Letter #44 - 🚴‍♀️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♀️, USA Devo, Member Visits

November 20, 2017

Hello Family and Friends, 

This has been another interesting week. Sister Kirkham and I have been making it a point to visit every member on our roster, which could take us an indefinite amount of time. Our stake has been working on cleaning records of people who have moved and getting them to the right place. We have been finding a lot of people have moved. Our miracle was when we met a girl who was on the list. She was married to a non member who has previously agreed to take the discussions! We will have our first lesson with the family tonight and see if we can't bring this family back to church! 😁
Last night the missionaries were allowed to watch the face to face YSA devotional. It was aired from the LOGAN UTAH INSTITUTE, WHAATA😬😬😬😬 K, So I'm a little mad, because thats where I would have been, but I'll survive. Elder Oaks and Elder Ballard shared a lot of insights that would strengthen the young adults of our day, they helped answer a lot of questions we are having right now. Go back and watch it if you haven't! 👌👌👌👍
One of the things they really got riled over was putting down our phones and talking to each other if we want to get married 😂😂😂 Also actually going on dates and not just "hanging out" 🤔
The most important thing they testified of was our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. He can help us with any difficulty.

We have been biking a lot this week....🏍🏍🏍🏍🏍😂😂😂-->>>🚴‍♀️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♀️🚴‍♀️
This week is thanksgiving, and then #lighttheworld will kick off! Don't forget to participate in this amazing initiative 😃
This week we ate with a family who had recently come from Uraguay. Only the dad could really speak English, the rest was a lot of Portuguese. They gave me a cow rib instead of the regular pork rib to try. Love y'all,

Sister Prue

Letter #43 - FJM= faith to find, joyful attitude ,mighty miracles

November 13. 2017

Dear family and friends, 

We had zone conference this week, and it didn't go how I expected it to, but it was still good! The Florida Jacksonville Mission (FJM) is 1/12 pilot missions in the world experiencing some extra special changes in missionary work! Some of it has been laid out, but I believe there is more training yet to come 😁 The church is going to implement all missionary resources in our area and that will include more Refferals, adjustments in finding and teaching, and better member involvement.
1. We are going to teach based off needs, questions, and concerns people have about the gospel of Jesus Christ and focus on helping them connect to the Godhead through prayer, scriptures, and church.
2. The church is putting in more resources to help people who are truly seeking to find the missionaries through referrals.
3. We will create member teams around investigators to help answer questions, feel loved, and protect them from things that would discourage them from learning more about the church.
4. We are using Facebook as an opportunity to stay in constant contact with investigators and help them answer questions.
5. We are making goal setting and proper planing a continuous part of our missionary work that happens throughout the day.


There are some amazing opportunities that involve you as well.
1. On November 25, the church's Christmas initiative #lighttheworld will kick off! Last year this was the most successful initiative the church has ever put out 🤗
It will be featured on mormon.org with a new video everyday.
2. On your LDS tools app, you can send a referral and know exactly when the missionaries have contacted them and even follow up with the missionaries! You don't have to go through the mormon.org refferal system!
I know my Heavenly Father loves me and he loves you too!

Love, Sister Prue

Letter #42 - #trickleintoaflood

November 6, 2017

Family and Friends,

This week has been an adventure! Due to missionaries going home, we housed sister Ridenour a few days before transfers. She had gift cards to Carrabas Italian Grill, so we went there and ate good 😂😂😂 Then I got transferred to Mandarin 1st ward, and now I'm with Sister Kirkham! The funny thing about this area is that Mandarin is in the Jax East zone, but the Jax South stake! (Usually the zones and stakes are alligned) So we went to Jax South stake conference and Elder Kim B Clark spoke to the stake. He shared some really good council that will really prepare the people here for the new changes happening in the church.
Lee Donaldson has visited our area and is telling us about AMAZING changes that will happen in missionary work! We will have a zone conference for it this coming week. These changes will help us reach those who really are searching for more truth, and have not found it yet.
We have eaten at Panera few times this week, hahaha.

As we teach truths today people are asking:
1. What is the meaning or purpose of my life?
2. What happens after death?
3. Will I be with people I love after this life?
4. What is peace? How do I find it?

These truths start to come as we connect our friends to Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost through prayer, the scriptures(book of mormon), and church attendance.
Love, Sister Prue