so much!
I get to go to Houston Tuesday till Thursday and go to the temple Wednesday at 10am with my new greenie!!! so pumped!!! EXPECT MIRACLES.....WHEN OBEDIANC IS A QUEST!!!!! :)
Love you from here to Heaven!
-Love you,
Sister Judkins
Daddy,
You’re so strong and you have such incredible abilities! Dad! I'm so happy to see different traits and talents that I'm working on that you and mom have passed on to me. I'm so happy that you and mom NEVER GIVE UP!!! That's something that I have a double dose of, you and mom no matter what NEVER give up, and I really don't think it's in our vocabulary. Dad I want you to listen to something and have mom and the kids listen to it, this is to all the mission presidents, but I want you to know that this is my mission in a nutshell.
go to You-tube watch this movie:
"Missionary Work and the Atonement"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBXcNosn50g
This is why I'm here, daddy, mom, family....These feelings are real, I have felt them, when my body begs for rest.....when I am rejected and spit upon, I remember there was someone a lot greater.........a lot BETTER.....
This is what keeps me going in times where I can't do it alone....I think that this will touch you dad like it did me....bringing tears to my eyes that I couldn't stop the flow of. I love you dad and know I am being obedient!!! Thank you for encouraging me, now I know this will encourage you dad! Let the spirit guide your thoughts and decisions as you have always taught me to do!
I love you,
Your daughter that misses you dearly,
Sister Janna Judkins
Monday, January 3, 2011
Letter #40
"I love the mountains, I love the dandelions, I love that I can't spell, and I love my family I love the slammed doors, I love the stressing, I love the bed bugs, I love the broken bike, and I love the freezing cold..... La la la la la!!! "
How many of us have sung this song before!!! HA HA!!!!
Ok...but for real..... I love missionary work!!!!
This week we GOT 35 LESSONSSS!!!! YAOHOOO.....and totally got 11 lessons on Saturday! The 1st day of the year!!! 2011!!! That was the most I had ever gotten (and hadn't reached it since my 1st transfer with my trainer) so still didn't beat it, but wait this week! But totally just tied it!!! Sister Davis should be so proud ;) he he!
We’ve been tracting tons and seeing miracles happen all around us what an incredible year!! I can't wait to see what happens!!!
1. We found a family: The Grimes. Tracted into them and my comp did the door approach and he said" well we already go to church...” then the spirit spoke and said BE BOLD.....my specialty!!!....."Do you know that Christ came on the earth to restore his father’s church and gospel and most importantly his authority to have the true church on the earth? We believe Jesus gave that authority to his apostles, but after they were all killed, God took that authority off the earth and their was so much confusion and many churches were formed trying to find what Jesus Christ taught, but they didn't have the authority. We believe it's important to not just go to church, but to find the true church on the earth. Our message is that this true church Jesus Christ was here to restore with the Authority given to him by God have been restored on the earth and we are looking for those who are ready to hear and except this message that is there is a living prophet on the earth today that has the authority from God. Will you be interested in this message?" he said ...."....ugh....yea...ok"..... SO COOL! I never say the words "true church" ever usually because it ruffles feathers, that's how I know came out of my mouth was the spirit.....we walked away and I tried REALLY hard not to jump up and down, because I could feel it...."did you feel that," I said...."OH YEAH" my comp said as we walked away. We have the 1st lesson with him Wednesday! At 7pm.... :) he has 3 kids 20, 18 16 girl and 2 boys.
MIRACLES!!!
We are working incredibly hard to reach our goals. Especially of doubling our baptisms by March (MY BIRTHDAY!!!) 30 to 60 YES this CAN so be DONE!!! With God Nothing is impossible....I love that.....
I would like to see how everyone is doing on their New Year goals. Mine is BEING OBEDIENT 100%....ha ha! But I'm doing GREAT, had a day of hardship, but thank goodness for repentance!! Though your sins be red as scarlet they will be as white as snow. :) Peace love and charity!!! I'm missing my family and beloved friends though!!! That’s for sure. But this helps me be happy! :) I get my gold star....then that much closer to a MANICURE!!!....Yup....I'm bribing myself to be obedient, hey you do it with kids and potty training....it's a proven way for success! :P)
Hmm.....another woman we tracted into was incredible. Lisa, she had this face of "don't you dare waste my time".....and it was my door. Well, I started sharing and with all my heart bore testimony of Joseph Smith and actually shared the 1st vision and recited it to her. I wasn't quite sure how to read her, but we had been there for at least 15 minutes at her door step and she listened like .... You have some gumption kid.....yes; I know I live with myself every day. Ha ha! At the end we gave her a chapter to read 3 Nephi 27 and bore testimony that we are here to invite her, she said "I appreciate the boldness you (looking straight into my soul) spoke with about what you believe in"....we gave her a BOM and our # and said call us... she said ." If I become more interested I'll give you a call." wow...I walked away from that door my heart bouncing and racing....she's going to call...I know it...maybe not now, but she will call!!!
