Monday, July 21, 2008

Encounter With The Police

Family, 

 It great to hear from you all, this week , i am glad to hear that all of you enjoyed the photos i sent last week. Well this week went pretty good but it also had its up s and downs like any other week. Its crazy how the misión Works  we have great days then we have off days were it feels like nothing went right , but what can you say as long as we can look back each day and say you served the lord with all your Herat, might ,mind and stringht. 

Well family your  not going to relieve what happen to me this week. Its a pretty crazy mission story that every one has.. this past Friday my comp and i went to the chruch to do early morning work outs. So we were running at the back field of the chruch about mid way through are workout , when we heard a loud shout Saying PUT YOUR SELFS ON THE FLOOR…. I looked over and it was the cops telling us to throw are selfs on the floor…  it turns out that one of the niehbors of the chruch called the cops saying that they saw two kids jump the fence to the chruch, and that they were robbing. So the cops thought that we were robbers at the chruch. So the cops searched us , saw that we were not armed , then they asked me what was in my hand , then i told them that it was the keys to the chruch , and to are apartment. They stared to ask us who we were , what we were doing , and why we were there? So we basicly gave them a whole lesson, that we are missionaries for the chruch.. From there they asked us to show us that the key was to the chruch , so we showed them. They took down a couple of dats or info, of us and asked to report to the cop station at 9:30 latter the same moring… to make the story short, we showed up to the station , with are zone leaders and they le tus go free of charge.. lol..

What a story right lol , but the whole time the lord had are back , so it went all well, no need to worry. But this week i do have a scripture for you all…. “ y ocurrio que Jesús los bendijo mientras le dirigian sus oraciones ; y la  sonrisa de su faz fue sobre ellos , y los ilumino la luz de su semblante; y he aquí ,estaban tan blancos como el semblante y como los vestidos de Jesús; y he aquí , su blancura excedia a todo blancura, si, no podia haber sobre la tierra cosa tan blanca como blancura.” I read the scripture this moring and i really hit me i thought i world share it with the family.. so every one could ponder it in there own way its in 3 Nephi 19: 25  let us all become white as the cloths of Jesús christ throug are prayers. For it is one of the simplets thing we can offer to the lord.  Well family i truly love you all , i know you all worry about me but i tell you there is no need for the lord is holding me in his mighty hand of which he has.  I know that the lord has blessings ready fro each one of us , and he is ready to give them to us , we just need to ask for them . 

Family i love you all i know that this is the chruch of the lord and that the book of mormon is the Word of our lord… keep remembering our God  and his Hill, in are hearts…

Love you deeply

Serving the Lord
Elder Jessup

Friday, July 18, 2008

Pictures!

Here are some recent pictures Clay sent. He looks great!









Monday, July 14, 2008

Hello from Galvez

Family,
Hey , family how is everything going, its really good to hear from you all this week. I am doing good I am loving the work each and everyday more and more. This week was a pretty good week , we had some investigators in the church this week, and everything went really nice this week. We did a lot of teaching this week just like any other lol . this week I have no crazy exciting story to tell you all sorry. This week was just working after work lol. But in all reality its how the Lords work goes out in the mission, I must say, but we do have a lot of good people can be great members, we just need to teach them a lil more. So the work is going really good , it gets better each and every day I must say.

For mom I loved the story the missionary told to you all, it gets you going to want to go preach the gospel, it gets you going , cuz in all cases I could have promised people to as well, for it is something that I don’t know, but it makes me want to go knock door to door trying to find that person that I would preach the gospel to. For this week I came a lil closer to my heavenly father that he is always with us and trying to guide us each and every day . I can tell you all that I have a really strong testimony of this , but in all reality you all already know that he is with us, family we all know that he is with us day by day . for this is his gospel and he wants us all to come to him. For he has given us this chance for us to prove that we can follow his example, in our time , and that is what he wants to see us do in our life. ….

( por lo tanto , asi alumbre vuestra luz delante de este pueblo , de modo que vean vuestras buenas obras, y glorifiquen a vuestro padre que esta en los cielos… 3 nefi 12: 16 )

I just wanted to share that message with you all that he wants us to bring forth are light which is the light of Christ to all the world how great is that family.. for we all have the same chance in the same time to help others come closer to are god and our lord . so let us all goo forward as his servants to preach this gospel . I love you all my beloved family I love to hear from you every pday . it makes the rest of the week fly by lol.

