tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51658308617057095412024-03-13T12:15:33.829-07:00President and Sister Jaggi and FamilyJeremy and Amy Jaggi will begin their service as the President and Sister of the Ogden Mission beginning July 1, 2015. They will serve for 3 years along with their children. Please follow their blog and hear about their adventures. President and Sister Jaggihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395423952427316322noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165830861705709541.post-63273365492591393632017-04-23T18:57:00.001-07:002017-04-23T19:01:08.798-07:00April 2017<ol class="lst-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 start" start="1" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; list-style-type: none; counter-reset: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 0; padding: 0px;"><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">April 2017 Jaggi Family Blog</span></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><br></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">One of the promises God has given to his missionaries as they go about His work says..."your families are well; they are in mine hands, and I will do with them as seemeth me good; for in me there is all power." We are thankful for that promise. Our family is well. </li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><br></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">Mackenzie is in the middle of finals at BYU. She has enjoyed her Freshman year, worked hard, played little and taken 3 religion classes to prepare for her mission. She will depart for the Provo mission training center June 7th to learn Korean. She will then go to Busan Korea for 18 months as a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ. </li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LUelK-d36gk/WP1cXZ9gTDI/AAAAAAAAAWI/vDrKKMyd4q8-HgWrVXygjnVXCrRoJJDIQCHM/s640/blogger-image--580456764.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LUelK-d36gk/WP1cXZ9gTDI/AAAAAAAAAWI/vDrKKMyd4q8-HgWrVXygjnVXCrRoJJDIQCHM/s640/blogger-image--580456764.jpg"></a></div><br></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">Emma just finished the theatrical musical "Children of Eden" at Bonneville High School. She is preparing for her AP tests, finals and the ACT. She will be applying for university this fall. Her best friend departs for his mission to Berlin Germany (Mandarin Chinese speaking) in July. </li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KafzN862fv0/WP1cYtVk-lI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/9AubMd1ngF4FDwih9-jfrj7hpY8IZ-ByACHM/s640/blogger-image--1367682701.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KafzN862fv0/WP1cYtVk-lI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/9AubMd1ngF4FDwih9-jfrj7hpY8IZ-ByACHM/s640/blogger-image--1367682701.jpg"></a></div><br></div><br></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">Joshua is an excellent student. He is tutoring kids at school that need additional help. He turned 12 in January and was so happy he recently weighed over 80lbs. He loves soccer, basketball and football. He is excited and a bit anxious to go to middle school this year. </li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vdsKPPN8y9k/WP1cXIXsbPI/AAAAAAAAAWE/a7n2EuF3FgMFO1Sn0jJ9eIitatg4_KMugCHM/s640/blogger-image--604888508.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vdsKPPN8y9k/WP1cXIXsbPI/AAAAAAAAAWE/a7n2EuF3FgMFO1Sn0jJ9eIitatg4_KMugCHM/s640/blogger-image--604888508.jpg"></a></div><br></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">Eliza won the 5th grade school spelling bee. She goes to the district competition in a few weeks. She also finished her first dance competition (pirates). Her closet friends play decided in her 10th yet of life that she better learn soccer. She loves running around the field and is getting better. Her coach wanted her to be a goalie because she had long arms and legs. </li></ol><ol class="lst-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 start" start="1" style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress; list-style-type: none; counter-reset: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 0; padding: 0px;"><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BcMQqmlj39Y/WP1cY6oC0yI/AAAAAAAAAWU/E5y52B0u4Fs2UlJ3QDKMziA5HkFJ9aMgQCHM/s640/blogger-image-595178556.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-BcMQqmlj39Y/WP1cY6oC0yI/AAAAAAAAAWU/E5y52B0u4Fs2UlJ3QDKMziA5HkFJ9aMgQCHM/s640/blogger-image-595178556.jpg"></a></div><br></span></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The past 2 weeks we have been blessed to experience Zone conferences with all 270 of our missionaries. One of the topics Sister Jaggi and I discussed with them was <i>The Questions of the Soul...</i></span></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As human beings, Children of a loving God, it is our privilege and our right to question our place in the universe, our purpose of life etc. I have learned that ALL the questions of the soul may be answered "</span>as all have not faith, seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom, seek learning even by study and also by faith..." and prayer. The history of our forebears, even the scriptures help us receive these answers. The scriptures have been given to us as a sweet gift. Our charge by the prophets is to do the following "...for I did liken all scriptures unto us, that it might be for our profit and learning." Indeed the scriptures, especially the restored gospel of Jesus Christ provides guidance, strength and answers to life's most difficult questions.</li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><br></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;">I share with you just a sample of some of the questions our young people have. The first question is something I have asked and my family has asked as our 33 year-old brother was recently diagnosed with Stage 4 Cancer. </li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7GukUBMgJLw/WP1cXz7P29I/AAAAAAAAAWM/rvaetWdc_ZI6EuLMMJIt4uR7W2380EfJwCHM/s640/blogger-image--1005636587.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7GukUBMgJLw/WP1cXz7P29I/AAAAAAAAAWM/rvaetWdc_ZI6EuLMMJIt4uR7W2380EfJwCHM/s640/blogger-image--1005636587.jpg"></a></div><br></span></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Why do bad things happen to good people? </span></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Why do people I love abandon the Gospel? </span></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">How do I help those I love overcome difficult problems? </span></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">How can I develop Faith? Even the faith to perform miracles, and even move mountains? </span></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">How can I make repentance a joyful process? Especially when I make the same mistakes over and over?</span></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">How can I get all of the unnecessary thoughts out of my mind? I'm thinking about the future so much and have trouble living in the present? </span></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">How do I know that Jesus is the Christ And that he can and will forgive me of my sins?</span></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">How do I overcome the fear of bringing up the gospel with my brothers and sisters? </span></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">How can the atonement of Jesus Christ mend a broken relationship?</span></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Why does God test us so much?</span></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Why do missionaries/people have to be obedient to receive miracles/blessings? I know these questions can be answered through exercises of faith, study and prayer. May I share with you more of the common questions of the soul and the answers that come from the Book of Mormon. </span></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You can find the answers for yourself!</span></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><span style="text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></span></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"> </li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"> Is there a God? (Alma 22)</li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><br></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"> What does Jesus Christ expect of me? (2 Nephi 9)</li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><br></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"> How can a belief in Jesus Christ help me? (Alma 36)</li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><br></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"> Is there life after death? (Alma 40)</li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><br></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"> What is the purpose of life? (Alma 34)</li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><br></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"> Why does God allow evil and suffering to occur? (2 Nephi 2; Alma 14:9–11; 60:13)</li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><br></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"> Does my infant need to be baptized? (Moroni 8)</li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><br></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"> Does God know me? (Alma 5:38, 58)</li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><br></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"> Does God answer prayers? (Enos 1)</li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><br></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"> How can I find peace and joy? (Mosiah 2, 4)</li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><br></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"> How can my family be happier and more united? (Mosiah 2)</li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><br></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"> How can I balance my family and career? (3 Nephi 13)</li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><br></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"> How can I strengthen my relationship with my spouse? (3 Nephi 14)</li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><br></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"> How can I avoid the evils that threaten my family? (Alma 39)</li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"><br></li><li style="counter-increment: lst-ctn-kix_nfbfpyclg4ot-0 1; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.15; margin: 0px 0px 0px 36pt;"> How can I avoid sin? (Helaman 5)</li></ol>President and Sister Jaggihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395423952427316322noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165830861705709541.post-47919658930589831482017-01-22T13:44:00.001-08:002017-01-22T13:52:59.196-08:00Jan 2017<br><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Happy New Years friends and family! It has been awhile since we have written. I am told that others in the family will start writing this year, so the blog may become far more relevant, interesting and fun in 2017. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The work of God is progressing. Young men and women arrive every 6 weeks from all parts of the world to serve the greater Ogden community. They are at food banks, homeless shelters, building homes, cleaning parks and helping hose in need, but most importantly they are sharing the "good news." We have a Heavenly Father who lives and loves us and hears and answers our prayers. His Son, Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world! </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0rIwmXyHSGk/WIUovLFIBQI/AAAAAAAAAVk/RTPuC5BwPyM/s640/blogger-image--404816459.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0rIwmXyHSGk/WIUovLFIBQI/AAAAAAAAAVk/RTPuC5BwPyM/s640/blogger-image--404816459.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">This week, our oldest daughter Mackenzie will receive her mission call to serve in someone's community for the next 18 months. We are excited, but nervous. We have learned to love and care for hundreds of young people. Sending our own somewhere else is just...different. We know she will perform a remarkable service and that she will be kept in Gods hands as she serves. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Emma is preparing to sing and act in the Bonneville High School Musical, "Children of Eden." Eliza will be joining her in the children's choir. They are loving their mission experience in Utah. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NrnxlOBBOXQ/WIUovu-C3QI/AAAAAAAAAVo/iqOuwY2bOus/s640/blogger-image-693891328.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NrnxlOBBOXQ/WIUovu-C3QI/AAAAAAAAAVo/iqOuwY2bOus/s640/blogger-image-693891328.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Consistent with the mountainous region in which we reside, snow has fallen for the umpteenth time. We dream of the beach on occasion but find time to hit the snowy slopes with the kids a few times a month. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_5Qy9JoUSeo/WIUpa5QGHOI/AAAAAAAAAVs/TdyDq9gRhwE/s640/blogger-image-1299309342.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_5Qy9JoUSeo/WIUpa5QGHOI/AAAAAAAAAVs/TdyDq9gRhwE/s640/blogger-image-1299309342.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-p-TY0xX50y0/WIUosyusydI/AAAAAAAAAVY/SGr3EavpOdc/s640/blogger-image--1278416990.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-p-TY0xX50y0/WIUosyusydI/AAAAAAAAAVY/SGr3EavpOdc/s640/blogger-image--1278416990.jpg"></a></div><br></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Josh passed the sacrament (the bread and water in remembrance of the sacrifice of Jesus) today for the first time today. As he passed it, I thought about how the priesthood was restored to the earth after Jesus and all the apostles had been killed many years ago. There was only one way for the priesthood to come back...it had to be conferred by angels who had already died and were resurrected. The experience was miraculous. Joseph Smith recounted the experience in his history. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div>68 "We still continued the work of translation, when, in the ensuing month (May, 1829), we on a certain day went into the woods to pray and inquire of the Lord respecting baptism for the remission of sins, that we found mentioned in the translation of the plates. While we were thus employed, praying and calling upon the Lord, a messenger from heaven descended in a cloud of light, and having laid his hands upon us, he ordained us, saying:</div><div>69 Upon you my fellow servants, in the name of Messiah, I confer the Priesthood of Aaron, which holds the keys of the ministering of angels, and of the gospel of repentance, and of baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; and this shall never be taken again from the earth until the sons of Levi do offer again an offering unto the Lord in righteousness.</div><div>70 He said this Aaronic Priesthood had not the power of laying on hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost, but that this should be conferred on us hereafter; and he commanded us to go and be baptized, and gave us directions that I should baptize Oliver Cowdery, and that afterwards he should baptize me.</div><div>71 Accordingly we went and were baptized. I baptized him first, and afterwards he baptized me--after which I laid my hands upon his head and ordained him to the Aaronic Priesthood, and afterwards he laid his hands on me and ordained me to the same Priesthood--for so we were commanded.*</div><div>72 The messenger who visited us on this occasion and conferred this Priesthood upon us, said that his name was John, the same that is called John the Baptist in the New Testament, and that he acted under the direction of Peter, James and John, who held the keys of the Priesthood of Melchizedek, which Priesthood, he said, would in due time be conferred on us, and that I should be called the first Elder of the Church, and he (Oliver Cowdery) the second. It was on the fifteenth day of May, 1829, that we were ordained under the hand of this messenger, and baptized."</div></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Wow! What an amazing experience! The heavens are open! God speaks to men and women today. Angels are real! Jesus Christ lives and leads the work! </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-v-uJy9dpP6c/WIUotWRyT9I/AAAAAAAAAVc/d11-pxzOSfA/s640/blogger-image--219049841.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-v-uJy9dpP6c/WIUotWRyT9I/AAAAAAAAAVc/d11-pxzOSfA/s640/blogger-image--219049841.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SePcl95J6ls/WIUouaKALsI/AAAAAAAAAVg/uOTpQKZIzsI/s640/blogger-image-1145590702.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SePcl95J6ls/WIUouaKALsI/AAAAAAAAAVg/uOTpQKZIzsI/s640/blogger-image-1145590702.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Later revelations to the Prophet Joseph Smith confirm the purpose of the priesthood. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div>18 "And the Lord confirmed a priesthood also upon Aaron and his seed, throughout all their generations, which priesthood also continueth and abideth forever with the priesthood which is after the holiest order of God.</div><div>19 And this greater priesthood administereth the gospel and holdeth the key of the mysteries of the kingdom, even the key of the knowledge of God.</div><div>20 Therefore, in the ordinances thereof, the power of godliness is manifest.</div><div>21 And without the ordinances thereof, and the authority of the priesthood, the power of godliness is not manifest unto men in the flesh;</div><div>22 For without this no man can see the face of God, even the Father, and live." </div></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">And oath and covenant (promise) Josh made when he received the priesthood...</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div>33 "For whoso is faithful unto the obtaining these two priesthoods of which I have spoken, and the magnifying their calling, are sanctified by the Spirit unto the renewing of their bodies.</div><div>34 They become the sons of Moses and of Aaron and the seed of Abraham, and the church and kingdom, and the elect of God.</div><div>35 And also all they who receive this priesthood receive me, saith the Lord;</div><div>36 For he that receiveth my servants receiveth me;</div><div>37 And he that receiveth me receiveth my Father;</div><div>38 And he that receiveth my Father receiveth my Father’s kingdom; therefore all that my Father hath shall be given unto him.</div><div>39 And this is according to the oath and covenant which belongeth to the priesthood.</div><div>40 Therefore, all those who receive the priesthood, receive this oath and covenant of my Father, which he cannot break, neither can it be moved.</div><div>41 But whoso breaketh this covenant after he hath received it, and altogether turneth therefrom, shall not have forgiveness of sins in this world nor in the world to come."</div></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored to the earth! We love serving Him. God bless you and your families wherever you are. