12-19-12
"HELLO!!!
So Fallon is amazing!!!! We had a Christmas Luncheon/Training in Reno last week with all the missionaries up north! So fun! I got to drive for 1 hour strait!!!! :) Reno seems awesome too~ After the training all morning we had lunch! Then, President Black surprised us and we got to watch the new LDS movie called "17 Miracles." It’s a movie about the pioneers crossing the west. Very cool movie, and it made everyone ball!

We toured a dairy farm last Monday for our p-day activity! There are 22 dairies in Fallon. Everyone is so kind here! It’s amazing! It totally feels like serving in Wisconsin. Everyone LOVES us, it’s so touching! I can already tell it will be so hard to leave this area! :( noooo!!!! I love them!!!!!

Two weeks ago we had 4 appointments, and this past week we had 14! Next week we already have 14 lessons set up! :) So the work is growing! Every day we are out in the cold working our hardest. There are so many people to teach, and we are finding them with the help of the lord!
Sister Badger is awesome!!!! We are SO alike it’s not even funny! :) She is so amazing and her mom is into the health world as well! We have lots of fun together, and work so well together. Fallon better watch out! ;)

Last Saturday Jackie was baptized in Vegas. I bet her baptism was amazing!! She is amazing! I still remember feeling famished and exhausted and dehydrated one Sunday afternoon and walking outside with sister Dillistone to get more water from the car. Just then, Jackie pulled up in her SUV alongside us and asked, "what denomination is this?" We started teaching her that week, and she ate up the gospel and loved it. What a special woman she is. I love her~!

Sister Badger and I have been impressed to start a Book of Mormon Reading Class! It will be every Thursday at 7pm. We will teach Recent Converts, Investigators, and anyone really, how to read the book of Mormon and understand it, and how to apply it to our lives! The Book of Mormon class will be taught, simply, and powerfully! WE CANT WAIT!!!! The Book of Mormon is just PACKED full of commandments and epic stories that so apply to our lives today! ITS main purpose it to lead us to Christ.

I've started a Miracles/Gratitude book. I started listing why I was thankful for the gospel of Jesus Christ. The Church of Jesus Christ of latter day Saints is just amazing. This church just provides SO MUCH for us!! God is the same yesterday, today and forever. He didn't just care about those living in the olden days to perform miracles for them, and send them prophets to lead them. Wouldn't you agree that at a time like this in the world, being the last days, that God would send his people a prophet and provide for them more witnesses of his second coming? God loves us just as he loved the tribes of Israel. His ways of working and telling the world his commandments is through his prophets and apostles. Through his very own priesthood power and through revelation. How grateful I AM!!!

Here is what the happy Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints provides for us: The Book of Mormon; Another Testament of Jesus Christ, God's priesthood power to bless and heal the earth, The Atonement of Jesus Christ (his suffering for us), the Bible, Churches across the earth teaching the same doctrine in almost every country, Faith, Repentance, Baptism, Receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, Temples, Temple Marriages so we can be sealed to our families for eternity, Church classes for all ages; Young Woman’s, Young Men’s, Relief Society, Elders Quorum. We have the Sacrament, a living Prophet, 12 Apostles and General Conference twice a year where we hear their words. We have Home teaching, Visiting Teaching, where sisters visit sisters and care and love for them, and where men of the church go two by two to visit the families within each ward. We have over 52,000 missionaries serving across the world where their call to serve is direct revelation from the lord given to an apostle. The mission field, run by God himself through mission presidents...the Missionaries working by the spirit 100% of the time. Priesthood Blessings, Patriarchal Blessings (a one time blessing given to us as our own personal guide for our eternal life).

Area 70's who travel all parts of the earth to teach and preach. The church is one of the largest Emergency Preparedness groups, packaging relief boxes year round. The church has a welfare system where members give money to provide for others in need. We talk of Christ; we celebrate the life of Christ. We look for his coming! There is no paid ministry in the church of Jesus Christ. We give all we can because we are so blessed. This church is the church of Jesus Christ and He is the head of it. I bear his name on my chest and I am a personal whiteness that he lives and loves us.

The Book of Mormon has hundreds of stories about thousands of individuals who gave up everything to join the gospel, even if their lives depended on it. Missionaries in the Book of Mormon gave up their rights to the kingdom, and everything they owned to help convert those who did not believe in Christ. Missionaries today, give up everything they have to serve God and love it. In the 1800's missionaries where sent to proclaim the truth of the gospel across the world.
Pioneers headed the message and saved all they had to get to America, where they met the early saints and then trekked across the freezing west to establish Zion, many froze to death. Why would all of these special saints give up everything they had to join the gospel and to give until their last breath? Because it is true. Nowhere else in history can you stand in complete awe as you hear of those, who fought for freedom and for Christianity.

I bear my witness that I know this church is true. It will continue to flood the earth and the hearts of many will turn to learn of God's complete and everlasting gospel. It is so true. The truth of it burns within my heart. I've prayed to know if it is true. I left for my mission with .87 cents left in my personal account. I paid all I could for my mission. My mission means everything to me. I press on and will keep going on. I will live for Christ, fight for Christ, and even die for Christ. I Promise you God loves you, and I pray for you to be 100% fully converted to the Gospel! We truly get all as we give all! How indebted we are to Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. Catch the Spirit that floods the earth. As missionaries, we don’t convert anyone! It’s the spirit! If you want to know if the Book of Mormon is True, or if anything is true, you must (James 1:5-6), ask God. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen. :) "

Every Sacrifice is Worth Building the Kingdom of God.
Jenna!