Sister Jessica Lee Hollist

highlight#1- monday we were washing our car in preparation for zone conference and we pulled up to one of those car washes with the vacuum things. I had pulled out the mats and was vacuuming them with the long vacuum handle thing. however I was wearing quite a flowy dress and I wasnt paying that great of attention apparently and I definitely accidentally sucked it up into the vacuum and it definitely got stuck and I definitely flashed some people. yikes. highlight#2- sunday afternoon we joined a zoom meeting with ALL the leaders in the stake, all the missionaries, and then some more people so there was about 130 people. we were just comfortably listening when we heard, "we are now excited to hear from our sisters in the Louisville 6th ward, Sister Brunsdale and Sister Hollist."........WHAT. yeah didn't see that one coming, needless to say we were certainly not prepared. thankfully we heard what he said we were supposed to be training on. and THANK goodness for the guidanc...

sad story #1- although it started out just a little sad, we had to say goodbye to Byron on Monday because he moved just out of our area. we were able to go read with him one last time and the Elders let me pick so we read Mosiah 3 and it was SO good, as always. teaching him has been my absolute favorite thing of my mission so far so I am going to miss him a lot !! I know I've talked about it a million times but he is really a HUGE example to me, his faith and determination to follow the Savior and apply the atonement blows my mind. he has helped me to grow my testimony of the atoning sacrifice of the Savior and I will forever be grateful for him!! miracle #1- our ward has somewhat been a struggle since I got here. something occurred with some missionaries that tore some trust between the ward and missionaries BUT we had a miracle this week!! so it has been hard for us to get in very good contact with our bishop especially since something occurred between him and the elders recently...

We are already halfway through this transfer which blows my mind....I love Sister Brunsdale and for some reason I just really think we might only get one transfer together which is sad:( well this week I learned a lesson. a really important lesson. my comp and I since the beginning of the transfer have made it our goal to be as exactly obedient as we can, so we have been praying a lot for that. & we definitely learned about obedience. we had an instance where we were able to learn exactly how important obedience is. so just be aware that whatever you pray for you might just learn it good, and maybe not in the funnest way. in a sense the gospel is all about obedience and following the path that Heavenly Father has for us. SO SO SO many blessings come from following that path. I know for a fact that God knows us so perfectly and so well, when he asks us to do certain things it should bring us joy that an all knowing God is giving us so much direction. we are so blessed to be able t...

HAPPY late FOURTH!! I am so so grateful for the freedoms that we have that allow me to be out here and to share the gospel. we are so very BLESSED. it was interesting to be out here on the fourth of July, we had to be home by 6 PM BUT we got to help someone grill all the food for their family barbecue YUMMMM & we grabbed lunch and ate it @ a lake- it was kinda a sketchy lake but that's okay! oh & we did some good ole smore roasting over the stove and watched everybody else's fireworks from our parking lot. and of course we threw some snaps poppy firework things. so GOOD day!! we also got to meet President and Sister Alder this week and they are absolutely amazing. I LOVE them and I am so so excited for the next 13 months!! when we met them they told us when they got married they used Matthew 6:33 as their guiding verse- it says, "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." we are so so blessed as ...