24 Feb 10

Well, we had Zone Conference yesterday and received some startling yet exciting news... They're splitting our mission. As of July 1 the New Mexico Farmington Mission will be born. The missions it will effect are the Utah Provo Mission, a mission in New Mexico somewere, the Arizona Mesa, Tucson and Phoenix missions. Two of our Zones up north that cover Holbrook and Payson will go to the new mission. That means that the missionaries in those zones will also be a part of the new mission. Not speculating at all, but I have been in this area for 5 months. I'm due for a transfer. There is a good chance that I could be going up north. Now, not to be completely absurd and get everyone excited for what might happen, but Tyler (Hamberg from our Ward in the MTC now) is going to the Phoenix mission that is also being effected by this change. The Phoenix Mission is the one losing the most territory. So it could be possible that Tyler and I could be in the same mission as of July 1.

 

This is very exciting news. 1. the Church is growing significantly 2. The Arizona Mesa Mission will be the smallest mission in Arizona. Enough to hold its own. That means that we have been making extraordinary progress as a mission.

 

Elder Lemmon and I had a pretty good week. Nothing bad happened. Nothing amazing eather. We've been working hard to find new investigators and we've been receiving blessings as we've done so. But it seems we're on the down slope. We've learned each others weaknessess and have gotten to know each other a little more which makes it easier for us to excuse the other. But it's good because as we started out not knowing eachother and doing great as a companionship, how much more joy will it bring when we do know each other and do great.

 

I love the Book of Mormon. I know it's true. I know that we can be together forever as we apply it's teachings which is the hard part, at least for me.

 

TTI

 

Jacob

I had to ask Mike what TTI stood for. He says it's Teach, Testify, Inspire.....something they use in the mission.

Faith

Yes, I have been gone for quite a while. I almost forgot my password to into my Blog account! But Jacob has had a great experience I wanted to share.

Jacob had some dental issues last week and here is his side of the story.

Well, last Wednesday I had a dentist appointment at 8:30 am. Doctor Gills took one look at the upper right wisdom tooth and said, "That's going to have to come out. Today." I was happy to have it out 'cause it hurt to yawn, cough, spit, chew, suck, lick, gnaw etc., everything except talk. So he made a phone call to an Oral Surgeon who is a member, named Doctor Porter who said he could fit me in that very morning. On the way there I called Sister Bassett and informed her of the situation. She said she would have to make a few calls to Salt Lake and to Mom before they could operate. We get there and the secretary knew who we were and was poking fun at me for not getting my wisdom teeth out before my mission. I filled out the little forms and signed papers and they said they would do everything for free. They checked out the tooth ran through the procedure with me and said they were ready. I called Sister Bassett to get the okay and off we were to the operating room. Elder Lemmon was with me the whole time. They stuck me on some laughing gas (which didn't do anything) and gave me three shots of Novocain. Everything was numb. But when he finally pulled the sucker out, it hurt!!! They stuck a piece of gauze in my mouth and gave me my prescription and sent me off. We were in and out. The whole thing took about 10- 15 minutes. I called Sister Bassett and told her how it went and that I knew I could not cover the price for the prescriptions they gave me. (a narcotic, Ibuprofen, and Antibiotics) Elder Lemmon said he could cover the difference. The total was $50.07. We were in line to make the purchase and a lady in front of us noticed my lack of finances and asked for cash back and paid 40$ of it. She said "I'm not even a member of your church, but I know I need to help you because of what you do, and I need the blessings as well."

The whole thing cost me $10. 

I thought back to when we were in the Oral Surgeons office in Spokane and Mom was trying to decide a date to have the surgery to get all of my wisdom teeth out and the total cost was about $4,000. I didn't want to do it 'cause I don't like being put under (anesthesia), but I just felt like it wasn't supposed to happen. Dad was unemployed at the time and it would have put us in a very tight spot. I excused it as taking one for the family because I knew my wisdom teeth would cause me problems on my mission. And they have as each one has grown in. But now I see what blessings and a leap of faith it was. I didn't know I was taking a leap of faith. But I am very thankful for a loving Heavenly Father who is aware of my family and what is best for them.

The very first week with Elder Lemmon has gone by fast. The first couple days were tough 'cause I couldn't ride a bike thanks to the drugs. But we were able to have someone from each Ward pick us up and drive us around.

Our numbers have sky rocketed since we got back on our bikes. When I was with Elder Davenport we got about 13 TTI a day. Yesterday we got 54 TTI's!! And we found 3 new investigators! Insanity!! So it's been awesome.

I will defiantly pray more for my family and the struggles they are facing.

Love you all. Look forward to seeing what’s new in my family’s life next week.

TTI

Jacob

As a side note, we keep hearing from friends of friends, that Jacob has eaten in their home! That is cool for us, the LDS world is small and close! Love, Jenn =)