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Love, Jeremy, Amy and Family</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div>President and Sister Jaggihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395423952427316322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165830861705709541.post-52809419104374607092016-10-30T09:47:00.001-07:002016-10-30T09:55:48.503-07:00October 2016 Update...now every 3 months<span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Over the last couple of months our family has received a common inquiry from many in the community as well as visitors to the home. It usually goes something like this..."so do you feel like you finally know what you are doing as a mission president and wife?" </span><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">The answer is an unequivocable NO. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Nor do I think we shall ever "really get it." Sometimes In our lives we are called to a ministry so dynamic, challenging, rich, rewarding and growing that we have no choice but to become as the scriptures say..."a tabernacle of clay." We are given responsibilities in the ministry to be shaped and molded. Our Savior is helping us change. I believe it's not just the calling we are engaged in right now, it may be any calling. Each calling helps us grow and there is a reason why we never feel truly adequate. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lsqVto9MpgI/WBYmB1N_5vI/AAAAAAAAAUs/hQ5E7qEB0co/s640/blogger-image-2094026165.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lsqVto9MpgI/WBYmB1N_5vI/AAAAAAAAAUs/hQ5E7qEB0co/s640/blogger-image-2094026165.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">One of my favorite books written by CS Lewis (Mere Christianity) says the following...</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><h1 class="quoteText" style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-weight: normal; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; line-height: 21px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">"Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on... But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of...You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage... but He is building a palace..." </h1></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Our missionaries and our children are trying to follow the Savior Jesus Christ and his admonition to submit our will to the father as Jesus did so that we can become what He wants us to become. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"> ..."And now it came to pass that the burdens which were laid upon Alma and his brethren were made light; yea, the Lord did strengthen them that they could bear up their burdens with ease, and they did submit cheerfully and with patience to all the will of the Lord." </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Amy and I dropped Mackenzie off at BYU in late August. She was excited and nervous. She has done wonderfully in her start there. She said, "dad, they start many of the classes with prayer." I contrasted her experience with my own first day in an anthropology class at the University of Utah. The professors first words were..."this is not Sunday School." Though I was grateful for my liberal education at the U, I'm grateful for my daughters newfound experience at the Y. I am also grateful for the U sports program. ;) Mackenzie is providing for herself by working a catering job. She loves her nutrition and English classes most. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-a7NQRp8-wk8/WBYmEIc6R9I/AAAAAAAAAU0/rGM8v2tyCS8/s640/blogger-image--773158964.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-a7NQRp8-wk8/WBYmEIc6R9I/AAAAAAAAAU0/rGM8v2tyCS8/s640/blogger-image--773158964.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Emma is feeling the "heat" of her junior year of high school. She is taking difficult classes, preparing to take the ACT, working at waffle love, running cross country, singing and dating. She is our busy-body. We love our brief visits with her late at night and watching her become her own person. She is diligent. Her friends love to go to the beautiful Ogden temple for group dates. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-l5CNsfs_nPk/WBYmDIAtwyI/AAAAAAAAAUw/IB-sW3DV_YY/s640/blogger-image-423106329.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-l5CNsfs_nPk/WBYmDIAtwyI/AAAAAAAAAUw/IB-sW3DV_YY/s640/blogger-image-423106329.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Our church's founder Joseph Smith said around 1840, "teach them correct principles and let them govern themselves." I believe that most of what we can teach our children occurs before their 15th year of life...then they govern themselves according to the principles we have or have not taught them. Without question our influence goes into their 16th, 17th and 18th years of life before they leave home, but a majority of their persona, belief system and values are formed before then. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Joshua scored another goal in his soccer game Thursday. He loves soccer. He misses the competition level in California but we like the Ayso practice and game schedule. :) He is not keen to practice the piano, but does so daily at the behest of his parents. One of my greatest regrets I have was not learning to play the piano. He won't have that regret. He was proud to bring home an excellent report card last week. He enjoys time with mom and dad most and we are happy he likes that. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-w1LoG836QIY/WBYmBKwQKaI/AAAAAAAAAUo/K5a-ve_MKLk/s640/blogger-image--1655571516.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-w1LoG836QIY/WBYmBKwQKaI/AAAAAAAAAUo/K5a-ve_MKLk/s640/blogger-image--1655571516.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Eliza Rose is our kind and gentle soul. On Amy's birthday this past week she "heart attacked" our bedroom door. (Cut outs of hearts and hand-written notes) She is an extraordinary helper in the home. She played soccer this fall for the first time in 5 years. We are so proud of her for trying new things. She wants to try basketball this winter. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ztKIAQ7FQ4I/WBYmACwoOdI/AAAAAAAAAUk/2q5VAMnYKNM/s640/blogger-image-2142408139.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-ztKIAQ7FQ4I/WBYmACwoOdI/AAAAAAAAAUk/2q5VAMnYKNM/s640/blogger-image-2142408139.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">We were privileged to be with several members of the "Seventy" (Numbers 11:16-17) this past week. We, like our missionaries were richly edified and uplifted by them. I'm amazed that these good brothers who are called to the ministry in their late 40's or early 50's will serve till they are seventy years old. 20+ years of full-time service to God is astounding. We pray for them and are grateful for what they have done for us. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wPMSaBfetbw/WBYmE_9i48I/AAAAAAAAAU4/uhvCkP3AShY/s640/blogger-image--451710171.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wPMSaBfetbw/WBYmE_9i48I/AAAAAAAAAU4/uhvCkP3AShY/s640/blogger-image--451710171.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">We have Heavenly parents who live and love us. When we pray to God, our Father in Heaven, we know that we are His children and that all of us...all people on earth are Brothers and Sisters. God sent His Son Jesus Christ "to atone for the sins of the world." He is our Savior and Redeemer. They have called prophets and apostles to lead and guide us. The first prophet they called after a great falling away from the truth was Joseph Smith in 1820. How do I know Joseph Smith was a prophet? By his fruits. He translated a Book of scripture...the Book of Mormon, another testament of Jesus Christ. When used as a companion to the Bible, we can know "the truth of all things." Prophets and apostles are on the earth today. They lead and guide The Church of Jesus Christ. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">We love you. We miss you our dear friends and family. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br></div>President and Sister Jaggihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395423952427316322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165830861705709541.post-72250791414896235682016-07-16T11:24:00.001-07:002016-07-16T11:24:50.794-07:00Jaggi Family Year 1 Summary<span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">1st Year Summary </span><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3jgj1bJfD1s/V4p76Wc4dwI/AAAAAAAAAT8/TrHsFr_uo1w/s640/blogger-image--111635978.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3jgj1bJfD1s/V4p76Wc4dwI/AAAAAAAAAT8/TrHsFr_uo1w/s640/blogger-image--111635978.jpg"></a></div>(New missionaries and their trainers) </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">It has been awhile since we have written. As stated earlier, the time seems to fly by ever faster and the work progresses at an exponential pace. It is a privilege to be a part of it. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Some highlights of year 1 from our family. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Mackenzie - creating whole food / plant-based cuisines that even her siblings will try. Singing and dancing. Making new friends in choir. Simplifying my life. Working at Living Scriptures almost full time. Finishing my book. (Almost!) Getting accepted to BYU. Hiking in the mountains. Traveling to Europe for my senior trip. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><img src="webkit-fake-url://902b0a81-2045-4941-bfce-c6c9353374f1/imagejpeg"></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">(Kenzie petting her favorite animal in Switzerland) </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Emma - Mary Poppins performance, running Cross Country, lots of new friends. Turning 16 and going on lots of dates. Driving. Hammocking in virtually every tree-lined place available. I also love having 150 older brothers and sisters (missionaries). </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wz_EYv9NtX0/V4p78UtZkII/AAAAAAAAAUI/Lco1QkE5lns/s640/blogger-image-1290733139.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wz_EYv9NtX0/V4p78UtZkII/AAAAAAAAAUI/Lco1QkE5lns/s640/blogger-image-1290733139.jpg"></a></div>(Emma and Gwen just getting back from EFY in Provo) </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Josh - Fun with cousins. Settled in more quickly and comfortably than I thought. More friends than I thought. I like Shadow Valley Elementary. Skiing at Snow Basin is awesome. I love seeing missionaries every Sunday. I love doing Pday activities with missionaries in the summer. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-yBJiSSs2QYM/V4p778T8BwI/AAAAAAAAAUE/8KKCqhn_ow8/s640/blogger-image-1962783074.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-yBJiSSs2QYM/V4p778T8BwI/AAAAAAAAAUE/8KKCqhn_ow8/s640/blogger-image-1962783074.jpg"></a></div></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">(Not a missionary Pday activity, but fun on a lake) </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Eliza - I love Lagoon, especially the ride Canibal! Learning to ski. Musical firesides with missionaries. The Book of Mormon readathon with missionaries. We read the whole thing in like a day! I love playing with the Assistants in the mission on Sunday's. I love all the new friends I've met. I love my little cousins. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Z5iRD4WkVRs/V4p77K4ORWI/AAAAAAAAAUA/TsWmQbO4mp0/s640/blogger-image-1126008862.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Z5iRD4WkVRs/V4p77K4ORWI/AAAAAAAAAUA/TsWmQbO4mp0/s640/blogger-image-1126008862.jpg"></a></div>(Pday activity at a lake) </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Amy - I love, love reading and studying the gospel of Jesus Christ. Realizing the depth of love God has for all of his missionaries that serve here from all over the world and that have prepared and sacrificed much to be here. Witnessing the devotion, love and consecration of Senior Couple Missionaries, a mission nurse, physician and LDS family services professionals. Attending the Ogden temple regularly. (It's just 15 minutes away!) Reading the Book of Mormon in 30 hours. The Mission President's Seminar last year (and this year) and being instructed by prophets and apostles. Learning from so many people who love the Lord and want to share His gospel which has brought them happiness. Attending and feeling the spirit at 36 stake conferences. (She spoke at each as well). Recreating with our children on Preparation Day (Pday) with intention to create special memories with them. We love the mountains around Ogden. They are green and majestic. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">A few data tidbits of note in year 1</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">27 family home evenings hosted at the mission home. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">71 dinners hosted (that's a lot of ham) </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Attended 77 baptisms. (859 have happened since July 1 of last year). </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Missionaries conducted 3 musical firesides at the tabernacle with over 4500 attendees. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">117 missionaries departed for home. 131 arrived. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Spoke at 43 firesides. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Tested Samsung notebooks for missionaries. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Launched Facebook for missionaries. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Set up a monthly temple day for recent converts to attend the temple with their missionaries. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Set up a monthly missionary health meeting with mission physician, family services, nurse etc to attend to missionary spiritual, psychological and physical needs. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Most importantly however are the relationships we have established with the magnificent missionaries and people in the greater Ogden area. Our friends here are humble, diligent, smart, creative and service-oriented. They genuinely love their neighbors and do their best to uplift, inspire, set an example and serve. They emulate the Savior and have taught us so much. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody;">Thank you for your love and support during our 3 year ministry. We feel the faith and prayers of many. </div><div><br></div>President and Sister Jaggihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395423952427316322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165830861705709541.post-83213424921605314752016-05-01T22:37:00.001-07:002016-05-01T22:37:58.280-07:00Lessons learned through Joseph Smith's First Vision experience and
other Jaggi Experiences<br><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The first place Elder Shawn P. Murphy took me when he picked me up from the mission home my second day in the mission field in late May 1994 was the Newell K. Whitney store, School of the Prophets. It is an historic place in LDS Church history. It was not the Kirtland Temple although we frequented that historic edifice many times the next 7 months. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tSNTfugLua4/Vybno1S7ilI/AAAAAAAAAS4/tMlm2mVAw6U/s640/blogger-image-55270090.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tSNTfugLua4/Vybno1S7ilI/AAAAAAAAAS4/tMlm2mVAw6U/s640/blogger-image-55270090.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-V0oYsnPNQPM/VybnsMM9p4I/AAAAAAAAATQ/vYS8I4eo8Xo/s640/blogger-image-662384583.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-V0oYsnPNQPM/VybnsMM9p4I/AAAAAAAAATQ/vYS8I4eo8Xo/s640/blogger-image-662384583.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">As we ascended the stairs to a simple room with wooden floors, a few wooden benches and a table, I was unimpressed with the simplicity of it. Then Elder Brewer, our tour guide and full time missionary commenced telling us the story of Joseph Smith and his first vision. As he spoke, I felt warm...I felt light...as though I were being lifted out of my shoes. The warmth coursed through me and the tears started to flow. I was feeling the spirit of God and the truth of the things which I was hearing. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">"But the comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in My name. He shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance. Whatsoever thing I have said u to you." John 14:26</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Joseph Smith shared and documented the "First Vision" where he saw our Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ standing side by side in a pillar of light. The experience occurred in 1820 when he was fourteen years old. (He asked that his experience be documented in 1832, 1835, 1838, 1842) He wrote or assigned scribes to write four different accounts of the vision. He published two accounts of the first vision during his lifetime, the first, known as Joseph Smith History was canonized as scripture in the Pearl of Great Price. The various accounts of the First Vision tell a consistent story though they differ in emphasis and detail. Because it is the account most read and canonized by prophets of God as scriptures, I share a portion of his account here. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div>JSH 1:13 At length I came to the conclusion that I must either remain in darkness and confusion, or else I must do as James directs, that is, ask of God. I at length came to the determination to “ask of God,” concluding that if he gave wisdom to them that lacked wisdom, and would give liberally, and not upbraid, I might venture.</div><div><br></div><div>14 So, in accordance with this, my determination to ask of God, I retired to the woods to make the attempt. It was on the morning of a beautiful, clear day, early in the spring of eighteen hundred and twenty. It was the first time in my life that I had made such an attempt, for amidst all my anxieties I had never as yet made the attempt to pray vocally.</div><div><br></div><div>15 After I had retired to the place where I had previously designed to go, having looked around me, and finding myself alone, I kneeled down and began to offer up the desires of my heart to God. I had scarcely done so, when immediately I was seized upon by some power which entirely overcame me, and had such an astonishing influence over me as to bind my tongue so that I could not speak. Thick darkness gathered around me, and it seemed to me for a time as if I were doomed to sudden destruction.</div><div><br></div><div>16 But, exerting all my powers to call upon God to deliver me out of the power of this enemy which had seized upon me, and at the very moment when I was ready to sink into despair and abandon myself to destruction--not to an imaginary ruin, but to the power of some actual being from the unseen world, who had such marvelous power as I had never before felt in any being--just at this moment of great alarm, I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me.</div><div><br></div><div>17 It no sooner appeared than I found myself delivered from the enemy which held me bound. When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other--This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!</div></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-T57s9L87moo/VybnqQxiMnI/AAAAAAAAATE/gQYutPjs-R8/s640/blogger-image-370116143.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-T57s9L87moo/VybnqQxiMnI/AAAAAAAAATE/gQYutPjs-R8/s640/blogger-image-370116143.