August 24. 2015

hey everyone!
This week like all others was crazy. We were crazy busy.

Last Sunday we had 2 investigators come to church… 40 minuteslate…. stayed for only 15 minutes of sacrament. We thought they weregoing to stay the rest of church because they showed up 40 minuteslate…. well nope. They said that they didnt like church. WHAT?!?!?!?Ya. It was really interesting. So we were supposed to meet with themthis week, but they had a birthday party and etc. but they said theyhave some questions about the church… Because they saw somthingsonline. So we have an appointment with them tonight. That will begreat.

But this week. Wow. So Sister Arce and i are really good friends. Wetalk about New Mexico a lot. We were talking about Blakes Lotaburgerthis morning before studies. Haha. But i think we’ve got the fire. Weare really working on faith. Faith in all things. The beginning of theweek we said (more like a pump up talk) “OK! WE NEED FAITH. WE AREGOING TO GO OUT THERE TALK TO EVERYONE! INVITE THEM TO BE BAPTIZED!AND THEN BAPTIZE THEM!!!” And then we figured out how we were going to do that…haha.. By talking to everyone and being bold. So this whole week we did great. We did our very best. We had faith. We found a lot of people, we invited a lot people to be baptized and to come to church! We were sooo excited for Sunday to see (about 7 people to church). We called them multiple times to help them get to church and everything. They said “we are getting dressed…” Or “we are on our way”…. But did they show up to church? Nope. After that experience we felt very discouraged throughout the remainder of the day. We worked really hard through the week but had no success Sunday. It was rough. But i continuously told myself “heavenly father knows we tried our best! It may not show in our numbers but he knows!” So that was mostly our week. Ha. We went on 2 exchanges with the sisters in thezone. Its interesting to see how others teach. There was one sister that literally pushed me out of my comfort zone. I was a little frustrated. So in Conway there is a University. Its UCA. And her and her companion have that area… So we went to talk to people we went on the campus and she literally made me sing. So this is how it went… We walk down this street and we will see someone to talk to so then we talk to them and she will say “we are sister missionaries for the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints. Can we sing you a song” and most of them said yes (DANG NABBIT!) and so then she would start singing the spirit of god and the. Id have to sing it…. I sang to a total of 9 college kids my age and we got 0 investigators out of it. So i said “lets not waste our time anymore….” SO AWKWARD! anyways. That was my crazy week. Love you all!
{sister jade accountius}
Exchanges with sister Lawson and pictures with some cute twins! 

   
 

Augustttttt week (17th)

so this week was busy. we had transfers this week on wednesday…. somonday and most of tuesday i spent packing. then wednesday i gottransfered to Conway, AR as a sister training leader. Its awesome, butreally busy. My companion sister Arce is from Albuquerque, New Mexico.

She knows Erica (mom dad… She knows erica) but its weird knowingeverything about abq and how we both know who the weather man is onchannel 4 (STEVE STUCKERRRRR!!!) but its legit. Anyways. It was justbusy. Conway is the same as farmington. Same size same stores…Actually more stores.. Ya. But there are 2 wards. And 4 sets ofmissionaries and the work is great here!!!

I have nothing. Seriously. I really dont have anything else. Maybe
next week…. Haha.
Love you all!

   
   

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{sister jade accountius}

August 10. 2015

Alrighttttt. So. Most important news. Im getting transferred. Mycompanion sister farr has been out only 6 weeks but now shes going to

train! Im a proud mama. Ive had 2 of my babies train.
So this week… Hmm i hate typing out what happened because so much

happens each week.
Well we found some super elect people. Surprisingly we taught the plan

of salvation, and we were really bold maybe a little too bold and we

told them that they had to be baptized in the church to be able to

reach the celestial kingdom. And you know what…. They were a little

stand offish but the spirit worked with them and they want to still be

baptized. We just gotta get them married and have them quit smoking

then they are done. Soooo no baptism any time soon.
So our investigator Ronnie is blind. But he loves us! His attitude

about life is the greatest. But there is a lady that comes from a

massage clinic and gives $5 facials and massages for 30 minutes. So

Ronnie was like “my little angels!! I bought y’all a massage so go get

one,.” So we awkwardly got massages… We are still confused whether

that was allowed we haven’t had a firm answer…
Uhhh the elders and us are sharing an investigator.. Well its a couple

but we are sharing them and they have a raccoon… I held it a couple

of weeks ago. Butttt the elders held him this week and pretty sure

they got rabies… Ill send pictures.
Also. We went to one of our really cool progressing investigators

home…. And found this note on the door… All we could do was laugh

because it was her husband that wrote it and he has terrible hand

writting… Ill send a picture of that too.
Well ill let you all know where ill be this up coming transfer….
Love yall!!

