Change is Good

March 18,2014

wow this week. i literally have no ways to really explain. SO I am just going to share what have learned this week.

That not everyone is ready to hear the Gospel. 

That people literally think that money is what will make them happy.

Not going to church because you were offended by someone, dumbest thing I have ever heard of.

Gaining your own personal testimony is CRITICAL. 

And being an example ESPECIALLY as a parent is very important.. that's an understatement, it is the most needed thing in a home. besides the Gospel of course. 

Wow I have explanations for all of those things but realistically it would take to long to type out. Just know that those things are happening on my mission. Whether it be from contacting on the street, to investigators, to less actives, to my branch presidents wife.. or to just families in general. They all prove to me that the Gospel is the most needed thing in this life, but yet it is the most unimportant uncommon thing in this life. I was studying the talk by the prophet Thomas S. Monson "I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee." This part stuck out to me.

"We should not need to experience difficulties for us to remember Him, and we should not be driven to humility before giving Him our faith and trust."

I have come to realize how much truth comes from this one line. I am almost drawn to tears to think that before my mission I only prayed or really talked to Heavenly Father when I "needed" Him most. 

I have come to learn that whether we are in times of trial, times of need, times of overwhelming joy, or times of just simple living, we NEED our Heavenly Father. How sad I feel for Him to think that all of His children down here don't pray and talk to him daily.. That is something that has just really affected me. SAY MEANINGFUL PRAYERS BECAUSE OUR HEAVENLY FATHER IS WAITING TO HEAR FROM YOU. 

So did this other part! 

Our Heavenly Father, who gives us so much to delight in, also knows that we learn and grow and become stronger as we face and survive the trials through which we must pass. We know that there are times when we will experience heartbreaking sorrow, when we will grieve, and when we may be tested to our limits. However, such difficulties allow us to change for the better, to rebuild our lives in the way our Heavenly Father teaches us, and to become something different from what we were—better than what we were, more understanding than what we were, more empathetic than what we were, with stronger testimonies than we had before.

This should be our purpose—to persevere and endure, yes, but also to become more spiritually refined as we make our way through sunshine and sorrow.

Change. Change is good. Change is scary. Everything about changing is uncomfortable. Everything about this mission is uncomfortable BUT yet i find this sense of calmness and a sense of assurance that all the changes that go on, whether they be life at home with the family and friends, or my self in general, that all is okay. That GOD has it under control and we are truly doing the Will Of God. Let the hard times be times of learning, and let the good times be reasons to thank our Heavenly Father for what He has given us. 

Hey i love you all. thanks for all that you do literally. 

love. hermana jorgensen xoxx

i love the percino family they made the best birthday and Christmas that i could of had on the mission. they treat us SO well. and have CHANGED so much. 

ps. pray for sammy he just got out of the hospital he just got a blood transfusion. i seriously LOVE that family so much.