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">What do we now know about theology through Joseph Smiths experience in these last 5 verses? I list but a few that are poignant to me. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">1) God our Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ are separate and distinct individuals, thus dispelling the notion of a trinitarian godhead. Indeed, the trinitarian notion is "incomprehensible" and false. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">2) Like our God is real, The Son of the Morning, Satan is real</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">3) Satan doesn't want us to pray </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">4) God is more powerful than Satan</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">5) God and Jesus are full of light</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">6) Praying "vocally" (out loud) may make a difference in our prayers</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">7) Reading scriptures leads us to do good things </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">8) God hears and answers our prayers</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">9) God and Jesus have perfect bodies, they point and they speak verbally</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">10) Jesus has been resurrected </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">11) Quiet places are good places to pray </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">12) Sometimes the answers to prayers only come in our most desperate hours</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">13) When we have "anxieties" we should turn to God</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">14) God knows us by name</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">15) Jesus knows us by name</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">16) Darkness may surround us but the light always cuts through the darkness </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">17) God commands us to listen to His Son</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">18) We are always given agency or choice to pursue the path we deem appropriate </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">19) If the first President of a now 15 million member church "lacks wisdom" and turns to God; oh how much more need have I to be humble and turn to God</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">20) "Determination" is a part of the process to receive answers to our prayers</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Well, the list of learnings from Josephs history could go on and on. I share but 5 verses of his history; however, there are many more. I am so grateful for the experience of this uneducated farm boy. This experience preceded the translation of the Book of Mormon, Another testament of Jesus Christ. Having these other works of scripture helps us understand biblical teachings more fully. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Some family side notes: It was an amazing week. Amy and I spent 2 days with President Christiansen, Elders Ringwood and Wilson at the mission presidents seminar. We were taught by the spirit. We were instructed how to be better leaders. We understand better how to help our missionaries. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vGD0OoQWykw/VybnoTff1rI/AAAAAAAAAS0/iyzBefwjbJ8/s640/blogger-image--830003859.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vGD0OoQWykw/VybnoTff1rI/AAAAAAAAAS0/iyzBefwjbJ8/s640/blogger-image--830003859.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NtrlHhxo0Ic/Vybnst4gxnI/AAAAAAAAATU/vExJz4CTYgU/s640/blogger-image-1831503304.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NtrlHhxo0Ic/Vybnst4gxnI/AAAAAAAAATU/vExJz4CTYgU/s640/blogger-image-1831503304.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SwxUI2JoS_M/VybnrpP7l-I/AAAAAAAAATM/qDvysSENu1E/s640/blogger-image--1625123260.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SwxUI2JoS_M/VybnrpP7l-I/AAAAAAAAATM/qDvysSENu1E/s640/blogger-image--1625123260.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">We came home from the seminar and Josh and I went on an overnight scout camp in Huntsville. It was beautiful but tiring. (It rained on us all night) I forgot how much I dislike sleeping on the ground in a tent. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-A5WQRiCZEsE/Vybns3AyjAI/AAAAAAAAATY/EFnCwZHwcdQ/s640/blogger-image--359616616.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-A5WQRiCZEsE/Vybns3AyjAI/AAAAAAAAATY/EFnCwZHwcdQ/s640/blogger-image--359616616.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FuD1ZBSZ4qE/VybnqPLLKJI/AAAAAAAAATA/vIanlN7RPgg/s640/blogger-image-1420150502.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-FuD1ZBSZ4qE/VybnqPLLKJI/AAAAAAAAATA/vIanlN7RPgg/s640/blogger-image-1420150502.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">We returned from scout camp Saturday morning and I baptized Joey Morton, a friend we have come to know the last few weeks. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Vw_pm6Mc2P0/VybntANGMyI/AAAAAAAAATc/t2W2xjOUQRo/s640/blogger-image-154108770.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Vw_pm6Mc2P0/VybntANGMyI/AAAAAAAAATc/t2W2xjOUQRo/s640/blogger-image-154108770.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Last night we experienced a powerful windstorm that felled many trees in our neighborhood. The power is out in several neighborhoods still. One fell on our roof but didn't break it. We are grateful all the missionaries are safe. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-N-9yFgu3E0U/VybnrF4TJ5I/AAAAAAAAATI/kv0XIXtk0S8/s640/blogger-image-1119303430.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-N-9yFgu3E0U/VybnrF4TJ5I/AAAAAAAAATI/kv0XIXtk0S8/s640/blogger-image-1119303430.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nZ7ne4DeHpM/VybnpbIqmXI/AAAAAAAAAS8/V76PnOVv078/s640/blogger-image--793440619.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nZ7ne4DeHpM/VybnpbIqmXI/AAAAAAAAAS8/V76PnOVv078/s640/blogger-image--793440619.jpg"></a></div><br></div>President and Sister Jaggihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395423952427316322noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165830861705709541.post-33726839309885148972016-04-10T11:57:00.001-07:002016-04-10T11:57:33.283-07:00Springtime in Utah<br><div>We have experienced a beautiful spring here in Utah. The weather has been what the Utahns call a "typical spring." Abundant sunshine and warm temperatures for several days, then snow and rain for a couple days. The contrast is dramatic. Having never experienced such contrast, the kids think it's fun. Their friends keep telling them..."wait till next week when we get real thunder and lighting storms." On our preparation day yesterday we got one last day of spring skiing in. It The weather changes keep us on our toes and the blossoms and annual flowers coming up help us move forward in faith. It makes me think of how steady the weather at home in California has always been. 70-80 degrees and sunny over 300 days a year. I will never take for granted the blessing of Southern California weather. It really is unique in the world. I under appreciated the regular and steady sunshine and warmth of our home. I hope we all appreciate and express gratitude to our Heavenly Father for the circumstances in which we live, whatever they may be. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8WWdQHn5l_4/VwqiFs-sqjI/AAAAAAAAASc/j0CrB8GsmYI/s640/blogger-image--572733506.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8WWdQHn5l_4/VwqiFs-sqjI/AAAAAAAAASc/j0CrB8GsmYI/s640/blogger-image--572733506.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div>The last several weeks of our spring has provided a fruitful spiritual renewal as well. In January we visited the Provo City Center Temple open house. The restored building which is now an ordinance house maintains its original beauty; however, the added rooms that provide saving ordinances for us and our ancestors provide an even deeper connection to our brothers and sisters in this world and in the next world. Through Gods holy temples, He is uniting the entire family of Adam and Eve. </div><div></div><div>Our tour of the temple was wonderful, but it paled in comparison to the dedication ceremony that occurred March 20th. Several speakers including temple presidency counselors and their wives, Elder Larry Wilson and Apostle Ballard spoke about the sacrifice of the pioneers to build that edifice and the temple "rising from the ashes" as the building had previously been burned by fire. It was a spiritual feast. All of the congregations in Utah were able to participate in the temple dedication. There were no other meetings scheduled during that Sunday. Even sacrament meeting, our most sacred weekly ordinance was suspended one week for the temple dedication. Everything in the temple leads us to a greater understanding of Jesus. Elder Oaks of the quorum of the twelve apostles gave the dedicatory prayer. The spirit was abundant. The words at times sounded as if "they were the sounds of the rushing of great waters." God was present. I love the 150 temples of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XjWUG3nJ74A/VwqiHGpIQ-I/AAAAAAAAASk/iJ6FFAVty3c/s640/blogger-image-1071859949.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XjWUG3nJ74A/VwqiHGpIQ-I/AAAAAAAAASk/iJ6FFAVty3c/s640/blogger-image-1071859949.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div>March 27th was Easter Sunday. For the 3 weeks leading up to Easter, our mission shared the #hallelujah video - find new life. The video enlightened our minds about the real expanse of the Saviors atonement that can save us from our sins, save us from death and bind our families with us together for eternity. There will not be a "sting of death" because the Savior has overcome it. We hid eggs and Easter baskets, we played games and we listened to scriptures about Jesus. It was a great family day. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XpgADlkLQy4/VwqiGAXZODI/AAAAAAAAASg/hmwvYSxC4sM/s640/blogger-image-1916927843.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XpgADlkLQy4/VwqiGAXZODI/AAAAAAAAASg/hmwvYSxC4sM/s640/blogger-image-1916927843.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div>Last week was the 186th General conference of our church. We listened to Apostles and Prophets speak about how to be better husbands and fathers. How to hold family councils. How to understand the purpose of our lives, where we came from, why we are here and where are we going after this life. We learned how to be more humble, obedient, strong and powerful. We learned how to tackle adversity not by asking why me? Rather, what can I learn, who can I help? How can I trust more deeply? We learned that we need to love and find ways to serve the 60 million refugees in this world. That Jesus commission to "love they neighbor as thyself" is a commandment very much still in force. Jesus lives! He sacrificed to help us. We love and miss you all! </div><div><div class="content contentstart" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="subpageinclude tint" style="box-sizing: inherit; background-color: rgb(243, 240, 236); padding: 40px 0px;"><div class="site_container" style="box-sizing: inherit; max-width: 1024px; margin: 0px auto; position: relative;"><div class="tintsection" data-tint="hallelujah" style="box-sizing: inherit; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 60px;"><div class="tintup __outer" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>President and Sister Jaggihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395423952427316322noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165830861705709541.post-45730193956243175042016-02-28T13:00:00.001-08:002016-02-28T13:00:53.001-08:00God is Love<br><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I remember a phrase uttered by a brother at a church meeting in Toledo Ohio in 1993. He was praying and he prayed for "an increased capacity to love." It was the first time I ever heard that phrase. It impressed me enough that I have never forgotten it and I have since said it many times in prayer. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div>1 John 4 </div><div>"7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.</div><div>8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love."</div></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">If our Heavenly Father and Savior Jesus Christ are the very embodiment of love, should not we invite more love into our lives? </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I've reflected on love a lot this month. Isn't it after all the month of cupids and cherubs? We had a fairly uneventful Valentines Day. A sweet sister provided sugar cookies for our family and all of the missionaries. Sister Jaggi and I took a few hours on the missionaries preparation day that week and skied together, enjoying the mountain air and a brief solace from a hectic pace. I love my bride. She is an amazing woman...resilient, strong, faithful, musical, spiritual and yes, loving. She left behind her beautiful new home, wonderful neighbors and friends, her music children and their families to serve an unexpected 3 year mission. There is no doubt that we are learning to love more fully and deeply here. We love the missionaries, the people, the work of the Lord, the changes taking place in our family. Because of our experience, I'm left pondering the following....Is learning to love like God loves commensurate with increased sacrifice? </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">It's been a few days since I began this blog post. The intermediate hymn of the Ogden Stake Conference was also from the Book of John. Read these wonderful words. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">"As I have loved you, love one another. By this shall men know, ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another." It is not a coincidence that as I've been pondering the importance of love, that the song epitomizing love is sung. God is in the details of our lives. There is no such thing as happenstance...we are in our circles of friends, in our neighborhoods and churches for a purpose. God has placed us together at this time to learn from one another and to love one another. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">So how can we love more fully? When we align our will with the Lords and become "one" we understand what he wants for us and our love deepens for our fellow men and women. I find it interesting that the first words Jesus declares after he introduces himself to the people in the ancient Americas after they had waited for Him for thousands of years are the following in 3 Nephi 11 in the Book of Mormon, another Testament of Jesus Christ...</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">"11 And behold, I am the light and the life of the world; and I have drunk out of that bitter cup which the Father hath given me, and have glorified the Father in taking upon me the sins of the world, in the which I have suffered the will of the Father in all things from the beginning." </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Jesus immediately aligns himself with His father. He drunk of the cup which the Father had given him, he glorified the Father, he suffered the will of the Father. Later in verse 27, he declares that He and the Father and the Holy Ghost are one. If Jesus, who is the embodiment of perfect love declares He is doing His Fathers will, oh how much more need have we to do what our Savior and redeemer ask of us...commands us. When he was asked in Matthew 22 </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div>"36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?</div><div>37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt alove the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.</div><div>38 This is the first and great commandment.</div><div>39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.</div><div>40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-q_rpSTwK3tE/VtNf9YGi0KI/AAAAAAAAAR8/ZkvfbwngxIs/s640/blogger-image-994047392.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-q_rpSTwK3tE/VtNf9YGi0KI/AAAAAAAAAR8/ZkvfbwngxIs/s640/blogger-image-994047392.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xQ_vevQ7Jq4/VtNgA6cRsLI/AAAAAAAAASM/vsB_zXJwe50/s640/blogger-image--1790038559.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xQ_vevQ7Jq4/VtNgA6cRsLI/AAAAAAAAASM/vsB_zXJwe50/s640/blogger-image--1790038559.jpg"></a></div><br></div></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DWlIV-fWbmg/VtNf_xjh1II/AAAAAAAAASI/LCDcPJgOErI/s640/blogger-image--831926942.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DWlIV-fWbmg/VtNf_xjh1II/AAAAAAAAASI/LCDcPJgOErI/s640/blogger-image--831926942.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">We can, we must love one another better. I love my wife. I love my wonderful children. The blessings of missionary service are certainly being made manifest in our lives. Some of those blessings are simple. Mackenzie was accepted to BYU, Emma passed her drivers license test on the first try. They both were asked to Prom last week. Josh scored 17 points in a basketball game and Eliza got straight A's on her report card. They recognize the blessings and I love them for that. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GXebi1J6q1Q/VtNf-GjSOUI/AAAAAAAAASA/yUxtXUEe8i8/s640/blogger-image-1570444955.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GXebi1J6q1Q/VtNf-GjSOUI/AAAAAAAAASA/yUxtXUEe8i8/s640/blogger-image-1570444955.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I love the missionaries of the Church. We say goodbye to another group of missionaries this week. With each group that leaves, a piece of our hearts go with them. I am amazed at how much love I have for these young men and women. It is a fierce love, a deep love and an abiding love. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-W_ZNaW-dwxo/VtNf-3aFjXI/AAAAAAAAASE/HLzw7PrB6Sk/s640/blogger-image--1564767215.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-W_ZNaW-dwxo/VtNf-3aFjXI/AAAAAAAAASE/HLzw7PrB6Sk/s640/blogger-image--1564767215.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">May we all pray for and apply an increased capacity to love. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div>President and Sister Jaggihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395423952427316322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165830861705709541.post-23328115846859779362016-02-21T13:58:00.001-08:002016-02-21T13:58:20.826-08:00Apostles and Prophets of Jesus Christ<div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div><br></div><div>Ephesians 4:11 And he gave some, apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;</div><div><br></div><div>12 For the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ:</div><div><br></div><div>13 Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:</div><div><br></div></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">We were privileged to spend time with A member of the quorum of the Twelve Apostles last Saturday. This apostle grew up in Cache Valley, (Logan) Utah. He served a mission to Japan as a young man and was called to preside over the Nagoya Japan Mission from 2005-2008. He was called to the first quorum of seventy at age 53 after returning home from his mission, thus dedicating the next 17 years (seventies receive emeritus status at age seventy) of his life to God. However, at age 60, last October after serving in the church as the presiding Bishop for 3 years, he was called as an apostle, a lifelong calling. