Sister Jessica Garfield California San Fernando Mission

You get 2 posts this week, because mom forgot to post last weeks letter. This letter is from this week October 29th. Hello from California!   I have some pretty interesting news! Drumroll please... I got transferred. So I know that that part isn't all that exciting, so hear me out. First off, I am going to be serving in Hollywood, which is going to be crazy. We'll be in the heart of the city! My new companion and I are going to be whitewashing in, which is also going to be crazy since I've never left the valley and my companion is right out of training. We are replacing Elders, which is always fun, so we'll be picking up their car and keys and stuff at the LA Stake center from their previous zone leaders. But those zone leaders are not our new zone leaders, because we won't be in that zone. We are actually going to be in the international zone. Why? Because Sister Howard, my new companion, speaks Russian! We are going to be double covering Hollywood with a ...

This Letter and pictures are from last week, October 22nd..... Hello Everyone! This week was interesting. We've been having kind of a difficult time finding people to teach lately, and a few of those we are teaching don't seem to have much real intent. But we've got a couple of really awesome recent converts that we've been working with, as well as some cool less actives and part-member families, and Jason. I'm so grateful for the people that the Lord has trusted me with! We're trying to have the Spirit with us more so we can figure out what else the Lord would have us do to accomplish His work. And we've still been seeing miracles along the way! Favorite Scripture: Moroni 10:23: "And Christ truly said unto our fathers: If ye have faith ye can do all things which are expedient unto me." This week, this scripture has become Jason's favorite. He has shared it with us a bunch of times, and told our zone leaders about it on Monday wh...

Hey guys. ; ) Favorite miracle: Lately we've been reading Preach My Gospel with Emilio about once every two weeks, helping him prepare for his mission. This week, we were planning on having him practice teaching the restoration with Sister Jenkins, to me. Last minute though, we weren't able to meet at the church and he had to move the lesson back an hour, so we ended up meeting at his house, right after his mom got home. We went in and knew that we needed to do the Plan of Salvation instead, so we started the roleplay with him and realized that Emilio's parents were going to sit through the whole lesson! It was super cool. I roleplayed as someone who had the same basic beliefs as his mom, to try to help answer her questions, even if she didn't feel like asking them herself. We went all the way through the Atonement of Jesus Christ before we finished, and at the end, Emilio's dad asked a question about the kingdoms of glory, so we got to read out of 1 Corinthia...

Hello family, friends, and anyone else who might be reading this. ; ) How are things? This week was a pretty good one! We had a couple of days where we had three or four lessons in one day, even with us being back to just one ward. It was super awesome! We are trying to get more involved with some of the less actives in the ward, and are still hanging out with a lot of the recent converts in the ward too. It is so amazing to be able to be a part of the Lord's work! Favorite Scripture: I read 2 Nephi 26:12-13 earlier this week and absolutely loved it. It says: "And as I spake concerning the convincing of the Jews, that Jesus is the very Christ, it must needs be that the Gentiles be convinced also that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God; And that he manifesteth himself unto all those who believe in him, by the power of the Holy Ghost; yea, unto every nation, kindred, tongue, and people, working mighty miracles, signs, and wonders, among the children of men accord...

Hello Everybody! I remember very little of what happened this week. Haha. Sorry guys. ; ) Service Stuff: My top scripture for the week is probably Mosiah 2:17, and that's because we got to do so much service! On Tuesday, we got to volunteer at a place called Operation Gratitude, where we helped stuff bears that will be sent to the children of servicemen. We helped an older lady in our ward who is moving with packing up some old records, tapes, and CDs on Wednesday, and then on Friday, we got to help out at the food pantry again. We finished it off on Saturday by helping hand out waters at an emergency preparedness fair.  It was so awesome to get to go and work and help people in that way. I am so grateful that this mission allows us to go out and serve so much! It is such an incredible way to go out and do the Lord's work. Favorite Spiritual Thing: On Saturday there was a ward barbecue, and afterwards, we got to have a lesson with Jason. About a week beforehand,...

Hey all of you. ; ) Transfers just happened, and I am still in West Hills. I am training a new Sisters, Sister Jenkins, this transfer, until she gets her visa. She is going to New Zealand! Happiest Moment: We got a text right around 6:30 yesterday morning from our good friend Jason. Jason has been struggling for the past month or so, but this past week, we were able to get in contact with him and had a couple of really good lessons. We were able to have some really good lessons on repentance and the Atonement of Jesus Christ. It was amazing to see the change of heart he has seemed to have experienced. He seems different this time. He wants to be accountable and do this the right way, which is so amazing. Earlier in the week, we gave him a calendar and told him to write "C,P,R" every day that he was clean, had prayed, and read his scriptures. Well, the text Jason sent us at 6:30 yesterday morning was a picture of his calendar. He had a "C" written on every ...