{sister jade accountius} 

This is how elder Thomas got rabies. 

  The rejection letter.  

Just a summary of my week in pictures! Aug 3 2015

Literally had a lesson outside with a pig and goat…   
   

July 20 2015

So this past week was crazy. Just crazy. Plus it went by super duper fast. Monday: was p- day had a crazyy good bible bash with this guy and by the end of the lesson set a baptismal date with him and got his address and his name and a return appointment. It was great! Also while emailing at mcdonalds(the elders had the key to the church and they dont work to well with us because we took over the area…) at mcdonalds a worker was like “i just had to come over here and tell you guys that you two are the prettiest girls i have ever seen!” And of course sister farr and i were like awww. But we started talking about the gospel, and we gave him a book of mormon and we was like “whoa! Alma, mosiah… Who are all these people?” So we talked about prophets and a little about joseph smith. Then he was like ” i LOVE your church! But i have one deal breaker questions for you!… What is your personal opinion and your churches opinion on marriage?” So we told him that marriage is very important and that it should be between man and woman THEN he asked “what is your personal AND churches opinion on homosexuality….?” And we looked at each other and we told him together what we believed and showed him the family proclamation. Right when we were going to testify his boyfriend came in and started screaming at him because he was talking to us. It was very interesting…. But today we are going back to mcdonalds and giving him a copy of the talk “why marriage, why family” from this past GC. We will see how that goes. But also we were able to give him a book of mormon. Which was awesome. 

Tuesday: we were in little rock for a meeting all day. So nothing really happened until the night time. We had our Book of Mormon class and then we helped this lady clean her house.

Wednesday: We had an amazing lesson on the plan of salvation with our investigator Marilyn shes so cool. She has breast cancer, has her last chemo next week, just had her 70th birthday and is getting married in September. Shes pretty awesome. But she gave us a referral to this guy. And im just going to say his name because EVERYBODY needs to meet him. His name is Ronnie. People call him “big money ronnie” but he says that they should change his name to “no change ronnie” haha. But just a little background on ronnie. He is blind, 6’4, african man, with hands the size of i dont know!!! But we had a member my companion and my hand and it barley fit into his whole hand. Anyways He has the best attitude. And tells the best jokes. He cried when we met him because he prayed earlier for someone to visit him and teach the word! And there we were! But he says “im a swell piece of liver and im well put together!” Or he says “im happy happy happy happy with jesus.” Or he told us this joke “did you hear about the boy that got hit in the head with a coca cola? Hes ok because it was a soft drink!” Hahaha hes sooo funny. He talks just like those really black people ya know? But hes a hoot. I could talk about him all day. 

Thursday: i cant remember…

Friday: i cant remember…

Saturday and Sunday: We had a guy who the missionaries have been working with for 7 years. And have never come to church, the elders and even the ward members were telling us “you are wasting your time! Hes never going to progress!!” Well we kinda proved them wrong this past week. Because we set a baptisimal date with him AND he came to church!!!! He even brought his friend with him who is also interested in the church!! Everyone was suprised!! This guys name is James and he said that he would come next week to church. It took some time for us. I mean, we woke him up at 8, waited 30 minutes outside of his house for him to get dressed, found him a ride and he came and enjoyed it!!!! 
We were soo happy! Sister farr and i are really seeing the fruits of our labors!!! Its exciting!

Morrilton is pretty cool. Well this part of Arkansas is very stereotypical arkansas… Haha. 
Hope all is well!! 
Picture: marilyn and david on her birthday!! We made her a cake and she was super happy we did. 

 

{sister jade accountius}

crazy adventure #189

i may or may not have held a raccoon at an investigators house….ps. i want a pet raccoon. please.