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wN7n0RKNTfE/Vsoy-j4ILSI/AAAAAAAAARo/jBAcki_9TE8/s640/blogger-image--789472559.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wN7n0RKNTfE/Vsoy-j4ILSI/AAAAAAAAARo/jBAcki_9TE8/s640/blogger-image--789472559.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Before our morning meetings started, The apostle was getting acquainted with a stake president and some of the brothers in the small room when he asked me, "are you a part of the Jaggi family from Logan?" I said that I was, however my grandfather moved from Cache Valley to Salt Lake City after World War 2. He asked who my grandfather was, and I said Stanley Jaggi. He didn't know a Stanley, but he said the following... And I'm paraphrasing and praying to capture the essence of what this wonderful apostle said so you can feel what he feels about the Jaggi family and by extension, all of your families. He said that for about 10 years, what he considered the most formidable time in his life, Brother Jaggi and Brother Schmidt came to his home. He was probably about 6 when He first remembered their visit. He said they were older High Priests with gray hair and thick Swiss accents. They seemed like heavenly beings to him at the time. They were faithful and came every month. They brought a spirit of power, authority and love. They served his family by helping in the yard or with house projects. He said he wished he had the information and understanding of the gospel that he has now, because he remembers "being taught" by Brother Jaggi. He remembers the feeling more than anything. As he spoke, I felt our progenitors near. The spirit bore witness as he spoke of the sweetness and joy the gospel brought to the Gottfried Jaggi (my great grandfather) family. I cried with appreciation and told the apostle, "Thank you." He said the Gunnell family was also valiant and he remembers one of the Jaggi's marrying a Gunnell and he couldn't think of a more celestial union in all the world. He said "there aren't any better families anywhere." </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--uSqpkNlx_A/Vsoy9OWJz9I/AAAAAAAAARk/I_7pqmfmosk/s640/blogger-image--10845723.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--uSqpkNlx_A/Vsoy9OWJz9I/AAAAAAAAARk/I_7pqmfmosk/s640/blogger-image--10845723.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">As I look at our family tree and timing, (This apostle was 6 in 1961) he had to be referencing the great patriarch of our family, Grandpa Gottfried who was in his 70's at the time. Thinking of great grandpa on an apostles couch makes my heart soar. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Why am I so grateful for this experience? My family was not a "pioneer" family. My grandfather Stanley was a beer-drinking, chain-smoking, tattooed covered World War 2 veteran. I didn't know till later in life that my father, who is now a very faithful man had his "epiphany" moment sitting in the back of a police car with 2 broken hands. Then and there he decided that there had to be something better in life than stealing, fighting and cars. He walked into an LDS church the next week. His bishop befriended him and he was on a mission in Africa 2 years later. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NOubeXwOEdY/Vsoy8e5_kFI/AAAAAAAAARg/WZreJy_-Dxc/s640/blogger-image--723143833.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NOubeXwOEdY/Vsoy8e5_kFI/AAAAAAAAARg/WZreJy_-Dxc/s640/blogger-image--723143833.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">How grateful I am to be the son of Robert and Judy Jaggi, the brother of Mark and Elizabeth, Kelli and Matt, Tim and Liz, Chad and Stephanie and Kristen. How grateful I am to be the husband to Amy Anne Stewart. Our ancestors made great sacrifices for the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but the blessings our immediate and extended families have realized have been "an hundredfold." May God continue to bless my family and the families of the missionaries of the Utah Ogden Mission as we journey on the strait and narrow path which leads to eternal life. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The missionaries of the church are in the right place at the right time doing the right things. The graphic below represents how a missionary facilitates the reception of the Holy Ghost by their investigators. They cannot push the Holy Ghost or the message of the restoration to anyone, they just create an environment where the spirit may come and teach. This was given to us by a general authority. I love their simple practical teaching. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5z2Cd72C0Kc/Vsoy_AMypTI/AAAAAAAAARs/Duo_LC56ZaY/s640/blogger-image-1208112977.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5z2Cd72C0Kc/Vsoy_AMypTI/AAAAAAAAARs/Duo_LC56ZaY/s640/blogger-image-1208112977.jpg"></a></div></div>President and Sister Jaggihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395423952427316322noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165830861705709541.post-87918143511682923282016-01-30T15:05:00.001-08:002016-01-30T15:05:46.981-08:00Weeks 29-30 in The Utah Ogden Mission<h3 style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'Helam Slab', 'Roboto Slab', Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Lyrics</h3><ol class="verses" style="margin-bottom: 16px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; clear: both; overflow: hidden; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><li style="margin: 0px 34.59375px 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; line-height: 20px; width: 328.6875px; clear: left; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -10px; line-height: 20px; box-sizing: border-box;">1. I have a fam'ly here on earth.</div><div class="line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -10px; line-height: 20px; box-sizing: border-box;">They are so good to me.</div><div class="line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -10px; line-height: 20px; box-sizing: border-box;">I want to share my life with them through all eternity.</div><div class="line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -10px; line-height: 20px; box-sizing: border-box;">2. While I am in my early years,</div><div class="line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -10px; line-height: 20px; box-sizing: border-box;">I'll prepare most carefully,</div><div class="line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -10px; line-height: 20px; box-sizing: border-box;">So I can marry in God's temple for eternity.</div></li><br><li style="margin: 0px 34.59375px 20px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; line-height: 20px; width: 328.6875px; clear: left; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -10px; line-height: 20px; box-sizing: border-box;">Chorus</div><div class="line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -10px; line-height: 20px; box-sizing: border-box;">Fam'lies can be together forever</div><div class="line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -10px; line-height: 20px; box-sizing: border-box;">Through Heav'nly Father's plan.</div><div class="line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -10px; line-height: 20px; box-sizing: border-box;">I always want to be with my own family,</div><div class="line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -10px; line-height: 20px; box-sizing: border-box;">And the Lord has shown me how I can.</div><div class="line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -10px; line-height: 20px; box-sizing: border-box;">The Lord has shown me how I can.</div><div class="line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -10px; line-height: 20px; box-sizing: border-box;"><br></div><div class="line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -10px; line-height: 20px; box-sizing: border-box;">I love this song we sing with our children. Though most marriage ceremonies say "till death do you part" God has provided a way for us to be sealed for time and all eternity in one of His Holy Temples. I am grateful for His mercy and love for all of us to have that opportunity. </div><div class="line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -10px; line-height: 20px; box-sizing: border-box;"><br></div><div class="line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -10px; line-height: 20px; box-sizing: border-box;">Serving a full time mission with our family is a unique experience. We still carry on with family and individual activities but with a spirit of the work of God always a part of us. The work and the mission never stops, but our children are growing and flourishing in Utah. </div><div class="line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -10px; line-height: 20px; box-sizing: border-box;"><br></div><div class="line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -10px; line-height: 20px; box-sizing: border-box;">Mackenzie is busy as a senior at Bonneville High School in South Ogden. She spent the entirety of December singing with the small group choir Tapestry. She has even learned how to dance as they are more of a theatrical small choir. She is getting straight A's taking Utah required classes like computer literacy, financial literacy and nutrition alongside her English and Mathematics classes. She applied to Brigham Young University Idaho and Provo. She is getting to be a great skier as we spend almost every Saturday morning on our "day off" (Friday at 4pm - Saturday at 4pm) on the slopes of Snowbasin. She is finishing writing the fantasy novel she started when she was 12. She is applying for scholarships. She and a few friends love shopping at thrift stores and going to Cafe Rio for lunch. We love her and are so grateful her senior year is going well. </div><div class="line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -10px; line-height: 20px; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7d1bCwvxI3E/Vq1BweBLAzI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/4Oo390FwHXI/s640/blogger-image-888656261.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7d1bCwvxI3E/Vq1BweBLAzI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/4Oo390FwHXI/s640/blogger-image-888656261.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -10px; line-height: 20px; box-sizing: border-box;">Emma is a cross country athlete. She loves running and she loves the boys (especially the seniors) that run everyday after school. She is counting down the days till she turns 16 (53 days) so she can go on a date and drive. We are cheering for her opportunity to drive but not so much to date. She is doing great in school, passed drivers ed and will be performing in the upcoming school musical, Mary Poppins. She thinks the missionaries are cool. </div><div class="line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -10px; line-height: 20px; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-C4H4pW64SoI/Vq1Bx0k2f6I/AAAAAAAAARE/qIx3q65BEdQ/s640/blogger-image--1512361636.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-C4H4pW64SoI/Vq1Bx0k2f6I/AAAAAAAAARE/qIx3q65BEdQ/s640/blogger-image--1512361636.jpg"></a></div><br></div><br></div><div class="line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -10px; line-height: 20px; box-sizing: border-box;">Joshua turned 11 a few weeks ago. He will receive his webelos and arrow of light awards next week. That was tough to finish. We crammed. He is doing gymnastics twice a week and playing basketball twice a week. His passion right now is his freshwater fish and tank he received for Christmas. He watches them and takes notes on their interactions. Yesterday he brought home an eel. Yuck. He loves playing Star Wars battlefront with dad as well as watching Ute basketball games. </div><div class="line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -10px; line-height: 20px; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-L9eHTG9knoI/Vq1Bw_5Y-YI/AAAAAAAAARA/PFrRmrJWPjE/s640/blogger-image--1902300027.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-L9eHTG9knoI/Vq1Bw_5Y-YI/AAAAAAAAARA/PFrRmrJWPjE/s640/blogger-image--1902300027.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div class="line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -10px; line-height: 20px; box-sizing: border-box;">Eliza said yesterday, "do you know one of our missionaries is getting married?" She feels a real connection to them like they are her siblings. She loves the snow, especially sledding and skiing at Snowbasin. She will share a scripture or a song at a fireside that brings the spirit to the meeting quickly. She is genuinely kind, caring and compassionate. We meet people from all walks of life and she doesn't judge. She loves like Jesus loves. </div><div class="line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -10px; line-height: 20px; box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vc_3MVC-yU8/Vq1ByXhOTwI/AAAAAAAAARQ/OUsh2f2CPbE/s640/blogger-image--266784014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vc_3MVC-yU8/Vq1ByXhOTwI/AAAAAAAAARQ/OUsh2f2CPbE/s640/blogger-image--266784014.jpg"></a></div><br></div><br></div><div class="line" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 10px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-indent: -10px; line-height: 20px; box-sizing: border-box;"><br></div></li></ol>President and Sister Jaggihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395423952427316322noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165830861705709541.post-23129742746140412752016-01-30T14:43:00.001-08:002016-01-30T14:43:58.630-08:00Weeks 27-28 The Utah Ogden Mission<br><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">A stake president and his counselors were released this past Sunday. A stake is a collective group of 6-12 congregations of 300-400 people or "wards." Our mission covers 59 stakes and 387 wards. Stakes have been discussed since the earliest days of the bible. Isaiah 54: "Enlarge the place of thy tent, and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine habitations: spare not, lengthen thy cords, and strengthen thy <b>stakes</b>;" <div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Fo538C0vXDc/Vq08qxtLieI/AAAAAAAAAQc/K8cHJ-6zNAU/s640/blogger-image-1707398596.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Fo538C0vXDc/Vq08qxtLieI/AAAAAAAAAQc/K8cHJ-6zNAU/s640/blogger-image-1707398596.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div>As I consider the transition that took place I am amazed at the Lords succession plans. There is no campaigning, no politicking, no negotiation or favors. Mans ways are not Gods ways. A letter is issued by the first presidency indicating a change will take place. They choose two men who are in the quorum of the seventy to go to the stake and interview between twenty and thirty men. The quorum of seventy has also been a part of the Church since its earliest days. Numbers 11:24 "And Moses went out, and told the people the words of the Lord, and gathered the <b>seventy</b> men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle. 25 And the Lord came down in a cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and gave it unto the <b>seventy</b> elders: and it came to pass, that, when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, and did not cease." The key phrase is "...the spirit rested upon them, and they prophesied." </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nmL6o2OFIu8/Vq08raOTfCI/AAAAAAAAAQk/0n0-ejdQBdw/s640/blogger-image--927904803.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nmL6o2OFIu8/Vq08raOTfCI/AAAAAAAAAQk/0n0-ejdQBdw/s640/blogger-image--927904803.jpg"></a></div><br></div><br></div><div>Through the keys delegated by the president of the quorum of the twelve apostles, these two seventies choose, through the spirit of prophecy and revelation, a new stake president, who within hours chooses two counselors who are also called. They don't review a resume or pedigree. They interview the person for about 10 minutes and follow the promptings of the spirit. In the most recent case, an elderly gentleman was released and a young man with a young family was called. The transition was completed within a day. The 3000 people that they lead ratified the decision by raising their hands in ascent and approval of the choice. D&C 26:2 "And all things shall be done by <b>common consen</b>t in the church, by much prayer and faith, for all things you shall receive by faith. Amen." And now it is done, and the work moves forward with average men and women who do their best and the Lord qualifies their work. </div><div><br></div><div>After they were called, these brethren and their wives shared their love of God through testimony. I was impressed with their humility. They didn't choose this. No doubt they would rather spend more time at home. They will work for the next 10 years furthering the work of God through their service. There is no compensation for their 30-40 hours of service each week. They work and serve above and beyond their current vocation. One of the brothers is a software engineer, another a physician and the last a plumber. </div><div><br></div><div>Every member of the LDS church is "called to serve" in some capacity as a volunteer in the church. Some serve the toddlers in the nursery, others as Sunday school teachers, others as shepherds of young men and women or adult men and women. Sisters serve in the relief society and various councils in the church. The Relief Society is one of the oldest women's organizations in the United States. These volunteers receive no compensation but serve with all their "heart, might, mind and strength." I am amazed at the capacity of these good brothers and sisters to serve. They do so because they believe in Jesus Christ, the son of God. We love serving Him as well. He Lives! </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_N7LyRBGbxQ/Vq08qRPl2eI/AAAAAAAAAQY/FJUhjXR2l_k/s640/blogger-image-1688063294.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_N7LyRBGbxQ/Vq08qRPl2eI/AAAAAAAAAQY/FJUhjXR2l_k/s640/blogger-image-1688063294.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div> </div></div>President and Sister Jaggihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395423952427316322noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165830861705709541.post-22343553570471224882016-01-05T17:05:00.001-08:002016-01-05T17:05:34.662-08:00Weeks 22-26 in the Utah Ogden Mission<span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bY93IF-900k/VoxoVHM1nfI/AAAAAAAAAP0/3KzJ-JTnaC8/s640/blogger-image-128690552.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bY93IF-900k/VoxoVHM1nfI/AAAAAAAAAP0/3KzJ-JTnaC8/s640/blogger-image-128690552.jpg"></a></div><br></span><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">As I interviewed 7 departing missionaries the first week of December I found the direction of their questions and my responses going naturally to relationships and the goal each of them had to develop healthy relationships and be married to someone for time and all eternity in one of God's Holy Temples. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KYW139I7rBk/VoxoWmCoLJI/AAAAAAAAAQA/_IIjI9yot4M/s640/blogger-image--1937545743.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-KYW139I7rBk/VoxoWmCoLJI/AAAAAAAAAQA/_IIjI9yot4M/s640/blogger-image--1937545743.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I believe one of the challenges of a lifetime is to develop healthy relationships that are built upon a foundation of unconditional love and selflessness. Of course selfishness is the antithesis to love and the primary root of unhealthy relationships, divorce, conflict in the world and many other self-inflicted difficulties in life. