Hermana Ashlyn Jorgensen: My week is full of surprises!!

July 17, 2013

okay well WOW what a week!!!

Just to start my week of perfect, Me and 3 other sisters walk out of the library and these 2 guys pull us aside.. literally and want to talk to us. They just started going off how we are so wrong and we aren't a true church, we don't know Jesus Christ, we don't know anything, we are pretty much of the devil. One of the guys literally just started naming off every single verse in the bible as if we were impressed.. They just sat there and wouldn't even let us get a word in for at least 25 minutes.. we just started walking away because they were being so rude. We asked them what they were and they were born again Christians. We just told them we believe in Christ yadyadad we had to go, and they were just getting in our faces.. of course i am just like why the heck am i here?!!! But we just said have a good day and walked away and they said may Jesus bless you, the RIGHT Jesus... my heart legitimately hurt.. like what the heyyy you do not tell me I'm not christian.. LIKE HELLO MY NAME TAG SAYS JESUS CHRIST BIGGER THAN MY ACTUAL NAME. Holy cow!!

Then it was Tuesday and Sister Weinstock and I, my companion from the mtc had to go on an exchange and I had to run the area!! Meaning I was in charge of what we did, who we saw, and like taking lead in discussions.....Well both of us have been out for 4 weeks.. Do you think we speak Spanish? Or that i KNOW my area?!! NOOO!! Man i was SOOO nervous!! BUT do not fear! I did great :) It was so nice to have my old comp back, it just felt comfortable! We taught 3 different people ALL IN SPANISH! I TAUGHT THE WHOLE PLAN OF SALVATION TO A DOMINICAN FAMILY! You have no idea how fast they talk... it was absolutely unreal. We taught Peruvians, Dominicans, and Colombians that day!

Last Wednesday we had zone conference which I absolutely loved, i bore my testimony in front of like 60 elders and sisters!! Woahhh Hermana Jorgz is gettin all spiritual and what not! haha It was all about the Book Of Mormon, cause you know what i LOVE THE BOOK OF MORMON. Thursday was walking day. it was interesting. We taught this man in the park the whole restoration and committed him to read the BOM. We gave it to him and i asked him to pray about if the BOM was true right there.. He did for like I'm being dead serious 6:27 minutes.. I timed it because it was a silent prayer cause he was to nervous and we were sitting there forever!!! After he just put his fingers in the BOM and opened to a random page and he started reading.. Me and my comp were so nervous it was going to be one of those scriptures that just like didn't make sense!! BUT he read nephi 3:5 go read it! It was awesome! Right after we left the park and just stopped on the side of the road and said a prayer and asked for forgiveness because we lacked in faith in him opening to a good scripture!! Later that day we were walking to another appointment and these 3 people stopped us in front of their house they are from the DR. One of the guys was clearly drunk. The girl though was actually interested in our message. We started talking to them about our message and then the girl just really wanted to know so we started talking to her, but the other guy kept asking me questions so I started answering them. He kept asking me if i could marry a man of "color" or is that not allowed in the church? I was like no it is. He asked If i was allowed to marry a man of color, i said yeah if i wanted to. He asked if my dad would allow me to marry a man of color, i was like yeah if i was in love.. I started feeling weird. He kept hinting to me that he wanted us to get married and that I was so beautiful, then he asked where we lived and we didn't tell him, I started feeling a little nervous. So we started leaving because we had an appointment. We walked around the corner and I turn around and HE IS FOLLOWING US. My heart dropped instantly and i just held on to my companion.. He followed us for 20 minutes... We told him to stop we feel uncomfortable and he finally did but he wouldn't unless i gave him my number.. I refused so we gave him the number to receive a free BOM instead and he bought it. BUT I WAS SO SCARED!!!! New Jersey is CRAZY!

