MISSIONARIES!!!!

JORDAN HAS HIS MISSION CALL!!!!!  I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!!!!  BLARG!!!!!!!!  Bolivia!!!!! BOLIVIA!!!!!! That is so great!  He is going to love it so so so so so much, and it is so perfect for him!!!!  Wow!!!!  I didn't realize that it was the least developed of the S. American countries, but I knew it was one of the poorer ones... but that also kind of fits him.  He is going to teach so many people the gospel, and they are going to LOVE HIM!  Wow, he is going to be so awesome :)  I'm so happy that he gets to leave so soon after his birthday, I know that he really wanted to just get going!  And I'm SUPER glad that he gets to go to the Peru MTC (CTM?) for part of the time.  Foreign MTCs are the greatest... so much better than Provo :)  BOLIVIA!!!!!!!!  AHHHHH!!!!!  I'm so excited!!!!!  He is going to be so amazing!

 

I've been waiting for so long to get on here and read where he is going.  Now I can't think of anything else.  Tell me everything- anything that was different from getting mine, if they eat bugs, everything etc.

 

Ya awright?

 

That is how people say "how are you?" Here.  They don't actually even say hello... just yawaright?  I suppose it is supposed to mean "Are you all right?"  Sometimes they look like they don't know what to say when I ask them how they are... yeah they all right, but are they good?  Also, they call umbrellas "brollys".

 

Anne Marie is pretty lonely, but she won't let us come back.  I think she might have told her boyfriend or son that we had been coming, and they encouraged her not to let us :(  Super sad.  So many people need the gospel!

 

I'm glad Jordan's finger is doing better.  I recieved a letter from Jenika on Saturday... and she is wearing my shirt in the pictures she sent!  She sent me the evidence! haha.  Sounds like she is doing well at SV :)  I'm glad.

 

haha, I totally imagined what Katie and Andrea were saying when you said they were talking like a thousand miles a minute.  Yeah, I do miss them a lot.  Katie's letters make me laugh my head off.  Literally.  My head falls off of my shoulders and rolls around on the ground, whilst laughing the entire time.  It's kind of weird to think that you all still have lives without me, honestly.  Huh.  I'm glad you were able to see so many of my friends at Lee's.  I have friends at Lee's Marketplace!

 

I'm excited for the new RS book!  I freaking love Relief Society!  I miss teaching it... but now I'm teaching people the same things... but they have no previous knowledge, so it is kind of harder.

 

MIRACLE!  We were going back to teach this man, and before the appointment we saw another man in his backyard.  He was working on his patio, and showed it to us.  We didn't even ask to be invited back, but he was like, "Come back in 20 minutes and teach me."  Uh, yeah!  It was during the other mans appointment, but that fell through anyway.  This man we met name is David, and he has so many questions that only we can answer!  It is so great!  We taught him for a short while that day (Friday) and then went back yesterday and taught him the first lesson.  The lesson was all over the place, but that is what this new program is teaching us... teach people not lessons.  We adapt the information in the first lesson to fit the persons needs.  Because generally people need to know that God loves them, Families are eternal, and that we have a Prophet.  It just ebbs and flows naturally.  We asked him to be baptized and he said, "I guess that is something I need to start thinking about..."  He told us he liked talking to us better than sermons because he felt like he was actually learning something.  He's a good man.

 

Some people don't believe that they are good people.  They don't want us to talk to them.  But people are good!  They are so good!  I'll admit the UK has a lot of problems, specifically with morality.  They really just don't get married here.  It is so sad!  I just wish people could understand how much living the gospel could make them happy.  We ask people if they are happy, or they know what their purpose is, and sometimes they say 'no'.  We tell them they can be happy and they don't want to listen.  One person even said, "You both seem happy... how do you do that?"  and then didn't want to listen to the answer.  It is so sad for them.  It makes my heart hurt a little bit inside.

 

Sister Low asked if Dad thought that Jordan and Mitch's mission calls got switched... haha.  I KNOW that Jordan is supposed to be in Bolivia!  It is so perfect for him.  And both Dad and Jordan will be able to translate for us soon :)  Mission calls are so perfect.  I had never thought of Bolivia, but when I heard it, I was like, "Of course... that is so PERFECT!"  Has Jordan sent a letter or something to Sharik?  I think he would really like to know.

 

Today marks one month since I arrived to England!  Can you believe it?  I can't!  I don't think I've ever been away from home this long before, even with our family.  How long were we at Pageant last year?  It's so weird, because England is just a place, just like every other place.  But every once in a while I'm like, "What is going on????  I'm in ENGLAND!!!!!????"  Then everything seems much cooler.  We went to a members house to eat last week and they fed us Cottage Pie.  I guess it is like Shepards Pie, but they only call it Shepards Pie if it has actual sheep in it.  This had something called Quorn (sounds like corn).  I've never heard of it before, but it is like mushrooms or something that is supposed to taste like meat.  It tasted fine, but not really like meat.  There are these biscuits (cookies) called Digestives that are absolutely amazing.  Sister Low and I ate them after every meal this week... and finished the package last night.  She says we shouldn't eat them so fast, but they are SO GOOD.  Maybe I'll send you some for Christmas or something.

 

Oh yeah!  We taught Lee about the Word of Wisdom this week!  He said he has already given up illegal drugs (before he met us) and will now start on coffee and tea, then tobacco and finally alcohol.  Yeah, he had WofW problems... but he bore his testimony in church on Sunday!  It was amazing, he bore his testimony that prayers can be answered, so God must be there.  It was really great. 

 

Well, I miss you.  All of you.  A year ago I would have never imagined that this is where my life path would have taken me.  But I'M IN ENGLAND.  And I'M A MISSIONARY.  Wow.

 

Love you,

 

Jasmine

 

 

PS JORDAN... MISSION.... BOLIVIA... PERFECT!