Hermana Bloxham - Hey!!

Hey everybody!

This has literally been one of the best weeks of my entire mission! We
found 6 new investigators last week! It was awesome! We have been
working super hard to meet our goals we have set and to push our
limits. Last week we set a goal to have 23 lessons. Our standard of
excellence is 21 but we felt like we could do more. So we had tons of
miracles last week and even with one day with only one lesson we were
able to make it to Sunday night with 22 lessons! We needed to get that
last one! So we prayed and tried to figure out who we should visit
with our last hour of the day. We decided to teach Maria Espinosa. She
is a member in our ward, but doesn't live in our area, but we felt
like we should teach her.

So we text her and went over to teach her. It was a really good lesson
about service in the church and how we should all work to serve one
another, because we need each other to stay strong in the church. So
we invited her to find one way to serve someone this week. The next
day, a friend of hers called her to help him get home from the
hospital. She didn't want to and didn't know how she was going to be
able to do it, but she remembered the lesson we taught the night
before and she helped him the next morning. Right after that we had a
lesson planned with Maria as the member present. So we were on our way
to the lesson and a guy stopped us on the street and wanted to learn
more! He wanted a Book of Mormon and wanted to come to church! Then we
went to the less active lesson we had planned and Maria helped us a
ton with that lesson. As we were leaving, she said, now where are we
going? I'm going to stay with you until 7:30 or the family home
evening we were going to teach. We were super excited, but didn't
really have too much planned for the rest of the day. So we looked up
another less active who wasn't home, so Sister Baker suggested that we
call Wendy, another member! So we called her to see if we could come
over, but she was on her way out. So she ended up coming with us to a
lesson. So we had two members so we decided to split in the same house
and teach two lessons at the same time haha. After that we were able
to teach the first class of the temple preparation classes to Maria
Espinosa so she can go to the temple, and we taught it with Wendy and
then we taught family home evening and had so much fun! So we had 5
member present lessons in one day!! It was amazing! It was one of the
greatest blessing days I've ever had in my life!
Another huge miracle happened this week when every one of our
appointments cancelled. We had no idea where to go or what to do, so
we said a prayer and we felt like we should go see a less active named
Isabel. So we started on our way here and we were stopped by a
different less active in his barbershop who had just text us like 5
minutes before asking of we could come over there. So we taught him a
lesson and he told us about a guy he wants us to talk to as well! Then
we went over to Isabel's house and taught her! It was a super good
lesson as well. Then on the way back to the church we ran into another
less active we had been looking for and we taught him as well! So our
day of jukes, turned into a super successful day of finding and
teaching! It was amazing!
Yesterday was a super hard day. We felt like we were walking a lot and
didn't get too much done. We taught a few people and stuff, but we
didn't feel like we did too much. When we got home and were counting
up our numbers, we realized that we had taught 6 lessons! We have a
goal this week for 23 and in just two days we already have 12!! It's
so crazy! The Lord is truly blessing us so much for our efforts in His
work.
With this baptismal goal for May, we have found a new ability and
drive to work harder and to work smarter. During September it was
amazing and we worked amazingly hard but we only expected to do it for
the month of September. But now we are truly building a new way of
doing missionary work here in the New York North Mission. It has been
so amazing to be a part of this new wave of missionary work and I
can't wait to see the fruits of everything we have been working for.
Along with all of those blessings, we got to talk to our families! It
was awesome and I am so thankful and grateful for my family and
everything you have done for me! I know that The Lord has prepared a
way for each of us to be as happy as possible, and that is through our
families. I love you all so much!
We also taught Lianabel last night and she is still on track for her
baptism on May 31st! She just has to come to church before then! Haha.
So please pray for her that she will be able to come and see what it's
like!
I love you all so much and I love this Gospel. I know that Christ
lives and that he has truly given us a perfect plan. With rules and
regulations but also with blessings. In D&C 130: 20- 21 it says:
20 There is a law, irrevocably decreed in heaven before the
foundations of this world, upon which all blessings are predicated--
21 And when we obtain any blessing from God, it is by obedience to
that law upon which it is predicated.
I know this is true because I have seen the blessings! I know you can
too as you follow His commandments!

Love,

🚋 Hermana Jessica Bloxham 🏀

Jess bought a "mumu" and thinks it's the greatest thing!! Snapback and mumu.... interesting combo:)

This week at the temple!