   
 

Sister Farr & the M lyfe

1. so this is sister farr & i. we were going into a uncomfortablesituation so we said a prayer and we took a picture to keep as a

memory.
2. i left the house looking really neat and clean….. and then the

humidity and the heat destroyed me on our bikes. 

   

July 6th

so this week is going to be a long letter. because i had so much happen in these past two weeks. so brace yourselves. 
ok. first. you might have heard about senatobia on the news. the superintendent banned people from using horns and screaming and everything at graduation. but there were two families who decided to do it anyways. so both families were escorted out and both were fined. but one of the families tried making it a racist thing. so the superintendent has got a lot of hate mail and threats from all over the nation. and its been on good morning america, fox news. yup. but understand that senatobia is TINY. look up the population size.. its crazy. 
second. i almost died. but the lord was watching over my companion and i. we were walking out of a house and we come up to the street where our car is parked. and the streets are really small and narrow here. so we stop at the curb and see this car speed and then turn off run through some leaves and then dodge some trees and run into a ac unit. sister dudly and i were like “uhhh….” so we run to go check on him. and hes just in there like chilling all cool. and breathing fine…. so i ask him if hes ok and hes like “ya! im good!” so we slowly walk away while i call 911 FOR THE FIRST TIME!!!! and we walk to the car and all these cops come. turns out, he has seizures all the time… ya… he almost killed us. if he didnt go the other way we would have been dead. 

then later that same day. we are riding on the freeway with a member to Sardis and we see all these cops. they found a big bag of human body parts…. and then 3 days later they find some in a neighboring town. senatobia is getting sketchier and sketchier. 
third. i just want to testify of the greatness of church leaders who listened to the promptings of the holy ghost and gave talks about the family and marriage for general conference. it was inspired. general conference was on april its now june and you can see how those talks were inspired because of the whole supreme court making gay marriage legal in all states. its like the church is true! 
so. i got a call…. and i got tranfered. im in morilton, arkansas now. im really scared because 1. im training again and 2. we are opening this area. WHAT? im still amazed at the thought of me being a missionary. its just crazy. but leaving senatobia was the saddest thing ive ever done. lots of tears were shed. i really miss it there. the ward was the best. 

however… the ap’s didnt tell me i was going to arkansas until that day of transfers. they forgot. so seriously crazy life a missionaries life is!! but i got here. 

anyways. my companions name is Sister Farr. OH MY GOSH!!! i love her. i love her to death! we are really similar and she wants to work hard and she really loves to talk. so i love it. 
sister farr and i have been trying to really work hard to find investigators that were in the area book and to find members too. thing is we dont have the car. the elders do. so the first day was friday and we walked just a little. maybe like 9 miles just trying to find people. but the roads in millington are not even roads they are like ally’s. and they literally go from 0 degrees to 60 degrees of an incline. so we had tons of fun walking up them. then on saturday we were like ” wait. we have bikes..??? why havent we been using them?” soooo we got smart. but moving forward… we got a car on sunday night. its nice. its a 2015 corolla. its a touch screen, we connected our phone to it so if we are driving we dont have to hold the phone.. we have a back up camera its nice.
but since we are opening an area, we’ve had some interesting experiences. really interesting. not racist or anything but i went from seeing black people all around me, to seeing white people all around me. its actually a huge change. um. ya. i cant really say anything about my interesting experiences but just know that i had them.
anyways. i think that may be it. im loving it. stay safe & close to our savior jesus christ! 
{sister jade accountius}

June 29th buh-bye Sentobia

just a few little buh bye pictures taken yesterday.
mommy & daddy. the older people in the picture…. they are as
southern as they get.. you would love them. we went out with sister
berry a lot, and i know you would love them.
oh & aida claire and i were matching so we had to take a picture

June 22 Sophie and the missionaries

so this is sophie berry. her mom is mary berry the one that did my
hair. and sophie is literally i different character… hahaha.

but she always sees us and says “missionaries!!” its cute. but if you
look closely at her face, she has makeup on and she did it herself!!!
and then she says “missionaries lets take a funny picture….” yaaa
shes funny. want my little girl to be like her hahaha.