"Miss Jenni From the Block!"

TRANSFERS ARE THIS WEEK. I cannot even think about it. Or I'll cry. Hahah. I hope you all are enjoying this beautiful summertime! My week was quite adventurous, if I do say so myself :)

Monday was a fun 4th! We were planning on going to Mt. Vernon, which is where George Washington lived, and it's like down the street from where we live! But we both were not feeling well at all. So we went grocery shopping, and then slept, and wrote emails, then headed to a dinner party with the Ward at the Maneys. It totally reminded me of our family parties. Then we went to an African beam party with Caleigh and Amber, and partied with the Africans in the stake! Hahah. It was great!! Later, we planned on the steps while watching a family do little fireworks in our parking lot. :)

Tuesday we ran into one of our Spanish friends who works at this apartment complex as a maintenance guy. He told us "You guys are angels." He always tells us to keepworking hard and that we have the best job: working for God. We had the opportunity to go to the visitors center with Chante!! Amber drove us there, and we met the Brewers there. On the ride up to the visitors center, Chante was talking about how much she loved the different principles in the gospel and church, and she was telling her husband about them. And she was like, "I know you don't want to be a Mormon, but do you think we could incorporate some of their principles into my life?" Hahahah She was cracking on the jokes and saying some pretty funny things. She also told her husband, "I hope we're not cousins, we gotta check our genealogy!" And then when we got to the temple, we walked in and met the sisters there. And Chante leans over to me and was like, "Sister Larsen looks like Jesus's daughter...doesn't she?" Oh my goodness hahaha. Chante is my favorite. You would love her! She had a wonderful experience at the temple visitors center. At the end she was talking to me and Sister Langford by the temple cut out, and she was saying how she never expected to come this far and learn all of this about the LDS faith just by doing a school project on it. We asked her if she had ever prayed about if it is true or not and she told us "not yet, because what if God answers and tells me it's true!!" Haha She said she will get to the point where she will pray about it. Just not right now. She knows it's true I can just feel it! It's so exciting, I just love her and her family. Okay, but On the way home, they were guessing our first names and she found mine out and she looked at me and said this, "I would've never thought you were a Sydney. I would say you look like a Jennifer, miss jenni from the block!! Who lives on a ranch and rides horses.... You are Jennifer Weatherington!" HAHAHA I was dying. I had never laughed so hard. When we got home, Amber was talking to us about the glow of missionaries and it made me want to cry. Sis. Lang also told me that I changed her mission, and how she is so grateful for me. Oh my, BAWLING oh my goodness. I do not want to leave her! Also, I just love the temple. I am so grateful for the knowledge we have of being with our families forever. I love the gospel. God is so good. He loves us. He wants us to be eternally happy. Not just happy now, but for forever. I know that we can be, because He has provided a way. Let us follow Him! 

Wednesday we had a zone activity at the United Methodist church! We helped make sandwiches for the homeless. We made like 3,985 sandwiches or something! Then they go and hand them out. That was super cool to be a part of, I met some very kind people.

We went and saw Agartha as well and had cupcakes with Noel, her son, it was his birthday. We had lunch with Michelle and had an awesome lesson with her. We watched the new Mormon message video, "Like a broken vessel." which BTDubs you should go watch that if you haven't seen it. It will make you bawl! Bring tissues ;) Michelle is so sweet, I love her. She struggles with a few things, but she has such strong faith and endures patiently through it all. Such an amazing example to me! We had a lesson with our good ol' friend Barbara and Sister Christensen was able to come with us with her little boy, Roman. He's like 18 months old, and the cutest little boy I've ever seen in my life. I just love kids! They make me so happy. We talked to Barb about coming to church, as well as the purpose and importance if it. We hope she comes this Sunday!! We had dinner with the Torgersens! My favorite people ever! LOVE THEM. We went to go check on Vivian, and while doing so we met two people. One being Rita, who is 81 and the sweetest lady ever. She was sitting out in her lawn chair just enjoying the evening. She is Catholic and didn't seem interested in learning more, but she was super kind and we had a conversation about Jesus Christ with her. We watched the He Lives video too and she really enjoyed that. Then we met Samantha, who is a young lady who is super sweet! We have plans to go back on Saturday to teach her. People out here are so nice! It was also SUPER humid. Like holy wet batman. But it was a beautiful night! We drove down a road and there were like a bazillion fireflies. I felt like I was in a magical land. Haha.

