Hermana Bloxham - Saludos a todos!

Hey everybody!

It has been a great week! Filled with miracles and more miracles! As
you know we have our goal as a mission of having 100 baptisms this
month of May. In Mission Leadership Council, President Morgan
expressed the need to have a baptism goal for the month for each
companionship and each zone. As a companionship we set a goal for 7!
Pretty crazy right! But we have names to back up those numbers and we
are working really hard to achieve them. Our zone, for 7
companionships, we have the goal of 27 baptisms together as a zone. We
are all super excited and working really hard to reach that goal.

As we have been working for that this week we have seen so many
miracles! President Morgan also invited us to have perfect mornings.
He talked about making studies a priority. There have been so many
times that I have sacrificed studies to teach lessons, especially on
Sundays. He wants us to make sure we put studies in no matter what
happens in the morning. This was extremely hard to adjust to, I am
actually still adjusting. I have just put teaching lessons ahead of
making sure I am fully prepared for the lessons we are going to teach.
So, this week we have been working really hard on the "perfect
mornings" and we have been blessed beyond belief!

This week we found 6 new investigators! Two of them have a super
awesome story in the way we found them! During the weekend of Easter
we were doing the manhattan chalk drawing for Because of Him. We
talked to two ladies there who were from Ecuador. They seemed sooooo
nice and awesome and they said they would come to church! They seemed
really excited about it, but most of the time, they don't show up. So
they didn't make it for Easter Sunday, or the next, but this Sunday
they did! Their names are Luisa and Rachel! Luisa used to attend a
baptist church but left because she didn't agree with some of their
beliefs and practices, and since then has been looking for a church to
join! We taught them after church and talked about what we do as
missionaries and a little bit about the Book of Mormon! We are going
to go visit them tonight and try to set them up with a baptismal date!
It's super exciting!
We also looked up a former investigator woman named Maria de la Cruz.
She is super nice and will let us in to talk to her. She has an
amazing belief in Christ and loves hearing the word of God. Her mother
is also visiting from the Dominican Republic for a couple months so we
have also been teaching her! They are the cutest little ladies you
would ever meet! They are so nice and soft spoken and so loving! We
have a meeting with them tonight at our bishops house, which we are
super excited about!
Another miracle that happened last week, was that one of the elder
companionships had a woman they were teaching, but couldn't get her to
open up to them and express her feelings to get down to what was
really holding her back from baptism. So they thought that maybe
sisters would be a better fit, so they gave her to us to teach! It has
been awesome!! Her name is Wendy Anderson. She is soooo legit and sooo
prepared to be baptized! The only thing is that she works all the
time. Nothing new right? Haha. But she has been reading, and told us
of an experience when she prayed about whether this path and this
church are the right path to follow, she said that she felt an
overwhelming sense of peace in that moment and also in the rest of her
life as well, as in work and with her family and that she is in the
right path! She has had dates to be baptized before, but we really
feel that it is her time now! So please pray for her and for us to be
able to teach her those things that she needs to be able to take this
step!

Well, besides all of that, we have just been working our butts off to
bring these goals to pass. It has been amazing to see the power of God
work through us as we exercise a little faith in him. For through the
faith of man, can all the power of God be brought to pass. I know that
we can all participate in the power and love of God as we exercise
faith in him. He loves us perfectly and wants to bless us, so let him,
by our actions. Follow His commandments and he will bless you!
D&C 130:20-21 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.
In other words, each blessing has a law or commandment associated with
it. When we follow that law, we will receive that blessing, every
time.

I know that this is the Lords work. He has sanctified it, and he will
help us in it as we work with him.

I love you all so much and I hope you can all feel of the Love of The Lord!

Love,

Hermana Jessica Bloxham

We all got to go down to Times Square and help volunteer at the revlon walk!