Okay so now it is Friday... well LONGEST DAY OF MY LIFE. No one to teach. Literally. So we go knocking doors. It was like the end of the day, I'm just tired, discouraged, sweating.. because you know New Jersey COULD NOT BE HOTTER! Anyways we knock on a door and this really nice lady let us in. We started singing I'm a child of God in Spanish and me and my comp heard a noise we instantly kind of looked at each other and looked nervous cause we knew there was a husband here!! He comes literally like marching out from the back of the house and stops us and starts speaking in English.. HE JUST ANNIHILATED US FOR 35 MINUTES. He just went on and on about how we weren't christian and he kept trying to get us to say the name Joseph Smith so he could just bash him but me and my comp would not. He wouldn't sit down once, like his face was red. He looked at me and was like honey you look scared.. and i said you know what i am scared! The spirit isn't here and i don't feel comfortable.. He was like oh no we aren't fighting do you want some water? I WAS LIKE WHAT?!!!! His wife tried sticking up for us but he just would put her down to.. I felt so bad. Me and my companion asked if we could leave but before we asked his religion.. guess what he said... YEAH BORN AGAIN CHRISTIAN!!! Oh my they do not like us!! He told us as we were leaving he was just trying to save our souls and he said don't take offense but the work you are doing is worthless and we are wasting our time spreading false doctrine. Let me just put in a side note.. He was maybe 5'3" you KNOW i could of taken him!!! Anyways we left and i just started crying because in all honesty i have never met a more mean human.. Like he just was the rudest person ever! We went home and read the BOM for like 45 minutes cause we needed it!

Now it is Saturday! Today I was a little homesick I don't know why. But that night Sister Larsen and i had to teach an English class in Passaic at the chapel! WOW do you know how hard that is? I don't even know Spanish so how can i teach these people Spanish when I can't understand their native language! Anyways it went well! Then we had correlation, that's just where the elders in our ward and us and the ward mission leader meet together to discuss ways to help! But we went home that night and Sister Morrison, an English speaking sister that we live with, was on the floor SCREAMING and crying... SO we picked right up and drove to Hoboken to the emergency room. She had to get a lot of tests done. My comp and I left the hospital at 11 we were so tired.. Well it is so busy and confusing in New jersey, who knows how but we ended up driving in a tunnel for a while.. I turned to my companion and was like uhhh there are a lot of cars with licence plates of New York... Well we get out of the tunnel and in really big letters it says WELCOME TO MANHATTAN.... OH MY GOSH. If you drive out of your area like your mission area you get red dotted which means you cant drive anymore!!! We were freaking out! First of all we have never been up this late in the past 3 months, and now it is 12 o clock and we are in NYC!!! OH my gosh!!! Stressed beyond belief. Well we end up finding our way backk... just our luck we run into traffic... A concert just got out and we were in a 6 lane highway that moved to a 1 lane highway... 2 HOURS LATER! WE GOT HOME AT 2:30!!! That isn't even the end of the stress we had to wake up at 6:30 and go right back to the hospital so i could switch out Sister A ( Sister Morrison's comp) I was there ALL Sunday. She had surgery that day, she had an appendicitis! I was up for a total of 46 hours with only 4 hours of sleep... I WAS SO TIRED!!! I got the sacrament in the hospital though, from some elders, it was very cool.

Now here goes just yet another story from my mission... WELL so another patient gets moved in to the other half of the room next to Sister Morrison, and they are Spanish! Her whole family walks in and I'm excited I'm like wow dang I'm going to give them a BOM! SO I start talking to them in Spanish shocking myself of course, and I was talking to this guy, they are from Mexico. He told me he was like 52 i don't know why, and he kept saying his sister is getting jealous of him talking to me.. I could really understand.. Anyways he kept saying wow you are really really really pretty... i just felt uncomfortable so i went back and sat down. He came over and talked to me and I gave him a BOM and asked for his address and number so the other missionaries could teach him, he didnt know other missionaries would teach him, i think he thought it was me, but he continued to like hit on me.. I felt so uncomfortable.. Of course sister Morrison couldn't do anything she was just knocked out.. Then they were getting ready to leave and I was just reading my BOM as he walks passed me he put his hand out for like a hand shake and like kind of held my hand for a while and just told me i was really beautiful and he hasn't seen anyone like me.. I didn't even know how i felt, i just prayed that he would leave.. After he left I felt like pretty good because I gave him a BOM and got his info for the other elders, but i know he was only interested because of like me... It just made me sick to my stomach.. Well Sister Larsen came back and switched me so i could go home and sleep and she stayed the night. Monday was nicer, it was a day i got to sleep in and relax! We all met up as a zone at a park that over looked all of NYC and New Jersey, it was a place thousands of people went and watched the towers fall.. There was a memorial site, it was very cool. But we all just played sports and stuff! I was the only sister that played football with the Elders, HOLLA! The past 2 days i have just been busy as ever taking care of Sister Morrison and stuff... Bottom line is, I am having fun, I am LIVING THE LIFE OF A MISSIONARY!!! It sure is hard but i love it!

At the hospital with Sister Morrison, post surgery.