Thursday we had a quick lesson with Kayla and then saw Miryiam in the evening. We talked with Miriam about her life, and hearing her story was touching. She has been through a lot and is so strong. There are amazing people in the world! Wow. My eyes have just been opened so much while being out here.  It was crazy though, we were driving down in the Alexandria part of our area, and there was some crazy stuff going down! We drove by a gas station with a million cop cars, we saw a ton drive down the streets coming from all directions I wonder what happened there! A few minutes later, we turned a street, and found another group of cop cars taking care of business, and a minute later we were driving down another road when we found some more cops. Haha I was like, "maybe they're just having cop school or something." Ya never know! Haha jk. But it was crazy! That area can be a little sketchy. But it's usually totally okay! Anyway, I felt like I was on that Bad Boys cop show. "Bad boys bad boys, whatchu gonna do, whatchu gonna do when they come for you..." Haha It reminded me of that. We also had a frightening experience with a lady asking us for help right in front of Walmart. She wanted a ride somewhere and we told her we couldn't drive her anywhere because we're missionaries, and she just went off on us. It was kind of terrifying. But all is well :) so much happens in one day. It's crazy!!

Friday. We planned. We partied. We ate a whole watermelon. We had an awesome visit with Sister Rivera and her fam. We took crazy cool pictures. ;) We stopped by and saw Agartha. Watched the video about Jesus walking on water. We came home. Planned some more. The end. :) it was a great day!!! Funny story. We were parked at a stop light and I was just deep in thought. All of a sudden I say, "life is crazy" and at the very same moment sister Langford says this while pointing at the corner of the intersection, "There was a murder over there one time." HAHAH? So random, and I later found out that she was making up all these stories on the way home and I believed them all. Apparently I'm gullible? Ha jk I really am. "Bye, I love you" said Ayoko. What!! She has never said that. It made our day :) Ayoko is a woman we've been trying to teach and her family for forever!! It was a complete blessing we got to teach her last week. We're seeing her tonight. 

Saturday was so great! We went and helped Jackie with her wondrous yard and she gave us a tour of her huge old colonial mansion house. I want to live there so BAD. It's so beautiful, mom you would totally love it. We chit chatted over brownies and crackers and cheese and had a grand ol' time ;) Later our STLs brought us Chick Fil A. YESS. SO GOOD. Much needed. We then went finding and checked on potentials the rest of the day. Stopped and had subway for dinner. We were able to catch Wilbur too! He is an old elderly fellow, who feels like my other grandpa to me and I just met him a few weeks ago. We are going back to teach him and his daughter on Monday. He is such a good man with a good heart. I love how quick you can love someone and feel how much God loves them. We met a fellow in the evening, who was not interested at all in learning about the gospel, he was an atheist. He kept questioning how we knew the bible was the word of God or how we knew Jesus Christ did come to earth. Well despite his questioning and doubts, I know God loves him. And I do know that Christ came to the earth. How? Reading the scriptures, praying, going to church, sincerely wanting to know... AND by having faith. Even though I have never seen Jesus Christ in my life, I have felt his presence in my life. So often people want hard evidence as answers to their questions like if there's a God or not. However, God expects us to have faith in Him. If all our questions were answered by evidence, there would be no testing or trials, and we wouldn't ever have faith or allow it to grow. So just have a little faith. Faith will always overcome fear. Remember that, "acting on even a twig of faith, allows God to grow it." Amen and amen.

Sunday was just glorious. Sister Lang spoke, as well as Elder Severe, who is going home this transfer, and a youth from the Ward. They spoke on the Book of Mormon. They all killed it!! Sunday's are my favorite thing. I feel so happy and uplifted. It just feels like home. P.S. If I get transferred this next week I'm going to be so heartbroken! Pres. better leave me in for at least another transfer! Haha, these people are like family! Later that night, we had the NARMF, which Amber spoke at!! She KILLED IT. WOO!! She is just amazing. She needs to write a book on her conversion story. She'd be a millionaire like for real. Haha it was so fun to see all the missionaries and of course, the Huntsmans!! Love them to death. Every time I see them or hear them speak, I am just so inspired to be better and do better...! I love them so much. And the car ride home with Amber, Sister Horton, and Caleigh Hales was hilarious. We got lost taking these crazy, winding back roads in the dark. It was hilarious, so fun, relaxing, and kind of really scary but we made it home safe and sound :)

Today, we rode the metro into DC, which I'll talk more about next week, but we were on the way back and we were just sitting there. Surrounded by so many different people. They were all just doing there own thing. But there was a moment where I felt deep love overcome me. I know we are all God's children. It is so true. No matter who we are, or what we look like, He loves us. He knows us. It's an amazing thing to know, right? I love my mission so much. I am just embracing it all!! Time is going by so fast, I can't even believe it. I'm loving it out here. I just love the GOSPEL! And all of you! P.S. We find out about transfers tomorrow. AGH!!! I'll let y'all know what happens... Stay tuned for next week's adventure ;)

LOVE,


SISTER HYMAS :)


2 Nephi 27:23- Heavenly Father is A God of miracles. Read it!!
Miracles can happen, according to our Faith :)
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