May 25, 2015 (Diriamba Nicaragua)

"Jessica" graffiti

 

Heard about crazy stuff happening over there!! I am glad everyone is safe! I just don’t even know what to think about all that!

WEll this Sunday my investigator Alba brought her husband to church on SUNDAY SCORRRREEE!!!!! I love when that happens!!

We also went with the AP to talk to two of our investigators for interviews and they are getting baptized SATURDAY then we went to get permission for two other of our investigators that are also getting baptized SATURDAY YAY YAY YAY

Well Diriamba is as cold as ever this week we met a sweet old man named Geronimo we talked to him for a long while he can’t read but he knows soooo much!! We are going to help him learn to read it’s going to be awesome!!

The ward here is really good they really do help when they say they will and their testimonies are so strong!!

I hope that when I get home I will be able to still look for and have these wonderful experiences!! I love this gospel and this live I have and I love all of you!!

My area in Diriamba

My area in Diriamba

My area in Diriamba

 

May 18, 2015 (Diriamba Nicaragua)

New area Diriamba Nicaragua and a new companion Hermana Lagos from Honduras.

Well today they told me I will be going home the 6th of August.. I was sitting in Sacrament meeting this last week and they were singing I know that My Redeemer Lives and I looked at my investigators sitting next to me and I almost started crying.... I just had the strongest feeling that I don’t want to leave here I want all of you to come here!! 

Well I had changes this week I am  in Diriamba with Hermana Lagos she is seriously one of the Prettiest sister missionaries here I just love her ever since she got here I have wanted  to be her companion and here I am with her!! I just love it!! She is from Honduras!! 

Well I love you all. 

So we are teaching a kid named Eliezar he is awesome but he LOVES coffee... we need some ideas to help him to stop! Let me know what you think!! 

Then we met a girl named Alba this last week and she said yes I am going to church Sunday and SHE DID she is just so awesome she told us if God sent you here it’s because he wants something with me so let’s do this! AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME. 

Well this area I am in is FREEZING well not really it’s like Mesa in the winter but with Round Valley winds ALL THE TIME I love it but God is preparing me for life after because....my house has an American looking bathroom and CARPET....and a walk in closet..... and there is a lady that cleans are house....It is soooo weird 

Well keep praying for rain here so these people can eat and have a break from the heat.

I love you all so much and will keep you updated on everything.

Laura, Victoria, Tadeo, Hermana Ordonez.

Laura and Hermana Udall

Laura, Hermana Udall, Ricarda

 

May 11, 2015 (Nindiri Nicaragua)

Fabi and Ricardo (recent converts)

 

Today I started the last 12 weeks of my mission! pray for my investigators that they recieve their answers sooooon!! 

 

I got to talk to my wonderful family yesterday!! it was wonderful to see them all!! 

 

Well this week we got to see the members work hand in hand with our investigators to get a TON of people to church on Sunday it was branch conference and they did soooo good!!!! 

 

This one is really short this week we have changes this week I will be letting you know!! just remember one thing!! 

 

Because Jesus suffered for all of our sins all by himself in the garden WE NEVER HAVE TO DO IT ALONE!!!!

Hermana Emelda (our landlady)

 

May 4, 2015 (Nindiri Nicaragua)

Jonathan got baptized!  H. Ordonez and H. Udall

Oh man I miss you guys...all of you so much! JONATHAN GOT BAPTISED!!!! You all know me and you know I don’t cry but when this little guy left the water. Then the little goof ball started to try and swim...oh man.... But the best part about it was the phone call he gave us that night he was crying and he said sister Udall thank you for teaching me and bringing this gospel to my life you are an angel in my life I am crying right now and it’s because I am happy! He said I now have a reason to live... I am clean! Moments like that are what I live for!!! 

Well this week I got a very sad phone call it was happy because I got to talk to people from Nandaime but they told me that Brunilda passed away......

 

When I heard I got sad but then I was just enveloped with a warm love feeling and the words (Don’t worry about her. Don’t be sad she is here with me waiting for you return with honor I love you) I LOVE HEAVENLY FATHER and he loves me!! 

THE RAINS HAVE STARTED so do you guys remember this time last year when I was in NAndaime and it flooded everywhere well the time has come again.... I love love the rain because it cools down here enough to use a small sweater. Let’s just hope I don’t get a cold!! 

Well… Spiritual thought for the day.....Alma 26:30 and then 27. Doesn’t matter where you are or what you've been through God loves you and knows you!!! And I do too!!! I will be home to bug you all about going to church soon enough!! I love you all!!!! 

Jonathan (LESSONS)

Jonathan's baptism

Alberto and Jonathan 2 new converts.

Hermana Ordonez and Hermana Udall BUS RIDE

Mangos are back!!!!!!

Taxi ride with Tadeo and Teresa

Whole District of Hermana's and Elders plus 2.

