I have been looking forward to emailing all week. All of your emails have just lightened my day!
This week was amazing!
On Tuesday we taught Will, that guy that came up to us at the tables, and he felt the Spirit throughout his entire body! He said that the warm fuzzy feeling he feels is usually only in his chest, but that at that moment it was all over his body! And we're like, "it's the Holy Ghost!" Ahhhhhh. He's so amazing. He has this really rough family life and he is just so loving and just so inspiring. So we asked him to be baptized on October 12th and he wants to be baptized now! But he can't because he needs to go to church twice hahaha. And yesterday, he wasn't planning on coming to church because he was going to visit his mom and tell her he was getting baptized, but she ended up telling him that if he did he would no longer be his son. And so he got really drunk (we haven't taught word of wisdom yet, though he did say he won't do it again) and his roommate was being really aggressive with this girl and he stood up for her and his roommate punched him and beat him up. He was up on Saturday considering committing suicide and he remembered the feeling of love that he felt in the branch building. So he slept on a couch in some friend's house and came to church. We had to sit outside with him for a while while he cried and told us the story. I started tearing up I felt so bad for him! He is so amazing for coming to the place where most people would say caused his pain, but he realizes that he feels the Lord's love when he's here. So so cool.
Also, that inactive kid that came to our table. He agreed to have a lesson with us and he just opened up his whole story. It was so crazy and so beautiful and he just cried. It's so amazing to see people just open themselves and hand their hearts to you and they're like, "this is me, it's ugly." and we're like,"no, you're loved and you're beautiful." AHHHHHH People are just so fantastic, I can't handle it. Honestly, if it weren't for these crazy spiritual experiences and connections into these people's lives, I would really miss home.
We went to this sandwich place where a member works and I swear I walked into a fancy Secret Spot that embodied Jared. I freaking miss Jared! First off, there's this HUGE collage of pictures of the Beatles, Bruce Lee, Jimi Hendrix, Buddah, Bob Marley, Mohammad Ali, and others. Seriously, it was Jared in one collage. Oh and Kurt Cobain and just craziness. Plus, guess who was playing when we walked in? Explosions in the Sky! What?! I cannot believe that they were playing. I was going nuts! And behind the sandwich stuff was a picture of a beach, it looked almost exactly like Crystal Cove. Needless to say, it was hard not to miss home when I walked in. Plus Jared just gets me.
Today we got to go hiking. Finally! But we went with people in the branch, the view was beautiful and we got to walk through this quick museum in the visitor center. It's the Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield Park. So there was a battle there! So cool. And we got to see uniforms and cannons. I would love to take Jared there too. There's all these old rifles and just cool stuff.
I love serving in a YSA branch, the members are so enthusiastic and so willing to help us. We have had some amazing help and experiences with the members, it's awesome.
I don't know what else to report on. Hopefully I can email my friends :P
love you all so much, hugs and kisses
Jocelyn
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