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Jesus taught in Matthew 5:43 ¶Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Jesus challenge to us then is to love like he does. How does He love? What is His love? Moroni, the great last Nephites prophet in the Book of Mormon wrote in Moroni 7 taught...</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div>"45 And charity suffereth long, and is kind, and envieth not, and is not puffed up, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, and rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth, beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.</div><div><br></div><div>46 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, if ye have not charity, ye are nothing, for charity never faileth. Wherefore, cleave unto charity, which is the greatest of all, for all things must fail--</div><div><br></div><div>47 But <b><i>charity is the pure love of Christ, and it endureth forever; </i></b>and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him." </div></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Many young missionaries come to the mission field and don't understand how to communicate their feelings or to build healthy relationships through love. They have spent an abundance of their pre-mission lives in media. The artificial entertainment that comes when too much time is spent on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Xbox, PlayStation, television or movies creates a void of personal love that is difficult to fill without significant practice. They practice here in the mission field. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-HPuJF_C9dHA/VoxoUczFlMI/AAAAAAAAAPw/mYV6Pln0ABg/s640/blogger-image-1847855955.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-HPuJF_C9dHA/VoxoUczFlMI/AAAAAAAAAPw/mYV6Pln0ABg/s640/blogger-image-1847855955.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">As the young missionaries come to understand who Jesus is and how to feel of his love, they convey that same love to others.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"> One of my favorite books that Amy and I read early in our marriage that helped us to communicate and love in a more selfless way was Gary Chapmans, <i>The Five Love Languages. </i>He gives practical advice to those who want to love more deeply. Based on years of research he categorizes the way we like to be loved into five languages. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div>Receiving gifts </div><div>Physical touch</div><div>Words of affirmation </div><div>Quality time</div><div>Acts of service </div></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">God bless you if you are in a relationship with one who's language is "receiving gifts." ;)</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I have learned that Amy is receptive to words of affirmation and feels more loved when I offer those words freely. What is your language? I'm grateful for simple and </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">practical guides, books, articles etc. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The week before Christmas, Sister Jaggi and I gave a gift to the missionaries that we received many years ago...A Book of Mormon Read-A-Thon. We personalized a hard copy of the Book of Mormon with a picture of the Ogden temple in the front. We gave them 5 highlighters. One for each of the principles in the missionary purpose. "My purpose is to invite others to come unto Christ, by helping them receive the restored gospel through <b>faith in Jesus Christ </b>and His atonement, <b>repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost and enduring to the end." And we read... </b>We started at 8:00am and read till 9:00pm one day...we started at 8:00am and read till 5:00pm the next day, missing only the book of Ether along the way. 33 hours of intense reading, pondering and praying. We were uplifted and edified and we rejoice together in the knowledge that God loves all of His children. God had prophets in the Jerusalem area and they wrote books in the bible. God also had prophets in the Americas anciently and they wrote books in the Book of Mormon. What a blessing to know God is the same yesterday, today and forever. We testify He is real and He lives! </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-M6Kxenk45L0/VoxoSW7JxeI/AAAAAAAAAPo/MpLncUbGOE0/s640/blogger-image-730686045.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-M6Kxenk45L0/VoxoSW7JxeI/AAAAAAAAAPo/MpLncUbGOE0/s640/blogger-image-730686045.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Christmas time on a mission is wonderful. We were far less focused on ourselves and more focused on the Savior, His birth and what He has done for so many. We were also focused on our missionaries. More than half of them had never been away from home for Christmas. For some it was hard, for most it was sacred. Time spent in the service of our fellowmen and women, teaching what Jesus taught is precious. About 40 of our missionaries received very little for Christmas from home, especially those who came from foreign lands. We were blessed by local Utah members who provided anonymous gifts and gift cards for our indigent missionaries. The Saints in Utah provide so much to our missionaries as well as to the rest if the world. My eyes have been opened to their charity and love. I'm stunned when I contemplate their contribution to the growth of the church in every way. The Members here in Ogden are so committed, hard-working and humble. We truly love them. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pR1Qwt6YMs4/VoxoXUVMmFI/AAAAAAAAAQE/FHU9AgFug-8/s640/blogger-image-861198691.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pR1Qwt6YMs4/VoxoXUVMmFI/AAAAAAAAAQE/FHU9AgFug-8/s640/blogger-image-861198691.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Happy new year to our friends and family. If you are ready for change, embrace and set simple goals. We use the SIMPS model. Goals that are </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Spiritual </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Intellectual</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Musical</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Physical</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Social</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">All our missionaries wrote their SIMPS goals to me yesterday. Moms and Dad's...ask them about their goals. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">We love you. </div><div><br></div>President and Sister Jaggihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395423952427316322noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165830861705709541.post-75460358886093446782015-11-27T08:39:00.001-08:002015-11-27T08:39:11.694-08:00Week 21 in the Utah Ogden Mission<div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div><div>Week 21 in the Utah Ogden Mission </div><div>The Atonement of Jesus Christ </div><div>When I as a young missionary serving in my first area in Ashtabula Ohio, my companion and I taught many people the gospel of Jesus Christ. Most of those that we taught experienced great hardship and trials in their lives. Many were physically and sexually abused. Many struggled with drug, alcohol and pornography addictions. Many were financially destitute and devoid of hope. I observed and felt a small portion of their pain. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4bOAaIKnaM4/VliHIQDh4fI/AAAAAAAAAOg/4zHbk6sLVck/s640/blogger-image-264443602.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-4bOAaIKnaM4/VliHIQDh4fI/AAAAAAAAAOg/4zHbk6sLVck/s640/blogger-image-264443602.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div>Nine years later, living in Henderson Nevada with my wife and two daughters (Mackenzie 4, Emma 2) we rushed to the hospital as our third child Stewart wanted to come to this earth...too soon. We prayed and prayed for a miracle...I pled with God to spare my wife and son, finding out that her body was in a state of significant infection. I felt acute and exquisite mental and spiritual pain thinking about the potential loss of life or debilitating effects of infection. That evening as I cried and prayed for hours, I told the Lord I would accept His will, whatever that was. I was immediately overcome...rescued...revived by a warmth and peace that engulfed my body. I knew things would be ok. I returned to the hospital where my wife delivered a bruised and beautiful baby boy. He took a few breaths and went "home to that God who gave him life." </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-a57NKbl-63s/VliHKX0OZ4I/AAAAAAAAAO4/WcUU7rNePmc/s640/blogger-image--356750358.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-a57NKbl-63s/VliHKX0OZ4I/AAAAAAAAAO4/WcUU7rNePmc/s640/blogger-image--356750358.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div>The atonement of Jesus Christ helped me then and continues to help me during life's struggles. It helped my family understand that this life is brief but important. What we do here makes a difference in where we will go when this life is over. Without Jesus Christ atonement and resurrection there would be no opportunity for my son to "come forth in the morning of the first Resurrection...that both spirit and body shall be reunited in a perfect frame." </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-rZUvbDsR94Q/VliHLgUFO_I/AAAAAAAAAPE/rvYtiAOC4nU/s640/blogger-image--1764949453.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-rZUvbDsR94Q/VliHLgUFO_I/AAAAAAAAAPE/rvYtiAOC4nU/s640/blogger-image--1764949453.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div>The great convert Amulek before Jesus came said this about the Atonement of Christ in about 74 BC </div><div>Alma 34</div><div>8 And now, behold, I will testify unto you of myself that these things are true. Behold, I say unto you, that I do know that Christ shall come among the children of men, to take upon him the transgressions of his people, and that he shall atone for the sins of the world; for the Lord God hath spoken it.</div><div>9 For it is expedient that an atonement should be made; for according to the great plan of the Eternal God there must be an atonement made, or else all mankind must unavoidably perish; yea, all are hardened; yea, all are fallen and are lost, and must perish except it be through the atonement which it is expedient should be made.</div><div>10 For it is expedient that there should be a great and last sacrifice; yea, not a sacrifice of man, neither of beast, neither of any manner of fowl; for it shall not be a human sacrifice; but it must be an infinite and eternal sacrifice.</div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-S9r_TtXrhdA/VliHJ6_FOlI/AAAAAAAAAO0/OnuRJD6a6HM/s640/blogger-image--1115124948.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-S9r_TtXrhdA/VliHJ6_FOlI/AAAAAAAAAO0/OnuRJD6a6HM/s640/blogger-image--1115124948.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div>The gospel writers in the New Testament each gave a bit of a different summary of the atonement of Jesus Christ. </div><div>Matthew said this in Matthew 26</div><div>39 And he went a little further, and <b><u>fell on his fac</u></b>e, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: <u>nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.</u></div><div><br></div><div><div>Luke the physician described it in Luke 22</div><div>42 Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: <u>nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.</u></div><div>43 And there <b><u>appeared an angel unto him from heaven</u></b>, strengthening him.</div><div>44 And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.</div></div><div><br></div><div>And Mark described most tenderly the suffering of Jesus. His suffering was so intense he called out to his "daddy" (Abba) Mark 14 </div><div>36 And he said, <b><u>Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee</u></b>; take away this cup from me: <u>nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt</u>.</div><div><br></div><div>I've thought about "bitter cup." Isaiah called it the Cup of Fury. Everything that is not joyful, sublime, peaceful and perfect was in the cup...and that's what Jesus symbolically drank. He did it for all of us...every person who has lived, does now live and will ever live...he did it for us. If we accept him he can take away the pain my family and I feel for my </div><div><b><u>Special needs sister, Mental illness in our family, an </u></b><b><u>alcoholic uncle, the pain my gay cousin has felt since our youth, the loss of my son 14 years ago, loss of Amy's father 5 years ago, all my sins </u></b></div></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Pmg plan of salvation</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">As we rely on the Atonement of Jesus Christ, He can help us endure our trials, sicknesses, and pain. We can be filled with joy, peace, and consolation. All that is unfair about life can be made right through the Atonement of Jesus Christ.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AKZXL0wUZHc/VliHHmZRFlI/AAAAAAAAAOc/DDcBffsFaQU/s640/blogger-image--562123087.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AKZXL0wUZHc/VliHHmZRFlI/AAAAAAAAAOc/DDcBffsFaQU/s640/blogger-image--562123087.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">D&C 19</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">how sore you know not, how exquisite you know not, yea, how hard to bear you know not.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">16 For behold, I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent;</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">17 But if they would not repent they must suffer even as I;</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">18 Which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit--and would that I might not drink the bitter cup, and shrink--</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">19 Nevertheless, glory be to the Father, and I partook and finished my preparations unto the children of men.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-qxjbj1n9sns/VliHJRn0F3I/AAAAAAAAAOw/hRYgId2s5M0/s640/blogger-image-195766634.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-qxjbj1n9sns/VliHJRn0F3I/AAAAAAAAAOw/hRYgId2s5M0/s640/blogger-image-195766634.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eJdv7g3sy9w/VliHK9Eu2DI/AAAAAAAAAPA/g6fnRKbDvNE/s640/blogger-image-1100352419.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eJdv7g3sy9w/VliHK9Eu2DI/AAAAAAAAAPA/g6fnRKbDvNE/s640/blogger-image-1100352419.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Last week Elder Ringwood of the first quorum of the seventy toured our mission. He instructed our leadership, conducted interviews, took our family to dinner and gave an amazing sermon on faith. I learned that desire, belief and hope are "particles of faith." I learned that the best definition of faith is simply "action." If we can have particles of faith, we can have an "eye of faith" which leads us to "act in faith." I love these concepts taught by a servant of the Lord. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-TJKi8cc5DeM/VliHI8y-ugI/AAAAAAAAAOo/2wNQGyD3npc/s640/blogger-image--1003560468.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-TJKi8cc5DeM/VliHI8y-ugI/AAAAAAAAAOo/2wNQGyD3npc/s640/blogger-image--1003560468.jpg"></a></div><br></div>President and Sister Jaggihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395423952427316322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165830861705709541.post-52065320400807509882015-11-15T11:55:00.001-08:002015-11-15T11:55:32.391-08:00Week 20 in The Utah Ogden Mission<span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Week 20 in The Utah Ogden Mission</span><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">We can do hard things. I was reminded of that while reading about the passing of a mission presidents wife in Africa last week. She went to a hospital for a minor procedure and passed away while there. She taught her missionaries the magnificent principle that they could do hard things. I naturally contrasted the experience we and our young missionaries are having serving in Utah with the experience of those that serve in Africa. Certainly not having running water, sleeping in huts, traveling everywhere by foot, not seeing other missionaries for weeks is hard work in Africa. Our missionaries certainly don't have those challenges.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"> The challenges of our missionaries are very different. Serving in the heart of Zion is a privilege. But with that privilege comes the responsibility of living the standards of the gospel in word and deed on a different level. Each week a general authority visits a different stake conference in our mission. Frequently the young missionaries are asked to spontaneously share their testimonies or a first discussion in front of 1500 people. How is that for pressure? </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-o804TMGciFQ/VkjjLF539CI/AAAAAAAAANo/0nbs4nd3LYc/s640/blogger-image-1228501063.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-o804TMGciFQ/VkjjLF539CI/AAAAAAAAANo/0nbs4nd3LYc/s640/blogger-image-1228501063.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The missionaries have a saying..."every member a mission president." Everywhere they go, they are being watched. At least 3 times a week I receive an email or a phone call about various and sundry mistakes the missionaries make. Examples of some of these... "they were riding their bikes too close to the traffic and they didn't have any lights." "I saw them at the bowling alley on Tuesday. What are they doing there on Tuesday?" (It's their pday) "The missionaries hung out at the family history center all afternoon." (I ask them to do family history for their investigators and less actives every week). 387 Bishops and ward councils expect a deep spiritual thought and advice to hasten the work in ward councils weekly. The missionaries are expected to teach 21 lessons a week, baptize every month and take recent converts or recently activated members to the temple every month. They are expected to smile and be happy everywhere they go. (Even in the snow and rain) They enter smoke-filled rooms and work with disaffected members daily. The local members have the best intentions in mind, but consider the scrutiny the missionaries face. I love these missionaries. I love their commitment. I love them in all of their 18 and 19 year old weakness. I love that they can do hard things. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-QKdj9UINGc8/VkjjMqc--wI/AAAAAAAAAOI/Y0vb3m20SoY/s640/blogger-image--1319699926.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-QKdj9UINGc8/VkjjMqc--wI/AAAAAAAAAOI/Y0vb3m20SoY/s640/blogger-image--1319699926.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2yiJTkUcMaU/VkjjKgkmaaI/AAAAAAAAANk/kSYDU_rymlY/s640/blogger-image--60430128.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2yiJTkUcMaU/VkjjKgkmaaI/AAAAAAAAANk/kSYDU_rymlY/s640/blogger-image--60430128.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">As Gods children we can all do hard things. Why? Because our greatest exemplar and Savior did hard things and set the example of how to endure difficulties. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">He endured and "drunk out of the bitter cup which the father hath given..." What was in the bitter cup? Isaiah called it the "cup of fury." What was in the cup? All that is painful, all that is harmful, all that isn't perfect. He made all that wasn't right, right. