Sister Jessica Anderson: Welcome to God's Country

This week has gone by WAY too fast. I can't believe it's already Monday again!

I don't even remember anything that has happened.. so sorry this will be a random / short email.

Trini and Gwen are being SO prepared and humbled to receive the gospel and be baptized. Keep praying for them! They are feeding us dinner after our dinner tonight. Haha Should be good! Gotta love second dinners. Getting ready for thanksgiving ya know?

I'm still loving the mission life SO MUCH. It’s crazy how quickly you can come to love people that you've never met. We got to go to the ward thanksgiving dinner in whitefish this week and it was so fun! The wards here are amazing and so missionary minded. We continue to receive so many awesome referrals from them.

There's a quote I came across this week in a talk called, "a reason to smile" it says, "The Doctrine and Covenants teaches us that “Jesus Christ your Redeemer … so loved the world that he gave his own life, that as many as would believe might become the sons of God” (D&C 34:1, 3). Father gave. Jesus gave. And we must give. There is no other blessing for which we should be more grateful than that of being recipients of the blessings that come through the power of the atonement of Jesus Christ."

Random things:

I met a little girl named Jaja! I tried to tell her why people call me that too, but she just saw my name tag and got confused.
Next week I will not be having preparation day on Monday, it will be on Wednesday. Because the stake puts on this thing called Cresh? It's a big community thing at the church. There will be TONS and tons of nativities and people all over the community from different churches and stuff will be coming and singing and it lasts for three days straight and they've asked President if we could help, so we are going to be there helping the entire time! We are setting up for it on Monday. That week we will only have a total of 10 hours to work in our area since the Christmas conference is also that week and we are going on exchanges in Missoula!
We are getting really good at heel clicks

Have happy thanksgiving and count your many blessings! :)

Love,

Sister Anderson