blessings
BAPTISM!!!?
Alrighty y’all! The interesting thing that happened this week was we had a baptism in our little box! (: Y’all are probably really confused right now! I was at first too, don’t worry haha.
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We got a call from our ward mission leader on Tuesday, remember I haven’t been here very long at this point. Almost a week. But he told us that the Bishop’s granddaughter is getting baptized on Sunday and she is 9 years old…that means her baptism needs to go through the mission y’all. We were flabbergasted! This just does not happen!! Well we were able to teach sweet little Madeline, and her younger sister, Isabelle, who is 8, in 3 days! Yes, 3 days so they could be baptized together. (: It was the cutest little thing! Seeing the young girls make promises with God was a wonderful experience! (:
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Also some numbers for y’all. I don’t remember if I explained ever before but our mission is doing this thing called the ‘hour of power.’ Where for 1 hour we just go crazy nutso bold and invite EVERYONE to be baptized. Or if we are focusing on a different key indicator it will be that. But this last week we were focusing on baptismal invitations. Now our goal as a mission was to get 2 thousand invites within 6 hours throughout the week. That is a lot. We as a zone decided to really push ourselves! Can I just say, I have not been more proud in my entire life!!! The Huntsville North zone started out on Tuesday with only 58 baptismal invites in 1 hour. We kept increasing and last night, a SUNDAY of all days…our goal was 200 baptismal invites in 1 hour. Y’all our zone, the Huntsville North zone in 1 hour got 318 baptismal invites!! SAY WHAT!?!?! We got a total of 872 invites for our zone in 6 hours! I’m just braggin on these missionaries now. (: THEY ARE SO AWESOME!! As a mission total, within 1 week in 6 hours we got a total of over 3 thousand. WE BLEW OUR GOAL OUT OF THE WATER!!!! Best mission ever!! I’m so excited to see how the Lord is going to bless us because of our hard work and boldness. (: SO COOL!!!! 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
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Sister Crandall and I are just partyin here in our small box. (: We love it and can’t wait to see how else the Lord is going to bless us! (: Love y’all so much!! Keep on keepin on! Have a great week!
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Love,
Sister Jesselyn Drummond
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Surgery or operation? HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
So probably most of y’all are freaking out from what you have been hearing from my mom. I want y’all to know that I AM COMPLETELY FINE!!! I just had a blocked salivary gland and the ENT Dr. just cut my gland under my tongue and pulled out this GIANT stone that was blocking it. So now I am on medication and get nasty tastes in my mouth every so often because of the backed up saliva and puss and yummy gunk that has been building up in my gland. Sound fun? (: YOU BETCHA!!! It has been an experience.
So this week we didn’t do much, because of my little operation. (: (I have pictures if you haven’t seen from my mom already) Really. I’ve been at our apartment going CRAZY!! But Sunday night I couldn’t help it any more so we went out! We tried contacting a referral and meanwhile, we got a lesson!! (Not with the referral, she wasn’t home) We went looking for people who might know her and we found someone who we’ve talked to at Walmart before! SO COOL! God works in so many mysterious ways. Anyways, we committed two of the three people to come to church with us next Sunday! IT was so cool. (:
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Other than that, not much. Sorry y’all haha. But will send a before and after picture of my mouth and everything in between I guess? (:
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Love,
Sister Jesselyn Drummond!
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Baptism??
I hope y’all had a very Merry Christmas!! I know I did haha.
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We went southern sledding and got matching pj’s! And we partied with the Amory Sisters and skyped families AND we played games all day hahaha. (:
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Then to top it all off, yesterday after church, ADDINE GOT BAPTIZED!!! It was so good. Everything went so smoothly! YAY!! It has been so good to see the change in Addine and to see her eyes shine with the gospel truth! AHH!! I believe partly that I served my mission for Addine. She told Sister Wittwer and I that she needed to hear the gospel from us BECAUSE she has seen us in a dream!!! SAY WHAT!?!? She is soooo cool. AND!! Wow, she invited her husband to church and he came!! Along with her son and grandson. It was so exciting! So hopefully we will be able to teach all of them. (:
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Who is ready for the new year!? CRAZY! I am, yet I’m not. Haven’t really decided yet. It will be good but then I can’t say that I go home next year anymore…. /: But we won’t talk about it haha.
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Anyways, I love y’all and hope everything is going well!!
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Love,
Sister Jesselyn Drummond
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Surprise Text From a Member in Mississippi
So I got a text from a number I didn’t know. It was from Mississippi.
This is what I saw –
~ Jesselyn’s Mom
One-heck-of-a-week!
Wow. Being an STL is stressful haha. Both Sister Wittwer and I have been stressed! So stressed we lost our appetites! But no worries, they are back! (:
Another stressful thing that I was FREAKING out about was I lost my scriptures this past week…I had no idea where they were! You feel very lost without your scriptures as a missionary and just wow…BUT!! A MIRACLE y’all!! While at lunch today…we had a member text us and tell us that she had my scriptures!!! OH MY GOODNESS!!!! I literally was jumping off the walls I was so happy haha. (: So there you have it haha.
Some other fun stuff that happened was I went on 2 back to back exchanges! Yikes that was fun haha. I went to Booneville (yay) from Thursday to Friday and taught an amazing lesson with Sister Smith! She is just so bomb! (: I love her! Then from Friday to Saturday I went to Corinth with Sister Dillon and we rode a trolley around town?? That was fun! They were having like a kick off thing for the holidays and let me tell y’all…I was not happy about that…I don’t want the holidays to come because that means I will have x amount of time left… /: But I know it will come eventually. Just all too fast. o:
So those were way way fun and OH! I, Sister Drummond, have only been in my area for 2 days this entire week. Crazy right? Because we had to drive to Birmingham for meetings on Tuesday then exchanges Thursday–Saturday. I don’t count Monday because well, it was P-day. So fun right? RIGHT! (: I love it. Stresses and all.