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_lyX8ztCMMw/VkjjL8WM-yI/AAAAAAAAAN4/-qXGZ6ngwP0/s640/blogger-image-480396538.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_lyX8ztCMMw/VkjjL8WM-yI/AAAAAAAAAN4/-qXGZ6ngwP0/s640/blogger-image-480396538.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"> Consider the following scriptures in D&C 19:15-19</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div>15 "...how sore you know not, how exquisite you know not, yea, how hard to bear you know not.</div><div><br></div><div>16 For behold, I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent;</div><div><br></div><div>17 But if they would not repent they must suffer even as I;</div><div><br></div><div>18 Which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit--and would that I might not drink the bitter cup, and shrink--</div><div><br></div><div>19 Nevertheless, glory be to the Father, and I partook and finished my preparations unto the children of men.</div></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jZx5wEZD-XA/VkjjMWL6jxI/AAAAAAAAAN8/6ycM53VFSeY/s640/blogger-image-1261211841.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jZx5wEZD-XA/VkjjMWL6jxI/AAAAAAAAAN8/6ycM53VFSeY/s640/blogger-image-1261211841.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">If Jesus can give glory to His Father after doing the hardest of ALL things, so can we give thanks in doing our own hard things. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lDe0HN1-jW8/VkjjLjtnQCI/AAAAAAAAANw/ZDbUnS5q-TY/s640/blogger-image--423088386.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lDe0HN1-jW8/VkjjLjtnQCI/AAAAAAAAANw/ZDbUnS5q-TY/s640/blogger-image--423088386.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">We thank you for your love, support and prayers. We need it and feel it! </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Love, Jeremy, Amy and Family </div>President and Sister Jaggihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395423952427316322noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165830861705709541.post-78725556480116530562015-11-15T11:36:00.001-08:002015-11-15T11:36:16.779-08:00Week 19 in The Utah Ogden Mission<div>Week 19 in the Utah Ogden Mission </div><div>Our children are in Newbury Park, California visiting their friends this weekend. Watching the four of them get on that plane without us was sobering. In just 9 years, Amy and I will be "empty-nesters." I asked myself the question on the way out of the airport, "Am I doing all I can to be the best husband and father I can in the time that I have with my family?" My recent experience counseling missionaries who have lost loved ones to death led me to the following scripture in D&C 29:43 "And thus did I, the Lord God, appoint unto man the days of his probation--that by his natural death he might be raised in immortality unto eternal life, even as many as would believe;" </div><div>What are we doing with our days here upon this earth? I marvel at the young men and women and senior couples who take 2 years or 18 months out of their lives to serve full time missions for the LDS Church. They labor during their tender years of life and learn how to love. They learn that no matter who they come across, (and they come across a wild variety of people) that they are all children of Heavenly Parents and as such have a capacity for the infinite and eternal. The missionaries teach about the capacity of their brothers and sisters. They teach that they have a Savior, that God has a plan for them and that they can recognize Gods hand in their lives through the power of the Holy Spirit. Many receive that message with gladness. Many do not. </div><div>Those that receive the gospel express deep gratitude towards God and the missionaries who taught them. Their gratitude has also caused me to pause and reflect on the spirit of gratitude. I have determined to study the virtue of gratitude in depth. Cicero said, "Gratitude is not only the greatest of all virtues, but the parent of all others." </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Xp594AyyyUw/VkjeqnBU3aI/AAAAAAAAANI/oEzVrPPfKKc/s640/blogger-image-1644172929.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Xp594AyyyUw/VkjeqnBU3aI/AAAAAAAAANI/oEzVrPPfKKc/s640/blogger-image-1644172929.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div>Some scriptures that cause me to pause and think on the commandment to be grateful include...</div><div><br></div><div>“Thou shalt thank the Lord thy God in all things." </div><div>“And in nothing doth man offend God, or against none is his wrath kindled, save those who confess not his hand in all things.” </div><div>“live in thanksgiving daily, for the many mercies and blessings which [God] doth bestow upon you.” </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iNXJIQtc4j4/VkjerVIBIOI/AAAAAAAAANM/IM_7hk6vmnM/s640/blogger-image-840869434.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-iNXJIQtc4j4/VkjerVIBIOI/AAAAAAAAANM/IM_7hk6vmnM/s640/blogger-image-840869434.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bteZ5VfVb1Y/VkjeqMQFsGI/AAAAAAAAANA/2ToJXc_fpBs/s640/blogger-image-568974712.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-bteZ5VfVb1Y/VkjeqMQFsGI/AAAAAAAAANA/2ToJXc_fpBs/s640/blogger-image-568974712.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div>President Thomas S. Monson said, "Regardless of our circumstances, each of us has much for which to be grateful if we will but pause and contemplate our blessings." </div><div><br></div><div>Universities have studied gratitude and have found that those who either 1) write a note of thanks to someone daily or 2) write 5 things they are grateful for in a journal daily are more productive citizens, have more fruitful relationships, earn more money, experience more peace and happiness over time etc. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--2mkwVltPqA/Vkjer7C4PRI/AAAAAAAAANU/WvZNl8FApAk/s640/blogger-image-756556326.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--2mkwVltPqA/Vkjer7C4PRI/AAAAAAAAANU/WvZNl8FApAk/s640/blogger-image-756556326.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div><br></div><div>My prayer is that we will be grateful and express it frequently to our maker and to each other. That we will love our children, parents and siblings more deeply and fully. Love = time. I hope we will forgive and experience forgiveness. </div><div>We love the Lord. We love serving him full time. We thank all for their support and prayers while we serve. </div><div><br></div>President and Sister Jaggihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395423952427316322noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165830861705709541.post-22107260335202612262015-11-01T21:04:00.001-08:002015-11-01T21:04:23.160-08:00Weeks 11-18 in the Utah Ogden Mission<span style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-TYaBtVY9oqI/Vjbu1VjDjWI/AAAAAAAAAMs/Hm0qPJt3CNk/s640/blogger-image--853194800.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-TYaBtVY9oqI/Vjbu1VjDjWI/AAAAAAAAAMs/Hm0qPJt3CNk/s640/blogger-image--853194800.jpg"></a></div>Weeks 11-18 Utah Ogden Mission - Death is overcome by Jesus Christ:</span><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">This morning a mother from California called to let us know her husband had passed away. One of her sons is serving in our mission, the other son is serving in the Pocatello Idaho Mission. Our missionary still has 11 months left on his mission. His brother was due home just after Christmas. Both are staying to finish their missions. As our missionary stated after I let him know his father had died, "I know that the plan of salvation is real, and where my father is, I need to stay out here and teach more people about it." He further stated that this past week he has been the best missionary of his mission, buoyed up by the spirit and his personal knowledge that Jesus Christ, the Savior of the World made it possible for all of us to overcome sin and death. This Elder is an amazing human being. He is resilient in Christ. He is elect! </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NB96ZiY4jkw/VjbuxsWvqOI/AAAAAAAAAMI/bcYzcr4wFAY/s640/blogger-image-174904256.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NB96ZiY4jkw/VjbuxsWvqOI/AAAAAAAAAMI/bcYzcr4wFAY/s640/blogger-image-174904256.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">My mind went immediately to the acts of the apostles of old who withstood persecution, physical ailments, doctrinal challenges, death of loved ones etc...yet they endured. Paul wrote to the Romans about this experience.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Romans 8</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"> 33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">34 Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">36 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">37 Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.</div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wa9ABDOVBqg/Vjbuzk0QEpI/AAAAAAAAAMc/tQUjuCqLGig/s640/blogger-image-961499553.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-wa9ABDOVBqg/Vjbuzk0QEpI/AAAAAAAAAMc/tQUjuCqLGig/s640/blogger-image-961499553.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The state of Utah sends thousands of missionaries out to the rest of the world every year. Some of the prospective missionaries may have a slight mental or physical disability which may limit them serving outside the states. When a stake president has a concern over their ability to serve, these missionaries are called to serve in one of Utah's 11 missions as "two-transfer" missionaries. They come to our missions to serve for 12 weeks. Some go home after 12 weeks having completed their missions with honor, some get called to serve for 21 months after their 12 weeks here in Utah. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DHMwS0_nYmg/VjbuyH3RBtI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/sRnKT8JP07I/s640/blogger-image-643180398.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DHMwS0_nYmg/VjbuyH3RBtI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/sRnKT8JP07I/s640/blogger-image-643180398.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">This week was special. One of our "two transfer" missionaries received her endowments. She served for 12 weeks and touched many lives. She came to Ogden to receive her endowments with her family and her companions and those she got to know here. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Two other missionaries received full time mission calls Thursday night. Their families came to the mission office and we opened their calls together. Tears were shed, gratitude offered. One was called to serve in our home mission...Ventura California. He was excited and so were we. The other was called to serve in our mission. We were all surprised. I believe he was a bit disappointed but we are glad to have him. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hiiK8-IBumw/Vjbuy68xMbI/AAAAAAAAAMU/Ftj6qRXIDwI/s640/blogger-image--855011791.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-hiiK8-IBumw/Vjbuy68xMbI/AAAAAAAAAMU/Ftj6qRXIDwI/s640/blogger-image--855011791.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">We are also associated with many young service missionaries who aren't able to serve full time missions. They labor in the canneries, Deseret industries, family history centers etc. we had a combined missionary meal and devotional with them which was such a sweet meeting. The spirit was profound as we joined with the disabled to share testimony, sing praises to God and worship our Savior Jesus Christ. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Days are becoming weeks, weeks are becoming months. The past couple of weeks our family felt the pangs of homesickness. We love our mission, but we miss our neighbors, friends and ward family in Newbury Park. More than a few tears have been shed by the Jaggi family as we contemplate the blessing so many people are in our lives. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">We love the 142 young missionaries and 100 senior missionaries in the Utah Ogden Mission. The senior missionaries especially have been angels in the field. Many are serving their 2nd or 3rd missions. They work from home and serve in so many ways. We are amazed at their faith, perseverance and dedication to preaching the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. </div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(69, 69, 69); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">We've welcomed many new missionaries, said goodbye to a few. The work is hard and fun. We love Ogden! </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Kdh3gEq_eeA/Vjbu0yhon1I/AAAAAAAAAMo/ETMUATQIn7E/s640/blogger-image-1111914394.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Kdh3gEq_eeA/Vjbu0yhon1I/AAAAAAAAAMo/ETMUATQIn7E/s640/blogger-image-1111914394.jpg"></a></div><br></div>President and Sister Jaggihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395423952427316322noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165830861705709541.post-296978085393723822015-09-16T19:50:00.001-07:002015-09-16T19:50:36.162-07:00Weeks 9-11 Utah Ogden Mission<div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">When I was serving as a full time missionary in Kirtland Ohio, my companion and I had the opportunity to be riding in a car down the freeway to a conference with our mission president and an apostle. We thought nothing could be cooler. We were flying high. During the course of our conversation our Mission President paused and asked the apostle, "what one piece of counsel do you have for these good missionaries?" The apostle responded without hesitation. "Follow the Bretheren and don't stop, do it throughout your life." </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Interestingly, Amy's Mission President in Germany used to say the same phrase over and over again when she was serving there. We have been blessed in our lives as we have followed the counsel of living prophets, apostles, seventies and their wives. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">We have had the opportunity to interact with leaders of our church on a weekly basis. They are men and women of God. They love us and the people they serve. They want nothing more than to help others have greater peace and prosperity in their lives They indeed are striving to have charity, the pure love of Christ. I have learned more fully that they are also grandmas and grandpas who love their families and have problems and weaknesses like any other family. They have learned however how to deal with problems and weaknesses by applying the atonement of Jesus Christ in their lives. They understand the covenants they make with God weekly in sacrament meeting and when they attend the temples. They are consecrated in every way.</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-WqDCE-FiICM/VfoqcV1GGOI/AAAAAAAAALg/xwcFgaf3Izs/s640/blogger-image-1304751431.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-WqDCE-FiICM/VfoqcV1GGOI/AAAAAAAAALg/xwcFgaf3Izs/s640/blogger-image-1304751431.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"> This last weekend as I was speaking with a general authority, he said he was called as a general authority when he was 49 years old. He left his vocation as a lawyer, his home of many years in Seattle and moved with his four children to South America. He has been serving 9 years full time for the church and will serve full time till he is 70 years old, 13 years from now. What tremendous sacrifice and service! The Jaggi family is serving for 3 years. We are blessed to be here. We love our service. How small our service is though compared to our wonderful leaders. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">We have had beautiful conversation and interactions with these great men and their wives. I document their names for my posterity's benefit. That they may know that I know they are men and women called of God. That they serve him faithfully for the majority of their "older adult" lives. Elder Arnold, Elder Clarke (emeritus), Elder Clayton, Elder Ringwood, Elder Stanfill, Elder Rasband, Elder Christofferson, Elder Sitati, Elder Falabella, Elder Grow, Elder Ballard, Elder Nash and this upcoming weekend Elder Cook. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">So how can we "follow the brethren?"</div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314);">Elder Aldin Porter gave this sage advice years ago about how we can more fully support and follow the great leaders of our church. </span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314);"> First, read the scriptures, especially the Book of Mormon. Speaking of the scriptures, the Prophet Joseph Smith said, “He who reads it oftenest will like it best, and he who is acquainted with it, will know the hand wherever he can see it” (</span><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; line-height: 30px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-position: 0px 0px;">History of the Church,</i><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30px; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314);"> 2:14).</span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><p uri="/general-conference/1987/10/follow-the-brethren.p15" class="" id="p15" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 30px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-position: 0px 0px;">Second, let us do as the prophets request. Note the words of the Savior:</p><p uri="/general-conference/1987/10/follow-the-brethren.p16" class="" id="p16" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 30px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-position: 0px 0px;">“And the Jews marvelled, saying, How knoweth this man letters, having never learned?</p><p uri="/general-conference/1987/10/follow-the-brethren.p17" class="" id="p17" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 30px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-position: 0px 0px;">“Jesus answered them, and said, My doctrine is not mine, but his that sent me.</p><p uri="/general-conference/1987/10/follow-the-brethren.p18" class="" id="p18" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 30px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-position: 0px 0px;">“If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself” (<a href="https://www.lds.org/scriptures/nt/john/7.15-17?lang=eng#14" class="scriptureRef" style="color: rgb(0, 145, 188); margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px;">John 7:15–17</a>).</p><p uri="/general-conference/1987/10/follow-the-brethren.p18" class="" id="p18" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 30px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-position: 0px 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314);">Third, pray for them. Call down the blessings of heaven upon the heads of the prophets, seers, and revelators. Know that the Lord responds to the sustaining prayers of the Saints. In addition, as our hearts go out to the brethren in sincere prayer, our hearts will be filled with love for them.</span></p><p uri="/general-conference/1987/10/follow-the-brethren.p18" class="" id="p18" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 30px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-position: 0px 0px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314);"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--CrX-HY-1Kw/VfoqdC_PdOI/AAAAAAAAALo/e2KvlaEAHqI/s640/blogger-image--57577021.