Don’t give up! The gospel is true, it's the only thing that brings happiness and joy in a world that is searching, how grateful I am to now the truth that I lived with God before as his spirit daughter. And I am not just his creation but his daughter, and he loves me and wants to see me happy and progress to reach my potential, repent of my sins, be baptized by his authority by water and the fire of the Holy Ghost and then to hold on tight to the gospel and work my whole life just like Jesus Christ his son did, my brother. I know the book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ, if any of you are searching or want to know read the book. For in it you will find truth eternal! And the truth will set us free.
How happy and grateful I am to know that through the restored gospel and in the temple families can be sealed together forever! Not just till death do you part, but for all time and eternity. Wow....
I love you all with each piece of my heart!
Love you all from here to home (Heaven)
Sister Judkins
How many of us have sung this song before!!! HA HA!!!!
Ok...but for real..... I love missionary work!!!!
This week we GOT 35 LESSONSSS!!!! YAOHOOO.....and totally got 11 lessons on Saturday! The 1st day of the year!!! 2011!!! That was the most I had ever gotten (and hadn't reached it since my 1st transfer with my trainer) so still didn't beat it, but wait this week! But totally just tied it!!! Sister Davis should be so proud ;) he he!
We’ve been tracting tons and seeing miracles happen all around us what an incredible year!! I can't wait to see what happens!!!
1. We found a family: The Grimes. Tracted into them and my comp did the door approach and he said" well we already go to church...” then the spirit spoke and said BE BOLD.....my specialty!!!....."Do you know that Christ came on the earth to restore his father’s church and gospel and most importantly his authority to have the true church on the earth? We believe Jesus gave that authority to his apostles, but after they were all killed, God took that authority off the earth and their was so much confusion and many churches were formed trying to find what Jesus Christ taught, but they didn't have the authority. We believe it's important to not just go to church, but to find the true church on the earth. Our message is that this true church Jesus Christ was here to restore with the Authority given to him by God have been restored on the earth and we are looking for those who are ready to hear and except this message that is there is a living prophet on the earth today that has the authority from God. Will you be interested in this message?" he said ...."....ugh....yea...ok"..... SO COOL! I never say the words "true church" ever usually because it ruffles feathers, that's how I know came out of my mouth was the spirit.....we walked away and I tried REALLY hard not to jump up and down, because I could feel it...."did you feel that," I said...."OH YEAH" my comp said as we walked away. We have the 1st lesson with him Wednesday! At 7pm.... :) he has 3 kids 20, 18 16 girl and 2 boys.
MIRACLES!!!
We are working incredibly hard to reach our goals. Especially of doubling our baptisms by March (MY BIRTHDAY!!!) 30 to 60 YES this CAN so be DONE!!! With God Nothing is impossible....I love that.....
I would like to see how everyone is doing on their New Year goals. Mine is BEING OBEDIENT 100%....ha ha! But I'm doing GREAT, had a day of hardship, but thank goodness for repentance!! Though your sins be red as scarlet they will be as white as snow. :) Peace love and charity!!! I'm missing my family and beloved friends though!!! That’s for sure. But this helps me be happy! :) I get my gold star....then that much closer to a MANICURE!!!....Yup....I'm bribing myself to be obedient, hey you do it with kids and potty training....it's a proven way for success! :P)
Hmm.....another woman we tracted into was incredible. Lisa, she had this face of "don't you dare waste my time".....and it was my door. Well, I started sharing and with all my heart bore testimony of Joseph Smith and actually shared the 1st vision and recited it to her. I wasn't quite sure how to read her, but we had been there for at least 15 minutes at her door step and she listened like .... You have some gumption kid.....yes; I know I live with myself every day. Ha ha! At the end we gave her a chapter to read 3 Nephi 27 and bore testimony that we are here to invite her, she said "I appreciate the boldness you (looking straight into my soul) spoke with about what you believe in"....we gave her a BOM and our # and said call us... she said ." If I become more interested I'll give you a call." wow...I walked away from that door my heart bouncing and racing....she's going to call...I know it...maybe not now, but she will call!!!
Don’t give up! The gospel is true, it's the only thing that brings happiness and joy in a world that is searching, how grateful I am to now the truth that I lived with God before as his spirit daughter. And I am not just his creation but his daughter, and he loves me and wants to see me happy and progress to reach my potential, repent of my sins, be baptized by his authority by water and the fire of the Holy Ghost and then to hold on tight to the gospel and work my whole life just like Jesus Christ his son did, my brother. I know the book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ, if any of you are searching or want to know read the book. For in it you will find truth eternal! And the truth will set us free.
How happy and grateful I am to know that through the restored gospel and in the temple families can be sealed together forever! Not just till death do you part, but for all time and eternity. Wow....
I love you all with each piece of my heart!
Love you all from here to home (Heaven)
Sister Judkins
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