Hey!! This week was really awesome :) Ill be sharing a few experiences that we had. 

First of all. This past Tuesday I had the opportunity to see and listen to Elder Oaks. And shake his hand :) There were about 500 people in the room and he shook every single hand. He gave such an amazing talk. Part of it, he mentioned how missionary work is like a pen. The ink part represents the knowledge that we have of the gospel. But if we don’t click or turn the pen to put it in the writing position, the "ink" or knowledge is good for nothing. Also. The purpose of the pen is not to write the pens message. It is to write the message of the writer. This is a demonstration of us and God. We are here to do the will of The Father. Not our will. We need to want what God wants and do what God expects of us. And another thing, Elder Oaks said, "the pen" is always ready to write. It is ready 24-7. Whenever "the writer" or God needs us, we should be ready. Missionary work is SO important. One thing that we need to remember and not lose sight of is who we are and what we are doing. I invite all of you guys to ponder this question that Elder Oaks asked. Who are we? And what are we doing? We must never forget our real purpose. And the real potential that we have in this life. God is the writer and he will guide us. 

 Also, we’ve been able to find a lot of new people to teach this week! Everyone here seriously is so nice. The people that we have contacted on the streets are just really receptive and they are willing to listen. We have found a few people this week that have really needed to hear the word of God. They are going through a rough time in their life. Its been cool, because we have been able to follow the promptings of the Holy Ghost about who to talk to, what houses to stop at, what scriptures to use, etc. Its really great being a part of this work and being able to help people know more about their Savior. And that they have a VERY loving Heavenly Father. 

 This past Friday night we were also able to watch Meet the Mormons. It was my second time seeing it. Man, its so good! If you haven’t watched it yet, I encourage you to go see it. So that was a good experience. 

 Herman Sablan are working really hard and we are seeing a lot of success. I know that we are going to see miracles happen with the people that we are working with. 
That’s basically it for this week. I hope that all of you are happier than ever!! 
Hermana Jacqueline Wiscombe 

 

Hola Familia!!
 Another week, as the time progresses I have the hope that with that, the people are and all over the world (you guys) are progressing too! I love you guys and thank you for all of the support that I recieve and feel every week!
 
To start things off this week, I want to share an experience that we had Sunday night that made me so surprised, happy, and everything else! So to start off, we have had an investigator for a little while now named Hugo, about 30 years old. We were visiting him and after a while we thought that we needed to let him go as an investigator because he wasnt progressing like he needed to. But from the very first time we met him and his wife, we had impressions of them. As we do will all people, first impressions. hugo- pretty quiet but nice and wanted to learn more. And with his wife, gloria, a strong personality and we weren't sure if she even liked us haha. And so that was our impression at first of her, So sometimes we even were alittle afraid of her. We were never able to talk with her much, or teach a lesson to her because she works so much. Anyways, so we had stopped visiting Hugo for a little bit until he showed up to our english class that we have in the church for anybody that wants to come. We talked to him for a while and told us that his wife had prepared the house for us to go over one day, but we didnt have time to go over, and so he asked about that and how his wife was a little disappointed that we never showed up. That was really surprising, just going off of the 

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Random thought! Like 2 hours ago, my companion and I ran into a guy that is from here, but he was living in Australia for a long time so he speaks English but with an Australian accent and its super cool! And he was super nice. 

Another random story to start off the week. I got bit by a dog haha. The hole was pretty deep and I have bruises around it but its healing. There was a day where I could barely bend my leg but my companion has been putting special oils on it to make it heal faster and she’s been cleaning it. So nice! So yeah, I’m okay! The dogs here in Uruguay are just crazy. 

Something that happened this week is Hermana Sablan and I were walking down the street and these two girls were basically flagging us down behind us so we stopped and they walked up to us and asked us if we preached about God. We said yes and they asked if we could visit them. They wanted us to go to their house and talked to their mom. We said, sure, why? And they told us that their older brother (19 years old) was killed 3 months ago. So, of course, the mom was beyond sad. We prayed with all of them and shared a little bit about the Atonement. We are going to go visit them this week and talk to them about the Plan of Salvation. I cant even imagine how hard this is for her. But I am grateful that I have this opportunity to help her. To allow her to come to know her Savior Jesus Christ and what He did for her. He suffered for every soul that’s ever lived, that is living and that will ever live. 

Something else that Hermana Sablan and I did this week is we went to an English class and we got to help out! It was really awesome! They just asked us questions about our lives and we answered in English and we got to ask them questions too. It was a lot of fun! I think we are going to be able to help them again. Learning different languages is just so cool! 

That’s basically it for this week! Hermana Sablan and I are having so much fun together!! She makes me laugh so much! And we sing together a lot haha. This week we are going to have a lot of lessons and work super hard! 

We get to see Elder Oaks tomorrow! I’m so excited! 
I hope all of you guys have an amazing week! Thank you for your prayers :) 
Love Hermana Jacqueline Wiscombe