Lexi You Did It

June 9, 2014

well to start of the emails this week.

Hermana Jorgensen (last time saying that..while you are a missionary) you did it. It feels surreal but wow YOU DID IT! i LOVE you and seriously am so thankful that you left on your mission.. it got me to my mission. You lead by example, and truly have set the path for many others to see the true example of Jesus Christ. You represented Him with your whole heart. And I have been blessed to be serving the same time as you. NOW breathe, relax, enjoy the time..in the real world... AND DON'T GET MARRIED FOR 5 MONTHS!!! okay :)

This week. woooo.. well lets just say i have learned a lot. first. Everyone thinks I'm Cuban.. haha WHAT?! i get asked that all the time..

Now to the lessons i have learned.

This week I truly have been shown how all the little things truly have an effect on people. So we went to zone meeting and during zone meeting our zone leaders asked if sister Cole and i would go up to the front and sit in these comfy chairs. It was so uncomfortable, and we didn't really know what was going on. Well then they go okay everyone you can start.... uhh what? SO everyone went through and said something they love about sister Cole, and something they love about me... OH I WAS HAVING A COW. i hate compliments.. i hate being put on spot i felt SOOO uncomfortable.. haha and needless to say that all of Sister Coles compliments were "you work so hard sister Cole, you really are so dedicated and focused on this work. you never rest, and truly understand how important it is to work every second." Then they get to mine.. all of mine.. " you are crazy, you are NUTS, you never lost yourself on your mission, the level of energy in the room is 5 and then when you enter it shoots to a 10! you make everyone feel loved.. yadyadada..." hahah what? i was like oh great I'm AWESOME! my companion is this unreal missionary, and i am NUTS! hahah sweeeet. Then they got to the last elder. This elder just got to his mission, he is from Mexico and he is 25.. he has been having a really hard time. No one really reaches out to him so like i am always talking to him, and just seeing how everything is going and trying to get him to interact with everyone when we do things! I never really thought anything of it.. just like ehh I wanted everyone to be included so i would talk to him. ANYWAYS he says something about sister Cole and then he gets to me, and he goes silent.. and we are all kind of sitting there.. it was a little uncomfortable but he tried to talk and he was just crying... it was just dead silent for like literally 10 minutes and he was crying. (of course i have tears form in my eyes) he goes," i really want to thank you. because every time i wanted to be alone you would come and talk to me. i prayed every night that i could feel love, and in the times that i needed it most, and felt so alone you were there. I can not tell you how grateful i am for every time you try to include me. You really have helped me more than anyone on my mission..." Umm.. it was just silent and we all sat there.. i just felt so touched.. and uncomfortable because everyone was looking at me.. but after it made me think. THE LITTLE THINGS. i would talk to him every time we were with him, it wasn't ever anything big. It didn't make me sacrifice anything, it was just a simple conversation or invitation to invite him to be with all of us.

Well later that week i don't know if i wrote about a less active Grace Contreras? if not real quick background. We were walking to interviews with president and she contacted us. Well we had a lesson.. she knows nothing. she was forced to be baptized by her ex husband 30 years ago.. she literally doesn't know who jose smith is or what the book of mormon is. So it is fun we get to teach her EVERYTHING! (she went to church yesterday!) Anyways i asked her why she stopped us and knew we were missionaries.. and she said because you smiled at me... that was it.

SO it made me think holy cow the little things we do truly do impact people. It is so important that we always try to act like the Savior in all that we do, because someone is always watching, and someone is ALWAYS affected by the little things.

We run into so many people who hate the church because of what the PEOPLE do inside of it. It breaks my heart because the church is PERFECT, and people judge it by its IMPERFECT people inside of it.

Funnies this week:

Umm Saturday we had a split with our bishop and assistant.. hahah yeah that was a riot! my poor comp hated it because it was actually really fun! it was a breather that i needed!

then.. i don't know how funny this is

but in ward council they were talking about how there is a group of people that play basketball at the church.. boys.. but bishop wants them to be interested in the church.. the elders said they really aren't.. well when the bishop was with us there was a 14 year old boy that walked with us for like 15 blocks that i talked to him about the church.. so bishop brings that up in ward council and then proposed the idea, "well maybe we can have sister jorgensen come and talk to them because i saw her talk to a young boy yesterday and he ended up giving his information to her." ....u uhhh what? he was dead serious. i was kind of embarrassed. the elders apologized and told me that it wasn't appropriate what he said. He had good intentions, but it didn't come out right.. technically he wants me to flirt to convert....

i love you all. lex. i love you. you did it.