Sister Jessica Garfield California San Fernando Mission

Hey everybody! Favorite Quote: "If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who have ever lived." -Elder Jeffrey R Holland Favorite Spiritual Moment: I've got two this week, both focused around the Book of Mormon! We were knocking yesterday and the guy that opened one of the doors had obviously been woken up from us ringing his doorbell. We felt bad about waking him up, but went on to the message. He told us that he was Christian but didn't go to church because every church seems to interpret the Bible differently, and as a result, has a different view of God. So we told him about the Book of Mormon! We talked about how the Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ, and how having that second witness helps us to understand God's word and His will for us. I thought about that visual with the two dots and the line from a conference a few years ago, with one dot representing the...

Hey everybody! Sorry guys, I have to be fast this week! (Haha, when do I not have to be fast? ; ) Favorite Spiritual Moment: There are a freaking ton of topics in the topical guide about Jesus Christ. Sister Reynolds and I had a lot of people this week trying to convince us that we don't believe in "the right" Jesus. Obviously we're firm in our testimonies and nothing those people can say will change that, but after that, we decided we wanted to learn more about Him. So we decided to pick one of the topics and read the scriptures listed under it. We read the ones under "Jesus Christ, relationships with the Father." And holy crap, we felt so much better afterwards. I am so grateful for the greater knowledge we have of our Savior and our Heavenly Father. Those are seriously some amazing scriptures when thinking about what we know about Them. If anyone is having a bad day or needs a spiritual boost, I would definitely recommend reading through the sc...

Hey everybody! Again, just a quick reminder that next week, our P-day is the 16th. I hope you all enjoy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Favorite Scripture/Quote: "Remember that faith and doubt cannot exist in the same mind at the same time - for one will dispel the other." -President Thomas S. Monson. Just a quick shout out to our beloved prophet: President Monson was an amazing man. I'm happy for him that he gets to be with his wife again. May we all look to his example of service and of acting on the promptings of the Spirit. Favorite Spiritual Moment: We came in contact with this part-member family (we call them goldmines in this mission) a few weeks ago that we've gone back to see a few times since. The inactive member is named Carol, and she and her daughters are amazing. When we first met Carol, she told us that her family is basically atheist now, but she let us in to show her girls that there are good people who are members of the church (she ha...

Hey everybody! It's been a while! Sorry, holidays are weird on a mission. Favorite Quote/Scripture: During my personal study a couple of days ago, I was reading in Mosiah 27 when Alma the Younger and the sons of Mosiah are visited by an angel. I thought it was really interesting that, after falling to the ground, Alma is commanded to arise and stand as the angel rebukes him for the things he's been doing. It made me think of the verse in Alma 5 when Alma asks how any of us will feel when we have to stand before the bar of God stained with our sins. He is warning us about it in Alma 5 because he has experienced it, and it was awful. No wonder he had a change of heart! It's cool to think that not only does God care about us, but His prophets do too. Alma knows what that feels like and doesn't want any of us to have to go through it. We were on an exchange last week and the Sister I was with had a really cool song that I wish I knew the title of. It was by Nas...

Hey guys! Honestly, I don't even know what happened this week. I've found that mission life does that. ; ) What the heck? ; ) Favorite Spiritual Quote/Thing/Yeah, we'll label this as that: So, this is actually from a picture from an Ensign magazine a couple of months ago, and it was just part of the picture that was in the magazine, so I don't know what the whole thing looks like. But there's a picture entitled The Savior Walked on Water, by Walter Rane, that I thought was super cool this week. It's depicting when the Savior is reaching out to save Peter. Super cool. I really liked it. Favorite Funny Moment: You know you're in California when... everyone is so good at movie stuff. ; ) A member family that fed us this week showed us a video the scout group put together about a chapter in Alma, just before the war chapters officially start. It's the chapter where the one guy gets scalped. Anyway, I was expecting it to be some production sh...