Familia!
The late nights, the early mornings, man I love transfer week! This transfer was one of the biggest that we have ever had. To start the process of transfers President Toone said, "Alright, now we are going to try to keep this one small." Its funny how it always works out like that. So, after one of the biggest transfers that we have ever had, President and Sister Toone let us know that they had a Mission Presidents Conference in Texas they were headed to so they were turning the mission over to us three. So for four days Elder Kloepfer, Elder Oscarson, and I ran the mission. Lets just say I was real happy to see President and Sister Toone last night. Those two are incredible. They wanted to meet with us at 7:30 last night to catch up with the mission and talk about some of the things that they had learned while they were away, so over a dinner and brownies we spent about two hours last night just talking to them. They are huge examples in my life and I think one of the biggest blessings that we have as assistants is to be able to spend so much time with them.
Once the craziness of transfers had all wrapped up, we finally had some time to work in our area which was awesome! We haven't really had any down time the past couple weeks where we could just go out and find more people to teach. With the time that we have had in our area we have just been going to teaching appointment to teaching appointment, but it was nice to be able to settle down for a second and get some things figured out. We were able to find two awesome new investigators which have a ton of desire to learn more about the Gospel. Christian is a Christian, pretty cool, and Brandon hasn't had a ton of religious background. They both really connected with the idea of having a modern day prophet. How thankful I am to be guided by a Prophet of God. I know that at any time Christ's church in its fullness has been upon this earth, it has been guided and directed by a prophet.
This week as we met again with Jasmine several times we were able to have a ton of progress. Conference was so crucial for her, and so we were excited to follow up with her and see what answers she received. As we met with her on Wednesday, we had a recent convert from another ward come and bear powerful testimony of what the Restoration means to him. Jasmine told us that she might believe that President Monson was a prophet, but she just had these other concerns that were holding her back. The way that Jasmine gets answers is pretty incredible. She sits down and prays and writes in her journal and what she writes is exactly what her answer needs to be. She hadn't really had an opportunity to journal yet, and so we invited her to take some time to do so. When Jasmine is really seeking for answers, she likes to go to the temple, so Friday before we met again she spent all afternoon there. As we met Friday you could tell that there was something a little different about Jasmine. She told us as she went to the temple and prayed the thought came to her mind that she should write herself a letter from God, so she sat down and started to write. It was awesome to see as she read us the letter she wrote and walked us through what her thoughts were as she was writing. Part of the letter said something along the lines of, "Jasmine, I need you to put all your concerns in a bag and just put them aside." She said after she wrote that it took about 20 minutes until she really felt like she had done so, and then she continued to write. The next portion started, "Jasmine, why would I not work in the same way that I have always worked? Why would I not call a prophet to guide and direct my people? Why would the authority not be important? Why wouldn't I call President Monson to be a Prophet?" She said as she wrote these questions the spirit just came in so strong and confirmed to her that President Monson truly was a modern day prophet.
It has been amazing to see the process that Jasmine has gone through the past 5 months. The Book of Mormon is known as the Key Stone of our religion and it is pretty easy to see why in the journey Jasmine has been on. As another witness of Christ, The Book of Mormon strengthened the faith that she already had in Christ. As her faith was strengthened she was able to come to know that the Book of Mormon truly was scripture. As she came to understand this key element, she later was lead to know that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God and that we are lead and guided today by President Monson as well acting under the direction of Christ as our Prophet on the earth today. All of these miracles were made possible through the Book of Mormon. I'm so thankful for this book of scripture. There truly is no concern, no doubt, no problem that cannot be overcome by this book. Hand in hand with the Bible we can come to understand our Savior in a deeper, more personal level than through any other means. I'm thankful for the life that He lived, and the records that we have to learn of it.
You're all the best!
Con Amor,
Elder Jurgensmeier
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