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--CrX-HY-1Kw/VfoqdC_PdOI/AAAAAAAAALo/e2KvlaEAHqI/s640/blogger-image--57577021.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p uri="/general-conference/1987/10/follow-the-brethren.p18" class="" id="p18" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 30px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-position: 0px 0px;">The Jaggi's are adjusting remarkably well to Utah. Today we had abundant rain and I've never seen the kids so giddy to see rain and snow already on the top of the mountains. Eliza and Josh started gymnastics as well as cello and piano lessons last week. They have far less homework here than they did in California which is slightly disconcerting to mom and dad but we are filling their time with other productive activities. ;) </p><p uri="/general-conference/1987/10/follow-the-brethren.p18" class="" id="p18" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 30px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-position: 0px 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-HQNXRsSUGbg/VfoqdzKG7JI/AAAAAAAAALw/mdT2QU_bHt0/s640/blogger-image--1679973715.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-HQNXRsSUGbg/VfoqdzKG7JI/AAAAAAAAALw/mdT2QU_bHt0/s640/blogger-image--1679973715.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p uri="/general-conference/1987/10/follow-the-brethren.p18" class="" id="p18" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 30px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-position: 0px 0px;">Mackenzie and Emma are fully engaged in school. Mackenzie took her final ACT last Saturday. We are impressed with her study habits and discipline. She is enjoying choir and nutrition and English. She is headed to an actual school dance. Homecoming at Bonneville High School is Saturday. There are good young men and women here. Emma is running cross country and of course getting great grades. She is starting to play hymns on the Piano. </p><p uri="/general-conference/1987/10/follow-the-brethren.p18" class="" id="p18" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 30px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-position: 0px 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tROhzJwMzSk/VfoqbkBrtlI/AAAAAAAAALY/Q2RsJbRJVMA/s640/blogger-image-2048794195.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tROhzJwMzSk/VfoqbkBrtlI/AAAAAAAAALY/Q2RsJbRJVMA/s640/blogger-image-2048794195.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p uri="/general-conference/1987/10/follow-the-brethren.p18" class="" id="p18" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 30px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-position: 0px 0px;">We spent an evening at a cabin on the South Fork of the Ogden river. We fished and didn't catch anything. We tubed down the river, had a bonfire and some great food with great people. It was a nice getaway. </p><p uri="/general-conference/1987/10/follow-the-brethren.p18" class="" id="p18" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 30px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-position: 0px 0px;">The second group of missionaries left Monday morning. We love them and will miss them. We welcomed 21 new missionaries yesterday. We are receiving more missionaries than are departing. It's fun to see the growth in the church in so many different ways. </p><p uri="/general-conference/1987/10/follow-the-brethren.p18" class="" id="p18" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 30px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-position: 0px 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--YTHCZYXl0E/Vfoqesj6WwI/AAAAAAAAAL4/4z2BDocKRHo/s640/blogger-image-1424301919.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--YTHCZYXl0E/Vfoqesj6WwI/AAAAAAAAAL4/4z2BDocKRHo/s640/blogger-image-1424301919.jpg"></a></div><br><p></p><p uri="/general-conference/1987/10/follow-the-brethren.p18" class="" id="p18" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 30px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-position: 0px 0px;">We love the Lord and we love this work! </p><p uri="/general-conference/1987/10/follow-the-brethren.p18" class="" id="p18" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 30px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-position: 0px 0px;"><br></p><p uri="/general-conference/1987/10/follow-the-brethren.p18" class="" id="p18" style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 30px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.235294); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-position: 0px 0px;"><br></p></div>President and Sister Jaggihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395423952427316322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165830861705709541.post-27677676602291125382015-08-25T19:48:00.001-07:002015-08-25T19:48:26.690-07:00Utah Ogden Mission: Weeks 7-8<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-CZoi2lhzUWM/Vd0o-JLRaHI/AAAAAAAAALE/AMaHPA1T-vw/s640/blogger-image--1823388597.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-CZoi2lhzUWM/Vd0o-JLRaHI/AAAAAAAAALE/AMaHPA1T-vw/s640/blogger-image--1823388597.jpg"></a></div><br><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">When I was a young missionary (19 years old) serving in the Hinterlands of the Ohio Cleveland Mission in Ashtabula Ohio in the Kirtland Stake, I remember after 3 weeks of knocking on hundreds of doors and visiting many, many people that I felt like I wasn't having an impact on anyone in my mission. I was homesick, I felt lonely and I didn't understand why we weren't committing anyone to baptism or bringing anyone to church. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6nyxGZaGDig/Vd0o9vhnn-I/AAAAAAAAAK8/AuxQnzQkmh8/s640/blogger-image--182321647.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6nyxGZaGDig/Vd0o9vhnn-I/AAAAAAAAAK8/AuxQnzQkmh8/s640/blogger-image--182321647.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I felt a bit like Joseph Smith, though my experience of loneliness cannot compare to his loneliness in a dungeon in The Liberty Missouri jail for a year. He said in the Doctrine and Covenants Section 121:1 "God, where art thou? And where is the pavilion that covereth thy hiding place?" I think many people feel this. Many young missionaries feel that way as they enter the mission field. For many, it's their first time away from home. It's a literal wake up to what real work is. A rigorous schedule that begins at 6:30am and concludes at 10:30pm. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">I remember thinking 2 years was going to last forever. I had thoughts of my life back home. College, family, a girl, the mountains etc. seemed to pervade my thoughts. I came back to the apartment after another long day and knelt before God and cried out. "Heavenly Father, where art thou? This is harder than I expected and I feel alone! What shall I do? I'm sad, I'm fearful. Help me!" I was literally crying out to God. As I cried, a sensation started at my head and coursed through my body to my toes. Amy calls it "warm carbonation." An envelopment of love much like a warm blanket filled me. That sensation happened 3 times in a row. I cried more, but this time in the spirit of gratitude. God had answered my prayer in only a way he could. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">From that day forward I was committed to working for Jesus. I laid aside the thoughts of home and I went to work. The days seemed to get shorter and we started finding people who wanted to come closer to Jesus Christ. I started feeling peace and then eventually joy filled my heart. I still had my ups and downs on my mission like all missionaries, but the work became much sweeter from that day forward. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">These days in the Utah Ogden Mission with our family are beginning to blend into weeks. I'm sure the weeks will start blending into months. Time is moving along ever so fast. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">We welcomed 16 new missionaries 3 weeks ago. In 3 weeks we'll welcome another 23. My prayer is that they discover quickly for themselves that we have a Father in Heaven who is God. He loves us and cares for us. He sent his Son to earth to die for us. They called a prophet Joseph Smith in these the last days in preparation for the 2nd coming of the Lord. To help people understand his plan for us, the Lord has given us a Bible. He has also given us another testament of Jesus Christ called the Book of Mormon. In it, His works are revealed. Jesus has called a prophet today, much like he called prophets of old. They lead us, guide us and help us. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">We welcomed Elder Ballard of the quorum of the twelve apostles last weekend. He spoke to the entire mission and conveyed his love and testimony of Jesus Christ. He testified that the Savior is real, and that he lives. We are fortunate to have living apostles on the earth again. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Over the last 2 weekends I have spoken in 5 stake conferences. (Multiple congregations numbering around 1400 people each). I have enjoyed getting to know the people of the greater Ogden area. They are good. They are generous. They serve in their communities and they love the Lord. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Ux0_1GNIPwE/Vd0o8E_LPTI/AAAAAAAAAKs/QRX3eb51vLE/s640/blogger-image--1304689548.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Ux0_1GNIPwE/Vd0o8E_LPTI/AAAAAAAAAKs/QRX3eb51vLE/s640/blogger-image--1304689548.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Mackenzie and Emma started Bonneville High School today. They were visibly nervous last night. Much like the patriarchs of old, I asked my children if they would receive a fathers blessing. They agreed readily. I laid my hands upon each of their heads and through the priesthood of God, blessed each one of them. I'm grateful for the spirit that attended us during Monday family time and the renewed confidence each child had after their blessings. They had a good first day. Josh and Eliza start tomorrow. They are excited. Their school is a science magnet school which makes dad and mom excited. ;) </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-JfB_N1jn_iM/Vd0o7VTHohI/AAAAAAAAAKk/5hVn7KBWSqA/s640/blogger-image-1195976413.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-JfB_N1jn_iM/Vd0o7VTHohI/AAAAAAAAAKk/5hVn7KBWSqA/s640/blogger-image-1195976413.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">We are loving our mission. Though we miss each of you as we serve, a greater appreciation for who you all are and what you have done for us is in attendance. Thank you for your support. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-11J9P0gmqjk/Vd0o9E2wSxI/AAAAAAAAAK0/REaVhsi1cJ0/s640/blogger-image-2145213842.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-11J9P0gmqjk/Vd0o9E2wSxI/AAAAAAAAAK0/REaVhsi1cJ0/s640/blogger-image-2145213842.jpg"></a></div></div>President and Sister Jaggihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395423952427316322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165830861705709541.post-38183982241484869492015-08-10T09:13:00.001-07:002015-08-10T09:13:34.703-07:00Transfers: Utah Ogden Mission Weeks 5-6<div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Last Monday morning we ran the departing missionaries to the Salt Lake City airport early in the morning. As we drove, they expressed their thoughts and feelings about the mission. Many memories were shared. Their feelings ranged from enthusiasm to concern, remorse and fulfillment, sadness and joy. It was a learning experience. Those who had consecrated themselves fully as missionaries left with their heads held high. Those that could've done more questioned the worth of their mission. I hope they all feel that their missions were acceptable to the Lord. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-C67ZRh2DXmQ/VcjNaSuQHgI/AAAAAAAAAKA/g8bf8rbVcco/s640/blogger-image--2074824624.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-C67ZRh2DXmQ/VcjNaSuQHgI/AAAAAAAAAKA/g8bf8rbVcco/s640/blogger-image--2074824624.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Monday night we went back to the airport to pick up Elder Jordan who flew in from the Mexico MTC. We waited and waited and after 1/2 hour someone from a different terminal found us and asked, "are you looking for a lost missionary?" We said yes and he said he was in a different terminal. We ran over there and found a distraught missionary who had just disembarked a plane with 17 "returning" missionaries from Mexico. He was just starting and they were just ending and he couldn't find his mission president. What a way to start a mission! ;( We gave him a big hug, took him to dinner and I think he's recovering. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vMxEzjYxHRo/VcjNZuCKarI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/BeBpZS1-DkU/s640/blogger-image-499550812.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vMxEzjYxHRo/VcjNZuCKarI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/BeBpZS1-DkU/s640/blogger-image-499550812.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Tuesday morning we picked up the other 15 missionaries from Union train station in Ogden. The missionaries take the front runner train from Provo. They all came off the train happy and smiling and had placed a few Book of Mormons. Their enthusiasm was infectious. Their commitment strong. I sat one on one with each of them and they shared their desire to be great servants of the Lord. They bring a wonderful spirit from the MTC. I know they will be outstanding. We did a bit of training, fed them, had a testimony meeting and the 3 sisters spent the night in our home while the Elders spent the night with some senior couples. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Wednesday morning was transfer meeting. Every missionary being transferred came to the chapel at 8:45am. They stood up for the new missionaries as they arrived. Sister Jaggi and several of the Zone leaders shared wonderful testimonies. We paired the trainees with their trainers and you could feel their energy ready to explode. After the meeting we went into the cultural hall where the seasoned missionaries welcomed the trainees with cheers and smiles and even lifted up one of our Thai Missionaries over their heads and he smiled from ear to ear. I love the spirit the new missionaries bring. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">The rest of the missionaries went to their new areas and begun the work. Only 13 companionships were not affected by this transfer. It was big. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">Sister Jaggi and I attended our first stake conference yesterday. One of 59 we will attend in the coming months. It was held in the beautiful Ogden Tabernacle, immediately adjacent to the Ogden Temple. It is a new, beautiful facility. The new stake presidency spoke on the importance of the Sabbath day, the law of the fast and forgiveness. It was a beautiful Sunday morning session. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dTynYLx_A1E/VcjNb8Il-OI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/gW-i492LoZE/s640/blogger-image-1572705731.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dTynYLx_A1E/VcjNb8Il-OI/AAAAAAAAAKQ/gW-i492LoZE/s640/blogger-image-1572705731.jpg"></a></div>This last Friday we had the opportunity to visit with Lisa Jacobs after a meeting in Salt lake. We love her and miss our friends in Newbury Park, but we know we are in the right place. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-F3vUmFUi4Lk/VcjNbPIEAVI/AAAAAAAAAKI/8IwO7CrLR5E/s640/blogger-image-408972972.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-F3vUmFUi4Lk/VcjNbPIEAVI/AAAAAAAAAKI/8IwO7CrLR5E/s640/blogger-image-408972972.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">After we met with Lisa we had a chance to grab lunch with Scott and Jana DeReuyter. They shared with us their experience being sealed in the Provo temple last Thursday. Their daughter Shanti was in the MTC and leaves as a missionary to Mongolia next week. It was so sweet to meet with them and feel their spirit and their love of their family and the temple. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7aCl3MseRU8/VcjNY7iOHnI/AAAAAAAAAJw/QiT7hPHzABU/s640/blogger-image-612385875.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7aCl3MseRU8/VcjNY7iOHnI/AAAAAAAAAJw/QiT7hPHzABU/s640/blogger-image-612385875.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">We are looking forward to welcoming Elder Ballard of the quorum of the 12 apostles this Saturday. The missionaries are ecstatic about the opportunity to meet an apostle. </div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;"><br></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.701961); font-family: UICTFontTextStyleBody; -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(130, 98, 83, 0.0980392); text-decoration: -webkit-letterpress;">This is an amazing work. Never a dull moment. I'm grateful the Lord sustains our bodies and minds as we continue helping our brothers and sisters find greater peace and joy in this life. </div>President and Sister Jaggihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395423952427316322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165830861705709541.post-64460557972188243262015-08-02T19:22:00.001-07:002015-08-02T19:22:57.217-07:001st Group of Departing MissionariesMy heart is full. Four weeks have passed since our arrival in Ogden. Each day new miracles have occurred. One of the miracles I'm reflecting on this evening is how the capacity to love can build exponentially when the spirit is present. It certainly "teaches all things and brings all things to our remembrance." John 14:26<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-z6uQ5dlpn10/Vb7Qf3F82KI/AAAAAAAAAJg/4I_D4NDjAWs/s640/blogger-image--347868833.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-z6uQ5dlpn10/Vb7Qf3F82KI/AAAAAAAAAJg/4I_D4NDjAWs/s640/blogger-image--347868833.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div>I love our departing missionaries. I don't know how I can really love them after interacting with them just a handful of times, but I do. Elder And Sister Merx from Roy, Utah who served in the office. Elder Gallagher from Texas. Elder Gilland from Virginia, Sister Forte from Florida, Sister Boman from Texas, Sister Magsayo from the Phillipines, Elder Vetuski from Texas, Elder McGrath from Arizona, Elder Jones from Georgia, Elder Sheppard from the UK, Sister Goormastic from Connecticut, Sister Pitt from Hawaii, Sister Katich from Alabama, Elder Gordon from Washington, The common thread in each of their departing testimonies is the love and testimony of the Savior Jesus Christ. They love Him, they know Him, they teach of Him and they testify of Him, and there is tremendous power in their testimonies as a result. I am privileged to serve alongside them. </div>President and Sister Jaggihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395423952427316322noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165830861705709541.post-18928406665153812052015-08-01T15:02:00.001-07:002015-08-01T15:02:43.614-07:00Weeks 3 and 4 in Ogden<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5SZUGJWRFpU/Vb1B8l0QDpI/AAAAAAAAAJI/BRNnElWy388/s640/blogger-image-1333660162.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5SZUGJWRFpU/Vb1B8l0QDpI/AAAAAAAAAJI/BRNnElWy388/s640/blogger-image-1333660162.