Week 58 in Sherman, Texas (12-22-15)

So this week we found a new person to teach. He is super solid and even has a goal to go through the temple! He is a wounded vet and has a girlfriend that is a member. She told him straight up that she wants to get married in the temple and so he is now investigating. flirt to convert right? The only problem with him is that he lives like 30 miles away from us and we meet with him in the middle of the day when everyone is working. But he is super cool.

The food pantry where we do service at gave us a ton of sweets, muffins and cupcakes, to hand out to our church. So on Sunday we took it to all the young men and young woman and that day we were the coolest people on earth to them. 

 

 

The picture is by the main square. the main part looks good, but it is like the cartoons where they have a cardboard cutout building and behind it it is falling apart. There are nicer parts but they are on the outskirts of the city.

 

A year ago the mission did a program called Just Serve. they wanted us to do 10 hours of service every week. that went for a year and ended last January.

We did the Living Christ thing a while ago. Sister Taylor just now got it all put together.

Shari's package hasn't arrived yet. Grandma Jorgensen's has.  Oh and i love the 12 days of Christmas. it is really fun to do. I can't wait each morning to open one up. 

i did get Christmas cards. I was a bit late in sending them. I already sent them out to a bunch of people here in Texas and I was waiting to send them to you until i knew i had enough. i already sent one to grandma bellows and Petersen. the ones i sent you should get here either today or tomorrow.

 

 Cant wait for Christmas and i hope that you all have a great Christmas this year.

Elder Garcia and Elder Jorgensen

Elder Jorgensen and Elder Haskell

Elder Jorgensen, Elder Lee, Elder Garcia, Elder Ramsdell

Sherman, Texas

 

12-18-15 Mission Christmas Letter for President and Sister Taylor

To Our Dear Family and Friends Back Home,

 Merry Christmas! We miss you and our hearts are certainly more tender
during this sacred season of the year.  But, what a wonderful time to be
serving the Lord in this part of His vineyard!  As a mission we have been
dreaming of a “White Christmas!”  We are working hard to help people enter
the waters of baptism and the House of the Lord. What a thrill and humbling
privilege this has been and continues to be!

 As a mission, we are memorizing ‘The Living Christ.’  We bear testimony of
the divine power of our Savior’s great Atoning sacrifice and its grace in
these sacred words.  Through deeply planting these words in our minds and in
our hearts, we are coming to know our Savior in a more personal ways.  We
are Becoming One with Him.  We are striving to serve Him with all of our
hearts, might, minds and strength!

 The link below is our Christmas gift to you!  We hope you will watch it
over and over and over again!  Our missionaries are excited for you to see
each of them bearing witness of His holy name.  We love and honor our
Savior, Jesus Christ.  We declare that The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints is His Church.  Our love and gratitude for Him knows no
bounds.  “God be thanked for the matchless gift of His divine Son.”

With all our love,

President and Sister Taylor & Every Missionary in the Texas, Dallas
Mission!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNuP6D9DQVg&feature=youtu.be

Week 57 in Sherman, Texas (12-15)

Transfer news. i am staying here in Sherman. i will be here for the next 7 weeks to kill off my companion and probably for the next 6 weeks after that. because my companion goes home in 7 weeks and i will stay to help whoever is next in this area.

tomorrow we are having a huge meeting as a whole mission. is it is going to be our  Christmas meeting. hopefully i will hear some news about Ipads. it would be such a great tool for us to use.  Plus they have been promising them to us for the past year and a half. LDS.org said the all united states missionaries will have them in the fall. fall ends on the 21 sooooooooo they have 6 days to complete their promise.

i got grandmas card and your package. then i got a package from the ward. it was a big sign that said we love you.

Taylor looks good in her outfit. there was a family here that had a daughter about the same age as Taylor and she had a cute outfit. it is called the hipster. you should look it up. i think that Taylor could pull it off. 

that christmas concert sounded fun. i wish that i could have seen it. i was hoping that they would have it on the motab website but they dont. 

My days have gone like this: wake up at 6:30 study until 12 track until 4:30 dinner with a member. We can't  knock doors at night so we have a list a people in the ward and we do stop bys until 9. at this point we stop by the other elders in Sherman who live a mile down the street from our apartment and talk. then we go to bed and repeat.

love you all so much and have a great week.

Ward Christmas Party

Week 56 in Sherman, Texas (12-8)

Sweet. i am so gad that my package came. dad sent me a picture, it looks like it came in undamaged. i will be waiting for your package.

i don't know if i'm staying or going. last transfer everyone who only had one transfer left got new companions, some were even training. my companion will only have one left so i realy dont know. i could see myself leaving and staying. i probably wont even know if i am leaving until next monday night. i think it would be better if i don't explain what it looks like down here. i only cover one ward. the other ward here in sherman used to have sisters but they both got transferred out and elders got put in. it is for the same reason i wont explain my area to you.

the members are realy friendly. there are a lot of farms outside the main city and we drive through them verry often. most of our members live outside the main parts of the city. those are the nicer parts. 

i want to make christmas cards today and send them off. i am planning on sending some to my recent converts.

 

i sent you some pictures and a video. the video is of a random road that the gps took us on. it ended up in a dead end. we drive on these fun roads all the time.

 

 

Week 55 in Sherman, Texas (12-1)

No update today :(  Did receive some fun pictures!

Stylin' glasses

Christmas Texas Style

Thanksgiving package

Elder Ramsdell and Elder Jorgensen

Week 54 in Sherman, Texas (11-24)

Happy thanksgiving y'all. hope yours was great. I had a great thanksgiving. i ate with a family named Peck. they had a lot of family over and it was just like a normal thanksgiving. i would have to say 1000's of times better than my last one.

we also did a lot of service this week. we helped a guy in our ward paint his house. he is kind of crippled at the moment. he got off of two knee surgeries. so we helped him out. 

my favorite time of the year is comming up and i cant wait for it. i will make it my best christmas yet. hope you all had a great week. love you.

Thanksgiving dinner at the Peck Home

 Letter to Jesse from the Peck Family:

We were so glad you joined us for thanksgiving! We had family that were non members and also inactive members. Thank you for your good conversation, positive attitude and example, we think your awesome! Love, the Pecks

Week 53 in Sherman, Texas

This thanksgiving we are eating with a family in the ward.  They own over 100 acers and a plane with a runway in their yard.  Can't wait to eat with them.  We got the x-box from a resale shop we do service at. It had the red ring of death so they had to throw it away. So we took it home ripped it apart and gutted it and then stuck it on our wall.

YOU HAVE A TREE DOWNSTAIRS!!???!!!  

well now that you are counting down the days you dont have to be with your class i will start counting down my days. i have 7 months and 28 days left. 

the kitchen looks great. 

hope you have a fun thanks giving. love you.