Sister Jessica Garfield California San Fernando Mission

  Hello Everybody! This week we were a little stressed, haha. It was nothing too major, but there were definitely a few things that happened that were beyond what the MTC and Preach My Gospel can prepare you for. We had a lot of problems to solve, so during multiple points of the week, both of us ended up with big headaches. During one of those points, I was tired and also driving, so I wasn't thinking very straight anyway, so I accidentally told Sister Jarvis that my brain was itchy. Looking back at it now, it actually might have been a pretty true statement! We were just thinking too hard, I guess. ; ) The week really was good though. We saw a lot of miracles, that's for sure. I also want to just say that I am so grateful for the Word of Wisdom! I can promise you that I know it comes from God. There are a lot of people we're working with who are really struggling with the Word of Wisdom right now, and it just hurts my heart to see how hard it is for them to overcom...

Hello everyone!   Sitting down right now, I can't even remember any of the things I wanted to talk about in this email. Sorry guys. This might be a little scatter-brained. We had a really good week though! Lots of teaching. We are so blessed. Favorite Spiritual Moment: On Saturday, we got to take a couple of recent converts in the YSA ward to do temple baptisms! There were two recent converts, Ramin and Qaseem, and a friend of theirs from the ward, Nancy, came too. It was super cool! Qaseem had never been to the temple before, and Ramin had only been once. They both got to be baptized, and also got to baptize for their first times. They both did a really great job! It was so cool to get to see them in the temple and to feel the Spirit there. As you may have guessed from their names, both Ramin and Qaseem were not exactly Christian before they were baptized; one of Qaseem's parents were Muslim, even though Qaseem himself didn't really practice it, and Ramin is stra...

Hey everybody! I hope that you all have had a good week! Ours wasn't too out of the ordinary, but it was still a pretty good one.  Favorite Spiritual Moment: For this person's privacy, I'm not going to say exactly who this was, but one of our recent converts broke down in front of us the other day because she's really struggling with a member of her family who she just wants to help, but she doesn't know what to do. Now, that sounds really depressing, and we did what we could to help her figure out the situation, but the cool part was how much light she had with her throughout this whole experience. When she was telling us about what was going on, it was really interesting, because we could just see her soul aching for this family member, because she knows how much the gospel has blessed her and helped her with the same problem the family member is going through, and she just wants to help them to have the same blessings. I thought back to when I first met...

Hey Everybody! Holy crap, this week was so busy! We have so much work, and it's just really amazing. The YSA ward has 8 or 9 recent converts, as does the West Hills ward, and most of those still need recent convert lessons, so we have been all over the place trying to meet with these people and help them continue to progress. We also had several lessons with people who aren't baptized yet too. It is just so cool to get to be teaching so often! I don't think I've taught so much my whole mission until now; it's just so amazing. I'm grateful for a strong companion like Sister Jarvis to be there with me! Now we just need to figure out how to teleport from West Hills to Northridge and back so we can have time for everything. ; ) Favorite Spiritual Moment: The California Los Angeles Mission had a mission conference on Saturday. We had to get up at 4:30 am to be on time, because it was down in Santa Monica, and I had to be there at 6 to practice a song with i...