 

April 27, 2015 (Nindiri Nicaragua)

Alberto's baptism! 

Alberto got baptized!!! It was awesome a lot of people came to the baptism and it was just wonderful!!! 

Well this week was a very good one. Sometimes God just blesses us a lot during one week and sometimes he makes us work for our blessings!!  

This week one of our old investigators that we stopped teaching for a while because he wasn’t progressing we put a baptismal date with him!!! EVERYTHING HAPPENS IN GODS TIME. I remember every time I tried and tried and tried to get someone to get baptized and they just didn’t want to or something always came up and in the end we stopped teaching them but there they were in the area book just waiting for their time to come and I am starting to hear from all my other areas THAT THEIR TIME IS NOW it is sooooo exciting to hear that lots of the people I started teaching in Granada.. Are getting baptized as well in Nandaime and even in Monimbo!! It’s AWESOME 

Well I am officially one of the older sisters in the mission I am going to complete 15 months on Sunday..... Everyone has started saying well you are leaving!! It makes me sad! I just don’t know what to feel I want to see my family but I want to stay here doing this forever. 

I just wanted to say I KNOW with every atom in my being that this church is true. I KNOW that Jesus is my Savior and through him my life is happy!! 

I LOVE YOU ALLLLL

Hermana Jessica Udall (Nindiri Nicaragua)

April 20, 2015 (Nindiri Nicaragua)

Jessica's buddy Tadeo.

Well another week has gone buy and I just don’t know what to do with my self

This weekend we have a baptism planned for one of my WONDERFUL investigators his name is Alberto I am so excited for him his family and him have been through a lot and they just need this extra boost of blessings that will come from this!!!

Well this week was stake conference so it was nice to see everyone from Monimbo again I just love them all and with changes coming up I don’t want to leave Masaya but It looks like I will be getting one more area before I have to leave this wonderful place I have called home for 18 months it is crazy soooo many things have happened since I have been here at home and here in this country Siblings have gotten married and Have become parents. Sisters have graduated from college and been made Presidents of awesome things my parents have worked hard as ever I am so proud of my family and everything them have been through and done.

In My mission I have seen drunk men sleeping in the street get up and change their lives from black to white I have seen people that couldn’t get pregnant have children. I have seen broken families get fixed broken hearts mended and it’s all because one man loved us all sooo much that He died on the cross for us and we can use this to help not only us change but the lives of others.....don’t be selfish share it.

There have been moments when I’ve cried from joy and from sadness and from stress. I have been frustrated and annoyed but I have learned which feelings come from God and which ones don’t belong. I wake up in the morning now and feel like I am a million bucks and not just 2 I love everyone around me as if they were family I walk down the street here and everyone knows my name and trusts me to help them wash clothes or to cook or to just share a message that will help them be happy I got sent to THIS country on purpose there was not ANY mistake made AT ALL I love it here and I love who sent me more than anything!

Those who are thinking to serve DO IT those who have THANK YOU and those that think they can’t or won’t be able to you can whenever and wherever... if you have neighbors or friends you can!! Just make it happen people!! I love ya´ll sooooo much!! hope you all stay happy and if you aren’t look for something that will help unhappy people are that way by choice....more next week!!

The picture is of my little buddy Tadeo he went to eat lunch with us and his mom.

April 13, 2015 (Nindiri Nicaragua).

4 Hermana's in Nicaragua on their preparation day.

Well this week was good!! We had some cool things happen! Lester got Confirmed!! WAHOOOOO and my companion tried Dr. Pepper for the first time!! I will have you know it was a miracle we even found Dr. Pepper!! Anyway she wasn’t too amazed....but that’s okay everyone has their likes....I guess... jaja. 

Well cool story for the week I have started buying mandarin oranges so that when we pass by people that are smoking I just say if you throw that away I will give you this so they usually throw the cigarette on the ground and then we start teaching them about the Word of Wisdom so we did that again this week and the guy told me he was going to go to church on Sunday and I honestly didn’t believe him woman of little faith I guess but on Sunday I was sitting there waiting for the meeting to start and in he walks and he lifted both of his hands up as if to say Elvis has entered the building and then he started waving at everyone I was dying sooooo funny. Crazy guy now has a baptism date and oh man he is funny. 

We also started teaching a new family this week! They are positive so far! 

Jonathan one of our investigators that is going to get baptized in July is 15 he always talks about when he is an Elder it’s awesome!! I am so excited for him we sent him to contact someone the other day and he walked up and said you why are you sitting on this bench and not getting baptized?? Do you want to go to hell?? And this guy on the bench is now one of our investigators. It was so crazy!! 

 

Well spiritual thought for this week If God is in your life Satan can’t be. Be sure you know what is going on in the lives around you before you judge them. The gospel HELPS EVERYONE!!! I love you all keep your heads up.

My Building where my "Branch" meets.

Jessica at Catarina

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From a Cashew Tree in my yard!