See you soon - August 9, 2021

 Dear Family and Friends,

What an amazing week it has been! I can't believe I am already sitting down to write another email, and this time my last one as a set apart representative of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! I can't even begin to describe all these experiences I have had in the past 2 years, but needless to say I am not the person I was when I came out on my mission. And that is all thanks to Jesus 

Christ!

But let me share some miracles I saw this past week!

1. There is a converting power in the Book of Mormon. Simply put, if you read the Book of Mormon with the right intent (to grow closer to Christ) you will become converted. This is what is happening to Viviana right now! She hit a wall and stopped progressing,  but we've had a couple of Book of Mormon reads together with a member and now she is reading on her own and a change is taking place! She also came to church yesterday with her whole family to hear me speak! So much fun!

2. Don't you just love when the Lord places you at the right place at the right time? We went on a exchange this past week with our district leader and it was so much fun to work with them. So we went to one part of their area, and as soon as we pulled into this townhome complex, there was a man sitting outside so we decided to talk to him. Turns out this guy had talked with missionaries for years in the past, but had just lost contact and the record we had for him got deleted. But we just happened to be there at the right time to be able to find him and start teaching him again! 

3. I was also able to go with an Elder who came out like 5 weeks ago and was struggling really bad. But we got there and we just worked, and at the end of the night he told me that at that moment he was the most tired but also most happy he has been on his mission! It's true what they say, forget yourself and go to work, that's what brings the most joy! It was also an funny exchange because the Elder wanted to celebrate Elder Morrison's birthday, so he bought some confetti poppers and he also bought a chalk cannon (like the one they do for baby gender reveals) without knowing it was a chalk cannon. And..... yep..... he set it off in the apartment. So the whole apartment was blue the rest of the day and I was sneezing out blue dust the next day too! Crazy times haha

I love you all! Thank you so much for all the support and encouragement you have given me over these past 2 years. I truly am grateful for it!  See you Thursday!

Elder Jorge

One Last Ride - August 2, 2021

 Dear Friends and Family,

This week was absolutely fantastic, we saw so many cool miracles. And also had a couple of firsts haha

Here are some of the firsts:

1. We were knocking in the afternoon and we decided to knock this one door that had a nice little yard. We knocked and a little yap yap dog just started going off, but no one answered. The dog quieted down and so we decided to knock again and the dog started barking again. But this time a big lady came to the door and was not to happy. She started getting red in the face and screaming at the top of her lungs that if someone doesn't answer the first time you knock don't ever knock again!!!!!! And then slammed the door with quite some force. Never before has anyone been that angry because we knocked at the door, but I turned to my companion for the day and said. No more fear, there is nothing that we will encounter today that will be worse than that. And we went on our merry way!

2. We doubled in our area here in Clarksville which was a lot of fun. We had 2 companionships knocking for a solid 6 hours each and we probably had 2 people who actually wanted to talk. It was definitely a fun experience, but the 2 who did talk to us were super interested and so we are excited for them. We also went and knocked the biggest house in Clarksville just for kicks.

3. We were out in the boonies of West Virginia this past week knocking a good ole trailer park. And as we were walking a car pulled up and started yelling at us for soliciting, and we simply explained that we weren't. He kept on going at us, and we told him the house and the name of the people we were going to visit and he was still kept on yelling at us, and his wife was getting soooooooo mad. She eventually just got out of the car and started walking, so he drove off picked her up and went to his trailer. Crazy people 

But even though there was a lot of persecution this week, we saw a bunch of miracles too. We had some cool lessons with the people we were teaching like our friend Viviana. We did a book of Mormon read with a member and she was all over it! She even invited the member over to swim and her house and also to read some scriptures together as well!!! Member present lessons are the key. 

We also had a follow up lesson with a lady on exchanges that turned out soooooo well! She read the pamphlet the missionaries gave her last time and she actually understood it and the the purpose of a restoration! The crazy thing is that contact before she was super closed off and didn't want to talk because she was catholic. People's hearts can change if they repent and keep commitments!

I love you all! See you soon!

Elder Jorgensen