Well family I love you all , I pray for you all day by day as I am in the mission field , I know that we are in the fullness of times , that Joseph Smith restored the gospel with the help of Jesus Christ, I know Jesus is the Christ, and that he does life and they are our parents above I know I am in his work..

Thank you all my family I love you tons , and I thank you for your support ….tell next Pday family

I am sending Photos lol

Serving the Lord
Elder Jessup

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Great Week

Family, 

Hello family. Its good to hear from you all , it seems to me that everything is going good at home… as far as the mission i am doing great, the work is really moving along at ful. The lord is blessing us so much in this area, you can truly see his hand in our life , in this area of Galvez. This past Sunday after fast and testimony meeting our bishop introduced us to a family is part member , the wife is a member but the husband is not so we put a date when the bishop, to go visit them. As for last night was one of the best night in the work that I have ever seen, the spirit was alround us last night as we were working. We went from cita to cita with the spirit of the lord. We started off by going to the family Godoy, the wife of the family is fighting with smoking, but I tell you what family see is one determinded person to leave it behind. I personally have not seen faith so strong in the mission, she asked us for a blessing to help her out, then from there we went to family Guzman, in this family the youngest daughter wants to be baptised, she is 9. so we went to the family, and began to teach, it true felt the the lord opened the heavens over us in that house, and we chanllaged the husband to become worthy, with in a mouth to be able to baptise his daughter, and then right before we lefted we asked the father to say the prayer , but with all of us on our knees , and he said yes… so great it was the frist time in my mission that we asked the family to pray to there heavenly father from there knees… from there we started talking about how we need to get a hold of the bishop , and the Elders Qurom pres. To try and helpout the family. Guzman.. In that spilt moment in time we came across our leader misional , and the pres, of the elders. I have never seen the lords hand so strong in my life. So we talked to them about the family Guzman , and they seemed really pleased with our work. This was a true night to remember in my mission. From there we had one more cita to go to. It was a lady that we talked to in the street, and we set up the cita in the tardecita, about  8:30.
So we went to there house and they invited us in , and let us teac to them lesson 3 which is the gospel of jesus Christ , and we left two copies of the book of mormon in the house. The thing I tell you about this family is that its of three people Teresa, Debora, and Sofia, but family I have never seen people that attentive to our message , they read the promises in moroni, and ther eyes where just aww strok in the promises… I know with all my heart that the lord is blessing us in this holy work, and I can truly see it with my own eyes , I have never seen the spirit so strong in my mission tell last night. So family there is a little bit of the work for you lol.. 
Well family thank you for your support, in this great work for the lord. I know that the lord is with us as a family , and he is helping us grow together as one, even though we are in different areas of the world he knows are needs and desires , and he is here to help us …..Alma 7 :11-13  .. Y saldra sufriendo dolores , aflicciones y tentaciones de todas clases ; y esto para que se cumpla la palabra que dice , tomara sobre si los dolores y las enfermedades de su pueblo…. Y tomara sobre si la muerte, para soltar las ligaduras de la muerte que sujetan a su pueblo, y sus enfermedades tomara el sobre si , para que sus entrañas sean llenas de misericordia , según la carne , a fin de que según la carne sepa como socorrer a los de sus pueblo, de acuerdo con las enfermedades de ellos …. Ahora bien, el espiritu sabe todas las cosas , sin embargo ,el Hijo de dios padece según la carne, a fin de tomar sobre si los pecados de su pueblo , para borrar sus transgresiones según el poder de su redencion, y he aquí este es el testimonio que hay en mi…. Family it  was a little scripture that i though i world share with you all … for I love you all thank you so much for everything .. the word for transfers is that me and my comp are going to stay together this transfer… 

Well  family keep strong , in this true gospel and thank you again for all your help, and support. Mom you good go ahead and tell Korina that  my cooking is improving each and everyday lol … and that I hope to hear from her soon . family tell everyone high for me that  you see and if thay as tell tem that I love what I am doing and I love the area I am in… love you all

P. s  thanks for the money mom , family love you all , and tell everyone high with a big smile lol

Serving the Lord 

Elder Jessup

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