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-t4nv8LBrTlQ/Vb1B6bV3ssI/AAAAAAAAAI4/naYj3-Z1QBg/s640/blogger-image-1491276084.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-t4nv8LBrTlQ/Vb1B6bV3ssI/AAAAAAAAAI4/naYj3-Z1QBg/s640/blogger-image-1491276084.jpg"></a></div><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-5SZUGJWRFpU/Vb1B8l0QDpI/AAAAAAAAAJI/BRNnElWy388/s640/blogger-image-1333660162.jpg"></div>Zone conferences with the missionaries are a sweet experiences. Each zone composing 24-30 young missionaries and 18-24 senior missionaries make up a zone. 3-4 districts of 6-8 young and 4-6 senior missionaries make up the districts that build the zones. 2 young zone leaders who are generally more seasoned lead the zones. And they teach their zone how to find new people, teach them the gospel, baptize them, retain them and get them to the temple and reactivate those that have lost their way.<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8s788ndDW-s/Vb1B_B5Wm0I/AAAAAAAAAJQ/znQ9Dt3wJ4E/s640/blogger-image--524736706.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8s788ndDW-s/Vb1B_B5Wm0I/AAAAAAAAAJQ/znQ9Dt3wJ4E/s640/blogger-image--524736706.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Iv1NrZ4fias/Vb1B7TOefFI/AAAAAAAAAJA/Ot3AnhzFOlE/s640/blogger-image--313761626.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Iv1NrZ4fias/Vb1B7TOefFI/AAAAAAAAAJA/Ot3AnhzFOlE/s640/blogger-image--313761626.jpg"></a></div><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">I have been delighted to experience that the Utah Ogden Mission is full of powerful teachers who are committed to bringing people closer to Christ through the ordinance of baptism. I go out with the Elders twice a week and Amy has gone out with the Sisters weekly. Teaching with them is a pleasure. They know the doctrine and the teach with the spirit of God as their companion. There are so many people who are struggling to find peace and joy in life. They find hope, faith and smile again when they learn and employ the truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue Light', HelveticaNeue-Light, helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">I already love the people here. I love the missionaries and their desire to do what is right. They can improve their obedience and their teaching to get to the temple after baptism. We are working on these things. Sister Jaggi has connected with the Sisters. They went on a hike and had a sleepover. She loves them and they love her. She taught the importance of stress management and reaffirmed that "adjusting to missionary life" is an ongoing endeavor. The church has put out a great resource to help missionaries in their transition to 16 hour work days. They rise at 6:30am and are planning, exercising, studying and practicing and working till 10:30pm. It is not easy. They learn skills and discipline that prepares them for life. I'm grateful for their commitment. </span></div>President and Sister Jaggihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395423952427316322noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165830861705709541.post-81144613664963824672015-07-21T17:38:00.001-07:002015-07-21T17:42:08.041-07:00Utah Ogden Mission Week 2 ReportSo I took 1/2 hour a few days ago and wrote a post, inserted some pictures and alas, a phone call came in late that evening and the blogging app didn't save my post. Whoa, that was disappointing. I'll keep this one a bit more brief and post fewer pictures. It's been a rocking and rolling 9 days since our last post. We had a great fireside commemorating pioneer days here in Ogden. To Utahns, Pioneer Day is a pretty big deal complete with festivities including rodeos, campouts, parades and fireworks. The non-Mormons love to celebrate "pie and beer" day instead of Pi on eer Day, and it's fun too. Many people are out and about in their neighborhoods on beautiful summer evenings enjoying the festivities and neighborhood celebrations. <div><br></div><div>Elder Todd D. Christofferson of the quorum of the 12 apostles kicked off the community activities last Sunday and celebrated the spirit of pioneering and community. He had learned that Ogden seemed to understand better than many Utah communities how to bridge cultural and religious divides to accomplish wonderful things. My sense is Ogden has been a healthy, diverse community for a long time. Before we came here, we had heard from naysayers that Ogden was a beat-up, run-down, crime-ridden community. Not so. The people are friendly, the scenery majestic, the spirit of service is strong. <div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-45wCi8OTeew/Va7l8CR8xII/AAAAAAAAAIg/qbaFKWn08nA/s640/blogger-image-1911858850.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-45wCi8OTeew/Va7l8CR8xII/AAAAAAAAAIg/qbaFKWn08nA/s640/blogger-image-1911858850.jpg"></a></div></div><div>We were grateful to meet a servant of the Lord and feel the spirit of love he had for so many. </div><div><br></div><div>We have been busily engaged in zone conferences. Zone conferences provide an opportunity for Sister Jaggi and I, the AP's, zone leaders and office staff to train. We have 5 zones right now with 130 young missionaries that will go to 7 or 8 zones and 180</div><div>Missionaries in the coming months. It is a spirit-filled meeting which we all enjoy. The local church's provide lunch during the mid-day. It is always delicious. We posted pictures of complete zones as well as companionships on our Facebook page (Jeremy Jaggi) and on Instagram (presidentandsisterjaggi). </div><div><br></div><div>We have been impressed with the number of senior couples serving in the office and as full time missionaries from the 59 stakes in our mission. Most, but not all are retired and they serve many hours a week without "purse or script." They are humble and obedient servants of the Lord. We are grateful for them. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6Yy215gRoEE/Va7m3mPyxgI/AAAAAAAAAIo/bVEgLd4bdFA/s640/blogger-image-1805212011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-6Yy215gRoEE/Va7m3mPyxgI/AAAAAAAAAIo/bVEgLd4bdFA/s640/blogger-image-1805212011.jpg"></a></div><br></div><div>Many young people have asked us recently how they can best prepare for a mission. My new advice...get a job and work. Parents should teach work to their children at a young age, through example. (Doing yardwork, helping s neighbor, cleaning the church). When older teens should get a job. Jobs help young people understand discipline, having a boss, being responsible and committed. Missioanaries who never worked have a more difficult transition to the 6:30am - 10:30pm schedule. </div><div><br></div><div>The missionary schedule is packed, there are few downtimes but the work is beautiful. We attended a baptism last week and the week before. When people feel Gods spirit and recognize it, they change heir lives dramatically. Miracles are happening regularly. Sometimes, we just need to look! </div><div><br></div><div>P.S. The local newspaper the Standard examiner did a brief article on the Utah Ogden Mission. The link is below. <span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">(<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.standard.net_Faith_2015_07_08_Utah-2DOgden-2DLDS-2Dmission-2Dunder-2Dnew-2Ddirection.html&d=BQMFaQ&c=z0adcvxXWKG6LAMN6dVEqQ&r=-UUR5Me33nvUs8jEybiiFOxhhDC4drQIAFYzj-FCEnY&m=9ZVXpsr-RUUeBq_KXkcSKe4jk9Z5qLaX9wDafFM-F18&s=VOjMy0ZTR6Xfqa0Ebn2hx1R7oXe745r6ooJ8uJSBtvM&e=" target="_blank">http://www.standard.net/Faith/2015/07/08/Utah-Ogden-LDS-mission-under-new-direction.html</a>)</span></div><div><br></div><div> </div>President and Sister Jaggihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395423952427316322noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165830861705709541.post-74514004626945525702015-07-10T18:51:00.001-07:002015-07-10T19:09:25.772-07:00Mission Interviews<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-T0l_z0JQDVc/VaB2l_QM6mI/AAAAAAAAAIE/88VZHb46lQU/s640/blogger-image--1692173777.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-T0l_z0JQDVc/VaB2l_QM6mI/AAAAAAAAAIE/88VZHb46lQU/s640/blogger-image--1692173777.jpg"></a></div><br></div>It's Friday and we are exhausted. What a wonderful week getting to know individual missionaries during our interviews of all 130! I love them and appreciate them. They come from 23 different countries, 28 different states, are as different and unique as all of Gods children. They have their ups and downs but are working hard to be obedient. They love the Lord and his gospel. <div><br></div><div>We are looking forward to hosting Elder Christofferson of the quorum of the 12 apostles at a Pioneer Day fireside this Sunday at Weber State University. The upcoming July 24th Pioneer Day is quite a celebration in Utah, including another parade in which every missionary in the mission will march. Big rodeos, cultural celebrations and fireworks will also be a part of the upcoming festivities. We are learning what it's like to be in Utah again after so many years away. </div><div><br></div><div>We experienced 3 days of intermittent torrential rainstorms which made me smile and pray for California to receive the same soon. We miss our dear friends and neighbors but think about you often. Attached are some of the Zone interview photos. </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--1awMwNd09g/VaB2jxmAD6I/AAAAAAAAAH0/JxzaRV6IA74/s640/blogger-image--65902401.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/--1awMwNd09g/VaB2jxmAD6I/AAAAAAAAAH0/JxzaRV6IA74/s640/blogger-image--65902401.jpg"></a></div><br><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nCiSycQJkT8/VaB2jFciDPI/AAAAAAAAAHs/54-51bwkAbc/s640/blogger-image-752990583.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nCiSycQJkT8/VaB2jFciDPI/AAAAAAAAAHs/54-51bwkAbc/s640/blogger-image-752990583.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OrLTQZrRrzk/VaB2lPvyNeI/AAAAAAAAAH8/UXmxzC9xogI/s640/blogger-image-1192227515.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OrLTQZrRrzk/VaB2lPvyNeI/AAAAAAAAAH8/UXmxzC9xogI/s640/blogger-image-1192227515.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1VZYrYEsJHA/VaB61KX2PfI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/ZIaidbVnec4/s640/blogger-image-615116955.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1VZYrYEsJHA/VaB61KX2PfI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/ZIaidbVnec4/s640/blogger-image-615116955.jpg"></a></div><br></div><br></div><br></div></div>President and Sister Jaggihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395423952427316322noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165830861705709541.post-13824682598647989072015-07-05T14:18:00.000-07:002015-07-05T14:18:50.400-07:00Week 1 in Ogden Utah - By Emma
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Hi! It’s Emma and this week is mine to write on the blog.
This last Sunday at the end of June we got to the mission home. I was
particularly nervous because the very next day I had girls camp with just my
ward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had never met a single girl in
person, but I had talked to a few online. I started stressing myself out
because so many people were telling me how “brave I was being” and that “they
would never do that” and I hadn’t thought of it as a big deal before but now
started worrying that it was! I shouldn’t have. I woke up at 5 am and had to be
at the church at 6. I met everyone and they were super nice. Then we drove up
to girls camp. This girls camp was unlike any I had ever experienced. Some of
the things we experienced included repelling down the side of a cliff, rock
climbing a cliff, canoeing for 45 minutes to get to some cliffs where we cliff
jumped into the water, sleeping in tents, and so much more! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were really into activities involving
cliffs I guess. It was an <u>amazing </u>experience! I love every single girl
in the ward and they totally welcomed me in. I got back Wednesday afternoon. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The next day we had our mission introduction. We walked in
and were shocked at the amount of missionaries there! There were 130 young
missionaries and over 100 senior missionaries. Each person in the family gave a
little introduction about themselves with pictures on a slide show behind them.
I talked about my love for singing, running, hiking, skiing, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After the kids introduced themselves,
Mackenzie, Eliza, and I sang<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I Stand
All Amazed”. Afterwards, my mom and dad spoke. It was very powerful and I am so
happy that the missionaries have them to look up to. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Yesterday for the Fourth of July, our family woke up Early to
go to a parade in Plain City/ Farr West Utah. We drove in an old antique car
and got to throw candy out the windows to the kids. I wont deny that I hit the
missionaries walking with our car numerous times and might have chucked some of
the candy a little too hard sometimes. Oops. It was a lot of fun even though it
was very hot. I love all of the missionaries so much & they are like
siblings to me already. Later that night I went and watched fireworks with a
TON of new people from Bonneville High School.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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Today was the first day we went to our new ward! It’s small compared to our old
ward but everyone is kind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I miss all of
you in CA! Be sure to come visit. :) <span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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President and Sister Jaggihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395423952427316322noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5165830861705709541.post-88499275597731664662015-07-04T17:14:00.001-07:002015-07-04T17:14:42.506-07:00Day 3 in the MTC<div>
Today June 27th marked 171 years to the day of the martyrdom of the prophet Joseph Smith. The 12 apostles knew it and they let us know it. Each one testified of the divinity of Joseph's calling today. Elder Nelson, Elder Uchtdorf, Elder Cook, Elder Ballard and Elder Bednar specifically taught us about Joseph's prophetic calling. </div>
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I thought of Joseph's journal. And the prophecy that is coming to pass in this, the dispensation of the fullness of times. The last dispensation. Joseph Smith's History: He called me by name, and said unto me that he was a messenger sent from the presence of God to me, and that his name was Moroni; that God had a work for me to do; <b><i>and that my name should be had for good and evil among all nations, kindreds, and tongues, or that it should be both good and evil spoken of among all people. </i></b></div>
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There have been many apostasy's. Adam, Noah, the Nephites, and even the Christians after Jesus crucifixion and the apostles were killed. There will not be another great apostasy. The Book of Mormon stands as the witness that despite Joseph the man's frailties and imperfections (of which we all have) he was the Lords chosen prophet for the latter days in preparation for the Lords 2nd coming. We are preparing by flooding the earth with the Book of Mormon (over 100 million copies printed and distributed to date) and tens of thousands<b style="font-style: italic;"> of missionaries and members bearing witness of the truth. </b></div>
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A few days before he died, Elder Perry recorded his testimony for the mission presidents seminar. He rejoiced in his own mission to Illinois and Ohio. He had a "remarkable" experience forming a branch in Marion Ohio. He wants us to help the missionaries (and I thought of our children) recognize the remarkable experiences happening around us all the time. Miracles are prevalent. </div>
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I thought of Nephi's interaction with the Holy Ghost..."Look!" The spirit told Nephi and we will See. We can help others to Look and See the remarkable experiences and miracles around us. </div>
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It was a delight to see Sister Shanti De Ruyter. She will be serving in Mongolia. She and her companion carried a magnificent spirit of light and service. She taught us a few Mongolian words. Whoa, it was complex! We know she will be excellent. </div>
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We also visited with Elder Sitati from Africa. He visited Newbury Park in February. It was great to meet his wife. He spoke so highly of her and he treated her with so much respect and kindness. </div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">Elder Eyring spoke this
morning. His was a special witness of the Savior. "Oh ye that embark
in the service of God, see that he serve Him with all your heart, might, mind
and strength..." He learned from President Hinckley a quote that he etched
into a wood frame and hung in their home when his children were teens. He
brought it with him and showed us with some emotion..."My Mission is to
Bless." That is a mission for every human soul...to bless the lives of
others. He promised us that D&C 100:1 applies to us, our immediate and
extended families (all of you) "Verily, thus saith the Lord unto
you...your families are well; they are in mine hands, and I will do with them
as seemeth me good; for in me there is all power." The spirit was
overpowering as he made this declaration and many tears were shed by
grandparents who are leaving their frail and elderly parents and their
grandchildren, some with disabilities. It applies to those taking teenagers
thousands of miles away, some even to finish their senior years of high school,
it applies to those taking grade-schoolers who are leaving the only homes and
friends they know. Families will be blessed because what the Lord seemeth good,
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Anderson of the quorum of the twelve apostles were companions today. They
taught the doctrine of repentance, baptism and the gift of the Holy Ghost. Some
highlights for me. Repentance is a process. Repentance requires a
degree of suffering. Those who haven't repented will not stay in the church or
feel really good about themselves. Us
doing our own work to rid ourselves of sin through our behavior is good, but we
cannot be or feel forgiven until the Redeemer (R) is involved. The R's to
repentance (recognize, repent, make restitution, recommit) are of little import
without the Redeemer of the world. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">We spent an hour with
Maren tonight. She is already a powerful servant of the Lord. We took pictures
with her and her mission President. We also practiced teaching a group of
Mandarin speaking missionaries about the importance of the Book of Mormon and
Praying to God to know for ourselves what is truth. The Young missionaries are
easy to love. We also met with Elder Smart from Texas and Elder Santos from
Brazil who will be coming to our mission and speaking Spanish in August. It was
great to meet our own missionaries! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and friends. The closer we draw to the Lord, the closer we feel the eternal
Union of our families. Our eternal covenants are real. We have consecrated our
lives to Him. We love Him. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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