So that has been my week. Crazy right? For me it was haha. I’m ready for a nap, but will I take one? Probably not. YAY!
Well I love y’all so much and I hope that y’all have one-heck-of-a-week! (:
Love,
Sister Jesselyn Drummond
Transfers, Sisters, and Companions Oh My
April Cook, Sister Callie Denning and Sister Jesselyn Drummond
Trials and Tribulations
Alrighty y’all, this week was a bit rough, but has that gotten me down!? OF COURSE NOT!! Because this is the Lord’s work and it’s not all easy sailing now!
So Monday, Monday I would say was the worst. First we found out that our only PROGRESSING investigator BLOCKED us. Say what!? It was horrible! Both Sister Platt and I wanted to cry. Like no joke. Then later, we found out that another one our investigators thinks we are STALKING her?? Okay…well good feeling of preparation day GONE. Yikes. So the end of the day, finally comes and we begin our planning session with long faces from the day’s events and because we have absolutely NO PLANS for the next day when all of a sudden, we get a text from another investigator sayin, “Hey ladies, is there a time in y’alls schedule this week that we can meet?’ Alright, pause, what just happened!? AN EMMAUS EXPERIENCE just happened that’s what! (: The Lord gave us that boost we needed to continue on. It was so nice of Him! (: AMAZING!
Tuesday we went on a team up and just a funny quote for the day! Sister Swift(the member) said, “By ‘Grace’ we are saved.” and then Sister Platt said, “PREACH IT!!” Because Sister Platt’s first name is Gracie. So cute. (:
Wednesday I was blessed to go to an endowment session of the amazing April Cook! It was a year since she was baptized and EXACTLY a year later she was endowed. It was so amazing to see such a beautiful strong woman go through the temple for herself. I am so proud of her and I love her dearly! (: It was a great day!
Sunday was they next awesome day. Of course if was fast Sunday so it was testimony meeting! And it was so good! So many people got up and bore their testimonies about missionary work! The branch is doin good and their hearts are softening. Slowly, very slowly the walls are coming down and they will soon be excited about doing missionary work always! (:
By the way, I forgot to say last week that I tried this really weird stuff called souse. I will explain what it is. They take the head of a pig and let it soak in vinegar and then when all the meat falls off they take the skull out and the meat separately. They pack the meat very close together and then slice it. Very gross….and I tried it. Never again will I. (:
I love y’all so much! Oh and transfer calls are this Saturday! Hold the mail NEXT week til I email and let y’all know if I’m stayin in West Point or getting transferred. I think I am stayin. But JUST IN CASE! (:
Love,
Sister Jesselyn Drummond
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One Year Older and Wiser Too??
First of all, I want to thank y’all so much for all the birthday wishes and letters! And thank you SO much to the Jepsens for the ‘birthday party in a box!’ It was very thoughtful. For those of y’all who have no idea what I’m talking about…SHAME ON YOU!!! Haha nah, I just kiddin. But yesterday was the 24th and that was a glorious day because 20 years ago, I popped into the world! Wonderful! (:
Also, my amazin beautiful companion decorated our apartment for my birthday! She made me breakfast, (crepes) and as I walked downstairs she was flickering the lights and singing to me hahaha. I just love her!! It was a special day!
So besides my fabulous Sabbath birthday, we had an investigator show up to churh! Yay! And I also got a birthday present from the branch…it comes in the form of: ‘Next week is the 5th Sunday, guess who gets to speak!’ So yes, Next Sunday I will be getting to speak! I am actually quite excited. (:
Anyways, This past week has been interesting, we have been out of our area 3 days out of the week, first of all we went on exchanges with the Sister Training Leaders because they each had a doctors appointment on the same day and in different areas. So, that was a fun filled day of waiting!! But because we are missionaries, we related to the waiting process in a doctors office to the Plan of Salvation. It totally works. (: Just think about haha. And without technology…waiting for 4 hours can get VERY borin… Made me appreciate technology haha. (:
We also went to Tupelo for zone conference which as always was VERY good and spiritual. I just love learning from President Hanks and the leaders of our mission. (: Then the third day was Saturday where we got to go to a baptism in Sister Platt’s past area! That was fun! And I got to see Sister Larsen again! I just love her! (: It was fun spending time with her again. (: She took us to lunch afterwards for my birthday. So kind of her!
funny quotes this week by Sister Platt: “If that man were a girl, he would make a very nice model.” “I can’t wait til tomorrow’s planning! Every hour is going to say, ‘PARTY!'” I just love her! (:
I think that is all really. I have so much happen here I just cant remember it all. (: But I love y’all!! Thanks again for the birthday wishes! And have a BLESSED week!
Love,
Sister Jesselyn Drummond
All these pictures were on my birthday! (: Haha!
Yes Folks, She’s No Longer a Teenager
Happy Birthday to our beautiful baby girl. Twenty years ago today, Heavenly Father blessed us with a shining star in our lives. You are a joy and a true inspiration to us in our lives. We couldn’t ask for a better daughter.
Our thoughts and prayers are with you on this special day.
Love Mom and Dad.
Sister Jesselyn Drummond 